My Youth Vote Discussion w/Victor Chi, New Data on GOP Disinfo and Abortion, New Politico Interview

A Friday grab bag. Enjoy.

Expanding our Coalition - on Friday I joined the compelling youth activist Victor Shi for a conversation about the youth vote and expanding our coalition. You can watch it below. This work on expanding our coalition, something I am calling “get to 55,” is going to be an important part of what we do together this year. Ron Brownstein and I discuss this idea in my recent interview in the Atlantic. This was a great discussion with an important emerging leader of the Democratic Party.

New Interview in Politico on 2024 - Ari Hawkins and I talk 2024 in a new Politico interview. Rs should be worried about the clear opposition to MAGA we’ve seen in the last 3 elections. It’s a big problem for Trump, DeSantis.

Ari Hawkins @_AriHawkins

“Where Republicans have to be worried in 2024 is that the presidential battleground has now voted against MAGA in three consecutive elections… [and] the two leading Republican candidates right now, look and feel very MAGA,” Dem strategist @SimonWDC tells me. Our chat in Nightly.

POLITICO @politico

Over two million workers left the labor force during Covid and didn’t come back. Nightly reports on the confluence of factors 👇 https://t.co/x1FnQ8iA7u

New Study on GOP Disinformation - A new academic study finds that in the 2020 election on Facebook "39% of right-leaning image posts contained elements of misinformation compared to only 5% of left-leaning image posts." It’s a bit of wow, and a reminder why have to become louder and more aggressive in challenging the right’s information superiority.

New Navigator Polling Has Plurality of *Republicans* in Support of Keeping At Home Abortion Medication Legal - New Navigator polling reminds us just how out of position the Republican Party is on abortion:

Godspeed, Simon