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Democratic Governors Quietly Prep Plans to Counter Trump

December 11, 2024 at 10:59 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Diplomatic and depressed as they have been in public, a small group of Democratic governors are deep into behind-the-scenes preparations and deliberations over how to balance the politics of pushing back on what they are expecting from President-elect Donald Trump’s next turn in the White House,” CNN reports.

“Since long before the election, they’ve been poring through Project 2025 — it’s helpful, several Democratic governors told CNN, to have a blueprint in public. They’ve been studying their own executive powers and state laws. They’ve been collaborating on how to shame any extreme Trump actions in the court of public opinion, rather than debating the principles, as often happened when Democrats took on Trump last time.”

Trump Taps Television for Cabinet

December 11, 2024 at 10:57 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Donald Trump bolstered his national profile on NBC’s The Apprentice before first running for the White House. Now he’s turned his second transition into a casting call, pulling from the ranks of entertainment and media to find loyal allies to carry out his agenda,” Bloomberg reports.

“While critics say some of Trump’s picks are short on experience for the agencies they are being tapped to run, they offer to bring a different set of qualities, including telegenic looks or a flair for showmanship that play well on screen. Trump makes clear he values those attributes, given his own political rise has been heavy on theatrics.”

The Conversation Democrats Need to Have

December 11, 2024 at 10:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jon Favreau: “Even if we don’t agree with the views of leftists or liberals or Never Trumpers or MAGA Republicans, we understand them (or at least we think we do). The people whose views we don’t understand tend to be the people who simply don’t follow politics that closely.”

“And yet, that’s most Americans.”

“This majority still votes, but not in every election. They typically vote for the same party, but not always. Their political beliefs can be all over the map: left on some issues, right on others; willing to compromise on some issues, not on others. They tend to be less partisan (which doesn’t mean they’re centrist), less ideological (which doesn’t mean they’re moderate), and less likely to see politics as a black-and-white, life-and-death struggle with clear heroes and villains (which doesn’t mean they don’t care). They’re also less likely to have a four-year college degree, which is now the best predictor of how Americans vote and the central divide in American politics—a divide that continues to grow.”

“The Democratic Party is currently on the wrong side of an unforgiving math problem. Fewer than four in 10 Americans have graduated college, and that number is even smaller in the battleground states that decide the presidency and control of Congress. In each of the past three elections, Trump has picked up millions of new votes from Americans without a degree who had previously supported Democrats. And every time, Democrats have taken comfort in explanations that, although plausible, absolve us from the hard work of winning back these voters.”

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Quote of the Day

December 11, 2024 at 10:37 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two. Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”

–Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in an interview with the Financial Times.

A Hostile Work Environment on the Hill

December 11, 2024 at 9:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Andrew Egger: “How are House Republicans taking the news that Donald Trump wants to see their colleagues who served on the January 6th Committee put in jail? For a remarkable number, the response has been somewhere between open and enthusiastic.”

Said Rep. James Comer (R-KY): “With politicians, if you’ve used a congressional committee and you’ve lied and tried to set people up and falsely imprisoned people, then you should be held accountable.”

Said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN): “If they broke the law, then they should be imprisoned. Now we know that they’ve manipulated evidence, so—if that’s the case, then absolutely.”

“A thirst to see one’s colleagues imprisoned does not make for the most congenial of workplaces. One has to imagine that the next session of Congress could turn cantankerous quickly, owing to Trump’s insistence that the lawmakers who investigated him be jailed—and his repeated lies about their conduct.”

Suspect’s Notebook Describes Rationale for CEO Killing

December 11, 2024 at 9:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with killing Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthCare, was found with a notebook that detailed plans for the shooting,“ the New York Times reports.

Wrote Mangione: “What do you do? You wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents.”

Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Back on Track

December 11, 2024 at 8:48 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Asked about Pete Hegseth’s nomination to be Defense Secretary, Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN: “Right now, he’s in pretty good shape… he’s much better off this week than he was last week.”

