Everybody hates Chris Christie. Well, almost everybody, according to a new poll that shows the presidential candidate has almost no constituency anywhere in the nation.
Just 24 percent of Republicans surveyed have a favorable opinion of him compared to 57 percent who view him unfavorably. Among Democrats, Christie gleans 22 percent favorability and 60 percent view him unfavorably. The margin amongst independent voters was 17 percent to 46 percent.
Christie’s favorability amongst urban, suburban, and rural voters all trended in the low 20s, while his unfavorable rating ranged from 54 to 60 percent. Among key racial demographics things did not improve, with former Governor Christie with White voters saying they saw Christie as favorable 24 percent to 57 percent unfavorable, Black voters rated him 19 percent favorable to 48 percent unfavorable, and Hispanic voters came in at 16 percent favorable to 55 percent unfavorable.
Yet, the former New Jersey Governor has begun to eat Ron DeSantis’s lunch in New Hampshire, with no signs of the feast abating.
What Chris Christie has done is kind of amazing for a partisan figure: every single demographic has an equally poor view of him.
Everybody hates Chris Christie. Well, almost everybody, according to a new poll that shows the presidential candidate has almost no constituency anywhere in the nation.
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The American public is losing confidence in the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Hunter Biden investigation and the prosecutions of former President Trump according to a new poll released by ABC/Ipsos. Nearly half of those polled indicated that they are not confident that the U.S. Justice Department is handling its investigation of Hunter Biden in a fair and nonpartisan manner – with just 32 percent expressing confidence.
The poll also revealed an entrenched partisan divide among respondents on questions regarding Donald Trump. Nearly 50 percent of respondents said they believed the DOJ prosecutions of the former President were politically motivated – yet half of those polled also said they believe Trump should suspend his presidential campaign.
Chris Jackson, a senior vice president at Ipsos, explained the near identical results regarding Trump: “The vast majority of Democrats want Trump to suspend his campaign (77 percent), and very few Republicans agree (20 percent). The inverse is true on whether the charges are politically motivated (81 percent of Republicans say yes, 21 percent of Democrats agree).” This partisan split has remained consistent in every poll that was conducted after each of Trump’s indictments according to Ipsos.
Hunter Biden, the son and alleged business partner of U.S. President Joe Biden, is facing prosecution after the DOJ’s proposed sweet heart plea deal fell apart under the scrutiny of U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika less than a month ago. Republican lawmakers have accused the DOJ and special counsel David Weiss of “misconduct and politicization” tantamount to a “coverup” in their investigation and prosecution of the President’s son. Democrats on Capitol Hill have remained evasive on the prosecution – Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) being one of the few that has said publicly that Hunter Biden should be charged.
Former President Donald Trump faces two state and two federal prosecutions across four jurisdictions – Georgia, Florida, New York, and Washington, D.C. respectively. The ABC/Ipsos poll was conducted on August 15th and 16th and sampled 508 U.S. adults.
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The American public is losing confidence in the Department of Justice (DOJ)'s Hunter Biden investigation and the prosecutions of former President Trump according to a new poll released by ABC/Ipsos. Nearly half of those polled indicated that they are not confident that the U.S. Justice Department is handling its investigation of Hunter Biden in a fair and nonpartisan manner – with just 32 percent expressing confidence.
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Mitt Romney, the junior U.S. Senator from Utah, has seen his popularity among Utah Republicans plummet as he weighs whether to run for re-election in 2024.
A vocal and obsessive critic of Donald Trump – who has publicly accused the former President of inciting a violent insurrection against Congress and attempting to corrupt the the 2020 Presidential election – Romney has managed to simultaneously alienate Utah’s conservative grassroots and the state’s Republican Party leadership. Robert Axson, chairman of the Utah Republican Party, accused Romney of betraying the principles of the party, stating: “I think the party is trending towards people who are committed to our platform and show up. And this is a place where I would invite Senator Romney to start showing up.”
The criticism from the state leader of his own political party is just the latest in bad news for the embattled anti-Trump Senator. Romney’s approval rating among Utah voters slid 11 points between March and June of this year according to polling conducted by the Deseret News and Hinckley Institute of Politics. Voter opinion of Senator Romney is now underwater with only 41 percent of voters saying they approve of his performance, while 49 percent disapprove.
Romney’s lack of popularity in Utah has already drawn one challenger into the 2024 U.S. Senate primary. Trent Staggs, the mayor of Riverton, announced his candidacy earlier this summer, stating Utah “…needs another proven fighter and conservative in the Senate… someone unafraid to stand against the Washington establishment.” The Staggs campaign has hammered Romney for his vote to impeach former President Trump, as well as his support for open-borders and “establishment wokeness”.
