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☆ CNN Poll: Few think Trump is being treated the same as other defendants
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jennifer Agiesta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —As the first criminal prosecution of a former American president began just 13% nationwide feel Donald Trump is being treated the same as other criminal defendants, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. Most of the country was divided over whether he is being treated more harshly (34%) or more leniently (34%) than other defendants. Most Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say Trump is being treated more leniently than other defendants by the criminal justice system (61%), while Republicans and Republican-leaning independents largely say he’s being treated more harshly than others (67%). A broad majority of Democratic-aligned Americans say Trump’s behavior during the trial thus far has been inappropriate (72%), though Republicans haven’t leapt to his defense. Only 46% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say Trump’s conduct has been appropriate, with 15% saying it’s been inappropriate and 39% that they haven’t heard enough to say.

Persons: Donald Trump, SSRS, Stormy Daniels, Trump, Joe Biden, Biden, Honig, there’s, it’s, haven’t, CNN’s Ariel Edwards, Levy, Ed Wu Organizations: CNN, Republican, Trump, Biden, Capitol, Republican Party, Democratic, Republicans Locations: American

☆ AI is threatening Americans’ jobs. Could guaranteed income provide a safety net?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

That idea of guaranteed income is receiving renewed interest as AI becomes an increasing threat to Americans’ livelihoods. As more Americans’ jobs are increasingly at risk due to the threat of AI, Tubbs and other proponents of guaranteed income say this could be one solution to help provide a safety net and cushion the expected blow AI will have on the labor market. “Then, when we have to deal with that job displacement, we’re better positioned to do so.”Silicon Valley’s infatuation with guaranteed incomeThe idea of a guaranteed income is not new. AFP/Getty ImagesDecades after King’s death, the idea of guaranteed income went on to see a resurgence of support emanating out of Silicon Valley. Other tech industry tycoons, including Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, have also thrown immense financial support behind guaranteed income programs.

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☆ Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Nadja Popovich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S.Last year, Americans bought more than one million fully electric cars, trucks and SUVs, a record and a milestone for the country’s transition away from gas-powered vehicles. To fight climate change, the Biden administration and many state governments want to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. experience from pretty easy and kind of hard,” said Ken Kurani, a researcher focused on electric vehicles at the University of California, Davis. Only two electric vehicles in the analysis, both made by Tesla, cost the same or less than similar gas models. But for now, “there are some very real ways in which, in comparison to conventional vehicles, electric vehicles either really are still struggling to be as good or better, or are struggling against the imagination that they’re not as good or better,” he said.

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The poll, taken Tuesday through Friday, also found more registered Republicans in the state view Haley unfavorably (47%) than favorably (31%). Trump, meanwhile is viewed favorably by 76% of registered Republicans and unfavorably by just 16%. Some Haley supporters interviewed at her events are left-leaning voters who have little ideological overlap with Haley but are intent on stopping Trump. The day before, he won a rousing endorsement from South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, whom Haley appointed to the Senate when she was governor. “I think I know what favorable territory is in South Carolina.

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☆ Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves faces challenger Brandon Presley, Democrat who ran on expanding Medicaid
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Tate Reeves speaks on Covid-19 testing in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on September 28, 2020. Tate Reeves, a Republican, faces a surprisingly competitive race Tuesday as his Democratic challenger Brandon Presley champions expanding Medicaid, a position that has broad support among voters from both parties in the deeply conservative state. Presley was pressing Reeves hard heading into Tuesday night with the race having shifted from likely to lean Republican, according to the Cook Political Report. Presley focused his campaign on outreach to Black voters, the backbone of the Democratic Party in Mississippi. Presley is a commissioner for Mississippi's public utility regulator who previously served as mayor of the small town of Nettleton.

