The Democratic Party took a virtual beating on Monday over what was supposed to be a slam-dunk zinger at President Donald Trump&#8217;s expense: a post claiming that persistently pricey eggs had driven desperate American families to dye potatoes for Easter instead.
The post, shared by @thedemocrats on X, took aim at Trump&#8217;s administration for going ahead with the annual Easter Egg Roll – and allegedly racking up a considerable bill for the thousands of eggs used there — while the people were left to contend with their leftover painted spuds and disappointment.
&#8220;Trump’s White House is using 30,000 real eggs worth over $15,500 for their Easter Egg Roll. Meanwhile, Americans dyed potatoes instead of eggs this Easter to save money,&#8221; the post read.
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Trump’s White House is using 30,000 real eggs worth over $15,500 for their Easter Egg Roll.
Meanwhile, Americans dyed potatoes instead of eggs this Easter to save money.
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But as several critics quickly pointed out, the White House did not actually spend any money at all on the eggs used for the annual event — they were donated.
&#8220;I don’t know a single American dyeing potatoes. But I do know that the farmers who donated the eggs said they were not the sizes sold to grocery stores. Not a single egg was stolen off the table of an American family,&#8221; MRCTV managing Editor Brittany Hughes posted.
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I don’t know a single American dyeing potatoes. But I do know that the farmers who donated the eggs said they were not the sizes sold to grocery stores.
Not a single egg was stolen off the table of an American family. <a href="https://t.co/AOPiLEd3IU">https://t.co/AOPiLEd3IU</a>
&mdash; Brittany Hughes (@RealBrittHughes) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealBrittHughes/status/1914721343301431402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Umm who dyed potatoes?&#8221; Robby Starbuck said, and while he also stated that the eggs were donated, he noted that the Biden administration had blown through more than twice the number of eggs at the last Easter Egg Roll in 2024. &#8220;Also, Biden’s Admin had 64,000 eggs at the 2024 Easter Egg roll. In both cases the eggs were donated. Stop treating people like they’re stupid, it’s just insulting.&#8221;
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Umm who dyed potatoes? Also, Biden’s Admin had 64,000 eggs at the 2024 Easter Egg roll. In both cases the eggs were donated. Stop treating people like they’re stupid, it’s just insulting. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/GxvucUbZzO">https://t.co/GxvucUbZzO</a>
&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1914692586586898902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Show me a single person who dyed a potato for Easter,&#8221; Riley Gaines threw down the challenge.
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Show me a single person who dyed a potato for Easter <a href="https://t.co/uJ5996Bu0B">https://t.co/uJ5996Bu0B</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1914714791429509249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Several people suggested that the Democrats were taking a risk in assuming that those potatoes did not identify as eggs, while others noted that on a strict one-to-one basis, potatoes might actually cost more than eggs.
&#8220;So a man can become a woman but a potato can’t be an egg? You sound like a bigot,&#8221; one said.
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So a man can become a woman but a potato can’t be an egg? You sound like a bigot.
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&#8220;I’m increasingly certain Republicans have successfully placed one or more moles in the Dem communications apparatus,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/BlackJackPartII/status/1914330331471364497" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another said</a>.
So where did the Democrats&#8217; outlandish claim come from? Apparently from a throwaway article published by The New York Times that was loosely based on a social media video that gave step-by-step instructions on how to dye egg alternatives.
&#8220;The @NYTimes had an absurd headline claiming Americans are dyeing potatoes due to the price of eggs this year, but the only mention of potatoes in the article was a reference to video instructions for eggs dyeing alternatives that were starting to circulate on social media,&#8221; one post read.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> had an absurd headline claiming Americans are dyeing potatoes due to the price of eggs this year, but the only mention of potatoes in the article was a reference to video instructions for eggs dyeing alternatives that were starting to circulate on social media. <a href="https://t.co/dboazH7QaS">https://t.co/dboazH7QaS</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ff1cvWlC5e">pic.twitter.com/Ff1cvWlC5e</a>
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The &#8220;let&#8217;s dye potatoes instead&#8221; trend actually started two years earlier, when egg prices hit record highs (an average of $4.82 per dozen) in 2022-2023. On April 2, 2023, Axios published an <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/04/02/easter-2023-eggs-potato-prices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled, &#8220;Potatoes sprout as cheaper Easter egg substitute.&#8221;

