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Reporter stunned by Biden voters' comments on economy: 'Nostalgia for Trump years … really shocking to me'
President Biden is facing an uphill battle to convince voters the November election is a “referendum” on Donald Trump because even Democratic voters have “nostalgia” for the Trump years, a reporter argued on ABC’s “This Week.”
Host Jonathan Karl asked his political panel on Sunday to comment on the lack of enthusiasm over Biden’s re-election from key demographics who backed his 2020 campaign.
NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid confessed that the Biden campaign would have trouble selling its message on Trump because “many voters are looking at this election as a referendum on [Biden].”
Khalid said she has been surprised by Democratic voters telling her on the campaign trail that they have “nostalgia” for the Trump years.
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“What I’ve already heard in so many of my interviews with people is a lackluster sense of enthusiasm, whether it’s Black voters — you would call them sort of disaffected Republicans,” she began.
She argued a host of factors helped unify the Democratic base to support Biden ahead of the 2020 election, but the current political climate is not as friendly to Biden as it was then.
“To make this a referendum [on Trump], sure, is what the Biden campaign wants, but it is really challenging because many voters are looking at this election as a referendum on [Biden],” she said.
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“I was just up in Pennsylvania. Nonstop, I heard about the economy, and people don’t feel great about the economy now. This nostalgia for the Trump years is something — it’s the economy nostalgia I heard from Democrats even, which was really shocking to me — lay Democrats, remembering how good they thought their 401K was. They would say in their next breath they’re not going to vote for Trump for a variety of reasons, but that is what Joe Biden is up against,” she continued.
Polls and reports have indicated the Biden campaign has lost support from younger voters, Black voters and Latino voters who voted for him in 2020 but now blame the president for the state of the economy.
The Biden administration is trying to court these voters in the battleground states of Georgia and Michigan through a tour selling his “Bidenomics” message.
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Fellow “This Week” panelist Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, argued that people were trying to glamorize the Trump years and were “forgetting” how former President Trump affected abortion access through his Supreme Court picks.
“Right now, everybody wants the president to fix every single thing in their lives, but the president can’t fix every single thing,” she began.
“If we lean in and we talk about the fact that the president is the one that gets the Supreme Court pick, we know that these three justices that Donald Trump got to pick under his presidency — they are the ones that took away [reproductive] access. They are the ones that are attacking diversity, equity and inclusion, affirmative action. They are the ones saying, ‘You know what? Biden wants to help you on your student loans, but we refuse to allow him to give you the help that he wants to give you,’” she continued.
While Biden enjoyed a polling bump following his State of the Union address in March, he is now trailing Trump again, this time by 6 points, according to a CNN poll released last week.
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Lara Trump, Kevin Sorbo tout traditional values in new children's books at Florida story hours
Lara Trump and Kevin Sorbo have joined the Herculean effort to offer lessons to kids in traditional values amid a current culture that appears to reject them.
Each celebrity is the author of a new children’s title published by Brave Books of Texas.
Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee and daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, is the author of “The Never-Give-Up Pup.”
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The book offers lessons in determination and the American Dream. She is scheduled to bring the book to Elisabeth Lahti Library in Indiantown, Florida on Friday, May 17.
Sorbo rose to fame as the musclebound Greek god in 1990s television series “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.”
He flexes his muscles on behalf of male role models in his new book, “The Bear Essentials of Fatherhood.”
The actor and producer is sharing tales from his title on Saturday at Northeast Dade-Aventura Library in Aventura, Florida.
“I’m spreading a message of masculinity and the importance of fatherhood in our culture to local families who love God and America,” Sorbo said via email to Fox News Digital.
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His effort comes, he said, “while men are dressing in women’s clothing and reading inappropriate books to kids.”
Both books and story hours arrive from publisher Brave Books.
The company has been at the forefront of the culture wars since it was founded in 2021 to team with “people of moral integrity and influence to write a new children’s book every month that teaches different traditional biblical and American values,” the company said.
Christian actor, author and producer Kirk Cameron has been its most notable writer and messenger.
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He and the publisher have alleged that public schools and libraries have been hostile to traditional values even as they allow events and story hours for children with sexualized and inappropriate content.
“Now is the perfect moment to teach our next generations the value and joy of working hard toward our goals.”
“We obtained reports of the government-funded American Library Association circulating guidance to sabotage conservative (and Christian) parent groups from gathering in libraries on Aug. 5, 2023,” Cameron and Brave Books told Fox News Digital last year.
