2:00PM Water Cooler 3/29/2024 | naked capitalism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump (R): "Trump attends NYPD officer's wake as he highlights crime on the campaign trail"
64% : That area is larger under Biden than under Trump, and it seems to be rising steadily if unevenly.
58% : Nationally, Trump is up 2.4% in the Five-Way, same as last week, give or take.
56% : "The RFK Jr. crusade is primarily focused on his relentless belief in the 'corporate capture' of government on every front, from defense to health care to scientific research to agriculture to his original policy field, the environment.
55% : This is before the $91.6 million bond Trump posted for the Carroll case, and the $175 million for Engoron, but also before the Truth Social public offering.
54% : We begin with an exact number: $293,834,128.42, which was Trump and his companies' cash balance as of June 30, 2021, per documents filed in the New York attorney general's case in October 2022....
50% : Trump is still up in all the Swing States (more here).
48% : I've highlighted PA, (1) because Trump is actually down there, and (2) it's an outlier, has been for weeks.
44% : And: "One longtime Clinton adviser said the fundraiser will likely mark the start of the deployment of major Democratic assets, from Obama and Clinton, and key surrogates in the party, now that Trump has become the presumptive Republican nominee.
41% : Trump (R): "Here's How Much Cash Donald Trump Has" [Forbes].
37% : The big takeaway: Trump is likely sitting on a huge pile of cash -- but not enough to pay off his legal creditors with a simple wire transfer....
32% : Why isn't Trump doing well there?
28% : * Kennedy seems to have sucked all the air out of the room, a new experience, for Trump, albeit no doubt temporary.
28% : Biden (D): "Three Presidents With a Complex Past Team Up in Effort to Defeat Trump" [Wall Street Journal].
28% : "Thursday night offered the chance to have a glam photographer snap you slapping hands with President Biden, or predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, for a donation of a mere $100,000 to Biden's re-election campaign: Pretty posh for the supposed party of the working class.
22% : 'What happened is such a sad, sad event, such a horrible thing,' Trump told reporters afterward.
19% : Pharma and Big Ag and the medical profession and the military-industrial complex and chemical companies are the preeminent villains of his lurid tale of American Carnage (similar in ferocity but not in actual content to Donald Trump's).
17% : We have to stop it,' Trump said. '
10% : Now, though, 'they're all united by the threat of Trump,' said James Carville, a former Clinton campaign strategist.
6% : So, even though it looks right now like it hurts Biden more, nobody actually knows that, which I think explains why Trump is also attacking RFK Jr.' Trump attacked Kennedy in a Truth Social post early Wednesday morning, calling him the 'most Radical Left Candidate in the race' and claiming that 'he is Crooked Joe Biden's Political Opponent, not mine.

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