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Alaskans for Better Elections turns legal guns on Preserve Democracy

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Alaskans for Better Elections turns legal guns on Preserve Democracy

Alaskans for Better Elections has become a repeat litigation group fighting fair-election causes and free speech.

Backed by Outside dark money to prevent Alaskans from reconsidering Ballot Measure 2 – Open Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting, ABE has gone after a second group that opposes this experimental voting system that helped Rep. Mary Peltola become a member of Congress and ensured that Sen. Lisa Murkowski would not have to face a Republican primary.

ABE filed a complaint Monday against Preserve Democracy, the group formed by Kelly Tshibaka earlier this year.

Earlier, ABE had filed several complaints against a different group, Alaskans for Honest Elections, that formed in January to gather signatures and get a repeal of Ballot Measure 2 on the ballot in 2024.

Critics are pointing out that Alaskans for Better Elections is using the Alaska Public Offices Commission, a state agency, as a weapon against free speech. Lawsuits such as this may have a chilling effect on citizens who may wish to engage in the political process.

In its complaint about Kelly Tshibaka, who ran for U.S. Senate and came in second to Sen. Lisa Murkowski in 2022, Alaskans for Better Elections says that Tshibaka’s Preserve Democracy is giving unreported “in kind” support to Alaskans for Honest Elections.

Preserve Democracy is also supporting a repeal of Ballot Measure 2 through the legislative process. Tshibaka, at the invitation of a legislative committee, testified once about ranked choice voting.

Alaskans for Better Elections also accuses Tshibaka of acting like a lobbyist, since Preserve Democracy is — ABE’s lawyers speculate — her employer.

As an employee of her own organization, she didn’t register as a lobbyist with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, according to attorneys Scott Kendall and Sam Gottstein.

“Ms. Tshibaka even touted her efforts to lobby for a legislative repeal during a recent interview with the website Must Read Alaska,” the attorneys claimed.

The laws have clear carveouts for citizens to lobby if they keep it under a certain number of hours, but this is a harassment lawsuit from lawyers fully aware of that detail, but that seek to tie up the defendant and the defendant’s money.

Tshibaka only testified for 10 minutes at the request of the committee. She phoned in her testimony.

Ironically, at the same hearing, Alaskans for Better Elections’ employee Juli Lucky also testified about the legislation to repeal. Presumably ABE has run afoul of the same “law” that ABE is claiming Tshibaka violated. Lucky testified twice, once in House State Affairs on HB1 in March, and again on HB 4 in May. In all, she testified for 15 minutes. She also flew down to Juneau to testify in person in March.

The ABE complaint also says that Preserve Democracy “appears to have unlawfully participated in the April 2023 Anchorage Municipal elections without registering or reporting as required by APOC.”

Kendall and Gottstein say that Tshibaka said on the Must Read Alaska Show she was mailing flyers out. The lawyers say that because they did not get the flyers, Tshibaka must have only mailed them to Republicans. They want APOC to look into it.

Kendall, a longtime ally of Sen. Murkowski, even said that since Alaskans for Honest Elections showed up with their petition at an event Tshibaka was speaking at (Edna DeVries’ School of Government in Palmer) that this is proof the two groups are intertwined.

The lawsuit appears to be harassment litigation that asks the Alaska Public Offices Commission to do its homework for the complainants, who speculate through 95 pages of what they think are illegal acts, and say that if APOC investigates and finds out anything more, they are keen to litigate that as well.

Irony alert: Alaskans for ‘Better’ Elections complains that Alaskans for ‘Honest’ Elections is dishonest

Those who wish to help Preserve Democracy fight legal “lawfare” harassment can find out more here.

The entire 95-page complaint by Kendall and Gottstein on behalf of Alaskans for Better Elections, is below:

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Trump says he’s been told he is target of grand jury for Jan. 6 role

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Trump says he’s been told he is target of grand jury for Jan. 6 role

Former President Donald Trump released a statement on his social media site TruthSocial.com on Monday, saying the Department of Justice sent him a letter stating he is a target of the Jan. 6, [2021] grand jury investigation, and that he must report to the grand jury.

“Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter… stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment,” Trump wrote.

January 6 refers to the protest at the U.S. Capitol on that day in 2021, when the results of the election were being certified by the Senate. Protesters swarmed into the Capitol and disrupted the proceedings, and some of them were unruly. Several still are in jail for their participation in what became a spectacle that continues to divide Americans to this day.

In his statement, Trump called the letter from the Justice Department a witch-hunt and election interference, since his is leading all others in the polls for the 2024 election.

If indicted, it would be the third time for Trump. He was indicted by the Department of Justice on 37 charges relating to alleged mishandling of classified documents, which were found at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, after he left office. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

He was also indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for allegedly taking part in paying $130,000 in hush money to former porn star Stormy Daniels, a payment made by his former attorney, Michael Cohen.

Breaking: Feds indict Trump
Trump says he expects to be arrested on Tuesday

Then and now: ‘Bam-Bam,’ Democrat former legislative aide and rising star, sentenced for raping child in Bethel

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Then and now: ‘Bam-Bam,’ Democrat former legislative aide and rising star, sentenced for raping child in Bethel

Benjamin “Bam-Bam” Anderson-Agimuk, a former legislative aide to Democrats in the Alaska State House, received a 36-year prison term in Bethel, after he changed his not guilty plea.

The incident happened in 2020. Now 30 years old, Anderson-Agimuk pleaded guilty to one count of sexually assaulting a minor, with the victim being under 11 years old at the time. To add insult to injury, the victim was incapacitated.

In plain terms, Benjamin Anderson-Agimuk raped a child who was incapacitated by alcohol and weed he had plied her with before penetrating her.

After serving his sentence, Anderson-Agimuk will serve 15 years on probation and will have to register as a sex offender for 30 years, and he will have to have no contact with any minors under the age of 16.

However, his scheduled release from Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center in Bethel is April 1, 2032, when he will be 39 years old. He will have served 19 years in all for his crimes against children.

In the Alaska Legislature, Anderson-Agimuk was a legislative aide for Democrat Rep. Zach Fansler of Bethel, who was accused by a woman of getting too rough with her during a sexual encounter. After Fansler left the Legislature in disgrace, Anderson-Agimuk shifted over to Fansler’s replacement, Democrat Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky.

He’s out: Zach Fansler resigns

Anderson-Agimuk, a rising Democrat star in the Bethel area, had been picked by the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Democrats to come up with a replacement for Fansler, and he chose Zulkosky, who has also since resigned.

The Alaska Federation of Natives awarded Anderson-Agimuk the Roger Lang Youth Leadership Award in 2018.

Then, in 2020, police responded to a report about a young girl passed out on the street. The girl’s mother, who was 16, said that Anderson-Agimuk had given her daughter alcohol and then raped her. The police reported that Anderson-Agimuk said “even if he did have sex with her, she was 16 so it was legal.”

Instead of detaining Anderson-Agimuk while they got a search warrant for DNA, the police in Bethel let him go, because the predator’s lawyer insisted he be released, since there was no search warrant. Anderson-Agimuk disappeared, and police, with their search warrant, were not able to locate him.

A few weeks later came another report — two young girls were lying in front of the library. The 11-year-old told police that “Bam-Bam” had raped her.

The 11-year-old victim explained that Anderson-Agimuk had gotten her and the 14-year-old drunk and have given them marijuana. The 11-year-old also told officers that she had been able to protect her 14-year-old friend, who had passed out, from being raped by Anderson-Agimuk.

Police then found Anderson-Agimuk at his home and arrested him.

Perseverance Theatre announces its 23-24 season shows for Juneau and Anchorage: Trans, queer, and woke

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Perseverance Theatre announces its 23-24 season shows for Juneau and Anchorage: Trans, queer, and woke

Perseverance Theatre in Juneau has outdone itself. After last year’s “Little Women” production, in which the main character of this Louisa May Alcott classic story was a transgender (female to male), critics are saying the community theater has doubled down on LGBTQ.

Two of the three productions for 2023-24 are about transexual and queer life.

