Donald Trump issued a lengthy statement on Friday condemning the Biden administration over its handling of the border crisis, as a spiraling tsunami of people cross into the United States.
Friendly Fire: Julie & Mike on Cuomo, CPAC, and Climate
Updated Mar 06, 2021;
Posted Mar 06, 2021
Jersey political insiders: On the left, Julie Roginsky, a career Democratic strategist and TV commentator; on the right, Michael DuHaime, a Republican strategist and public affairs executive.
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, editorial page editor of The Star-Ledger.
Q. Let’s start with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the author of a recent book on leadership skills who is now fighting for his political life over sexual harassment charges and covering up deaths at nursing homes. Does he survive it?
Mike: Writing a book mid-pandemic response reeked of hubris. Don’t spike the football before you get to the end zone. Things look bleak, but he could survive, oddly because two crises are unfolding at once, each distracting from the other. He finally apologized, which is clearly not in his DNA. The only people calling for his resignation are the odd pairing of conservative Republicans and the most progressive
When Matt Gaetz Met Up With White Nationalists At CPAC Screenshoot from Telegram post/Daily Kos
Trumpist Republican politicians like Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz appear to be mimicking their role model s ability to send comforting signals out to white nationalists while managing to keep them at arm s length for the sake of plausible deniability. He showed how it s done this past weekend at the Conservative Political Action Committee s annual convention in Orlando.
A cluster of young white nationalists attending the simultaneous America First Political Action Committee convention organized by notorious Groyper Army leader Nicholas Fuentes invaded the CPAC gathering, where Fuentes has been banned, on Saturday. They managed to find Gaetz, who took photos with one of the group s leaders an outspoken neo-Nazi who uses the nom de plume Speckzo and briefly conversed with them, apparently acknowledging his familiarity with Fuentes.
Many political commentators on the left still don't get the phenomenon of Donald Trump. Trumpism is here to stay. Many thought the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill and Mr. Trump's second impeachment trial signalled the end of the man politically, but instead he has gotten much stronger in many polls.
As he darted down to Florida last week and skipped crucial House votes, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona neglected to tell GOP Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri the full story behind why he needed her to vote in his place.