After yesterday's testimony at the Jan. 6 Committee, Cassidy Hutchinson is now in fear of her life.
She revealed some damning allegations under oath about the former president during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Her revelations have rocked Washington, DC. She supported this guy and will likely support him in 2024. She fears that telling the truth could put her life in danger.
The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is also concerned and they have referred the witness to the Justice Department.
Of course, Washed Up 45 dismissed her and many Republicans claim she is Amber Heard 2.0, but the testimony really shook the core of the former president.
It literally suggested that the former president did not care whether his supporters had firearms on the grounds, he didn't care if anyone in Congress was hurt and certainly he demanded the Secret Service to drive him to the Capitol. When Secret Service refused, he lunged at the driver and threatened to have him removed.
Did you know that President Joe Biden had a new Secret Service detail?
He got rid of those members who he felt that many were loyal to the former president and they could put his life in danger.
Also Fox lost viewership whenever the committee hearings are on. Apparently, the far-right isn't interested in holding those responsible for the deadly encounter.
Washed Up 45 has previously denied reporting on Hutchinson's leaked testimony, claiming on his Truth Social platform earlier this month that he "never said, or even thought of saying, 'Hang Mike Pence.'"
"This is either a made up story by somebody looking to become a star, or fake news!" he wrote at the time.
But a person close to the former president said he is nervous about Tuesday's hearing, which will feature live testimony from Hutchinson and "present recently obtained evidence," the committee announced Monday. Prior to the committee's announcement on Monday, this person said Washed Up 45 was feeling triumphant amid back-to-back Supreme Court decisions protecting a right to conceal carry a gun and ending the constitutional right to abortion.
"He definitely wasn't expecting a twist like this," said the person close to the former president
The former President and his allies are planning to cast Hutchinson as a junior aide who had little influence inside the West Wing, despite her proximity to both the then-President and his then-chief of staff. Hutchinson served in the Office of Legislative Affairs prior to becoming a top aide to former chief of staff Meadows and was an eyewitness to several key episodes leading up to January 6, in addition to witnessing some of the former president's real-time reactions that day.
Washed Up 45 is specifically concerned about what Hutchinson could say about his state of mind and response to the rioters on January 6, said a second person close to him.
Hutchinson's proximity to Meadows has put the former White House chief of staff on high alert ahead of Tuesday's hearing.
Hutchison "operated like an executive assistant to him," said a person familiar with their relationship and her insight into his day-to-day schedule, conversations, and interactions with Washed Up 45 is unrivaled.
"I think the committee has held their fire on Meadows so far but today's going to be a Meadows day," the person said.
Meadows personally promoted Hutchinson from the White House Office of Legislative Affairs to his West Wing office, where this person said "she was given enormous access and enormous visibility" into his relationship with the former president and several top GOP lawmakers.
A second person familiar with the matter said Hutchinson received zero support from Meadows as she became entangled in the January 6 committee's investigation but has remained in touch with some of his other aides.
Now, Meadows and his allies are worried that could come back to haunt him.
They will be watching Tuesday's hearing closely to see what new information Hutchinson reveals in her sworn testimony, said the second source, who noted that Meadows is specifically concerned that her appearance could further strain his relationship with the former president.
Washed Up 45 has privately complained to allies in recent months about text messages that Meadows turned over to the House panel before halting his cooperation, and a book Meadows wrote that contained startling new details about the severity of the former president's battle with COVID-19 also angered the former president.
Plastic surgery has gone extreme for the Brooklyn rapper. I mean, whoa!
Kimberly D. Jones, 47 performed at the BET Awards on Sunday with her old friend Sean "Puffy" Combs, known as Diddy as he accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been through a series of numerous plastic surgeries and it's starting to become a nightmare. It was alleged that Biggie Smalls hit her and broke her nose.
Kim decided to get surgery to fix her nose. Then of course, she believed that she wasn't pretty enough and soon started bleaching her skin, getting liposuction and lip injections. Then of course it accelerated.
It also led to the notorious troll 50 Cent calling her an owl because of her plastic surgery.
I've talked about it a few years back. And now the junk food media is talking about it. Lil' Kim is going off the deep end. It appears that Lil' Kim is looking a little bit pale these days.
We've talked about skin bleaching awhile back. It seems like it's about to be brought to the limelight now that many in the junk food media accused the Brooklyn rapper of bleaching her skin.
