NEWS AND OPINION:
“This week, the U.S. House will vote on legislation to require a citizenship question on the decennial census and prevent noncitizens from being counted for congressional and Electoral College apportionment,” said Jake Schneider, director of rapid response for the Republican National Committee, in a brief analysis shared with Inside the Beltway.
Republicans are addressing that. House Speaker Mike Johnson, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Rep. Chip Roy of Texas introduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
“There is currently an unprecedented and a clear and present danger to the integrity of our election system. And that is the threat of non-citizens and illegal aliens voting in our elections. In last five and a half months or so, I’ve been to over 101 cities doing events all around the country in more than half the states. The first or second question that I’m asked in every public forum is about election security. Americans are deeply concerned about this. And it doesn’t matter where you live or whether you’re in a blue state or a red state, everyone’s concerned,” Mr. Johnson said.
The event also featured appearances by Cleta Mitchell, representing the Fair Elections Fund and Election Integrity Network; Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots Action; Stephen Miller of America First Legal; Ken Cuccinelli of the Election Transparency Initiative; Rosemary Jenks of the Immigration Accountability Project; Andy Roth of the State Freedom Caucus Network; and Hogan Gidley of the America First Policy Institute.
“It’s common sense — except to President Biden and his band of open borders Democrats. Mr. Biden, who rescinded President Trump’s directive that only U.S. citizens be counted, ‘strongly opposes’ the bill under the guise of ‘upholding the longstanding principle of equal representation.’ But did Biden already give his game away?” the aforementioned Mr. Schneider wrote in his analysis.
“In an interview with Spanish-language radio this week, Biden praised a ‘significant influx’ of new ‘Hispanic voters’ into the country. Coupled with willfully importing millions of unvetted illegal aliens directly into U.S. communities, we can read the writing on the wall,” he advises, adding that the president “prioritizes illegal aliens over American citizens once again.”
WHAT THE POLL SAID
“Have campus protests backfired?” a Rasmussen Reports survey analysis of new findings released Wednesday aked.
“If the goal of students in recent campus protests was to make American voters more sympathetic to Palestinians, they’ve clearly failed,” the analysis said.
The analysis found that 15% of likely U.S. voters say the college protests made them more sympathetic to the Palestinians, while 42% say the protests have made them less sympathetic to the Palestinians. And 37% say the protests “have not made much difference in how they view the Palestinians,” the analysis said.
The survey of 1,108 likely U.S. voters was conducted on May 2 and May 5-6.
LINCOLN THE LAWYER
The Raab Collection, a Pennsylvania-based dealer of rare and historic documents, reveals that it has acquired and will be offering for sale a newly discovered, unpublished legal document written by Abraham Lincoln when he was part of one of the nation’s most famous law partnerships, with William Herndon.
The year was 1846. At the time, Lincoln was running for Congress, as well as working on the Illinois Circuit Court case Hope v. Beebe, the first case he and his new partner took on.
The document was, until now, unknown to scholars, having been handed down in the family of an American collector for nearly a century. It last sold in 1929 — but will now go on exhibit and on sale May 13, valued at $32,500.
“This is a remarkable discovery. This is the only paperwork from Lincoln and Herndon’s first case we have ever seen on the market,” said Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, in a statement.
“Our research indicates that this newly discovered manuscript is a motion filed in connection with that case in March 1846,” the dealer said in a statement, noting that the two lawyers received $25 for their legal services at the time.
Find the Raab Collection and its impressive collection of noteworthy documents, letters and much more at raabcollection.com.
FOXIFIED
Fox News continues to best its rivals. In the week of April 29-May 5, the network averaged 2 million prime-time viewers per day, according to Nielsen Media Research, compared with MSNBC with 1.2 million and CNN with 594,000.
Fox News also led the pack in daytime programming for the 17th consecutive week with an average daily audience of 1.3 million — and aired 80 of the top 100 cable news programs for the week.
“The Five” was the most watched show in cable news with an average daily audience of 3 million viewers. Also among the standouts: “Jesse Watters Primetime” (2.7 million viewers); “Hannity” (2.5 million and “The Ingraham Angle” (2.1 million).
And a round of applause for “Gutfeld” — hosted by the smart and funny Greg Gutfeld. He attracted an average daily audience of 2.2 million and bested CBS’ “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (1.9 million), ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (1.5 million) and NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (1.3 million).
POLL DU JOUR
• 48% of registered U.S. voters say the U.S. is “much worse off than it was four year ago” when it comes to inflation; 69% of Republicans, 52% of independents and 25% of Democrats agree.
• 25% overall say the U.S. is “somewhat worse off” when it comes to inflation than it was four years ago; 17% of Republicans, 26% of independents and 31% of Democrats agree.
• 13% say the U.S. is “somewhat better off”; 6% of Republicans, 10% of independents and 23% of Democrats agree.
• 8% say the U.S. is “much better off”; 5% of Republicans, 5% of independents and 12% of Democrats agree.
• 6% “don’t know”; 3% of Republicans, 7% of independents and 9% of Democrats agree.
SOURCE: A Morning Consult/Politico poll of 1,974 registered U.S. voters conducted online April 27-28.
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