Connoisseurs of the A.W.I. will hurry past last week’s winner (Donald Trump, 43.4 percent, again distinguishing himself in this poll as he does nowhere else) to make note of the next five, closely clustered finishers. Melania Trump (13.8 percent) took second with her threatened billion-dollar lawsuits and epistles to authoritarians—we mean the “peace letter” to Vladimir Putin, not some note she left on the kitchen counter for her husband about picking up after himself. Then a flurry: the pumped-up national health crisis that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (9.8 percent), white-nationalist policy influencer Laura Loomer (9.4 percent), A.W. Incarnate Kristi Noem (9.1 percent), and Edinburgh’s trigger-warning-happy International Festival (8.1 percent). Well played, everyone.
Onward, but first:
