close Video Georgia congressman: 'Appalling' for companies to help Dems spread misinformation on voting law GOP Rep. Buddy Carter sounds off after Coca-Cola backtracks on their attack on Georgia's voting law and discusses his pitch to make the MLB pay for lost revenue from moving the All-Star Game. Conservatives are doubling down on their attacks against Democrats after Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta in protest of Georgia's new elections law, arguing "lies" about the content of the law led to the decision. In the latest part of that effort, Greater Georgia, the voting organization recently founded by former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., is buying digital billboards near Truist Park, the Atlanta Braves' home field where the 2021 All-Star game was originally scheduled. The billboards feature images of Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., President Biden and prominent Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams. The billboards, images of which were first obtained by Fox News, read "MLB's All-Star Strike Out Squad." Biden told ESPN he would "strongly support" players who wanted to move the All-Star game from Atlanta over the Georgia voting law. Democrats say the law suppresses votes but Republicans say it expands voting access and increases election security. President Biden stands on stage with Georgia Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate Raphael Warnock, right, and Jon Ossoff, left, in Atlanta, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Biden and Warnock are two of the targets of a new billboard campaign over their opposition to Georgia's new voting law. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) GEORGIA ELECTION OFFICIAL WARNS BIDEN TO STOP 'LIES' ABOUT VOTING LAW: 'SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET HURT' Warnock and Abrams opposed the MLB's decision to take its All-Star game out of Atlanta and move it to Denver. But Loeffler said they contributed to the move with "inaccurate statements." "The MLB’s hypocritical boycott was ...
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Poll: 58% Of Americans Would Support Matthew McConaughey, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson In Their Political Runs
A poll published Tuesday showed that 58% of Americans would support either Matthew McConaughey or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in their respective political runs, according to Pipslay. Of the respondents, 29% indicated support for both celebrities, 17% said for Johnson and 12% said for McConaughey, Pipslay shared . For this data, Piplsay polled 30,138 people nationwide. McConaughey hinted at a potential run in Texas. McConaughey has suggested he might run for Texas governor, but was definitely vying for some type of “leadership role.” (RELATED: Matthew McConaughey Leaves Open The Possibility Of Getting Into Politics) Matthew McConaughey said of his potential political bid, “I’m not teasing the idea or anything. I’m actually trying to look at the idea and give it serious consideration.” https://t.co/NxR32ccDkC — VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) April 5, 2021 “I believe it is in some sort of leadership role,” McConaughey said about the prospective future in leadership during an appearance on CNBC. “I don’t know what that role is. I don’t know my category. We’ve been talking about the ‘why’ of leadership and even, I would say, we need some more good leaders.” Johnson previously floated the idea of running for president of the United States. Do Americans think celebrities could be good politicians? Pipslay’s data said yes. Of the respondents, 39% said celebrities could make good politicians if they had the right political aptitude and 24% said they could if they had the right supporting staff, the data showed. Most Americans also believe that celebrity endorsements influence people’s opinion. 81% of people polled said yes, 48% said to some extent and 33% said to a great extent. This last finding was the only data point that was really surprising to me. I’ve always thought that people didn’t really care a lot about what celebrities actually thought. I think both McConaughey and Johnson would make great politicians. It would be ...
House Democrats Advance Bill to Make Washington, D.C. a State
The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), has advanced Bill H.R. 51 by a vote of 25-19 to create D.C. statehood, which may receive a full House vote next week in an increasingly shrinking Democrat majority. Despite committee clearance after many counter amendments, Rep. Any Biggs (R-AZ) said the ultimate argument seems to hinge “on the 23rd Amendment, which guarantees the federal Capitol at least three electors in presidential elections.” Biggs’ view is supported by many legal scholars, who have denied D.C. statehood’s feasibility without a Constitutional amendment to the 23rd Amendment. Breitbart News reported Tuesday “the Office of Legal Counsel in 2007 stated it was unconstitutional when Democrats attempted to give D.C. voting power in Congress without making it a full state.” Additionally, the Justice Department under former President Reagan and former President Carter deemed the transformation of Washington, D.C. into a state unconstitutional, along with Democrat Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who said a similar proposal was unconstitutional in 1963. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, when he was a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, also opposed such legislation when he wrote , “It is … fanciful to consider as ‘politically powerless’ a city whose residents include a high proportion of the officers of all three branches of the federal government and their staffs.” Opposition to D.C. statehood is anchored in three traditional arguments: Our nation’s capital was always meant to be unique. The founders wanted it to be a federal district, existing beyond the confines or influence of any one state. H.R. 51 would require Congress to ignore the plain command of the 23rd Amendment. Even those who support D.C. statehood admit district residents enjoy special benefits due to where they live and would enjoy an outsize influence in Congress. Twenty-two state Attorneys General sent a ...
