We expected last week’s race to be tight, and it was: both Matt Gaetz (Kevin McCarthy canceler, widely reviled compulsive attention-grabber) and Donald Trump (petulant trial defendant, casual disseminator of nuclear-submarine secrets) had a lot going for them. In the end, Gaetz prevailed—his second straight victory—with 39.8 percent to Trump’s 35.8 percent. The rest of the field trailed distantly, though it’s worth noting that perennial Marjorie Taylor Greene was outpolled (8 percent to 1.7 percent) by her boyfriend, Brian Glenn, presumably on the strength of Glenn’s musings on how “ugly” and “unhappy” liberal women are.
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …
