Year: 2017
Democrats Raising Money for As-Yet-Unnamed Candidates
$2 million
“Democratic activist groups have a new plan for their party to take back control of Congress: Raise money for yet-to-be determined Democratic nominees,” the HuffPost reports. “At least three Democratic-allied groups ? including ActBlue, the biggest online fundraiser for Democratic candidates ? are raking in money from donors who don’t care who they’re supporting, as long as it’s a Democrat in a certain district. … Immediately after House Republicans passed a bill to repeal Obamacare… the three groups combined to raise more than $2 million in less than 24 hours.”
Ross: We Won’t Reach 3 Percent Growth Until ALL of Trump’s Initiatives Are Inacted
3%
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Reuters the U.S. economy won’t achieve the Trump administration’s 3 percent growth goal this year and not until all of its tax, regulatory, trade and energy policies are fully in place. Said Ross: “The Congress has been slow-walking everything. We don’t even have half the people in place.”
Quinnipiac Finds Donald’s Approval at 36%, Sees Signs of Erosion of Support Among His Base Voters
Reality may be started to permeate the Fox bubble. The new Quinnipiac Poll has Donald’s approval at 36 percent, which is in the range where former Pres. George W. Bush’s approval rating sank and then stalled for the last three years of his second term — making him the most unpopular president in the history of presidential polling.
Donald Trump appears to be giving Bush a run for his money.
The signal that reality is setting in — that Trump voters may finally be starting to realize that they’ve been had — is in the internals. In particular, Donald has seen a ten-point drop in support among white voters with no college degrees, from 57 percent in April to 47 percent now.
According to Quinnipiac, support for Donald is also eroding among independent voters and white men:
Lost in Comey Firing Blowback Yesterday, a Reporter Was Arrested for Asking Sec. Tom Price a Question
The news cycles last night and this morning have been dominated by coverage of Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey, the man who is leading the government’s internal investigation into alleged collusion between Donald’s presidential campaign and the government of Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin.
The firing of Comey has rightly caused concern among Democrats and even some Republicans that Donald’s actions are undermining the foundations of the American democratic republic.
This incident that occurred in West Virginia yesterday — in which a reporter was arrested for asking Health and Human Services Sec. Tom Price a question — could potentially be another sign of the unraveling:
