2024: Open Season

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Wonderful TL Keep it up. However I don't think Senator Lindsey Graham would have endorsed Pompeo over Haley. That doesn't make any sense. It looks like Hogan is trying to pull a "Kasich '16" in New Hampshire. Lot's of Endorsements still up for grabs. Romney endorsing Haley is a big one.

Thank you!

Also, I think I have Graham endorsing Pence. If I did have him endorsing Pompeo then that was definitely a mistake because I could never see Graham choosing Pompeo over Pence or Haley

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Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/plenty-of-family-members-in-office-kennedy-warns-bidens-against-appearing-to-profit-off-political-relatives

Gavin Newsom Carries Last Debate

January 12th, 2023

Washington Post- "Vice-President Sally Yates and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have started to ease tensions as both are trying to play the postive warror going into the first in the nation caucus which is just weeks away. That is something that Senator Joe Kennedy III called out during the debate saying, "Look, we all know the plan of the Vice-President and the Congresswoman. They are trying to play the happy warrior but the voters are smart enough to remeber just a few weeks back when you were tearing each other apart. I am the happy warrior in this race, I am not willing to take down other competors who are of the same party because that does nothing good for America or the Democratic party. Finally, Yates and Ocasio-Cortez agree. Maybe we actually can debate subsatnce tonight, not rhetoric."

Kennedy, straying from that happy warrior postion he has held throughout the campaign, went negative again against Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez. Kennedy in an answer concerning getting things done in Washington went after the Congresswoman saying, "While I was getting things done in the House of Represenatives and now in the Senate. One of my collueges in the House, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, did nothing to actually help the issues that are impacting the communities that are struggling across the district. Before electing anyone to president, if they are in the legislator, they must prove they can get vital legislation passed." Ocasio-Cortez did go on defense responding, "Senator, I contitunally write and propose legislation that would overwhemiling help communties across this country and saying anything else would be a lie." Senator Kennedy quickly shot back, saying, "Congresswoman, I didn't say you did not write and propose bills. You do write and propose extermly partisan bills that drag down modorate congressmembers when they go to the floor. I said you werent able to get anything passed. You being in Congress has done nothing to better your district at all." At this point in the debate, Governor Gavin Newsom jumped in the debate saying, "I completely agree with the Senator here. We need someone who can get something done and I believe I am the only one that can gurantee that as President. Vice-President Yates and President Biden, I appauld them for it, kept trying to pass signficgant legislation but never got them pass the finish line, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made clear she will make attempt at working with anyone that disagrees with her so we know all her plans will never actually be policy if elected. As Governor I passed these plans that Yates and Ocasio-Cortez champion like rent control, raised minnium wage and healthcare plans that work for everyone. I got sh**t down in California and I will get it down in Washington and you can take that to the bank because I have proof." This is the first major moment Governor Newsom has gotten into the debates and made a moment but it wouldn't be the last of the night.

The second major moment that the Governor made an impact in the debate was during the debate about abortion. Ocasio-Cortez, in one of her rare negative moments of the night, attacked the Vice-President for being anti-women with her modorate pro-choice postion. The Governor responded with, "Congresswoman, every single one of us on stage is pro-choice. Every single one of us will veto whatever anti-woman, anti-abortion bill that Mitch McConnell puts on that desk. What we should really worry about as we debate abortion is who can win back the Governorships and state legislators who truly have power over abortion. If we nominate you, Congresswoman, then I fear we won't only lose the presidency but you will be a drag down ballot taking down some of our red state Governors. I believe if I am elected president, I can win these governorships back so the right to choose will remain safe for women who despartly need it across this country." The Congresswoman responded with, "I know how to win Governor" The Governor intrerrupted, "Yeah, you know how to win a D+80 race" Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez in a more fiesty response said, "Yeah, I know how to win a Democratic district but I also know how to beat an old white man who is out of touch with the rest of the nation." Rachel Maddow broke up the debate to move to climate change where Senator Kennedy tried going negative again.