Should Romney decline to run for re-election, Utah political observers suspect the Republican primary for U.S. Senate to become much more crowded with former Congressman Jason Chaffetz, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, and Utah state House Speaker Brad Wilson all considered potential candidates.
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Mitt Romney, the junior U.S. Senator from Utah, has seen his popularity among Utah Republicans plummet as he weighs whether to run for re-election in 2024.
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Matt Wells, a chairman in Ron DeSantis’s Never Back Down PAC, lambasted the U.S. South and Southerners, bemoaning the “climate of racism and bigotry” and the “hate and distrust emanating from the people,” in comments unearthed by The National Pulse. Wells is best known for recently disparaging MAGA conservatives as “degenerates” and telling leftist reporters he wouldn’t “piss on Donald Trump if he was on fire.”
Wells locked his X (formerly Twitter) account shortly after the first National Pulse report, penning a lengthy blog post refusing to apologize for his comments, which led to the discovery of his heinous, 2016 comments about his fellow Americans.
“I can normally talk to anyone that has more than a few brain cells to rub together. That wasn’t the case in South Carolina and Georgia,” he wrote of his time there, adding: “People in the South are incredibly suspicious of those that are different from them while at the same time being insufferably polite to your face while holding you in contempt as soon as you turn your back.”
Wells also bemoaned, much like the pages of the New York Times, “the still alive climate of racism and bigotry that has long dogged the American South” claiming some towns “are still almost entirely voluntarily (or not) segregated.”
“…the racist climate [in the South] is still alive and well.”
– Matt Wells, DeSantis PAC Chairman.’
Claiming to have been shouted at for “supporting someone with a ‘Cuban’ last name.” Wells also claimed in his lengthy diatribe: “Confederate flag flying homes, almost 100%, could be counted on as a home of a Combover devotee. His supporters speak like him. They use the same empty words and phrases (all with a southern drawl). ‘We’re going to build a wall’, ‘We’ll be so great’, ‘America doesn’t win anymore’, ‘He’ll make good deals’, etc.”
Having described Trump supporters as cultists, Wells concluded by declaring the “‘Bible Belt’ is frayed and the buckle is highly tarnished and the people need true spiritual revival. The one saving grace I cling to is Ted Cruz…”
“I don’t really have a desire to visit the south ever again,” he wrote, expressing hope that “the younger generations are turning away from the backwards thinking down South.”
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Matt Wells, a chairman in Ron DeSantis's Never Back Down PAC, lambasted the U.S. South and Southerners, bemoaning the "climate of racism and bigotry" and the "hate and distrust emanating from the people," in comments unearthed by The National Pulse. Wells is best known for recently disparaging MAGA conservatives as "degenerates" and telling leftist reporters he wouldn't "piss on Donald Trump if he was on fire."
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So, which is it? Did ‘Never Back Down’ never vet these PAC chairman across Iowa’s 99 counties, or do they stand by Matt Wells and his comments show more
The office of Michigan’s Attorney General, Dana Nessel, has confirmed there was a state investigation into a large number of voter registrations suspected to be fraudulent, with the case being referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 2021.
Danny Wimmer, Nessel’s press secretary, recently admitted a number of some 8,000 to 10,000 voter registration forms delivered to the Muskegon clerk by a “black female” in the run-up to 2020 presidential elections “were found to be suspicious or fraudulent.”
Some of the irregularities included a number voter registrations being written in the same handwriting and addresses on multiple forms being “invalid or non-existent.”
The local Muskegon authorities referred the attempted fraud to Michigan’s Bureau of Elections, which, in turn, referred the case to both the Attorney General as well as the state police. State officials thereafter referred the unresolved investigation to the FBI in March 2021 due to the intelligence agency’s national jurisdiction, though the FBI refused to confirm or deny whether an investigation took place.
Wimmer, however, stated the “attempted fraud” was caught before November 3 and that none of the suspicious or fraudulent materials were “incorporated into the state’s qualified voter file,” and the effort, therefore, had “no effect on any ballot requests or associated processes.”
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The office of Michigan's Attorney General, Dana Nessel, has confirmed there was a state investigation into a large number of voter registrations suspected to be fraudulent, with the case being referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 2021.
