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Friday, June 7, 2024

DNC Acquires Billboards in Arizona Calling Trump a “Convicted Felon”

Washington Examiner: The Democratic National Committee unveiled a new billboard campaign in Arizona, a key battleground state, labeling former President Donald Trump a “convicted felon” following a guilty verdict during his New York hush money trial last week. The English and Spanish billboards will be displayed in Phoenix, where Trump is set to hold a town hall with Turning Point Action CEO Charlie Kirk later Thursday afternoon. The event marks the former president’s first campaign stop since a 12-member Manhattan jury found that Trump falsified business records related to an alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. It’s also the first time the DNC is launching a paid advertisement playing up Trump’s status as a felon. “Trump already attacked Arizona’s Democracy once. Now he’s back as a convicted felon. He’s out for revenge and retribution. Trump: unhinged and unfit,” the billboards say (Washington Examiner). Axios: In their own way, Trump and Republicans are also embracing the verdict, using it to juice their donor base and make direct appeals to Black voters over their shared frustration with the criminal justice system. They also want to harness the anger that is coursing throughout the Republican party and direct it toward voter turnout on election day (Axios).

Trump Remains Ahead of Biden After Conviction

Quinnipiac Poll: Less than one week after former President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a felony, he holds a slight lead over President Joe Biden 49 – 44 percent in a head-to-head matchup in the battleground state of Georgia (Quinnipiac Poll). Townhall: Despite the unprecedented move, the conviction against Trump seems to working in his favor— a stark contrast from what the Democratic Party was hoping for when bringing politically motivated charges against him (Townhall).

NYPD Working to Revoke Donald Trump’s Gun License

ABC: The NYPD will be revoking former President Donald Trump’s gun permit following his conviction on 34 felony counts last week in Manhattan. Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is a federal crime (ABC). NBC: It is unclear when the former president has last held a gun, but his gun license for New York City was active at the time of his indictment in the hush money case in March 2023 (NBC).

Poll Uncovers Majority of Americans Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck

Townhall: A NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ survey released Wednesday shows more bad news for President Biden on the economic front. According to the poll, 58 percent of registered voters say they’re living paycheck-to-paycheck, as standard living expenses are taking up the bulk of monthly incomes (Townhall). NewsNation: A NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll of registered voters found 58% of voters say they are living paycheck to paycheck, as the economy was listed as the No. 1 topic voters want to see in a presidential debate (X). The number increases among young voters. Maga War Room: 73 percent of young voters say they are living paycheck to paycheck (X).

Biden’s Regulations Against Oil and Gas Has Cost $250 Billion in Lost GDP Growth

Daily Wire: President Joe Biden’s war on the oil and gas industry has cost the United States more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in lost economic activity. The Committee to Unleash Prosperity released the findings of its study after U.S. oil production under Biden has failed to reach the same trend line regarding rate of growth that was achieved under former President Donald Trump. While the U.S. is currently producing more oil than ever before, it is only slightly higher than the U.S. was producing in 2019, prior to the coronavirus pandemic. The study found that the average price of a barrel of oil has been significantly higher under Biden, $72 per barrel, than it was under Trump, $54 per barrel (Daily Wire).

California’s Attempt to Replace Parents

Albert Mohler: An initiative undertaken by citizens of California that would have protected the rights of parents failed to get the requisite number of signatures to even make it to the ballot. The measure would have prevented the public schools from hiding a child’s transgender identity issues at the schools from the parents. It failed, but there’s a lesson here: Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta had argued that the title of proposition would be, “Restrict Rights of Transgender Youth Initiative.” This is almost Orwellian, he was going to tilt the scales. We have to fight for parental rights. We don’t give our children over to administrators and the regime of experts. No government can replace the family. Ever. But they are trying (Townhall Review).

Over 100 Doctors Urge Top Medical Organizations to Stop Gender “Care” Procedures

Daily Wire: More than 100 health care professionals and groups have signed onto a declaration calling on major medical organizations to halt dangerous transgender medical interventions for children. The “Doctors Protecting Children Declaration” was signed by doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, scientists, researchers, and others, who announced the declaration at a Thursday press conference. The group said in their declaration that they have “serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the current protocols promoted for the care of children and adolescents in the United States who express discomfort with their biological sex.” The declaration sounded the alarm on subjecting gender dysphoric children to medical interventions like transgender surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers, saying these treatments involve “serious long-term risks” including “sterility” (Daily Wire). Daily Signal: Social affirmations make youth more likely to progress on to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, the declaration states. Puberty blockers “permanently disrupt physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development” and can worsen psychological illness, cause low bone density, impair memory, lead to brain swelling, and more (Daily Signal).

Portland Teacher Association Creates Anti-Israel, Anti-American Curriculum for Children

Daily Wire: The Portland Association of Teachers, an affiliate of the state teachers’ union which has 4,500 members, reportedly created an anti-Israel and anti-America curriculum for children as young as kindergarteners that says Zionists are “bullies” and blames Israel and the United States for “settler colonialism.” Journalist Christopher Rufo, the author of America’s Cultural Revolution, published the information and obtained the curriculum materials called “Teach Palestine!” Pre-kindergarten teachers are urged to use a workbook by the Palestinian Feminist Collective with a story of a fictional Palestinian boy named Handala who states, “A group of bullies called Zionists wanted our land so they stole it by force and hurt many people” (Daily Wire). Jerusalem Post: The resource list for Pre-K offers lessons or materials for talking about grief, death, and genocide. The discussion on how to teach young kids about genocide is Holocaust-themed but is included to discuss current events in the Levant. Resources present a narrative about how Israel has illegitimately taken control of Palestinian land and is oppressing Palestinians (Jerusalem Post).

Virginia to End EV Requirements By End of Year

National Review: Virginia will abandon its effort to mimic California’s electric-vehicle regulations by the end of the year, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday, in a surprise move that goes around the commonwealth’s legislature. Virginia was on track to comply with new emissions standards adopted by the California Air Resources Board set to take effect January 1, 2025, replacing California’s current regulations. CARB’s new standards, coined Advanced Clean Cars II, required that 35 percent of cars starting with model year 2026 be sold as electric vehicles. The regulations also mandated a 100 percent electric-vehicle transition by 2035 for all new vehicles purchased (National Review). NBC Washington: Youngkin said in a statement on Wednesday that Virginians deserve to choose which vehicles fit their needs and called the idea that government should tell people what kind of car they can buy “fundamentally wrong” (NBC Washington).

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FDA Overturns Ban on Juul E-Cigarettes

ABC: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rescinded its marketing ban on Juul Labs on Thursday, opening the door to possible authorization of its products. The reversal comes nearly two years after the federal health agency ordered the company’s e-cigarettes and vaping products be taken off the market. The FDA had initially blocked Juul’s application to sell its vaping device and tobacco- and menthol-flavored pods in June 2022, after completing a nearly two-year review of the manufacturer’s application, finding that the applications “lacked sufficient evidence regarding the toxicological profile of the products to demonstrate that the marketing of the products met the public health standard required by law.” The company has long claimed its product can be used as a tool to stop smoking cigarettes. The FDA subsequently paused the block just weeks later in July 2022 to conduct additional scientific review (ABC).