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Pope Francis passes away just one day after delivering an Easter message to millions of Christian faithful. It will be days before the church picks a new pontiff, but some favorites have already emerged. And, with Republicans in control of D.C., Democrats are searching for a strategy and a leader to pull them out of the political abyss.
It’s Tuesday, April 22, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2>Pope Francis’ Legacy</h2>
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Topline: Pope Francis, the 266th head of the Catholic Church, died Monday at the age of 88. His death marks the end of a transformative and, at times, polarizing papacy.
Pope Francis will likely be remembered as a progressive reformer. In 2013, shortly after he was elected, he made his famously controversial statement about gay priests, “Who am I to judge?” His 2015 encyclical called for environmental action, and he continually urged world leaders to address climate change. During his last Easter address on Sunday, after meeting with Vice President JD Vance, he warned against politicians stirring up “anti-migrant” sentiments.
But his papacy wasn’t as transformative as many theological progressives would have liked. Francis did endorse civil unions for same-sex couples, which was a historic move for a pope, and approved a document saying priests could “bless” gay couples. But he also upheld the Church’s stance that marriage is between a man and a woman. He also refused to approve the use of contraception and ordaining women, and was staunchly pro-life.
Francis took steps to curb the influence of conservative prelates who viewed his reforms as a threat to Church tradition. In 2014, he removed conservative cardinals like Raymond Burke, a vocal critic, from a key Vatican post. He also appointed more moderate or progressive bishops to various roles of authority and elevated like-minded clerics to the College of Cardinals. Because of this, critics accused him of stacking the deck and stifling dissent.
“He was really progressive,” Robert Sirico, former president of the conservative Acton Institute, told Morning Wire. “People call him a Marxist. They don&#8217;t think he was a Marxist. He certainly wasn&#8217;t a free market kind of guy, the way John Paul was. But on the other hand, I think he profoundly misunderstood the United States on a very visceral level, and I think that is owing to his Argentinian background.”
Despite possibly being the most progressive pope in history, Francis’ tenure saw a resurgence of conservative Catholicism, especially among young believers. Last year, we reported on the surge in Catholic conversions among young people in New York City. However, there is also evidence that this trend is happening in Europe. According to the Bishops’ Conference of France, more than 10,000 adults were baptized into the Roman Catholic Church on Easter Sunday – mostly young adults between the ages of 18 and 25. Something similar is happening in England, where surveys now show that Catholics outnumber Anglicans by more than two to one among Gen Z and younger millennials. These younger people, particularly young men, are <a href="https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/honorable-mention/2024/americas-catholic-church-seeing-shift-toward-more-conservative-ways/">being especially drawn</a> to more conservative expressions of faith.
<h2>The Next Pope</h2>
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Topline: Speculation is already swirling about who will become the next head of the Catholic Church.
When a pope dies, eligible cardinals convene a papal conclave, where they cast ballots for the next pope. Famously, white smoke appears from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney when a new pope is elected, and a cardinal comes out to announce the new pope to cheering crowds in St. Peter’s Square. Usually, one of the cardinals is elected the next pope, and the big question on many Catholics’ minds is whether the new pope will lean conservative or progressive on controversial issues.
One of the more conservative candidates being discussed as a possible successor is Cardinal Robert Sarah, 79, an African cardinal from Guinea who has been an outspoken critic of Francis.
“The Church is not a social organization to meet [the] problem of migration or poverty,” Sarah <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG0YSN7LeAM">said</a>, in response to Pope Francis’s stance on immigration policy. “The Church is a divine purpose to save the world.”
Sarah was critical of Francis’ restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass and his statement on blessings for same-sex couples.
Cardinal Wim Eijk, 71, is also considered a conservative potential successor. Eijk is a former medical doctor from the Netherlands – and he’s been a sharp critic of Francis. He is one of the authors of a 2015 document opposing the pope’s approval of civil remarriages among people who have not received an annulment, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/world-news/who-are-the-frontrunners-to-be-elected-next-pontiff-after-pope-francis/">calling</a> them “a form of structured and institutionalized adultery.” Eijk also <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/cardinal-eijk-pope-francis-needed-to-give-clarity-on-intercommunion">criticized</a> Francis for giving what he called a “completely incomprehensible” response to a German Bishops’ Conference proposal on allowing Protestants to receive the Eucharist.
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, 77, is another conservative from Sri Lanka. He criticized bishops who did not obey Pope Benedict on allowing the Latin Mass.
Cardinal Raymond Burke, 76, is one of the few potential successors from the United States. Burke has criticized the Church’s more liberal language under Francis, and he said that Catholic politicians who support legal abortion, like former President Joe Biden, should not receive the Eucharist.
A number of more progressive and politically moderate candidates are also likely to take the reins of the Church.
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, 67, who’s been <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151124125431/http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/01/15/manila-cardinal-luis-tagle-the-asian-pope-francis/">called</a> the “Asian Pope Francis” and would likely continue Francis’ more left-leaning stances. Tagle has defended the Church’s teachings on abortion and contraception, but he has also criticized the Church for using “harsh words” for LGBT people and divorced and remarried Catholics.
Another more progressive cardinal in the running is the French Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, 66, who was reportedly Francis’ “favorite” to succeed him and is well-liked in left-wing circles.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, 70, is an Italian cardinal who has been in the Holy See’s diplomatic service since the 1980s, is considered a political moderate and has played a role in many political issues, including moderating 2014 talks between Cuban and American officials, asking the United States to find an “adequate humanitarian solution” for Guantanamo Bay prisoners, and urging countries to implement the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
<h2>Democrats Tilt Left As They Search For A Standard Bearer</h2>
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Topline: As President Donald Trump approaches his 100th day in office, Democrats are still searching for a message — and messenger — to lead their party.
Since their defeat in November, there’s been little cause for confidence within the Democratic Party. For the optimists on the Left, Democrats did see strong turnout in special elections in a dozen or so states, where their candidates outperformed Kamala Harris by an average of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democratic-performance-improving-slew-special-elections-weary-party-lo-rcna198984">more than 10 percentage points</a>. Most notably, Democrats won a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dangerously-liberal-judge-projected-to-win-wisconsin-supreme-court-race">resounding victory</a> for a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin — a state Trump won by a point.
But: The bad news outweighs the good. First, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nn1HT9AZ2OPFuB1z2jKHM6OMrh-NONO0NIzOoHqjxk8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.35xntky3bxsv">Gallup</a> just found that the approval rating for Democrat leaders in Congress has fallen to just 25%. Not only is that the lowest mark in the poll&#8217;s history, it’s a full nine points lower than the previous record. That disapproval is crossing party lines – according to the latest numbers from CNN, only 63% of Democrats even view their own party favorably.
Polling shows that folks on the Left feel their leaders don’t have a clear strategy for standing up to Trump. A recent survey from Data for Progress asked Democrat voters how they would grade their party leaders’ response to Donald Trump &#8212; 7 in 10 gave a C, D, or F. If they had a singular leader to rally around, there might be more optimism, but there isn’t a clear standard bearer waiting in the wings for them to rally around. President Barack Obama can’t run again and is seemingly content to work primarily behind the scenes. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is 85 years old and could retire at any moment. President Joe Biden is 82 and still unpopular with the general public. Vice President Kamala Harris could come back into the fray, but she’s essentially been in hiding since November.
That void has left an opportunity for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — two of the Left’s most popular, and controversial lawmakers — to take center stage. A poll last week from Survey USA found that 50% of Democrats want the party to “become more progressive,” while just 18% said “more moderate.” AOC and Sanders&#8217; &#8220;Fighting Oligarchy&#8221; speaking tour has drawn massive crowds all across the country, including in deep-red states like Idaho and Utah. Instead of embracing a more moderate approach, they’ve gone all-in on calling for Democrats to embrace their far-Left base and oppose Trump at all costs.
“Donald Trump is a criminal who was found guilty of 34 counts of fraud,” AOC <a href="https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1911951880395055606">told</a> a cheering crowd in Idaho. “Of course he’s lying and abusing and manipulating the stock market, too. When he talks about rapists and criminals he should look in the mirror.”
Ocasio-Cortez raised nearly $10 million last quarter — by far her largest haul since taking office, and according to a recent YouGov poll, she’s got a +61 approval rating among Democrat voters. Polls now show that Ocasio-Cortez is a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. Plenty of Republicans are salivating at the idea of AOC becoming the party’s leader or nominee, given her endorsements of measures that are unpopular with the general public, including the Green New Deal, defunding the police, and abolishing ICE.
To that point, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom appears to be pushing his party to make a beeline for the middle, urging it to retreat from political correctness, oppose boys in girls&#8217; sports, and refrain from apocalyptic language about Donald Trump and his supporters. But right now, that message doesn’t seem to be gaining much traction with Democratic voters.

