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A conservative Republican state senator faces opposition from top leaders of his own caucus as he pursues re-election in Tuesday’s primary. Sen. Jim McCune, R-Graham, who is seeking a second term in Washington’s 2nd Legislative District, is up against Republican Ronda Litzenberger and Democrat Erasmo Ruiz Gonzalez in next week’s election. The two top vote-getters will meet in the November election with the winner earning a four-year term serving the district that encompasses parts of Thurston and Pierce counties and stretches east to Mount Rainier. Republican state Sen. Jim McCune is running in 2024 for a second term in the…
A Florida GOP senator has endorsed a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana, breaking with the state Republican party that he previously chaired. Sen. Joe Gruters (R), who currently serves as chair of the Senate Regulated Industries Committee, came out in favor of the cannabis measure, Amendment 3, on Wednesday. As opponents, including Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and state law enforcement associations, step up their efforts to convince voters to reject the proposal, Gruters said supporting the initiative is a “common-sense decision that prioritizes individual freedom, health, safety and economic growth.” “By legalizing recreational marijuana for adults, we can give Floridians…
Vice President Kamala Harris is eating into Donald Trump’s lead in the key battleground states that could determine the outcome of the presidential election in November, according to a Republican polling company.The new survey, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies between July 23 and 29, found that overall both Trump and Harris received 46 percent of the vote across five swing states (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan and Arizona). Meanwhile, 4 percent of voters backed third-party candidates, and 4 percent were undecided.When looking at the states individually, the results revealed that Harris was ahead in two, securing 48 percent of the vote…
Legislation is expected to be introduced on Thursday by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in a bid to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.The Associated Press first reported that Schumer is seeking to introduce the No Kings Act this week to fight the ruling by the Supreme Court. According to the AP, the legislation will also seek to allow Congress to decide where federal law is applied to presidents and former presidents, instead of the Supreme Court.Earlier this month, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on presidential immunity following arguments by former President Donald Trump.In a 6-3…
Chuck Schumer will introduce a bill in the Senate today to declare explicitly that presidents do not have immunity from criminal conduct, overriding last month’s supreme court ruling that Donald Trump has some immunity for his actions as president.The No Kings Act, which would apply to presidents and vice-presidents, has more than two dozen Democratic co-sponsors.“Given the dangerous and consequential implications of the court’s ruling, legislation would be the fastest and most efficient method to correcting the grave precedent the Trump ruling presented,” the Senate majority leader said in a statement.“With this glaring and partisan overreach, Congress has an obligation…
Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Former President Donald Trump took the stage at the National Association of Black Journalists convention yesterday, where he questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ biracial background. He was asked if he agreed with some Republican claims that she has political power because of “diversity, equity and inclusion.” His response was that Harris, who is Black and Indian American, has changed how she discussed her racial identity. “I didn’t…
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate will hold a key test vote Thursday on a bipartisan bill to expand the child tax credit and provide some tax breaks for businesses.But it’s not clear Democrats have enough Republican support to break a filibuster and advance the bill toward a final vote, as many GOP senators oppose it.“This should be a no-brainer,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters. “Right now, the only ones standing in the way are Senate Republicans. Everyone else, even House Republicans, are for this.”The vote on the bill, which would provide the most financial help to multi-child…
New footage from Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally shows a figure running across the AGR International roof outside the rally grounds shortly before the shooting was carried out. The chilling video was taken by James Copenhaver, who was eventually gravely wounded in the shooting. Chilling video appears to show Thomas Crooks running across roof, taking position (Fox News screenshot) The footage, captured on July 13 at 6:08 pm, which is minutes before shots were fired, appears to show gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks running along the rooftop. He appears to be in clear view of the former president, who was on the…
Hours after former US President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s ethnicity during an interaction at the National Association for Black Journalists (NABJ) on Wednesday, far-right commentator Laura Loomer shared Harris’ birth certificate, which lists her mother’s ethnicity as “Caucasian.”Loomer’s post seemed to support Trump’s claim that Harris, who is currently leading him in five of seven battleground states according to a recent Bloomberg poll, is not Black.Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was an Indian-American biomedical scientist, and her father, Donald Harris, is a Jamaican-American professor emeritus at Stanford University.Fact-checkers, including Snopes, have clarified that birth…
Kamala Harris has shrugged off Donald Trump’s questioning of her racial identity, saying that it was “the same old show” and that “America deserves better”, at a rally in Texas.On Wednesday, in an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Trump antagonised senior Black journalists and questioned Harris’s race, saying, “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black.”His interview, which was meant to last an hour, according to Axios, was cut short after 34 minutes.In…