Persons: Tate Reeves, MANDEL NGAN, Brandon Presley, Presley, Reeves, Cook, Bennie Thompson, Elvis Presley Organizations: Mississippi Gov, White, Getty Images, Republican, Democratic, Black, Democratic Party, U.S . Rep Locations: Mississippi, Rose, Washington , DC, AFP, Nettleton

☆ A Democratic Governor in Mississippi? He Thinks It’s Possible.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Rick Rojas | More About Rick Rojas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Yet Mr. Presley has gained decent momentum — and with it, the attention of Democrats outside Mississippi. He has raised more than $11 million since January, far outpacing Mr. Reeves, and has used the money to flood television and radio stations with campaign advertisements. In the race for governor four years ago, Jim Hood, then the state attorney general and the last Democrat elected to statewide office, was seen as the most viable candidate the party had fielded in Mississippi in more than a decade. Yet he lost to Mr. Reeves by about five percentage points. Still, Mr. Presley sensed an opening.

Persons: Presley, Reeves, Jim Hood Organizations: Mississippi, Southern Democrats, Democratic, Democrat Locations: Southern, Mississippi

Steve Beshear – faces Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a protege of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. In Mississippi, Republican Lynn Fitch is seeking a second term against Greta Kemp Martin, the litigation director of Disability Rights Mississippi. Democratic attorney Lindsey Cheek won the other runoff slot by taking 23% of the all-party primary vote. In Mississippi, Republican incumbent Michael Watson is seeking a second term and should easily defeat Democrat Ty Pinkins. She will face Democratic attorney, accountant, and small business owner Gwen Collins-Greenup, who finished second in the primary.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans view college campuses as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech, with adults across the political spectrum seeing less tolerance for those on the right, according to a new poll. More recently, a conservative Princeton University professor was drowned out while discussing free speech at Washington College, a small school in Maryland. Overall, Republicans see a clear double standard on college campuses. “The reality is that there’s free speech for everyone on college campuses,” said Fleisher, a linguistics professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. But as the nation has become more politically divided, so have college campuses, said Kristen Shahverdian, senior manager for education at PEN.

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All three states lean heavily Republican in federal elections, yet Democrats currently control the governorship in two out of the three. As usual, we are rating these races on the following scale: Safe Republican, Likely Republican, Lean Republican, Toss-Up, Lean Democratic, Likely Democratic and Safe Democratic. The race moving in the Republican direction is Louisiana, which we’re shifting from Likely Republican to Safe Republican. But for now, we’ll keep it at Likely Republican. That may be in tune with Kentucky voters, who, despite the state’s Republican lean, rejected a 2022 ballot measure that would have enhanced the state’s ability to outlaw abortion.

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☆ The group that won Trump the election in 2016 may win it for him again in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Harry Enten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Right now, the likely Republican alternative to Biden in a hypothetical 2024 general election matchup appears to be Donald Trump. Voters who like Trump favor him by more than 90 points over Biden, while those who like Biden favor him by more than 90 points over Trump. This means the election will come down to the 29% of voters (according to our poll) who hold a favorable view of neither Biden nor Trump. Trump won that group by 17 points – and with it, the election. But in our latest poll, Trump leads Biden by 7 points among the 29% of voters who view neither of them favorably.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, There’s, Donald Trump, That’s, Trump, Hillary Clinton, don’t, isn’t Organizations: CNN, Republicans, Biden, Trump, Voters, GOP, Quinnipiac University, The New York Times, Siena College

☆ How Florida law could trip up Trump if he’s convicted before the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

Meade is executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which works to restore voting rights in the state to former felons. Amendment 4 automatically restored voting rights to former felons, except those convicted of murder or sexual offenses, who have completed their sentences. Initially, organizers projected that Amendment 4 would restore voting rights to about 1.4 million Floridians, but as a result of these new hurdles only a little over 600,000 have actually regained their voting rights, Meade said. Even after Amendment 4, felons are required to have completed their sentence before recovering their voting rights in Florida, as in virtually all other states. Intervening to restore those rights to Trump, if he’s convicted of a felony before the election, would represent a stark departure from the clemency board’s typical procedures.