It's no secret that Lil' Kim had numerous plastic surgery on her face, her breasts and her butt. Many speculate that her addiction to beauty has doomed her.
I'm not surprised that Black women are not fond of this new look. Many people believe that Lil' Kim is looking for attention. Kim is the mother of a 8-year old daughter Royal Reign. The father is a loser named Mr. Papers.
Mr. Papers gained fame for being the young buck who got the opportunity to knock up the Queen Bee.
Cougar hunting and plastic surgery. A sign of the times. I am guessing it's looking like she's being taken through the washer a couple of times.
The Karen is likely going to be a pain in the ass for another session. From your humble gun toting waitress, former part time sugar baby escort to a hardline far right extremist, Rep. Karen Boebert (R-CO) wins her Republican primary. She is one of the many do nothing lawmakers who is always in the junk food media and not doing her job writing legislation.
Boebert, backed by Washed Up 45, has made a number of inflammatory remarks, and she has positioned herself as one of the most far-right members of Congress — winning herself national attention in the process. Earlier this year, Boebert and Rep. Idiot Karen Greene (R-GA) heckled President Joe Biden at various points of his State of the Union address.
Boebert, who faces a scandal involving mileage reimbursement from her campaign account, has raised roughly $5 million for her campaign during her first term in Congress.
State senator Karen Coram pitched himself to voters as more focused on legislating than generating buzz among conservatives. But he was far outraised and outspent by Boebert.
Former Aspen City Council member Adam Frisch, community organizer Soledad Sandoval and engineer Alex Walker competed in the Democratic primary.
The newly drawn district still leans significantly to the right. The Cook Political Report rates the contest as solidly Republican.
Boebert had learned that her restaurant is at risk of closing. The owner of the property has now decided to move on. The building in downtown Rifle that is home to her Shooters Grill has changed ownership, and she has been told her lease won’t be renewed, meaning August could be the restaurant’s last month in business.
However, Boebert said the new owner also has mentioned that he would be interested in selling the building to her and her husband, Jayson.
“It’s possible we’ll close in August. It’s possible we’ll buy the building and stay open,” she said.
Boebert loves flaunting her ass and caps.
She said she and her husband talked about buying the property years ago.
“It was a really good price” at the time, she said. “In hindsight we probably should have just done it then.”
The western-themed Shooters became renowned because of Boebert and her server staff openly carrying guns. The conservative Boebert, a staunch gun-rights advocate, went on in 2020 to upset incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primary and was elected that fall to Congress.
Boebert said the restaurant first opened nine years ago across the street from its current location, where it has been for perhaps six years.
Asked about the possibility of looking for a different location for Shooters, she said, “I’d have to pass. I have a couple other things going on in my life right now.”
“If it does close, it’s been a really great run, a lot of wonderful experience, being able to help people get their lives turned around,” she said.
She said she’s hired a lot of people who previously had been Garfield County Jail inmates, to give them another chance, and has given a lot of young people a start in the workplace.
We have literally moved on from Uvalde, Texas. The junk food media has focused on the Supreme Court and the culture war decisions it made. The mass shooting that killed 21 people and left a casualty trail is one of the most deadliest school shootings in American history.
The families have finally buried the victims.
The terrorist's grandmother was released from the hospital. She was the first victim of this callous attack. She is permanently disfigured from the shooting.
The terrorist shot his grandmother in the head.
The city has removed its school resources police chief. The Uvalde school district’s police chief was put on leave Wednesday following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell said that he put schools police Chief Pete Arredondo on administrative leave because the facts of what happened remain unclear. In a statement, Harrell did not address Arredondo’s actions as on-site commander during the attack but said he didn’t know when details of multiple investigations into the law enforcement response to the slayings would be revealed.
City council also denied Arredondo, Uvalde CISD police chief and recently elected council member, a leave of absence, leaving him open to being removed from city council after missing three meetings. Residents at the meeting called for Arredondo to leave or be removed from his city council post.
The Uvalde mayor is not popular. He was the guy who called Beto O'Rourke a "son of a bitch" when he crashed the press conference of Gov. Karen Abbott.
Karen McLaughlin is facing calls for his removal as well. He claims he is "pissed" at Abbott for not telling the truth about the mass shooting. However, he is mainly at fault too. He literally is suppressing the junk food media from getting information about the law being weak response.
