Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani are here awaiting Trump presser.
Trump: "I'm sort of waiting for the New York Times and The Washington Post, ABC, CBS NBC, CNN MSDNC--I'm waiting for them to endorse me."
Trump complains about critiques of ACB's Catholicism, and he says "I thought we settled this 60 years ago with the election of John F. Kennedy."
Trump says it was DNC and Democrats who were in cahoots with Russia. "Related or unrelated hunter," he adds, "Hunter Biden got $3.5 million dollars from the wife of the mayor of Moscow."
Trump on Democrats and mail-in ballots: "They can't run a simple caucus. Yet now they're trying to radically rewrite election laws nationwide, just weeks before the presidential election."
Trump: "You can forget about November third. You're going to be counting these things forever."
Trump says that Democrats know "the extreme changes" in election law benefit them. He adds that "they go into closed rooms and they must laugh like hell."
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News: Harris to propose “federal ban on corporate price-gouging” on groceries and “impose stiff penalties in the food industry,” campaign announces.
Harris will propose, what her campaign bills as “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries—setting clear rules of the road to make clear that big corporations can’t unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries.”
The campaign singles out the “highly consolidated” meat-packing industry, noting how just four meat processors control the market and arguing “the lack of competition gives these middlemen the power to drive down earnings for farmers while driving up prices for consumers.”
The Tucker Carlson news isn't just a media story. It significantly changes the GOP 2024 primary overnight. abcnews.go.com/US/tucker-carl…
Tucker went where other journalists were too squeamish to go.
He pressed the gender identity question, objecting also to GOP sacred cows on foreign policy and trade.
That is, Tucker asked questions the conservative base cares about.
Who got the entire GOP field on the record on the Ukraine question? It wasn't the New York Times. They were running write-ups of his show. nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/…
The Virginia governor's race is quite the mile marker given that a decade ago Mitch Daniels was calling for a "truce" on social issues in order to focus on "the red menace" of debt and deficits.
The argument social conservatives are making inside the GOP is 1) It was always a one sided truce, 2) they were never the aggressors, but regardless, 3) following Youngkin's lead on culture wars will lead to wins in 2022. realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/…
This quote from @Schilling1776 whose group is pushing the GOP off the sidelines is instructive of how social conservatives see things. He tells me, "this is the Tea Party but for families. They attacked the one thing people care about more than money: Our families."
Reporter asking Education Secretary to give an update on the proposal "to teach more Black history in schools" questions the affect of "Republican backlash over that."
Read that critical race theory.
Cardona says that he "always" trusts educators "to make sure that our curriculum promotes the beautiful diversity of this country."
The controversy, the secretary says, is "another example of something that's become politicized."
Is the proposal still on track? Cardona, despite the DOE dropping references to CRT, says "yeah, the priorities are still what they are. I think, for us, the way we put it forward, allows districts to—and states—to put in their proposals and how they want to teach it."