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So how fashionable is the Granite State in relation to presidential hopefuls? It’s a required vacation spot for Republican hopefuls, and a former South Carolina governor isn't any exception. Ambitious Republican candidate Nikki Haley reveals that she has hosted marketing campaign occasions in each single county in New Hampshire, in line with a brand new marketing campaign message shared with the Beltway.

Thursday, she will likely be joined by Gov. Chris Sununu for a city corridor in Merrimack, then it’s on to Manchester for a city corridor with Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice adopted by a “Parents In Charge” group dialogue.

By the tip of the week, Ms. Haley may have participated in 49 grassroots occasions in New Hampshire — then it’s on to South Carolina for 2 marketing campaign stops. So how is she faring? An NMB Research ballot of 800 possible Republican main voters in New Hampshire performed Aug. 25-31 has some perception.

“Donald Trump has a significant lead on the Republican presidential primary ballot. The former president currently garners 47% on the primary ballot, giving him a more than thirty percentage point lead over his closest challengers  — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, both at 10%,” the ballot evaluation mentioned.

The information is tepid for a former New Jersey governor and a high-profile entrepreneur, in the meantime.

“Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy both sit at 8%, with no other candidate receiving more than 5% of the vote,” the evaluation famous.

Mr. Scott on the transfer

Presidential hopeful Sen. Tim Scott may also be in New Hampshire on Thursday, headed for a late afternoon barbecue within the city of Rye, hosted by Scott Brown. Remember Scott Brown? He served as each a U.S. senator for Massachusetts and the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.

Moving proper alongside, Mr. Scott — the senator — then makes an look on Friday at a constitution college in Manchester and meets with native religion leaders. Then it’s on to the charming lakeside group of Meredith, the place the candidate will attend a meet and greet occasion with native homebuilders and host a standard city corridor with the native citizenry some 90 minutes later.

Ukraine nonetheless in want

The Department of Defense has provided extra safety and protection help to Ukraine, in line with an announcement shared with the Beltway on Wednesday. This marks the Biden administration’s forty sixth tranche of apparatus for Ukraine since August 2021.

This help is valued at $175 million and contains tools to assist Ukraine’s air protection techniques, plus extra ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS); 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds; 81mm mortars techniques and rounds; 120mm depleted uranium tank ammunition for Abrams tanks and Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles.All this stuff are verbatim from the Defense Dept.

In addition, the help additionally contains Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor techniques; over 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition; tactical air navigation techniques; tactical safe communications techniques and assist tools; demolitions munitions for impediment clearing; and spare elements, upkeep, and different subject tools.

“The United States will continue to work with its Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs and longer-term security assistance requirements,” the announcement famous.

Foxified

During the week of Aug. 28- Sept. 3, Fox News was the most-watched community in the complete cable TV realm throughout the primetime hours and all through the day. Fox News attracted 1.7 million primetime viewers and a median 1.1 million viewers all through the day, in line with Nielsen Media Research. Fox News additionally aired 69 of the highest 100 cable information telecasts in the course of the week.

“The Five” was the highest program for the week, averaging 2.8 million viewers, adopted by “Jesse Watters Primetime” (2.5 million) and “Hannity” (2.3 million). Late-night host Greg Gutfeld, in the meantime, attracted 1.9 million, as did “Special Report with Bret Baier.”

Fox News weekday packages are additionally besting the published competitors. With audiences of 1.4 million every, each “America’s Newsroom” and “Outnumbered” outranked NBC’s day by day “Today Jenna and Hoda.”

On the weekend, “Sunday Morning Futures” topped its competitors on CNN and MSNBC with 1.2 million viewers, as did “Life, Liberty & Levin,” which drew an viewers of 1.1 million.

A telling abstract

The U.S. nonetheless has a troubling, porous border in line with those that monitor the traits.

“In the 30 months that the Biden administration has been in office, there have been 6.9 million encounters of illegal aliens at the border. In addition to this figure, an additional 1.7 million migrants entered the U.S. as “gotaways”, i.e., have been noticed coming into the United States however weren't detained or turned again. This brings the entire variety of migrants who've illegally entered the U.S. to eight.6 million individuals. By approach of comparability, that is equal to the complete inhabitants of the state of Virginia, or over six occasions the variety of energetic service personnel within the U.S. armed forces. These numbers are breathtaking,” wrote Michael McManus, director of analysis for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nonpartisan, public curiosity group.His report was launched Monday.

Poll du jour

37% of laptop science consultants from U.S. universities agree {that a} new “Department of AI” federal company can be the “best entity” to manage synthetic intelligence.

22% of the consultants agree {that a} world group can be one of the best entity to manage AI.

16% agree the U.S. Congress can be one of the best entity.

14% agree that an company can be “irrelevant because AI cannot be effectively regulated.”

4% agree that the White House can be one of the best entity.

3% agree {that a} non-public sector group can be one of the best entity.

3% say no group can be one of the best entity as a result of “AI should not be regulated.”

Source: An Axios-Generation Lab-Syracuse University AI Experts survey of 213 laptop science and engineering professors from prime U.S. analysis universities.

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