Debate Night, Vivek gets stuck in a ditch, Christie eats BBQ, Europe turns to Taylor Swift

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Callaroga Shark Media Today on ballot Vivick
wants you to turn the TV off and

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get stuck in a ditch. Chris
Christy is at a barbecue restaurant in New

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Hampshire while everyone else is in Iowa. A beer calendar gets everyone upset,

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and europe may turn to Taylor Swift
for help. Hi, I'm journey Joe

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Mitchell, and let's dive in on
the fun side of politics. It looks

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like Republican presidential candidate Vivick Ramaswami is
not holding back when it comes to the

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Iowa caucuses and the mainstream media.
He's decided to air an ad during tonight's

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CNN debate and it's got quite the
message. We like to keep it clean

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here, so I'll sub in crap
for the naughty S word in a no

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holds barred fashion. Ramaswami urges viewers
to turn this crap off, accusing the

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network of rigging the final televised showdown
before the Iowa caucuses. According to Ramaswami,

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the mainstream media is up to some
shenanigans trying to tilt the Iowa GOP

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caucus in favor of the corporate candidates. They can control. He's telling voters

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in Iowa markets don't fall for their
trick. He's making it clear that they

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don't want you to hear his take
on the truth behind January sixth, the

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COVID origin, the Hunter Biden laptop
story, and all the other things they've

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supposedly lied about. And how does
he suggest you handle the situation, Well,

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he's got a direct solution for that
too, Ramaswami boldly states, so

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you can fix that. Take your
remote and turn this crap off. And

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just to drive the point home,
he aims his own remote right at the

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camera and the screen goes black.
Ramaswami has found himself in a bit of

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a weather related predicament. After lambasing
other candidates for canceling their events due to

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severe winter weather in Iowa, he
had to cancel three of his own campaign

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events. On Tuesday, Ramaswami initially
announced on social media that he was postponing

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an event in Coralville, Iowa,
citing the weather conditions, which he claimed

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made it effectively impossible to safely get
from Des Moines to Coralville. Later in

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the morning, he released an updated
schedule that no longer included campaign stops in

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Burlington, Iowa and Keyocok, Iowa. It's quite the turn of events considering

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that just a day prior, Ramaswami
had proudly held his planned campaign events in

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Northwest Iowa, taking a jab at
former South Carolina Governor Nikki Hayley and the

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Trump campaign for canceling their events due
to the weather. He even told his

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audience in Sioux City, if you
can't handle the snow, you're not ready

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for Shijinping. Around three am on
Tuesday, he took to Twitter to share

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that his suv had gotten stuck in
a ditch after a more than five hour

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drive from Northwest Iowa to Des Moines. But don't worry, a good Iowan

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came to the rescue and they managed
to push the suv out of the ditch.

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Then, at six am on Tuesday
morning, Ramaswami tweeted that it was

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effectively impossible to safely get from Des
Moines to Coralville for his first scheduled event,

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so he made the tough decision to
postpone his visit to Coralville, but

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assured his supporters that he would return
there before the caucus. Finally, at

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eight am, he posted an updated
schedule, likely rearranging his campaign events to

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account for the weather related challenges.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christy firmly rejected

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the notion that suspending his presidential campaign
would benefit Republican contender NICKI Haley in her

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bid to challenge Donald Trump. He
expressed doubts about both her determination and capability

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to defeat Trump. While other candidates
were busy campaigning in Iowa ahead of the

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upcoming caucus, Christy found himself in
a barbecue restaurant in New Hampshire. He

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cautioned that if Trump secures a third
victory in the New Hampshire primary on January

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twenty third, he would likely secure
the GOP nomination, despite the subsequent contest

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taking place in Haley's home state of
South Carolina. Christy conveyed, if he

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wins here, don't expect South Carolina
to save us. It's not going to

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happen. So you all are the
ones who are going to make the call.

