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Tim Walz is telling people he’s just as nervous about facing JD Vance as he was the Sunday afternoon in August when he warned Kamala Harris in his running mate interview that he was a bad debater.
Maybe more nervous, according to multiple people who’ve spoken to him.
And the pressure is even higher, when for the first time in modern campaign history, the vice presidential debate Tuesday is likely to be the last marquee event before Election Day. With many voters still saying they don’t know enough about Harris, it could be up to Walz to help convince them to trust a vice president he barely knew himself before she picked him.
Talking to the aides who have coalesced around him in Minnesota and other supporters, Walz constantly comes back to how worried he is about letting Harris down, according to close to a dozen top campaign staffers and others who have been in touch with the governor and his team. He doesn’t want Donald Trump to win. He doesn’t want Harris to think she made the wrong choice.
He feels genuine contempt for and confusion over what he views as Vance’s abandonment of their common roots, and for flipping so many of his positions to fit with Trump. The digs he takes at Vance by saying he didn’t know many Midwesterners who went to Yale are a glimpse into his anxiety that his opponent learned to be a sharp debater there, according to people who know Walz.
And aides insist this isn’t just about setting expectations.
“He’s a strong person,” said Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who’s known Walz since they were each first elected to Washington in 2006. “He’s just not a lawyer-debater type. It’s not like he was dreaming of debates when he was in first grade.”
Walz is confident in Harris’ vision. But the governor fears he won’t make his case as well as he needs to, according to people who have been speaking with him.
“How’s debate prep going?” one person at an exclusive high-dollar fundraiser asked Walz as he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows in megadonor Alex Soros’ penthouse living room in Manhattan on Monday.
“As teachers, we are trained to answer the question, and we train our students to answer the questions,” the person recalled Walz saying. “That’s not how this goes.”
Inside Walz’s debate strategy
In long sessions that have gone late into the night and through weekends, Walz and his team have been balancing managing the Minnesota governor’s headspace, watching videos of Vance and holding mock sessions with stand-ins for the moderators, with Pete Buttigieg playing the Ohio senator. (Though the Transportation secretary is not going as method as Harris’ Trump stand-in did and growing out a beard.)
The plan for Tuesday night, several people involved told CNN, will be to largely skip Vance and go right at Trump – but to also squeeze the senator between his attempts to appeal to undecided voters and the always tricky task of satisfying America’s most prominent audience of one.
If they get their way, Trump will be triggered into a storm of anger, jealousy and pique as easily as he was when Harris poked him at their debate. Their goal is for Walz to lean into his likability to hammer Vance over “Project 2025” and for “selling his soul to Donald Trump,” as Walz put it at another New York fundraiser.
People involved say Walz may even try a line that originated when Harris was preparing for a vice presidential debate before Joe Biden dropped out: asking Vance what promises he made to Trump so the former president wouldn’t send an angry mob after him with a gallows, like Mike Pence experienced on January 6.
Walz and his team want commonsense indignation to come across, according to several in the know. Their worry is that Vance is going to eviscerate the governor’s hand-to-his-heart, dad-joke persona and make Walz come across as either a moron or a raging bull, or even an out-of-whack liberal vouching for another out-of-whack liberal.
Attendees listen to Walz speak at a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on September 5, 2024.
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Making people feel ‘joyful and hopeful’
Traditionally, running mates serve as attack dogs.
For the past six weeks of calibrated campaign appearances, Walz has been more emotional support animal for his party – whether, according to people who’ve been with them, that’s Harris feeling buoyed by his energy and vindicated by voters’ reactions to her pick (she was the one who suggested calling him “Coach” as they got ready for their first joint rally) or the voter who waited half an hour on a rope line last week for a fist bump and walked away squealing to a friend, “That’s all I needed.”
“People assume that he is a walking permission structure for rural, exurban, White male hunters,” said a senior campaign aide. “Yes, for the 1 or 2 points of those we want to move. But it’s much deeper than that: He’s a walking permission structure for people to feel joyful and hopeful themselves.”
