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That's how much Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips -- who's challenging President Biden in the Democratic primary -- pulls in a national Quinnipiac poll. He's not only behind Biden (77%), but also author and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson (8%).
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Ad Watch: Democrats Lean In On Abortion |
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Ads mentioning the word abortion have aired on television or appeared online more than 351,000 times in races from the presidential campaign all the way down to city council, according to data collected by the ad tracker AdImpact and analyzed by NPR.
Three-quarters of those ads were run by Democrats. In all, more than $90 million has been spent on ads mentioning abortion in the 2023 cycle.
Conversely, about $63 million has been spent on ads mentioning crime. There have been more than 266,000 times that the word crime has been mentioned in an ad with Republicans running the majority of those.
In the presidential race, more than $240 million has been spent on TV ads so far with super PACs supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ($39 million), former President Trump ($31 million) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley ($26 million) leading the way. |
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Trail Mix: Stories From The 2024 Campaign |
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Ron DeSantis: Boot jokes took up a good chunk of last week’s GOP campaign trail discourse after shoe analysts told Politico that DeSantis probably wears height boosters. One of his competitors, Nikki Haley, ran with that, saying in an interview on The Daily Show, “I’ve always talked about my high heels. … I’ve always said, ‘Don’t wear them if you can’t run in them.’ So we’ll see if he can run in them.”
DeSantis responded in a separate TV interview this way: “This is no time for foot fetishes. … We’ve got serious problems as a country.” That’s one way to put it.
Vivek Ramaswamy: Expect more Ramaswamy content on TVs, in mailboxes and over the airwaves. The entrepreneur launched a $10 million-plus ad buy in New Hampshire and Iowa. After a hot start, the former tech CEO has been underperforming in polling for both states, despite having made numerous public appearances there.
Tim Scott: The New York Times walks down memory lane and looks at a time when Scott ran for state Senate in a mostly Black district and lost. “Scott often speaks about race and America on the campaign trail, but he has honed a message of opportunity and resilience, while downplaying the role racism plays in impeding Black progress,” the Times writes. “That is a message that largely appeals to white voters and is ‘just so foreign and alien to most Black people,’ according to Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, the former head of the College of Charleston’s African American history center.”
In a memo out Monday, Scott’s campaign manager outlined the message he will try to channel at this week’s debate, as he tries to get out of DeSantis’ and Haley’s shadows: “To say nothing of the obvious question: How can either candidate [DeSantis or Haley] present a contrast with Donald Trump when he made each of their political careers? That is the conversation Tim Scott will start Wednesday night.”
Donald Trump: The former president’s attention this week has been focused on a New York courtroom, where the health of his business empire is threatened. He testified – combatively – in court Monday. The judge in the case repeatedly admonished Trump to answer questions and stop making speeches. At one point, the judge asked his attorneys to get Trump under control. His lawyer responded that it’s the judge’s courtroom. Judge Engoron then said that if Trump continued that way, he would dismiss him and make every “negative inference” on the case from his testimony. Translation: This testimony could cost Trump and his family a lot of money.
Yet, none of Trump’s legal troubles have hampered him in the GOP primary. In fact, they’ve seemed to only help him, as he’s argued he’s a victim despite the 91 counts against him. This past week, he even won the endorsement of Florida Sen. Rick Scott, yet another backer Trump has picked off from DeSantis’ home state.
-- Jeongyoon Han, NPR Politics editorial assistant
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