Oscar Mayer Plans to Rename ‘Wienermobile’

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Oscar Mayer Plans to Rename ‘Wienermobile’

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Processed meat manufacturer Oscar Mayer plans to undertake efforts to rebrand its famous “Wienermobile,” which has been patrolling streets since 1936, Food & Wine reported.

According to Ed Roland, the Wienermobile’s senior manager of brand communications, the car that brought joy to Oscar Mayer consumers will undergo a name change to the “Frankmobile,” though the vehicle will maintain its appearance.

“The Wienermobile hit the streets of Chicago as a sales tool to fairs, festivals and parades, sparking smiles,” Roland said last year in an interview.

Roland added that the Wienermobile was “in line” with the “essence” of Oscar Mayer, noting that, like Oscar Mayer, it helped people through a “tough time during the Great Depression.”

At a time when “people needed something to bring a little joy to their lives,” the Weinermobile “could make people smile and brighten their day in some tough times.”

But, the American brand icon is now being altered as it approaches its 100 year anniversary, its name being changed to the “Frankmobile.”

Stephanie Vance, Associate Brand Manager, Oscar Mayer, released a statement saying that its time to highlight another side of the Oscar Mayer brand.

“The Wienermobile is a beloved American icon that has been sparking smiles and driving craveability for our iconic delicious wieners for nearly 100 years,” Vance noted, adding that she wants to emphasize the beef franks instead.

“This summer, it’s time to highlight another fan-favorite: our delicious 100% Beef Franks.”

For Vance, the name of the vehicle is irrelevant compared to the quality of the product manufactured by the meat giant.

“When Oscar Mayer makes anything, we prioritize taste over everything, so no matter what kind of hot dog you enjoy this summer, if it’s Oscar Mayer, you know it will be 100% tasty, and 100% make you smile.”

Biden Admin. Backspins Boast that It Killed Al-Qaeda Figure in Airstrike

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Biden Admin. Backspins Boast that It Killed Al-Qaeda Figure in Airstrike

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Biden administration officials who boasted about killing an al Qaeda leader weeks ago are now revoking those claims as the media discovers more details about the slain man.

The slain man’s family and acquaintances noted that the former bricklayer, a father of 10, had no ties to any terrorist group whatsoever, the Daily Wire reported.

They revealed that he was only tending to his sheep when unfortunately hit by a Hellfire missile in Syria. 

Shortly after the strike, Biden officials had claimed to have killed a senior  al Qaeda leader with the Predator drone. However, they refused to give any other information about the suspect or proof of claim. 

The Washington Post reported that the person killed in the strike was 56-year-old Lotfi Hassan Misto. 

Following this revelation, a U.S. official told the Post, “We are no longer confident we killed a senior AQ official.” 

Despite the testimony from the slain man’s family, another U.S. official insisted, “Though we believe the strike did not kill the original target, we believe the person to be al-Qaeda.”

Michael Lawhorn, a spokesperson for Central Command, said, “Centcom takes all such allegations seriously and is investigating to determine whether or not the action may have unintentionally resulted in harm to civilians.”

Daily Wire’s report recalled that this incident is similar to Biden’s claim in August 2021 during the deadly and disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. 

At the time, the administration claimed to have  “conducted a self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamad Karzai International Airport.”

Confident, the administration added that “significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material.”

However, the administration confessed to having made a disastrous mistake that killed 10 civilians, seven children included.

Seattle on Receiving End of White House’s Latest Homelessness Initiative

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Seattle on Receiving End of White House’s Latest Homelessness Initiative

(By Spencer Pauley, The Center Square) The White House is partnering with the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness to launch a new initiative that plans to help Seattle and five other areas in the U.S. with homelessness.

All In: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, will set the goal of reducing homelessness in the country by 25% by 2025.

The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, with its 19 federal member agencies, will partner with state and local governments to address homelessness in Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix Metro and the entire State of California.

According to the 2022 Point-in-Time Count, the Seattle and King County area have 13,348 homeless people. That is the third largest homeless population behind New York City and Los Angeles, which are over 60,000.

The White House will embed a federal official in each community to accelerate locally-driven strategies to reduce homelessness, as well all deploy federal teams to identify opportunities for regulatory relief and navigate federal funding streams in support of actions to reduce homelessness.

“This is an opportunity to leverage the expertise of our federal partners and opportunities for federal funding,” Interim CEO of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority Helen Howell said to The Center Square in an email. “We appreciate the support of the White House and [U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness] in championing a place-based, person-centered, and housing first approach to bringing more people inside.”

