Former Vice President Mike Pence, Donald Trump Jr., and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are the leading candidates in a hypothetical 2024 Republican Primary race when former President Donald Trump is excluded, a McLaughlin & Associates survey released this week revealed. McLaughlin & Associates’ April survey asked 441 Republican primary voters to think ahead to the 2024 Republican primary election for president and asked them to choose who they would vote for, excluding former President Donald Trump. Only four candidates received double-digit support: Former Vice President Mike Pence (19 percent), Donald Trump Jr. (15 percent), Gov. Ron DeSantis (14 percent), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (10 percent). No other candidate came close. Conservative personality Candace Owens garnered four percent, followed by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, Ivanka Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Tucker Carlson, all of whom received three percent support. The remaining candidates garnered two percent support or less: 2024 National Republican Primary, Without Trump: Pence 19% McLaughlin & Associates, 4/8-13 https://t.co/JjXDgcyQ79 — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) April 21, 2021 DeSantis has experienced one of the biggest spikes in support, garnering just two percent support in both November and December’s survey and nine percent in March’s survey. Pence, however, has fallen, dropping from 30 percent support in November to 19 percent in April. When the same question is asked and former President Trump is included, he dominates the field, garnering 55 percent of the vote, causing Pence to drop to ten percent, followed by DeSantis with seven percent. The survey’s margin of error was not immediately available. Similarly, an RMG Research/JustTheNews survey taken in February shows DeSantis and Cruz leading the pack in a hypothetical 2024 primary excluding Trump. In that survey, the Florida governor leads with ...
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Nation faces “hand-to-hand combat” to get reluctant Americans vaccinated
WASHINGTON — Now that President Joe Biden has met his goal to have the coronavirus vaccine available to all adults, health officials around the country are hitting what appears to be a soft ceiling: More than half the nation’s adults have gotten at least one dose, but it is going to take hard work — and some creative changes in strategy — to convince the rest. State health officials, business leaders, policymakers and politicians are struggling to figure out how to tailor their messages, and their tactics, to persuade not only the vaccine hesitant but also the indifferent. The work will be labor intensive, much of it may fall on private employers and the risk is that it will take so long that the nation will not be able to reach herd immunity — the point at which the spread of the virus slows — in time to stop worrisome new variants from evading the vaccine. “If you think of this as a war,” said Michael Carney, the senior vice president for emerging issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, “we’re about to enter the hand-to-hand combat phase of the war.” In Louisiana, where 40% of the adult population has had one shot even though all adults have been eligible since March, officials are delivering doses to commercial fishermen near the docks and running pop-up clinics at a Buddhist temple, homeless shelters and truck stops. Civic groups are conducting door-to-door visits, akin to a get-out-the-vote effort, in neighborhoods with low vaccination rates. In Alabama, fewer than 40% of adults have had at least one shot. Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer, is trying to reach out to rural white residents, who demonstrate high rates of vaccine hesitancy. They are mistrustful of politicians and the news media, so Harris is asking doctors to record cellphone videos. “Please email them to your patients, saying, ‘This is why I think you ought to take the vaccine,’” he has pleaded. Some companies are contemplating running their own vaccine clinics ...