That appears to be working: whether it’s the Human Rights Campaign black-tie gala in Washington, where his remarks drew tears from many at the high-priced tables (he changed into his tuxedo in the convention center bathroom after flying in wearing a sweatshirt) or the stuffy gym at the conveniently named Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where people like retired federal government worker Ana Gallardo said they loved Walz even if they couldn’t say why.
Asked to name her favorite thing about the governor she was so thrilled to see, Gallardo paused.
“I really don’t know,” she said. “I’m going to listen closer today.”
What Walz highlights about Harris – and what he is careful not to
With his 12 years in the House and nearly six so far as governor, Walz has more government experience and a deeper record than many men who’ve served as president. But he’s leaned into the feeling of being a guy who just wandered in wide-eyed to find thousands of people cheering for him and his name on the logo.
Jamming this guy into a campaign that Harris had to suddenly take over, with different camps among the staff competing for dominance, has been tricky. While some on the campaign have been eager to milk as many different appearances and fundraisers as they can out of an unexpectedly in-demand running mate, others have questioned why he is not being kept focused on the necessary basics of appealing to White men in what aides on the day he was picked were calling the “Blue Walz” states.
This also plays out in day-to-day engagement: a governor who until six weeks ago was one of the most eagerly accessible Democratic politicians in the country and who essentially manifested himself as the running mate with a few spicy TV appearances has done only a few interviews since being picked, all lower profile. He doesn’t take questions from reporters and rarely comes to chat off the record on his campaign plane. Aides declined requests for even a brief interview with CNN.
As they monitor how Vance has been fencing with reporters in Q&As after his many events, Walz aides know their approach risks Walz getting rusty.
Their hands are tied, multiple people involved acknowledge: The vice president’s staff doesn’t want a contrast that would highlight how few unscripted events Harris has done.
Walz, though, has reminded staffers that he wasn’t the head football coach back in Minnesota. He was the assistant coach and defensive coordinator, and that’s the experience he’s turning to now.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Walz visit with members of the marching band at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Georgia, on August 28, 2024.
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Walz very deliberately – and without being told by Harris or her inner circle – never asks a crowd to elect him vice president. He never talks about what he’d do on the job. He doesn’t even talk about electing “us” or what a Harris-Walz administration would be. He talks about Harris, how important it is to get her into the White House and how excited he is to see what she’ll do on the job.
“The guy is reclaiming old White dude masculinity away from toxicity,” said one person who’s spoken with Walz often since he was picked.
To Adrian Fontes, the Democratic secretary of state in Arizona, that’s the difference between what he calls the “machito” of the Republican ticket and true machismo, in a way that he believes will ripple well beyond the people who look and sound like Walz.
“Tim Walz epitomizes the Latino dad. He loves his family. He loves families generally. He’s got a good sense of humor. He’s warm. …. He’s just there to support, and he takes great pride in the success of others,” Fontes said. “‘Machito’ – it’s less mature. It has sort of to do with the big trucks and the loud music version of the Latino men. And there’s plenty of those guys out there, don’t get me wrong. But we grow out of that pretty quickly.”
Fontes said that distinction is reinforced by “the physical appearance that this is sort of a dad here who’s super proud of his daughter.”
Walz has maintained that relatable demeanor, even as he seems to still be wrapping his head around how much his life has changed – and might even more.
“What’s it been like the past six weeks?” he said at the beginning of his speech in Pennsylvania. “Pretty strange.”
Up on the 36th floor of the InterContinental Hotel in Manhattan in a suite where most of the seats were filled by billionaires and the refreshments were a thick wooden box of macadamia nut cookies and brownies kept under a glass dome, Walz deflected when one of the hosts said how excited she was to have the next vice president with them.
“That still sounds really weird,” he said, shaking his head.
“I know, but we’ve got to keep saying it,” she said.
Behind the scenes and on the stump
Behind the scenes, the man who goofs around through doughnut shops and convenience stores can also be the harder-nosed politician who won a longtime Republican US House seat by hustling around a district that didn’t have its own major media market.
Walz, according to people familiar with the internal discussions, was the one whom Jimmy McCain, the late Sen. John McCain’s son, first reached out to when he wanted to endorse Harris. Walz was the one put on the phone with Joe Manchin when the West Virginia senator was demanding to talk to Harris as a pre-condition for an endorsement. (Manchin has since said he was not endorsing Harris.)