McLaughlin told residents, concerned parents, and family who lost students in the May 24 mass shooting that he learned that the school would be demolished from a conversation with Uvalde CISD superintendent Hal Harrell.
"You can never ask a child to go back, or a teacher to go back in that school ever," McLaughlin said.
He didn't provide a timeline for the demolition. Harrell announced earlier this month that students from Robb Elementary will be split between Dalton Elementary School and Flores Elementary School in the next school year.
The law literally wasted precious minutes.
President Joe Biden signed a gun reform bill that raises the age to purchase semiautomatic rifles to 21, closes the boyfriend loophole and gives funding for mental health.
It does not completely ban semiautomatic firearms.
Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or text the Crisis Text Line (text HELLO to 741741). Both services are free and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Lifeline via TTY at 1-800-799-4889. All calls are confidential. Contact social media outlets directly if you are concerned about a friend’s social media updates or dial 911 in an emergency. Learn more on the Lifeline’s website or the Crisis Text Line’s website.
The call number to the U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official phone number, 202-224-3121. Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES.
A Republican sheriff for Jackson County, Mississippi beats Rep. Karen Palazzo (R-MS).
The six-term lawmaker and supporter of Washed Up 45 lost to a candidate who is a white nationalist with a badge. The lawmaker lost his runoff election to Karen Ezell, who finished second in the primary.
The incumbent only pulled in 31% of the vote which was a warning sign that he was facing an uphill battle.
A Mississippi sheriff running on culture wars won.
Palazzo was at risk of losing his seat after an Office of Congressional Ethics reported in 2021 found that he misspent campaign funds and tapped staff to run errands for him. He was part of the Tea Party Movement which rose to infamy in 2010 and led to Washed Up 45 becoming the president.
He defeated conservative Democrat Karen Taylor who later became a Republican.
Taylor wanted his seat back and challenged Palazzo. But in the end, Taylor proved to be more Republican than Taylor.
Palazzo is a military veteran and he's been representing the 4th Congressional District since 2010.
Rep. Karen Miller (R-IL) defeats Rep. Karen Davis (R-IL) in a Republican primary. The woman who said that she thanks Washed Up 45 for protecting "white life" won and will likely be a do-nothing lawmaker for years to come.
Miller who attracted controversy over the weekend for making those remarks are a handful of Republican lawmakers who got the endorsement and easily defeated their opponents. The 15th Congressional District is redrawn and it's pretty friendly to Washed Up 45.
Miller had a 15-point edge over Davis, a Washed Up 45 supporter ran afoul of the former president because he supported the bipartisan commission investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A Karen loses his primary.
Rep. Karen Rice (R-SC) and Rep. Karen McKinley (R-WV) had lost their primary challenges as well as Rep. Karen Cawthorn (R-NC).
Davis said that Miller's "victory for white life" remarks are "just another part in a disturbing pattern of behavior she's displayed since coming to Congress," adding she "has demonstrated she is not fit for public office."
Miller has a stronger record in supporting the former president. She was one of the many House Republicans who refused to certify the election for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Two deadly incidents in two days. See in California, they will handle the problem and remedy it. In Missouri, it may take forever. Republicans are in charge. They rather not spend millions on focusing on fixing dangerous crossings for trains.
Mainly here's the safety of dealing with railroad crossings.
Stop when you see the flashing lights, bells or the stop light.
Do not block the tracks.
A train does not stop on a dime. It takes up to a mile or more before the train comes to complete stop.
A train always has the right of way.
Anyone who trespasses on railroad tracks could be subject to arrest, fines and death.
Trains are fun to watch, but from a safe distance.
Do not try to beat a train, you will most likely lose. A train speed could be more than 45 mph and it could be mistaken as a slow train.
Amtrak confirmed two deadly encounters in California and Missouri. The deadly train incidents involve vehicles ignoring railroad crossings. Trains that ultimately go faster than 80 mph and the impact on riders.
Authorities said the passenger train was traveling westbound when it struck a sedan crossing the tracks near Brentwood, California, about 60 miles east of San Francisco, around 1pm. The crash sent the vehicle into a parked SUV roughly 60ft away, the East Bay Times reported.
Mercedes Regaldo, 51, Maria Nieves, 72, and Julia Mondragon, 41, were killed in the incident, according to the Contra Costa county coroner. The deceased were pronounced dead at the scene and two people, including a child, were airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries, officials said. No one on the train, which was carrying nearly 90 people, was injured.
