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The New York Times interviewed 38 voters in 14 states who voted for Trump and had previously voted for Obama.  They found that many did not like Trump personally but were satisfied with his policies.

This type of reporting is much better than having panel discussions on TV that only take place in New York and Washington.  Let’s hear from the voters, not just the “experts”.

This article states: “A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia is running an ad showing his primary opponent shaking hands with Hillary Clinton — something that never happened. The ad uses a manipulated version of a photograph that originally showed his rival shaking the hand of someone else: President Trump.”

The man was convicted!  How can Pence call him a champion of the rule of law.

Why it matters

Sad!

Our amicus brief challenging Trump’s Arpaio pardonhttps://t.co/Ik7cdDxt1s

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 2, 2019

Republicans don’t seem to object to having candidates that committed crimes.  Maybe that will help Trump get re-elected if he is charged with anything from the Mueller investigation.

And there’s this:

“The National Republican Congressional Committee bought up hundreds of URLs ahead of the 2014 election cycle and has created nearly 20 websites appearing to support Democratic candidates in all but the small print, a spokesman for the campaign confirmed Thursday.”

This is bad stuff.  Phony web sites are being used by Republicans to sabotage Democratic candidates.

Sad!

The Republicans will hold onto Arizona Congressional District 8.  The current margin is 52.7% to 46.9%.  Trump won this district by 21%.

This graph shows that many areas went more Democratic while none went more Republican:

Analysis of the results

Republicans lost support in every special administration during the Trump presidency

 

This column points out that Republicans can use “dark money” (corporate political donations through super-PACs) to counter increased Democratic fundraising.

Evangelicals are planning their largest midterm effort ever to support Trump and Republicans.

Sad!

I agree with the ideas expressed by the people interviewed in this column.

From the article: “The DNC is doing a good job of winning New York and California,” said David Betras, the Democratic county party chair in Mahoning County, Ohio, home to Youngstown. “I’m not saying it’s not important — of course it’s important — but do they honestly think that people that were just laid off another shift at the car plant in my home county give a shit about Russia when they don’t have a frickin’ job?”