Gretchen Whitmer Blames Trump, State Supreme Court, Legislature, Residents, Spring Breakers, Elderly for Virus Rise
Coronavirus cases have been rising in Michigan for several days and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has blamed just about everyone but herself. Through a press conference and television interviews, Whitmer has blamed former President Donald Trump, the state Supreme Court, the Republican-controlled legislature, once-compliant residents, and even those returning from spring break travel for the increase. On Thursday, the governor appeared on MSNBC and pointed her finger at her political opponents for the situation. Gov. Whitmer on whether she has the political ability to slow Michigan's Covid surge: "We are so incredibly divided after the politics of the last 14 months. … I’m still trying to get the legislator to deploy resources that the Trump administration sent us." pic.twitter.com/eWMjK4H5gL — All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) April 16, 2021 When asked if she had the “political ability” to regress and impose new restrictions, Whitmer responded , “I was sued by the Republican legislature here in Michigan. I lost in the Supreme Court. It was a Republican-dominated Supreme Court. I lost some of those executive powers.” She continued, “We do retain some powers, but we are so incredibly divided after, I think, the politics of the last 14 months.” That was a reference to the 2020 presidential election, when Trump pilloried Whitmer’s handling of the pandemic. During an appearance on “Meet the Press” Sunday, Whitmer pointed the finger at Michigan’s elderly residents and families who left the state for spring break. “This is the time of year that snowbirds come home from Florida, where people are going on spring break, and all of these things can contribute to spread,” Whitmer said, without evidence. “Snowbirds” are those residents to spend the winter months in Florida or other warm states. Whitmer did not mention one of her top advisers, state Chief Operations Officer Tricia Foster, whom Breitbart News found to be one of those ...
Andrew Yang Leads NYC Mayoral Race in New Poll
Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images A new poll released Monday shows former presidential candidate Andrew Yang continuing to lead his fellow mayoral candidates as the top choice in the city’s first ranked-choice mayor’s race. Yang was the first choice of 22 percent of likely Democratic voters surveyed in a Spectrum News NY1/Ipsos poll , followed by Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams at 13 percent, city comptroller Scott Stringer with 11 percent and Maya Wiley, former counsel to Mayor de Blasio, with 7 percent. Ray McGuire and Shaun Donovan both received 6 percent in the poll, leaving Dianne Morales with 5 percent and Kathyrn Garcia with 4 percent. That said, 26 percent of likely voters notably answered that they “don’t know” who their first choice would be, a higher percentage than what Yang received. When asked which Democratic candidate would be the voter’s second choice on their ballot, Stringer received 14 percent followed by Yang at 13 percent, and Eric Adams at 10 percent. No other candidate received double digits and voters’ ambivalence seemed to increase, with 29 percent now saying they “don’t know” who their second choice would be. Name recognition seemed to play a significant role with 77 percent of likely voters indicating that they were “very” or “somewhat” familiar with Yang. By the same measurement, 61 percent expressed high familiarity with Stringer and 53 percent expressed the same for Adams. Both men currently hold elected positions in the city. The poll was conducted from April 1 through 15 with a sample of 3,459 residents of voting age from New York City’s five boroughs with 1,000 Democratic likely voters. The margin of error is +/- 4.7 percent. ...