Trump to deploy National Guard to southern border
President Trump Donald Trump St. Louis lawyer who pointed gun at Black Lives Matter protesters considering Senate run Chauvin found guilty as nation exhales US says Iran negotiations are 'positive' MORE signed an order Wednesday night to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S. southern border. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Kirstjen Michele Nielsen Left-leaning group to track which companies hire former top Trump aides Rosenstein: Zero tolerance immigration policy 'never should have been proposed or implemented' House Republican condemns anti-Trump celebrities during impeachment hearing MORE first announced Trump's plan to deploy the National Guard earlier in the day Wednesday while speaking at the White House. Nielsen framed the move as a way to toughen an immigration system that “rewards bad behavior,” including illegal drug smuggling and border crossings. “It’s time to act,” Nielsen told reporters, adding that the deployments could begin “immediately.” Nielsen did not share key details about the operation, including how many troops will be sent to the border, the length of the deployment or its cost. ADVERTISEMENT The move follows days of warnings from Trump about the dangers posed by illegal immigration, gangs and drugs. Nielsen said the number of immigrants crossing the border illegally has risen since last year, when they fell following Trump’s inauguration. She said the administration is eager to act because crossings are expected to further rise in April. “The threat is real,” Nielsen said. “This threatens not only the safety of our communities and children, but also our very rule of law, on which, as you know, our country was founded.” The announcement sparked backlash from immigrant rights advocates, who dismissed the deployment as a political ploy to satisfy Trump’s supporters ahead of the November midterm election. “Trump’s National Guard ploy is just ...
BLM Organization: ‘Communities Terrorized at Greater Rate’ Under Joe Biden than Donald Trump
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization expressed its displeasure Tuesday with President Joe Biden for “sending more military equipment” to local police than former President Donald Trump. “Our communities are being terrorized at a greater rate than they had been under Trump,” the organization tweeted. “Biden is currently sending more military equipment to our neighborhoods than Trump did. You read that right,” they claimed . BLM also noted Biden’s first 100 days are quickly approaching, a deadline the organization has set for ending “transfers” of military equipment to local communities. “Biden’s first 100 days are up in 10 days. By then we need him to which transfers military equipment into the hands of police across the country– including school & campus police,” they tweeted. Their website cites the 1033 Program, a Law Enforcement Support Office, which grants shifts of “surplus military-grade equipment to local law enforcement agencies across the country.” They also contend, “over $7 billion has been given to law enforcement agencies” since the Clinton administration. The organization points to the “military” apparently seen on the “streets ahead of the Chauvin verdict” as an example of “state-sanctioned violence against Black people,” their website reads. BLM has not gone without criticisms, despite its charity tax status. Indeed, the families of Breonna Taylor and Michael Brown, “two of the iconic victims in the Black Lives Matter movement,” are challenging where the organization’s funds are utilized. Taylor’s family has called the Kentucky Black Lives Matter division a “fraud.” “Those concerns are now being amplified by other figures within the movement, after Khan-Cullors defended her real estate purchases last week as part of her effort to support her family, and claimed her wealth was not due to the organization itself,” Breitbart News’ Joel B. Pollak reported . ...
Leslie Jones Rips Trump: ‘We Got a Pig in Office’
Actress and comedian Leslie Jones slammed President Donald Trump, scolded white women who support Black Lives Matter, and tackled her controversy-filled career Thursday night in a politically charged stand-up comedy set. In what the New York Times called a “raucous, high-volume stand-up set,” Jones questioned the likelihood that she’ll ever find love in Trump’s America. “I want to be in love,” Jones said. “I want to do that, but it’s 2017, and we got a pig in office. The world is about to end.” The Saturday Night Live star also chided white women who show up and march in Black Lives Matter protests. “If I see another 45-year-old white woman from Williamsburg saying ‘black lives matter,’ I’m going to punch you in the mouth,” Jones said while performing in front of a packed audience at Carolines comedy club in New York City. “Stop doing that.” “Not one black woman out there,” she added. “Black woman at home watching Housewives of Atlanta .” Later in her set, Jones joked that having her personal computer and iCloud account hacked and nude photos of her posted online was not as embarrassing as having to explain the situation to her elderly female family members. “Now I got to explain this to my aunties,” Jones said. “They old, and they from civil rights. They just now getting computers.” The 49-year-old star also ripped dog lovers during her set. In a bit about rescue dogs and their sanctimonious owners who say things like “Did I rescue the dog, or did the dog rescue me?” Jones said, “How about both of y’all get caught in a fire, and neither one of y’all get rescued?” Follow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson . ...