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Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen (MD) is playing defense after his photo-op with an illegal immigrant and alleged MS-13 gang member didn&#8217;t go as planned.
As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sipping-margaritas-dem-senator-finally-meets-deported-illegal-immigrant-in-el-salvador?author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=6&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Hotwire&amp;rowType=Four+Column+Grid&amp;title=‘Sipping+Margaritas’%3A+Dem+Senator+Finally+Meets+Deported+Illegal+Immigrant+In+El+Salvador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele mocked Van Hollen&#8217;s meeting with migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to an El Salvador prison by the Trump administration.
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ &amp; ‘torture’, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” Bukele said, adding a tropical drink emoji to the post.
Two of the photos, seen below, include glasses with what appears to be either salt or sugar on the rim with a cherry garnish.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” &amp; “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!🍹 <a href="https://t.co/r6VWc6Fjtn">pic.twitter.com/r6VWc6Fjtn</a>
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) <a href="https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1913028548001923259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Responding to the mockery, Van Hollen claims he didn&#8217;t sip &#8220;any margaritas or sugar water or whatever it is&#8221; when he met with Garcia, despite the glasses being put on the table. Notably, it was Van Hollen&#8217;s office that provided some photos of the meeting to the media.
&#8220;Let me just be very clear, neither of us touched the drinks that were in front of us,&#8221; the Democrat said, according to Fox News. &#8220;And if you want to play a little Sherlock Holmes, I’ll tell you how you can know that. … If you sip out of one of those glasses, some of whatever it was — salt or sugar — would disappear. You would see a gap. There’s no gap.&#8221;
&#8220;Nobody drank any margaritas or sugar water or whatever it is,&#8221; he emphasized.
Van Hollen then turned his attention to Bukele and President Donald Trump, seemingly blaming them for the spoiled photo-op.
&#8220;This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will do to deceive people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it also shows the lengths that the Trump administration and the president will go to, because when he was asked by a reporter about this, he just went along for the ride.&#8221;
Trump reacted Friday on X to Democrats and their allies in the media defending Garcia, who has a history of allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deported-illegal-immigrant-who-dems-have-championed-accused-of-beating-wife-court-docs?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Deported+Illegal+Immigrant+Who+Dems+Have+Championed+Accused+Of+Beating+Wife%3A+Court+Docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beating his wife</a> in addition to alleged MS-13 ties.
&#8220;This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such ‘a fine and innocent person,'&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!&#8221;
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This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such “a fine and innocent person.” They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two Highly Respected Courts found… <a href="https://t.co/31sNr2k1SK">pic.twitter.com/31sNr2k1SK</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1913358867708493982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
The White House also chimed in, telling Sen. Van Hollen that Garcia is &#8220;NOT coming back&#8221; to the United States.
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Fixed it for you, <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYTimes</a>.
Oh, and by the way, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisVanHollen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisVanHollen</a> — he’s NOT coming back. <a href="https://t.co/VoAphh2ZPY">pic.twitter.com/VoAphh2ZPY</a>
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1913241658579440126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville ripped into newly-elected Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg, referring to the younger activist as a &#8220;contemptible little twerp&#8221; and even advising the DNC to sue him.
Carville, who made an appearance on NewsNation on Wednesday, told anchor Chris Cuomo that his particular complaint was Hogg&#8217;s recent announcement regarding plans to direct millions of dollars toward primaries against incumbent Democrats.
Hogg, who also serves as president of an organization called Leaders We Deserve, said that the group planned to funnel some $20 million into challenging incumbent Democrats — and Carville took issue with Hogg for what he said looked as though he was putting more effort into attacking his own party than helping expand it into a broader coalition.
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In which James Carville calls DNC Vice Chair David Hogg &quot;a contemptible little twerp&quot; for reportedly supporting efforts to primary sitting Democrats
&quot;I don&#39;t know if I have standing, but I might give the DNC $10 to sue him. He&#39;s a contemptible little twerp if you ask me.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/D0TrZT59g0">pic.twitter.com/D0TrZT59g0</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1912663016262300063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Why doesn’t somebody sue David Hogg? He’s an officer of the Democratic National Committee. He is the vice chairman of the Democrat National Committee, and he’s running against other Democrats. I would like to know, and you went to law school, does he have a fiduciary duty to Democrats?&#8221; Carville asked.
&#8220;If I work for, if you work for NewsNation, you can’t promote CNN. That’s if you worked for somebody else,&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;You have a fiduciary duty to your employer, which anybody can understand. He’s being paid to run against other Democrats. I think it’s an outrage. I don’t know if I have standing, but I might give the DNC $10 and sue him. He is a contemptible little twerp, if you ask me.&#8221;
Carville also took aim at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over their tour protesting &#8220;oligarchy,&#8221; saying that they were cut from the same cloth as Hogg.
&#8220;Let me make a point about Bernie and AOC. Bernie’s run for president twice. He’s lost twice. AOC and her kind, and this guy, David Hogg, they want to run against other Democrats. They don’t run against Republicans,&#8221; Carville added. &#8220;When you beat a Republican, come back and see me, and I will be impressed!&#8221;

Sports Illustrated 2018 Sportsperson Of The Year Awards Show – Arrivals

The Honeymoon Is Over: Longtime Dem Strategist Trashes ‘Contemptible Little Twerp’ David Hogg

The Honeymoon Is Over: Longtime Dem Strategist Trashes 'Contemptible Little Twerp' David Hogg