The crossing where the crash occurred did not have guard rails or a train signal, which authorities said made it “highly potentially dangerous” as trains travel at up to 80mph through the area. Steve Aubert, a fire marshal with the East Contra Costa fire protection district, said there are one to two collisions at the crossing each year. “It’s in a rural area where there are no guards or signals,” Aubert said.
Three people are dead and at least 50 injured after an Amtrak train derailed Monday in Missouri, authorities said Monday evening.
Cpl. Justin Dunn, a spokesperson for Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop B, told reporters that two of the people who were killed were aboard the train while the third was in a dump truck that the train struck.
Authorities said the tragic incident happened at an uncontrolled intersection -- without warning lights or motion gates -- where a gravel road crossed the railroad tracks southwest of town.
Amtrak said the train collided with the dump truck at a public crossing near the city of Mendon at about 12:42 p.m. CT (1:42 p.m. ET).
California governor Gavin Newsom, Missouri governor Karen Parsons, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were notified of these tragedies.
The House Select Committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attacks will hold its latest gathering after it was revealed that a former aide to Karen Meadows offered more evidence to prove that Washed Up 45 inspired his followers to storm the U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Cassidy Hutchinson will be testifying to the committee. She could be considered a whistleblower due to the fact the committee was scheduled for July and this sudden hearing means that there could be damaging testimony.
The 25-year-old, who was a special assistant and aide to former Washed Up 45 chief of staff Meadows, has already provided a trove of information to congressional investigators and sat for multiple interviews behind closed doors.
Her appearance has been cloaked in extraordinary secrecy and has raised expectations for new revelations in the nearly yearlong investigation. The committee announced the surprise hearing with only 24 hours’ notice, and Hutchison’s appearance was only confirmed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the matter.
While it is unclear what new evidence she might provide Tuesday, Hutchinson’s testimony could tell a first-hand story of the former president’s pressure campaign, and how the former president responded after the violence began, more vividly than any other witness the committee has called in thus far.
In brief excerpts of testimony revealed in court filings, Hutchinson told the committee she was in the room for White House meetings where challenges to the election were debated and discussed, including with several Republican lawmakers. In one instance, Hutchinson described seeing Meadows incinerate documents after a meeting in his office with Rep. Karen Perry (R-PA) Politico reported in May.
She also revealed that the White House counsel’s office cautioned against plans to enlist fake electors in swing states, including in meetings involving Meadows and Washed Up 45 lawyer Karen Giuliani. Attorneys for the president advised that the plan was not “legally sound,” Cassidy said.
During her three separate depositions, Hutchinson also testified about her boss’ surprise trip to Georgia weeks after the election to oversee the audit of absentee ballot envelope signatures and ask questions about the process.
She also detailed how Karen Clark — a top Justice Department official who championed the former president's false claims of election fraud and whom the president contemplated naming as attorney general — was a “frequent presence” at the White House.
The plot to remove the then-acting attorney general, Karen Rosen, unraveled during a Jan. 3, 2021, meeting in the Oval Office when other senior Justice Department officials warned Washed Up 45 that they would resign if he followed through with his plan to replace Rosen with Clark.
The House panel has not explained why it abruptly scheduled the 1 p.m. hearing as lawmakers are away from Washington on a two-week recess. The committee had said last week that there would be no more hearings until July.
The precise subject of Tuesday’s hearing remained unclear, but the panel’s announcement Monday said it would be “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.” A spokesman for the panel declined to elaborate and Hutchinson’s lawyer did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
The person familiar with the committee’s plans to call Hutchinson could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Cassidy Hutchinson will be a whistleblower.
The nine-member committee’s investigation has continued during the hearings, which started three weeks ago into the attack by Washed Up 45 supporters. Among the evidence, the committee recently obtained footage of the former president and his inner circle taken both before and after Jan. 6 from British filmmaker Alex Holder.
Holder said last week that he had complied with a congressional subpoena to turn over all the footage he shot in the final weeks of the former president's ’s 2020 reelection campaign, including exclusive interviews with Washed Up 45, his children and then-Vice President Karen R. Pence.
Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the panel’s Democratic chairman, told reporters last week that the committee was in possession of the footage and needed more time to go through the hours of video.
