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Nashville Rep. Justin Jones (D) scolded his Republican colleagues on Thursday as they pushed through demonstrators protesting the recent shooting at the Covenant Christian school.
Video shared on social media showed hundreds of protesters gathering at the state Capitol.
"Protect our kids!" protesters chanted.
At one point, lawmakers could be seen pushing through the protesters to enter the House chamber.
Jones held a sign reading, "Protect kids, not guns." He yelled "shame" and pointed at each lawmaker.
Tennessee Lookout correspondent Adam Friedman observed an argument between Jones and House Majority Leader William Lamberth (R).
"Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, and House Majority Leader William Lamberth, R-Portland, got into an argument before the House floor session. I walked in as Jones was yelling, 'do something.' I could not make what Lamberth said, but he looked visibly frustrated and was yelling," Friedman wrote on Twitter.
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Biden Beats Trump – But Barely – in Latest Poll.
A new Quinnipiac poll is offering damning news to Donald Trump: The majority of Americans think he should not even be allowed to run for president if criminal charges are filed against him.
That majority, 57%, includes nearly nine in ten Democrats (88%), more than half (55%) of independents, and even close to one-quarter (23%) of Republicans.
"Yes, say Americans, it was all about him and not the country's well-being when Trump proclaimed he was targeted for arrest," says Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy. "And, yes he should be forever banished from office if he is charged as a criminal."
The poll serves up even more bad news for the ex-president. Despite the right's attempts to paint Trump's alleged hush money payoff as a mere bookkeeping issue, or Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against him, as one GOP lawmaker said recently, "wrongful persecution," the majority of Americans – 55% – say the accusations against Trump are "serious."
Conservatives' attempts to paint the investigation as political, however, appear to be working, at least among Republicans and independents.
More than nine out of ten Republicans (93%) and 70% of independents say they believe the investigation is motivated by politics, while two-thirds of Democrats (66%) say it is motived by the law.
Still more troubling news for the Trump team.
Exposing the growing partisan divide across the country, the majority of Americans, nearly six in ten (58%) say Trump has had a mainly negative impact on the Republican Party.
But inside the GOP, the view is far different.
The vast majority of Republicans (72%) say Trump has had a positive impact. Just 21% say he has had a negative impact. (The poll does not appear to take into account former Republicans who left the GOP because of Trump.)
Echoing the "positive impact" they believe Trump has had on their party, 79% of registered Republicans say they are supporters of his MAGA movement. The poll does not appear to define "support," nor the various "levels" of support some Republicans now express, including "ultra MAGA."
Meanwhile, when offered a choice between Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, or 11 other Republican candidates or potential candidates, Trump gets a plurality of voters: 47%. DeSantis gets one-third, 33%. Pence gets just 5%, and Haley – who has already officially declared she is running – gets even less, at 4%.
There's little change when GOP voters are asked who they would choose in a head-to-head matchup between Trump and DeSantis. Trump gets 52%, DeSantis 42%.
And even more bad news for Team Trump: In a head-to-head matchup among registered voters, President Joe Biden would beat Donald Trump, although by a slim margin: 48% to 46%.
There is one piece of good news for the DeSantis campaign, which technically does not exist yet. DeSantis would beat Biden, also by a slim margin: 48% to 46%.
But some believe DeSantis will not run, especially given his poor campaign pre-launch. Others, like top Trump critic and former Republican George Conway, say DeSantis shouldn't even bother.
"It makes no sense for DeSantis to run this cycle," Conway said Thursday morning, unrelated to the Quinnipiac poll. "To beat Trump, DeSantis would have to go hammer and tong in a one-on-one race against him. DeSantis isn't capable of that, it isn't going to be one-on-one, and even if he were and it was, DeSantis would end up alienating a good chunk of the GOP base. And no matter what, Trump would try to destroy the GOP if it ever became clear he wouldn't get the nomination. Trump would run as a third-party candidate to take the GOP nominee down. The smart play for DeSantis is to fleece donors by pretending to run, and pocket the cash for 2028, when he'll still be only 49."
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Although she bolted the Democratic Party last December, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) is still prominently featured on the key website her former party uses for fundraising and there are no firm plans to boot her anytime soon.
According to a report from Politico, Sinema can still be found on ActBlue which has raised questions over why she is still on the platform raising funds when she could be planning to run for re-election as a third-party candidate.
According to Politico's Jessica Parker, ActBlue "...is the most important fundraising portal in all of politics," before adding, "Sinema’s continued presence on the platforms shows the limits of her disdain for the Democratic Party: She might dislike sitting next to the party’s senators during lunch, but she’s still willing to take money from its small-dollar donors."
Pressed to explain the renegade senator's continuing presence, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones, refused to take a stance, first telling Politico, "At the end of the day, ActBlue is an incredibly important technology platform inside an incredibly formidable big tent,” before adding, "It would be inappropriate in any way for us to be first movers bearing who is on the platform versus not. And we do have partners inside that tent that we will be taking cues from. So I do not imagine that we will be making that kind of a statement, and I do know that we’re in deep communications with others who have decision-making authority.”
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The report adds that Sinema just last month started using Anedot, which welcomes both Republicans and independent candidates.
According to Politico's Parker, Sinema isn't raking in money on ActBlue, raising only "a bit shy of $25,000" since she left the Democratic party after having previously having raked in $11.7 million for her 2018 campaign.
You can read more here.
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