🚨New
@ManhattanInst
National Likely Voter Poll:
Trump 44%
Biden 40%
Kennedy 5%
Head-to-Heads:
Trump 48%
Biden 45%
Trump 48%
Harris 46%
Trump 47%
Whitmer 43%
On policy, a new American consensus is emerging—particularly with respect to social issues.🧵⬇️
@Ilhan
Keep in mind your bigotry was the impetus for this disgraceful charade of whataboutism.
The far-left may tolerate your hatred because it’s directed toward an acceptable minority group — Jews. But mainstream America sees you for the unrepentant anti-Semite you are.
@chick_canon
@Ilhan
Not that Steve King’s nasty and bigoted remarks should have any bearing on
@Ilhan
’s nasty and bigoted remarks, but removal from all committee assignments is a hell of a lot harsher than a catch-all and watered down resolution condemning “hate”
Colorblindness > Race Consciousness
In recent years, the history of race in the U.S. has become a topic of intense conversation, with many progressive leaders promoting concepts like Critical Race Theory and the idea that the U.S. is a nation built on white supremacy.
We find
290,000 Americans assembled on the national mall to rally for Israel, demand freedom for Hamas-held hostages, & protest antisemitism
No masks to hide our identities; no tearing down statues
Just an outpouring of love for Israel, America, the Jewish people, the West, & humanity
12 years ago, before he became a dentist, I interned with Ben.
He was a bright, kind, & capable guy with immense love for the Jewish state & people.
Last week, one of Ben's patients, Mohammed Abdulkareem, murdered him & shot two others at the practice.
May God avenge his blood
We are heartbroken and outraged to learn of the murder of Dr. Benjamin Harouni at his dental practice in San Diego at the hands of one of his patients, Mohammed Abdulkareem. Benjamin was an inaugural member of the StandWithUs high school internship program in 2012. Media outlets
@MattWalshBlog
So all content posted on the internet must be suitable for children because they could potentially access it? Otherwise, the government ought to ban it?
Not exactly a glowing endorsement of limited government principles.
This
@cygnal
poll—fielded a little over a week after 10/7 massacre—shows:
-A majority of Muslim Americans believe Hamas' attack was justified
-Muslim Americans find Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh (+4 net fav) more favorable than President Biden (-1 net fav)
Lack of coherent Dem defense of Biden in face of rape charge — even following their campaign to disqualify Kavanaugh — reminds me of Buttigieg's eloquent retort to Warren's "wine caves" attack during debates: "This is the problem with issuing purity test you cannot yourself pass"
Open calls to murder Jews on
@UMich
campus.
These bloodthirsty bigots spew the same venom as the mob in Charlottesville.
Tens of millions spent on farcical programs programs promoting “diversity, equity, & inclusion,” but not a word about this.
In Israel, these kids are just built different.
A 20 year old girl who exhibited more courage, fortitude, & heroism in one moment than most men will in a lifetime.
Compare her to the pissants her same age at Western universities cheering on barbarism from campus “safe spaces.”
Saturday, my niece was on duty at her base on the Gaza border when the fighting started. She’s alive today because of the heroism of her commander, Adar Ben Simon z’’l who gave her life to save soldiers under her command - my niece included.
For Adar. Please consider sharing.
DeSantis is one of the only Republican lawmakers in the country who fully appreciates both the policy importance of and political demand for abolishing DEI bureaucracies and restoring colorblind equality in public universities.
Americans Reject DEI
Three-quarters of respondents (and 70% of independents) believe that children should be taught about the fraught history of race with good and bad, not that the U.S. is a fundamentally racist nation. A majority of Democratic (63%), black (55%), and Latino
If a Jew-hating neo-Marxist still gets whipped this badly running for national office in Europe, imagine how much worse it will be if the Democrats eventually capitulate to the Omar-Tlaib-AOC wing of the party and nominate one here.
LATEST: Boris Johnson’s Conservative party is predicted to win its biggest majority since 1987, vindicating his gamble to call an election on Brexit. Here's where things stand right now with
#UKElection
results
On Passover eve—as pro-terror mobs of Jew-hating bigots take over US campuses with illegal encampments & feckless leaders do nothing to stop them—the
@ManhattanInst
's
@CityJournal
releases a new symposium on anti-Semitism in America.
Proud of this one 🧵
Mayor
@PeteButtigieg
fails to mention this was a targeted act of anti-semitism by Black Hebrew Israelites.
Vanilla gun control tweets are just so much better for his Dem primary poll numbers
Jews ought to respond to this by excercising their 2A rights, not lobbying against them
My deepest condolences are with the family of Detective Seals and all who lost loved ones during the shooting at a Kosher market in Jersey City.