The panel has held five hearings so far, mostly laying out the former president's pressure campaign on various institutions of power in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress, when hundreds of the Republican’s supporters violently pushed past police, broke into the building and interrupted the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory.
The committee has used the hearings to detail the pressure from the former president and his allies on Pence, on the states that were certifying Biden’s win, and on the Justice Department. The panel has used live interviews, video testimony of its private witness interviews and footage of the attack to detail what it has learned.
Lawmakers said last week that the two July hearings would focus on domestic extremists who breached the Capitol that day and on what Washed Up 45 was doing as the violence unfolded.
Punchbowl News first reported that Hutchinson would be testifying.
John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, also set the expectations high for Tuesday’s hearing. He tweeted: “The January 6 Committee is dealing with a very high historical standard in springing a surprise hearing and witness tomorrow.” Dean, who was the first administration official to testify that Nixon was directly involved in the Watergate coverup, pointed to the surprise testimony from Alex Butterfield, who testified to Nixon’s secret taping system, as “forever changing history.”
“If it is not really important information it’s going to hurt the credibility of this committee! Cancel now if you can’t match!” Dean continued.
Alex Wagner returns to MSNBC and she will be hosting her own show on weeknights. Rachel Maddow who officially is semi-retiring is still continuing on periodic basis. Maddow will host her program on Monday nights and during political events like the Jan. 6 hearings and the Midterm elections, but Wagner will host her own program from Tuesday to Friday.
The MSNBC Prime will be renamed Alex Wagner starting August 16.
Rashida Jones announced on Monday that Wagner "pull in perspective. She brings in some of the context throughout her discussion. She knows everything from foreign policy to culture."
"This is not a show where our hair is on fire and we're yelling past each other, and we're creating these manufactured moments of tension," Jones added. "I really want the takeaway from this show to be a better understanding of what's happening in the world."
Wagner is an Asian-American journalist who had a show on MSNBC weekends until 2015. She left the network for CBS from 2016 until 2018. She now is co-host of The Circus on Showtime as of now and will continue to be on that program.
Fox decided to congratulate Wagner by taking a dig at her. The white nationalist Karen Wulfsohn said "despite network's history of scrapping her programs" as an attempt to say she could fail.
Karen Ingraham and Tuckems both had failed shows. What's your point?
Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell and Stephanie Ruhle will continue to lead in MSNBC Primetime program.
MSNBC will have a diverse lineup with programming starting
Way Too Early - Jonathan Lemire
Morning Joe - Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire
MSNBC Reports - Jose Diaz-Balart
MSNBC Reports - To Be Announced
Andrea Mitchell Reports - Andrea Mitchell
MSNBC Reports - Chris Jansing
MSNBC Reports - Katy Tur
MSNBC Reports - Hallie Jackson
Deadline: White House - Nicolle Wallace
The Beat With Ari Melber - Ari Melber
The ReidOut - Joy Reid
All In With Chris Hayes - Chris Hayes
The Rachel Maddow Show/The Alex Wagner Show - Rachel Maddow/rotating guest/Alex Wagner
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell - Lawrence O'Donnell
The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle - Stephanie Ruhle
MSNBC repeats or live programming in breaking news.
Zerlina - Zerlina Maxwell (Saturday)
The Mehdi Hasan Show - Mehdi Hasan (Sunday)
The Katie Phang Show - Katie Phang
Velshi - Ali Velshi
The Cross Connection - Tiffany Cross (Saturday)
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart - Jonathan Capehart (Sunday)
Alex Witt Reports - Alex Witt
MSNBC Reports - Yasmin Vossoughian
Symone - Symone Sanders
PoliticsNation - Rev. Al Sharpton
American Voices with Alicia Menendez - Alicia Menendez
Florida won't allow you to boom your sound system.
Don't say gay.
Abortion is illegal.
You can have a concealed firearm anywhere.
You can allow prayer in public school, public universities and public buildings.
You can give taxpayer funds to religious extremist schools and groups.
The culture wars are the symbol of white nationalism.
And now, the "Sunshine State" wants to punish you for playing your music too loud in your car.
Florida wants to punish motorists or movers with loud boomboxes. On July 1, 2022, the new state law that Karen DeSantis signed will allow law enforcement to ticket drivers who are playing music from their car too loudly that it can be heard 25 feet from the vehicle.
Can somebody say, Supreme Court and First Amendment!
