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kpete's JournalPolitico considers that Trump is losing more than the suburbs
Perhaps Trump fatigue finally is setting in. He can still sucker the press into covering his daily outrages. He can still draw eyeballs and clicks. MAGA politicians who rode in on his coattails still genuflect before his image. But can he win a presidential election?
Politico considers that Trump is losing more than the suburbs:
The analysis of GOP presidential primary results from more than 1,000 counties shows warning signs for Trump, especially as Republican voters continued to vote against him in closed primaries after he clinched the nomination. And it makes clear that, while independents and crossover voters may have boosted former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in some primaries, a chunk of true Republican voters still wished for someone else to be the party’s nominee.
“You hear a lot of moderate Republicans now who say that they’ll never vote for Trump again,” said Parker Fairbairn, county GOP chair in Emmet County, Michigan, on the northern end of the state’s Lower Peninsula, where Trump won 55 percent of the vote in the 2020 general election. In last month’s primary, he got two-thirds of the vote there.
What distinguishes Emmet County and similar geographies from the other suburban ones is their broader politics. These aren’t the kinds of suburbs on the outskirts of major cities, where wealthy, educated professionals have already fled the Republican Party.
They’re farther away from urban areas. They’re less densely populated, and they have fewer voters with college degrees. These places — which include North Carolina’s Republican-leaning exurbs, and conservative but less Trump-inclined counties several hours north of Michigan’s major cities — still vote predominantly for Republicans, both at the presidential and local levels. In 2016, when both parties held contested primaries, the Republican voters in these counties backed candidates like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) over Trump, and in the general election they voted for Trump at lower rates than the deep-red rural areas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/30/trump-gop-primary-voters-exurbs-00149822
https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/30/trump-fatigue/
Former Trump supporter: It's ok to admit you were conned. If grifting was an art, Donald Trump would be Picasso
Former Trump supporter Chris Nelson has a message for current Trump supporters: It’s ok to admit you were conned. If grifting was an art, Donald Trump would be Picasso… If you were taken by him, don’t feel bad, a lot of people were. It’s ok to admit you were wrong.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1773780831406027039
Nice Team
From left to right: Jason Bateman, Barack Obama, Will Arnett, Joe Biden, Sean Hayes, Bill Clinton
The three presidents taped an interview for the actors’
@SmartLess
podcast ahead of a “record-breaking” fundraiser tonight in NYC
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https://x.com/libbycathey/status/1773482273926492364?s=20
Biden Administration Restores Threatened Species Protections Dropped by Trump
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump.
Among the changes announced, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.
The blanket protections regulation was dropped in 2019 as part of a suite of changes to the application of the species law under Trump that were encouraged by industry. Those changes came as extinctions accelerate globally due to habitat loss and other pressures.
Under the new rules, officials also will not consider economic impacts when deciding if animals and plants need protection. And the rules from the wildlife service and National Marine Fisheries Service make it easier to designate areas as critical for a species' survival, even if it is no longer found in those locations.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/montana/articles/2024-03-28/biden-administration-restores-threatened-species-protections-dropped-by-trump#:~:text=BILLINGS%2C%20Mont.,under%20former%20President%20Donald%20Trump.
Trump Tells Atlanta Judge Lies Help Get to the Truth
Donald Trump tried to convince a state judge to drop his Georgia election interference case on Thursday, summoning a tortured relationship between falsehoods and truths to make his case.
Trump’s lawyers argued that lies aren’t just protected by the First Amendment; lies are sometimes essential, his lawyers said, at getting to the truth.
The morning’s court hearing could prove a pivotal step as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis works her criminal case against the former president to trial. Judge Scott McAfee, who recently delivered a blow to the DA’s office by probing her romantic relationship with a prosecutor she supervised, is now considering whether Trump’s persistent lies about 2020 election fraud are constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
Thursday morning, Trump lead defense lawyer Steve Sadow asked the judge to drop criminal charges on those grounds.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tells-atlanta-judge-lies-162320975.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kaXNxLnVzLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH2l-tdZsNuOyNnfL5xaL1vjZn023xbE-3flGWnfH4owP2hXSSjRdvvXwwRSA9IPsCw1EY78oi4YXpJDZq5Uvf_PVE9JZ2gpUks3ustznkB03pw780I5zkpVfa-EhtDweUsCBgMGhZUIJ5vyl6bD6sZwFFdUne3I17sOJZUzX6Yh
If this can be corroborated, it raises questions about whether Carrie Budoff can be trusted to guide the network.
This suggests
@NBC
brass colluded with a partisan McDaniel aide to undermine their own talent on social media.
NBC exec Carrie Budoff Brown, who spearheaded the Ronna McDaniel hiring, contacted a former McDaniel aide on Sunday to try and rally support for her. She also, per @DylanByers, thanked the aide for fostering "conservative pushback on social media against" Chuck Todd 😬
https://twitter.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1773112793572524149
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"A Total Scam": Customers complained about product quality and shipping delays
A Total Scam"– Trump's Endorsed Bible Has a History of Negative Reviews
Customers complained about product quality and shipping delays
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