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“A whopping 43 House Republicans raised less money than Democratic challengers in the first three months of 2018 — nearly the same number of stragglers the GOP had at the end of last year,” Politico reports. “An overlapping group of 16 Republican incumbents already have less cash on hand than Democratic challengers, up from the end of 2017, despite hopes that tax reform would open more donor wallets.”
75% to 22%
A new PRRI survey finds President Trump’s favorability at an all-time high with white evangelical Christians, 75% to 22%. Also interesting is that white evangelicals prefer Trump as 2020 Republican nominee, 58% to 32%.
$1 million
“President Trump’s trade representative is spending nearly $1 million on new furniture — and blaming the Obama administration,” the New York Post reports. “U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spent more than $917,000 to furnish the two trade offices near the White House… That’s a significant increase compared to the last two trade reps.”
“The Republican Party has left me and many others. I just think they’ve lost their way and I can’t be associated with it.”
— James Comey, telling ABC News that he no longer considers himself a Republican.