Meanwhile, Newsmax instructed staff to “lay off” Hegseth “after a segment bashing the pick sparked the ire of Trump himself,” Mediaite reports.

Inflation Accelerated Last Month

December 11, 2024 at 8:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Consumer prices rose at a faster annual pace in November, a reminder that inflation remains an issue both for households and policymakers,” CNBC reports.

“The consumer price index showed a 12-month inflation rate of 2.7% after increasing 0.3% on the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday.”

Biden’s Pardon of His Son Is Very Unpopular

December 11, 2024 at 8:13 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Only 22% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter after earlier promising he would do no such thing, according to a new AP-NORC poll.

Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History

December 11, 2024 at 8:11 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s,” the New York Times reports.

“Annual net migration — the number of people coming to the country minus the number leaving — averaged 2.4 million people from 2021 to 2023, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Total net migration during the Biden administration is likely to exceed eight million people.”

“That’s a faster pace of arrivals than during any other period on record, including the peak years of Ellis Island traffic, when millions of Europeans came to the United States. Even after taking into account today’s larger U.S. population, the recent surge is the most rapid since at least 1850.”

RFK Jr. Becomes Latest Troubled Trump Pick

December 11, 2024 at 7:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “At least three closely watched senators are noncommittal about confirming the vaccine critic, who’s being considered to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Those include swing votes like Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, as well as Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician who will chair a committee that could host confirmation hearings for Kennedy.”

Trump Vows Fast Permits for Those Investing $1 Billion

December 11, 2024 at 7:44 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Donald Trump said his administration would help expedite permits for any person or company that invested at least $1 billion in the U.S.,” Bloomberg reports.

Americans Distrust Trump and RFK Jr. on Health

December 11, 2024 at 7:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Axios-Ipsos poll finds Americans are still more trusting of Anthony Fauci than they are of President-elect Donald Trump and his health team when it comes to medical information.

Also interesting: “Only about a third think the government puts the public’s health and well-being first, or that America is adequately prepared to deal with another pandemic.”

Tom Cotton Will Chair Senate Intelligence

December 11, 2024 at 7:39 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) beat out Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) to claim the gavel of the Senate Intelligence Committee, despite suggestions Cornyn should get the position “as a consolation prize after his failed leader bid,” Politico reports.

Wall Street’s Titans Can’t Wait for Trump 2.0

December 11, 2024 at 6:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “These days, it seems that everyone who is anybody on Wall Street — to say nothing of a whole lot of nobodies — is amped up for Mr. Trump’s return to the Oval Office. In interviews, bankers, lawyers, investors and corporate executives with a wide range of political views said that despite mixed opinions on Mr. Trump’s proposed policies overall, they see in his administration the greatest possibility for a boon to the business world in a generation or more…”

“Notably, the rosy outlook sidesteps some of the nonconformist economic ideas — namely tariffs on all imports to the United States — that Mr. Trump has pledged. It also takes as a given that the president-elect will continue to save his most provocative political picks for bureaucracies such as the F.B.I. that financiers see as unrelated to their world.”

Trump Picks Dan Bishop as Deputy Budget Chief

December 11, 2024 at 6:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to fill out key posts at the Office of Management and Budget with two staff picks on Tuesday,” Politico reports.

“Trump picked Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina as deputy director of the OMB. Bishop lost his election in the North Carolina attorney general race in November.”

Trump Taps Tom Barrack as Ambassador to Turkey

December 11, 2024 at 6:47 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Donald Trump announced private equity executive Tom Barrack, a longtime ally who faced legal scrutiny for his work on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, as his pick to be the next U.S. ambassador to Turkey,” Politico reports.

Don Jr. Splits with Kimberly Guilfoyle

December 11, 2024 at 6:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle have broken up,” sources tell Page Six.

“Insiders add that Trump Jr. has moved on with Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson.”

Daily Mail: Donald Trump Jr. is seen flaunting his romance with socialite Bettina Anderson in Palm Beach…with no sign of fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle.

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