Gun violence has created a national security crisis. We must act urgently to combat rising hate and secure our communities.
900+ members of my hometown Detroit Jewish community were denied previously contracted bus services & stranded on the tarmac all day before being forced to fly back home
They were denied these services because they were Jews coming to protest antisemitism
Amid the darkness, a bit of light:
My American friends—Channi & Jon—were set to wed in their ancestral homeland, Israel
When Hamas struck & friends/family couldn't travel there, Israelis, yeshiva students, & other Jews they didn't know showered them w/ love on their wedding day
@cygnal
For context, among Americans overall:
• 75% disagree that Hamas' attack was justified
• Haniyeh has -47% net favorability
• Biden has -11% net favorability
Voters Want Tough Law Enforcement
We find that the appetite for soft-on-crime policies has diminished significantly from when progressive reform prosecutors were winning elections in cities across the country. Voters, scarred from Covid-era crime increases, want to see policy
Omer Balva lived a comfortable life in America. While his friends were in college, he gave his life defending Israel.
He was accepted to top US universities. No one mandated that he go fight. He just went.
The survival of the Jewish people depends on heroes like him.
Polite society excused last summer's riots.
Bail funds for anarchists/looters were normalized by reputable corporations.
POTUS bears responsibility for yesterday's havoc, but our media lent credence to an unAmerican idea: Feeling silenced by the system? Use violence to upend it
My piece today in
@theatlantic
is the product of five months of work, dozens of hours of interviews, and a lot of personal anguish. It tells the story of a campus consumed in unique fashion by bigotry, of reasonable students enabling rancor. Take a read!
If Gay had expressed such indifference toward calls for another minority group’s genocide, she’d be fired.
If Gay’s plagiarism had been exposed by a journalist with different political leanings, she’d be fired.
DEI is the scheme that protects her. It is a corrosive ideology.
Statement just out from Harvard Corporation backing Gay.
Statement condemns Hamas attacks, admits her early statement was insufficient.
Deems the plagiarism allegations to be “few instances of inadequate citation.”
Will this new standard be applied to Harvard students, too?
This kind of reflection followed by genuine contrition is incredibly rare among public figures today. Posting about it and potentially angering your political tribe is even tougher. Good for Mark.
I have reflected & wanted to apologize for posts during the recent Israel/Hamas fighting that suggested Israel is committing “genocide”. It’s not accurate, it’s inflammatory, disrespectful & is being used to justify antisemitism here & abroad. Now is the time to avoid hyperbole.
Gut-wrenching, devastating stuff.
Lockdown enthusiasts and proponents of forever-masking will pay a heavy political price for what they did to a generation of American teens and children.
@CharlesFLehman
The suggestion that that it’s anti-Semitic to call Soros exactly what he is — a shadowy funder of progressive political operations — is so bizarre.
It’s akin to arguing that describing Bernie Madoff as a greedy schemer or Woody Allen as neurotic & awkward would be anti-Semitism.
Voters Support Ending Racial Favoritism in Government Contracting
Voters reject the idea that the government should take race into account when making hiring and contracting decisions, with 16% in support of taking race into account and 71% believing only merit should be
A key observation informed by years of mediocre pick-up basketball that I think is also applicable to NBA training camp:
The guy inexplicably playing with a hoodie and sweatpants on is ALWAYS going to be the best one on the floor.
Trump's Beating Biden
As the RNC meets to usher
@realDonaldTrump
&
@JDVance1
into the final stretch of the race, we find Trump has something the
@GOP
hasn't seen in decades: a big lead in July.
Still time for things to shift, but his lead is strong & includes a sizable
"The mainstream Right still contends there’s another path forward: the Right as the party of safe streets, parental rights, wealth creation, color-blind meritocracy, and competent, cost-effective government." -
@reihan
Tonight’s RNC speech from Madeline Brame, a former Democrat & mother of a veteran murdered in NYC by career criminals—only to see Alvin Bragg cut her son’s killers sweetheart deals, really brings these numbers to life.
This is why a majority of all voters—including pluralities
Voters Want Tough Law Enforcement
We find that the appetite for soft-on-crime policies has diminished significantly from when progressive reform prosecutors were winning elections in cities across the country. Voters, scarred from Covid-era crime increases, want to see policy
DeSantis understands something that many friends of Israel & even some Israelis don't quite get.
The antisemitism & anti-Western sentiment of Gazans & of much of the Arab world is endemic.
To import it into America is not a viable solution to the crisis unfolding in Israel.
America's New Consensus
To sum things up, a new American policy consensus is emerging.
