So basically, every Republican to run for POTUS or VPOTUS except Bob Dole. And even he said he was “Trumped out”shortly before he died.
Among VP candidates, I believe that the crazies have Palin.
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Oh right… I forgot about Palin. Selective amnesia perhaps. 
Ok, counting Bob Dole as a half, I’ll give Trump 1.5 from 1980+ POTUS & VPOTUS candidates from his own party.
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Um , I have some bad news for Mr. Trump, the president has not had the power of Impoundment for 50 years.
He really only needs 4-5% to switch over. But the 14% for Haley probably includes some Democrats.
In Ohio you don’t declare a party ahead of time. When you show up to vote they just ask you whether you want a Republican ballot or a Democratic one. (Or once in a blue moon Libertarian might be a choice.)
I think whatever you ask for becomes your “party registration” until you show up to a subsequent primary and ask for a different party’s ballot, but it’s quite trivial for Ohio voters to go back & forth.
And not only is Biden running unopposed on the Democratic side, but Sherrod Brown (the incumbent) is also running unopposed for US Senator. So plenty of lefties probably picked the GOP ballot yesterday.
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Yep. According to Ohio I am a Republican.
Here’s my assessment of Ohio. The Ohio DNC sucks. They have no clear message, and they seem to have ceded rural and Christian voters to the GOP. The Ohio GOP this past year have sacrificed the middle to look good to the never-D’s and MAGAs. A list of their less popular with the middle actions: A special election to take amendments away from the people to stop the abortion amendment, slow walking weed legalization, defiance of a GOP court to keep the gerrymander, and the lingering threads of the Householder corruption still on Ohioans’ electricity bills. I think that’s why LaRose did so poorly as he was the biggest name going into the primary and his name was all over a few of those issues.
The sane Republican’s (nonMAGAs) I know do not speak highly of the Ohio GOP. I think Ohio comes down to has MAGA grown in popularity among those voting in November?
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Yeah, I’m hopeful that a non-corrupt non-MAGAer would have done better than LaRose.
There was a third candidate who I think was a MAGAer that lost the Trump endorsement to Moreno, but I’m not certain I’m right about that.
Democrats Are Meddling in Republican Primaries.
Democratic group is spending $2.7 million on an ad highlighting the conservative credentials of Bernie Moreno, the Cleveland-area businessman backed by former President Donald Trump.
The ad says Moreno is a “MAGA Republican” who is “too conservative for Ohio,” describing him in terms that are likely to make him more appealing to conservative Ohio primary voters. Party strategists believe Moreno will be an easier opponent for the incumbent Democratic senator, Sherrod Brown, in the general election.
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This worked in PA with Oz in the Senate election.
Same happened in CA this month, with Schiff making “Garvey too MAGA for CA” ads. Note in CA, there is a No-Party-Primary Senate election: top two advance to November. The ad was to make sure enough of CA MAGAs (there are shitloads of shithole areas in CA) came out to vote for Garvey, pushing Porter (D) out of second, as she would be tougher to beat in the General in November.
Good strategic move by Schiff. I hate that he did it because I would have been happy to vote for either of them. I hope Porter is able to stay involved at some level. She brings a lot of energy
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Agreed, hopefully something in the Cabinet or similar.
At lest some of Haley’s donors have gone to Biden. I guess in November we’ll see if her voters in the Primary join them.
Well, he did say that anybody donating to Haley is banned from the Republican Party.
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Like father, like son?
I had to Google. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 explicitly deals with this.
It is a law which asserts congressional “power of the purse” but gives the president a small window to request that congress reverse an appropriation (45 days) or defer spending (not beyond the end of the fiscal year). In both cases, the president is obligated to send a message to congress explaining what he is doing.
Trump, of course, will say that no king would ever allow such a limit, and therefore Trump won’t either. (He may not explicitly say “king”, he will just think that part.)
So Trump will simply ignore the law. Who can stop him? I think the SC would say that either chamber can sue by majority vote but members can’t. If the Rs control both chambers, this never makes it to the SC.
If it does get there, the SC can rule that the law violates the “separation of powers”, and is unconstitutional.
Even if the SC rules against Trump, he can always do the Jacksonian thing.
So, Trump has three routes to just do it.
Looks like primarily more fixes to the PSLF program that should have already cancelled their debt if it wasn’t horribly bungled.
Cynically we can say this is due to election season coming up. However, Trump could have and should have fixed this too, which if communicated properly could have resulted in a 2020 win. I’d be very happy Biden is doing this if an election wasn’t coming up. Since it is, I don’t mind if he gets a small boost from it.
Though to be fair, properly communicating PSLF for teachers to the GOP would be difficult when it’s “common knowledge” among MAGA that teachers are liberal indoctrinators making the kids trans and ashamed for being white.
With Trump’s daughter-in-law in charge of the RNC and most of the competents purged, they’re changing the rules for where RNC donations go.
The first $3,300 of each donation will to the the primary campaigning PAC of Trump (so he can clinch the nomination.) Another $5,000 will go directly to Trump’s Save America PAC, which has been spending $238,000/day on his legal fees recently.
I no longer have the source in front of me nor time right now, but I believe it was after $13,200 that each individual donation goes to the general RNC fund, which then may be disbursed to Trump or other candidates. Any individual donating less than that, all of their money will go to Trump and his various PACs and legal aid funds. According to Trump’s team this is no big deal because
Out of an Individual donor’s maximum contribution of $824,600, less than 1% (.006%) goes to Save America
And I see this repeated on conservative forums, it’s only 0.006% of your donation, that’s nothing!.. if you donated $824,600.
Personally I’ve been enjoying watching the DNC and Biden both obliterate the RNC and Trump in fundraising. Turns out, 8 years of grift and telling Haley donors they’re not welcome eventually catches up.
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Actually its .006 or .6%.
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Lol. I didn’t bother doing the math - but why did I trust the math of a Trump staffer?
If this was work-related I’d risk a reprimand for trusting the work of somebody not qualified.
That makes me laugh more though, since I truly did see that claim parroted over and over.
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Apologies it’s Newsweek, no quality source has picked this up yet.
Made me laugh, I was sure I wouldn’t be the only one to pick up on Trump and the GOP (repeatedly) asking, “Are you better off than in March 2020?”
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