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CNN — Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp revealed Wednesday that he didn’t vote for former President Donald Trump in the state’s GOP primary in March. “I didn’t vote for anybody. I voted, but I didn’t vote for anybody,” Kemp told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source” the day before the historic presidential debate in his home state.”I mean, the race was already over when the primary got here,” he continued, later adding, “I always try to go vote and, you know, play a part in it, but look at that point, it didn’t really matter.” Despite not voting for Trump in…
With Donald Trump’s defeat of Nikki Haley in New Hampshire, there’s no need to waste any more time wishing 2024 might be something other than a Biden-Trump rematch.The good news, as the election comes into sharper focus, is that there is strong reason to believe that the sensible American majority will preserve our democracy and our freedoms in the only way we can, by rejecting Trumpism and keeping President Joe Biden in office. The surest basis for optimism is evidence that the reality of a robust economy is sinking in with voters. Last week, The Wall Street Journal, citing a Federal Reserve Bank…
Four of the five “sister senators” will not be returning to the State House. SOUTH CAROLINA, USA — Tuesday night, political newcomer Carlisle Kennedy upset longtime Lexington County Senator Katrina Shealy, significantly shifting the South Carolina Senate. This election result means only one of the five ‘sister senators’ who stood together to vote against the 6-week abortion ban will remain in the Senate. The ‘sister senators’ earned their name in May 2023 when they filibustered against the bill that would make abortion illegal after six weeks. Now, only Margie Bright Matthews will be returning for the next session. Sandy Senn,…
The reasons Donald Trump appears to have a slight edge in the same matchup with President Biden that he lost just four years ago are many and complicated. But sometimes a poll comes along and crystallizes one of the big ones.Such is the case with a new survey from Quinnipiac University released on the eve of the first debate Thursday night.It asked, “If there were a crisis that put the country at great risk, who would you want in the Oval Office to deal with it: Donald Trump or Joe Biden?”This is the kind of question that has cut strongly…
What message do you think Donald Trump would like to broadcast about President Joe Biden ahead of the first presidential debate on Thursday? We don’t need to think too hard about this one. Trump would like to brag about how he’s going to destroy Biden in a victory that will be scored unanimously by the punditry. He’d like to boast about how Biden won’t be able to find words, so powerful a force will he be facing in Donald Trump. He’d like to project certain excellence. This, however, would be a direct violation of the predebate playbook, and Trump—perhaps recognizing…
SPRINGFIELD, Pa. — Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick made a bold call Wednesday to ban children younger than age 16 from using social-media platforms. “I think we’ve hit the tipping point, where what’s happening to our kids as a consequence of social media has long-term consequences that undermine their ability to be great citizens,” McCormick said. “It seemed to me a reasonable step to, just like we limit cigarettes and alcohol, certain types of guns. . . . Let’s limit access to social media.” McCormick made a bold call Wednesday to ban children younger than age 16 from using…
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) has become the first House Democratic incumbent to lose a primary this year. Westchester County Executive George Latimer (D) is projected to handily defeat Bowman in the Democratic primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District. So far this year, only one House Republican incumbent risks defeat. Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) narrowly trails his opponent in a primary held last week in the state’s 5th Congressional District, a race that the Associated Press says remains too close to call. This article was originally published by a www.washingtonpost.com . Read the Original article here. .
By Mike Wendling and Jake HortonBBC News and BBC Verify21 May 2024
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On Nov. 6, 1860 — Election Day — a Springfield, Ill., lawyer who had been a one-term congressman 11 years prior, and soon would be president, said elections are like “‘big boils’ — they caused a great deal of pain before they came to a head, but after the trouble was over the body was in better health than before.” This nugget is from Erik Larson’s just-published “The Demon of Unrest,” concerning the coming of the Civil War that preserved the body politic.The one soothing certainty is that when the boil of this year’s election is lanced, politics will be…