Mediaboss Marketing

Cookie List

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website when visited by a user asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a sale of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.

Functional Cookies

We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a sale of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.

Performance Cookies

We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a sale of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.

Sale of Personal Data

We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated sale of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.

Social Media Cookies

We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated sale of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.

Targeting Cookies

We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated sale of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.

View post:
Democrat, WFP, whatever: Hochul's on board with fusion voting musical chairs - City & State

The deadline to file petitions to run for New York governor as a Democrat passed Monday without any documents being sent in from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).

The deadlines passing marks good news for New York Democrats who had feared that Cuomo could run in a Democratic primary and turn it from an easy contest for Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) into a bloody intraparty brawl. However, Cuomo could still opt to run as an independent.

To run as an independent, Cuomo would not have to file any petitions until the end of May. He could also choose to wage a write-in campaign, an effort he could start as late as October.

The state Board of Elections shows that six people in total filed the necessary paperwork to run as a Democrat, including Hochul, New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Rep. Thomas Suozzi.

Democrats have been biting their nails over Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace over allegations of sexual misconduct last year, a move that elevated Hochul, his then-lieutenant governor, into the top executive role.

Polls had shown that Cuomo would only trail Hochul by single digits in a primary, raising the stakes of a contentious nominating contest. Those polls show Hochul with yawning leads in the primary without Cuomo in the race.

However, Cuomo has said people are asking him if hell run again and that hes weighing his options. Democrats have warned that an independent bid could take a chunk out of Hochuls vote total in November and potentially even pave the way for a Republican to win the general election with a plurality of the vote.

See the article here:
Deadline to run for NY governor as a Democrat passes without Cuomo petitions - The Hill

The former presidential adviser and pollster weighs in on a recent poll, which revealed that Bidens approval rating has dropped to its lowest point with the majority of those surveyed disapproving of his handling of the economy.

Former presidential adviser and pollster Kellyanne Conway argued on Monday that President Bidens sinking poll numbers is a "big problem" for Democrats ahead of the Midterm elections.

"Biden, heading into the summer and fall, is putting his party ina terrible position," Conway told "Mornings with Maria" on Monday.

The formerTrump campaignmanager made the comments reacting to the latest CBS News and YouGov poll, which showed that Bidens approval rating has dropped to its lowest point with the majority of those surveyed disapproving of his handling of the economy, crime, immigration and inflation.

The poll revealed that the presidents approval decreased to 42% in early April, compared to around 60% the year before.

The presidents latest approval rating dropped by 1% from March and February when 43% of respondents said they approved of Bidens performance.

STAGFLATION RISKS GROW AS UKRAINE WAR FUELS EVEN HIGHER INFLATION

Kellyanne Conway told FOX Business that recent polling numbers show Americans are "suffering economically." (P Photo/Matt Rourke)

Reacting to the latest poll, Conway told host Maria Bartiromo that she has "never seen anything likeit" in her long career as a pollster, pointing to the fact that Bidens overall job approval rating declined about 20 points in just one year.

She then noted that Biden is "in the 30sin his approval rating on crime,inflation, immigration [and the]economy, which are among the top issues,particularly to independents andsuburban women, where he is really declining."

Conway then argued that that indicates a "big problemfor Democrats in the Midterms."

She also pointed to results from the poll, which showed that 8% of those surveyed said higher prices have no impact on their families, with 66% saying the current economic environment presents financial hardships.

Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, on his outlook for oil and gas.

Conway believes the recent polls reveal that "people aresuffering economically" due to soaring inflation and that "they blame Biden and the Democrats for this."

Inflationhit a fresh 40-year high in Februarywith the consumer price index climbing 7.9% on an annual basis, according to data released last month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Month over month, inflation rose 0.8%.

From January to February, nearly every category of goods and services got pricier. Gas jumped 6.6% and accounted for almost a third of price hikes. Grocery costs jumped 1.4%, the sharpest one-month increase since 1990, other than during a pandemic-induced price surge two years ago. The cost of fruits and vegetables rose 2.3%, the largest monthly increase since 2010.