Walz has also, according to people who have been talking with him, been the conduit for former House colleagues and labor leaders, including conversations with firefighters’ union president Ed Kelly that the Harris campaign is optimistic will soon help land an endorsement. Or he’s the one calling digital influencers to thank them for their posts about the campaign.
Walz spent part of a recent weekend replacing the seals on the washers and dryers in the house he’s living in while the governor’s mansion in St. Paul is being remodeled. Inspired to learn as they met a marching band on their August bus tour in Georgia that Harris had played the French horn in high school, Walz has mused to aides that that who they really should be going after is high school band kids and alumni – trust him, he says, that’s the group with the best-organized infrastructure and email lists in a school.
Whatever Walz does, no one on his staff or Harris’ believes he can move the needle much during Tuesday’s debate, especially not with a line or two. More than anything over those 90 minutes in the CBS studio in New York, his aides just want him to keep giving off that feeling of joy and reassurance.
To Tim Ryan, the former Ohio congressman who was lauded for his performance in two 2022 debates against Vance in a Senate race he went on to lose, that’s the advice he relayed to Walz’s team without talking to his old House colleague directly.
“If I was Tim, I wouldn’t be the least bit intimidated by (Vance),” Ryan told CNN. “Just be who you are. Everyone is enjoying seeing you and seeing who you are. Just be that guy.”
This story’s headline has been updated.
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It still doesn’t sting any less.”Harris repeated the line several days after the presidential debate when she was asked in a radio interview how she differs from Biden. “Well, I’m obviously not Joe Biden,” she said. “I offer a new generation of leadership.”Appearing on ABC’s “The View” last week, Biden insisted he would have defeated Trump had he remained in the race. “I never fully believed the assertions that somehow there was this overwhelming reluctance to my running again,” Biden said. “The fact of the matter is my polling was always in range of beating this guy.”Three of the people interviewed for this article attributed any discomfort with Harris’ campaign to Biden’s former inner circle, saying they had done him a disservice by not being realistic enough about his chances of victory even in the face of stubbornly low approval numbers.Since Biden dropped out after his disastrous debate performance in June, however, polling has shifted in Harris’ favor. While the race between Harris and Trump overall remains tight, Democrats’ map has expanded since Biden’s departure, putting North Carolina in play, as well as Nevada, Georgia and Arizona. Enthusiasm has surged across the party since Harris took the reins from Biden on July 21. She’s filling venues like Biden never did across battleground states, attracting tens of thousands of new volunteers and inspiring eye-popping fundraising numbers. Allies, however, said that in the end, Biden will feel vindicated not just by the unselfishness of his decision to step aside for Harris but by what Democrats see as a four-year term rich with achievements.“I’m sure reality is hitting him,” John Morgan, a longtime Biden ally and Democratic donor, said of Biden’s watching the Democratic campaign evolve without him. “But the great reality for Joe Biden is when we sort through all of this, his four years were a masterpiece.” Carol E. LeeCarol E. 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‘Donald Trump is also the person who said women should be punished’: Kamala Harris reminds women that Trump can’t be their ‘protector’ when it comes to reproductive rights
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Donald Trump recently claimed at campaign rally that he would be a “protector” of women, which is rich coming from a man who was found civilly liable for rape, and who bragged that he could grab women “by the p*ssy” without consequence. Donald, you’re the thing women need protection from, and Kamala Harris recently reminded the country of that fact.
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In a press conference on Wednesday, Kamala Harris stressed that women don’t need a presidential “protector,” but a president who trusts them to make their own decisions concerning their bodies. This statement comes on the heels of Trump’s assertion that women “will no longer be thinking about abortion” should he be elected president. When asked to elaborate on her statement, Harris reminded the press that Donald Trump is the same man who suggested that women who undergo abortions should face “some form of punishment” during his 2016 election campaign. She went on to say that his decision to appoint the Supreme Court justices responsible for the 2022 overturning of Roe vs. Wade is “a result of that perspective that he has about women.”
