Elon Musk told former CNN anchor Don Lemon in an interview that he may make an 11th-hour endorsement in the 2024 presidential election.
Said Musk: “I want to make a considered decision before the election, and if I do decide to endorse a candidate, then I will explain exactly why.”
Warren Rojas finds Donald Trump is currently backed by 77% of congressional Republicans, getting the thumbs up from 169 of the 219 House Republicans and 38 of the 49 Senate Republicans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePresident Biden’s campaign launched a new digital ad using Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” remarks over the weekend as part of a montage of the former president’s incendiary rhetoric.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNew York Times: “In earlier interviews, Justice Breyer could be rambling and opaque. This time he was direct. He said he meant to sound an alarm about the direction of the Supreme Court.”
Said Breyer: “Something important is going on.”
“A conservative influencer was arrested in California on Jan. 6 charges, including helping to steal a table from a Capitol conference room that the FBI says was used to assault officers just feet away at the lower west tunnel, where some of the most brutal attacks on law enforcement took place,” NBC News reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Monday, their first interaction in more than a month, as the divide has grown between allies over food crisis in Gaza, conduct of war,” the AP reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNew York Times: “A variety of data — about children’s academic outcomes and about the spread of Covid-19 — has accumulated in the time since.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“When President Biden flies into Nevada on Monday and to Arizona the following day, he’s likely to compliment the West’s natural beauty, pay homage to the unmatched political power of the Culinary Workers Union and nod to local Democratic elected officials,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareJosh Barro: “If Sotomayor does not retire this year, we don’t know when she will next be able to retire with a likely liberal replacement. It’s possible that Democrats will retain the presidency and the Senate in this year’s elections, in which case the insurance created by a Sotomayor retirement won’t have been necessary.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year,” the AP reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWalter Shapiro: “Despite these polls and the passions raised by the war with Hamas, it is easy to exaggerate the power of Gaza as a motivating issue for voters eight months from no-win November.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
“Elon Musk said his March 3 meeting with Donald Trump in Florida was not planned, and that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee did not ask Musk to contribute to his campaign,” CNBC reports.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Saying he made a mistake, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop has rescinded his endorsement of Tammy Murphy, urging her to drop out of the race, and will instead back Rep.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election, but things went sideways fast, NBC News reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
— Donald Trump, on Truth Social.
“Rishi Sunak’s government is facing the same levels of economic misery that led to the Conservative Party’s defeat in 1997, helping explain why the prime minister plans to delay the next election until late this year,” Bloomberg reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA new Politico/Ipsos poll finds that more than a third of independent voters said a Donald Trump guilty verdict in the “hush money” criminal case would make them less likely to support his candidacy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Monday that a malicious “flood” of disinformation was threatening the world’s democracies, fueled in part by the swift rise of artificial intelligence, which he says sows “suspicion, cynicism and instability” around the globe, the New York Times reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“Israel has raided Gaza’s largest hospital, triggering gun battles around the medical complex where thousands of people have taken refuge as Israeli forces seek to prevent Hamas fighters regrouping in the besieged strip’s north,” the Financial Times reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareLawyers for Donald Trump said in a court filing on Monday it is “impossible” for them to secure a $464 million bond to appeal New York’s fraud case against him, Axios reports.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Mike Pence should be celebrated for doing his constitutional duty on January 6, 2021 despite the intense pressure he received from Donald Trump to overturn the election.
His refusal last week to endorse Trump for president is a reminder that he’s an American hero.
The final Emerson poll in Ohio finds Bernie Moreno (R) leading the GOP Senate primary with 38% of likely voters, followed by Matt Dolan (R) at 29% and Frank LaRose (R) at 12%.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) announced that he’s withdrawn from contention to be a part of No Labels’ presidential bid.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWashington Post: “Doocy’s swerve was the latest illustration of his surprise emergence as the resident dissenter on Fox & Friends — a rare member of the Fox News opinion wing who is challenging conventional Republican wisdom on a regular basis.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFormer Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) wrote in USA Today that he will not endorse Donald Trump, his party’s presumptive nominee for president, nor would he vote for President Biden in November.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTim O’Brien: “Donald Trump, the self-described multibillionaire and ‘king of debt,’ said he doesn’t have enough cash on hand to appeal a $454 million civil fraud judgment against him. Embarrassing, of course.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Wall Street Journal: “DeSantis’s record includes restrictions on the teaching of gender identity and sexual orientation in schools; the stopping of funding for diversity programs; roadblocks to transgender medical care; and laws barring minors from lewd performances that some say unfairly target drag shows.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“Donald Trump is expected to enlist Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager he pardoned, as a campaign adviser later this year,” the Washington Post reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareProPublica: “From California to Maine, Chinese organized crime has come to dominate much of the nation’s illicit marijuana trade.”
“Along with the explosive growth of this criminal industry, the gangsters have unleashed lawlessness: violence, drug trafficking, money laundering, gambling, bribery, document fraud, bank fraud, environmental damage and theft of water and electricity.”