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'It's a turn-off': Polling expert warns GOP is facing a 'serious divide' tearing the party apart

According to the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, the Republican party is facing a crisis within its ranks because they are turning off young conservatives by ignoring what they say concerns them the most about the future.

Speaking with the hosts on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," John Della Volpe built upon a Substack post he wrote titled, "How MAGA Republicans are eating their young and jeopardizing their party's chances in 2024 and beyond."

As he noted, what should worry the GOP is that younger Republican Party members don't consider themselves wedded to the party and could easily peel off, which would cripple Republican Party growth hopes.

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More concerning, he added, is that the coming 2024 election may see the exodus already in effect.

As he told the hosts, "You know, when I look back at this data, I was -- I think many of us were preconditioned to think all the divides are within the Democratic Party. In fact, I think the divides among the Republican Party are far more precarious right now, significant divides."

"When I looked by generation, when you compare Gen Z and Millennial -- a significant part of the Republican Party, all voters under 42 or so -- compare those with older voters we see, to start with, that 54 percent of younger Republicans don't consider themselves to be strong Republicans."

"Number one, only 28 percent are comfortable calling themselves straight conservatives," he continued. "There is just a less connection to the party and to the ideology, number one. I think when you boil it all down, you know, younger Republicans are trying to say to their parents and grandparents, let's focus not just on owning the libs, but let's focus on an economy that helps me live my best life. Let's focus on a community where I can feel safe walking into a student dormitory, auditorium or laboratory. Let's focus, as you said at the outset, on solutions for climate change rather than denying it."

"I think the early stage of this campaign, what they've been hearing, it is a turn-off," he stated.

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Trump's Save America PAC is 'almost broke' as he blows millions on legal fees: report

Former President Donald Trump's Save America PAC is critically low on funds — at the exact moment it stares down the prospect of paying millions more for legal fees for associates of the former president in the Georgia election racketeering case, reported USA Today Thursday.

The PAC "has spent nearly all of the more than $150 million it raised and is sitting on less than $4 million" — and Trump "has already dug into his fund for 2024 ads and borrowed money to post bail in Georgia," as some of his co-defendants beg for donations and claim he is not helping them as they assumed he would.

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Trump risks Iowa loss as evangelicals seek candidate without 'so much baggage': columnist

Donald Trump hasn’t yet closed the deal with Iowa evangelicals, and that could be a problem for the former president in the Hawkeye State, columnist Henry Olsen writes for The Washington Post.

Iowa has a history of catapulting candidates with strong evangelical credentials including Republicans Pat Buchanan in 1996, Pat Robertson in 1988 and Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976.

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Ron DeSantis' 'Never Back Down' PAC backs down in Nevada

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' super PAC, called "Never Back Down," has given up in Nevada which will hold its primary on Feb. 8, 2024, reported NBC News.

DeSantis, who launched his presidential campaign at the end of May, had door-knocking operations being paid for by the PAC in Nevada, North Carolina, California and Texas. All of those efforts have ceased operation, officials confirmed Wednesday.

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'Trump is ineligible': Top election officials urged to bar former president from ballot

Two pro-democracy groups that have long argued that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars former President Donald Trump from running for election wrote to officials in five states, calling on them to keep the Republican's name off ballots in 2024 despite his decision to campaign amid his numerous legal battles.

Free Speech for People (FSFP) and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) told New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan, New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, and members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission that by inciting the January 6, 2021 insurrection, Trump violated Section 3, also known as the insurrectionist disqualification clause.

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It's an 'open question' if Trump can be barred from running in AZ: elections chief

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has reportedly acknowledged that under state law, former President Donald Trump cannot be removed from the ballot simply on the basis of being involved in insurrection.

However, that may not be the whole story, he said on The Gaggle, the political podcast of The Arizona Republic.

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's seat gets another new challenger: report

Blake Masters may have failed in his 2022 campaign effort for the U.S. Senate, but he's trying again, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with his plans.

The seat is currently held by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), who switched parties after it became clear she couldn't win a Democratic primary.

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Feds warn Trump about excessive campaign donations — again

From donations of nine cents to $3,300, the Federal Election Commission has again flagged hundreds of apparently excessive contributions from MAGA nation to former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

In a letter sent Monday, the FEC flagged 27 donors with excessive contributions to the Donald J. Trump For President 2024 Inc. campaign committee in a letter sent on Monday, It asked the campaign to reply by October 2.

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Trump overstated net worth by $2.2 billion in one year: NY attorney general

New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused former President Donald Trump of routinely overstating his net worth.

ABC News first reported on James' motion for a summary judgment in a $250 million lawsuit against Trump and his family.

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Sarah Palin offers bizarre theory about how Democrats 'planned' GOP's Biden investigation

Failed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Wednesday accused Democrats of planning a Republican investigation into President Joe Biden and his family.

Palin discussed Biden's so-called "corruption" during an appearance on Newsmax.

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'How this game is played': Maggie Haberman highlights Ramaswamy's adoption of a key Trump tactic

Donald Trump's style of denying reality is being adopted by his young challenger Vivek Ramaswamy, writes New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and her co-authors.

Haberman, known informally as the "Trump whisperer," has covered the former president since long before his term in office. Among the observations she's documented is his willingness to lie – The Washington Post documented more than 30,000 lies over the course of four years.

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Trump likely to skip out on his own arraignment in Georgia: report

Donald Trump has attended the three arraignments he has faced so far, but he will likely be skipping out on the fourth one out of Georgia, according reports from CBS.

The outlet reports:

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This GOP 2024 candidate once sang praises of Soros family fellowship: report

Bulwark writer Joe Perticone revealed in his newsletter Tuesday that Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy once praised Paul Soros for his scholarship program for immigrant law students.

George Soros has become a huge target for anti-Semitists and Republicans for his ongoing funding of progressive causes.

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