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Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a six-part series by pollster Brent Buchanan on the politics of the American South. Last week, Buchanan — a Montgomery, Alabama native — laid out why the South holds the keys to political control in some surprising ways. This week, Buchanan&#8217;s back to explore the shifting priorities of minority voters in the South — and why Democrats shouldn&#8217;t take those voters for granted.
We hope you enjoy.
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It’s a myth — and a costly mistake — for political campaigns and the mainstream media to treat minority voting behavior as monolithic and permanently Democratic.
As we highlighted in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-rise-of-the-south-is-not-what-you-think-why-it-holds-the-keys-to-political-control" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first installment</a> of this six-part series, America’s political realignment is already underway. In the South, the Democratic Party’s long-held assumption that minority voters would forever anchor their coalition to decide national elections is unraveling. As we’ll break down, Hispanic and Black voters are increasingly prioritizing economic concerns over the new standard Democratic playbook of identity politics.
In this massive analysis of the American South, we examined not only the demographic variables, survey responses, and trends within education, income, gender, age, and partisanship, but infused some specific findings from our latest National Voter Trends (NVT) <a href="https://www.cygn.al/poll-democrats-continue-to-struggle-as-trump-maintains-strong-approval-even-in-light-of-tariffs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> to bring greater clarity about minority voters throughout the South.
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With sustained population increases and the anticipated addition of even more congressional seats, Republicans have new opportunities to attract minority voters if they’re willing to invest in sustained outreach. But just because Democrats are struggling to maintain control, their losses don&#8217;t mean Republicans will automatically benefit.
<h4>DATA NUGGET: While Republicans gained from a partisanship perspective from 2020 to 2024, some of this was a factor of turnout, with Republicans losing 3% from 2020 to 2024, versus Democrats falling 16% in the same time scale.</h4>
“As we said in part one, the South is a deeply complex region with vast overlays of cultural, religious, and political variables that transcend state lines,” said Nicholas Valdiviez, Cygnal’s Sampling Lead on this project. “How Southern minority voters think and feel is no different.”
<h3>The Soulful South</h3>
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This shift is most evident in two key regions we’ve dubbed the Soulful South and the Tex-Mex Nexus.
Starting with the Soulful South, black voters are challenging long-held assumptions about their political loyalties. This region of the South has the highest percentage of black Americans, and was the only region that has grown year-over-year for Republicans since 2012. That shows this shifting demographic is more than just a blip, rather, a consistent move to the right.
<h4>DATA NUGGET: Among Republican and right-leaning independent voters, The Daily Wire garnered 41 percent of voters who converted from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024 as their go-to news source. More <a href="https://www.cygn.al/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/22974-Cygnal-National-NVT-Apr25-Deck-Public-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</h4>
Spanning rural parishes and counties along ancient river networks and coastal lowlands, the Soulful South was politically split nearly 50-50 in 2012. By 2024, however, the Republican vote share surged to 58%, driven by declining Democratic turnout and growing disaffection among black voters.
“Partisanship shifted from near parity to a whopping 16-point Republican advantage in 2024,” said Valdiviez. “Top that off with dramatic plummets in Democratic turnout of over 27% in the last 12 years, and you see how this shift reflects a broader rejection of Democratic complacency, especially among working class black voters here.”
Though black voters here are migrating away from Democrats, their disaffection has a water’s edge. The Soulful South is also one of the regions we analyzed that has a positive view of the country&#8217;s direction, in part due to their disproportionate approval of Trump, which is five points higher in contrast to their general sentiments towards the Republican Party. Therein lies the rub for Republicans in a post-Trump era.
But even with Trump’s recent imposition and subsequent rollback of widespread tariffs, the same groups with a high blend of ethnicities or Democratic tendencies throughout our analysis, the Soulful South was one of the few where a majority (+9) either supported tariffs outright or trusted Trump on the issue.
Unlike their Rust Belt counterparts, for example — many of whom migrated north during two historic waves of the Great Migration (1910s–1970s) — black voters in the Soulful South remain deeply rooted in religion and legacy agrarian culture. These cultural differences forged a unique political identity, one increasingly aligned with conservative values and economic pragmatism.
<h3> The Tex-Mex Nexus</h3>
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In the Tex-Mex Nexus, we see a different story playing out — but one that still offers opportunities for Republicans.
These areas are concentrated mostly in Texas, with density in the Rio Grande Valley and along the northern portion of its border with Mexico. Also included are pockets around the Lone Star State’s biggest cities and university towns. This is an interesting region, in that urban areas and university-centric towns align so closely with large swaths of the border areas.
Voters in this region are less Hispanic and more Tejano. These individuals identify as Texans of Mexican descent and are shaped by the state&#8217;s unique history. Together, these factors contribute to a cultural identity distinct from the broader &#8220;Hispanic&#8221; label, which encompasses people from various Latin American backgrounds.
leading to a different cultural identity. It’s for this reason we haven’t seen the same huge shifts toward Trump that we saw in California Hispanics and Latinos nationwide in 2024. Though the Tex-Mex Nexus has been shifting leftward since 2012, the cultural identity which blends Southern and Tejano, has the highest percentage of registered Democratic voters (D-51, R-39). It saw the second-largest swing toward Republicans in 2024, moving nine points to the right, narrowing the Democratic advantage to only six points.
Though voters here still lean toward Democrats, the Tejano identity prioritizes economic pragmatism over progressive messaging and endless culture war breakouts — giving Republicans more runway in the future. Furthermore, 27% of this bloc is Catholic, and the Democratic Party’s habitual promotion of policies and values in direct opposition to Catholics fuels this departure.
The Tex-Mex Nexus once looked like a prime target for Democrats hoping to forge a path to victory in Texas. Now, it’s hard to see how Democrats have any opportunity here — if anything they’ll keep losing more.
A successful model of engaging and communicating with the Tex-Mex Nexus, like that of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, helps prove the normal election-cycle pandering from Democrats is an old song and dance. That’s why so many of the younger voters in these areas are less attached to the party of their grandparents and more willing to entertain conservative approaches to their key issues — job opportunities, economic stability, and lower costs of living.
Unpacking the intricacies of minority voters in the Soulful South and the Tex-Mex Nexus, combined with the analysis in this series, allows us to safely declare the end of the “demographics is destiny” era that Democrats claimed was their path to permanent majorities. It could now more easily be argued that demographics favor Republicans, with these two regions providing proof.
The South’s minority voters are rewriting the political playbook, proving that economic realities and cultural values increasingly outweigh traditional partisan loyalties. For Republicans, the opportunity to build a durable multiracial coalition is within reach — but only if they invest in meaningful, year-round engagement that addresses the issues voters care about most.
The Democratic Party, meanwhile, faces an uphill battle to rebuild trust and reverse the erosion of its once-reliable strongholds. The stakes couldn’t be higher as the South continues to grow in population, influence, and political importance.
COMING UP NEXT: In part three, we’ll drill down into the stagnant suburbs of the American South, where their inelasticity poses significant challenges to both Republicans and Democrats.

Mississippi Voters Head To The Polls

The End of Democratic Assumptions: How Minority Voters Are Reshaping Southern Politics

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Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made it clear on Friday that he was still willing to run cover for an obviously diminished former President Joe Biden — even after a slew of Biden&#8217;s former aides and media personalities have admitted just how compromised he was during his term in the White House.
Just off his record-setting filibuster stunt from earlier in the week, Booker made an appearance on Stephen A. Smith&#8217;s podcast, and he visibly balked when Smith asked what he would say to voters who were reluctant to trust the Democrats who covered up Biden&#8217;s obvious decline in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election.
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NJ Senator Cory Booker (D) goes on Stephen A. Smith&#39;s podcast and is asked why Dems continued to cover-up Biden&#39;s declining mental status.
Cory responds by continuing to cover-up Biden&#39;s declining mental status.
&quot;I don&#39;t even know why that&#39;s an issue &#8230; I don&#39;t know, man. I… <a href="https://t.co/qB6PEcs6rS">pic.twitter.com/qB6PEcs6rS</a>
&mdash; DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/devorydarkins/status/1908128396397437161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You brought up Joe Biden, and you talked about what legislation he obviously signed off on,&#8221; Smith began. &#8220;I ask this question: what about people that look at the Democratic Party right now and say, &#8216;You know this man was debilitating,&#8217; and you have the Republicans leaning on the fact that you hid that from the American people? And they think that that plays a role in things that are being held against you right now as a party. To that, you say what?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know why that&#8217;s an issue,&#8221; Booker shook his head. He went on to say that he had spoken to Biden on the phone earlier that same day and &#8220;he sounded very compos mentis, he got very argumentative — not argumentative with me, but very fired up when he was talking with me. I don&#8217;t know, man.&#8221;
Booker continued in that same vein, insisting over Smith&#8217;s objections, &#8220;I never saw it. And he would call — this man would literally call me up to discuss policy. I&#8217;ve met no — I&#8217;ve met no president like him!&#8221;
In recent weeks, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-who-ignored-signs-of-bidens-decline-releasing-book-on-the-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several books</a> have been announced that will detail Biden&#8217;s decline as seen by insiders — in some cases, authored by people who helped to cover up that decline while Biden was still in office and even seeking a second term.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)

The Gaslights Are On: Cory Booker Is Clearly Still Drinking The ‘Joe Biden Is Fine’ Kool-Aid

The Gaslights Are On: Cory Booker Is Clearly Still Drinking The 'Joe Biden Is Fine' Kool-Aid

