June 28, 2023

Nicolle Wallace to host Biden in sit down interview tomorrow

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/biden-interview-deadline-white-house-supreme-court-rcna91652

June 19, 2023

RFK Jr. has a big primary problem: Democrats like Joe Biden

One big takeaway from this polling: RFK's support among Democrats comes not from "the left" as is already being thrown out here by some, but is strongest among conservatives and moderates who vote in Democratic primaries (and no they are not all disrupters):

"Per the CNN poll, Kennedy garnered 35% among Democratic primary voters who identified as non-liberal (i.e., moderate or conservative) independents. He got 10% among liberal Democrats. Kennedy’s averaging about 15% support among self-identified Democrats of any ideology."

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The president is averaging in the mid-60s nationally, and there is zero sign his support is weakening. For Biden to start dropping, Democrats would have to stop thinking he’s doing a good job as president. Biden’s approval rating among Democrats in a Quinnipiac University poll released last week was 84%. Just 16% either disapproved (13%) or didn’t hold a view (3%).There is no precedent – at least since World War II – of an incumbent president losing a contested state primary while polling above 70% nationally within his party.

Biden also scores high on a slightly different intraparty metric: His favorability rating is at 85% on average. That is, most Democrats think he’s doing a good job as president and are fans of him personally.

Kennedy’s other big problem goes beyond Biden. While the vast majority of Democrats like the president, the same cannot be said for Kennedy. A mere 25% of Democratic voters had a favorable view of him in the Quinnipiac poll – 39% had an unfavorable view. Among self-identified “strong Democrats” in a May Marquette law school poll, the split was 27% favorable to 50% unfavorable for Kennedy.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/18/politics/robert-kennedy-democratic-primary-joe-biden/index.html

June 9, 2023

Oklahoma Sooners win third straight NCAA softball title

Sooners set numerous records in winning their third straight title:
only second team to accomplish the feat
set a record for winning percentage in a season
set a record with a 58 game winning streak

A dynasty in a rapidly growing sport

GREAT DAY!!! dump indicted and Sooners do it again!

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/37822687/oklahoma-tops-florida-state-third-straight-ncaa-softball-title

June 7, 2023

CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht is out

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/media/chris-licht-cnn/index.html

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Chris Licht, the embattled chief executive and chairman of CNN, whose brief one-year tenure at the network was stained by a series of severe missteps, will depart the company.

“I met with Chris and he will be leaving CNN,” David Zaslav, the chief executive of parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, told CNN employees at the start of the network’s daily editorial call Wednesday.

Licht’s departure, which came days after a devastating 15,000-word profile in The Atlantic, capped a tumultuous year for CNN, marked by layoffs, historically low ratings, and rock-bottom employee morale.