1/8/2024 0 Comments Incoming senate amy wall![]() “We’re even going to have a window,” New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a former governor and foreign policy specialist, was quoted as enthusing. The great potty controversy received news coverage in both the Washington Post and the New York Times, where the female senators were reduced to raving perkily about their new facilities. Two additional stalls, an extra sink and more storage space were added in the fall of 2013, after several female senators raised the issue publicly. By 2013, with 20 women in the Senate, restroom traffic jams were commonplace, forcing some of the female senators to traipse to a first-floor restroom far from the chamber. The restroom closest to the Senate floor that was set aside for women senators had only two stalls. The question is, can he overcome, I think, the bad taste that former President Trump has intentionally put in voters' minds about him? But they were also very happy with his debate last night.The pool wasn’t the only Senate facility apparently stuck in the Dark Ages. Now, you could argue, did he try too hard? Was he kind of pushing back too much, causing problems on stage? He wanted to look authoritative, and he did. And, until now, he's been kind of an afterthought. He really should be a dominant character. He was someone that, really, he's - he has the most debate experience, the most White House experience of anyone on that stage. I will also say the other camp that was very happy last night, Mike Pence. And so I - the voters I have been talking to, I didn't hear the kinds of things that got her into that first-place spot. However, I do think that what she presented last night was something very appealing in a November election. Yes, there was no one happier in the spin room than the Haley supporters. So the second-place question, I think we will see when polling comes out whether DeSantis is still there, but it's really a question of how much they need to make up to get close to Donald Trump. If you were trying to get voters who are on the fence about Donald Trump or may be looking around, if a conviction isn't enough to get those people to say, I won't support him, why should I as a voter think that is happening? Why should I as a voter think that is disqualifying?Īnd then, as we said, finally, we came out of this with, I think, three candidates who did either reasonably well or did get good attention, Ramaswamy, Haley and DeSantis, but not one of them has been able to put together that never-Trump and sometimes-Trump coalition. The other thing, as Lisa pointed out in her piece, every single person raised their hand except for two when asked if they would support Donald Trump if he were convicted. I - what I saw last night was good news for Donald Trump, in that, one, Ron DeSantis did well enough, I think you're right, that he is still in the mix, but he got overshadowed by Ramaswamy.Īnd, remember, Ramaswamy is the candidate who's most aligned with Donald Trump, who will defend Donald Trump constantly, again, splitting up that vote with him. Those folks aren't going anywhere, another 20 percent who will never vote for Trump, and then whatever we have left here, somewhere around 50 percent, sitting in there who are saying, I like Trump.Īnd, right now, they're probably telling pollsters that they're voting for Trump, but they're open to other options. I think this race from the very beginning until now has kind of boiled down to these three key groups of Republican voters, about 30, 35 percent who will stay with Trump, no matter what. Well, and that's the challenge right there, that they have multiple non-Trump candidates to choose from. And these early states are going to matter. In Iowa, no one has a better organization at this point. ![]() One thing they have a lot of confidence in is their ground game. ![]() They do know that he still probably is the number two, but they're not sure what he's going where he's going to be in two weeks, three weeks. I think they were ready to be attacked and weren't attacked, and now they're figuring out what it means. I think what happened was a surprise to many in the DeSantis camp. However, that does conflict with the third thing that DeSantis supporters told me, which is, no one's been attacked more before this debate.Īnd that's just a sign that he still is the guy in the center. He has the best record, in fact, I was told by Chip Roy of Texas, of any governor in the country. ![]() They said the reason he wasn't attacked is because he has an incredible record. There's a different argument too that they made, though. One, some of them made the argument that he was the adult in the room. So, when you talk to DeSantis supporters and some in his campaign and super PAC, they told me three different things. This was the topic of a lot of my questions after the debate as well to my sources. ![]()
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