“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” is about transexual punk rocker from East Berlin who tours the U.S. with her rock band. The entire play seems to be about her gender identity.

Amazon describes it as “A high-powered rock musical that tells the hilarious but emotional tale of an East Berlin transgendered diva on a journey to find stardom in her new home.”

The second production, “A Nice Indian Boy,” is about a Californian named Naveen who brings his same-sex fiance home to meet his family, and how his traditional East Indian parents must contend with accepting his gay partner, who is also caucasian, and helping them plan their same-sex wedding. The entire play, written by Madhuri Shekar, takes place in California.

The third production is titled, “Indecent,” and was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel. It recounts the scandal surrounding the play “God of Vengeance,” which debuted on Broadway in 1923, leading to the arrest and conviction of the producer and cast on obscenity charges. The production is laced with themes of censorship, obscenity, immigration, and anti-Semitism.

“Our Perseverance Theatre Team works with great care to select our seasons— we listen deeply and work to support the conversations that our communities are working to bring forward for a just and equitable world. We welcome everyone to celebrate our communities and the incredible artistry and talent of Alaska as we produce this 2023-2024 Season”, said Artistic Director Leslie Ishii on the website.

Perseverance Theatre, which bills itself as the premiere regional theater, has taken a hard left turn since the departure of artistic director Art Roach in 2019.

The theatre hired Ishii from Seattle as the new artistic director and she soon was was writing to donors and asking them to donate to Black Lives Matter during the George Floyd riots of 2020.

The theater did no productions during the pandemic, but since returning to productions, required attendees to show proof of a Covid vaccination and wear masks, a policy it has finally eased away from. It also cut its offerings from four to three, and is putting a big emphasis on LGBTQ themes for capital city theatergoers. Perseverance tickets and information are here.

Theatre in the Rough is also offering a LGBTQ-themed comedy starting July 28. “He Kills Monsters” is about coming to terms with being queer.

“In this high-octane comedy laden with homicidal fairies, hobgoblins, and 90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen (VIETGONE, LIVING DEAD IN DENMARK) offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all,” the theater writes. Tickets here.

There are other theater groups in Juneau offering less LGBT-obsessed entertainment.

There’s the Juneau Lyric Opera, which will offer a concert version of “Candide” in October.

There’s also the innovative and approachable Theater Alaska, which has offered “Shakespeare in the Park” for the third summer, performing Macbeth in 2021, Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2022, and Twelfth Night in 2023. The production of Twelfth Night begins Wednesday and runs through July 30. Tickets here.

Johnny the Walrus gets first place for political float in Fairbanks. Then the parade judge had a meltdown…

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Johnny the Walrus gets first place for political float in Fairbanks. Then the parade judge had a meltdown…

The float for Fairbanks North Star School Board candidate Michael Humphrey was a winner in every way. It was a gigantic inflated walrus that was towed behind a van in the Golden Days Parade on Saturday. Beneath the walrus’ tusks a sign said, “Johnny.”

Golden Days is the big annual festival and the parade is the largest in Alaska. Thousands attend.

The judges awarded the walrus the top prize. And then the fun started. Someone figured out that this was Johnny from the pro-child book, “Johnny the Walrus.”

One of the judges, a hardline leftist, went to Twitter to express her utter horror that she had helped Johnny the Walrus win.

She didn’t know, she said, that Johnny the Walrus was transphobic.

“So it turns out that the best political float was an anti-trans float. The judges had no idea. We had two floats to choose from for political. You know what I hate? Hateful people,” wrote “Tania” on Twitter.

“We both feel sick about it and especially on how it reflects on our community to those who don’t know that the judges DID NOT HAVE CONTEXT We thought ‘“’guy has a mustache kinda like a walrus, we’re in Alaska, that’s a walrus inflatable, ok.’”