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☆ Opinion | Pro-Vaccine Views Are Winning. Don’t Fear the Skeptics.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, vaccine skepticism has been back in the headlines. (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine outweigh the risk — the same percentage that Pew found in 2016 and 2019. When you look at rates of vaccination among young children for potentially dangerous infectious diseases, the data is encouraging. According to a study published in January in the C.D.C.’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report:Vaccination coverage among young children has remained high and stable for most vaccines, although disparities persist. Per the C.D.C., for children born in 2018 and 2019, coverage was over 90 percent for the polio, M.M.R., hepatitis B and varicella (chickenpox) vaccines.

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☆ Ron DeSantis finally gets some good news thanks to a new Wisconsin poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis got some good news thanks to a new poll of Wisconsin Republicans. According to the Marquette University Law School Poll, DeSantis is in a dead heat with Trump. Ron DeSantis received some good news from a poll on Wednesday, with a Marquette University Law School Poll finding DeSantis and Trump are in a statistical dead heat among Wisconsin Republicans. The poll found that among those Republicans and independents who lean Republicans in the state, Trump is at 31%, and DeSantis is at 30%. The Marquette University Law School Poll was conducted from June 8-13, 2023.

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☆ Opinion | This Is Not the Time for a Third Presidential Candidate
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I’ve long been a fan of No Labels, the organization that works to reduce political polarization and Washington gridlock. That project is a $70 million effort to secure ballot access for a potential third presidential candidate in 2024. Today, they argue, the electorate is roughly evenly split among those who lean Democratic, those who lean Republican and the unaffiliated. Fifty-nine percent of voters surveyed in that No Labels analysis said if that happened, they would consider voting for a third moderate candidate. If the No Labels candidate won just 61 percent of this disaffected group and the remainder was split evenly between two other candidates, he or she would capture a plurality of the electorate and could win the presidency.

Persons: Washington gridlock, I’ve, Joe Biden, Donald Trump Organizations: Washington, Democrats, White Locations: America

☆ Opinion | Democrats Want Trump? They’re Out of Their Minds.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That, you may recall, was when Donald Trump’s emergence as the Republican presidential nominee seemed like some cosmic joke. And yet some Democrats are again rejoicing at the prospect of Trump as his party’s pick. The stakes of a second Trump term are much, much too high to wager on his weakness and hope for his nomination. And the circumstances in November 2024 are neither predictable nor controllable — just as they weren’t in November 2016. If Trump is in the running, Trump is in the running.

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☆ Tucker Carlson discussed working together with Elon Musk after Fox firing, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tucker Carlson is talking with right-wing outlets about his next career move, according to Axios. He has reportedly talked to Newsmax and Rumble while his lawyers work to break his Fox contract. Axios also reported that Carlson has met with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who has previously expressed support for right-wing views. Tucker Carlson has had at least one conversation with Elon Musk about working together, according to a new report from Axios. Social media extremism experts previously told Insider that Musk often uses his Twitter to amplify right-wing messaging.

☆ DeSantis uses Long Island speech to blast the indictment of a 'former president' while declining to directly name political rival Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis spoke to a crowd Saturday about former President Donald Trump's indictment. He also appeared to use the speech as an opportunity to criticize Trump — though again without naming him. Ron DeSantis used a Saturday stop in Long Island to stick up for former President Donald Trump following his indictment, but the Florida politician avoided using Trump's name in the nearly hour-long speech. Following his indictment, Trump's popularity over DeSantis has grown, according to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll in which Trump beat DeSantis by 26 percentage points among registered Republican voters and Independents who lean Republican. Representatives for Trump and DeSantis did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ Trump surges to a 26-point lead over Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP presidential primary post-indictment: poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Katie Balevic | John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The ex-president now leads Ron DeSantis 57%-31%, up from a 47%-39% edge last month, per a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Republican voters in recent polls have shown distrust for the various criminal inquiries into Trump. In a wider match that includes eight other potential GOP candidates, 52% of Republican and likely Republican voters opted for Trump while just 21% polled for DeSantis. In a matchup between President Joe Biden and Trump, the Democratic commander-in-chief narrowly bested Trump, 45% to 43%, among registered voters. In a Yahoo News/YouGov survey conducted February, DeSantis even held a slight four-point lead (45%-41%) over Trump in a two-way race.

