I know the #MAGA world and Trump's enablers in the elected and pundit class will contort themselves to try to explain this away. But these are the numbers. And you can look it up for yourself.
Two notes:
1) For most of the first two years of the Trump Administration, Republicans were in complete control of the Executive and Legislative branches of Government. White House, House and Senate. And our leading abortion provider performed more abortions and got more gov $.
2) While it can take some time to figure out the total number of abortions that occur nationally (the reports don't come out as regularly as the PP annual reports do), about a third of the abortions that occur in America are performed by Planned Parenthood.
Some of the increases could theoretically come from PP growing at the expense of smaller abortion providers. But the government money to PP has increased as well.
A lot of politicians got elected on the promise to "Defund Planned Parenthood." Doesn't seem to have happened
In my view, for a lot of politicians, the issue of abortion is not as much about protecting human life in the womb as it is about capitalizing politically on the issue, using it as fuel to motivate people who have few other reasons to vote GOP to stay loyal to the party.
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One year ago, in February, 2020, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 158.7 million Americans were employed.
In February, 2021, the number of employed Americans is down to 150.2 million.
(Source: bls.gov)
And if you total all the monthly jobs reports from last March through the one that was released yesterday, even with the recent gains, America has lost 6.11 million jobs in the last 12 months.
That's a lot of money out of households.
A lot of small businesses struggling to survive. Or not surviving.
I hate debt and I hate spending. I hate incurring it myself and I hate it when the government incurs it.
But I also hate hypocrisy.
When Trump came to office, the National Debt was $19.95 trillion.
When he left, it was $27.76 trillion.
$7.81 trillion. And the GOP said NOTHING
We're in a pandemic now. America has about 2.5 million fewer jobs today than we had four years ago. That missing money has put a lot of people in financial jeopardy. The tax revenue lost by government and the toll on businesses has been staggering. Many are barely surviving.
That $7.8 trillion dollars in additional debt that America incurred during the Presidency of Donald Trump, which the GOP members of Congress had no problem with whatsoever based on their public comments, is more than four times the cost of the COVID bill. @HouseGOP@SenateGOP
The @GOP is working hard to try to disenfranchise and to make it harder for black voters, particularly in urban communities, to vote.
But one of the biggest factors in Trump's 2020 loss is the fact that he did worse with white voters. He IMPROVED slightly with black voters.
Trump still won white voters overwhelmingly, 58-41 nationally. That's a 17 point margin.
But, in 2016, Trump won white voters 58-37. Which is a 21 point margin.
He lost 4 points with white voters.
This might not sound like a big deal. But in 2016, white voters represented 73.6% of the electorate (I'm looking forward to when @electproject updates the stats to be updated for demographic turnout for 2020).
Losing a net 4% of 73.6% of the electorate is 3 points.
Trump lost more jobs in a single term than any President since Herbert Hoover and was the least popular President in the history of modern polling. #TrumpSOTU
Since CPAC 2017, four years ago, the Republican Party has lost:
2 US Senate seats in Arizona
2 US Senate seats in Georgia
1 US Senate seat in Nevada
1 US Senate seat in Colorado
Since CPAC 2017, Trump's Party has lost:
The Governorships of Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey and Maine.
For those in the CPAC Universe, nothing will probably convince you that Trump lost the election (or that the moon landing wasn’t faked or that George Soros isn’t controlling the weather - but I digress).
But here is some attempted cult de-programming, anyway ... #EarthToCPAC
Trump didn’t just lose AZ, GA, MI, PA and WI in 2020 after winning them in 2016. Trump’s entire PARTY got wiped out in these and other states in the four years Trump was in office.