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In the survey of Southern state Republicans, about 80% of those who identified strongly as MAGA said they did not believe the 2020 election was fair or accurate, compared with 66% of those who identified as Traditional Republicans. MAGA is the Trump brand, from campaign slogan, to red hats emblazoned with the letters, to the closing line of his stump speeches. In addition to its political stances, the MAGA movement is known for its particularly combative character, which exemplifies the extreme partisanship of contemporary American politics. In keeping with that stance, controversial rhetoric has flourished within the movement, including messages that critics see as homophobic, sexist, or racist or as inciting violence. My favorite moment of the week came from none other than Allen Weisselberg, the recently-jailed former Trump Org.
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“Once she’s gone down this road there’s no value in fighting the charges in another forum,” she said. It’s too early to tell if Brian’s right, that the same Republicans who rejected Jordan won’t turn around and back him later, or back someone else who, like Kevin McCarthy, spends all their time enabling Trump and helping him undermine accountability. One thing that helps is that neither Jordan, Scalise, nor anyone else can claim their losses were somehow rigged. Moore’s main takeaway after her time undercover was that “there’s a rise of right-wing populism among the under-30 crowd that's incredibly alarming to me… I really worry about it. Kent blames her death on the “Republican foreign policy establishment,” which he said didn’t follow Trump’s plans to fully withdraw U.S. troops from the country.
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Sadly, federal courts are closed to cameras, so as the rules stand now, we won’t be watching the trial live. And as Chesebro goes to trial in Georgia, there’s new evidence from Wisconsin showing that he knew lawsuits meant to overturn Biden’s 2020 win had almost no chance in court. Trump can, and probably will, lie about this failure to influence his party.
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Consequently, Trump’s movement was as strong as ever when he campaigned for reelection in 2020. The MAGA movement is also known for having an antagonistic relationship with mainstream news media, which are thought by a majority in the movement to be biased against MAGA views, at best, and to be lying on behalf of the movement’s enemies, at worst. This belief has resulted in a vulnerability among MAGA members to false news stories and particularly far-fetched conspiracy theories circulated by MAGA-supporting media outlets and repeated by MAGA leaders. Capitol, in which a mob of Trump supporters attempted to halt Congress’s certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, was actually staged by left-wing forces. Many election experts and political commentators failed to take the MAGA phenomenon seriously.
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A recent Politico/Morning Consult tracking poll asked Republicans to pick their preferred 2024 presidential candidate. Trump came in first with 52%, but that also meant about half of Republicans wanted another candidate. In a July New York Times survey, about a fifth of Republicans said Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 "went so far that he threatened American democracy." The man who launched an online campaign to trick Hillary Clinton supporters into not voting in 2016 was sentenced to seven months in prison this week.
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Douglass Mackey used his powerful online personna “Ricky Vaughn” to circulate fake ads urging Black and Latino voters to vote by text message. MIT identified him as one of the online influencers with the most clout on election issues during that race. Witt served in the Trump administration and after the 2020 election worked with the president’s legal team in Georgia that tried, and failed, to prove the election was stolen from Trump.
In late 2022 an estimated 4 in 10 Republicans identified themselves as “MAGA Republicans.” Shortly after the midterm elections of 2022, Trump declared his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. In view of the strength of the MAGA movement, other candidates for the Republican nomination have been forced to adopt strategies that limit direct or serious criticisms of Trump and emphasize their acceptance of at least some of the extremist views of MAGA members. In the aftermath of the election, there was a rush to understand and respond to the new political power that the MAGA movement represented. The media ran numerous articles and television reports analyzing the development and makeup of the movement.
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"We've had dinners with him. I've flown on his airplane to rallies with him and when we went to South Carolina, we drove for 30 mins in the car and people were standing in the street the entire way. He is the most popular president whether you like him or not," Flicker said. The reality star first got to know Trump after he became president through her good friend and the former president's lawyer, Alina Habba. She claimed Trump had "done more for Jewish people than any other president" and should get more recognition for doing so. Flicker then took to her own social media accounts to confirm she was the author of the original flyer. The former U.S. president faced backlash when he took aim at "liberal Jews" in a post to his Truth Social website on Sunday during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the start of the faith's High Holy Days.
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On phone calls, Bannon said Ziegler would become a “MAGA hero” if he stayed on amid the sexual battery investigation and calls for his resignation, according to a Florida GOP official directly familiar with the calls. The official also said Lewandowski told Ziegler that “fundraising will come from” his decision to stand strong and not resign. Kenyans and the family of the former CS George Magoha have been thrown into mourning following his death on Tuesday. But when asked in the CBS poll whether they approved of what took place, 76% of Republicans said they disapproved.
Thirty-six percent of primary candidates identified themselves as Trump or MAGA Republicans; 47% called themselves mainstream conservatives. Since January 2021, pollsters have been asking Republican voters which they identify more with — Trump, or the Republican Party. In a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, support for Trump has been waning. A survey of self-identified MAGA voters conducted just after the Capitol assault found they strongly believe the election was stolen and that the riot was the work of antifa, a loose collection of activists who rally against fascism and far-right groups. We examined data to see where Republicans stand on election denialism and sympathy for the people who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It shows that Republican voters are divided on those points, but the differences among them are rarely crisp and clean.
Cawthorn told the group he wasn’t sure he wanted to get involved in the crowded primary in which Witt is running but changed his mind after the two had dinner. Some of the endorsements put them at odds with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who has staked Republican money and strategy on flipping the handful of seats the party needs to win back the majority rather than taking sides in a battle between the MAGA crew and less Trumpian members. It will be all about the show of 2024 to bring Donald Trump back into power. … They will impeach Biden, they will impeach Harris, they will kill everything,” said Rick Wilson, a longtime Republican strategist who is sharply critical of Trump.
"The MAGA Republicans are those people who, in fact, say that the use of violence is a legitimate tool, like what happened to the Capitol." Biden’s insistence during the address that "not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans," has hardly mollified his critics. Fox News commentator Kayleigh McEnany, a former Trump administration press secretary, echoed a common GOP theme, tweeting that Biden had delivered the "most divisive presidential speech" she’d ever seen. "There is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country," Biden said.
Or, at a minimum, allow video recording that can be released after some appropriate time lag, the brief states. NBCUniversal News Group filed a 42-page brief asking the court to allow TV coverage of the trial because of its extraordinary importance to the country. “If ever a trial were to be televised, this one should be, for the benefit of American democracy,” they argue. Meanwhile, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump attorney Chris Kise to apologize to a court clerk and an AG office attorney—both women—after he was rude and dismissive to them during a sidebar. Former fixer and Stormy-payer-offer Michael Cohen was supposed to testify in Trump’s NY fraud trial this week, but got sick (with a doctor’s note) and didn’t show. Back to this week, Trump’s surrogates took up the mantle of attacking the Special Counsel as soon as Chutkan issued her order, so he can rely on an army of propagandists to do some of the work the judge would prefer he not do.
For the next four years, Trump used executive orders to make good on some of his promises to MAGA voters. One week into his term the new president signed an order that banned immigration to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries. And in 2018 Trump began leveling tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, the European Union, and China. Simultaneously, he increased his popularity among Republicans in general by attempting to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), supporting a massive tax cut that primarily benefited corporations and the wealthy, and nominating three ultraconservative Supreme Court justices.