Nevermind, it's likely going to not favor those who listen to rap music loud in their cars. After all, it's targeted for Black and Latino motorists.
These tickets could be ranging from $114 to $500 if police stop you. The fines could increase if the loud music is played around churches, schools and hospitals.
Loud music in vehicles often associates with Black motorists.
Damn shame that the Supreme Court eliminated the law's justification to arrest motorists. They can literally pull you over and arrest you even if you demand a supervisor.
American basketball star Brittney Griner is facing up to 20 years in a Russian federal time out for allegedly bringing cannabis oil into the Federation. The United States condemns the Russians and believe she is being held hostage. The WNBA and NBA has formally called for her release.
The players all show solidarity for her as she is facing a possibility of death in the federal time outs.
Griner's wife has also feels like the U.S. isn't doing enough to save her. It's not much the U.S. can do.
The reasons is because Russia does not have an extradition treaty. The only thing the U.S. can do in particular is a prisoner swap. It's a hard task that could involve non-U.S. officials and a mediator.
Also held in Russia is Paul Whalen, a former U.S. military official and contractor who was accused of espionage. He is held in the federal time out and has 20 years on his life.
Then the two Americans who fought with Ukrainian soldiers. Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh are facing a possible death squad. The two men were capture in Ukraine by Russian backed separatists who then turned them over to Russian officials.
Griner plays for the Phoenix Mercury.
Russian authorities have Brittney held in custody.
The U.S. officials have not said whether swaps are being discussed that could get Griner, Whalen or both home or whether they'd accept a deal that yields the release of one without the other. A spokesman for the U.S. State Department that advocates for wrongfully detained Americans, the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs (SPEHA), declined to say how how the cases might affect each other but said in a statement that the office remains committed to securing the release of both.
Russia is extremely hostile to those who are LGBTQ. Griner who stands at 6'9" and openly gay.
The Russians are likely going to torture her.
She was there to play for UMMC Yekaterinburg. She was earning $1 million from the franchise. She had no choice. The WNBA cap for pay was $230,000. She wanted to take care of her wife and children.
Republicans release their proposals and it is nothing more than the same tired ass crap that targets the middle class and lower class. Their mission is to pay for those tax cuts they passed in 2017.
They love to brag about their policies being good for America. They are actually winning over folks with these ridiculous culture wars.
It appears that whites are leaving the Democratic Party and becoming more Republican.
The signs point to a shift in voting preference. The Republicans emboldened by culture wars have convinced white voters that Black Lives Matter is equivalent to crime, Democrats are giving away free crack pipes, drag queens are grooming children, Chicago is crime infested and the Democrats are socialists.
Republicans have no real solutions to solve America's problems. So they will resort to divisive events and pivot from the real issues. They blocked nearly every proposal the Democrats unveiled. They literally are capitalizing off fears of a bad economy.
A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains in recent years are becoming Republicans.
More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by The Associated Press. The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country — Democratic and Republican states along with cities and small towns — in the period since President Joe Biden replaced former President Donald Trump.
But nowhere is the shift more pronounced — and dangerous for Democrats — than in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump’s Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back. Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Republicans also gained ground in counties around medium-size cities such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; and Des Moines, Iowa.
It's more than a cult. It's a movement to keep white rule.
Ben Smith, who lives in suburban Larimer County, Colorado, north of Denver, said he reluctantly registered as a Republican earlier in the year after becoming increasingly concerned about the Democrats’ support in some localities for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, the party’s inability to quell violent crime and its frequent focus on racial justice.
“It’s more so a rejection of the left than embracing the right,” said Smith, a 37-year-old professional counselor whose transition away from the Democratic Party began five or six years ago when he registered as a libertarian.
The AP examined nearly 1.7 million voters who had likely switched affiliations across 42 states for which there is data over the last 12 months, according to L2, a political data firm. L2 uses a combination of state voter records and statistical modeling to determine party affiliation. While party switching is not uncommon, the data shows a definite reversal from the period while Trump was in office, when Democrats enjoyed a slight edge in the number of party switchers nationwide.
But over the last year, roughly two-thirds of the 1.7 million voters who changed their party affiliation shifted to the Republican Party. In all, more than 1 million people became Republicans compared to about 630,000 who became Democrats.
