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Let’s all ship good tidings to the Heritage Foundation, which turned 50 years outdated on Feb. 16.

The celebration of that auspicious occasion, nevertheless, can be marked by an well timed two-day management summit which begins Thursday and concludes Friday with a night gala at a glittering resort a number of miles south of the nation’s capital.

“The summit will demonstrate consensus around big-picture questions facing America and deliver a conservative policy agenda equipped to unite the movement around an offensive strategy to take back our country, restore self-governance, and rebuild key institutions of civil society,” the group stated in a press release.

Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri, Mike Lee of Utah, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Rick Scott of Florida, and J.D. Vance of Ohio will seem on the occasion together with Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Glenn Youngkin of Virginia. Attendees embrace “high profile leaders from every sector of the conservative coalition,” Heritage famous.

Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson will supply the keynote speech for the gala, by the way in which. He is an applicable selection. Mr. Carlson started his profession with a job on the Heritage Foundation as a fact-checker and author for Policy Review, the muse’s quarterly journal. He went on the co-found The Daily Caller, and served as a number on each MSNBC and CNN earlier than arriving at Fox News.

“Tucker Carlson is a fearless American who is unafraid to challenge the Washington regime, ask tough questions, and hold the ruling elite accountable. His nightly show is must-see TV for anyone who realizes we have a limited window of time to save this country,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts stated in a written assertion.  

CHRISTIE ON THE MOVE

Both Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump have each been in New Hampshire in latest days. Now it's Chris Christie’s flip to go to the Granite State, although he has not revealed his stage of curiosity in leaping within the 2024 presidential race — but.

The native Cheshire County Republican Committee will host Mr. Christie for cocktails and dinner at a neighborhood nation membership on Friday. Tickets are $50 every and so they go to learn the host group and native candidates.

Mr. Christie has already publicly criticized each Mr. Trump and Mr. DeSantis and is making the rounds of the mainstream media. It can be of observe that ChrisChristie.com — which served as the previous New Jersey governor’s marketing campaign web site in 2016 — continues to be up and operating.

“Thank you, America” is the lead message on the web site.

“The campaign is over but the fight goes on. I will continue to fight for my belief that government needs to once again work for the people, not for the people who work for the government. I will continue to reinforce what I have always believed - that speaking your mind matters, that experience matters, that competence matters and that it will always matter in leading our nation,” Mr. Christie stated on the time.

He closed his assertion with a single phrase: “Onward.”

CONNECTIVITY ARRIVES

Nielsen reveals a brand new development in America’s TV-watching habits.

“As of Jan. 15, 2023, 84.9% of U.S. households had at least one TV-connected device. We see similar trends among households migrating away from cable and satellite boxes altogether, as 33% of U.S. TV households in third-quarter 2022 accessed their TV content solely through a broadband internet connection. As of Jan. 15, 2023, the percentage had grown to 35.5%,” Nielsen stated in its examine of the tendencies, launched Wednesday.

It’s all about “connectivity,” the examine stated — a drive which drives “how Americans are engaging with their TV.”

This might be of curiosity to political campaigns gearing up for the 2024 presidential election. Keep in thoughts that political advert spending in the course of the 2019-2020 election cycle reached $8.5 billion throughout TV, radio and digital media based on Forbes. Will heightened “connectivity” have an effect on that? We shall see.

FOXIFIED, ONLINE EDITION

The on-line outreach of Fox News — that will be Fox News Digital — completed the primary quarter of 2023 because the top-performing information group on-line, besting cable information rivals and The New York Times, based on the business supply Comscore. Numbers inform all.

From January by March, Fox News Digital had 5.2 billion views of its web site, greater than CNN.com (4 billion views) and The Times (3.9 billion). In addition, Fox News averaged 101 million on-line guests to the positioning monthly, a 28% enhance over the identical time interval in 2022, based on Comscore.

Visitors additionally spent 8.8 billion minutes on the Fox News web site in the course of the three-month time interval. Those who selected CNN’s web site lingered for six.2 billion minutes, whereas guests to The Times web site spent 4.1 billion minutes there.

This marks the eighth consecutive quarter that Fox News has emerged the victor in complete time spent at a web site.

The community additionally was the “most engaged brand on social media” with 90.1 million complete social media interactions within the first three months of the yr, based on Emplifi, an business supply. This marks the thirty sixth consecutive quarter (that’s 9 years) that the community has earned the highest title.

And a number of numbers: Fox News drove 23.2 million encounters on Facebook, 56.8 million on Instagram and 10 million Twitter interactions in the course of the quarter. On YouTube, Fox News generated 662.6 million views. based on business supply Shareablee.

POLL DU JOUR

• 36% of U.S. adults would vote for former President Donald Trump if the 2 main political events nominate him and President Biden within the 2024 presidential election; 82% of Republicans, 30% of independents and 6% of Democrats agree.

• 34% general would vote for Mr. Biden; 7% of Republicans, 22% of independents and 74% of Democrats agree.

• 11% general would strongly take into account voting for an impartial; 4% of Republicans, 23% of independents and eight% of Democrats agree.

• 13% general would select to not vote; 3% of Republicans, 18% of independents and eight% of Democrats agree.

• 7% general usually are not certain concerning the difficulty; 4% of Republicans, 7% of independents and 4% of Democrats agree.

SOURCE: A Yahoo News/YouGov ballot of 1,530 U.S. adults carried out April 14-17.

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