The book “Johnny the Walrus” is written by Matt Walsh, of The Daily Wire. The description of the book’s plot on Amazon says, “Johnny is a little boy with a big imagination. One day he pretends to be a big scary dinosaur, the next day he’s a knight in shining armor or a playful puppy. But when the internet people find out Johnny likes to make-believe, he’s forced to make a decision between the little boy he is and the things he pretends to be — and he’s not allowed to change his mind. From Daily Wire personality and bestselling author Matt Walsh comes a timely tale of innocence, identity, and imagination.”

In the book, Walsh is writing about how kids have active imaginations, but that because a boy thinks he is a girl doesn’t mean he is actually a girl. The next day he might be a knight or a pirate. Let kids be kids, Walsh is saying.

But the Left has labeled the book as “transphobic.” And Walsh has been targeted by the left for particular vitriol.

“Johnny the Walrus” can be found at three libraries in Alaska — the Anchorage Loussac Library, Sitka, and Seward.

Humphrey’s campaign page, meanwhile, says he will work on:

  • Protecting children by stopping the spread of radical gender ideology
  • Creating opportunities for more parental involvement in school
  • Targeted budget control with the goal of smaller class sizes and teacher salaries that keep up with the cost of living

A father of six, Humphrey is a Marine veteran who describes his politics as conservative. He and his wife have been married for 15 years.

One anonymous person on social media chimed in bravely, calling Humphrey a disgusting candidate.

As for the parade judge’s meltdown, it went largely unnoticed in Fairbanks, as there was a rubber ducky race to attend on Saturday, with 8,000 yellow rubber ducks, all of undetermined gender, heading down the Chena River in search of the $10,000 prize.

Peltola urges pizza workers in Alaska to unionize so she can have a slice

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Peltola urges pizza workers in Alaska to unionize so she can have a slice

Fish. Family. Freedom. And Pizza. Rep. Mary Peltola took to Twitter to urge pizza workers in Alaska to start a union “real fast,” because she has a hankering for some union-made pizza.

It’s one of myriad similar union-heavy messages from Alaska’s union-backed congressional representative. She urged Starbucks baristas to unionize. She’s pushed the screen actors strike. She wanted a railroad strike.

“Someone in an Alaskan pizzeria start a union real fast,’ she wrote, “because I’m ABSOLUTELY trying to eat a slice from a union shop.”

In November, Peltola wrote, “When workers unionize, they win. That’s why it’s critical unions have political leaders who will work with them, not against them, and expand the rights of union workers nationwide.”

She has not stopped ever since. In fact, unionizing is her most consistent message, although her staff is not unionized.

“A worker’s biggest strength is their ability to withhold their labor — to strike. To stand in the way of that undermines their ability to fight for better conditions, better pay, & better lives for themselves and their families. It’s time we are allies to workers, not obstacles,” she wrote in December.

“If we want to better the lives of Alaskans statewide, we need to bring good-paying, union jobs to communities across the state. Let’s get people the jobs, and pay, they deserve,” she wrote in July.

Now that a pizzeria in Brooklyn, New York has made the news for requesting a union vote, Peltola wants Alaska to follow suit.

It may cost Alaskans more, however, to share a pizza with Peltola.

Currently, a line cook at Moose’s Tooth in Anchorage starts at $16 an hour. No experience is needed, and it comes with an array of benefits, such as a 401(k) matching retirement plan, health and dental insurance, vision insurance employee discount on food, paid time off, and an energetic working environment. A sous chef at the Bear Tooth Grill, a sister establishment, gets paid $22 to $27 an hour. No degree is required, but two years of restaurant experience is requested.

The average cost of a pizza nationally is $17.81, but in Alaska, that same pizza is going for $21.74, a 22% increase in cost for Alaskans over their fellow pizza eaters in the Lower 48.

Graphite One receives $37.5 million grant from Department of Defense for work near Nome

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Graphite One receives $37.5 million grant from Department of Defense for work near Nome

The Graphite One Project, an owner-operated, year-round truck-and-shovel operation situated near Nome, has just received a major grant from the Department of Defense, which wants to source graphite materials from the U.S., rather than overseas.

The $37.5 million grant from the Department of Defense comes through the Manufacturing Capability Expansion and Investment Prioritization Office of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy. This domestic supply is crucial for the production of large-capacity batteries used in various defense applications, the Defense Department said.

