A new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll find 51% of registered voters “in the seven states that will decide the 2024 presidential election said they either strongly or somewhat support aid to Israel.”
“That’s down 11 percentage points from November, when 62% of respondents said they supported the aid.”
A new Monmouth poll finds 43% of Americans are in favor of the recently passed bills to provide aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, while 35% are opposed. Another 21% have no opinion.
Democrats broadly support the foreign aid package (65% favor and 14% oppose), while Republicans (30% favor and 44% oppose) and independents (36% favor and 45% oppose) are somewhat more likely to be against than for the deal.
Said pollster Patrick Murray: “The foreign aid package may be a big policy win, but politically it’s a wash for Speaker Johnson.”
A new University of North Florida poll in Florida finds Donald Trump leading Joe Biden, 47% to 45% among likely voters. About 4 percent said another candidate, 2 percent said they do not plan on voting, and 3 percent said they do not know, or refused to answer.
We’ve gone from one of the most productive to one of the least productive Congresses in history over the course of President Biden’s first term.
House Republicans have proven their inability to pass even the simplest of bills since they took control last year. They’ve had a ridiculously hard time — twice — even choosing a speaker.
This is in stark contrast to what Democrats did in the last Congress under Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership.
A new Monmouth poll finds that most voters have noticed the disparity: 53% of registered voters agree that Democrats have been more successful at getting legislation passed, while 65% think Republicans have mostly failed since they’ve been in control of the lower chamber.
However, a significant portion of the electorate is apparently living in a completely different reality.
That’s because the poll also found that 39% said Democrats were “unsuccessful” at moving legislation through the House while 28% said Republicans have been “successful.”
Under no objective standard is that anywhere close to true.
It’s a stark reminder that a significant chunk of the electorate will apparently believe anything.
Lara Trump told Fox News that the RNC will have poll watchers who can actually touch ballots at polling places on election day.
Said Trump: “We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers – people standing in polling locations – but people who can physically handle the ballots.”
She added: “So, there was a moratorium for about 40 years on the RNC actually training people to work in these polling locations and the tabulation centers where the mail-in ballots come in. And last year, the judge who implemented that passed away. So, that was lifted, and that gives us a great ability as we head into what I assume everyone understands is the most important election of our lifetime. So we have this ability.”
“Joe Biden will land a major union endorsement Wednesday from North America’s Building Trades Unions, whose leaders say the president has his infrastructure bill largely to thank for it,” CNN reports.
“In making one of their earliest ever presidential endorsements, NABTU leaders are kickstarting an eight-figure organizing program to try to deliver their 250,000 members in the battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin for Biden.”
Wall Street Journal: “Focusing on the threat to democracy and freedoms, including abortion access, posed by another Trump term has helped Biden—through his campaign committee and a joint-fundraising committee—bring in more than $89 million from small-dollar donors for the 2024 election.”
“Many of those low-dollar Biden contributors aren’t just donating once or twice, but giving dozens of times.”
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is emerging as a key surrogate for President Biden’s reelection campaign for young people and progressives, pushing his climate agenda as a win for those critical voting blocs,” The Hill reports.
“Donald Trump spent last week stuck in New York City for the beginning of his hush money trial. But on Wednesday, between days in court, Trump made time to call into a secretive donor meeting back at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida,“ NBC News reports.
“The event was hosted by the Rockbridge Network, an under-the-radar, new-age conservative group that sees itself as the leading edge of a changing Republican Party — and is putting tens of millions of dollars into building a fresh infrastructure to support it.”
“Democratic donors gave a total of $151 million to House and Senate races through the ActBlue fundraising platform in the first quarter of 2024,” Punchbowl News reports.
“The ActBlue data reveals an increase from the same point four years ago, indicating growing Democratic grassroots support as the 2024 election season heats up.”
“Donald Trump said he believes he has a chance of winning New York in the Electoral College in November, a longtime goal of the presumptive GOP nominee that has eluded Republicans for 40 years,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Trump: “We have a good chance of winning in New York in my opinion. I think we’re going to do very well and we’re going to make a play for New York.”
Theodore Schleifer reports Elon Musk “has made it known that he is considering either endorsing Trump after the summer — or at least making some kind of formal statement opposing Joe Biden — beyond his hourly diatribes on X.”
Former Gov. Chris Christie (R) told the Washington Post that President Biden has not called him since Christie has made it clear he’s not backing Donald Trump for president.
Said Christie: “It’s pretty stupid for him not to.”
“President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is making a new digital ad buy in Pennsylvania aimed specifically at targeting Nikki Haley supporters, marking the latest sign of the Biden team’s growing efforts to try to woo would-be Republican voters who find Donald Trump unacceptable,” CNN reports.
“The decision to direct additional resources – which the officials described as part of a “mid-six figures” ad buy – toward courting Haley backers in Pennsylvania was prompted by the state’s Republican primary contest on Tuesday… More than 157,000 GOP primary voters backed the former South Carolina governor over Trump in Pennsylvania’s closed primary, despite the fact that Haley had dropped out of the presidential race over a month ago.”
President Biden put out a direct-to-camera video this morning: ““A year ago today, when we launched this campaign, I said we were in the fight for the soul of this nation. I told you nothing less than democracy and freedom were on the ballot. With every passing day, that has proven true.”
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