17) How much legal jeopardy is #DonaldTrump in?
The classified documents case will make use of a recording which indicates that #Trump had a highly sensitive document which he knew was NOT declassified.
The chain of evidence looks strong and while there is much news media spinning, a court of law is more rigorous environment where focus on fact is primary
#Election2024 #USPolitics #Politics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/us/politics/trump-documents-tape-audio.html
18) Much of #JoeBiden’s reelection efforts for #Election2024 will hinge on his ability to pass legislation which stimulates the economy in the rust belt.
Will investments such as the new Micron plant in Syracuse, New York courtesy of the CHIPS act improve his electoral chances?
19) How does the public feel about #DonaldTrump’s indictment on classified documents mishandling?
Navigator Research has the numbers and they’re not good if you’re a #Trump supporter
Notably Trump’s numbers are poor with Independent voters, the group which will decide #Election2024
https://navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Navigator-Update-06.27.2023.pdf
20) As the #DeSantis campaign continues to flail and gain traction against #DonaldTrump, the Florida governor leans into a deeper hostility directed at the #LGBT community
There are no solutions being offered here, merely rage directed at a minority group. Just the #facist playbook being dusted off again
#Politics #USPolitics #Election2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/politics/desantis-video-lgbtq-trump.html
21) While the #GOP is busy stoking conspiracy theories and rage, the #Biden administration is delivering meaningful change.
Invest in broadband access will better enable all Americans to start their own businesses and remote work opportunities regardless of location
The White House on Monday divvied up $42 billion among the nation's 50 states and U.S. territories to make access to high-speed broadband universal by 2030, as it launched a new publicity campaign for President Joe Biden's economic policies.
22) How should journalists cover a candidate like #RFkJR?
Have you heard of the Gish Gallop?
On the Media has some interesting thoughts on the matter and what to do when a candidate spouts a flood of conspiracy theories
#USPolitics #Politics #Election2024
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-cover-candidate-rfk-jr-on-the-media
23) #PeteButtigieg shows the way for #Election2024. Americans have to decide whether they want government that gets things done or #CultureWars and the attendant hatred directed at the #LGBTQ or other minority communities.
24) From the guy that thought #ElonMusk would be a good leader for #Twitter, an endorsement for a candidate who has descended into the swirling conspiracism
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to endorse anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Democratic presidential nomination over the weekend. Dorsey retweeted a video of Kennedy saying he could beat former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who announced his bid for the White House on Twitter last month. Dorsey captioned…
25) Good piece from David French at the #NYT on not just the rage, but also the joy of being a #MAGA fan.
The joy of belonging to a group of like minded people who are facing down an imagined set of awful lefties determined to destroy America
It is a cultish mindset. Can it be cracked? Should an effort be made to deprogram Trumpists? Should the movement be left to fade into irrelevancy assuming #Election2024 is lost?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/maga-america-trump.html
26) The #GOP in Congress are doing their bit to move #ReproductiveRights and #LGBTQ issues up the national agenda for #Election2024.
The #HardRight look to start #CultureWars on major legislation wherever possible. Clearly an indication that they want a national #abortion ban and to ostracize the #queer community
A more than questionable winning strategy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/us/politics/defense-bill-house-ndaa.html
Republicans loaded the measure with a raft of social policy provisions — including limits on abortions, gender transition procedures and diversity training — that have little chance of surviving in the Senate.
27) Good piece from #NPR on young #RuralVoters which will be an important constituency for #JoeBiden in #Election2024 particular in #Georgia and #NorthCarolina and other purple states.
There are of course rural voters in every state and so the #Biden campaign has to hone its message to bleed away some of these votes which have trended #GOP
28) #DonaldTrump is attempting to delay legal proceedings against him, a practice consistent with his past, when he sought to exhaust the financial and emotional resources of those that instituted proceedings against him
American voters now have a candidate for #Election2024 who looks to his election for relief from his legal woes
29) #DonaldTrump’s minions have crafted a disturbing plan to centralize more authority under the presidency.
