NEWS AND OPINION:
Well, let’s simply lower to the chase right here. A brand new Associated Press survey has some disconcerting information for the White House. Numbers inform all — and so with out additional ado, right here they’re:
• 78% of U.S. adults say “things in this country” are heading within the improper path.
• 76% say the state of the U.S. financial system is “poor.”
• 67% disapprove of the best way President Biden is dealing with gun coverage.
• 67% disapprove of the best way Mr. Biden is dealing with immigration.
• 66% disapprove of the best way Mr. Biden is dealing with the U.S. financial system.
• 59% disapprove of the best way Mr. Biden is dealing with his job as president.
• 55% disapprove of the best way Mr. Biden is dealing with pupil debt.
The supply is an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research ballot of 1,680 U.S. adults, which was carried out May 11-15 and launched Monday.
DESANTIS, HALEY AND FAITH
The Faith & Freedom Coalition’s annual Road to Majority Policy Conference is one month away.
This occasion is about for June 22-24 at a traditional grand resort within the nation’s capital and can characteristic over 70 audio system this yr. Some 3,000 attendees are anticipated to attend the convention — deemed “the largest public policy gathering of conservative and Christian activists in the nation” by the organizers.
The coalition itself is a nationwide grassroots motion of over 2 million conservatives and folks of religion who assist “time-honored values, stronger families, and individual freedom,” in keeping with a mission assertion.
They group has additionally revealed to Inside the Beltway that presidential hopeful and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will ship a keynote deal with. She has firm, although. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis additionally will ship what’s billed as a keynote deal with.
“The purpose of the conference is to empower conservative activists to fight for their values at the polls and in the public arena and to equip attendees with the knowledge and connections they need to drive engagement and voter turnout,” the host group stated in an announcement.
Curious? Visit FFcoalition.com for updates and data.
THE SHEER VOLUME
“In just a few months, the U.S. received more than 1.5 million requests from individuals hoping to sponsor the entry of migrants from four countries, an extraordinary number that could jeopardize the Biden administration’s objective of reducing border crossings,” advises a CBS News report primarily based on inside paperwork from the Department of Homeland Security.
As of the top of April, the company was receiving a median of almost 12,000 functions per day from these in search of to sponsor Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans — a quantity deemed “overwhelming” by the company itself.
Yes, that was 12,000 functions a day.
“The flurry of hundreds of thousands of sponsorship applications on behalf of would-be migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela has overwhelmed caseworkers in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which can approve no more than 30,000 arrivals under the program each month,” the CBS report stated.
The paperwork famous that lower than three days’ price of functions had been processed per 30 days because of the 30,000 month-to-month cutoff, the report suggested.
And there are extra numbers to think about.
“More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in the U.S. under the sponsorship initiative. But the government was overseeing more than 580,000 pending cases for Haitians, more than 380,000 for Cubans, nearly 120,000 for Venezuelans and more than 20,000 for Nicaraguans at the end of April. Other cases were being reviewed or had been approved,” the report stated.
TIM’S TAKEAWAY MESSAGE
Sen. Tim Scott’s marketing campaign for president is now underway, launched Monday with a excessive vitality rally, adopted by the discharge of an inaugural marketing campaign spot.
The South Carolina Republican has a selected message for liberals and for voters who assist President Biden — and right here it’s:
“I am living proof that America is the land of opportunity. I was raised by a single mother in poverty. She taught me to have stubborn faith, faith in God, faith in ourselves, and faith in America. I rose from a child of poverty to a candidate for president of the United States because we chose patriotism over pity, and to be victors, not victims,” Mr. Scott advises within the new outreach.
“Made in America — that’s my story. That’s why it pains my soul to see the Biden liberals attacking every rung of the ladder that helped me climb. Indoctrination in our schools, inflation in our economy, crime in our neighborhoods, victimhood in our culture. To the radical left that says we’re an evil, declining country, I say the truth of my life disproves your lies,” he concludes within the new spot.
In an announcement, Mr. Scott’s marketing campaign stated this spot “is part of a $6 million ad buy that will air statewide starting Wednesday in Iowa and New Hampshire. This first buy also includes a substantial digital ad campaign. Tim entered the race for president with $22 million cash on hand, the most of any presidential candidate in American history.”
See the spot at Mr. Scott’s web site VoteTimScott.com — look underneath the “News” heading.
His marketing campaign continues within the meantime. The candidate shall be in Sioux City, Iowa, on Wednesday, then it’s on to Manchester, New Hampshire, on Thursday.
POLL DU JOUR
• 74% of U.S. adults say they observe or watch a selected “public individual” for information and data as a result of that individual affords a perspective they’ll’t discover in different information shops.
• 66% say they observe or watch that public particular person as a result of the individual represents “people like me.”
• 65% say they observe or watch the individual due to beliefs and opinions that align with their very own.
• 50% say they observe as a result of the individual works for a corporation or group that they belief.
SOURCE: A Gallup/Knight Foundation ballot of three,821 U.S. adults carried out Oct. 17-28 and launched Tuesday.
• Contact Jennifer Harper at jharper@washingtontimes.com.
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