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NDN News: A Disgraced Party, ACA/COVID Relief Take Center Stage, “High Crimes” Tuesday

A Disgraced President, A Disgraced Party– Yesterday, Senator Lindsay Graham said:” (Trump’s) excited about 2022. And I'm going to go down to talk with him next week, play a little golf in Florida. And I said Mr. President this MAGA movement needs to continue.”

Over the past year the GOP has had repeated opportunities to take the off ramp from Trumpism and radicalization, and have repeatedly, tragically, chosen to stick with radicalism and MAGA.  So a movement which violently attacked the Congress, tried to hunt down Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi, injured more than 140 police officers “needs to continue” – and it will, apparently, continue with a muscular embrace from the national party leadership.   

Not only has MAGA/GOP refused to make it clear that they condemn political violence and accept the results of the 2020 election, but new polling shows the public really rising up against what Trump’s party is doing now. The CIVIQS trackof Party favs/unfavs has seen the GOP plummet from 35/55 right after the election to 23/65 (-42!) today – a dramatic 20 point drop.  Biden on the other hand sits at 55/38 (+17) in the 538 job approval tracker, with some polls having him at 60 in the past week.  

A new ABC News/IPSOSpoll has the public favoring Trump’s conviction by 58-41 (+17!) – in Ipsos’s polling neither Clinton’s nor Trump’s First Impeachment reached 50% approval.  So this is a big number, as is the final vote to convict Trump, 57 to 43.  57 Senators voted to convict the former President for insurrection – an extraordinary moment in the history of the American Presidency for all of us to consider on this President’s Day. 

2 Events This Week, Video of Rep. Scott Peters Up Now– Tomorrow NDN talkswith NBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner about Impeachment and Presidential accountability.  On Friday we host our regular showingof With Democrats Things Get Better. ICYMI – visit hereto catch our recent discussions with Rep.Scott Peters, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Rep. Ruben Gallego.   

Health Care/Public Health Takes Center Stage– With ACA open enrollment starting todayand real measurable progress on COVID vaccine and infection rates, we are entering a period of extended discussion about the importance of “public health.”  It’s long been our recommendationfor elected officials to use these kinds of periods to aggressively champion the ways the government and its private sector partners are taking steps to make people healthier and their lives better. It is an opportunity to redefine “public health” for a post COVID world – something that is long overdue in America.  More on this concept in the coming weeks.  

The Growing Importance of the Southwest to Democrats – In 2004 Republicans held 6 of 8 Senate seats in AZ/CO/NM/NV and won all the region’s Electoral College votes.  With important wins in AZ and CO this last election, Democrats now hold all 8 of the region’s Senate seats and have claimed all of its 31 Electoral College votes.  

The modern Democratic coalition is much more Western than in the past, something you can now see now in its leadership – a VP and Speaker, HHS Secretary, DGA/DSCC/DCCC Chairs.  4 of the 6 Senate seats won by Democrats in the last 2 elections have come from AZ/CO/NV.  See our new analysis for just how important the heavily Mexican-American parts of the US have become to the national Democratic Party.  It includes a link to our recent interview with Rep. Ruben Gallego, one of the architects of the political transformation we’ve seen in Arizona.  

Sincerely, 

Simon, Georgia and the rest of the NDN team

 


 

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