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Day: December 18, 2023

Number of Unhoused Rose 12%

December 18, 2023 Buck Banks

12%

The level of homeless people in the U.S. leapt 12% this year to the highest number ever recorded, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Trump Rails Against Immigrants

December 18, 2023 Buck Banks

“They’re poisoning the blood of the country… They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world not just in South America … but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”

— Donald Trump, at a campaign rally.

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Sununu’s Sunny Haley Prediction

December 18, 2023 Buck Banks

“She’s gonna win in a landslide and that’s not an exaggeration.”

— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by the Washington Post, about Nikki Haley’s chances in the New Hampshire primary.

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Do-Nothing Congress Did Almost Nothing

December 18, 2023 Buck Banks

22

“Congress is about to wrap its least productive legislative year since at least 1973,” the Washington Post reports. “Just 22 bills have been signed into law this year… It’s a stark contrast to last year, when 281 bills were signed into law.”

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Special Election to Replace Santos Could Cost $20 Million

December 18, 2023 Buck Banks

$20 million

“The two month race to represent the New York House district once held by the ousted Republican Rep. George Santos is expected to cost up to $20 million,” CNBC reports.

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Americans Agree: Democracy Is at Stake

December 18, 2023 Buck Banks

62%

A new AP-NORC poll finds that 62% of adults say democracy in the U.S. could be at risk depending on who wins next fall.Majorities of Democrats (72%) and Republicans (55%) feel the same way, but for different reasons.

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Inevitability of Deporability

December 18, 2023 Buck Banks

Trump’s dictator dreams are no longer ignorable,
Though his fascist uniform designs are adorable.
On Day One, he’ll pounce,
And he’s already announced
His rogue’s gallery cabinet of deplorables.

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Russian to Judgment
Buck Banks | Oct. 19, 2026

The United States and Ukraine no longer seem to be in synch,
After Trump lifted Russia sanctions with a grin and a wink.
Trump coordinated it with Putin,
Who ramped up the drone shooting,
After Trump and Elon Musk throttled Ukraine’s Starlink.

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Verbatim

    “Take, for example, the French Revolution. Remember when Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake’? Now, is that a problem of accountability and tyranny, a corrupt government? Or is it a problem of affordability and standard of living? It’s both! Authoritarianism and tyranny are extremely expensive for the people. And it’s the exact same thing when you go down the line with Donald Trump. So, are we going to go after the corruption? Yeah, you’re damn right. And are we going to go after affordability and making people’s lives easier? Yeah, you’re damn right. We’re going to do both of them.”

    — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by CBS News.

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    “Here’s the problem with the red meat: It becomes an addiction. Once you go there and you put that out there, then you’re forced to defend it. So what do they do? They double down. They triple down again.”

    — Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by the Washington Post, on Republicans relying on anti-Muslim attacks in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.

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    “If it wasn’t for President Trump the United States of America would not exist right now. This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation. He saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream for ever.”

    — Stephen Miller, quoted by The Guardian, pledging “total devotion” to President Trump.

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    3,824

    A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats, reports Florida Phoenix. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Women make up 35.5% of all state legislative candidates this cycle. Currently, women hold about one-third of state legislative seats across the country — a record level of representation but nowhere near parity.

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    $1.4 billion

    “Prediction markets about the 2026 midterm elections have surpassed $1.4 billion in trading volume as Election Day fast approaches,” CNN reports. “This year has seen massive growth in the prediction industry, where people can bet on real-world events like sports, entertainment and the weather. While small-scale election markets have been around for a while, they gained traction before the 2024 presidential election and have seen huge numbers for the 2026 midterms.”

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    -35 points

    G. Elliot Morris: “Low-knowledge 2024 voters say they backed Trump by 8 points, according to our poll. Today they give him a net job approval of ?27, a 35-point shift. Compare that to Trump’s approval rating among voters who got both questions right: These voters backed Harris by 1 point and now give Trump a net ?24 approval, a 23-point shift. … Low-information voters have moved against Trump at a higher rate than high-information voters, by 12 points.”

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    31%

    President Donald ?Trump’s approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday. Some 31% of Americans approve of Trump’s ?performance in office, down a percentage point from two weeks earlier and the lowest level in ?either of his presidential terms, the four-day poll showed.

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    63% to 38%

    KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”

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