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| | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | ✅ Trump's cabinet is taking shape. In the past 24 hours, Donald Trump has selected Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for secretary of state, Lee Zeldin for EPA director, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) for Homeland Security director, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) for National Security adviser, and Stephen Miller for the White House deputy chief of staff for policy. | 🛡️ House Democrats scramble to blunt Trump's agenda. With full Republican control of Congress looming, House Democrats are mapping out strategies to safeguard Biden-Harris policies. Led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the efforts focus on fast-tracking funds from key Biden initiatives, swiftly granting illegal migrant citizenships, and exploring executive orders to shield federal agencies. | 🗳 The base wants Rick Scott for Senate majority leader, but GOP senators favor Thune. The Republican base has been vocally supporting Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) to lead the Senate majority, but GOP insiders report that many senators are irritated by the aggressive pressure, with some suggesting it's driving undecided votes toward Thune. | 💰 Dr. Fauci received $15 million in taxpayer-funded security post-retirement. Documents obtained by Open the Books reveal an unprecedented agreement where Dr. Anthony Fauci received $15 million in taxpayer-funded protection from the US Marshals Service after retiring from the government. This security detail, including a chauffeur and full staff, has sparked criticism as individuals like RFK Jr. were denied similar federal protection despite receiving threats on his life. |
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| | | WHAT WE'RE HEARING | GOP senators said they feel like they're being bullied into voting for Rick Scott for majority leader. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said he is confident he'll become the majority leader. Douglas Murray made the case for regime change in Iran, saying it's the only way to achieve peace in the region. The new border czar, Tom Homan, had a message for leaders of sanctuary cities: "If [they] don't want to help us, get out of the way because we're coming."
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| | | NARRATIVE TRACKER | A CNN panelist floated the idea that President Biden should resign to make Kamala Harris the president. Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-NC) suggested Democrats form a "shadow cabinet" as a check on the executive branch under Donald Trump. Such a system exists in the UK, but is plainly unconstitutional in the US. Donald Trump spoke to Vladimir Putin on the phone and told him not to escalate the war in Ukraine. This comes as the media continues to label Trump as a puppet of Putin and a source of chaos, rather than recognizing his efforts to secure peace.
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| | | IN THE LOOP | Donald Trump announced his intention to eliminate the Department of Education. Republicans officially secured a majority in the House of Representatives, completing their clean sweep of the presidency, Senate, and House. Israeli President Isaac Herzog will meet with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and President Biden today. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is set to become the next chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's deputy repeatedly referred to Daniel Penny as "the white man" during trial. The most clicked link in our last newsletter was a CNN host excoriating a Republican panelist.
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| | | 2024 ELECTION | American voters said 'no' to drugs | American voters sent a clear message by rejecting drug legalization measures in four out of five states where it was on the ballot, signaling strong resistance to expanding recreational drug access after years of its approval across the country. | While activists and left-wing politicians pushed for widespread cannabis legalization (including Kamala Harris, in an attempt to sway black men), voters in Florida, North Dakota, and South Dakota soundly defeated ballot initiatives to legalize recreational marijuana. | Florida's Amendment Three fell just short of the 60 percent threshold required to pass. North Dakota's Initiated Measure Five and South Dakota's Initiated Measure 29 were also defeated, with South Dakotans voting 56 percent against them. In Massachusetts, a proposal to legalize psychedelic substances was shot down, with 57 percent opposed. | The only exception was Nebraska, where voters approved Initiatives 437 and 438 to legalize medical marijuana, as prescribed by a healthcare practitioner. | In past years, many states voted to legalize recreational marijuana, to the disappointment of many conservatives. But now, even mainstream media outlets are beginning to point out the dangers of consistent marijuana use. | Once considered non-addictive, the medical community is increasingly acknowledging that this drug not only carries addiction risks but also comes with a higher likelihood of developing psychological disorders like schizophrenia. | Conservative commentator Saagar Enjeti is often on the front lines of the crusade against marijuana. He pushes back against common left-wing narratives, such as the claim that many people are jailed simply for smoking weed, though in reality, many of these cases involve plea deals from more serious charges. | He also highlights how marijuana legalization has increasingly become a bipartisan issue — with figures like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both supporting looser laws — but argues that such consensus is often detrimental to the American public, similar to the past bipartisan support for America's "never ending foreign wars." | |
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| | | 2024 ELECTION | Did college students win Trump the election? | Historically, voters under 30 are some of the least likely people in the country to vote in presidential elections. However, they turned out this year and shifted dramatically toward Donald Trump. | He ended up winning the largest share of young voters of any GOP presidential candidate since 2008, with young men in particular flocking toward Trump in swing states. | Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk ran a massive operation over the past few months, visiting dozens of college campuses to host open discussions with students and faculty on political issues. | Many exchanges between himself and left-wing students went viral on social media, garnering over two billion views. Not only did Kirk dialogue with students, but he engaged in mass voter registration events, enrolling tens of thousands of new voters who may have otherwise sat out of the election. | Trump's margin of victory, though decisive overall, was relatively narrow in the swing states. He won Pennsylvania by two percentage points, Michigan by one, and Wisconsin by less than one. | While Trump's success in these states was too large to solely attribute to newly registered university students, the success Kirk saw reflected broader sentiments among young men and women toward Trump. The stigma around the former president appeared to be fading, and by offering reasonable arguments, these voters could be persuaded into supporting him. | And contrary to outsized media coverage of the massive anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses, that issue was not close to being the most important one for young Americans. This demographic consistently named the economy as their most important issue, which is likely why they swayed in huge numbers toward Trump. | Voters under 30 in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan swung toward Trump by 15, 18, and 24 points, respectively, compared to 2020. The consensus was clear: in almost every battleground state, newly mobilized young voters were attracted to Trump and ready to cast aside Biden and Harris. | |
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| | | OUR QUESTION TO YOU | 📊 Will the Ukraine war end during Trump's term?Results will be in tomorrow's newsletter | | | POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY | Who do you want for secretary of state? | 🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Richard Grenell (197) | 🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Marco Rubio (142) | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Vivek Ramaswamy (506) | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Bill Hagerty (43) | Grenell: "Rick Grenell has far more international experience than Vivek. There is definitely a place somewhere in the administration for the Vivek's talents. " — Dave Rubio: "Marco is more of a diplomat and always has studied international issues as they concern America." — Raymond Ramaswamy: "Brilliant, well spoken, straight-forward, trustworthy..." — J.R. Ramaswamy: "Don't want to remove elected senators and reps, and risk losing their seats to a progressive democrat" — B.A. Hagerty: "Others can serve in other places." — J.D. | | | | 888 votes |
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| Today's newsletter was written by Brandon Goldman and Ari David. | |
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