Cole Allen, the gunman from last night’s WH Correspondents Dinner, maintained an active online presence, especially on the leftwing social media platform Bluesky where he went by the handle ColdForce.bsky.social with multiple references violence and guns.
In one post he calls President Trump the Antichrist.
In another he recommends buying guns in reaction to Trump’s DOJ exploring ways to ban firearm purchases from transgenders.
In one post he calls Trump a sociopathic mob boss and in another referred to him as a traitor with known connections to Putin, repeating a favorite leftwing Russian Hoax talking point.
He also attacks JD Vance for advocating an end to America’s funding the war in Ukraine and for his criticisms of the Pope. He seems pretty fixated on Ukraine more generally.
He also frequently interacts with Will Stancil’s Bluesky account, among others.
🚨The results of the 2025 Turning Point Action America Fest Straw Poll are in. Thread.
Vice President JD Vance won the 2028 nomination straw poll in a landslide, garnering a MASSIVE 84.2% of support, followed by Sec. Marco Rubio (4.8%), and Ron DeSantis (2.9%).
We also asked about President Trump's cabinet, and they remain broadly popular with the base.
The top three most popular cabinet secretaries are Sec. Pete Hegseth (83.3% strongly approve), Sec. RFJ Jr. (80.3% strongly approve), and Sec. Marco Rubio (78.6% strongly approve).
We also polled attendees views on Israel. A clear majority view Israel as one ally of many (53.4%), about 1/3 of attendees see Israel as our top ally (33.3), while 13.3% do not view Israel as an ally at all.
Republicans seem poised to win the midterm popular vote significantly while barely flipping any seats. The issue wasn’t messaging, the issue was machinery. New York and Florida are the two states where the most flips happened because of favorable maps.
While I’m no fan of early voting—it favors low agency voters—Florida proves you can have EVs while maintaining voter integrity. Shorten the windows, cut it off a week or two before ED and allow tabulators to run those ballots ahead of time.
The main issue is ballot harvesting and no-excuse universal mail in ballots. Republicans need to spend big cultivating harvesting operations in key districts across the country where it’s legal until they have enough power to outlaw it, along with no-excuse mail ins.