Day: March 27, 2023
Americans Pull Back from ‘American’ Values
38%
Wall Street Journal-NORC poll: “Some 38% of respondents said patriotism was very important to them, and 39% said religion was very important. That was down sharply from when the Journal first asked the question in 1998, when 70% deemed patriotism to be very important, and 62% said so of religion.
More than TikTok
4
The four most downloaded apps over the past month are owned by Chinese companies, Axios reports.
GOP in Thrall to Trump’s Grievances
“The clips and headlines coming out of the rally were enough to incite panic in any Republican concerned about the party’s ability to defeat President Joe Biden. The current president should be extremely politically vulnerable: Inflation is still hurting voters and some economists are predicting a recession. And yet, rather than attack Biden for those weaknesses, Republicans are held captive to Trump’s grievances.”
— Playbook
Bahara: Trump Investigations Not Unprecedented
“You can argue about whether or not it’s appropriate to bring such a case. You can argue about the optics of it. But the idea that this is unprecedented is just false. It’s just wrong.”
— Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, on NBC News, on the hush money probe into Donald Trump.
`Cuomo: Trump Investigations Are Political
“I don’t believe a Democratic prosecutor just happens to be attacking a Republican. I don’t believe a Republican prosecutor just happens to be attacking a Democrat. I think it’s all politics, and I think that’s what the people of this country are saying.”
— Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) slammed the New York and Georgia investigations into former President Trump as being part of a “cancer in our body politic,” arguing they are politically motivated, The Hill reports.
Trump’s Evangelical Support Is Slipping
“Trump’s relationship with the evangelical movement — once seemingly shatterproof, then shaky after his violent departure from the White House — is now in pieces, thanks to his social-media tirade last fall blaming pro-lifers for the Republicans’ lackluster midterm performance.”
— Tim Alberta
Republicans at Odds Over Debt Limit Talks
“I don’t know what he’s talking about.”
— Speaker Kevin McCarthy responding with bewilderment to House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) assertion to reporters that Republicans are working on a written offer on the debt limit, which will likely come out before they release their full budget resolution.
DeSantis PAC Spending Challenged by Florida Democratic Party Says Governor Dines at Miami's "Dirty French Steakhouse" Where a Porterhouse is $255
I knew Fried had what it would take to beat DeSantis. Unfortunately, you can’t go full nuclear on a fellow “Democrat” in a primary so Crist won on name recognition and voter laziness. DeSantis went on to take 59.4 percent of the vote, in an election with 53.6 percent turnout, or the votes of 4.6 million people in a state with 22.2 million people. But DeSantis touts his “landslide” victory and since it makes a better story, the press goes along with it and it becomes accepted fact.
But we still have Fried and she is not sleeping on retiring Ron DeSantis.
