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- Poll: 72% of MAGA Voters Would Back Republican Candidate Accused of Domestic Vio...
Jose Luis Magana/AP photo A Politico poll, released Thursday, found that nearly three-quarters of self-identified MAGA voters would continue supporting a Republican candidate accused of domestic violence. According to the survey, conducted by Public First, 72% of MAGA voters — big fans of President Donald Trump — said they would still vote for a Republican candidate accused of domestic violence if the midterms were held tomorrow. That figure was notably higher than the 61% of Trump 2024 voters overall who said the same. Among former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 voters, by contrast, just 39% said they would continue backing a Democratic candidate accused of domestic violence. The survey found a similar divide over allegations of sexual assault. 66% of MAGA voters said they would stick with a Republican candidate accused of sexual assault, compared with 53% of Trump voters overall and 40% of Harris voters who said they would continue supporting a Democratic candidate facing the same accusation. Those were among the more striking findings in a poll that tested voter reactions to a dozen hypothetical scandals. None of the scenarios pushed support among MAGA respondents below a majority. 82% said they would still back a GOP candidate who used legal tax loopholes, 76% said they would support one with a previous DUI conviction, 75% would stick with a candidate who accepted gifts from lobbyists, and 74% said they would remain behind candidates photographed wearing blackface or accused of workplace bullying. Even 58% said they would continue supporting a Republican candidate who made antisemitic statements, while 57% said the same of a candidate who shared classified information with a foreign government. The poll also highlighted a sharp partisan double standard when voters were asked whether candidates from each party should leave the race over identical scandals. 71% of Republicans said a Democratic candidate accused of sexual assault should drop out. Yet when asked that same question about a Republican candidate, only 52% agreed. Democrats also showed a partisan split, though a much smaller one, with respondents generally about five percentage points more likely to say Republicans should withdraw than Democrats accused of the same misconduct. The poll, conducted from July 12-15, surveyed 2,061 U.S. adults online with an overall margin of error of ±2.16 percentage points.The post Poll: 72% of MAGA Voters Would Back Republican Candidate Accused of Domestic Violence first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - James Carville Slams Democrats on MS NOW: ‘We’re Not Meeting the Moment’
Democratic strategist James Carville delivered a blistering takedown of his own party on Friday, warning Democrats are “not meeting the moment” in an extraordinary political and economic crisis just 95 days before the midterm elections. Appearing on MS NOW’s The Beat, speaking with host Ari Melber, the veteran strategist argued Democrats have become distracted by narrower policy fights while the country faces deeper structural challenges, accusing party leaders of failing to grasp the scale of the moment. “Let’s take the plane another 10,000 feet. This is the truth: we have lost a war. We lost a war to a third world power. Get over it!” Carville said of the ongoing Iran conflict, before turning to the nation’s economic outlook. “Right now our debt to GDP ratio, I think, is higher than it was in 1946, after we actually won a war,” he said. Carville also pointed to a Wall Street Journal article about President Donald Trump’s fundraiser Meredith O’Rourke, reporting on her push to collect on multi-million dollar promises from megadonors. “She calls donors that have met with the president and says ‘the president wants this money, now, pay up!’ And it goes between $5-15 million,” Carville said, calling it “the staggering level of debt, defeat and corruption that the United States of America, at the end of July in 2026, is facing.” Despite all this, he added: “And I have got to tell you I am not impressed by the response of a lot of people in the Democratic Party.” Carville contrasted what he sees as the country’s most pressing issues with campaign debates unfolding in key battleground states: “We’re having a race in Michigan and we’re talking about Palestinian self-determination. We’re having a race in Wisconsin, we’re talking about whether we should tax Harley-Davidson 17%.” “We’re not meeting the moment!” he raged. He also urged Democrats considering a presidential bid to enter the race, arguing that if the party needs stronger leadership to craft a sharper message, then that someone should step into the breach. “My hope and my prayers, any Democrat out there thinking run for president, you have something to offer? For God’s sake run, run for office because we’re not getting – we got nothing