Plummeting popularity sets Trump on a war against the truth
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What are the implications of Trump's declining poll numbers?
Vaasan sähkö on ylihyvä vaihtoehto. Hei, nyt saa älyä sähkön käyttöön. Ai, miten? No Vaasan sähkön älykodilla. Automatisoimalla sähkön kulutusta sähstät silkkaa rahaa. Jaa. Mikä parasta, älykodin saa Vaasan sähkön asiakkaana maksutta. Ja reaaliaikaisen sähkön seurannankin saa kylkeen haivan pikkurahalla. No aika älytöntä. Ei, vaan yliälykästä. Tutustu älykotiin osoitteessa vaasansähkö.fi According to rumours, some people use skewers like ketchup. And of course they're not wrong. Because skewer skewers go with macarons, tacos, salads, you name it. And of course to those skewers. The newest product from the store is a mango habanero skewer of skewer skewers. It's sweet, not too much, and it's equipped with a little fire.
Give it a try. So much to get to tonight.
Lots and lots and lots of news. And as I was watching today, I was thinking about the fact that if there was any question, any question at all from anywhere, from anyone about whether or not American democracy is under threat right now, the president of the United States was asked just hours ago about his calls for an unconstitutional federal takeover of elections. He was also asked about whether or not he will accept the will of the voters in November. And see for yourself what he said.
We can't allow cheating in elections. Now, if we need to put in federal controls as opposed to state controls, remember this, they're really an agent. They're really accumulating the votes for who wins an election. If they can't do it honestly and it can't be done properly and timely, then something else has to happen.
Will you trust the results of the midterms if Republicans lose control of Congress?
I will if the elections are honest.
Trump is laying the groundwork. We all know this. We've all watched what he has been doing, and he has really upped his game in the last few days. He's laying the groundwork to undermine the validity of the midterm elections. Make absolutely no mistake about it. I mean, it's the same language he used in the lead up to the 2020 election, the same language he used to sow doubt in the outcome if he did not win. And when he says, when you just heard him say, if the elections are honest, he means if his party wins. That's what he means. And there's a simple and very obvious reason he's doing this. And it's because he's increasingly unpopular. He does not think he and his party can win on their own. And there's reason he thinks that because a new Quinnipiac poll out today finds Trump's approval rating is now just 37 percent.
And that's three points down from where he was in that same poll just three weeks ago. On every single issue from the economy to immigration to foreign policy, Trump's approval rating continues to sink to new and deeper lows. And so Trump is doing what he has done his entire life. He's trying to lie and cheat his way out of it. He's denying that there is any way voters could reject the path that he and his party have put us on. And that's not just Trump's self-delusion. It's an intentional strategy. And a crucial element of that strategy, a critical part of how he tries to lie his way out of unpopularity is to try and make it so that his narrative is the only one people hear. That's his dream. That's what he wants to happen.
And I don't just mean by being louder than his critics or by saying things that are more outlandish than his critics. Since taking office, Trump has done everything he can to cut off access to reliable information about his administration. He banned the Associated Press from the White House press pool. He killed all federal funding for public broadcasting. He shuttered the overseas offices of Voice of America News. He took control of the military news outlet Stars and Stripes. His minion over at the FCC has made mob-like threats against broadcast networks that do any sort of critical coverage of his administration. He's threatened news organizations with lawsuits over their reporting, sometimes getting them to fork over millions of dollars that they could have spent on quality journalism.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the implications of Trump's declining poll numbers?
0:00–5:14
2
How is Jeff Bezos's attitude towards the Washington Post changing?
5:14–11:26
3
What executive orders are being used to justify ballot seizures?
11:26–16:39
4
How are ICE agents impacting communities in Minnesota?
16:39–20:52
5
What strategies is Trump using to control narratives about his administration?
20:52–26:42
6
What does Marty Baron say about the layoffs at the Washington Post?
26:42–32:44
7
How is the media adapting to challenges under the current administration?
32:44–38:55
8
What future challenges does the news industry face?
38:55–45:35
Speakers
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