The Grand Old Party has gone full on nuts. The House of Representatives, you may have noticed, has no Speaker of the House. They evicted the old one without any plans for how to replace him. They then tried to make the ridiculous Jim Jordan the Speaker. They did three votes last week. He lost. He lost. He lost again. Crash and burn, crash and burn.
Wednesday, there was a protest in front of Congress with activists calling for a cease-fire in the assault on Gaza. The protesters were Jewish Americans.
Turning
to US political races, will Donald Trump get the Republican Party's presidential nomination
or will he flame out before the primaries? Who knows? But it appears
Kristi Noem will not be his running mate if he does get the nomination
-- that voo doo doll Marjorie Taylor Green made of her paid off. Graham Gremore (QUEERTY) reports:
Kristi Noem has been not-so-subtly positioning herself as Donald Trump‘s potential 2024 running mate for some time now, gushing about him in interviews and parroting his talking points in speeches.Just last month, she endorsed his 2024 bid, saying he’s “the leader [and] the fighter our country needs.”
But all that orange a**-kissing might have been for naught.
Because
the God-fearing, gay-hating governor’s chances of being Trump’s #2 just
took a major hit after a new poll found not only is her popularity in
her home state waning, but so are people’s feelings about her as a
potential VP.
The Emerson College poll was conducted earlier this month and spoke to 432 voters in South Dakota.
Pollsters
learned that people aren’t so happy with how Noem’s been running things
since winning reelection just last year, with less than half of
respondents saying they approve of her.
The poll found just 43% approve of Noem, while 36.5% disapprove. The poll’s margin of error is
plus or minus 4.7 points. That means, if the 4.7 point error is in
Noem’s favor, it would still place her approval rate below 50%, at
around 48%. Meanwhile, if the error is not in her favor, it would drop
her approval rating even lower, to about 38%.
And let's not ignore this point:
Gotta love those MAGA family values!
Next thing you know, she'll have gone on full-on Boebert and be jerking off some man in the middle of a performance of BEETLEJUICE: THE MUSICAL.
The Republican presidential primary is looking remarkably stable, a poor sign for every candidate but one, and pressure is building on lower-tier candidates to either make waves or leave the pool.
A memo from Sen. Tim Scott's
(R-SC) Super PAC raised eyebrows by revealing that it's backing out of a
$40 million ad buy, with blunt language that calls into question the
long-term veracity of his campaign.
“We
are doing what would be obvious in the business world but will mystify
politicos. We aren’t going to waste our money when the electorate isn’t
focused or ready for a Trump alternative," TIMPAC Co-Chairman Rob
Collins said. He added that the money will be rerouted to “fully fund”
grassroots and door-knocking efforts, though it's not exactly clear how
that will work.
"We already have a robust grassroots operation underway," a TIMPAC spokesman said. "Began in June. Just additional support."
Scott is polling at 2% in the RealClearPolitics average,
a number that brings with it more immediate challenges than whether or
not he can win. The third GOP debate, to be held Nov. 8 in Miami, will
require at least 4% polling in various state and national polls along
with a minimum of 70,000 contributors in order to qualify.
[. . .]
But
it may be hard to see a path to victory for a candidate who struggles
to make the debate stage. Scott isn't alone in that conundrum. Former
Vice President Mike Pence is polling at 3.8%, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is at 2.8%, Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) stands at 0.8%, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is at 0.6%.
Pence's
campaign pointed back to previous statements he's made defending his
candidacy. Burgum spokesman Lance Trover said his candidate is "focused
on peaking in Iowa and New Hampshire in January of 2024, not the fall of
2023, and plans on being on the debate stage in Miami." Efforts to
reach the Hutchinson campaign were not successful.
Of
the five in danger of missing the third debate, only Hutchinson failed
to qualify for the second. If none of them qualify going forward, and
former President Donald Trump skips again, the stage would be filled
with just three candidates, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), former United
Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Trump,
meanwhile, is calling for the remaining debates to be canceled
altogether.
Of course, there are still three months before the first votes are counted in Iowa, which can give any candidate hope.
Any candidate? Even Ron DeSanits? Poor little Ronnie, stumbling around in Mommy's high heels as he drops weekly in the polls.