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin announced a new initiative on Friday, promising that the Democratic Party had at last figured out a way to effectively counter the agenda being pushed by President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress.
Martin shared video via X saying that the DNC was convening what he referred to as &#8220;The People&#8217;s Cabinet&#8221; — and then proceeded to explain that rather than actually giving the people any say in who would be a part of that &#8220;cabinet,&#8221; the party would provide a group of &#8220;experts&#8221; and &#8220;leaders&#8221; who could then help people &#8220;fight back&#8221; against the Trump administration.
&#8220;We’re launching the People’s Cabinet—a group of leaders, experts, and everyday Americans who will cut through Trump’s lies and speak directly to the people. Stay tuned for more,&#8221; Martin captioned the video.
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We’re launching the People’s Cabinet—a group of leaders, experts, and everyday Americans who will cut through Trump’s lies and speak directly to the people.
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&mdash; Ken Martin (@kenmartin73) <a href="https://twitter.com/kenmartin73/status/1908153935430406418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Hey, it&#8217;s Ken Martin. I want to tell you about the People&#8217;s Cabinet that the DNC is launching today,&#8221; he began. &#8220;I have been traveling across the country nonstop since I started this job, and what I hear over and over is this — Americans want us to fight back against Trump&#8217;s lies and offer a better alternative.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump has stacked his cabinet with out-of-touch billionaires who are causing chaos and hurting working people,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we are launching the People&#8217;s Cabinet. It will be made up of experts, leaders, and everyday Americans who will share reliable and accurate information that you can use to fight back.&#8221;
&#8220;DNC Chair Ken Martin announced the creation of a &#8216;People&#8217;s Cabinet&#8217; filled with &#8216;experts&#8217; that will be used to &#8216;fight back&#8217; against Trump. Effectively a &#8216;shadow government.&#8217; These people are insane,&#8221; Libs of TikTok posted in response.
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DNC Chair Ken Martin announced the creation of a &quot;People&#39;s Cabinet&quot; filled with &quot;experts&quot; that will be used to &quot;fight back&quot; against Trump.
Effectively a “shadow government.”
These people are insane<a href="https://t.co/Yebt2xvIAh">pic.twitter.com/Yebt2xvIAh</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1908198852949397672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;DNC Chair Ken Martin just announced that Democrats are forming a shadow cabinet to oppose Trump, calling it the &#8216;People’s Cabinet.&#8217; &#8216;They will share ‘accurate and reliable’ information to help you fight back.&#8217; This isn’t democracy—it’s Democrats setting up a parallel government run by DNC operatives,&#8221; another observed.
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🚨 BREAKING: DNC Chair Ken Martin just announced that Democrats are forming a shadow cabinet to oppose Trump, calling it the “People’s Cabinet.”
“They will share ‘accurate and reliable’ information to help you fight back.”
This isn’t democracy—it’s Democrats setting up a… <a href="https://t.co/HPi6H17Q2K">pic.twitter.com/HPi6H17Q2K</a>
&mdash; I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) <a href="https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1908166698294706203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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DFL holds election night watch party in Minnesota

DNC Chair Launches Plan To ‘Fight Back’ Against Trump With Unelected ‘Experts’

DNC Chair Launches Plan To 'Fight Back' Against Trump With Unelected 'Experts'

