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President Joe Biden offered a one-sentence response to reporters who asked him Tuesday about Hunter Biden’s decision to plead guilty to two counts of tax evasion and one firearm offense. Co-founder and partner of ROKK Solutions, Ron Bonjean, provides his analysis in USA Today regard the Hunter Biden plea deal with the Justice Department.

Read the article in-depth here.

Sen. Joe Manchin for the first time cast votes against one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, complicating the White House’s push to fill the federal bench with more liberal lifetime appointees.

Senior Vice President, John LaBombard, shares insights on what we can expect for votes on judicial nominations moving forward in Bloomberg Law. Read the full story here.

A Bud Light is no longer just something you grab when you feel like a beer. A conservative outcry over Bud’s marketing campaign with a transgender activist has put the brand into the center of a culture war over so-called corporate wokeism.

To many people, Bud was simply getting with the times by embracing activist Dylan Mulvaney, recognizing LGBTQ consumers, and following the lead of brands such as Coca-Cola (ticker: KO), Nike (NKE), and Hershey (HSY). But the conservative backlash against Bud Light produced a 26% drop in beer sales in a week.

Companies from BlackRock (BLK) to Walt Disney (DIS) are under siege as political attacks on progressive corporate policies heat up ahead of the 2024 elections. Some companies are fighting back—notably Disney—and there is scant evidence of firms retreating from environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, initiatives.

Get more on this in Barron’s and don’t forget to check out ROKK’s latest ESG research, “Navigating ESG in the New Congress: Voter Views on ESG Investing,” here.

With the cessation of Title 42 late last week and the expected surge of migrants into the United States, scrutinous eyes are all over the Biden Administration. Co-founder and partner of ROKK Solutions, Ron Bonjean, gives his take on Republican attitudes towards the issue and the political consequences that are set to come in The Hill.

Read the article in-depth here.

Search engine optimization strategies are constantly evolving, and it is essential for companies to keep up with these changes to make sure their efforts remain effective. As search engine algorithms and user behaviors continue to shift alongside company goals, businesses must adapt their SEO strategies to ensure their content stays relevant, ranks higher in search results and extends their reach.

Featured in Forbes, ROKK Executive Vice President of Digital and Paid Media Rachel Winer discusses how catering to first-party data will be crucial to monitoring, evaluating, obtaining and optimizing SEO strategies.

Two vulnerable Democrats running for reelection in red states are threatening to become thorns in President Biden’s side with their campaign seasons heating up as well as his own.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is up for reelection this cycle, has vowed to block the Biden administration’s nominees to Amtrak’s board of directors, while another vulnerable Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), has floated the idea he would vote to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, posing a threat to the president’s signature accomplishment. Together, they hold the keys to the party’s ability to retain the majority next year, and taking on Biden and top Democrats in their ruby-red states is considered a political winner for the two moderates. 

ROKK Senior Vice President John Labombard discussed with The Hill how the White House, heading into the election season, will be giving much less heartburn to moderate Democrats than it did in the first two years. Get the full story here.

Republican attacks on “woke” American corporations are exposing deep divides within the GOP, with some Republicans worried the party is straying from its roots by going after the internal politics of big businesses. The Republican at the center of the fight is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who has tested the limits of the party’s appetite for government crackdowns on private industry with his war on Disney and Disney World.

But not all Republican voters approve of the anti-ESG push, which a small number of conservative critics have criticized as government overreach. In fact, a recent poll from ROKK Solutions and Penn State’s Smeal College of Business found that only 32 percent of Republican voters support their state government “excluding certain financial institutions from state investment portfolios due to their stance on environmental or social issues.” 

Get more on this in The Hill and don’t forget to check out ROKK’s latest ESG research, “Navigating ESG in the New Congress: Voter Views on ESG Investing,” here.

ROKK Solutions Partner Kristen Hawn spoke on Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power” political panel with political strategist Doug Heye and discussed President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign. Watch the replay here.

ROKK Solutions Partner Kristen Hawn joined Republican Strategist Colin Reed on Fox News Live where they discussed President Biden’s anticipated re-election announcement, the GOP and Democrat fields for the 2024 presidential election and key issues for voters. Watch the replay here.

A majority of investors believe their financial returns depend in part on companies’ climate-change mitigation efforts, according to a new survey by ROKK Solutions with a team of researchers from Penn State University, and the data included 80% of respondents who identify as Democrats and 53% who identify as Republicans.

But respondents’ wariness of ESG-related losses was also bipartisan, hinting at the balancing act for Wall Street money managers as they navigate choppy markets and political pressures over environmental, social and governance investing.

Get more on this in The Wall Street Journal and don’t forget to check out ROKK’s latest ESG research, “Navigating ESG in the New Congress: Voter Views on ESG Investing,” here.