but problems,” Carville said, adding that Democrats were instead “getting stupid talking points about a war that’s gone on for 5000 years and not likely to get solved… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘A True Embarrassment for Jeanine Pirro’: CNN’s Elie Honig Shreds Prosecut...CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig called it “a true embarrassment for Jeanine Pirro” after the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia moved Friday to dismiss charges against the former Olympic canoeist accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, acknowledging the damage was caused by a “flawed installation.” David Hearn has consistently denied vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, maintaining that he merely touched a section of material that was already peeling from the bottom of the pool, having pleaded not guilty earlier this month. His attorneys argued the government’s own evidence, mainly testimony from one National Park Service official, showed the damage predated his visit and failed to establish any repair costs attributable to his actions. On Friday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead With Jake Tapper, Honig said: I think you could see the problems with this case right away. I wrote a piece for New York magazine, and I said on air that there were some reasons to doubt the validity of this case. I did not expect it to unravel so quickly. It’s a real embarrassment, first of all, for the United States’ Justice Department. Let’s remember — first, they arrest David Hearn, they charge him initially, by complaint, with a misdemeanor. Then, they upgrade it to a felony. They get a grand jury to indict him for that felony, and then Jeanine Pirro holds a press conference, where she’s pounding the podium and talking about what a serious crime this is and how justice will be done. And now, it turns out, they dismissed the case voluntarily. And what DOJ is saying in the statement that we’ve received is that, “Well, we didn’t get the full information about the state of the pool from the Interior Department until after we charged.” But that’s no excuse at all. It’s your job as a prosecutor to get the relevant information first. You don’t charge first and then figure it out. You get the information first and then charge. So, it’s a true embarrassment for Jeanine Pirro. It’s a true embarrassment for DOJ, and they brought it on themselves. Watch the full clip above via CNN.The post ‘A True Embarrassment for Jeanine Pirro’: CNN’s Elie Honig Shreds Prosecutor After She Drops Case Against Former Olympian first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Fox News Host Says ‘Pigeons Don’t Lay Eggs’ Before Getting Corrected by Gu...Fox News host Griff Jenkins made a humorous error Friday, saying that “pigeons don’t lay eggs” before he was corrected live on air by a befuddled chicken coop builder. Jenkins was the guest host for The Will Cain Show and covering a story about Vice President JD Vance having a chicken coop installed at the Naval Observatory, the official residence for the vice president and his family. Backyard chicken coops have been gaining in popularity, Jenkins noted, and the Vance family coop was designed by Carolina Coops, a family-run business that also makes other domestic bird habitats, including for pigeons. He then cued up a video clip of Carolina Coops founder Matt Duboise at Mike Tyson’s home, calling it a “dream come true” to have the opportunity to install a pigeon coop for the boxer. “Hey Matt. Does Mike Tyson know that — pigeons don’t lay eggs, right?” asked Jenkins. Duboise blinked and stared in silence for a moment, before replying, “Well, actually, they — they do, but just not the chicken eggs that we want.” “Ah!” said Jenkins, nodding. Duboise diplomatically moved on immediately, saying it had been “a great, great time building that pigeon coop for Mike — I’m glad you guys showed that.” “I love it!” declared Jenkins, pivoting to talk about the Vances’ coop, Duboise’s company history, and why so many Americans were raising their own chickens now. At the end of the segment, Jenkins quipped that he “would actually consider it, possibly,” getting a chicken coop, “although I have a Jack Russell terrier so I don’t think it’s going to go well — he’ll just try and get in there every time.” Like most birds, pigeons do in fact lay eggs — and yes, they are edible. A report at Tasting Table describes pigeon eggs as having “a silkier texture and a richer aroma” than chicken eggs. They’re more costly, the article notes, as pigeons lay far fewer eggs (one or two at a time compared to the dozen or so per clutch for chickens) and they’re “incredibly delicate and challenging to harvest.” Watch the clip above via Fox News.The post Fox News Host Says ‘Pigeons Don’t Lay Eggs’ Before Getting Corrected by Guest first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Jeanine Pirro Drops Lincoln Memorial Vandalism Case, Says Damage Was Caused by B...