It is one that remains inclined toward supply-side solutions on economic issues, but hostile toward changes to the country’s largest entitlement programs.
The new consensus is vigorously
News: DC's indoor mask mandate will end on Monday, 11/22.
DC had one of the strictest mask requirements in the nation since July. You'll now be able to shop in stores and work in offices without masks. Masks will still be required in schools, public transit, and other settings.
🚨New
@ManhattanInst
GOP Primary Poll🚨
In a new issue brief, I dig into voter sentiments on the field & issues shaping the contest.
Toplines:
IA
Trump 42%
DeSantis 17%
Scott 10%
SC
Trump 43%
DeSantis 21%
Scott 11%
NH
Trump 34%
DeSantis 13%
Christie 11%
Let that headline sink in.
A shameful day for the
@UMich
community when student leaders are openly aligning themselves with terrorist organizations.
Great reporting from
@MatthewFoldi
and
@alexnester2020
6 years ago these orgs called for my removal from
@umcsg
because I publicly supported Israel. I was the subject of the body's first ethics committee investigation.
Today, a
@UMich
president signs their terrorist propaganda on official letterhead. There will be no investigation.
[Press Release 05.10.2021]
If you have any questions regarding the following statement or if your organization would like to sign in support please fill out this form:
He says this like it’s a bad thing?
The coalition that demands safe streets & rejects thuggish ethnic intimidation tactics from the KKK’s playbook transcends the right-left divide in our politics.
@ManhattanInst
is proud to work with both Republicans & Democrats across America.
Smarter Immigration > No Immigration
Voters view immigration as one of the most important policy topics of the 2024 campaign.
Our survey finds that likely voters believe the southern border presents a major crisis and the U.S. needs to deal with the problem of illegal
Another wild example of the
@WHO
's mind-blowing incompetence (this time unrelated to COVID).
Folks, if you want kids to stop vaping, do not disseminate ads featuring cute kids blowing fat clouds.
Showed this to my 7 year old, he asked "Why is the girl vaping? Kids aren't supposed to vape!". I asked him who he thought would want the girl to vape, then he pointed at the
@WHO
logo. Do they even know what they're doing?
#WNTD2020
D's Losing on Key Issues
Trump has a wide lead on the issues that have been widely reported as top concerns in 2024: border security (51% Trump to 38% Biden), the economy (49% to 41%), immigration (49% to 41%) and crime (48% to 42%).
He lags on abortion (42% to 46%) and
If you're a rightwing skeptic of US engagement overseas, that's OK.
But how many Americans need to be butchered before considering that perhaps the world's strongest military power shouldn't tolerate unprovoked slaughter of its civilians abroad?
Is there a number? Is 22 enough?
A State Department spokesperson confirms that at least 22 Americans have now died in the Hamas attack on Israel, per
@jmhansler
. That has risen from 14 yesterday.
@RyanGirdusky
I’m happy about the result too, but not sure how you came to the conclusion that a career realtor (who is endorsed by President Trump and good friends with Mark Meadows’ wife) is “an entrenched neocon”.
Went to get a coffee and ran into Bill Clinton. Tried to think of something clever, mildly sarcastic, and conservative to say. Came up with nothing. Asked for a selfie instead.
New
@ManhattanInst
/
@EchelonInsights
poll of NYC:
- 92% see crime as "big problem"
- Poorer & black NYers far more likely to say crime = “very big” problem
- ⅗ feel unsafe on subways
- ⅔ want MORE cops on streets
- NYC oppose policies of Soros prosecutors
"Women have been raped at the area of the rave next to their friends bodies, dead bodies.
Several of the rape victims appear to have been later executed. Others were taken to Gaza. In photos online, you can see several paraded through streets, blood gushing from btwn their legs"
Didn’t think there’d be much of any cultural shift when my parents moved from the Detroit suburbs to Boca Raton, FL.
But I just watched my father kill a lizard with his bare hands INSIDE of the house and I no longer view my parents as Midwestereners, but straight-up swamp people
Takeaways from the long weekend in 🏴:
-
@nicholastomaino
and
@madeleinekearns
make a beautiful couple 💒💍👰🏻♀️🤵🏻
- Shrek was apparently Scottish.
- Islay single malts are the superior scotch.
- Black pudding is not pudding and it’s definitely not Kosher. Oops.
Jewish kids in my hometown had to attend 1 of 4 "diversity assemblies" at their public school & listen to a terror supporter justify murdering Jews.
Lawmakers (& voters) should remember—allowing this radical, bigoted indoctrination to go on at taxpayer-funded schools is a choice
In powerful
@WSJopinion
piece, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson (
@Johnson4Dallas
) announces he’s switching parties from Democrat to Republican.
