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Republicans are in line with the nominees of Trump: from the political office

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In today’s edition, Sahil Kapur of Capitol Hill reports about how Republicans largely put their worries aside when it comes to the nominees of President Donald Trump. Moreover, Steve Kornacki dives in Virginia in the 2024 election elections with the state of the State for Governor around the corner.

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Republicans are in line with the nominees of Trump

By Sahil Kapur

Two of the most controversial level of cabinet-nominees of President Donald Trump went to the entire Senate on Tuesday, with Republican skeptics who put their worries aside to give their stamp of approval to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. For Secretary for Health and Human Services and Tulsi Gabbard for director of National Intelligence.

The favorable committee voices come after a powerful printing campaign, in which the White House warned that senate republicans who voted against one of the president’s nominees would have political ‘consequences’. Faced with the possibility of combating Trump and his powerful basis of voters, most Gop Senators fall in line.

Subject to any unexpected developments, all cabinet choices that have so far come before the Senate are now on schedule to be confirmed. That was not certain a few months ago, when Matt Gaetz plagued his bid by scandal to become attorney general and Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth was engaged in controversy.

Eventually Hegseeth squeaked through the narrowest margins after obtaining the support of Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., while Pam Bondi is now well on his way to becoming Trump’s AG. (A persistent question mark is Lori Chavez Dederemer, Trump’s trade union-friendly nominee for Labor Secretary, who is confronted with some opposition from conservative senators and has not yet received a hearing.)

For Kennedy came the most important mood of Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La. Only a few minutes before the vote of the Senate Finance Committee to promote the appointment of Kennedy, Cassidy said he would support him after “very intense conversations” with him and the White House on weekends.

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Cassidy, a doctor, had expressed serious concern about the unfounded comments from Kennedy that link vaccines and autism. He does not visit that again in his Tuesday statement.

Shortly thereafter, a similar dynamic took place in the Senate Committee, with an important undecided member, Senator Todd Young, R-Ond., Announced that he would support Gabbard. Young said he received ‘obligations’ from Gabbard that she will not recommend protection for Edward Snowden and that she will support FISA section 702, the justified espionage for foreign goals.

(In particular, both Cassidy and Young have selected Vice President JD Vance for the role he played in their conversations with the nominees.)

Sen. Jim Justice, R.VA., a first -year student who replaced Joe Manchin, summarized the attitude that many Republicans have taken against the nominees of Trump. He told NBC News that it is only “honest” to “allow the person that this fair country has chosen to have his team – and if they don’t perform, that’s with him and the team.”

“So I hope he gets his team,” said Justice. “The difficult thing to cross the finish line are probably Tulsi and Bobby. And they are controversial and such, and we want to look at them. “

Asked if he is a “yes” for both, Justice said, “Well, I am probably. I am probably. But at the same time I will be objective. I promise you.”

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What about the Trump presidency today

Apart from the scoring of victories in the Senate’s confirmation process, Trump held his first meeting with a foreign leader since he took office and signed more executive orders. Here are the upper lines from the White House:

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What the 2024 results in Virginia tell about the race of the upcoming governor

By Steve Kornacki

This year’s Virginia Governor race will give an early view whether the dividing lines of the 2024 elections have been merged with Donald Trump back into the White House.

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Trump achieved an impressive win in Virginia last November, which meant what was a defeat of 10.1 points against Joe Biden in 2020 to 5.8 points against Kamala Harris. He did this by gaining new support from non -white voters, especially Asian Americans and Hispanics in North Virginia. But in the rest of the state, Trump usually hit a brick wall, especially in areas with highly educated white voters.

It raises some important questions for the race of the Governor of 2025: will that new Trump support transfer to the Republican candidate? And will those Trump-resistant voters refuse to support a republican now that Trump is in power again or are they possible for grasping for a candidate who is not called Trump?

This dynamic can be seen in the results of November from Massive and Various Loudoun County, Outside Washington, DC

The fast-growing province, just like the rest of North Virginia, has become avid democratic since 2008. But last year it took on a somewhat lighter shade of blue, because Trump has reduced a loss of 25 points in 2020 to 16 points to 16 points. However, his profits were not evenly distributed over Loudoun and had clear demographic contours instead. This becomes clear when assessing results at the level.

Because Loudoun has such a high concentration of Asian Americans (21%, the highest in the state) and Latinos (14%, above the state average), Trump was able to move the needle considerably provincial, even as a college-educated white blank Voters, a group that has become a core democratic constituency in the Trump era, hardly any budged.

In particular, the same districts where college-skilled white voters dominate the Republican Glenn Youngkin government with 5 points in his successful 2021 campaign, indicating that they are not permanently prohibited for GOP candidates. But Youngkin ran into the White House with a democrat and with the political future of Trump at that time. This year’s Gop -Gubernatorial nominee is running with Trump at the center of American politics.

This same pattern was shown in November North Virginia, where Asian American and Latino voters are abundant together with college-skilled white voters. In Manassas Park, for example, more than 40% of the population is Latino, the highest concentration of every province or city in the state. It moved 14 points to Trump, from a 33-point Biden-Marge to 19 for Harris.

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However, outside North Virginia, demography turned out to be much less favorable for Trump. Suburban Chesterfield County, just outside of Richmond, offers a good example.

Just like Loudoun, Chesterfield is also large and diverse. But the Spanish and Asian American populations are much smaller, while the black population (almost 25% of the inhabitants) is enormously higher. The shifts here look different.

While Trump ran in the district in the district with considerable black populations, they were not as pronounced as his win with Asian Americans and Latinos elsewhere. And strikingly enough, areas with the deepest concentrations of highly trained white voters who have moved more than 10 points to Democrats, more than compensating the new non-white support of Trump. (These same districts also supported Youngkin with 13 points in his campaign from 2021.)

All this suggests a somewhat ironic challenge for Republicans while trying to hold on to governorship this year. Historically, they have difficulty building white support, but it could eventually be white voters who present their biggest obstacle to victory.


🗞️ The other top stories of today

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  • 👀 Shutdown Watch: With a deadline of 14 March to finance the government, the recent unilateral movements of Trump have damaged a already loaded push for a dual deal on Capitol Hill. Read more →

  • ➡️ Controversial rent: Darren Beattie, a conservative author who has spread conspiracy theories over the attack of January 6 on the Capitol and wrote on social media that “competent white men should be in charge”, has been named a top post at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Read more →

  • 🏡 Housing walks: Democrats in the Senate Bank Committee are calling on the Ministry of Defense to investigate what an increase in military housing costs. Read more →

  • ✈️ VP abroad: JD Vance will start his first international trip at the office next week to attend an artificial intelligence top in Paris. Read more →

  • 🏈 Red 47: Trump will attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday and will sit down for a pre-game interview with Bret Baier from Fox News. Read more →


That is all from the political office for the time being. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Faith Wardwell.

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