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File Jeanine Pirro, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, moved Friday to dismiss the criminal case against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, acknowledging in a court filing that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was caused by “flawed installation” rather than vandalism. Hearn had pleaded not guilty earlier this month to one felony count of destruction of government property after he was accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool during a June 19 visit. In Friday’s motion, reported on by the New York Post, Pirro’s office said new information provided after the indictment undermined the government’s original theory of the case. “It was not until after the return of the indictment, that the DOI provided additional documents to the USAO-DC indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings (‘AIC’), and the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026,” the filing states. The motion further says, “It was not until after these documents were produced that USAO-DC first became aware of information showing that the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism as initially represented by DOI.” According to the filing, the sealant lining the bottom of the Reflecting Pool had “[a]lmost immediately” begun peeling after renovations were completed, and the Department of the Interior “provided less than fulsome information at the outset of this case.” The dismissal comes days after Hearn’s attorneys challenged the prosecution’s case in a separate court filing, arguing that the government’s own evidence failed to support the felony charge, and pointing to testimony from a National Park Service official presented to the grand jury, arguing that the witness acknowledged the Reflecting Pool already suffered from significant preexisting damage and “could not quantify any loss attributable” to Hearn’s alleged actions. The New York Times reported in June, as crews continued battling algae blooms that turned the pool bright green, that the National Park Service awarded a $1.7 million no-bid contract for a new water-purification system to Greenwater Services, a company tied to a longtime donor to President Donald Trump, John J. Cafaro. A separate no-bid contract was awarded to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor now identified in Friday’s filing as responsible for the botched installation.The post Jeanine… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Letter: Keeping the WBT Site as a Landmark Just Isn’t Logical
In this letter to the editor, the reader responds to Archie Stulc’s letter, “The Dilemma of WBT’s Site,” as our readers continue to weigh in on the future of the WBT south Charlotte, N.C., transmitter location. Radio World welcomes letters to the editor on this or any story. Email radioworld@futurenet.com. Credit: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications In Archie Stulc’s letter, he asked of the WBT(AM) transmitter site if it is allowed to remain as-is: Who maintains the unused towers? What position will the FAA take regarding obstruction marking and lighting? And does the FCC have any standing or jurisdiction to intervene? For the Federal Communications Commission’s involvement, it applies only to ensuring the station operates according to FCC rules and regulations. Beyond that, the FCC has zero standing. The towers obviously fall under FAA purview, and whoever takes ownership will be perpetually required to keep them lit and maintained. Two of the three towers were replaced after Hurricane Hugo in 1989, while the remaining tower dates back to 1946. What would it cost to maintain them? Is the building even accessible? Who would staff and care for it just for an extremely tiny handful of occasional visitors — most of whom are aging baby boomer radio enthusiasts like myself? Finally, was that site ever actually a destination over the past 80 years? Its history can easily be documented using today’s technology and made accessible to the world online. Interfering with a private property transaction for the sake of a tiny few is absurd. Archie referenced in his letter when WDGY(AM) in the Twin Cities built a new tower complex with an array that covered the Minneapolis-St. Paul area with a much stronger signal: “That was a story of things going right: the status quo was preserved, listeners benefited and everyone made money. Huzzah!” True, but that was 40 years ago. Much has changed in these intervening years. Back then, AM still owned close to half the radio audience. Other competing media, now growing at lightning speed, did not exist. A return on such an investment made perfect sense. In addition, the cost of rebuilding complex directional sites is vastly higher and the engineers around to design, build and maintain them diminishes with each passing year. — Bob Biermann [Check Out More Letters at Radio World’s Reader’s Forum Section] The post Letter: Keeping the… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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