“The thing about Donald Trump is that, you know, I don’t think the women of America need him to say he’s going to protect them. The women of America need him to trust them.” Harris added, going on to say that governmental mistrust of women is contributing to the passage of laws “punish women” in multiple states. Sometimes these punishments are lethal, as was the case with two women who died preventable deaths due to state abortion bans in Georgia. Should Donald Trump become president, Harris warns, women in the United States will suffer for it.
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Skip NavigationThe New RepublicThe New RepublicLATESTBREAKING NEWSPOLITICSCLIMATECULTUREMAGAZINENEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGAMESThe New Republic The New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New RepublicLATESTBREAKING NEWSPOLITICSCLIMATECULTUREMAGAZINENEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGAMESThe New Republic The New Republic The New RepublicBreaking News Breaking Newsfrom Washington and beyondMost Recent PostHafiz Rashid/September 30, 2024/5:38 p.m. ETShare This StoryMAGA Is Claiming “Political Violence” Over a Giant Nude Trump StatueConservatives are properly freaking out over a debut of a 43-foot-tall statue of a naked Donald Trump.RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP/Getty ImagesOn Saturday, a 43-foot-tall nude statue of Donald Trump was installed near Interstate 15 just outside of Las Vegas, immediately drawing a backlash from the former president’s supporters. The foam-and-rebar art installation, weighing about 6,000 pounds, is titled Crooked and Obscene and is expected to travel to other cities, although dates and cities for the tour have not been announced, according to The Wrap. RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP/Getty ImagesThe artists behind the “anatomically correct” statue, who want to stay anonymous, said in a statement that the former president’s nudity was “intentional, serving as a bold statement on transparency, vulnerability, and the public personas of political figures.” But Republicans, as one might expect, are livid. “While families drive through Las Vegas, they are forced to view this offensive marionette, designed intentionally for shock value rather than meaningful dialogue,” the Nevada Republican Party said in a statement, according to The Telegraph. Right-wing influencer Ian Miles Cheong posted on X that Trump, if elected president, “should jail everyone who was a part of this effigy’s creation.” Fellow right-wing conspiracy theorist Catturd (real name Phillip Buchanan) called the people behind the statue “demons,” piggybacking on yet another right-wing influencer’s post calling the art piece “POLITICAL VIOLENCE.” While these right-wing figures are freaking out, this isn’t even the first instance where a nude Trump statue has been erected. In 2016, just before the election, five small naked Trump statues went up on street corners in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Seattle, and New York City, only to be taken down by local authorities because the artist didn’t secure a permit. The artists behind this latest art project are pretty tight-lipped, so there’s no word on whether they secured a permit themselves. On a related note, Trump on Sunday told supporters in Wisconsin that if he wasn’t campaigning, “I could’ve been sunbathing on the beach. You have never seen a body so beautiful. Much better than Sleepy Joe.” He probably won’t like this statue, though, and definitely won’t add it to his NFT trading card collection.Share This StoryMore on conservatives losing it:Trump Decides Hurricane Helene Is Perfect Time to Start New ConspiracyMost Recent PostEllie Quinlan Houghtaling/September 30, 2024/4:59 p.m. ETShare This StoryHypocrite MTG Now Demanding Hurricane Relief Funds She Tried to BlockMarjorie Taylor Greene is suddenly all for government spending.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesGeorgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is begging the federal government to urgently “send the funds” to help the American Southeast recover in the wake of Hurricane Helene, even though she herself stood in the way of emergency relief funds just last week.“The storm was supposed to come directly across my district, but when it came through Georgia, it went to the east, and we mainly just got a lot of rain,” Greene told Real America’s Voice’s Terrance Bates. “When we go back to Washington, we will be working hard to make sure that states like Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina get the funding that they need.”Greene was one of 82 Republicans who voted last week against a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. If she had been successful, the government would have been in shutdown mode from Tuesday onward, preventing any region from receiving the critical assistance.“We’ve already signed a letter,” Greene told Bates. “We sent that letter to Joe Biden requesting relief that Brian Kemp, our governor, has already requested. So our entire delegation in Georgia has signed onto that letter.”