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Cameron, the former teen-idol star of TV sitcom “Growing Pains,” believes that Lara Trump and Kevin Sorbo represent a rebirth of faith and freedom in the United States.
“False systems eventually fail,” Cameron said in a statement this week to Fox News Digital.
“And I can already feel the rumblings of spiritual revival happening in libraries, schools, churches and homes all across this nation.”
For her part, Lara Trump hopes the movement is a harbinger of victory for father-in-law, Donald Trump.
The 45th president is attempting to unseat President Joe Biden in November and regain the White House.
“It will take the hard work and perseverance of every patriot to ensure victory this November,” Trump told Fox News Digital.
“Now is the perfect moment to teach our next generations the value and joy of working hard toward our goals,” she said.
Anyone can learn more about the many “pro-God, pro-America” publications by Brave Books by visiting its website.
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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett's cause of death revealed as coroner releases official findings
Charleston, South Carolina, investigators have released their findings in the death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, who was found dead in his truck in March after he failed to show up for his second day of depositions in a lawsuit against the aerospace manufacturer.
After Barnett failed to arrive for the proceedings, his lawyers called for a wellness check, and he was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the parking lot of his hotel, according to authorities.
He had a pistol in his right hand, and investigators later confirmed gunshot residue on his hand. They found a single shell casing in the truck and a suicide note on his passenger seat.
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“All findings were consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the report from Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal reads.
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His official cause of death is the gunshot wound. The manner “is best deemed, ‘Suicide.’” the coroner concluded.
Additionally, police said he was locked inside his vehicle alone when they found him, along with the key fob. They found no signs of unusual travel patterns or communications in his phone records, and hotel surveillance video showed him leaving the hotel by himself before he reversed into a parking spot a few minutes later.
No one came or went from the vehicle until the grim discovery the following morning.
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Police said records showed Barnett bought the handgun legally in 2000, and they found his fingerprints on the notebook containing his suicide letter.
He was suing Boeing, claiming that he had been retaliated against, harassed and spied on by the company.
One of Barnett’s lawyers, Robert Turkewitz, previously told Fox News that he didn’t think the aerospace giant had played a role in his client’s death. However, he added that “it just didn’t make sense” that he would kill himself.
Barnett’s legal team did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the coroner’s findings.
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Barnett worked for Boeing for over three decades before retiring in 2017 as a quality-control engineer. In 2019, he told the BBC that Boeing would rush to get its 787 Dreamliner jets off the production line, compromising safety.
In January, Barnett told TMZ that he was concerned that Boeing was returning its 737 Max 9 jets to the sky too quickly, after an incident in which an Alaska Airlines jet’s door panel blew off mid-flight.
Unrelated to Barnett’s lawsuit, Boeing’s CEO Dave Calhoun announced he would be resigning by the end of the year amid the company’s ongoing struggles.
This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
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Alito says wife displayed upside-down flag after argument with insulting neighbor
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday spoke to Fox News about the upside-down American flag seen flying outside his home in the days following the Jan. 6 Capitol protests, saying his wife displayed it in response to insults directed at her from a neighbor.
Alito weighed in after The New York Times first reported on the story Thursday, in which it said the upside-down flag — a symbol adopted by some Trump supporters disputing the results of the 2020 presidential election — appeared outside Alito’s home in Alexandria, Virginia, on Jan. 17, 2021.
Alito said the saga in his neighborhood began in the days around Jan. 6, 2021, when a neighbor living down the street put up a sign that read “F— Trump” about 50 feet away from a children’s bus stop.
He said his wife, Martha-Ann, then spoke with those neighbors about the sign and the conversation was not well received.
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Alito told Fox News those neighbors then put up a sign directly attacking his wife and personally blaming her for the events that transpired on Jan. 6 at the nation’s capital.
He said that during a walk in the neighborhood with his wife, one person who lived at the property with the signage then got into an argument with her — at one point calling her derogatory language “including the C-word.”
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Following that incident, Alito said Martha-Ann was distraught and decided to make some sort of statement by hanging the American flag upside down outside their home.
Alito told Fox News he had no role in the flag decision, and it was flying outside their property only “for a short time.”
He added that he felt he had no right or ability to control or order around his wife and that some neighbors on his street have been “very political.”
The story surrounding the flag outside Alito’s home comes as the Supreme Court is deciding on former President Trump’s immunity case.
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