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Scott Rasmussen’s RMG Research has found Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sinking to just eight points in their latest poll, with former President Donald J. Trump now up to 60 percent of the vote in the 2024 Republican primary. The national survey of 229 likely Republican primary voters places businessman Vivek Ramaswamy in second, with 13 percent support. The poll has a margin of error of 3.1%.
Even worse for the Florida Governor: a full 83 percent of Trump’s supporters said they were “absolutely certain” of voting for him, while just 38 percent of DeSantis’s supporters felt the same way about their choice.
RMG also indicates Republicans holding a five point Congressional Generic Ballot edge over the Democrats – adding that just last month Republicans only had a two point edge.
Polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight’s Republican Presidential Primary model shows as similar trend with Trump holding above 50 percent and DeSantis on a steady decline.
The news comes three weeks after DeSantis slumped into single digits in Ohio. Last week, National Pulse editor-in-chief predicted DeSantis would be a “single digit midget Ron within a couple of weeks”.
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Scott Rasmussen's RMG Research has found Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sinking to just eight points in their latest poll, with former President Donald J. Trump now up to 60 percent of the vote in the 2024 Republican primary. The national survey of 229 likely Republican primary voters places businessman Vivek Ramaswamy in second, with 13 percent support. The poll has a margin of error of 3.1%.
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Former President Donald Trump held a private town hall with over 130 state Freedom Caucus lawmakers on Monday August 14th, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal. The conversation was facilitated by the new State Freedom Caucus network, which now has 11 equivalents of the House Freedom Caucus across the country, with a plan for all 50 state legislatures.
On the hour-long call heard by the Pulse were some of the most conservative state legislators from South Carolina, Arizona, Illinois, and Idaho, with Trump opening the conversation by calling it “a privilege to address the State Freedom Caucus Network… a very important group of people,” before making an opening statement and going on to take questions from the participants.
The conversation began with a question about Operation Warp Speed and the vaccines, to which the former President lauded governors who allowed the public to make informed decisions for themselves, reminding the audience that he had never supported vaccine mandates. Trump also answered tough questions on his backing of Senator Lindsay Graham, explaining that the South Carolina Senator “does help me with the liberal side of the Republican Party… and even some of the liberal Democrats,” before reminding one South Carolina freedom caucus member: “[Y]ou have a little bit of a liberal bent in South Carolina, and I think its okay if we show a little bit of flexibility.”
Trump’s typical 2016-style pragmatism was on display throughout the conversation seen by The National Pulse, as he discussed ballot harvesting initiatives, future travel plans to states like Idaho, and slammed Joe Biden as a “crooked man, as crooked as a three-dollar bill!”
Some of the President’s more pointed ire was aimed at Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who voted to convict him following the post-January 6th impeachment. “Cassidy’s a very bad guy,” he said, to agreement from the participants.
In closing the call, Trump discussed a recent viral video from Los Angeles, wherein a “pack of young kids,” cleared out a department store while looting in broad daylight. He used the issue as an example of how far the country had fallen under Joe Biden and his “Bidenomics” agenda.
Andy Roth, the president of the State Freedom Caucus Network, told The National Pulse: “It was an honor to have President Trump speak to the State Freedom Caucus lawmakers in our Network… Our members share the President’s desire to take on the Deep State and restore our country’s greatness.” Attendees appeared to enjoy the conversation with the former President, with many lauding him for his fighting spirit, answers to tough questions, and future plans.
Raheem Kassam contributed to this report.
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Former President Donald Trump held a private town hall with over 130 state Freedom Caucus lawmakers on Monday August 14th, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal. The conversation was facilitated by the new State Freedom Caucus network, which now has 11 equivalents of the House Freedom Caucus across the country, with a plan for all 50 state legislatures.
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Governor Ron DeSantis’s Super PAC boldly announced 99 new Iowa county chairs last week, leading to revelations that Washington county chair Matt Wells had recently called Trump supporters “degenerates” and told leftist media outlets that he would not “piss on Trump if he was on fire.” Now, another of the Florida Governor’s picks has declared himself a hardline ‘NeverTrumper’, in comments unearthed by The National Pulse.
Ryan Frederick, who chairs the Never Back Down PAC in Adair County, Iowa, described himself as a “party loyalist” in comments to the press, but declared on X (formerly Twitter) that he “will resign as a county party chairman and probably not participate in the party apparatus again until people come to their senses,” in response to a Trump primary nomination.
Frederick, who has lauded the British monarchy “the ultimate form of government” for “national prestige and accumulat[ing] wealth and status through stability,” also railed: “If we think for 5 minutes that Trump is somehow superior to DeSantis, we don’t deserve to have a political party. The man is a farce, and always has been.”
