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Virginia Republicans unleash attack ads in

12 suburban House districts

Washington Post | Gregory Schneider

July 13, 2023

The war for the Virginia suburbs has begun, with the Republican caucus of
the House of Delegates unleashing attack ads in 12 districts seen as
crucial to keeping control of the chamber in this fall's elections.

The aggressively early. move, less than three weeks after candidates were
selected in primary contests across the state, follows the lead of Gov.
Glenn Youngkin (R), who has promised an all-out fight for supremacy in the
legislature.

On Tuesday, Youngkin rolled out an online campaign to encourage early
voting by Republicans - taking advantage of voter access laws passed by
Democrats that Republicans in the General Assembly have tried to roll back.
[1]Read more

WG Economy

Why Biden's Student Loan Plan Never Got More Traction

WG Economy | David Winston

July 12, 2023

President Biden's student loan plan has been shot down by the Supreme
Court, with the President telling people that "Republicans snatched away
hope." B ut the reality is that outside the Democratic base, the plan never
had widespread support, in addition to its constitutional problems.

Based on trending data from Winning the Issues, the plan had never been
broadly popular. From our latest survey (June 19-21), June was the first
time support for the plan had reached 50%, with 42% opposed. The electorate
supported the plan by a 47-45 margin in April, and in March, it was at
47-43. However, in June, independents were split at 45-45. There was a
significant partisan division on the plan, with Democrats supporting 72-21
and Republicans opposing 30-62. [2]WG Economy, July 12, 2023.pdf

With Trump way ahead in 2024 Republican polls, Iowa becomes do-or-die for
DeSantis

Reuters | James Oliphant, Gram Slattery & Alexandra Ulmer

July 12, 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' campaign is making a high-risk bet that it
can halt Donald Trump's march to the Republican presidential nomination by
winning the key state of Iowa next January, despite the former president's
commanding lead in polls and growing questions about DeSantis' viability.

Even as he trails Trump by close to 30 percentage points in national polls,
DeSantis and his advisers are sticking to a long-haul, Iowa-first strategy.
They hope that an upset win in the state would stall Trump's momentum,
according to two sources close to the campaign, who asked not to be
identified so that they could discuss campaign strategy. [3]Read more

The anti-Trump presidential candidates

clear an important hurdle

Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson, congrats.

But you have some work to do.

Politico | Zach Montellaro & Steven Shepard

July 12, 2023

Donald Trump's critics got a big break in the Republican primary on
Wednesday, though they'll need a few more for it to truly matter.

The first poll that meets all the criteria for candidates is to qualify for
the first GOP debate was released earlier this week. And it opened the door
for two candidates openly critical of the former president to get on stage
come Aug. 23.

The survey, from the pollster Morning Consult, satisfied the Republican
National Committee's rules for what counts as a qualifying poll, the RNC
confirmed t oPOLITICO - principally that it surveyed at least 800 likely
GOP primary voters, an unusually large sample size for national polls that
measure the broader electorate. [4]Read more

Pressure Mounts for Trump as Republican

Debate Stage Grows

Newsweek| Kaitlin Lewis

July 12, 2023

Two additional presidential hopefuls have reached the number of individual
donors needed to qualify for the GOP primary debate next month, although it
remains unclear if front-runner and former President Donald Trump will
participate.

Former Governor Chris Christie announced on CNN Wednesday night that his
campaign had surpassed the 40,000 donors required by the Republican
National Committee (RNC) to make the debate stage as of Tuesday, and South
Carolina Senator Tim Scott declared earlier in the day that he had received
support from 53,000 individual donors across the country.

Both announcements arrived a day after Morning Consultant released the
first poll that meets all the RNC's rules to count as a qualifying poll for
the GOP debate. The committee confirmed to Politico on Wednesday that
Morning Consultant had surveyed "at least 800 likely GOP primary voters,"
which means that the poll can be used to measure if Republican candidates
have garnered enough support to participate on the debate stage. [5]Read
more

Georgia Republicans welcome state Rep. Mainor's switch from Dem as new life
of the party

Georgia Recorder | Ross Williams

July 11, 2023

Controversial Republican state Rep. Mesha Mainor of Atlanta, formerly
Democratic state Rep. Mesha Mainor of Atlanta, announced she was switching
parties Tuesday.

"This was not an easy decision," she said at a conference beneath a statue
of Martin Luther King Jr. outside the state Capitol. "I have been a
Democrat my entire life. My family are Democrats. So this was not easy."

Mainor, who was first elected in 2020, irked Democrats for her
full-throated support of a failed school voucher policy which would have
sent $6,500 of state money to families of children in the bottom 25% of
Georgia schools to pull them out and educate them at home or in private
schools. The bill will likely be revived and debated again in next year's
session.

State Sen. Josh McLaurin, a Sandy Springs Democrat, was so irked that he
offered a $1,000 campaign donation to anyone who decided to challenge
Mainor in a primary. [6]Read more

Youngkin launches efforts to get Republicans to vote early or by mail

CNN Politics | Veronica Stracqualursi

July 11, 2023

Virginia's Gov. Glenn Youngkin is encouraging Republicans to vote absentee
by mail or early in-person ahead of his state's pivotal legislative
elections this year.

Youngkin on Tuesday launched a new program, "Secure Your Vote Virginia,"
aimed at cutting into Democrats' mail-in voting advantage as Republican
voters' confidence in the voting method are low in part from former
President Donald Trump's claims that it's rife with fraud. [7]Read more

WG Discussion Points

'Bidenomics' won't fix President's economic problems

Cherry-picking and manipulating data are hallmarks of the president's 2024
campaign

WG Discussion Points | David Winston

July 7, 2023

Today is the official kickoff of the Biden campaign's revamped economic
message: "'Bidenomics' is working for America" and, as his press secretary
put it, "people are feeling better about their personal finances." It makes
me wonder what people she is talking about or talking to.

In reality, President Joe Biden's speech Wednesday in Chicago is likely
going to be an imaginative, largely misleading take on the economy,
designed to counteract Biden's consistently bad polling numbers. But hard
as Biden and his team might try to claw their way out of what is an
economic mess of their own making, people aren't buying it. [8]Read more

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