Should such a plan be implemented, independent federal agencies will be purged for those deemed insufficient loyal to the president.
The ability to resist Caligula-like commands will be rescinded. Unchecked partisan power will become the norm
#USPolitics #Politics #Election2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html
30) In an unsurprising development, we can expect #DonaldTrump to be indicted yet again. This time for his involvement in the #Jan6 plot to overturn the 2016 #election
This has been a long time coming. We recently learned of the #FBI’s sluggish effort to investigate #Trump’s involvement in the coup. Many low level supporters are now serving time while Trump remained untouched. That changes now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/18/trump-jan6-target-letter/
31) #ReproductiveRights and #abortion were major factors during the midterm elections in 2022. #Election2023 will be no different, if anything the issue will likely be more potent with the recent conviction of a 19 year old #Nebraska women subsequent to a medically induced abortion which violated Nebraska’s then 20 week gestation limit. Nebraska has since lowered the limit to 12 weeks
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/us/celeste-burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska.html
33) The perpetration of #bigotry and #racism is an increasing feature of many current #GOP politicians.
#RonDeSantis leads the pack in his overt willingness to delegitimize the horrors faced by black Americans during enslavement.
For what? To appeal to the basest instincts of a certain section of GOP voters still invested in the superiority of “white culture” and to deny the attendant racism that still haunts American society
🔑 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/us/desantis-florida-black-history-standards.html
34) The war on #Libraries by “conservatives” is just another front stoked up against the #LGBTQ community at the behest of those exploiting #CultureWars for political gain.
In truth the #GOP which has been fully co-opted by #Trumpism has nothing to offer on making lives better for #Americans beyond cultivating rage and fear directed at smaller less powerful groups. It is classic #RightWing behavior from the 1930s
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html
35) #DonaldTrump claims to be the best bet against #JoeBidden in #Election2024.
In my view, he’s going to be extremely hard to beat for the #GOP nomination. That said, primary voters are hard core political types and there views tend to be more extreme than most American voters.
Come the general election #Trump, is likely the least electible Republican
37) Increasingly #Election2024 is shaping up as a #JoeBiden vs #DonaldTrump rematch
The #NYT has new polling information on #Biden which shows his numbers improving from tepid levels last year
If #Bidenomics continues to yield improved economic data, he is going to be a hard man to beat despite dissatisfaction and ambivalence over his age
The election will be decided my independents who are increasingly disaffected by #Trump and his legal woes
🔑 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/politics/biden-trump-poll.html
37) The indictment of #DonaldTrump on charges related to #Jan6, is unsurprising and his been telegraphed for months
What is interesting, is that the charges do not include allegations specific to the organization of violence on Jan 6. That doesn’t mean more charges aren’t forthcoming. I wonder if that case and establishing the chain of evidence is to difficult to make or is simply not there?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/01/trump-indictment-takeaways-00109309
38) While much of the focus of #Election2024 is focused on #Trump’s legal woes or #Biden’s age, the Us economy has been improving steadily on the back of legislation signed into law during the first two years of #JoeBiden’s administration.
Biden’s polling numbers aren’t great now, but continued economic improvement will yield good results come election time.
39) Things are not going well in the #RonDeSantis campaign.
One wonders whether his call for "throat slitting" directed at members of the Federal Government and invocations of the mystical and mythical Deep State were designed to make seem tougher than #Trump ?
General reaction across the #NewsMedia seems to be one of disgust. There doesn't seem to be major fist bumping going on within the #DeSantis faithful
#Election2023 #RighWing #HardRight
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4135422-desantis-vows-to-start-slitting-throats-on-day-one
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that Scott Brown is a former senator from Massachusetts. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Sunday said he would “start slitting throats on day one” when it comes to taking on the “deep state.” DeSantis made the remarks at a barbecue campaign event in Rye, N.H.,…
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