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Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 1:30 pm

Kurth wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 11:50 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:28 pm

malchior wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 12:32 pm It'd 100% be better if they had a bigger poll

sorry.

My 15 year old son thinks this is the best!

I do it for the children.

CNN announced that Jake Tapper will moderate a Republican presidential town hall event with former South Carolina governor-turned-2024 candidate Nikki Haley. The event is scheduled to take place in Iowa on June 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

CNN’s press release on the event states that Haley “will take questions from Tapper and a live audience which is comprised of Iowa Republicans and Iowa voters, who say they will pre-register to participate in the Republican caucuses by the deadline set by the Republican Party of Iowa.”

El Guapo wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 2:27 pm I'm not planning on watching, but having had the Trump town hall, seems like they need to have ones for non-Trump GOP candidates as well, right?

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 2:38 pm It seems like a perfectly reasonable approach for mainstream candidates that did not try to overthrow the government.

When Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley stepped onstage Wednesday morning at a campaign event at Saint Anselm College, she had a question for the crowd.

"Everybody know about Dylan Mulvaney?” Haley asked. “Bud Light? That is a guy, dressed as a girl, making fun of women.”

To the GOP’s hardcore base, Dylan Mulvaney needs no introduction. The transgender content creator who partnered with Budweiser has been the target of vicious attacks and sustained indignation for weeks, largely thanks to a seemingly endless stream of segments on Fox News.

But in the crowd at Saint Anselm College’s “Politics & Eggs” event, packed with New Hampshire’s famously independent voters, this anti-transgender broadside was not met with applause but silence.

Voters in the room appeared largely unaware of the Bud Light controversy. When Haley waited for applause, they didn’t clap.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 2:45 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 2:38 pm It seems like a perfectly reasonable approach for mainstream candidates that did not try to overthrow the government.

Perfectly reasonable:

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 3:55 pm I'm not 100% sure, but permitting town halls for legitimate candidates who haven't actively encouraged insurrection seems reasonable.

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 3:55 pmPermitting town halls for legitimate candidates who are not objectively known for lying as easily as they breath air seems reasonable.

CNN will host a town hall with former Vice President Mike Pence early next month in Iowa, the network announced Thursday.

The town hall will be moderated by CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday, June 7, at 9 p.m. ET from Grand View University in Des Moines.

Pence, who served as vice president from 2017 to 2021, has been positioning himself as a presidential candidate for months, though he has yet to officially enter the 2024 race. Pence has said he expects to make a decision on a campaign “before the month of June is out.”

During the town hall, Pence will field questions from Bash and a live audience that will include Iowa Republicans and Iowa voters, who say they plan to pre-register to take part in the Republican caucuses by the deadline set by the Republican Party of Iowa and pledge to appear in person at the caucuses.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 1:34 pm Sure, why not:

CNN will host a town hall with former Vice President Mike Pence early next month in Iowa, the network announced Thursday.

The town hall will be moderated by CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday, June 7, at 9 p.m. ET from Grand View University in Des Moines.

Pence, who served as vice president from 2017 to 2021, has been positioning himself as a presidential candidate for months, though he has yet to officially enter the 2024 race. Pence has said he expects to make a decision on a campaign “before the month of June is out.”

During the town hall, Pence will field questions from Bash and a live audience that will include Iowa Republicans and Iowa voters, who say they plan to pre-register to take part in the Republican caucuses by the deadline set by the Republican Party of Iowa and pledge to appear in person at the caucuses.

I've been assured there will be NO dancing and it will be absolutely riveting.

YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 2:06 pm I have no doubt we'll still see Pence subtly kissing the ass of the guy who incited a mob to kill him.

Unagi wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 1:28 pm I don’t imagine Trump thinks of Pence as a threat at all.

Trump today announces that on day one he will sign an Executive Order denying US citizenship to children born in the US if their parents are migrant asylum seekers.

YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 2:06 pm I have no doubt we'll still see Pence subtly kissing the ass of the guy who incited a mob to kill him.

Former Vice President Mike Pence to Launch Campaign for White House Within 2 Weeks (Exclusive)
Pence, who is polling in single digits, believes he has a lane with evangelicals in the GOP primaries

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 5:21 pm

Unagi wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 1:28 pm I don’t imagine Trump thinks of Pence as a threat at all.

If true, I (gulp) agree with Trump.

Former Vice President Mike Pence filed paperwork Monday to run for president in 2024, Federal Election Commission documents showed.

Pence, who served under former President Donald Trump, is expected to personally launch his bid for the GOP nomination on Wednesday. A spokesman for Pence confirmed the FEC filings.

The former vice president is expected to bring a more traditionally conservative voice to a primary field that has been drowned out by the populist preachings of Trump, the current front-runner, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Octavious wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 1:03 pm Awesome all these idiots are making Trump a lock. I mean honestly it probably would be a lock anyway, but barf.

Exodor wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 1:51 pm

Octavious wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 1:03 pm Awesome all these idiots are making Trump a lock. I mean honestly it probably would be a lock anyway, but barf.

Yeah they're repeating the same mistakes they made in 2016 - dividing the anti-Trump voters so Trump cruises to easy victory in the primaries.

I'm a little confused about why Pence would even enter the race. Trumpers hate him because he refused to impose Trump as an unelected dictator in 2020. Non-Republicans hate him because he's an OG Christofascist. Even if he somehow won the primary I don't see how he would have a chance in the general. But I guess grifting is easy money for a Republican with name recognition.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie formally announced his second bid for president Tuesday, using his familiar town hall format to begin thumping former President Donald Trump and make an early case for his long-shot candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2024 race.

The kick-off came after a 27-minute speech where Christie accused recent presidents of both parties of “dividing us” with the intention of locking people into their ideological tribes. He referred to leaders that do that as “pretenders” who want to “divide you further and to make it easier” for the country to be “dominated by a single leader.”

malchior wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:23 am He's not wrong. If his whole purpose was to blow up Trump then maybe he could redeem himself. If so, he should do things like this right up to a week before primaries and drop out.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:44 am Hard to see how the Republican Party gets better if no one is willing to speak the truth to Republican voters.

A surprise Supreme Court ruling on Thursday has handed Democrats a potential boost in the 2024 congressional race by calling into question the constitutionality of Republican-drawn electoral districts throughout the U.S. South.

Trump says in a second term he will seek to repeal the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 so that he will have unilateral power as president to seize funds appropriated by Congress for govt agencies and programs and use that money to give out tax cuts.

The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA) reasserted Congress’ power of the purse. Specifically, Title X of the Act – “Impoundment Control” – established procedures to prevent the President and other government officials from unilaterally substituting their own funding decisions for those of the Congress. The Act also created the House and Senate Budget Committees and the Congressional Budget Office.

Congress passed the ICA in response to President Nixon’s executive overreach – his Administration refused to release Congressionally appropriated funds for certain programs he opposed. While the U.S. Constitution broadly grants Congress the power of the purse, the President – through the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and executive agencies – is responsible for the actual spending of funds. The ICA created a process the President must follow if he or she seeks to delay or cancel funding that Congress has provided.

pr0ner wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 9:43 am Another video from the Baier interview. Damn.