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While numerous parties deserve blame for the overturning of Roe v. Wade last JuneMitch McConnell, the antiabortion lobby, the Supreme Courts conservative goon squadone man in particular deserves the majority of that blame. We speak, of course, of Donald Trump, who initially ran for president on the vow that he would exclusively appoint justices who would roll back the landmark decision and then did just that. To wit: Shortly after Roe was gutted last year, Trump took credit for the move, saying it was only made possible because I delivered everything as promised. In fact, just this morning, he took to Truth Social to declare: After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the shock of everyone, and for the first time put the Pro Life movement in a strong negotiating position over the Radicals that are willing to kill babies even into their 9th month, and beyond. Without me there would be no 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks, or whatever is finally agreed to. Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing. Thank you President TRUMP!!!

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Obviously, this statementwhich includes one of the ex-presidents favorite lies, that babies were once aborted in the 9th month, and beyondwould be disturbing enough on its own. But its particularly bizarre given that just last night, Trump claimed that in a second term hes going to make a deal on abortion that will unite the entire country.

Speaking to Newsmax, Trump said that with the downfall of Roe, he won the antiabortion community the power of negotiation. Then he declared: I put them in a position. Now, [Ron] DeSantis, or Ron DeSanctimonious as I call him, he came out with the six weeks. Other people agree with it. And a lot of people dont. Were in a position now, and Im gonna be leading the charge. Were in a position now where we can get something that the whole country can agree with, and thats only because I got us out of theRoe v. Wade,where the pro-life people had absolutely nothing to say. But on pro-life, I will tell you, what I did onRoe v. Wade, nobody elsefor 50 years theyve been trying to do it. I got it done. And now were in a position to make a really great deal, and a deal that people want. Emphasis ours because Trump says a lot of stupid stuff a lot of the time, but these claims are definitely up there given that (1) in the year 2023, there is virtually nothing all Americans can agree on, with the exception of airlines being evil andMitch McConnells beingthe spawn of Satan, and (2) it seems just slightly hard to believe that the man who regularly brags about killing the national right to an abortion is going to come up with something that the whole country will love.

Trump, of course, is in something of a bind right now as he simultaneously attempts to court antiabortion evangelicals and seem not too extreme on the issue. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America put out a blistering response last month to his campaignsstatementtoThe Washington Postthat states should decide abortion laws, as opposed to the countrys having a national ban. President Trumps assertion that the Supreme Court returned the issue of abortion solely to the states is acompletely inaccurate reading of theDobbsdecisionand is a morally indefensible position for a self-proclaimed pro-life presidential candidate to hold,saidSBA Pro-Life America presidentMarjorie Dannenfelser.Life is a matter of human rights, not states rights. We will oppose any presidential candidate who refuses to embrace, at a minimum, a 15-week national standard to stop painful late-term abortions while allowing states to enact further protections.

Meanwhile, the irony here is that if Trump actually wanted to attempt to unite the country, or as much of it as possible, hed make a deal to expand abortion access, given that nearly two thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and a majority of the country disapproved of Roe v. Wades being overturned. But, of course, hes not going to do that, just like hes not going to stop repeating the absurd lie that before Roe was overturned, they could kill the baby in the ninth month or after the baby was born.

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(STACKER) In November of last year, former President Donald Trump announced his plans to run for president again in 2024. Despite potential complications presented by his indictment over falsifying business records in March and a jury finding him liable for defamation and sexual abuse in civil court in May, Trump has not announced any changes to his re-election bid; in fact, the Trump campaign announced an influx of donations after his grand jury indictment, signaling continued support from his base.

However, Trumps broader appeal in the context of the 2024 presidential race remains unclear. The 2022 midterm elections put his political influence, both within the Republican party and among the voting public, to the test. Trump endorsed more than two dozen Republican candidates. While the GOP expected a red wave to deliver overwhelming control of both houses of Congress, the results were significantly more muted. Democrats retained control of the Senate, and while Republicans have the House, the margin of success proved to be narrower than pro-Trump devotees anticipated. Candidates that were given the thumbs-up by Trump did not overwhelmingly win as expected.

Exactly how the midterm election results and his ongoing legal troubles will affect Trumps long-term fundraising efforts remains to be seen. But Trump committees raised millions of dollars before the midterms, particularly after the FBI raided his Florida Mar-a-Lago home. In fact, by the end of July 2022, the political action committee Save America (one of Trumps largest PAC affiliates) had accumulated more than $99 million on Trumps behalf.