In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-democrat-warplane-takes-flak-audacity-remains-intact">recent piece,</a> I analogized the Democrats&#8217; propaganda machine and the heart of their political strategy to an F-47 Stealth Fighter — one of the most expensive, sophisticated, and powerful weapons in existence. I would like to build on that comparison and clarify three big problems emerging with the Democrat warplane.
<h3>#1. Their stealth fighter has lost a lot of its stealth</h3>
Thanks to whistleblowers, the <a href="https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394">Twitter Files release</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-releases-new-facebook-files-highlights-how-biden-admin-sought-to-suppress-daily-wire-content">Facebook censorship documents</a>, a few brave reporters, and the DOGE exposure of the USAID fraud, the most surreptitious and underhanded features of the Democrat war machine have now been revealed to the American public. Their use of taxpayer money and government agency clout to simultaneously fund and/or threaten respective media platforms and individuals regarding their positions and messaging became apparent. The public now clearly sees exactly how pseudo support has been astroturfed by the Left for their causes and candidates — and competing voices extinguished.
In his recent essay &#8220;<a href="https://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2025/03/06/the_artificial_culture_1095413.html">The Artificial Culture</a>,&#8221; Mathew Gasda describes the landscape: 
<blockquote>If you want to ask why certain so-called socialist, left-leaning magazines failed to ever substantially criticize the DNC and Democratic politics in more than a superficial way (despite positioning themselves as independent or even adversarial), it&#8217;s because they were functionally part of the DNC (as evidenced by their reliance on grants from foundations tied to Democratic donors, they&#8217;re hiring patterns, favoring staff with direct party affiliations, and their editorial alignment with DNC priorities during election cycles), part of DNC patronage networks (with documented financial ties to progressive nonprofits, think tanks, and media funds that coordinate messaging with the party).</blockquote>
NGOs play a critical role in supporting this messaging, not only by funding media platforms and supportive activists, but by providing employment to loyal soldiers. In “<a href="https://amuseonx.substack.com/p/subsidizing-the-left-how-ngos-became">Subsidizing the Left: How NGOs Become a Jobs Program for Democrats</a>,” AmuseOnX explains how NGOs and USAID itself have been critical parts of this Democrat apparatus, pointing out that “over 90% of pass-through organizations are run by Left-wing activists and politically connected individuals from prior Democrat administrations.” Often, the pass-through has multiple layers, obscuring purpose and usage. As but one example, he points to the Climate Justice Alliance, which received some $50 million from the EPA supposedly to fight climate change, but instead, funneled this taxpayer money into pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel propaganda campaigns in the U.S., helping to fuel campus protests.
USAID has been exposed as a gigantic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-announces-83-of-usaid-programs-cancelled-musk-calls-move-tough-but-necessary">slush fund</a> for the Left. Elon Musk concluded bluntly that USAID is beyond repair, calling it a “<a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886102414194835755">criminal organization</a>” and “<a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886098373251301427?lang=en">a viper’s nest filled with radical-left Marxists that hate America</a>.” Tellingly, former State Department official <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886098373251301427?lang=en">Mike Benz responded</a> to that post with, “I cannot adequately convey to you how many dozens of former members of the intelligence community have written to me this exact sentiment about USAID.”
The public now understands both that they were deceived, and somewhat how they were deceived. But even if they don’t understand all of the parameters of the latter, they now solidly grasp the former.
<h3>#2. Their stealth fighter has lost significant clout</h3>
David Samuels’ piece “<a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment">Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment — How Barack Obama Built an Omnipotent Thought-Machine and How It Was Destroyed”</a> explains how, aided by a massive shift in consumer usage to digital format and his embrace of chief strategist David Axelrod’s “permission structures,” Obama was able to architect a “digital switchboard” controlled by a small class of operatives and essentially create the realities he desired.
With command of this network says Samuels:
<blockquote>Catchphrases like ‘defund the police,’ ‘structural racism,’ ‘white privilege,’ ‘children don’t belong in cages,’ ‘assigned gender,’ or ‘stop the genocide in Gaza’ would emerge and marinate in meme-generating pools like the academy or activist organizations, and then jump the fence — or be fed — into rich groups and threads on Twitter and Reddit.</blockquote>
He goes on to outline how Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter broke the stranglehold of this new digital leviathan which not only allowed for counter-narratives, but exposed the unethical and likely illegal methods used by the Democrat administrations to censor and promote various stories.
The 2024 Presidential election pivoted largely on a growing portion of the electorate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-2024-election-was-a-referendum-on-reality">recognizing the absurdity</a> of many leftist claims. The Left had finally jumped the shark. <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/03/18/nolte-disgraced-ap-lies-about-tulsi-gabbard-describing-trump-and-putin-as-very-good-friends/">John Nolte</a> outlines a sampling of over 40 hoaxes reported as truths by the AP over the last several years including topics ranging from the origins of COVID, the lockdown mandates, and vaccine efficacy, to Hunter Biden’s laptop, to tropes about various leaders like Trump, Biden, Pelosi, and Gabbard to the belief in multiple genders, to the environment, to January 6, and more.
Thanks to the debunking of those hoaxes and others, most Americans, including a growing number of Independents, no longer trust or believe in the Democrat orthodoxy that has been endlessly repeated through mainstream and social media.
Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan first advised us that the medium cannot be separated from the message. And a bit prior to him, Aristotle admonished us that “We are what we repeatedly do.” Thus, a growing number of Americans are rightly concluding, ipso facto, that the people who have been trying to get them to swallow these whoppers are liars.
Thus exposed, Democrats and their media sycophants have been reduced to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5176848-democrats-protest-trump-congress/">pouting</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10-dems-join-gop-to-censure-rep-al-green-for-heckling-trump">yelling</a>, and crying while their approval ratings plummet to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-closes-out-2024-with-cratering-approval-rating">record lows</a>. Further, in lock-step, the credibility/viewership of sycophant media outlets is withering. A <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx">2024 Gallup poll</a> shows that Americans now see the news media as the least trusted group among 10 U.S. civic and political institutions involved in the democratic process — even lower than Congress. The polling firm reported, “For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express ‘not very much’ confidence.” This means that trust in the mass media is at its lowest point in five decades.
This sharp drop in credibility is utterly devastating to Democrats. Since the Obama reign, Democrats have grown accustomed to the luxury of being able to spin whatever hokum they desired with unquestioned belief and support from the requisite number of politicians and voters.
<h3>#3. Their stealth fighter is very, very expensive to operate</h3>
How do you ensure that media outlets and their representatives will push some stories and quash others? You pay them. A quick review of the <a href="https://www.newstarget.com/2025-02-08-usaid-funds-6000-journalists-1000-platforms-worldwide.html">USAID funding</a> shows that some 6,200 journalists at nearly 1,000 different platforms, including hundreds of NGO’s, were receiving USAID payments of some form — including but in no way limited to the AP, Reuters, The BBC, and Politico. This was an expensive proposition indeed — to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Even more <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/doge-subcommittee-chairwoman-greene-opens-hearing-by-exposing-the-dark-truth-about-usaids-mission-to-undermine-u-s-interests/">USAID funds</a>, perhaps tens of billions of dollars, were funneled to far-Left opposition groups, NGOs, and <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3313896/usaid-gave-270-million-soros-ngo-only-needed-9-million-doom-democracy-albania/">Soros-related projects</a> and candidates. DOGE is now working to shut that down.
One of Democrats’ largest fundraising organizations, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/serious-loophole-allowing-democrats-actblue-to-potentially-accept-illegal-political-contributions-congress">ActBlue</a>, which has funneled over $16 billion to all levels of Democrat campaigns since its inception seems to be imploding amid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-attorney-general-finds-suspicious-untraceable-donations-made-on-dem-fundraising-site">allegations of fraud</a>, foreign money <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/serious-loophole-allowing-democrats-actblue-to-potentially-accept-illegal-political-contributions-congress">laundering</a>, and sponsoring terrorism. At least seven senior officers have left the organization and congressional investigations loom. To make matters worse, the Dem’s usual billionaire class may be defecting. <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/27/the-real-oligarchs-whove-been-running-our-country/">Victor Davis Hanson</a> speculates that Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, and perhaps even Jeff Bezos appear to be questioning their Democrat loyalty as demonstrated by some of their recent hesitancy to provide usual levels of support.
Without the usual hundreds of billions of dollars, clandestine and otherwise, to update and expand the capabilities of their warplane, it will quickly become both antiquated and impotent.
The Democrat stealth fighter has been exposed. Its methods of funding and the damage it has both inflicted and incurred over the last few years are massive stories. The future of the Democratic Party in the near term seems inextricably bound to this machine — particularly because Democrats seem to be doubling down on keeping it as an integral part of their strategy. Damaged or not, that is currently all they have.
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Greg Salsbury, Ph.D. is former president of Western Colorado University and Board of Advisor member for <a href="https://starrs.us">STARRS.US</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Mayday, Mayday’ For The Democrat Warplane

