Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Breitbart sending signals of preferential featuring? Pompeo Rex?

About the great Pompeo, here, here and here in Breitbart featuring. Nikki Haley gets less stellar treatment in straw poll "news" (where show-betters on Pompeo would not have had a ticket to cash in). Absent from that last straw poll report, Matt Gaetz, Marjory QAnon Greene, and - big surprise - Liz Cheney.

 In a field of both conservative and liberal candidates, Haley fell to the back of the pack of Republican personalities, with 19.14 percent approving of her running.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and former President Donald Trump overwhelmingly garnered the most support among respondents — 74.12 percent and 71.43 percent, respectively. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) garnered the third greatest amount of support (42.86 percent), followed by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (39.35 percent), Sen. Tim Scott (35.58 percent), Gov. Kristi Noem (29.92 percent), Sen. Tom Cotton (29.92 percent), Sen. Rand Paul (27.76 percent), Donald Trump Jr. (24.80 percent), former Vice President Mike Pence (21.56 percent), Sen. Josh Hawley (20.22 percent), Rep. Dan Crenshaw (20.22 percent), and Haley, with remaining candidates — nearly all of which are Democrats, garnering less than three percent. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention, is the only Republican who saw a lower approval than Haley:

In case percentages exceeding 100% aggregate confuses you, the detail Breitbart omits telling us (except via a link); is that the question polling respondents addressed was: "Vote for all candidates [on a list] that you approve of for President in 2024." (371 respondents voted) 

I think they should run Mitch McConnell as their 2024 candidate. Absent a Sherman statement from McConnell, his name should be in play. How about a McConnell-Gaetz ticket. There'd be some geographical balance to such a one.