The White House stated in a press release that the All In: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness Initiative builds off of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act. For instance, the Treasury Department’s State and Local Recovery Fund dedicated more than $2.5 billion for homelessness projects  in the six All Inside sites.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development also released a package of grants earlier this year that totaled $486 million to help 62 communities address homelessness. Washington state received $8.4 million from the package.

“With our partners at King County and the [King County Regional Homelessness Authority], we have a new opportunity to leverage support from the federal government and make a difference reducing homelessness and bringing people inside,” Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in a statement.

Pelosi Working Behind the Scenes to Protect Feinstein, Assist Schiff

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Pelosi Working Behind the Scenes to Protect Feinstein, Assist Schiff

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) After former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., endorsed her longtime protégé, fellow California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, in his campaign to replace retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein, rumors swirled about Pelosi’s role in helping him to clear the crowded field of primary contenders.

With Feinstein’s health in fast decline, cutthroat intra-party competition has taken on a new level of Machiavellian scheming—a specialty of both Pelosi and Schiff, the Washington Examiner reported.

“It’s very tricky, and political, because they want her to stay,” a confidant of the Pelosi family told Politico’s Playbook. “The political thinking is that if DiFi stays as long as possible, it helps Schiff as well.”

Meanwhile, far-left progressives are hoping to oust the ailing, 89-year-old senator, which likely would result in Gov. Gavin Newsom honoring his pledge to appoint a black woman in her place.

Rep. Barbara Lee is currently the only declared senatorial candidate who meets that standard, but if appointed, she could derail Schiff’s chances.

The Pelosi family has reportedly played a big role in helping to take care of Feinstein, who was out for months battling shingles, both in Washington and San Francisco.

Nancy Corinne Prowda, one of Pelosi’s daughters, has aided aided Feinstein to keep up with Senate duties.

The unnamed Pelosi confidant said the relationship between Pelosi, her daughter and the senator were kept “under wraps and very, very closely held.”

Pelosi, 83, has suggested that sexism may be behind the calls for Feinstein to step down.

“I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way,” she said of Lee’s supporters.

Behind the scenes, however, Pelosi may have been working to ensure that Feinstein remains in office until after Schiff has secured the seat.

Pelosi’s camp denied any political maneuvering.

Aaron Bennett, a spokesman for Pelosi, told Politico that Pelosi and Feinstein were friends even prior to their respected arrivals in Congress, where both have served for more than three decades. 

That close bond between the powerful San Francisco females likewise extends to Pelosi’s eldest daughter, 58.

“Nancy Corinne and Senator Feinstein have been friends for decades,” Bennett said in a statement to the Examiner.

“… Anyone who knows Senator Feinstein knows that her service in the Senate is entirely her own decision, and Speaker Emerita Pelosi would never suggest otherwise,” the statement continued.

Leftist Shill Amanpour Gripes over CNN’s Trump Town Hall at Columbia Speech

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Leftist Shill Amanpour Gripes over CNN’s Trump Town Hall at Columbia Speech

(Headline USA) Leftist media shill Christiane Amanpour became the most recent CNN correspondent to publicly criticize her network for airing last week’s town hall with former President Donald Trump, broadcasting her own biases at the commencement ceremony of what many consider to be the nation’s foremost graduate program for journalism.

“I can only hope that your trust in us might have been shaken but not shattered, that you believe that we can survive and rebuild that trust,” she told a group of graduating students at Columbia University journalism school on Wednesday.

The remarks came as many of CNN’s dedicated propagandists struggle with the new realities of a paradigm shift under new network head Chris Licht, who has signaled that he wants to bring the original 24-hour cable-news channel back to its roots of reporting over opinion, advocacy and punditry.

Already Licht has laid off at least two of the network’s most outspoken political hacks, Brian Stelter and Don Lemon, while scrambling to pull up CNN’s basement-level ratings against competitors Fox News, MSNBC and even the conservative upstart Newsmax.

Licht has defended the town hall as newsworthy and important, and Amanpour said she had a “robust discussion” with him about it.

Instead, Amanpour likened the modern media’s effort to silence and blacklist conservatives to the effort to struggle in the 1950s when conservative lawmakers sought to silence and blacklist communists, suggesting the extreme leftists were part of a noble struggle in both cases.

She said today’s journalism leaders should learn from those in the 1950s, who refused to give Sen. Joseph McCarthy attention “unless his foul lies, his witch hunts and his rants” reached the basic level for evidence allowed in a courtroom.

“Maybe less is more,” she said. “Maybe live is not always right.”

Ironically, her remarks also were delivered in the same week as the release of the Durham report detailing the outright falsity of the Trump–Russia collusion hoax that CNN and other outlets spent several years pushing, despite its failure to meet any evidentiary standard.

