The estate of Sinead O’Connor on Monday asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies, saying the late singer considered the former president a “biblical devil,” the AP reports.
Dueling Campaign Visits in Georgia
Donald Trump and Joe Biden “are both set to campaign in Georgia on Saturday with dueling visits that underscore the intense competition to capture one of the nation’s premier battleground states in November,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
Quote of the Day
“We don’t really care. It’s not been the way we’ve been planning to beat Donald Trump. Our focus since day one of launching this campaign has been to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box. And everything we’ve done since the president announced back in April that he’s running for reelection is to build an infrastructure and apparatus to do so.”
— Biden deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks, talking to MSNBC about the Supreme Court declaring Donald Trump eligible for the ballot.
Trump Wins in Challenge to Ballot Eligibility
“The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump should remain on Colorado’s primary ballot, rejecting a challenge to his eligibility for another term that could have upended the presidential race by taking him off ballots around the nation,” the New York Times reports.
“Though the justices offered different reasons, the decision was unanimous.”
“The decision was the court’s most important ruling concerning a presidential election since Bush v. Gore handed the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000.”
Rick Hasen: “But this is where the agreement among the justices ends. The Court majority goes out of its way to impose some very severe limits on how Congress may enforce Section 3 against an insurrectionist. This is complete dicta: that is, none of this was necessary to include to decide that a state cannot disqualify a federal officer under Section 3.”
Trump Allies Target Blacks with Fake AI Images
“Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican,” the BBC reports.
Voters Give Better Marks to Trump’s Policies Than Biden’s
“Not since Theodore Roosevelt ran against William Howard Taft in 1912 have voters gotten the opportunity to weigh the records of two men who have done the job of president,” the New York Times reports.
“And despite holding intensely and similarly critical opinions both of President Biden and of his predecessor, Americans have much more positive views of Donald J. Trump’s policies than they do of Mr. Biden’s, according to New York Times/Siena College polls.”
“Overall, 40 percent of voters said Mr. Trump’s policies had helped them personally, compared with just 18 percent who say the same about Mr. Biden’s policies. Instead, 43 percent of voters said Mr. Biden’s policies had hurt them, nearly double the share who said the same about Mr. Trump’s policies.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“And in 2023 you told me we’re going to get our ass kicked again? And we won every contested race out there…. In 2024, I think you’re going to see the same thing.”
— President Biden, in an interview with the New Yorker.
The Year of the Carpetbagger
NOTUS: “Candidates in some of the biggest elections of 2024 are presenting a central question for the future of campaigning: If all politics is now national, is there really any harm in running in a state you’re not wedded to?”
“A surprising number of Senate candidates this year have out-of-state ties that, in even the recent past, could cost them their races. Some, like Republicans Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania and Eric Hovde in Wisconsin, own or rent homes in other states whose value far exceeds that of the residences they own in the states they’re running in. Others, like former Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan, have an active voter registration in a different state.”
Quote of the Day
“I’d ask a rhetorical question. If you thought you were best positioned to beat someone who, if they won, would change the nature of America, what would you do?”
— President Biden, quoted by the New Yorker, on his decision to run for re-election.
‘Losers Who Are Losers Are Never Graceful’
President Biden told the New Yorker that he doesn’t think Donald Trump will concede if he loses in November.
Said Biden: “Losers who are losers are never graceful. I just think that he’ll do anything to try to win. If — and when — I win, I think he’ll contest it. No matter what the result is.”
Trump Advisers Try to Steer Him Off Personal Drama
“Top advisers are trying — with some early success — to steer former President Trump to focus more on the border and the economy, and less on old grievances and personal drama,” Axios reports.
“How disciplined Trump is could determine whether he’ll be able to attract college-educated voters who don’t believe the 2020 election was fraudulent — voters he’ll need some support from to win the Nov. 5 election.”
No Labels Running Out of Time and Candidates
“Donors to No Labels are starting to fear that the third-party group missed its window for launching a much-hyped presidential bid and are questioning whether to make future financial commitments to the organization,” Politico reports.
“Those fears have intensified after two high-profile No Labels candidate targets — former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat — passed on the chance to run for president, and as the party’s planned April presidential nominating convention approaches without a clear ticket in place.”
Most Doubt Biden’s and Trump’s Mental Capabilities
A new AP-NORC poll finds that roughly 6 in 10 voters say they’re not very or not at all confident in Joe Biden’s or Donald Trump’s mental capability to serve effectively as president.
Trump Keeps Making Incendiary Statements
Associated Press: “Candidates on the verge of winning their parties’ nominations generally massage their messaging and moderate positions that may energize hardcore primary voters but are less appealing to a broader audience. In political terms, they ‘pivot.’”
“Not Donald Trump. The former president is instead doubling down on often-incendiary rhetoric that offends wide swaths of voters, seeming to be doing little to rein in his most irascible and oftentimes self-defeating instincts. That’s even as some of his most loyal allies have suggested he shift his focus and tone down rhetoric that risks offending independent voters and people outside his base.”
The Looming Rematch Hits a ‘Kickoff’ Moment
“President Biden’s advisers are eager for the coming general-election fight and counting on voters to start paying more attention to Donald Trump, with the president himself even proposing and dashing off videos to ridicule the things his Republican rival says,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Trump is relishing the chance to contrast himself with Mr. Biden, as he did along the Texas-Mexico border last week, and trusting that Mr. Biden has the tougher job: convincing voters that their views of how the country is doing are wrong.”
“With the former president expected to rack up big wins on Super Tuesday and Mr. Biden preparing to deliver his State of the Union address on Thursday, this week is expected to clarify the coming choice for an American public that in many ways remains in disbelief that 2024 is headed toward a 2020 rematch.”
CNN: A defining week set to lay bare the choice in the 2024 election.
Trump Campaign Is Reining In Costs
“As former President Donald Trump gears up for a costly general election campaign with President Joe Biden and faces staggering legal expenses of his own, his campaign is actively working to keep costs in check,” CNN reports.
‘Senior adviser Susie Wiles has privately joked that the campaign staff call her a ‘miser’ — and she’s not entirely wrong.”
Trump Poised to Dominate Super Tuesday
“Donald Trump is poised to continue his march to the GOP presidential nomination on Tuesday, when 15 states will vote to award more than a third of the party’s delegates and test how quickly Republicans are coalescing behind the former president,” the Washington Post reports.
“Trump has decisively won all but one contest so far and is expected to make a clean sweep of ‘Super Tuesday,’ a normally high-stakes moment in the primary calendar that the former president’s dominance has stripped of its suspense. But despite Trump’s near-incumbent status in the race, a significant, if losing, percentage of voters has opted for another candidate in several contests — underscoring some voters’ reservations and the potential general election challenges ahead. His last standing GOP challenger, Nikki Haley, has pointed to this trend as she has made a case for continuing her campaign.”
Nikki Haley Wins D.C. Primary
Nikki Haley won the Washington, D.C., Republican presidential primary, netting her first victory of the GOP nominating process, The Hill reports.
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