a problem for the republicans if that attitude persists. john: another topic, and sensing there just may be a whiteboard around somewhere on this. and that is you make the contention that while the national numbers show a huge lead for the former president in terms of the gop nomination, that when it comes down to the actual primary states themselves he may not be as unbeatable as he appears. yeah. well, there is a whiteboard, there is a whiteboard in your future. wednesday in the real clear politics average donald trump had 55.9%, in other words, 44.1% of republicans nationwide were undecided or for somebody else. but in iowa, the poll has him as 42, meaning 58% of the republicans in iowa are for somebody else or undecideds. another poll, echelon insight poll had him at 33. i ve been talking to the campaigns polling in the state and they are showing him in the
(PNA file photo) MANILA - The global coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) crisis has not only taken a strain on the country's health but on its wealth as well. Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) Executive Director Juan Perez III, however, said that provinces with lesser cases of Covid-19 are under better conditions. The recent data of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that in five regions least affected by the contagion, or those with 8.1 percent of deaths last year, 809,500 Filipinos or 161,900 families improved their living conditions. The bulk of families elevated from poverty live in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), as the provinces of Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, and Basilan took 121,000 out of the economic strain. However, poverty rose among 28,300 families in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. Perez noted that Sulu now holds the record for having the largest percentage of families living below the poverty threshold, or the amount that
congressional ballot voters chose republicans 44.1% over democrats 41.7%. what do you make of the dems disarray ahead of 2022. i wouldn t say it was disarray. we are resetting the party and preparing for the elections. in 2017 there was 38 republican sitting house members who decided not to run for office and/or step down from their elected office seats. so what we ll see next year is many of these democrats either defending their terms or moving on to run for higher seats. so the party will resurface new candidates and refine its messaging so we can win in 2022. julie: okay. we ll see. vice president harris by the way struggling this year. take a look at some of her most cringe worthy moments from 2021.