Inflation data for March will be released on Tuesday. The February data, the latest data currently available, was taken before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which pushed prices for some commodities, including wheat and oil, higher. Ukraine and Russia are leading exporters of those commodities.

Former presidential adviser and pollster Kellyanne Conway explains why President Biden is 'doubly vexed.'

GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE

Conway noted that the poll revealed Americans are cutting back on spending onsome things amid the inflationary environment, especially on discretionary activities like entertainment and travel.

"The Republicans should have a monster fall," she told Bartiromo, before outlining the "two things" the party must do to secure wins.

She argued that Republicans must "get onoffense on all issues" and "make Bidens problems,Democrat problems."

"Youve got to make the Bidenfailings, Democratic failings," she stressed.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS

Read more from the original source:
Biden putting Democrat Party in a 'terrible position' ahead of midterms: Kellyanne Conway - Fox Business

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, a Ron DeSantis-mold conservative Republican, may have just coughed up an unforced fumble wrapped in an unforced interception.

Implications for the midterm elections are ... let us say, at this point, potentially interesting. What's clear is that political ineptitude is bipartisan.

Devoted Democrats, plenty beleaguered already, have expressed exasperation at the focus in this space on the tactical ineptitude of national Democrats. They ask: Why choose to assail Democrats when Republicans defend insurrection, restrict voting and undercut public education?

The answer begins with the fact that America's current political and cultural sensibilities are so perverted that the only way to win an election anymore is to explain that the other guy is even scarier than you.

With Republicans having just lost a vote against their frightfully megalomaniacal leader, and as they persist in allegiance to that creature, the only way Democrats could lose would be to give people something fresh to fear from them as well, or at least for Republicans to exploit with ease.

On cue, Democrats have given Republicans a tone-deaf move to the left that over-reaches their tiniest victory margins. Now Republicans could reap worsening inflation, supply-chain failures and rising gasoline prices--entirely matters of luck--to close their deal.

On the current seesaw, each party depends for success solely on the ineptitude of the other, assured that any loss will be short-term because few Americans want either of these parties for long.

The last thing Republicans would need with the seesaw teetering their way for 2022 is to propose actual policies revealing their true and frightful beliefs. That is where the aforementioned Rick Scott comes in with spectacular blunder.

As chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, he has decided unilaterally that his party colleagues who are on the ballot this year need to run on something, not merely rope the Democratic dopes.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a fine if cynical tactician, is beside himself. He wants 51 or more Republican votes in the Senate. And he knows the way to get them is to sit idly while Democrats donate them.

He said it clearly the other day, as if on truth serum. The only time for Republicans to outline a policy agenda for a Senate majority, McConnell said, is after they get one.

When it's your turn to go up on the American political playground's seesaw, by all means sit still.

Scott merely happens to be taking a turn as RSCC chairman. In that largely ceremonial and fundraising role, he has disastrously assigned to himself this advancement of an actual agenda that reads like the kook-right manifesto.

His 11-point midterm promise to voters in supposed behalf of Republican Senate candidates--he calls it "Rescue America"--wants the border wall finished and named for Donald Trump. It wants the federal Education Department abolished and for students to have free choice to attend the school that best meets for them a new mandate to assure that no children ever go home feeling guilty about something the history teacher said about what their country once did.

We will "rescue America" by explaining in our schools that the slaves were always free to go, that Rosa Parks always sat in the front row and that Trump killed Osama bin Laden with his tiny bare hands.

Scott's plan wants all federal services sunsetted in five years and forced to remake the cases for their continued existences. As written, that would include Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

It wants all low-income persons to pay something in federal income taxes, which, depending on how that is structured, could raise taxes on the bottom economic half of the country.

Already Democrats are out with a commercial urging voters to fear that Social Security and Medicare might end and stand for judgment before modern-day Republicans who don't believe in them.

Many economically disadvantaged seniors indeed might worry about a double-whammy--that Scott seems to be saying they should start paying some amount of federal income taxes on Social Security that would be imperiled and is all they have to live on, so meager in their cases that, after the standard deduction, it doesn't reach the level of income subject to taxation under current law.

We need to extract some skin for our game from those freeloaders, Scott's manifesto declares.