The broad migration of more than 1 million voters, a small portion of the overall U.S. electorate, does not ensure widespread Republican success in the November midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress and dozens of governorships. Democrats are hoping the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to overrule Roe v. Wade will energize supporters, particularly in the suburbs, ahead of the midterms.
Still, the details about party switchers present a dire warning for Democrats who were already concerned about the macro effects shaping the political landscape this fall.
Roughly four months before Election Day, Democrats have no clear strategy to address Biden’s weak popularity and voters’ overwhelming fear that the country is headed in the wrong direction with their party in charge. And while Republicans have offered few policy solutions of their own, the GOP has been working effectively to capitalize on the Democrats’ shortcomings.
Republicans benefited last year as suburban parents grew increasingly frustrated by prolonged pandemic-related schools closures. And as inflation intensified more recently, the Republican National Committee has been hosting voter registration events at gas stations in suburban areas across swing states like Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania to link the Biden administration to record-high gas prices. The GOP has also linked the Democratic president to an ongoing baby formula shortage.
“Biden and Democrats are woefully out of touch with the American people, and that’s why voters are flocking to the Republican Party in droves,” RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel told the AP. She predicted that “American suburbs will trend red for cycles to come” because of “Biden’s gas hike, the open border crisis, baby formula shortage and rising crime.”
The Democratic National Committee declined to comment when asked about the recent surge in voters switching to the GOP.
And while Republican officials are quick to take credit for the shift, the phenomenon gained momentum shortly after Trump left the White House. Still, the specific reason or reasons for the shift remain unclear.
At least some of the newly registered Republicans are actually Democrats who crossed over to vote against Trump-backed candidates in GOP primaries. Such voters are likely to vote Democratic again this November.
But the scope and breadth of the party switching suggests something much bigger at play.
Over the last year, nearly every state — even those without high-profile Republican primaries — moved in the same direction as voters by the thousand became Republicans. Only Virginia, which held off-year elections in 2021, saw Democrats notably trending up over the last year. But even there, Democrats were wiped out in last fall’s statewide elections.
Gay white nationalist is working to court Republican voters.
In Iowa, Democrats used to hold the advantage in party changers by a 2-to-1 margin. That’s flipped over the last year, with Republicans ahead by a similar amount. The same dramatic shift is playing out in Ohio.
In Florida, Republicans captured 58 percent of party switchers during those last years of the Trump era. Now, over the last year, they command 70 percent. And in Pennsylvania, the Republicans went from 58 to 63 percent of party changers.
The current advantage for Republicans among party changers is playing out with particular ferocity in the nation’s suburbs.
The AP found that the Republican advantage was larger in suburban “fringe” counties, based on classifications from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to smaller towns and counties. Republicans boosted their share of party changers in 168 of 235 suburban counties AP examined — 72 percent — over the last year, compared with the last years of the Trump era.
These included suburban counties across Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, Virginia and Washington state.
Republicans also gained ground in further-out suburban counties, which the CDC lumps in with medium-size cities and calls “medium metro” — more than 62 percent of such counties, 164 in all, saw Republican growth. They range from the suburban counties north of Denver, like Larimer, to Los Angeles-area ones like Ventura and Santa Barbara in California.
The Republican advantage was nearly universal, but it was stronger in some places than others.
For example, in Lorain County, Ohio, just outside Cleveland, nearly every party switcher over the last year has gone Republican. That’s even as Democrats captured three-quarters of those changing parties in the same county during end of the Trump era.
Some conservative leaders worry that the GOP’s suburban gains will be limited if Republicans don’t do a better job explaining to suburban voters what they stand for — instead of what they stand against.
Emily Seidel, who leads the Koch-backed grassroots organization Americans for Prosperity, said her network is seeing first-hand that suburban voters are distancing themselves from Democrats who represent “extreme policy positions.”
“But that doesn’t mean that they’re ready to vote against those lawmakers either. Frankly, they’re skeptical of both options that they have,” Seidel said. “The lesson here: Candidates have to make their case, they have to give voters something to be for, not just something to be against.”
Back in Larimer County, Colorado, 39-year-old homemaker Jessica Kroells says she can no longer vote for Democrats, despite being a reliable Democratic voter up until 2016.
There was not a single “aha moment” that convinced her to switch, but by 2020, she said the Democratic Party had “left me behind.”
“The party itself in no longer Democrat, it’s progressive socialism,” she said, specifically condemning Biden’s plan to eliminate billions of dollars in student debt.