'Mayday, Mayday' For The Democrat Warplane

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One of the things I always warn folks against in politics is the belief that anything that happens is eternal — that the change is eternal and there will never be another loss in the future.
I&#8217;m old enough to remember when George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 and secured the Congress of the United States, that there were Republicans who thought the Republican Party would never lose again. It was the initiation of a brand-new era. Then, of course, by 2006 Democrats had taken the Congress, and by 2008 the presidency.
I&#8217;m also old enough to remember when, in the aftermath of Barack Obama&#8217;s 2012 victory, Democrats proclaimed they would never lose again. They had a brand-new, undefeatable coalition that would just continue to grow and Republicans would be in the minority forever. Within four years, however, Republicans had taken the presidency with Donald Trump.
Now I hear Republicans who sound triumphalist about the idea that Democrats can never win again, will never take power again. They say all the trends are against the Democrats. That&#8217;s true, the trends are against Democrats right now and that&#8217;s a good thing.
We see population movement from north to south, from blue states to red states, knowing electoral votes will follow. We see the Democrats failing to find any sort of leadership class in the aftermath of the Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders octogenarian triumvirate.
However, politics change quickly. Things happen. 
And there are warning signs on the horizon. The biggest one is that President Trump&#8217;s popularity is not transferable to every single other Republican candidate. You cannot just take President Trump, stamp him on a thing, and then hope that thing is going to be a winner. That is not how it works.
Barack Obama tried the same thing. It didn’t work with him either. 
Every politician has to build their own coalition. Every politician has to have their own group of people who follow them for their own personal reasons.
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So this bizarre idea that everyone in politics seems to have, both on the Right and the Left — that you can take a very popular politician and then smear that popularity over the bread of normie politicians and expect it to taste exactly the same — that is not how it works. 
This is precisely why President Trump&#8217;s administration must be successful.
President Trump is doing very important work on everything from getting rid of DEI to completely restructuring education in the country to changing how we spend to eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. On foreign policy, he&#8217;s restoring a sense of American military power and deterrence. He&#8217;s actually doing peace through strength. And he&#8217;s looking with fresh eyes at difficult situations like the Middle East.
These are very important things that President Trump is doing. And that means no mistakes.
“No mistakes” should be the byword inside the Trump administration. And the warning signs are there. Pretending they are not is simply whistling past the graveyard.
I know Republicans are all very happy and we want to tell ourselves that President Trump won an extraordinarily broad-ranging victory in his race against Kamala Harris.
The truth is that the 2024 election result was actually far closer than people would like to acknowledge. And that is not a rip on President Trump by any measure. It was a narrow win and that means if a few votes shift, suddenly things are different. And that could happen. Pretending that it can&#8217;t happen is a fool&#8217;s errand.
In the end, President Trump won 77.3 million votes. And Kamala Harris, a horrendous candidate running on the back of a dead candidate, won 75 million votes. President Trump won 49.8% of the vote and Kamala Harris won 48.3% of the vote. That is a solid electoral victory but it&#8217;s not, by any stretch of the imagination, a giant blowout, which is why I&#8217;m saying Republicans need to be careful.
We are starting to see some early indicators of the fact that a Democratic electorate could revive itself. One of those warning signs came courtesy of this special election shocker in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which went for President Trump last year by 16 points. Democrats flipped the state Senate seat in Pennsylvania — a seat that the GOP had occupied for literally decades.
The reality is that in special election races, it&#8217;s very hard to generalize from those races because they tend to have lower turnout. And so what you get is opposition turning out at a higher rate and the home party turnout coming in at a low rate, believing that there&#8217;s not going to be any sort of competitive election.
But as The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lancaster-county-special-election-pennsylvania-republicans-james-malone-josh-parsons-ken-martin-85a0644a?mod=hp_opin_pos_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">points out</a>, Republicans might want to take the surprise loss in MAGA country as a warning.
That is not wrong.
It’s also true because on Thursday, Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), President Trump&#8217;s excellent nominee for the U.N. ambassador, had her nomination withdrawn by President Trump. It wasn’t because he doesn&#8217;t like Elise Stefanik — he thinks that she&#8217;s terrific. He is doing it because the margin in the Congress of the United States is simply too narrow.
President Trump had made a bunch of moves to take representatives from particular districts and put them in his Cabinet, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. That was going to include Elise Stefanik. There are three or four different congresspeople who&#8217;ve been pulled into the administration, leaving their districts open for an election.
President Trump is basically signaling here that the House of Representatives is on a knife&#8217;s edge and you can&#8217;t pull good congresspeople from their districts to serve in other aspects of the executive branch for fear the GOP might lose the district.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) put out <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1905330013244915791">a statement</a> saying he would immediately invite Elise Stefanik to return to the leadership table, adding, “It is well known Republicans have a razor-thin House majority, and Elise’s agreement to withdraw her nomination will allow us to keep one of the toughest, most resolute members of our Conference in place to help drive forward President Trump’s America First policies.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Stefanik&#8217;s withdrawal was just a result of the political realities they&#8217;re grappling with in the House, that every vote counts.
For this, you can thank some congresspeople like Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who reliably votes “No” on every contentious vote in the House of Representatives, meaning that the majority shrinks by one every single time.
There is also concern in other districts where there really should not be any concern. In Florida&#8217;s sixth Congressional District, which is Mike Waltz’ old seat, there is now a special election and it&#8217;s really competitive. Democrats are pouring money into that particular race, which is far too close right now. This should not be a competitive district.
I expect that Republicans will hold the seat. But the fact that it&#8217;s even competitive signals that any sort of overweening confidence among Republicans is misguided.
We have to act like every possession matters. We can&#8217;t act like we’re up 30 points when in reality we’re up two and there are just a couple of minutes left in the ballgame.
None of us should be overconfident.

President Trump Swears-In Alina Habba As US Attorney For New Jersey

The Danger Of Overconfidence

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Democrats find themselves facing angry voters as a massive rift opens up between the far-Left and the party’s more moderate members. President Donald Trump and his top donor, Elon Musk, draw national attention to what could prove to be a pivotal battle for control of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. And Trump revokes the security clearances of a number of Biden allies, while ICE and the IRS prepare to team up.
It’s Monday, and this is the news you need to know to start your week. If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2>Democrats’ Downward Spiral</h2>
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Topline: Democratic lawmakers have found themselves confronted by angry constituents as the party searches for a unifying message amid rampant infighting. Meanwhile, new polling shows Democrats continue to be less popular than ever before.
Historically, there’s often a sort of buyer&#8217;s remorse with voters, where a president’s approval ratings will start to decline quickly, and the opposition party will become more popular &#8212; but that has not happened. Trump’s approval ratings have held steady at around 48% — well above where he stood during his first term — and Democratic popularity has only plummeted since Election Day. Last week, CNN found that just 29% of Americans view the party favorably — that’s a 20-point drop from 2021. And over the weekend, things got even worse.
A new <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3919">Quinnipiac</a> poll showed that just 21% of Americans approve of Democrats’ job performance in Congress &#8212; the lowest mark in the poll&#8217;s history &#8212; and only 40% of Democrats approve of the job their leaders are doing in Congress. By contrast, Congressional Republicans are more popular today than ever, with a 40% approval rating.
Democrats appear torn between two differing visions of the party’s strategy going forward.
There are those who say the party needs to listen to its left-wing base and double down on their opposition to Trump, doing everything possible to prevent his agenda from being implemented. In that camp is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who kicked off a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour last week with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), hitting Tempe, Las Vegas, and Denver in recent days and drawing crowds in the tens of thousands.
“We are going to fight Trump and his oligarchic friends,” Sanders said. “But we have got to do something else. We have got to ourselves have a vision for the kind of country we want to become.&#8221;
On the other side are Democrats who feel November’s results were a clear rebuke of progressive ideologies and governance. They say the party has to shake the “woke” label and moderate on social issues while embracing a more old-school Blue Dog Democrat approach. Leading the charge on that front is, ironically, California’s Gavin Newsom, one of the nation’s most far-Left Governors. Newsom launched a new podcast where he’s been having friendly chats with hardline conservatives like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. He’s openly criticized his party as being elitist and out of touch while conceding that he understands why folks supported Trump in November. He even went as far as saying he opposes trans-identifying males in women’s sports and called on Democrats to stop using gender-neutral language like “Latinx,” although he has used that term many times in the past.
The Democratic base appears to be as divided as their leadership &#8212; the latest numbers from Gallup found that 45% of Democrats want the party to become more moderate, while 29% say they should be more liberal, and 22% want to hold course.
<h2>Wisconsin Supreme Court</h2>
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Topline: An upcoming election will determine whether liberals or conservatives control Wisconsin’s top court. Already the most expensive judicial race in United States history, analysts are calling it the first referendum on Trump’s presidency.
Next week, a midwestern election will offer a rare chance to flip the ideological balance of the highest court in a key swing state. Depending on how things play out on April 1st, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court could go from a 4-3 liberal majority to a 4-3 conservative one, which would have several ramifications on national policy.
The balance of power could play a significant role in Wisconsin’s congressional districting. After the 2020 census, Republicans — who controlled the legislature — drew Wisconsin’s congressional maps. Democrats said this was gerrymandering and sued. In 2022, the liberal court threw out the GOP’s maps and adopted ones drawn by Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat. That new map helped Democrats flip one congressional seat in 2024. If conservative candidate Brad Schimel wins, he will likely uphold GOP-drawn maps that help cement that very slim margin Republicans have in the House right now. On the other hand, if liberal Susan Crawford wins, the court is likely to strike down the Republican maps again, meaning Democrats will have a greater likelihood of winning more seats in the state.
“The congressional majority is so razor thin, it could cause the house to switch to Democrat if federal redrawing takes place,” Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and the mastermind behind DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency), said on <a href="https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1903547076002316644">X</a>, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Then we won&#8217;t be able to get through the changes that the American people want.”
Republicans also see a conservative court in Wisconsin as a potential firewall that could shield Trump’s policies from state-level challenges — think lawsuits over federal overreach or immigration crackdowns. On Truth Social yesterday, Trump called Crawford a “Radical Left Democrat” who is “insistent on bringing hardened CRIMINALS, that we removed to far away places, back into our Country, allowing men into women’s sports, [and] Open Borders.”
<h2>Security Switch Up</h2>
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Topline: Immigration authorities may soon receive help from the IRS to confirm the identities of illegal aliens. Reports of the new agreement come as thousands of law enforcement officials are expected to be redirected toward President Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
The IRS and ICE are near an agreement that would essentially allow immigration agents to cross-check information on aliens with IRS databases &#8212; that’s according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/politics/irs-ice-immigrants-deportation.html">The New York Times</a>. To be clear, DHS would not have access to IRS systems, but agents would be able to verify with the IRS whether the home addresses agents have for illegal aliens are correct. The Trump administration has tried before to get the IRS to help locate illegals, but the agency has always resisted because of the sensitivity of taxpayer information &#8212; and because it didn’t want to run afoul of federal law. This way, the IRS can keep complete control over its taxpayer database.
Illegal immigrants are often employed in the United States and file tax returns that include information such as where they live, who they work for, and their income. The IRS has long encouraged illegal aliens to pay taxes; the agency even has a separate nine-digit code called an individual taxpayer identification number that it will give to aliens in place of a Social Security number.
More generally, the Department of Homeland Security is in the middle of a massive reshuffle to focus resources on deportations, according to reporting by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/">Reuters</a>. The Trump administration has also canceled the CHNV parole program, which allowed 30,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to apply for entry to the United States. Trump ended the program on his first day in office, but over the weekend, DHS issued an order revoking legal status for those aliens who entered the country through it. The order encourages them to self-deport within 30 days or risk deportation.
In other news, President Trump officially revoked the security clearances of a number of people on Friday, including top Biden administration officials, as well as some of the president’s top antagonists &#8212; those who brought and supported the court cases he faced during the election and who pushed Russian collusion conspiracies. Some of the most prominent names on that list include former President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney (WY).