Please understand that none of that is likely to happen, thank goodness. That's not the point.

The point is that Democrats' best hope is for midterm swing voters to conclude that, while they don't like the job Democrats have done, they fear the Republicans will end Social Security and raise taxes.

Scott thus is the Democrats' best weapon.

He'll probably soon announce at McConnell's direction that radical leftists hacked his computer and contrived the whole thing. And he'll be widely believed.

John Brummett, whose column appears regularly in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is a member of the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame. Email him at jbrummett@arkansasonline.com. Read his @johnbrummett Twitter feed.

More:
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: It's not just the Democrats - Arkansas Online

Reps. Jim Himes and Mikie Sherrill are Democrats from Connecticut and New Jersey, respectively, and members of the New Democrat Coalition.

The U.S. economy is rebounding from Covid, showing strength and resiliency, but real economic challenges remain. Due to the global pandemic and weak supply chains for critical goods like microchips and semiconductors, American consumers are feeling the stress of inflation at the supermarket and used car lots. The good news is that Congress is working to find agreement on a bipartisan innovation bill that addresses these issues by strengthening our supply chains, supercharging American innovation and helping America outcompete nations like China.

We must take urgent action to make critical investments in American innovation, reduce our reliance on despotic regimes and expand economic cooperation with our allies across the globe. The bipartisan innovation bill will not only be good for our economy and our pocketbooks, it's also critical for our national security. The Russian war in Ukraine and escalating Chinese aggression toward Taiwan show why Congress must swiftly send this legislation to the President's desk.

Following World War II, the U.S. established a global rules-based order that values democracy, free markets, and human rights. We made a generational investment in groundbreaking basic research that has driven American innovation since. We invented the microchip and supplied the world with this critical technology. Now, however, the U.S. finds itself overly reliant on external partnerships to maintain and increase our technological edge. Experts in national security and intelligence recognize that our investment in research and development is insufficient and our unrivaled human capital is underutilized.

In addition, the security of our supply chains is under threat as Russia invades a sovereign neighbor that is a key agricultural exporter and China threatens the independence of Taiwan, which supplies 90% of the world's chips. Depending on critical materials from autocrats, whether minerals from Russia or semiconductors from China, puts the security of the U.S. and our allies at risk. In just a few weeks, we've seen how Europe's dependence on Russian energy has made it vulnerable to supply chain disruptions and limited its ability to take action against a murderous tyrant. We could be in a similar bind if China invades Taiwan, causing us to lose our largest source of semiconductors.

Read more of CNBC's politics coverage:

The New Democrat Coalition led the charge for this legislation and helped pass a strong innovation bill that will strengthen our supply chains, advance American scientific and technological leadership, and ensure America leads the global economic order. America once led the semiconductor market, and we can do it again. The bipartisan innovation bill will keep us competitive by increasing manufacturing everywhere and helping American businesses supply the world. It invests in research including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, and advanced energy and domestic microchip and semiconductor manufacturing.

The U.S. is already increasing domestic production. Intel recently announced a new chips production facility in Columbus, Ohio, and this legislation will turbocharge these efforts. Ramping up production at home will enable us to meet high demand and reduce inflationary pressures, produce more goods, and prepare for the future so events on the other side of the world don't impact Americans' lives. Failure to boost production at home and in allied nations leaves us vulnerable to supply disruptions.

This bill will also help bolster diplomatic ties with Taiwan and respond to the Chinese government's genocide of the Uyghurs through sanctions, export control restrictions, and multilateralism. By advancing this legislation, we can defend democracy, diversify and secure global supply chains, help American businesses relocate operations back to the U.S. and allied nations, and reinforce trading partnerships with nations like South Korea and Australia. When America leads, our world is safer.

By quickly passing and enacting the bipartisan innovation bill, we will set America up to lead the 21st century innovation economy with democratic values, create long-term supply chain stability in an uncertain world, and counter the influence of tyrants and autocrats around the world. This is America's moment to lead. We can't let it pass.

Subscribe to CNBC on YouTube.

Continued here:
Op-Ed: Congress must pass an innovation bill to fight inflation, boost national security - CNBC