Amanpour likewise celebrated the disruptive and disrespectful effort by moderator Kaitlan Collins as she sought to talk over Trump and fact check his every word, saying said she would have “dropped the mic at ‘nasty person,’” a reference to when Trump lobbed that insult at Collins.

Amanpour, the chief international correspondent who has worked at CNN for 40 years, insisted that everyone knows Trump tries to seize the stage and dominate at such events.

“No matter how much flak the moderator tries to aim at the incoming, it doesn’t work,” she said.

Amanpour also criticized the town hall’s audience, chosen by CNN because they were Republicans or independents who plan to vote in the 2024 Republican primary.

Citing the precedents of past candidate debates or forums, CNN should have insisted “that our invited guests behave themselves—no hooting, no hollering, no jeering, no cheering.”

A spokesman for Licht did not immediately return messages for comment. In an internal call with CNN staff members last week, Licht noted that people in the town hall audience represented a large swath of America.

“The mistake the media made in the past is ignoring that those people exist,” he said. “Just like you cannot ignore that President Trump exists.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

State Dept. Emails Embedded w/ ‘Mandatory’ Pronouns Full of Micro-Aggressions

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State Dept. Emails Embedded w/ ‘Mandatory’ Pronouns Full of Micro-Aggressions

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) In a press briefing on Thursday, a State Department spokesman appeared caught off guard when asked about the agency’s reported new policy regarding pronoun usage in emails.

A contentious war of words erupted when Associated Press reporter Matt Lee asked Vedant Patel about State Department emails suddenly requiring the inclusion of pronouns in internal email exchanges, the New York Post reported.

When Lee questioned Patel about whether he had noticed the difference in the “from” line of the emails, the State Department talker appeared frustrated and said that he was not aware of any changes.

The reporter noted the “State Department’s internal email system added pronouns to people’s … not their signature … but to where it says from,” Lee said. Then Lee asked Patel, “Why?”

Patel said that he was not aware of any changes and claimed he had no knowledge of the “phenomenon.”

“Men are being identified as women and women as men … and this has “nothing to do with whatever transgender or anything like that … but it’s ridiculous,” Lee said during the exchange, noting that in the examples he had seen “the problem is that a lot of them or at least some of them so far, as I’ve been able to tell, are wrong. They’re giving the wrong pronouns.”

Patel added during the conversation that individuals have a right to use their own pronouns when Lee interrupted and added, “I don’t have a problem with doing it and if people want their pronouns attached to it, it’s fine! But it should be a choice. Not something the State Department imposes on people, especially if it’s wrong,” he said.

As Patel exited the briefing room, he stated to the reporter, he would “look into it.”

The State Department issued a response to Lee’s question on Twitter later Thursday, claiming that the department’s Outlook server involuntarily added gender pronouns to employee emails.

“The State Department’s Bureau of Information Resource Management is aware of the recent issues with user profiles on Microsoft Outlook and working to remedy the situation,” tweeted Spokesman Matthew Miller, and added it was an “unintentional change.”

Railcar w/ 30 Tons of Explosive Chemicals Goes Missing in California

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Railcar w/ 30 Tons of Explosive Chemicals Goes Missing in California

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) The disappearance of 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate in April has left authorities puzzled and alarmed, prompting multiple investigations into the incident. The chemical, which can be used as fertilizer or in explosives, was shipped by rail from Wyoming to California by the firm Dyno Nobel, and the cargo was lost en route.

The railcar loaded with the 30 tons of chemical left Cheyenne on April 12 and was empty when it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, California, KQED reported. Dyno Nobel suspected that the chemical fell from the covered hopper car during transit due to a leak through the bottom gate during one of its multiple stops.

According to Dyno Nobel’s press statement, the material, transported in pellet form, was being transported in a covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal when it fell out of the car en route to Saltdale, approximately 30 miles from the town of Mojave.

The vanishing of the explosive and potentially catastrophically-dangerous cargo comes as incidents of unexplained train derailments, warehouse explosions, massive industrial fires and attacks on public infrastructure have increased at alarming rates across the country.

“The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit,” the company said through a spokesperson. The company made a report on May 10 to the federal National Response Center and stated that the hopper car had been lost during a two-week trip. 

A representative from the Federal Railroad Administration said that their investigation also pointed to one of the hopper car gates not being properly closed.

Dyno Nobel claimed they had “limited control” over the railcar as Union Pacific moved it through the country. The company has said that the railcar is being transported back to Wyoming for inspection.

