Month: May 2024
Trump’s Net Favorability Avergage Lower than Biden’s
-13%
At 41.4%, Donald Trump’s favorability rating is the lowest in the Decision Desk HQ/The Hill average since last December. Trump’s net favorability rating of -13.0% is lower than Joe Biden’s for the first time since last August.
At 41.4%, Donald Trump’s favorability rating is the lowest in the Decision Desk HQ/The Hill average since last December. Trump’s net favorability rating of -13.0% is lower than Joe Biden’s for the first time since last August.
One in Six Holds Unfavorable View of Biden and Trump
1 in 6
A recent Monmouth poll found about 1 in 6 voters hold unfavorable views of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
6% In Six States Will Determine the Election
6%
“The titanic Biden-Trump election likely will be decided by roughly 6% of voters in just six states, top strategists in both parties tell us,” Axios reports. A Trump insider said that persuadable voters are below 10% in every battleground: “I think it’s probably 6% in Wisconsin but 8% in Michigan, and lower in Arizona.”
Trump Loses Support to RFK Jr. When Voters Learn about Kennedy’s Virulent Antivax Claims WaPo:When informed about RFK Jr.'s crackpot theories, Republicans became more open to supporting Kennedy, while Democrats soured on him
Polls consistently find that around 15 to 20 percent of voters say they’ll vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president. Today, five months out from Election Day, Kennedy’s support remains a proverbial jump ball in the campaign. At first, Kennedy attracted support from Democrats. But now there is evidence that he is pulling support from both parties, with some polls showing his support coming increasingly from Donald Trump.
Writing in the Washington Post, Aaron Blake says that a recent Monmouth University poll “gets at why the Kennedy effect might shift in Biden’s favor.”
Blake writes that when voters are informed about Kennedy’s crackpot theories on vaccination and public health, “Republicans say they become more open to supporting Kennedy, while Democrats sour on him.”
A Hat Trick — Margorie Taylor Greene Style
It was meant to be a comeuppance for her Republican congressional colleagues who voted for aid to Ukraine. But as with so many things touched by Moscow Marge, it didn’t work out as she intended.
Instead, her “MUGA” hats (“Make Ukraine Great Again”) are being sold to actually generate aid for Ukraine.
“In her honor, we are now selling the hat with 100% of profits going to two groups who do incredible work in Ukraine,” announced the pro-democracy gadfly site MeidasTouch.
The yellow-on-blue hats are on sale here for $45, will start shipping May 13, and will be offered until May 31. All profits will go to United Help Ukraine and World Central Kitchen.