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Morning Brief: Dems’ Downward Spiral, Wisconsin Supreme Court Race, And Security Shakeup

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) bucked calls from members of his own party to step down after he voted to support a Republican spending bill to keep the government open.
Schumer made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; with host Kristen Welker when he was asked if he was &#8220;feeling pressure to step down.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, I&#8217;m not stepping down,&#8221; Schumer fired back. &#8220;And let me just say this, Kristen. I knew when I cast my vote against the government shutdown that there would be a lot of controversy. And there was.&#8221;
&#8220;But let me tell you and your audience why I did it, why I felt it was so important,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The CR was certainly bad, you know, the continuing resolution. But a shutdown would be 15 or 20 times worse. Under a shutdown, the Executive Branch has sole power to determine what is &#8216;essential.&#8217; And they can determine without any court supervision. The courts have ruled it&#8217;s solely up to the executive what to shut down. With Musk, and DOGE, and Trump, and this guy Vought, they would eviscerate the federal government.&#8221;
Welker later pressed Schumer over whether he was &#8220;making the same mistake that President Biden did&#8221; when he decided to run for re-election and later had to bow out at the last moment because of a disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump.
&#8220;No, absolutely not,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;I did this out of conviction. And, look, in my caucus, we have a disagreement as to some people voted one way, some people voted the other. But we&#8217;ve all agreed to respect each other because each side saw why the other side felt so strongly about it. And our caucus is united in fighting Donald Trump every step of the way.&#8221;
Schumer also addressed criticism from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who claimed that Schumer gave into Republican demands and did not secure anything in return.
&#8220;Well, what we got, at the end of the day, is avoiding the horror of a shutdown,&#8221; Schumer replied. &#8220;There was no leverage point that we could&#8217;ve asked for things, they just would&#8217;ve said no. And because they control — let&#8217;s not forget, they control the House and Senate — they could force a vote, yes or no on the CR, without any additions.&#8221;
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President Biden Meets With Congressional Leaders To Discuss Legislative Priorities For End Of Year

Schumer Fires Back At Democrats Pushing His Ouster: ‘I’m Not Stepping Down’

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Comedian Bill Maher warned Democrats this week that they have not hit the floor yet with how low the party can sink as it experiences record-low support from the American public.
Maher delivered the remarks on Friday during his HBO show &#8220;Real Time&#8221; while talking about how people are fleeing Democrat-controlled states for Republican states.
&#8220;I just saw this really bad news for Democrats,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;2030 reapportionment, there&#8217;s a group called the American Redistricting Project, and in five years we will be redistricting.&#8221;
&#8220;California is projected to lose three seats, New York, two,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Also gonna lose a seat, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Illinois. All blue states.&#8221;
&#8220;Who&#8217;s getting these?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Texas, Florida, Idaho, and Utah. I mean, this looks like game over.&#8221;
He said that people are &#8220;voting with their feet&#8221; because of deeply unpopular views that Democrats have on key issues, including believing in high taxes and lots of government regulation.
“I’ve certainly been screaming about it forever,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I did three years with a sign here that said, ‘How long is it gonna take me to get my solar hooked up?&#8217; Three years. Talking about it on television in this state, you couldn’t do it!”
He said that California alone has more than 400,000 regulations and that he experienced significant difficulty getting his roof replaced recently following the fires that ravaged the state earlier this year, saying that the state made him undergo multiple inspections.
&#8220;It&#8217;s my f***ing roof!&#8221; he exclaimed. &#8220;If it falls on me, that&#8217;s my problem. And we&#8217;re taxed more than any other state.&#8221;
&#8220;People are leaving these kinds of states for places where they don&#8217;t feel the heavy breadth of government on them,&#8221; he said. “It’s not that hard for Democrats to understand this, but they don’t, they seem to be incapable of doing anything about it.&#8221;
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Bill Maher says it’s game over for Democrats. <a href="https://t.co/91dDqC50wq">pic.twitter.com/91dDqC50wq</a>
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1903543313195806778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2025</a></blockquote>

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‘This Looks Like Game Over’: Bill Maher Warns That Democrats Have Not Hit Bottom Yet

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