Ammonium nitrate is a potent explosive, capable of wreaking death and destruction on an unimaginable scale. The Oklahoma City bombing was one such example – a homemade bomb containing ammonium nitrate that had been constructed and detonated with devastating consequences.

Congress passed a law on securing the handling of ammonium nitrate in 2007, authorizing Homeland Security “to regulate the sale of ammonium nitrate to prevent and deter the acquisition of ammonium nitrate by terrorists, and for other purposes.”

Subway Samaritan Daniel Penny Hailed as Hero by ‘Woman of Color’ Witness

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Subway Samaritan Daniel Penny Hailed as Hero by ‘Woman of Color’ Witness

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Daniel Penny,  the U.S. Marine veteran who used an allegedly fatal chokehold to neutralize a violent and mentally deranged homeless man on the New York City subway, has been hailed as a hero by a witness who happens to be a “woman of color,” Fox 9 News reported.

“He’s a hero,” said the passenger, said the passenger who described herself as a woman of color and who has lived in New York City more than 50 years. Penny is being prosecuted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for second-degree manslaughter .

“It was self-defense, and I believe in my heart that he saved a lot of people that day that could have gotten hurt,” the witness said.

Jordan Neely, 30, an alleged subway performer, reportedly had an erratic metal breakdown and held several subway riders hostage, forcing Penny to use a chokehold to restrain the man. Two other individuals assisted in restraining the homeless heckler.  

The attack took place on May 1. Witness heard Neely going on a crazed rant on the train.

“I’m sitting on a train reading my book, and, all of a sudden, I hear someone spewing this rhetoric. He said, ‘I don’t care if I have to kill an F, I will. I’ll go to jail, I’ll take a bullet,’” she said, noting that she and others on the train were terrified and thought they were going to die.

“I’m looking at where we are in the tube, in the sardine can, and I’m like, ‘OK, we’re in between stations,” she added.

“There’s nowhere we can go. The people on that train, we were scared. We were scared for our lives.”

The woman noted that Penny intervened when Neely began to use language such as “kill” and “bullet.”

“Why in the world would you take a bullet? Why? You don’t take a bullet because you’ve snatched something from somebody’s hand. You take a bullet for violence,” she added.

The witness said Penny does not deserve the treatment that he has received since the fateful incident.

“Mr. Penny cared for people. That’s what he did. That is his crime,” she said, adding that “Mr. Penny didn’t want to kill that man” and describing Penny as “distraught” in the aftermath of Neely’s death.

Illegal Alien Guilty of Fatal Machete Attack on MyPillow Employee Named ‘America’

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Illegal Alien Guilty of Fatal Machete Attack on MyPillow Employee Named ‘America’

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(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) A Minnesota court has found an illegal immigrant who allegedly beheaded his girlfriend in broad daylight guilty of first-degree murder.

The victim, MyPillow employee America Mafalda Thayer, a legal immigrant from Cuba, reportedly had changed her first name to America upon becoming a U.S. citizen.

When the gruesome attack occurred in suburban Minneapolis in July 2021, Thayer and her longtime boyfriend, Alexis Saborit, 44, were in a car together on the way to court.

Saborit, who was also from Cuba, was reportedly facing charges in connection with allegedly setting fire to their apartment.

During the car trip, he allegedly became enraged when Thayer informed him that she wanted to break up. Media reports have suggested that their 12-year relationship was “tumultuous.”

The man allegedly assaulted her with an eight-pound dumbbell and then cut off her head with a machete in the incident that occurred in Shakopee, Minnesota.

According to CBS News, “Witnesses saw a man — later identified as Saborit — pull a headless body out of a car at Fourth Avenue and Spencer Street, dispose of a machete and run away. He was found nearby and arrested.”

Powerline Blog co-founder Scott Johnson previously told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that in 2012, Saborit was subject to two deportation orders but that “ICE was not able to deport him because Cuba wouldn’t take him back.”

In general, first-degree murder requires evidence that a defendant engaged in some sort of advance planning, even on a limited basis.

Judge Caroline Lennon, who presided over the case, asserted that “the court finds beyond a reasonable doubt that [the] defendant acted with premeditation,” the Star Tribune detailed.

Her ruling added that his “decision to put down the dumbbell and use the machete is evidence of a deliberate mental thought process. After the murder, the defendant’s actions in fleeing the scene, disposing of the murder weapon and other evidence in separate locations, and changing his clothing show the defendant’s consciousness of guilt.”

In Minnesota, a first-degree murder verdict, if it holds up, requires life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Minnesota defendants found guilty of this charge have the right to appeal directly to the state supreme court.

