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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Amid backlash from businesses and national attention, North Carolina state Sen. Tom Apodaca (R), the state Senate Rules chairman, said on Tuesday that he’s considering placing the bathroom provision in the new anti-LGBT law on the ballot in November, TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal reported. “If it were up to me, I’d just put it out to a vote of the people. Let them decide what they want to do. And I floated that idea.”
Agree or Disagree?
John Judis: “Trump’s position, shorn of his bluster and braggadocio, is a version of realism that has been going around Washington for decades. It’s worth discussing not dismissing, even you would like (as I would) to see Trump the Republican nominee dismissed by the voters next November. Or even if you think (as I do) that if Trump were president, he might act according to entirely different and highly destructive and idiosyncratic foreign policy principles.”
Say What?!
“The average woman who isn’t really involved in politics or isn’t really using her own brain to go, ‘let me see you know what does, what has this woman done for our country’ — they’re just going in and saying ‘I guess I should vote for her because she’s a woman.'”
-A senior adviser to Donald Trump, argued Wednesday that the average woman who isn’t keeping up with politics will vote for Hillary Clinton.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member:“The biggest thing that I have in my mind about the proponents of free tuition for the kids is when they are currently IN college and that’s their pain point, and for a bunch of them, that is the draw. But we all know how these things work. Free or reduced tuition isn’t going to be in time for the current students. Kids that are pretty new to the political process may very well not get that. I would really like to know how hard they want to push for this if they know that they won’t be the beneficiaries, but they will be the funders of such a policy for those yet to come. That’s sort of where the rubber meets the road. Are they in favor of it from a policy standpoint, or are they looking for some immediate relief? As to why many groups don’t vote? Most people are not single issue voters. And most people really don’t believe that their vote makes much of a difference. And, in lots of ways, they are right. One vote, even if they vote every single election, isn’t going to change much. It’s when we vote TOGETHER for or against something that it can make a difference.”
Related: Yes, Bernie Sanders dominated the 30 and younger crowd in Iowa.
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What We’re Reading
Chris Wallace is making life tough for all the candidates, especially Donald Trump. (BuzzFeed)
Unfortunately, you can’t have a lemur as a pet. (Slate)
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