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Here. It's a big night for
politics, as CNN is hosting tonight's

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debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. This event moderated by CNN

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anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash kicks
off at nine pm Eastern. Instead of

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joining the debate with his rivals,
former President Trump is set to participate in

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a live Fox Newstown hall airing at
the very same time. The town hall,

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also taking place in Iowa, will
be moderated by Fox News anchors Brett

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Bayer and Martha McCallum. Looking ahead, Democratic lawmakers are grappling with the idea

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of President Biden debating Trump, with
some expressing reluctance due to concerns about elevating

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the GOP nominee. Trump has expressed
eagerness to debate Biden, even suggesting the

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possibility of ten debates. Senate Democratic
whip Dick Durbin voiced his reservations, recalling

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Trump's behavior during debates with Hillary Clinton
and citing the potential for Trump to showcase

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his extremism. While Democrats publicly emphasize
Biden's record of accomplishment, they privately hope

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that Trump's legal issues and controversial statements
will deter women and swing voters from supporting

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him. Age is another concern,
with Biden being eighty one years old if

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he faces Trump again, four years
older than Trump. Some Democrats worry that

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if Trump surpasses low expectations in a
debate, it could be as advantageous as

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winning outright, akin to the two
thousand presidential campaign when George W. Bush

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exceeded expectations. Well, folks,
it seems like the European Commission Vice President

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Marguerita Skeinis has a plan to get
the young voters of Europe fired up for

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the upcoming elections, and it involves
none other than the Queen of Pop herself,

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Taylor Swift. Skenis boldly declared,
no one can mobilize youth better than

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young people. It's young people who
can mobilize young people to participate more than

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commissioners. That's some real wisdom right
there, my friends. And why Taylor

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Swift you ask? Well? Skenis
is hoping for a little special shout out

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from the Time magazine's Person of the
Year. He even said, I very

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much hope that someone from her media
team follows this press conference and relays our

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request to her talk about a direct
approach, folks. Now, if you've

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been living under a rock, you
might not know that Taylor Swift has a

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track record when it comes to rallying
young voters. Last year, she encouraged

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her whopping two hundred and seventy two
million Instagram followers to register to vote,

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and guess what. Vote dot org
reported over thirty five thousand registrations in just

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hours. That's a twenty three percent
jump from the previous year. Taylor knows

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how to get things done. Swift
has been entangled in US politics for a

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while now to fight her earlier attempts
to stay out of the political conversation.

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But as the EU's June election approaches, Skeenis believes her star power could be

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the key to getting young Europeans to
the polls. And let's not forget Taylor's

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European tour is kicking off in Spring
twenty twenty four, right before the European

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election, with a stop in Paris
on May ninth, which just happens to

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be Europe Day. Skeenis is definitely
playing the timing card here and I'm loving

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the strategy. So will Taylor Swift
answer the call to boost young voter turnout

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in the EU. Only time will
tell, my friends, but one thing's

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for sure, Skeenis is banking on
swift star power to make a difference in

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European democracy. Stay tuned on Late
Night, Stephen Colbert chimed in on Nicky

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Haley's black friends. Colbert joked,
oh, yes, she had black friends,

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but then they heard her opinion on
what caused the Civil War, and

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yes, slavery is the obvious answer
to what caused the Civil War, just

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like Donald Trump is the obvious answer
to what caused Civil War two. Meanwhile,

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Jimmy Fallon had fun at Donald Trump's
expense, saying, at this point,

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the courtroom sketch artist doesn't even draw
him, she just traces the grooves

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in her desk. And finally,
Vox tells us about calendar gate. Altra

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Right Beer, positioned as a conservative
alternative to bud Light, released a twenty

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twenty four calendar called Conservative Dad's Real
Women of America twenty twenty four Calendar.

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The calendar featured photos of what the
company described as the most beautiful conservative women

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in America in various provocative poses,
though none were fully nude. The calendar

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drew criticism from some prominent social conservatives, who labeled it as demonic and accused

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it of pandering to sinful desires.
Jenna Ellis, one of Donald Trump's attorneys

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during the twenty twenty election questioned whether
conservatives were staying true to their moral values,

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while others defended the calendar, arguing
that it was an example of the

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right's inability to connect with everyday people. And there you have it, thanks

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to Mark Francis and John McDermott.
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