The agreement, which falls under the Defense Production Act Title III authorities, will enable Graphite One to establish an advanced graphite supply chain solution centered around the company’s Graphite Creek resource.

Graphite One plans to mine graphite from Graphite Creek and ship it to Washington State for processing.

One of the key aspects of Graphite One’s supply chain strategy is the establishment of a recycling facility for reclamation of graphite and other battery materials, fostering a circular economy approach, the Defense Department wrote in a press release on Monday.

Graphite One will now expedite its feasibility study by a full year for removal of 4 million tons annually of graphite from its site. It must still go through permitting by other federal agencies.

“This investment to increase domestic capabilities for graphite exemplifies Industrial Base Policy’s commitment to building a resilient industrial base to meet current and future national defense requirements,” said Dr. Laura Taylor-Kale, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy. “The agreement with Graphite One (Alaska) advances the Defense Department’s strategy for minerals and materials related to large-capacity batteries.”

Anthony Huston, founder and CEO of Graphite One Inc., said, “Graphite One is honored to receive this award from the Department of Defense, and we look forward to commencing the accelerated Feasibility Study program immediately. This Department of Defense grant underscores our confidence in our strategy to build a 100% U.S.-based advanced graphite supply chain — from mining to refining to recycling. The U.S. simply cannot maintain a 21st Century tech-driven economy without Critical Minerals like graphite.”

The grant from the Department of Defense will not only support Graphite One’s ambitious plans but also solidify the company’s position as a key player in the domestic graphite industry.

Sam Brinton, accused of multiple luggage thefts, was traveling on taxpayer dime to national nuclear security site

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Sam Brinton, accused of multiple luggage thefts, was traveling on taxpayer dime to national nuclear security site

A little more than a year ago, former Department of Energy official Sam Brinton flew from Washington, D.C. to Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. That day, the 35-year-old “nonbinary” transsexual government official was on his way to the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site.

On the way, he was videotaped stealing luggage from the airport in Las Vegas.

The latest twist in the twisted life of Sam Brinton is that he was flying on taxpayer-funded trip when he allegedly committed the crime of taking a woman’s designer luggage from the carousel at the baggage claim area, and casually leaving the airport with it.

The Functional Government Initiative requested the travel records showing Brinton’s itinerary, and show that Brinton flew on a United Airlines flight from Washington, DC, to Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on July 6, 2022. Police say the suitcase had estimated $3,500 value of jewelry, clothing, and makeup, when Brinton stole it. He is also accused of similar heists in other airports.

Functional Government Initiative is a group that sets its sights on government waste and abuse.

“It’s outrageous that tax dollars transported Brinton to and from the scene of a crime, putting the American public unwittingly at the wheel of the getaway car,” Functional Government Initiative spokesperson Peter McGinnis told Fox News. “The federal government obviously needs a more stringent vetting process for senior-level positions. Senior officials committing petty crime while on the clock is a clear indication that something is dysfunctional in the personnel procedures.”

The story was first reported by Fox News.

Brinton, before being named to the Department of Energy by the Biden Administration, who put him in charge of spent nuclear fuel, founded the Trevor Project, which has been accused of grooming children online for sexual purposes, such as gender surgeries.

The Trevor Project advised the gay-aligned majority of the Anchorage Assembly to pass an ordinance that prohibits therapists from talking to children about how they might not want to change genders or how they might not be gay. The only way therapists in Anchorage can approach the topic of “gay” and “gender” is to affirm whatever the child says, or the therapists will be arrested and subject to massive fines.

Brinton’s purpose for traveling to the the Nevada National Security Site is unclear, but the secure site “help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by: supporting the stewardship of the nation’s nuclear deterrent; providing nuclear and radiological emergency response capabilities and training; contributing to key nonproliferation and arms control initiatives; executing national-level experiments in support of the National Laboratories; working with national security customers and other federal agencies on important national security activities; and providing long-term environmental stewardship of the NNSS’s Cold War legacy, according to the National Security Site website.

