BRUSSELS — Buckle up for the first Donald Trump-inspired EU presidency.
Hungary unveiled “Make Europe Great Again” as the strapline for its upcoming six-month presidency of the Council of the EU, a period in which Hungarian diplomats will chair important meetings in Brussels and shape the bloc’s political agenda.
A new Suffolk poll of black voters in two crucial swing states has come out and to say the news is devastating for Joe Biden is an understatement.
We’ve talked about how Joe Biden has been losing significant support from black voters since 2020, and this new poll continues to show the same trend.
The 18-29 demographic has usually been a huge problem for Republicans. Since the Vietnam War, only one Republican has been able to capture a near majority of the youth vote. Ronald Reagan lost to Jimmy Carter by one point in the 18-21 demo and was tied in the 22-29 age group.
Former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts in New York has changed few minds about the 2024 presidential election according to a spate of recent polls.
While the former president appears to have fallen slightly in at least one national poll, his popularity has increased in three states, including the critical battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada.
Overall, most voters appear to have the same opinion about both major candidates that they had when the trial began on April 15. That bodes worse for President Joe Biden than for former President Trump, analysts say, but could indicate low voter interest, prompting a shift in strategy for both campaigns.
Steve Bannon, a former chief strategist for Donald Trump, has been ordered to report to prison by July 1 to serve a four-month sentence.
The long-term ally of the former president was convicted of contempt of Congress after defying a subpoena from the House of Representatives committee that investigated the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Catholics in the US are drifting to the Right
Bespectacled and berobed, a softly spoken nun may seem an unlikely figurehead for the hard-Right of American politics — but Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God isn’t just any nun. With her broadsides against liberalism, President Biden, and Satan’s hold on the media, she is a fitting representative for the conservative turn of fringe Catholicism in the United States.
One of the interesting aspects of the Trump conviction is the fact that the Left felt secure in the belief that the nation would stand up and cheer when the verdicts were read. They were, of course, disabused of that notion as they watched the donations to the Trump campaign mount over the weekend. They must also be flabbergasted to have to choke on the bitter submarine sandwich of reality that not every member of the Mega Millions is white, rural, and male. Nope, as it turns out, people supporting #45 for the job #47 come from all walks of life and all races.
Calm down, Democrats, Donald Trump will not, as some zealous Maga types fantasise, take New York this election. Nor will he win over New Jersey, although the race may be closer there. California, as we New York natives would say: fuggedaboutit.
But the Trump surge in deep blue places, epitomised by successful rallies in the Bronx and the Jersey shore, reveals a great deal about shifting political allegiances. In New York, which Trump lost by 23 points in 2020, the former president is now within nine points. In New Jersey, where he lost by 16, the margin is down to five. If Trump forces Biden and the Democrats to deploy forces to these places, he is very likely to win a second term.
WASHINGTON — Jurors are tougher than voters. They expect defendants — or their lawyers — to tell the truth. Hence the 34 guilty verdicts on charges that former President Donald Trump falsified business records to influence the 2016 election.
Don’t get me wrong. I still think Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg engaged in prosecutorial overreach with a case based on amorphous charges for moldy behavior. That is, the prosecution engaged in election interference fueled by partisan rancor.
So I believe Trump is likely to see the verdict and sentencing reversed on appeal because you don’t prosecute a former president based on novel legal theory.
But for now, Trump is a convicted felon.
As we reported yesterday, Donald Trump’s campaign donation page was overwhelmed on Thursday following the sham verdict from the rigged trial against him in New York City.
Former President Donald Trump made history Thursday by becoming the first ex-president to ever be convicted of a crime.
But polling data from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist that dropped earlier in the day showed a common theme across party lines and demographics.
Voters are ambivalent about the outcome of the case.
The 2024 presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is a dead heat. At most, a few percentage points separate them in the polls.
Thousands of miles away, however, European leaders are operating as if Trump has already won, not wanting to be caught flat-footed yet again. When Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016, European officials scrambled to establish contacts with the incoming administration. This time, the same wonks are proactively reaching out to Trump-friendly lawmakers and think-tankers, not only to understand what Trump’s foreign policy would look like in a second term but to press their own priorities.
He sees a chance for blood in the Bronx
For decades, Charlotte Street in the South Bronx was a symbol of New York’s urban decay. Riven by crime, unemployment and outright destitution, countless politicians — from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton — would visit the street, decrying the treatment of the residents of this unloved hellscape.
Democrats, by and large, were welcomed. Republicans were not. When Ronald Reagan visited in 1980, he was heckled to such an extent that he cut his visit short. Indeed, his experience was so scarring for the party that few followed in his footsteps for the next 50 years. Some 44 years later, however, no such treatment was visited upon his successor. Just a stone’s throw from Charlotte Street (now a tree-lined road populated by bungalows and 4×4 trucks) lies Crotona Park, where the former president is due to speak.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admitted the other day that the virtue of the so-called “hush money” trial is that it keeps Trump off the campaign trail. She slammed the fact that Trump would even contemplate making lemonade out of that lemon by campaigning in the Bronx—her turf. That was fear speaking, and AOC was right to be afraid. What’s happening now in the Bronx is monumental. A crowd that was estimated to be a few thousand is currently in the tens of thousands and still growing.
🚨BREAKING: TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE ALREADY AT RIGHTFUL PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BRONX RALLY!
Just 12 days ago, Trump had the largest rally in New Jersey HISTORY with a crowd of OVER 107,000!
NEW YORK IS TRUMP COUNTRY!
AOC definitely doesn't want you to share this! pic.twitter.com/A6A6lBSZmC
— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) May 23, 2024
Traditional political analysis doesn’t work anymore.
A couple weeks ago, a media narrative — which I’ll admit I agreed with at the time — making the rounds claimed that because of the lawfare-generated indictments and court cases that Donald Trump is having to wade through, it’s crucial that he name a vice-presidential nominee soon so that he’ll have a surrogate to take to the road as spring turns to summer.
