Republican primary candidate Curtis Sliwa, who is running in the upcoming 2021 New York City mayoral election, discussed a variety of topics including public safety, hate crimes, his plans to “refund” police, and why he would make a successful mayor.
The intensive care unit at a Michigan hospital in the county that swung the state for Donald Trump in 2016 is now at full capacity with coronavirus patients.
The 2018 midterm results show that if the GOP wants to be a full-spectrum longterm majority party, it must unite its disaffected suburban liberal voters with its new Trumpian working class voters, just as Reagan once did.
Henry Olsen, author of “The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism,” challenged popular conceptions of Ronald Reagan, during a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.
Macomb County, Michigan, was home to the famous “Reagan Democrats” who overwhelmingly gave their votes to Trump in 2016. A new report offers insights into the motivations of these working class swing voters that the Trump White House should heed.
Stanley Greenberg, former President Bill Clinton’s top pollster, recently went to Macomb County, Michigan—where Trump defeated Clinton by 12 percentage points—to interview white working-class voters who supported President Barack Obama before voting for Trump in 2016. These “Reagan Democrats” represent the heart and soul of Trump’s coalition, and what stood out was how much voters there hated Ryan and McConnell and worried that Trump would align with establishment Republicans.
That midwestern success is what gives Trump a one-third chance of winning the election, Nate Silver says. “Clinton underperforming Obama’s 2012 forecast by *4 points* in the Midwest. That’s a major liability,” he tweeted.
The old lions of the conservative movement—leaders with direct ties to the 1960 signing of the Sharon Statement by 90 members of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at William F. Buckley’s residence—are uniting around the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz with passionate endorsements of his candidacy.
Late Show host Stephen Colbert quieted the audience during Monday night’s episode while conducting an interview with Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz.
