Jonathan Chavez
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@jschavez
Chief Research Officer, Gydence Group. Taking care of Srs Bzns. Gouverneur Morris Stan. Purveyor of bespoke hot takes.
NEW: Kamala Harris passed on her top choice for a running mate—Pete Buttigieg—because it would've been “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man, she writes in her book, @JonLemire reports:
Can’t get over this Amtrak ad from 1996. We used to be a proper country
The ranked-choice tabulation is out. Zohran Mamdani 56% Andrew Cuomo 44% On the third ballot.
The big question heading into the NYC race was what % of the electorate would be 18-44. @rudnicknoah had looked into this Manhattan Institute had it ~ 24% Marist had it ~ 30% Emerson had it ~ 35% The actual result was 18-44 year olds were 48-49% of the electorate 🚨
John Della Volpe (@dellavolpe), IOP's Director of Polling, breaks down several key findings in the 50th Edition of the Harvard Youth Poll, touching on young Americans' financial hardship & shifting traditional life goals. Read more: ken.sc/s25-poll msnbc.com/morning-joe/wa…
CNN Poll: Democratic Party’s favorability drops to a record low | CNN Politics cnn.com/2025/03/16/pol…
Getting Simpson on the phone for a 2-minute quote always turned into the best, funniest 45 minutes of my day...
The implicit bargain of Trump for swing voters is that he'll run a good economy and then do a bunch of culture war stuff you can take or leave, but the libs will freak out about. If the economy is tanking for reasons that are largely his fault, that case is much less persuasive.
Introducing our new Liberal Leader, Mark Carney!
Trump, per the NYT, has a novel solution to a lot of these debates over staff reductions: Keep the smart folks, get rid of the dummies
I’m proud to represent Wyandotte in the Michigan Senate. It’s a blue-collar town that has voted for Trump and for me, a Democrat. More Democrats should be paying attention to places like Downriver if we want to win nationwide. Thank you @SenatorSlotkin for highlighting us.
Look, the core of what Trump is doing is more popular than your average Acela-corridor observer wants to believe, but the pro-Tates, pro-tariff-on-Canada-even-if-it-tanks-my-401k, cool-with-Russian-tanks-rolling-through-Kiev, anti-seed-oil voter is less common than MAGA thinks.
President Trump’s deportation policy finds majority approval overall - just as most voters said they wanted during the campaign - and that extends to sending troops to the border, too. tinyurl.com/msx8sjjb
Bring back the Pledge of Allegiance & the national anthem in the classroom - daily.