Stacker analyzed Federal Election Commission records from Jan. 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023, to compile a list of the zip codes that have donated the most money to Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election. The total number of donations from Pennsylvania was $313,326 from 5,712 individual donations. Each zip code is ranked by its total donation amount per 1,000 people to the Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. campaign committee, filing as the Donald J. Trump For President 2024, Inc PAC.

Only FEC-processed records from unique individuals (as opposed to outside groups or committees) were considered. Slides also include the number of donations made toward Trumps campaign in that zip code and in the state overall. Demographic and population information is derived from the Census Bureau. The townships listed beside each zip code represent the most sizable community within that respective zip code but do not necessarily encompass its entire population. They are offered as a geographic frame of reference. Zip codes with populations under 1,000 or with population data not available were excluded from the analysis as were zip codes with fewer than 10 individual donations.

#25. 15044 (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $134.75 ($3,830 total) Number of individual donations: 52 Population: 28,424 Median household income: $120,955

#24. 18034 (Center Valley, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $136.58 ($1,266 total) Number of individual donations: 10 Population: 9,270 Median household income: $116,985

#23. 19465 (Pottstown, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $137.03 ($2,561 total) Number of individual donations: 60 Population: 18,689 Median household income: $94,949

#22. 15658 (Ligonier, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $138.46 ($1,151 total) Number of individual donations: 12 Population: 8,315 Median household income: $70,079

#21. 15021 (Burgettstown, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $154.88 ($1,001 total) Number of individual donations: 13 Population: 6,460 Median household income: $67,703

#20. 17821 (Danville, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $158.22 ($2,977 total) Number of individual donations: 134 Population: 18,818 Median household income: $65,651

#19. 15241 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $158.93 ($3,444 total) Number of individual donations: 10 Population: 21,672 Median household income: $131,809

#18. 19073 (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $180.58 ($3,748 total) Number of individual donations: 14 Population: 20,756 Median household income: $120,833

#17. 18224 (Freeland, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $189.22 ($1,202 total) Number of individual donations: 90 Population: 6,353 Median household income: $50,827

#16. 18623 (Laceyville, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $193.90 ($452 total) Number of individual donations: 12 Population: 2,332 Median household income: $59,167

#15. 18353 (Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $203.71 ($2,443 total) Number of individual donations: 188 Population: 11,993 Median household income: $78,888

#14. 19504 (Barto, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $206.49 ($1,009 total) Number of individual donations: 28 Population: 4,886 Median household income: $84,014

#13. 17224 (Fort Loudon, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $230.85 ($393 total) Number of individual donations: 36 Population: 1,701 Median household income: $103,009

#12. 15320 (Carmichaels, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $232.85 ($1,255 total) Number of individual donations: 10 Population: 5,388 Median household income: $64,022

#11. 17961 (Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $254.24 ($1,724 total) Number of individual donations: 17 Population: 6,781 Median household income: $80,782

#10. 16664 (New Enterprise, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $258.97 ($562 total) Number of individual donations: 19 Population: 2,170 Median household income: $66,700

#9. 18405 (Beach Lake, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $266.24 ($615 total) Number of individual donations: 12 Population: 2,309 Median household income: $61,196

#8. 17228 (Harrisonville, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $270.25 ($292 total) Number of individual donations: 11 Population: 1,081 Median household income: $68,750

#7. 17048 (Lykens, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $324.37 ($1,222 total) Number of individual donations: 20 Population: 3,766 Median household income: $65,991

#6. 18372 (Tannersville, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $342.27 ($867 total) Number of individual donations: 12 Population: 2,532 Median household income: $87,778

#5. 15474 (Point Marion, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $361.15 ($811 total) Number of individual donations: 62 Population: 2,246 Median household income: $59,432

#4. 17352 (New Park, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $386.83 ($617 total) Number of individual donations: 32 Population: 1,595 Median household income: $95,521

#3. 18322 (Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $437.95 ($1,239 total) Number of individual donations: 10 Population: 2,829 Median household income: $92,434

#2. 17846 (Millville, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $640.67 ($2,463 total) Number of individual donations: 106 Population: 3,845 Median household income: $59,643

#1. 16061 (West Sunbury, Pennsylvania)

Money donated per 1k people: $842.22 ($2,298 total) Number of individual donations: 30 Population: 2,729 Median household income: $65,042

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May 17, 2023 | 4:03pm

President Biden would expand his 2020 margin of victory over former President Donald Trump if a rematch were held today, according to a new poll exclusively shared with The Post Wednesday.

The WPA Intelligence survey of 1,571 registered voters found Biden, 80, leading 76-year-old Trump 47% to 40%. By comparison, Biden defeated Trump by 4.5 percentage points in the 2020 popular vote, while former President Barack Obama won re-election over Republican Mitt Romney by 3.9 percentage points in 2012.

The poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5% and was conducted between May 10 and 13, also showed independent voters backing Biden by a whopping 14 percentage points, up from the nine percentage points by which the Democrat won independents three years ago, per the Pew Research Center.

Wednesdays poll also showed Democrats leading generic down-ballot races 47% to 42% with Trump at the top of the Republican ticket.

Despite the grim reading for Trump supporters, the poll also shows Biden remains vulnerable to defeat next year.

Just 46% of voters approve and 54% of voters disapprove of the job the president is doing, with 42% strongly disapproving.

Only 39% of registered voters have a favorable impression of the commander-in-chief, with 54% having an unfavorable impression.

Also, just 22% believe the country is on the right track, whereas 78% believe it is on the wrong track.

However, Trumps ratings are even worse, with 32% of registered voters having a favorable impression compared to 62% with unfavorable impressions.

The 45th president fared even worse among independents, with just 21% having a favorable impression and 71% having an unfavorable impression.

Despite Joe Bidens unpopularity, our poll found that he would win re-election in a rematch against Donald Trump by a bigger margin than the one he had in 2020, said WPA principal Amanda Iovino, who oversaw the polling.

Its clear from the data that Trumps standing with Independents has weakened considerably since the 2020 election and that he has failed to attract new voters. This should surprise no one, as it is entirely consistent with last years election results among Trump-backed candidates in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and other states.

WPA Intelligence CEO Chris Wilson is an adviser to Never Back Down, a super PAC aligned with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expected bid for the presidency.

The polling firm said Wilson was not involved with the survey and the poll was not sponsored by Never Back Down or its associates.

The president last enjoyed a 7-point margin over Trump in a USA Today/Suffolk poll from December, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters nationwide.

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Since Donald Trump is the firmly established front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, that raises the question: How does the media cover him over the next 18 months?

This issue was crystalized by CNNs decision to interview the former president live before a raucously supportive audience. He ran roughshod over the anchor, Kaitlan Collins, spewing out lies, stirring up the crowd and swatting down every attempt to hold him accountable for his denial and deceit.

Critics from the left savaged the network for giving Trump such a platform. CNN should be ashamed of themselves, fumed Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. And even CNNs own media writer Oliver Darcy wrote, Its hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.

Darcy should look harder. CNN made two major mistakes in the format they used, but their basic instincts were correct. As Anderson Cooper chastised his own CNN audience about their aversion to Trump: Do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away? Media critic Jack Shafer added in Politico: A genuine news outlet cant avert its eyes during a campaign just because a candidate is malevolent, duplicitous, cruel and deceitful.

News organizations have long grappled with how to treat Trump, who breaks all the rules by lying incessantly while never correcting his falsehoods or apologizing for them. He might have been an amateur politician in 2016, but he was a professional TV performer who knew instinctively how to keep the cameras red light on.

He was able to do this because he thought like a TV camera, writes New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik. He knew what TV wanted, what stimulated its nerve endings.

That made Trump, in his words, a ratings magnet, and the networks ate it up, carrying many of his rallies live. Eventually, however, the mainstream media began to realize how badly it had been manipulated. The Times started branding Trumps falsehoods as lies, and CNN head Jeff Zucker admitted that hed made a major mistake in broadcasting Trumps appearances unfiltered.

That vigilant posture only grew more aggressive during Trumps White House years, as the mainstream media felt it had to abandon doctrines that could be called false equivalency or bothsides-ism. As the Times bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller told me, We are much tougher about calling out falsehoods from the president. ... Trump has uttered so many obvious falsehoods, so often, that to just report what he said, like we have covered other presidents, seems like a falsehood in itself.

But when CNNs parent company was bought by Discovery last year, its new bosses decided the network had strayed too far to the left and needed to adopt a less adversarial stance toward Trump. That decision led to the town hall, and in some ways, it did accomplish its purpose revealing the true Trump. By daring to commit journalism, wrote Shafer, the forum produced a bounty of information that just may damage Trump.

To take just a few examples: The former president described the insurrection on Jan. 6 as a beautiful day; he derided E. Jean Carroll, the writer who successfully sued him for defamation, as a whack job; he hailed the Dobbs decision canceling a national right to abortion as such a great victory.

Democrats are already mining Trumps statements for campaign gold, and President Biden summed up his core campaign message by tweeting, Its simple, folks. Do you want four more years of that?

