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- Gavin Newsom’s PAC Spent $1.5 Million To Buy Copies of His Book
Marijan Murat/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images California Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) PAC spent over half a million dollars buying and distributing thousands of copies of his book to supporters, amounting to around two-thirds of the copies sold. Newsom’s move to send his book to supporters began in November, months before its February release date. The governor offered a free copy of Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery to anyone who donated. “Make a contribution of ANY AMOUNT today and I will send you a copy,” the email read. Newsom’s PAC, the Campaign for Democracy Committee, spent $1,561,875 to purchase and deliver the 67,000 copies of his book purchased through the donation program, The New York Times first reported. Of the 97,400 books sold since the book’s release, about two-thirds of sales came from Newsom’s program. “We were thrilled with the response,” a spokesperson for Newsom told The Times. “Our goal was to deepen the relationship between him and the millions of folks who have already expressed support for Governor Newsom’s work. And as it turns out, the tactic more than paid for itself.” The spokesperson also noted that the amount of money donated through the campaign was actually more than the PAC paid to purchase them, though he noted that the governor did not receive royalties from the book. The purchase of the books, made through the governor’s PAC to the Porchlight Book Company, amounted to the largest expenditure thus far this year. The PAC listed the purchase as “books at cost.” The governor’s team touted the sales of the book in a March press release alongside a map showing state-by-state sales. “With more than 91,000 copies sold through organic, in-person and online, non-bulk purchases in the United States, the memoir surged on bestseller lists within hours,” read the release. Newsom heavily promoted Young Man in a Hurry, the book tour for which created the viral, and trickily edited, exchange where the governor told a room, “I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy.” Fox News hosts and allies of President Donald Trump claimed the exchange, which omitted both Newsom’s discussion of living with dyslexia and a full view of the crowd, was racist, prompting fierce pushback from the governor.The post Gavin Newsom’s PAC Spent $1.5 Million To Buy Copies of His Book first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Steve Bannon Gets Laughed at When He Touts Banning Sharia Law in Texas: ‘Thatâ...
Steve Bannon received audible laughs on Thursday when he told a crowd a proposition he supported banning “Sharia law” in Texas. Bannon spoke with Semafor’s Ben Smith at the outlet’s World Economy Summit, where the former advisor to President Donald Trump spoke about his vision for the future of the MAGA movement. Smith asked Bannon about the dominant role of money in politics, asking him why he believed some parts of the Republican party were stifled by corporate interests. “It doesn’t always get rolled,” said Bannon. “What I said last time, also, I said ‘Hey, you’re going to have two choices. You’re going to have Mangione or going to have what turned out to be Mamdani.’ Right, you’re going to have Mamdani’s populism on the left– I actually think it’s more of neo-Marxism and jihadism.” A loud laugh from the crowd interrupted Bannon, who turned to the audience to clarify his remarks. “But it’s very effective. What they’ve done is copy us on how to get out the vote,” he said. Smith later asked Bannon about his comparison between alleged murderer Luigi Mangione and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. In his response, Bannon drew laughs from the crowd both intentionally and unintentionally, going so far as to question the audience over their response to a policy he supported. Read their exchange below: SMITH: When you know, when you said this a year ago– you’ve got a choice between Steve Bannon and Luigi Mangione– I think people were kind of like pretty freaked out. BANNON: They didn’t know which one to choose, right? [LAUGHTER] SMITH: I think people in Washington right now are much less worried that that’s going to be the choice, and I wonder– and you said, you know, you say you think Republicans are going to take the House. That’s a very, you know, if you bet on that on Kalshi or Polymarket, you’re going to make a lot of money. BANNON: Well, hold on, when you say that, look at John Cornyn. John Cornyn spent eighty million to a hundred million dollars, the same old playbook to destroy Ken Paxton. We went down to Texas with Geert Wilders and Glenn Beck in January. We had a proposition on the ballot. We put a proposition on to galvanize people that was to prohibit Sharia law in the state of Texas. [LAUGHTER] BANNON: Also to have uh– that’s funny? Is that funny?… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Hurls Nasty Insults at Fox News Host: ‘One of the Least Attractive and T...
Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP President Donald Trump fired off an ugly Truth Social post after a Fox News host greatly displeased him. On Thursday’s edition of The Five, liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov brawled with her conservative colleagues. “The argument that you’re making against the Biden-Harris administration falls flat when you look at what the Trump administration is doing,” Tarlov told co-host Kellyanne Conway, saying Trump’s performance as president comes up short of former President Joe Biden’s. “Well, I’m gonna look at the fact that Trump got elected running against the Biden-Harris economy,” Conway replied. “And what do people think of him now?” Tarlov said of Trump. “He has a 35% approval rating in most polls.” Co-host Greg Gutfeld then bizarrely jumped in to say, “He’s not a politician.” “He is!” Tarlov noted. “Stop saying that he’s just the host of The Apprentice who came to save us.” “You can’t understand Trump because his political decisions align with his personal and patriotic ones,” Gutfeld insisted. “Personal ones, like his own bank account,” Tarlov responded, alluding to the self-enrichment of Trump and his family while in office. The president seemingly did not appreciate the segment. Posting on Truth Social, he demeaned Tarlov by calling her unattractive and claimed the polls she cited are fake: I’m on Air Force One heading to Las Vegas and Arizona for Greetings and Speeches on NO TAX ON TIPS, a WINDFALL for our Great American Citizens. I am watching one of the Least Attractive and Talented People on all of Television, Jessica Tarlov. Her voice is so grating and terrible, I had to “turn her off!” Her Democrat soundbites are FAKE. She makes up “Poll Numbers,” and nobody challenges her, because she is so boring. I have among the best Poll Numbers I have ever had, and why shouldn’t I, ALL THE COUNTRY DOES IS WIN. CNN had me at 100%, saying they never saw that before. GET HER OFF THE AIR, SHE IS BAD FOR OUR COUNTRY! I hear Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens are dying fast. Their numbers are terrible. Nobody believes them anymore. They were FAKE MAGA, and now they’ve been exposed! President DJT Recent polling shows Trump with an approval rating in the high 30s to low 40s. Fox News did not respond to Mediaite when asked for comment. Watch above via Fox News.The post Trump Hurls Nasty Insults at Fox News… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Claims Epstein’s ‘Victims or Whatever’ Have ‘Refused To Go Under O...President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that the victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had “refused to go under oath,” days after the first lady called on Congress to allow them to testify. Trump spoke to reporters outside the White House on a wide range of topics, including his ongoing feud with the pope and the war with Iran. The president also discussed First Lady Melania Trump’s bombshell press conference last week, in which she claimed she had “never been friends” with the deceased financier. During her remarks, the first lady also urged Congress to give Epstein’s victims their own hearings “with the power of sworn testimony.” The president was asked on Thursday whether he agreed with his wife that public hearings should be held for survivors. “I’m okay with that,” he said. “I think we’ve had a lot of public hearings.” The president then claimed that the women Epstein abused, whom he referred to as “the victims or whatever,” had shot down the first lady’s proposal. “I’m ok with it, but I understand the women didn’t want to go under oath. That’s what I heard, that the women, the victims or whatever, they refused to go under oath, which was a little surprising,” he said. “But Melania felt strongly about it because she was accused of that, I met her through Epstein, but it turned out to be totally false. It was a false story.” A group of 15 survivors signed a statement after the first lady’s presser, calling her words “a deflection of responsibility.” “Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony. Asking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility, not justice,” the statement read. However, at least one survivor has said she did want to testify to Congress. Alicia Arden, who claimed she was assaulted by Epstein in a hotel room, told NPR that she was enthusiastic about the idea. “I’m willing to testify before Congress about what Jeffrey Epstein did to me and how I was attacked in the room,” she said, noting that if other victims “feel like it’s a burden to them, then they don’t have to.” Watch above via Fox News.The post Trump Claims Epstein’s ‘Victims or Whatever’ Have ‘Refused To Go Under Oath’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Trump Flips Out After Mamdani Announces New Tax for Ultra-Wealthy Part-Time Resi...
AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Donald Trump raged against New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday after the mayor announced a new tax on very wealthy part-time residents of the city. “When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich,” Mamdani said in a video he posted to social media on Wednesday. “Well, today, we’re taxing the rich.” Mamdani elaborated on the city’s first tax on pieds-à-terre, which are dwellings owned by individuals who do not live in the city most of the time. The plan is backed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D), who hopes the new tax will close a $5.4 billion fiscal gap through the next fiscal year. The mayor explained: This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million, whose owners do not live full-time in the city, like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million. This pied-à-terre tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate, but who don’t actually live. But even so, they’re able to reap the huge financial rewards of owning property in, dare I say, the greatest city in the world. And most of the time, these units are sitting empty, since again, they don’t actually live here. This is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working New Yorkers. Now, it’s coming to an end. This tax will raise at least $500 million dollars directly for the city. It’ll help fund things like free childcare, cleaner streets, and safer neighborhoods. The video was set to music that sounded much like the score from HBO’s Succession, the hit show about a wealthy family of amoral media moguls. On Thursday, Trump, the longtime real estate tycoon, slammed Mamdani, posting on Truth Social: Sadly, Mayor Mamdani is DESTROYING New York! It has no chance! The United States of America should not contribute to its failure. It will only get WORSE. The TAX, TAX, TAX Policies are SO WRONG. People are fleeing. They must change their ways, AND FAST. History has proven, THIS “STUFF” JUST DOESN’T WORK. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT Trump’s post represented quite the about-face. In November, Mamdani, then the mayor-elect, visited the president in the Oval Office in what many deemed a “love fest” between the two. When a reporter… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Xperi Launches DTS Autostage Portal Premium Tier
Xperi, the parent of the DTS AutoStage technology, has announced a new premium tier of features for its broadcaster portal. The company said that the DTS AutoStage Broadcaster Portal Premium gives subscribing stations access to station rankings by daypart, in near real-time, as well as expanded, exportable music charts. The portal’s data is from DTS AutoStage, which is integrated into approximately 16 million vehicles globally. Per Xperi, this generates around 34 million hours of listening data per month in the U.S. across approximately 302 markets. Pricing is structured for both commercial and non-commercial categories, determined by market size and BIA revenue market ranking. Premium feature breakdown Station Ranking with Dayparts in the DTS AutoStage Broadcaster Portal Premium. Click to enlarge. The features are now available and will be demonstrated at Xperi’s NAB Show booth, which include: Station rankings with daypart granularity: Stations can see exactly where their station ranks in its local market and in adjacent markets, broken down by daypart: overnight, morning drive, midday, afternoon drive and evening. Near real-time data — by day, week, month and quarter: Premium subscribers can watch patterns evolve and use them to inform their programming and promotions. Top 100 songs: Premium subscribers gain access to weekly top 100 song rankings by total listening sessions, complete with spins, average sessions per spin and week-over-week chart movement. Full data export: Every report in the premium tier — market share, daypart activity, music charts and ranking position — can be exported and downloaded for use in advertiser presentations and sales materials. Enhanced combined listening heatmaps across expanded markets: Premium subscribers can view listening heatmaps with all broadcast frequencies — FM, HD Radio and translators — combined into one unified view, as well as weekly and monthly heatmap views. Existing broadcaster portal features include quarterly listening data provided at the station level by time of day, market and geography in their core markets and surrounding markets. The portal also includes hourly flow, geographic heat maps and the number of vehicles used for listening reporting, with market sample sizes updated daily. DTS AutoStage is now in 13 automotive brands, including Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, Hyundai, Genesis, Kia, BMW, MINI, Ford, Lincoln, Nissan, Infiniti, Tesla and Audi. Market Share in the DTS AutoStage Broadcaster Portal Premium. Click to enlarge. As of the beginning of April, vehicle coverage in New York City is 247,000; Cleveland is 46,312; Birmingham, Ala., is 19,211;… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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