Talkin' Politics, April 1, 2024: Election Framing Is The Game

TALKIN’ POLITICS

Quick Hits

• White House Moving On Art. Intelligence https://www.semafor.com/article/03/27/2024/white-house-orders-agencies-to-tap-chief-ai-officers
• Sam Bankman-Fried is going to PRISON: https://www.semafor.com/article/03/28/2024/sbf-sentenced-to-25-years-in-ftx-fraud-case

1. True or False…
   1. Public Education attacks will be a sneaky factor in the erosion of GOP power in red states  
      1. Missouri: https://missouriindependent.com/2024/03/28/opposition-remains-for-sprawling-education-bill-expanding-missouri-private-school-tax-credits/
      2. Tennessee - going after a public HBCU: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/28/republican-lawmakers-vacate-full-tennessee-state-university-board/73124246007/
      3. 
          
2. Yeah No…
   1. The Entire RFK, Jr. run, made worse now by his openly anti-IVF running mate who’s main qualification for being VP is that she financed RFK’s super bowl commercial, that he distanced himself from after it aired
      1. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-running-mate-ivf-1234996038/
      2. 
          
3. Yeah… yeah
   1. Woman suing in Texas for being labeled as a murder suspect and spending time in jail after abortion ban kicked in post Dobbs 
   2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/30/texas-woman-abortion-murder-sues
4. Big One
   1. Abortion pill has MAJORITY support as a medical option and majority support as mail delivery from Independents (and Dems, duh)
   2. https://www.axios.com/2024/03/29/abortion-pill-supreme-court-case-poll
   3. Erin Hawley - Joshua’s wife - argued against mifepristone in SCOTUS this past week and got OWNED
      1. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/politics/takeaways-from-the-supreme-court-arguments-over-the-abortion-drug-mifepristone/index.html#:~:text=The%20Comstock%20Act%20has%20not,criminal%20prohibitions%20on%20mailing%20drugs
   4. In line with general feelings on birth control: https://missouriindependent.com/2024/03/29/birth-control-poll-missouri-contraceptives/
   5. Alabama big win - centered around IVF - pretty hard to ignore
5. 2024 Election Coverage Era
   1.  Trump team sets up GOP donations in a trickle down economics approach with Trump and his legal bills at the top: https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/trump-legal-fees-scam-rnc-republicans-know-it
   2. Trump serious problem? https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-has-a-big-problem-with-gop-voters
6. RNC is big mad about Rona Romney-McDaniel being fired from MSNBC: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/28/rnc-nbc-convention-ronna-mcdaniel-00149620
7. Polling: https://www.270towin.com/2024-presidential-election-polls/national
8. Biden’s big NYC fundraiser with Obama and Clinton must have been a huge success based on the NY POST coverage: https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/opinion/president-bidens-25m-fundraiser-with-annie-leibovitz-is-the-height-of-dem-elitism/
9. Regular coverage; https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/29/pro-palestinian-protesters-interrupted-bidens-glitzy-new-york-fundraiser-00149706
10. GOP has a problem with early and mail in voting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/28/trump-mail-early-voting-republicans/
11. Interesting read - the polling, author makes the case that 2024 is the election about elections: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2943777/2024-an-election-about-elections/
12. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/28/trump-mail-early-voting-republicans/

Which leads to the question: What is election integrity? Is it Democrats worried that Trump and Republicans will cheat? Is it Republicans worried that Biden and Democrats will cheat? It appears to be both, in roughly equal force. Given that, it seems reasonable to expect both Biden and Trump to highlight it in their campaigns. In some ways, 2024 will be an election about elections

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