Asked if this is true, @jdbalart said: “Of course not. He was asked to answer questions from Telemundo viewers —they were on a monitor. He would answer the monitor. In one moment the monitor went to black — he said ‘I lost the lady’I told him he could answer looking at me“ 1/2
...”and that was that.” I asked @jdbalart about it because I know him well and he’s a helluva reporter first and foremost and he would never agree to something like this, where a subject gets interview questions or is allowed to answer off a teleprompter
This tweet is shocking not just because it's misleading but because @helenaguirrefer, who now helms the @FloridaGOP, used to work in Miami media & knows @jdbalart & knows he wouldnt do what the party is alleging
Inside the Gaetz pitch to Senators: "I’m not going to go there and indict Liz Cheney, have storm troopers bust through the studio door at MSNBC, and arrest Anthony Fauci"
3/10
Re the federal & House investigations, Gaetz allies are pushing back on the credibility of the accuser & her friend KM who claimed to see Gaetz have sex w/the 17 y/o in 2017
Harris has raised enough money to burn a wet dog so it’s easy to see her plowing a few million on TV in Florida to juice poll numbers & see if team Trump bites
Had Biden made real ground/organizing investments since 2020, she’d have a good chance in FL
2/4 Harris lead of 14pts in Miami-Dade is certainly believable & for dispirited Democrats who suffered through the Biden Era’s neglect of the state, it’s encouraging
But Trump won Florida by 1.2 in 2016 when he lost Dade by almost 30. He lost Dade by 7.3 in 2020 & won FL by 3.3
3/4 Polls have Trump up about 7 in FL. Republicans who know the state admit Harris is way tougher than Biden. They were looking at a double digit Trump win in FL w/Joe
Now it’s looking like single digits
It’s unlikely FL becomes in play this circle. But unlikely ≠ impossible
3/4 Yesterday, Shapiro also disavowed the part of the oped where he wrote in opposition of a two-state solution (he has supported it for years, he said)
An iconic image of Donald Trump, after a bullet appears to have grazed his head and bloodied his ear in an assassination attempt, defiantly resisting Secret Service so he can hold his fist in the air to show he survived
1/5 FL’s Supreme Court ruled today to put an abortion rights amendment on the ballot AND struck down a prior court ruling that protected abortion rights
To pass, an amendment takes 60% voter approval in FL.
It will be on the general election ballot with Trump & Biden
2/5 Support for the FL abortion amendment is polling around 70%
That’s cutting it close
The FL GOP is opposed & amid partisan organized opposition, some FL amendments have lost about 10% support from baseline polling in the state
This can “fail” w/59% support
3/5 FL’s abortion amendment sidesteps the issue of weeks & instead blocks lawmakers from restricting abortion before “viability”
So if it passes, the GOP legislature could define viability in a restrictive way that will trigger more lawsuits before a conservative SCOFL