Still, CNN made some serious errors. The first was to put Trump on live, so his flame-throwing bombast could incinerate the stage. Live TV interviews will always favor those who prefer mendacity, writes media historian Michael Socolow in Slate. The formats structure significantly favors distribution of unproven allegations (and even falsehoods) over interjected corrections. The second error was to put Trump in front of an audience that would cheer on his mendacity and turn the event from a town hall into a tumultuous rally.

There is a proven model here: 60 Minutes, the program that has dominated TV ratings since 1968. They interview everybody, including Trump, but never live, so theres ample time and space to correct and control untruths. And these sit-downs are always one-on-one, no claque of supporters to distract or distort the conversation.

CNN was right to give Trump its microphone. It was wrong to let him hijack it. Thats an important lesson the press needs to learn going forward.

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Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speak at midterm election rallies, in Dayton, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2022, and Tampa, Florida, Nov. 8, 2022, in a combination of file photos.

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As former President Donald Trump blinks on the abortion debate, his likely top rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is taking an opportunity to fight him on a key 2024 election issue that is shaping up to be as divisive in the Republican primary as it will be in the general.

DeSantis, who is expected to publicly announce his presidential plans in the coming weeks, took a direct swing at Trump on Tuesday after the current GOP presidential front-runner suggested that Florida's new six-week abortion ban was "too harsh."

Asked about that remark, DeSantis said the legislation he signed is something that "probably 99% of pro-lifers support."

The governor noted that Trump had dodged on whether he would back that bill.

"As a Florida resident, you know, he didn't give an answer about, 'Would you have signed the heartbeat bill that Florida did, that had all the exceptions that people talk about?'" he said.

"The Legislature put it in, I signed the bill, I was proud to do it," DeSantis said, adding, "He won't answer whether he would sign it or not."

The governor's remarks at a bill-signing event marked a rare rebuttal to Trump, who has spent months bludgeoning his potential primary rival with attacks that have mostly gone unanswered.

Trump was a main catalyst for last year's lethal blow to federal abortion rights, as he appointed three of the conservative Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. That seismic ruling made good on Trump's 2016 campaign promise to put abortion regulations back in the hands of the states.

It was the biggest-ever win for conservatives whose opposition to abortion protections has been a rallying cry for decades. But it drew a ferocious backlash.

Many voters, incensed by the sudden loss of what had been a constitutional right for nearly five decades, flocked to the polls in the November midterms, and pro-abortion rights Democrats broadly outperformed expectations that had strongly favored Republicans. Surveys showed the high court's ruling galvanized turnout among young voters, women and those voting in a general election for the first time.

Now, as he looks for another term in the White House, Trump has shown comparatively little interest in flaunting his record on abortion. When pressed to detail what his abortion agenda would look like if he won in 2024, the pugilistic ex-president has opted for a softer, less committed tone than some of his competitors.

Trump himself underlined that contrast when asked in a recent interview about the six-week abortion ban that DeSantis had just signed in Florida.

"Many people within the pro-life movement feel that that was too harsh," Trump said in an interview published Monday with The Messenger. He demurred on whether he felt the same way, or whether he would sign a similar ban.

"I'm looking at all alternatives. I'm looking at many alternatives," Trump said.

He was similarly hard to pin down in a recent CNN town hall, declining to say if he would sign a federal abortion ban or what other policies he might favor instead.

"What I will do is negotiate so that people are happy," Trump said, while defending his efforts that led to Roe's reversal.

Trump may be speaking with a general-election audience in mind: National polls tend to show most voters support abortion rights, especially following the Supreme Court's ruling. Surveys also show voters consider the issue extremely important to them.

President Joe Biden has taken notice: His reelection announcement video slammed what he described as Republican "MAGA extremists" who are bent on "dictating what health care decisions women can make."

But DeSantis' willingness to hit Trump from the right on abortion could also be a strategic one. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found a strong majority of likely Republican primary voters, 68% to 27%, supported banning most abortions after six weeks.

Those numbers could be emboldening the governor, who otherwise has appeared to go out of his way to avoid alienating the swath of Republican voters still highly sensitive to criticism of Trump.

Other candidates, both those who have declared their campaigns and those who are considering taking the plunge, seem to be making their own calculations.

Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence, has reaffirmed his staunchly anti-abortion views as he appears to be inching toward his own White House bid. He has also come out against a widely used abortion pill, mifepristone, saying he wants the medication taken off the market.

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who launched a Republican presidential exploratory committee last month, has said that he would limit abortions to "no more than 15 weeks" of pregnancy if elected president.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, meanwhile, distinguished herself by addressing the abortion debate head on, saying in a speech that the next president must find a "national consensus."

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