2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread

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In a speech, the former president called for “strong ideological screening” for all immigrants entering the United States.

Jake Lahut
Politics Reporter
Updated Oct. 16, 2023 10:28PM EDT / Published Oct. 16, 2023 4:57PM EDT

Donald Trump’s travel ban is back and more extreme than ever.

The former president rolled out a new and more ideologically-driven version of his 2017 policy at a rally in Iowa on Monday, first revealed in excerpts released by the Trump campaign.

He called for “strong ideological screening” for all immigrants entering the United States, in addition to suspending refugee resettlement by reinstating the Trump administration’s 2017 travel ban, which was targeted primarily at majority-Musilm countries. Trump pegged the new travel ban to the recent Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.

Trump listed several ideologies that would “disqualify” someone from immigrating to the United States.

“If you empathize with Radical Islamic terrorists and extremists, you're DISQUALIFIED—if you want to abolish the state of Israel, you're DISQUALIFIED,” Trump’s prepared speech read. “If you support Hamas or the ideology behind Hamas, you're DISQUALIFIED—and if you're a Communist, Marxist, or Fascist, you are DISQUALIFIED.”

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goe ... travel-ban

Well, I guess Trump wouldn't be allowed in as he is a fascist f*ck.

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Mike Pence’s Presidential Campaign Is in Debt…
Isabela Dias
October 15, 2023

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(Mother Jones) Former Vice President Mike Pence is reportedly facing an “existential cash squeeze” that could bring an end to his 2024 run for the White House.

Pence’s campaign told NBC News that filings due at the Federal Election Commission by the end of Sunday will reflect some $620,000 in debt, and that Pence has resorted to putting $150,000 in personal funds to the low-polling effort. While the GOP candidate raised $3.3 million in the third quarter and has $1.2 million cash on hand, NBC notes that taking on debt “has long been a sign of presidential campaigns in trouble—and potentially on the verge of ending.”

Donald Trump’s former number two is struggling in the GOP primary, currently standing in fifth place in the FiveThirtyEight average of national polls, behind Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and his former boss, who remains the runaway front runner.

Pence is also trailing his competitors in fundraising, according to figures released ahead of the third-quarter deadline. Haley’s campaign said it has raised $11 million, with $9.1 in cash on hand; DeSantis, whose campaign appears to be spiraling downwards, announced bringing in $15 million in the third quarter—but only a third of that can be used in the primary. Trump’s campaign said it raised $45 million between July and September, with $36 million on hand for the primary race. (Ramaswamy has yet to announce his haul.)

Amid his discouraging fundraising, Pence has decided to skip the GOP-run Nevada caucuses and instead file for the state-run primary—a so-called “beauty contest” that won’t award any delegates involved in selecting the party’s nominee. “We’ll probably have to be a little bit more selective in where we invest resources, and that was the basis of that,” he said on Friday. “But we love Nevada and we look forward to tell our story there in the primary.”

The article goes on to discuss the $71 million raised by the Biden campaign this quarter.

Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... e-debt/

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GOP Congresswoman Announces Retirement, Says 'D.C. Is Broken'
Source: huff post




After serving three terms, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) said that she will not seek reelection in 2024.

Oct 17, 2023, 08:16 PM EDT
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Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) announced on Tuesday that she will retire at the end of her term in January 2025.

In a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, the three-term lawmaker said that she would not seek reelection in 2024 because she wants to spend more time with her family.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/represen ... 897ab5bc45

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RFK Jr. Spent Years Stoking Fear and Mistrust of Vaccines. These People were Hurt by His Work
October 18, 2023

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(AP via Courthouse News) — When 12-year-old Braden Fahey collapsed during football practice and died, it was just the beginning of his parents’ nightmare.

Deep in their grief a few months later, Gina and Padrig Fahey received news that shocked them to their core: A favorite photo of their beloved son was plastered on the cover of a book that falsely argues Covid-19 vaccines caused a spike of sudden deaths among healthy young people.

The book, called “Cause Unknown,” was co-published by an anti-vaccine group led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, who is now running for president. Kennedy wrote the foreword and promoted the book, tweeting that it details data showing “Covid shots are a crime against humanity.”

The Faheys couldn’t understand how Braden’s face appeared on the book’s cover, or why his name appeared inside it.

Braden never received the vaccine. His death in August 2022 was due to a malformed blood vessel in his brain. No one ever contacted them to ask about their son’s death, or for permission to use the photo. No one asked to confirm the date of his death — which the book misdated by a year. When the Faheys and residents of their town in California tried to contact the publisher and author to get Braden and his picture taken out of the book, no one responded.

Read more here: https://www.courthousenews.com/rfk-jr- ... s-work/

caltrek’s comment: With this kind of track record, it is no wonder that many expect that an independent RFK Jr. candidacy will do more to hurt Trump than it will to hurt Biden. In fact, a recent Yahoo News poll shows no difference in outcome with RFK Jr. in the race with Biden leading by a point. An NPR Marist poll shows Biden increasing his lead over Trump by four points to a seven-point advantage if RFK Jr. enters as a third-party candidate.

Steve Bannon’s gambit of encouraging RFK Jr. to enter the race with the idea that this would help Trump may end up being a huge strategic mistake on Bannon’s part.

For poll results: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epol ... st_polls/

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This is troubling because you'd think this would be at least +10 difference favoring the democrats.

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Suffolk/USA Today: Trump +46, Biden +62

Trump 58%
DeSantis 12%
Haley 11%
No one else above 3%

Biden 73%
Williamson 11%

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 281814007/

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Morning Consult: Trump +49
Trump 62%
DeSantis 13%
Haley 7%
Ramaswamy 6%
Pence 5%
Scott 2%
Christie 2%
Hutchinson 1%
Burgum 0%

https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers ... on-tracker

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Nikki Haley surges, nearly ties Ron DeSantis as the alternative to Trump

Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley has surged nationally in a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, challenging a faltering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the top alternative to Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination.

Haley's support has risen to 11% of registered voters who plan to vote in GOP primaries or caucuses, up from 4% in the USA TODAY/Suffolk poll taken in June and just one percentage point below DeSantis. His 12% standing was a steep fall from his 23% support four months ago.

Trump continues to dominate the field, backed by 58%, up 10 points.

The survey of 309 Republican and Republican-leaning voters, taken Tuesday through Friday by landline and cell phone, has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-po ... 57621.html

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