For his four-day trip, Brinton charged $1,951.50 to taxpayers on his expense report, according to Fox.

Brinton has an extensive social media history that includes his many passions. He is a founder of the controversial, anti-Christian Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and has given classes on kink sex.

Meanwhile, the American Nuclear Society has scrubbed a 2016 talk by Brinton from its website. Back in 2016, the scientists proudly invited him to speak about “his passion, nuclear waste policy and changing the outdated images of nuclear advocates.” In that year, the scientists referred to Brinton as a “he,” but Brinton now says he cannot be defined by gender.

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Second quarter: GOP candidates collectively out-raise Biden, and DeSantis crushes it

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Second quarter: GOP candidates collectively out-raise Biden, and DeSantis crushes it

The Republican candidates for president, when combined, raised more than the campaign of President Joe Biden in the second quarter of 2023.

Leading the fundraising pack for Republicans is former President Donald Trump.

Although Trump shows $17.7 million raised in the second quarter, he also has about that much still sitting in his joint fundraising committees that has not been transferred to his campaign, but could be transferred if needed, and so it’s not accounted for. He is believed to have raised about $35 million in the second quarter, much from small donors, who are key for any campaign because they represent actual votes. Since Trump announced his run for president in November, this amount represents the full second quarter of April through June.

That is less than half of the $72 million that Biden raised in his campaign, and the Democratic National Committee and the joint fundraising committees associated with Biden.

The Biden camp announced the money for his campaign came from 394,000 donors and that 97% of all the donations were under $200.

The period covered for Biden’s fundraising total is about nine weeks, since he announced his bid to run for reelection on April 25.

Biden has been conserving cash and campaigning mainly from the White House, rather than setting up separate campaign headquarters. He’s also been lean on staff, instead using government officials to do his campaigning for him, such as Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Vice President Kamala Harris. He is campaigning on taxpayer dollars.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis raised $20 million during the second quarter, but he had not launched his campaign until May 24, and so that total only covers five weeks. He raised the most of any Republican during that period, it appears.

DeSantis also has a Never Back Down political action committee that is working parallel to him to get his message out. It had raised $130 million since launching in March.

The DeSantis campaign, realizing it was burning through cash, has laid off about 10% of its large staff, which was 92 before a few of the event planning staff were laid off last week.

DeSantis’s total for the first five weeks is more than what Trump raised during that timeframe in 2022, when he first launched. And it was more than Trump raised in his first few weeks of his campaign plus his first quarter of 2023.

Republican presidential candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy donated $5 million to his own campaign, and had a total of $7.7 million to report for the second quarter. He announced in February, and so he’s only raised $2.7 million from others during the full quarter of April through June.

After those three, the numbers drop off, but still add to the Republican field having raised more money than Biden.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, brought in $5.8 million since launching his campaign in late May. But he has significant cash on hand of $21 million, more than DeSantis or Ramaswamy. Polling has Scott in fifth place at 1%, according to Morning Consult.

Former Ambassador Nikki Haley had announced a week ago that she would be reporting $7.3 million raised in the second quarter. That puts her with $15.6 million since launching her campaign. Her campaign said she had 160,000 donations from all 50 states.

She also has a super PAC working parallel to her campaign, and it has raised $18.7 million, for a total of $34.3 million. Her campaign has campaign has $9.3 million cash on hand and the super PAC has $17 million.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s campaign raised $1.65 million in the second quarter, and for him that represents just 25 days of fundraising.

Former Vice President Mike Pence and his super PAC raised $3.85 million. That represents just four weeks of fundraising.

Scrappy Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reported bringing in more than $6 million since launching his campaign on April 19. He is challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party nomination.

Democrat self-help guru Marianne Williamson raised $920,000, but she has $270,000 in unpaid bills, and only $105,000 cash on hand with which to pay them.

In a Morning Consult poll published last month, Trump had edged ahead of Biden. When voters were asked who they would vote for between the two men, 44 percent said they would cast their support for Trump, while 41 percent of those said they would choose Biden.

Morning Consult puts Trump in first at 57%, with DeSantis polling 17% among Republican-leaning voters.

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