Special Report: Kennedy Sinks Biden, Trump on Ballot Access
A special report by Lambert Strether of Corrente.House Wren, Kingston Canyon Rd., Lander, Nevada, United States.
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Politics"So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital." -Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
2024Less than a year to go!RCP Poll Averages, March 29I think I'll leave this up until this coming Friday, so I can at least mumble something about trends. Nationally, Trump is up 2.4% in the Five-Way, same as last week, give or take. Trump is still up in all the Swing States (more here). I've highlighted PA, (1) because Trump is actually down there, and (2) it's an outlier, has been for weeks. Why isn't Trump doing well there?
Trump (R): "Why have Trump's bond documents been rejected - and what does this mean for his legal troubles?" [Independent]. "Documents for Donald Trump's $175m bond in his New York civil fraud case have been rejected and 'returned for correction' to the former president due to missing financial information. A docket appeared on the New York County Supreme Court website on Wednesday, detailing that a 'Bond/Undertaking' had been 'returned for correction.' The court said that the reason for the rejection was that some of the documentation filed on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate failed to include a current financial statement, power of attorney or list an attorney-in-fact..." Mr Trump will now have an opportunity to resubmit the documents with the proper information in order for his bond to be accepted. This means the former president being forced to share his recent financial records.
And on the calendar: "What the $175m bond really buys the candidate is time - several months in fact, as his appeal against the fraud judgement will not take place until September at the earliest, when the court's autumn term commences. That, however, does bring the matter uncomfortably close to Election Day on 5 November - a period when many of the candidate's other legal entanglements likewise threaten to come to a head."
Trump (R): "As general election heats up, Trump camp prepares to be frozen in court" [Semafor]. "One of the complications the campaign will have to sort through is scheduling. Up until now, Trump has only been seated in court for a few days at a time - and oftentimes, it's been of his own volition, with the campaign seeing his presence as a way to merge the legal and campaign battles while heightening Trump's claims of political persecution for Republican primary voters. Now, though, team Trump is readying for their candidate to be required in court multiple days a week, for weeks at a time, which will make organizing consistent campaign events that much harder. 'This is just the progression of where the campaign season is headed into,' one aide said. 'Certainly, he'll have to be in court quite a few days out of the week, and that's never an ideal thing. We would never wish to be in that position, of course.' But his team still believes there's 'ample opportunity' to work around these limitations: Based on the judge's public schedule, they believe Trump, who is likely to camp out at Trump Tower during trial days, will