"American cities need Republicans—and Republicans need American cities."
Most Voters are Socially Conservative on Transgender Issues
Transgender issues, particularly relating to children and sports teams have become an increasingly salient issue for voters.
Social conservatives have the upper hand on the matter, with independents, black and Latino
Join us tomorrow as we welcome one of America’s most enterprising mayors,
@FrancisSuarez
, to make the case for one of America’s most enterprise-friendly cities — Miami. 🌴👙☀️🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
🗓️ Tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. EST:
@michael_hendrix
hosts Miami mayor
@FrancisSuarez
and
@rabois
to discuss Miami’s future as an innovative city, tech migration, and local government's role in helping boost emerging businesses of tomorrow.
Support for Supply-Side Economic Solutions + Hostility Toward Changes to Largest Entitlements
It is likely that budget constraints will be a driving force in 2025, regardless of who is elected and which political party is in the majority. The Trump tax cut renewal, combined with
Empty, useless, & pathetic drivel from
@GovWhitmer
.
Hundreds of Jews have been killed indiscriminately. Women raped. Children kidnapped. Elderly slaughtered.
And Democratic Party standard bearers cannot even bring themselves to name the victim (Israel) or the terrorists (Hamas)
I have been in touch with communities impacted by what’s happening in the region. It is abhorrent. My heart is with all those impacted. We need peace in this region.
Pistons now appear to be in the running for Westbrook.
If you told me 5 years ago today that the Pistons stood to have Blake Griffin, Russell Westbrook, and Derrick Rose on the same team, I would've spontaneously combusted.
At the Guggenheim. Kinda boring. Mask is getting itchy. Girlfriend’s primary request is that I get a good picture of her looking at a picture. Fun Saturday. I miss college football.
No Faith in POTUS
Notably, MI fielded this survey prior to the former president’s near-assassination, and historically, assassination attempts have sometimes boosted the political standing of presidents.
Regarding the sitting
@POTUS
, voters have deep concerns with
@JoeBiden
's
Majority is Fed Up with Campus Chaos and Disorder
The recent protests against Israel and the United States in big cities, on college campuses, and at Jewish community institutions feature a growing number of participants using masks, keffiyehs, and other facial obscurants to
Simply a banner week for Jewish day school alumni.
Two of us drafted into the
@MLB
and
@MatthewFoldi
went on Tucker!
We haven't had a week this big since Drake first went platinum.
THREAD: Here's the full
#Tucker
segment featuring the great
@MatthewFoldi
of the
@FreeBeacon
talking about Energy Secretary
@JenGranholm
's shady ties to the green energy company Proterra
Foldi: "It's green energy graft, plain and simple."
Taxpayers Don't Want to Fund "Environmental Justice" Efforts
There is widespread skepticism among voters over core objectives of today’s progressive “environmental justice” movement.
A majority of respondents (55% to 12%) do not believe it is appropriate for the government to
The man who gave me my first job in DC has passed away.
@CongressmanDan
was humble, kind & served 3 terms as a true political outsider (a medical dr.) before retiring pursuant to a self-imposed term limit pledge.
He was everything today’s politicians aren’t—that made him great.
🚨My new piece for
@CityJournal
:
-Dives into latest 2024 polls from
@ManhattanInst
&
@nytimes
-Assesses how GOP candidates can balance appealing to voters' hearts vs. minds
-Makes a case that being perceived as a nerd 🤓 doesn't have to be a bad thing
What would a “proportionate response” to this level of depravity look like?
Rain sheer hell upon any place that harbors sadistic Hamas killers until each and every terrorist has been rooted out and held accountable for their crimes against the Jewish people and humanity.
Big mazel tov to
@ShayKhatiri
on being honored here at
#EIHonors
ceremony celebrating American immigrants for his fundraising in the wake of the Pittsburgh tragedy.
Shay = GOAT 🐐
@yashar
@IlhanMN
Replacing the S in a political mega donor’s name -a donor who is a practicing Episcopalian- with a $ is not anti-Semitic.
Suggesting that support for Israel is only a reflection of the Jewish community’s money & dual loualty to a foreign regime is anti-Semitic.
This isn’t hard.
BREAKING NEWS: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah has been assassinated and killed in Iran, a statement by the Revolutionary Guards said. He and an Iranian security guard were targeted at the place of their residence, the statment said.
Gun Control + Aggressive Gun Crime Prosecution Are Both Popular
Voters of all political stripes support toughening certain gun laws and their enforcement.
They support requiring criminal background checks on all gun buyers (86% support, 9% oppose), implementing red flag laws