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By Stu WhitneySouth Dakota News Watch Here are five Republican Senate primaries that could help define the upper chamber in the 2025 session and beyond. The primaries will take place June 4, 2024. District 3 (Brown County) There’s a generational battle brewing in Aberdeen, where 70-year-old retired businessman Carl Perry is looking to shift from the House to Senate. Perry served three terms in Pierre and now seeks the Senate seat formerly held by political ally Al Norvstrup, who is term-limited and toggling back to the House. Seeking to break the cycle is Katie Washnok, president of Aberdeen Chamber of…
Former president Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans are seizing on the eruption of campus protests across the country to depict the United States as out of control under President Biden, seeking to use the mostly peaceful demonstrations as a political cudgel against the Democrats.The pro-Palestinian protests at numerous colleges — including Columbia, Yale, Emory, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and others — include encampments and barricades intended to highlight protesters’ denunciation of Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza, as well as to push universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel.Beyond the disruption…
Former President Trump’s pursuit of a second term in the White House could lead to an administration stocked with loyalists who are laser-focused on implementing Trump’s agenda and are willing to cater to his whims. Critics, including some who have worked closely with Trump, have expressed concerns that a second Trump administration would have fewer officials willing to act as guardrails and would enable the former president to act more impulsively, in part because of his lame duck status. “That is one of my biggest concerns about a second Trump administration, is there would be no guardrails,” said Sarah Matthews,…
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailRepublican Senators are split about the fact that WNBA first-round draft pick Caitlin Clark will be paid significantly less than her male counterparts. Ms Clark garnered international attention during her time playing for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes’ women’s basketball team. Earlier this month, the Indiana Fever WNBA team selected her as the first pick in its draft. But the fact Ms Clark’s four-year contract was worth just $338,056 sparked outrage given that she would make significantly less…
Before I speak to Joseph Stiglitz, one of his surprisingly ample team asks if I can give him notice of my questions. The Nobel laureate, it turns out, appreciates time to prepare. Stiglitz’s critics might laugh: hasn’t he been preparing for the past three decades? Surely his leftist critique of free markets now comes naturally?Stiglitz, chair of Bill Clinton’s council of economic advisers, then chief economist at the World Bank during the 1990s, found fame with his 2002 bestselling attack on the IMF, Globalisation and Its Discontents. Disdained by The Economist, for many left-wingers he nonetheless became the economist.Some things…
The ironically named “Stop the Steal” rally of January 6, 2021. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Hanging over the 2024 presidential rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is the possibility of another contested result. Aside from a handful of liberal pundits who have fantasized about Congress refusing to certify a Trump victory on grounds that the 14th Amendment bans high federal office for past “insurrectionists,” the major reason for worry emanates from the horrible example set by Trump in 2020 and by his ever-more-adamant if still unsubstantiated claims that the race was “rigged.” There’s no reason to assume he’ll accept…
The fate of the Governor’s Office of Tribal Relations is unclear after Senate Republicans refused to take up a bill allowing the office to continue operating after June that had received bipartisan backing in the House of Representatives. Because Sen. Jake Hoffman, the Republican chairman of the Senate Government Committee, didn’t allow his committee to consider House Bill 2429 before a March deadline, the bill extending the agency for eight years is dead. Instead, the future existing of the tribal relations office hinges on a late amendment added to House Bill 2632. That amendment proposes extending the work of eight…
President Biden’s reelection campaign faces the difficult task of appealing to moderate Republicans who may feel like they don’t have a place to go this election with former President Trump on the ballot. The president has a prime opportunity to peel off some of those voters, which would boost his reelection chances and expand his coalition. Their numbers are significant: Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) snagged 16 percent of GOP voters in last week’s Pennsylvania primary despite dropping her bid against Trump almost two months ago. “It requires work, but I think it’s doable,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.)…
Brett Samuels and The Hill 1 week ago Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Schnecksville, Pa., Saturday, April 13, 2024. The Trump campaign is asking GOP candidates and committees to share a portion of their fundraising haul from messages that use the former president’s name, image and likeness, a new move campaign officials say is designed to protect small-dollar donors from misleading messages. Trump campaign co-chairs Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles wrote to GOP vendors in an April 15 letter asking that candidates and committees using former President Trump’s name, image or likeness give at…
FILE – Republican Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson walks on to the stage before announcing that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney during a rally in Draper, Utah, on Sept. 27, 2023 | Photo by Rick Bowmer, The Associated Press, St. George News SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nearly a dozen Utah Republicans vying to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate are set to square off Saturday for the party nomination in a race expected to reveal the brand of political conservatism that most appeals to modern voters in the state. FILE…