Monday, April 8, 2024
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA
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- Fox News’s Harris Faulkner, reacting to a list of five people named by her co-host, four of whom are not Black.
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The Trump campaign is beginning to take its final form as we sprint to November.
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After months of refusing to give a straight answer regarding his policy views on abortion, disgraced former president Donald Trump announced on Monday that abortion laws should be determined by the states, side-stepping calling for a national ban, which even Republican strategists know is politically toxic. This coward’s position is in line with the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe vs. Wade. Trump was, of course, personally responsible for installing three justices that form the Court’s conservative majority.
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Meanwhile, at the RNC…
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Over at the Republican National Committee, Trump’s newly-installed leadership team has faced a rocky first month. New chair Michael Whatley and co-chair Laura Trump—a close Trump ally and his literal daughter-in-law, respectively—have faced major staffing problems and operational obstacles in this pivotal election season, causing the Trump campaign to privately criticize the new leaders (again, the ones they installed) in recent weeks.
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Just days after Whatley and Lara Trump took the helm, emails went out to entire RNC teams, according to the Guardian, informing staffers that they had to choose between resigning and reapplying for their jobs, or face termination: a not-so-subtle MAGA loyalty test. As a result, they lost a large pool of existing talent with institutional knowledge for basically no reason. In spite of all this, Trump hauled his best fundraising month of this campaign season in March, pulling in $65.6 million. Because the Trump campaign has a joint fundraising agreement with the RNC, the duo can accept donations as large as $814,600.
Trump is clearly playing to win. He has no real personal governing ideology other than saying anything that will get him in power and keep him there, so his statements on abortion today don’t mean much. If he thought a national ban were politically expedient, he would support it. Trump is the reason Roe was overturned, and the Biden campaign clearly intends to run that messaging ragged until Election Day. It still may not be enough to stave off a second Trump presidency.
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Lovett or Leave It is kicking off this year's tour in Austin on April 21st at the Moontower Comedy Festival. He'll be joined by some exciting guests: Tim Miller, Zach Zucker, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and the Sklar Brothers! Joe Rogan was busy, we assume. Learn more & get tickets at crooked.com/events.
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New York City is unveiling the most significant urban experiment in decades this June, when vehicles will be charged $15 and up to drive in Manhattan below 60th Street. This is a big swing in the United States where Car is King, and already the policy has attracted about a half-dozen lawsuits that threaten to block its implementation. South of 60th Street, all of Manhattan will essentially become a toll road (except FDR Drive and the West Side Highway). The total number of cars in that zone is expected to drop 17 percent, which will achieve the goals of less traffic, improved air quality, and increased revenue for the city from the tolls for public transit improvements. The $15 toll will be administered between the hours of 5:00 am and 9:00 pm on weekdays and 9:00 am to 9:00 pm on weekends. At off-peak hours, the toll will be $3.75. Trucks and buses will pay $24 or $36 depending on “size and purpose.” London, Milan, Stockholm, and Singapore have all successfully introduced congestion pricing. 80 percent of the money raised from the tolls will be used to improve and modernize the New York City subway system. Despite objections from Tri-State Area car commuters, Tom Wright—president of the Regional Plan Association—says, the policy is “a very solid and strong one—the economics behind it are really unassailable.”
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