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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Amidst the Musk feud, Trump continues to screw his own voters [1]

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Date: 2025-06-07

Washington Post:

They served the nation. Now, these veterans say they’re protesting to save it. Today in D.C., thousands of veterans are rallying against Trump’s cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs and his slashing of staff throughout the government. “A lot of the people I served with are 100 percent disabled,” said Radcliffe, 68, who spent two decades in the Navy. “What if they lose their care? What if they served the country but can now no longer make ends meet?” So this week he drove from St. Louis to D.C. to be among the thousands of veterans from across the country expected to pour onto the National Mall for a rally Friday afternoon that organizers say is a grassroots push “to defend our American values, protect civil servants and restore dignity to public service.”

Max Burns/MSNBC:

Republican lawmakers are dangling a sword over thousands of VA workers GOP lawmakers are discovering there's such a thing as asking too much of America's veterans. It’s fitting that frustrated veterans chose June 6 — D-Day — as the moment to take a stand, as they hold a rally at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that advocacy group Unite4Veterans describes as one of the largest rallies of military service members in decades. Like D-Day once did, Friday’s rally has the potential to reshape the political landscape ahead of the upcoming midterm election. Faced with the reality of Trump’s destructive VA policies, America’s troops are questioning their traditionally deep Republican loyalties at a level we’ve never seen before. Congressional Republicans, take note.

x NEW from @NavigatorSurvey



Battleground Congressional District



Trump/GOP budget plan is underwater (-12)

Support: 40%

Oppose: 52%



Among Persuadable Voters (-26)

Support: 29%

Oppose: 45% pic.twitter.com/yCVZHz5mqK — Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) June 6, 2025

Amy Walter/Cook Political Report:

How Voters Get Information About Politics Matters as Much as What They Know This pattern is something of a double-edged sword for Democrats. On the one hand, it means that they do disproportionately well in off-year elections when the electorate is more heavily populated with “high information” voters. In presidential years, however, which attract a broader and less hyper-engaged news audience, Republicans perform better. A challenge for Republicans this cycle, of course, is whether they can get these voters who are less likely to follow the news to show up to vote. But there’s also evidence that this framing may be too simplistic: Grouping voters into binary categories of low or high information may not adequately capture the ways in which voters are getting and absorbing information. Dave Beattie is the Head of Strategy at the data analytics firm CinqDI, which uses first-party publisher data, polling, and consumer and voter files to develop behavior-based models. A former political pollster, Beattie told me that “instead of asking people what’s the most important issue,” as traditional polls do, “we look at ‘what are you paying attention to.’” What people choose to click on or read is a very good proxy for what they are most interested in hearing from a candidate. For example, in a partnership with New Jersey news site NJ.com, CinqDI built a model that combined reader behavior with voter and consumer files to help give them insights into the upcoming New Jersey gubernatorial primary election. They found that Democratic voters who had already turned in their absentee ballots were most likely to read about issues like Trump's influence on the race, as well as social justice and police overreach. But among the larger group of Democratic primary voters who requested ballots but had not yet turned them in, kitchen table issues like school funding, housing affordability and property taxes were the most read topics. What does this tell us? If you are one of the Democratic candidates looking for a way to get past current frontrunner Rep. Mikie Sherill, a focus on education or economic issues would be a better closing argument than one that centered on Trump.

x “…he stood by his statements and that the ‘message was clear’ to viewers. Asked if he was worried about retaliation from an administration that has sought to defund and disparage scientists, Morales said: ‘No, not at all. Science is science’.” https://t.co/dwJx38qmGf — John Morales (@JohnMoralesTV) June 6, 2025

G Elliott Morris/Strength in Numbers:

What voters think about Trump, in their own words Republicans said the president is doing "great," while Democrats think he's "chaotic" and "treasonous" But I think there’s a lot of utility in hearing how voters feel, in their own words, about politics. It really crystallizes the shape and depth of public opinion. That’s of course what we are trying to do with polling in general, but generally pollsters are forcing people to pick one response out of a set of options they have written themselves. Polls are what people think, in pollsters’ words. So what can we learn if we get a little less quantitative and let voters express themselves in their own words?

x We asked 1,000 Americans what they thought of the Trump presidency so far. Here is what political independents said.



I would be pretty worried about this if I were the Republican Party trying to keep my House majority in 2026.



(Link in next post) pic.twitter.com/jhhEWUob9I — G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) June 6, 2025

Alex Burness/Bolts on sheriffs:

“It Blows My Mind That There’s No Opposition”: When ICE Allies Run Unchallenged In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a Republican sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” is in a race to the right against a GOP challenger who wants more immigration enforcement. No Democrat or independent has filed to run. Many Virginia sheriffs have recently rushed into new partnerships with federal immigration authorities. In Dooley’s region of Hampton Roads, the sheriff of Chesapeake, the state’s second most populous city, just signed a new detention contract with ICE this week, and he is referring to himself in campaign mailers as “Detain ‘Em Dave” as he runs to retain his seat. This sheriff, Dave Rosado, is locked in a June 17 GOP primary against Wallace Chadwick, a local police lieutenant who vows to be even more aggressive on immigration enforcement. Compounding Dooley’s frustration: This GOP primary will most likely determine the next sheriff. No Democrat filed to run by an April deadline, despite this being a competitive city of 250,000 people that narrowly voted for Kamala Harris last fall, and the window for the party to designate a candidate, or for an independent to join the race, is fast closing.

Delaney Nolan/Bolts on Justices of the peace:

In Louisiana, Some Court Officials Get Paid to Evict Justices of the peace can line their pockets by granting evictions. A new lawsuit argues that’s unconstitutional. George worried she wouldn’t get a fair hearing over the eviction, because her landlord had chosen to file it with Justice of the Peace Steven Sanders in Baton Rouge, a city that sees about a quarter of the evictions in the state. Sanders had already evicted three of George’s neighbors. And if Sanders ruled in favor of the landlord again—as he almost always does, often within just a few minutes—the money George had scraped together to pay court costs would go not to the state’s coffers, but into Sanders’ pocket. That’s because George and her neighbors had undergone eviction proceedings not before a sworn judge, but before a justice of the peace—a far more informal venue, with very different rules. In addition to overseeing most evictions in the state, Louisiana’s nearly 400 justices of the peace can perform marriage ceremonies and settle small-claims disputes. They are elected, and don’t need to be lawyers or even receive legal training to qualify.

Every election matters.

x As every political junkie in America watched the Donald Trump-Elon Musk alliance shatter into a million X-shaped pieces, consider what was assumed and baked into the news coverage and commentary 👀 pic.twitter.com/gzJw4GfVhh — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 6, 2025

David Shuster on the odious Stephen Miller:

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