In a comment to The National Pulse, Frederick elaborated: “I wouldn’t say my mind is totally made up on that point, but I’ve been a county party chairman for nearly 20 years, and frankly I think we’re foolish if we think Donald Trump is a better candidate than Ron DeSantis. The most important thing this party has to do right now is to nominate someone who can win the election next year, and the obvious choice is Gov. DeSantis. We have the opportunity to make generational change and to move the Republican Party light years into the future, rather than brooding on the past. If we squander that opportunity, I’m not sure I’ve got energy left to continue at the level I’ve been involved heretofore. Simple as that.”
Several of Never Back Down’s county chairmen in Iowa appear to be NeverTrumpers, including Joel Kurtinitis (Dallas County) who penned lengthy articles against Trump in 2016, and Matt Wells, who has lambasted Trump supporters in worse-than-Clintonian terms as “degenerates”.
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Governor Ron DeSantis's Super PAC boldly announced 99 new Iowa county chairs last week, leading to revelations that Washington county chair Matt Wells had recently called Trump supporters "degenerates" and told leftist media outlets that he would not "piss on Trump if he was on fire." Now, another of the Florida Governor's picks has declared himself a hardline 'NeverTrumper', in comments unearthed by The National Pulse.
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Matt Wolking, the Strategic Communications Director for the pro-Ron DeSantis Super PAC ‘Never Back Down’, appeared to invent quotes from within the Trump presidential campaign on Monday, before having a very public meltdown after he was quizzed on the matter.
Wolking – on loan from DeSantis campaign chief Jeff Roe’s embattled Axiom Strategies – refused to provide evidence of his claim that the “Trump camp” is “livid” about his meeting with reporter Laura Loomer on Sunday at Bedminster.
Trump camp is livid about his huddle with @LauraLoomer.
"We kept his [Iowa] fair visit to an hour to avoid another self-inflicted wound, then he goes and hangs out for an entire day with her" in New Jersey.
Not only could the Never Back Down ‘Strategic Communications Director’ not provide a source for his quote, but Wolking quickly melted down, attacking this conservative news site – The National Pulse – and its Brexit-backing editor.
Prior to joining Jeff Roe’s Axiom – and subsequently the Never Back Down Super PAC controlled by Roe and staffed by Axiom employees – Wolking worked as the deputy communications director on former President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, where he routinely asked for support from The National Pulse and its staff.
Axiom Strategies and the DeSantis Super PAC have been plagued with controversy since the start of the presidential campaign. Intent on alienating masses of conservative voters, the firm is also facing a massive lawsuit in Nevada over accusations of fraudulent campaign work, including falsified and obscene petition signatures.
Roe himself – a long-time Republican establishment consultant – recently offered to pay corporate media start-up ‘Puck’ up to $11 million to stop writing about him.
Matt Wolking is a traitor. After J6 he threw Donald Trump under the bus after Trump gave him a career opportunity of a lifetime.
Now @MattWolking works for Ron DeSaster and has to be reminded everyday how he betrayed the greatest President ever to go work for a total LOSER.… https://t.co/DCfOuAPSvT
Matt Wolking, the Strategic Communications Director for the pro-Ron DeSantis Super PAC 'Never Back Down', appeared to invent quotes from within the Trump presidential campaign on Monday, before having a very public meltdown after he was quizzed on the matter.
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Prosecutors in Atlanta, Georgia, are expected to ask a grand jury to indict Donald Trump and others over alleged “election interference” in the state early this week, following an “investigation” led by Democrat partisan District Attorney Fani Willis.
Willis, who has been repeatedly denounced as an anti-white “racist”, alleges “a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”
Willis’s investigation is perhaps even more controversial than those of George Soros-linked Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Michelle Obama-linked federal prosecutor Jack Smith, with the Democrat being rebuked by the courts in July for fundraising for someone running against a conservative politician her investigation targeted. A judge described this as “a ‘what are you thinking?’ moment”.
She received further criticism by launching a new fundraising page for herself as the indictment decision looms.
“I hear that RACIST Fulton County (Atlanta) District Attorney ‘Phoney’ Fani Willis, who weakly presides over one of the deadliest communities in the U.S… is using a potential Indictment of me, and other innocent people, as a campaign and fundraising CON JOB,” Trump said of her behavior.
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Prosecutors in Atlanta, Georgia, are expected to ask a grand jury to indict Donald Trump and others over alleged “election interference” in the state early this week, following an “investigation” led by Democrat partisan District Attorney Fani Willis.
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