Even if she’s successful they’ll vote for Joe Biden … https://t.co/hs1xz4DUVc

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2024

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January 15, 2024 at 01:54AM
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Which may be why she doesn’t do much better against Biden in the RCP average than DeSantis does, despite her constant claims that she’s “up to 17 points” ahead of Biden. (She’s essentially tied with Biden, as is De Santis.)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2024

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January 14, 2024 at 08:04PM
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Ordinarily you might think Haley’s Dem support means she has potential general election appeal. But this is a tactical anti-Trump vote in a state with basically no real Dem primary. In a general election you’d have to think a large portion of these voters will go back to Biden.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2024

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January 14, 2024 at 07:59PM
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On @MarkHalperin’s new “2-Way” Zoom, participants wonder how Haley could have such low Iowa enthusiasm & favorable #s even though she’s “hot” and “rising.” One answer is that her voters are Dems! But why are we sure she’s rising? Maybe she peaked 2 weeks ago, between Selzer polls

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 15, 2024

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January 14, 2024 at 07:10PM
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They want to tweet! https://t.co/1XTz1zr4Us

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 14, 2024 at 05:03PM
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Time for McConnell to step down, no? https://t.co/MBZeT0Wrfi

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 14, 2024 at 04:56PM
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Even *this* sounds better than the crap Lankford/McConnell Senate deal (though it will probably be worse). Hard to see how Biden could usher in migrants any faster … https://t.co/BM0QEs1PUF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 14, 2024 at 04:51PM
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Do you want to follow @BillKristol into 4 years of permanant war? Well, he has found his candidate. https://t.co/1ORZZ0RGwa

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 14, 2024 at 03:30PM
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I assume Johnson gets points with @chiproytx et al if he hangs tough on the (crap) border deal. He can spend those points on budget deal. Likewise if Roy et al make a fuss about the budget they almost force Johnson to stay tough on border. Betraying them on both would be risky. https://t.co/b8o56hAoiU

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 14, 2024 at 01:25AM
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Not just a corporate embarrassment. A national embarrassment. https://t.co/d6LAZ8Fiki

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 10:21PM
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Deep State Employee of the Year (UK edition) https://t.co/yEORAzsqlW

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Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 10:03PM
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‘Who sets expectations” is always an issue. But this is the Voice of God setting expectations. These are the expectations.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 09:51PM
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DeSantis has Haley right where he wants her! I’m only half-joking — if his (very expensive) ground game can overcome this small margin and beat her on a very cold day, it will now be a surprise and a boost for him, no? https://t.co/r2pYNTtPea

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 09:49PM
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Noonan attributes this view to Trump backers, but it seems much more widely shared than that. And maybe it should be numbered (2.5), since it’s the product of Democratic policies (crime, gender, race obsessions) as well as centripetal and catastrophic tendencies of modern society

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 09:42PM
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.@Peggynoonannyc has a subtler version of (3) at the end of this week’s column, which rings true: “[They] think it’s all over. They love America truly and deeply but think the glue that held us together is gone…[I]n the Rite Aid everything’s locked up. School shootings..men in… https://t.co/jwAFep8Cep https://t.co/CSfv4ZW42W

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 09:13PM
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“The former pioneer of the 747 jumbo jet is now regarded dismally by many in its industry, including some of its own employees. Boeing has become bureaucratic and focused more on financial returns than engineering prowess.” https://t.co/d9rZf0S4xR

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 08:57PM
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Energy level was high at the West Des Moines event, though it was at Never Back Down HQ and featured many campaign workers. DeSantis waded into crowd at end, apparently having overcome his alleged aversion to humanity. (I am a bad photographer.) https://t.co/mhx5Y6DwPa https://t.co/dzWGEKodyr

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 08:36PM
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Olsen makes key point about working class Republicans at the end … https://t.co/QeHyd3jYSz

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 08:26PM
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Maybe voter pessimism doesn’t reflect
1) anything particlarly awful about Biden economy or
3) inchoate fears of a future with AI, robots, aliens, pandemics
but rather
2) deep ennui regarding dreary Biden/Dem ideology (eg BBB, “equity,” migrant supremacy) https://t.co/e3rcduT9fJ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 08:20PM
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“Alarmist lawmakers…have made it seem that we are facing an unprecedented crisis, but we are not. [Although] last year recorded the highest numbers of arrivals on record, Customs and Border Protection has five times the budget it used to have”

Huh?

https://t.co/2MR4RlVzrZ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 08:05PM
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DeSantis campaign presents as a supergroup: Chip Roy, Vander Plaats, Governor Reynolds and De Santis. Reduces pressure on RDS to come with the rizz all by himself. It worked. DeSantis held his own in the Mick Fleetwood role . https://t.co/9G7ttmKGIL

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 07:40PM
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RDS rally musical choices less than top, however. “Hooked on a Feeling”? Really? They definitely need “Taking Care of Business.” (RDS’ PAC, Never Back Down, actually has its own eponymous bespoke song, which isn’t bad!)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 07:33PM
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Vander Plaats also made a point of saying that while De Santis will travel to South Carolina right after Iowa, he will then go to New Hampshire–i.e. he isn’t skipping New Hampshire. https://t.co/9G7ttmKGIL

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 07:32PM
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RDS rally musical choices less than top, however. “Hooked on a Feeling”? Really? They definitely need “Taking Care of Business.” (RDS’ PAC, Never Back Down, actually has its own eponymous song, which isn’t bad!)

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 07:30PM
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DeSantis does take questions, and shows considerable breadth of knowledge in answering them (though at the rally I went to he did not gaggle). https://t.co/96PrDlM4aK

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 14, 2024

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January 13, 2024 at 07:23PM
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