☆ Half of Americans support a US ban on TikTok, but many are unsure, Pew survey says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Washington CNN —Half of Americans support a US government ban on TikTok, while 22% oppose the idea and more than a quarter are unsure, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Friday. But it also underscores that significant portions of the country, 28% of Americans, remain uncertain about a ban on TikTok, suggesting they do not have firm views on the matter. Some 19% of TikTok users did express support for a US government ban, however. The survey found, however, that most Americans — nearly two-thirds (64%) — are aware of TikTok’s China connection. There is a partisan gap as well, with 60% of Republicans or those who lean Republican in favor of banning TikTok, Pew found, compared to 43% of Democrats or those who lean Democratic.

That's the question posed by certain members of the Silicon Valley elite who are attributing layoffs to a boom-time phenomenon: over-hiring and "fake" work. A particular view of 'work'This concept of fake work is rooted, at least partly, in political disagreement. Several of the tech figures pushing these ideas lean Republican, in contrast to the left-leaning tech workers they're lambasting. He and others pushing a grind culture are motivated, as tech employees commenting on the workplace app Blind noted. "I think it's a false narrative to say many people do fake work, especially when companies already deploy workplace monitoring tools."

That's the question posed by a certain members of the Silicon Valley elite who are attributing layoffs to a boom-time phenomenon: over-hiring and "fake" work. "There's nothing for these people to do — they're really — it's all fake work," he said. A particular view of 'work'This concept of fake work is rooted, at least partly, in political disagreement. Several of the tech figures pushing these ideas lean Republican, in contrast to the left-leaning tech workers they're lambasting. "I think it's a false narrative to say many people do fake work, especially when companies already deploy workplace monitoring tools."

A new national Quinnipiac University poll shows some striking fault lines emerging in the still-early 2024 Republican presidential race. But it’s the stark GOP divides in GOP support between Trump and DeSantis that stand out in the poll. Among just self-identified Republicans, Trump gets 48% versus 31% for DeSantis. And among white Republicans with four-year college degrees, DeSantis is ahead of Trump, 51%-22%. When Biden was matched up against DeSantis, it was DeSantis 47%, Biden 46%.

☆ Fact Check-Most Democrat wins for U.S. Senate races were called by Nov. 9; Dems did not ‘only’ win in states with mail in voting
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

For the midterm election on Nov. 8, there were 35 states that had Senate races. Delays were seen in Arizona and Nevada, where the Senate races were called for Democrats on Nov. 11 and Nov. 12 respectively. All four projected Democrat wins for the Senate races on election night, after the polls closed. In Illinois and Maryland, known as “Solid Democratic” states, the Senate race was called on election day. Only two of 14 U.S. Senate races resulting in Democrat wins in states that allow mail-in voting were not called by Nov 9.

Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer defeated Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Oregon's 5th Congressional District. Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer defeated Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Oregon's 5th Congressional District. 2022 General EmbedsOregon's 5th Congressional District candidatesChavez-DeRemer is one of several Hispanic conservative women who ran for office in 2022. McLeod-Skinner defeated the seven-term Schrader in the Democratic primary for Oregon's 5th Congressional District, securing 56.9% of the vote to his 42.7%. Voting history for Oregon's 5th Congressional DistrictOregon's 5th Congressional District is situated to the west of the state and encompasses Bend and the Portland suburbs.

Rep. Cindy Axne ran against Republican Zach Nunn in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District. Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne lost her bid for reelection against Republican state Sen. Zach Nunn in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District. 2022 General EmbedsIowa's 3rd Congressional District candidatesAxne is a member of the Committees on Financial Services and Agriculture. Voting history for Iowa's 3rd Congressional DistrictIowa's 3rd Congressional District is located in the southwestern region of the state. The National Republican Congressional Committee and Congressional Leadership Fund, a pro-Nunn super PAC, account for the majority of that spending.

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