The video below purports to have been recorded at the crime scene. Warning for graphic content:

Saborit is due back in court on June 1 for the mental illness phase of the proceedings, although the judge had previously ruled that he was mentally competent to stand trial.

Saborit reportedly told cops during the initial investigation that he “was really mad at that moment,” but also that he acted in self-defense, because Thayer was supposedly trying to poison him.

Former MyPillow co-workers described Thayer “as extremely hard-working, caring and the kind of person that would never hurt a fly” and “a sweet and loveable person who befriended everyone,” Minnesota’s Southwest News Media reported.

Reacting to the verdict, her son, Charles Thayer, said “This monster deserves to be put away for life.”

POLL: GOP Winning Policy Debate but Losing Low-Info Optics Battle over Debt Ceiling

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POLL: GOP Winning Policy Debate but Losing Low-Info Optics Battle over Debt Ceiling

(Headline USA) About 6 in 10 U.S. adults said they wanted any increase in the debt limit to be coupled with agreed-upon terms for reducing the federal budget deficit, according to a new poll.

While the conclusion supports the Republican position of demanding compromise over the Biden administration’s economic brinksmanship, few respondents said they had a solid understanding of the ongoing debt limit negotiations.

In fact, slightly more said they approved of Biden’s handling of the situation over that of congressional Republicans—underscoring either conservatives’ longstanding distrust of pollsters and hesitation to identify themselves, or the success of mainstream media in suppressing relevant details about the two sides and their positions in the negotiations.

At the same time, Americans were more likely to disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden and congressional negotiators on both sides of the aisle were handling negotiations.

And two-thirds said they were highly concerned about the impact on the national economy if the U.S. debt limit is not increased and the government defaults on its loans.

The new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed 27% approve of Biden and 26% about congressional Democrats, while 22% approved of congressional Republicans. Close to half disapprove of each.

Sixty-six year-old Robert Hutchins said he somewhat approves of how House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Republicans in Congress were handling negotiations.

“At least he’s trying to do something,” the Republican from Milton, Delaware, said of McCarthy’s leadership over his conference. “The Democrats want to spend more money and they don’t want any limit to it.”

Hutchins said he doesn’t have “any confidence whatsoever” in Biden and doesn’t believe in abolishing the debt ceiling, as it serves as a constant reminder of the nation’s debt load, which currently stands at $31.4 trillion.

Otherwise, “you just think you have an unlimited credit card and you can spend whatever you want,” he said.

Overall, about 2 in 10 U.S. adults said they were following negotiations over raising the debt limit extremely or very closely, and about 4 in 10 were following somewhat closely.

Similarly, about 2 in 10 said they understood the situation very well and about 4 in 10 said they understood it somewhat well.

Still, a clear majority—63%—said they think negotiations over the debt limit should be coupled with terms to reduce the budget deficit.

Nineteen percent said the debt limit should be raised without conditions, and 16% said it should not be raised at all.

Overall, 50% of respondents said it should be tied to terms about reducing the budget deficit.

Similar percentages of Republicans and Democrats said they were following and understood negotiations, and concern about the economy if the U.S. defaults was widely bipartisan. But about a third of Democrats said the national debt limit should be increased without conditions, while just 6% of Republicans said the same.

Twenty-three percent of Republicans but just 7% of Democrats say the national debt limit should not be increased under any circumstances.

House Republicans already passed a bill to address the crisis with appropriate cuts to the Biden regime’s unfettered spending—which not only has ushered in the perennial debt debate but also contributed vastly to inflation among everyday Americans. However, the legislation now remains stalled in the Democrat-led Senate.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned this week that a national default would destroy jobs and businesses, and leave millions of families who rely on federal government payments to “likely go unpaid,” including Social Security beneficiaries, veterans and military families.

An AP-NORC poll conducted earlier this year also showed little consensus on cuts that would make a dent in the deficit: While most Americans said the government spends too much overall, majorities favored increased spending on popular and expensive programs including Medicare and Social Security.

Neither of those is at risk in the GOP package, which largely targets Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act and other recent pork-barrel spending sprees.

Aaron Loessberg–Zahl, a 33-year-old Democrat from San Jose, California, said the debt ceiling should be raised without conditions.

“Congress already controls the purse strings, they approve the annual budgets for our government,” Loessberg–Zahl said, “and I think that’s plenty of control over the spending.”

He called the debate over whether and how to raise the debt ceiling “not productive” and said he approved of the president’s handling of negotiations.

“My belief is that those people probably don’t understand the full ramifications of what would happen if the country were to default,” Loessberg–Zahl said,

The poll of 1,680 adults was conducted May 11-15 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

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