“[Trump] would win right now because the Democrats have not succeeded in making this election a referendum on Trump,” longtime Republican and political strategist Rick Wilson told Cheddar on the eve of another sort of referendum — the president’s impeachment trial.
Wilson, who recently published a book “Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America From Trump — and Democrats From Themselves,” said voters “don’t care about a 600-page healthcare plan,” and need something like President Barack Obama’s campaign promise of “Hope” and “Change.”
He said he opposes Trump because Trump is not a conservative, an opinion he explicated in a New York Times article last month, along with three others who have worked for and supported Republicans, including White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway, the day before the president was impeached. The four men announced the “Lincoln Project,” which they explained will “highlight our country’s story and values, and its people’s sacrifices and obligations.”
Though Wilson said he is not “trying to pick the Democrat’s nominee” he thinks Joe Biden has the most viability “for all his flaws.”
As the Senate heads to trial this week, Wilson said the GOP remains allegiant to Trump because “they’re terrified of him.” “About a third of them are true believers,” he conjectures, while he said a third are “opportunists, hustlers, guys who are trying to build their email lists and become Fox News stars” and the final third “just live in absolute fear of [Trump’s] Twitter feed.”
Former President Donald Trump answered questions for nearly seven hours Thursday during his second deposition in a legal battle with New York's attorney general over his company's business practices, reversing an earlier decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and remain silent.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a bill approved by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
A federal appeals court has ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone can still be used for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be taken and said it could not be dispensed by mail.
The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission voted to reinstate him Wednesday.
Some abortion clinics are fielding lots of calls from patients since a court ruling last Friday threatened the availability of a main drug used in medication abortion, mifepristone.
The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday that outlined two ways that seven Western states and tribes reliant on the over-tapped Colorado River could cut their use, but declined to publicly take a side on the best option.