Senator Kennedy in his climate change response said, "What I don't understand is why we need to make climate change bills so much more, why do they need to inculde so many other things like the secured employment of the government which has nothing to do with climate change. If we don't add all those things onto climate bills then I think we could do real good because they could actually pass." Even though it wasn't mentioned, it was clear that the Senator was referencing the Green New Deal in which the Congresswoman responded, "Everything has to do with climate change, we need to pass these all together in the green new deal. The secured empolyment by the federal government makes sure all those that lose jobs while we change our economy can make sure they have a job at the federal government till they are trained in the new workforce." Governor Newsom went after Kennedy, saying, "For someone who tried to claim to be a happy warrior, you are defiently willing to take down other Democrats on this stage."

Most commentors decalared the Governor as the victor but he will need a big boost to make a dent into the Iowa caucus where he is only polling at six percent. The Governors team has said they are aiming to boost fundraising from the debate to pour money into Iowa and Nevada. The loser of the debate was Senator Kennedy but it was not so awful where he could lose more than two or three percent of the vote unless the Governor surges. Both the Vice-President and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez were pretty much forgotten on the debate stage but no news for them now is far better than negative news."

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/02/politics/marco-rubio-attacks-chris-christie/index.html

Final Republican Debate Stage Is Set Before Iowa

January 18th, 2023

CNN- Last week with so few competors left, the RNC annouced it would lift its cap on the debate stage which will have all eleven candidates left in the field debate. This means both Former Governor Chris Christie and Congressman Matt Gaetz will have one more oppurnty to get their name out after being cut off from the last two debates. Christie and Gaetz are both betting heavly on the early states with Gaetz putting his whole operation in Iowa and Christie having everything, even his national headquarters, in New Hampshrie.

Below is the stage that is set for the debate on the twenty-fifth:

Christie/Hogan/Hawley/DeSantis/Rubio/Pence/Haley/Cotton/Abbott/Pompeo/Gaetz

Source: https://www.popsugar.com/news/Sally-Yates-Trump-Russia-GOP-Women-World-2018-44746461

Sally Yates Annouce Get Out The Vote Rally with Clinton, Kaine, Klobuchar, Gillibrand and Booker

January 21st, 2023

Iowa Starting Line- The night before the Iowa caucus, Vice-President Sally Yates will pull out all the stops to make sure she wins on caucus night. Yates will appear with mutiple big names inculding Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and Amy Klobuchar who all will endorse her that night. Yates will also appear with Senator Cory Booker and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand who have already been on the trail supporting Yates in Iowa. Currently, the Vice-President leads the field by around ten percent in Iowa but she hopes to crack fifty percent which she hopes forces one of her other competors out so it is a more one on one race with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez which she believes she can win.

She isn't the only candidate pulling out all the stops before the caucuses. Governor Greg Abbott and Senator Josh Hawley also are bringing in many of their big endorsers inculding Represenative Ann Wagner for Hawley, Senator Roy Blunt for Hawley, Senator Ted Cruz for Abbott, and Represenative Dan Crenshaw for Abbott.

Source: https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/greg-abbott-re-elected-texas-governor

Abbott Pledges To Contitue Till At Least South Carolina

January 24th, 2023

Post and Courier- Governor Greg Abbott of Texas in his latest swing through South Carolina has told crowds no matter what happens in New Hampshire and Iowa that he will be on the ballot in South Carolina. Abbott has remained in the middle of the field but has slowly risen as other candidates such as Senator Josh Hawley and Secertary Pompeo who have both contitued to fall since bad fundraising and bad debate performances. Abbott is doing the best in both Iowa and South Carolina and hopes his conservative religious message will poll well in South Carolina but a bad performance in Iowa and New Hampshire could hurt too much to recover in South Carolina. A win in South Carolina will be a tall task which the Governor admits since the Former Governor, Nikki Haley, is running and leading the field.

When asked for more information, press secertary Calli Norton, told the press that the Governor hopes to win delegates in Iowa and secure a top five spot then survive New Hampshire so he can do a top two place in Texas so he has a launch pad to Super Tuesday. Norton told the paper that she believes the Governor can win mutiple states on Super Tuesday such as Texas and Oklahoma and depending on South Carolina and the field, a few more southern states.

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