“We need them to step in and send the funds and the relief that these people deserve,” she added.But Greene’s public demands ring a little hollow. During the storm, she was spotted gleefully attending a football game alongside Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, while Kemp revealed earlier Monday that President Joe Biden had called him over the weekend to assess the state’s needs. Greene also took the opportunity to take a stab at the Biden administration, even while lobbying for federal aid from the executive branch.“President Trump is a man of action,” she told the right-wing network. “We don’t need a sleepy Joe in the White House. We don’t need Kamala Harris, who they’re propping up.”Share This StoryRead about Biden’s response:Georgia’s Republican Governor Shuts Down Trump’s Hurricane ConspiracyMost Recent PostEdith Olmsted/September 30, 2024/4:58 p.m. ETShare This StoryTrump Pushes Hurricane Helene Lie Even After Republicans Debunk HimDonald Trump continues to insist that Democrats have abandoned areas affected by Hurricane Helene.Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesDonald Trump flailed Monday when asked to produce any evidence to support his claim that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were purposefully withholding aid from people affected by Hurricane Helene. Trump suggested in a Truth Social post earlier Monday that he’d received “reports” from North Carolina claiming that the Biden administration and Democratic Governor Roy Cooper were “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas” in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The western region of North Carolina is currently experiencing severe flooding. MSNBC reporter Garrett Haake attempted to press Trump during a stop in Valdosta, Georgia, asking him what, if any, evidence he had to back up his outlandish claim.“Take a look,” Trump responded, walking away. Haake translated the flippant response to mean, “essentially, I’ve got nothing to show you right now, why don’t you go find it yourself.”So in short, Trump has absolutely no evidence, and these so-called “reports” seem even less legitimate than the debunked ones claiming that Haitian immigrants were eating their neighbors’ pets.In a second post about hurricane relief, Trump claimed that Biden and Harris had “left Americans to drown in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and elsewhere in the South.”Trump also claimed that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, with whom he has his own uneasy alliance, had a “hard time” reaching Biden to discuss disaster relief, and that the president had been “very non-responsive.” That was also a lie. Kemp said that he’d already spoken to Biden. “The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him, and called him right back,” Kemp said Monday. “And he just said, ‘What do you need?’”It’s taken the Republican nominee no time at all to pull focus away from disaster relief, trying instead to enrage voters in two key battleground states responding to a deadly natural disaster.Share This StoryRead about the conspiracy:Trump Decides Hurricane Helene Is Perfect Time to Start New ConspiracyMost Recent PostPaige Oamek/September 30, 2024/4:32 p.m. ETShare This StoryGeorgia Judge Strikes Down State’s Abortion Ban in Stunning RulingA Fulton County judge has said abortions in the state must resume as they did when Roe v. Wade was still the law of the land.TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty ImagesA Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban. Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney quoted “liberty” in a ruling that rejected the controversial ban outlawing abortion after six weeks, before many people know they are pregnant. Abortions in the state will now be allowed until 22 weeks, as they were before the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, when Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law the six-week ban. McBurney had some choice words for politicians in his ruling, writing, “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.” He added, “our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.”The state law prohibited abortions after six weeks, based on the misleading notion that a “heartbeat” could be detected in an embryo around that time. In reality, an embryo does not have a heart at six weeks, let alone cardiac activity. A fetus is also not viable outside the body till much later in a pregnancy.McBurney got the chance to rule on the law after it was sent back to Fulton County court by the state Supreme Court last year. Georgia’s restrictive abortion ban killed at least two women since its passage and caused Georgia’s monthly abortion totals to drop by roughly half. This story has been updated.Share This StoryMore on Georgia:Georgia’s Republican Governor Shuts Down Trump’s Hurricane ConspiracyMost Recent PostEllie Quinlan Houghtaling/September 30, 2024/4:25 p.m. ETShare This StoryWatch: Trump Appears Not to Understand How Hurricanes WorkDonald Trump, who wants to dismantle storm prediction services, seemed caught off guard by the completely predictable Hurricane Helene.Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesIn just three days, Hurricane Helene gas killed at least 119 people as it trailed its way along the Southeast, making it one of the deadliest storms in modern U.S. history.The real scope of devastation is difficult to define before such an unprecedented hurricane hits land, but it’s not impossible to predict a storm’s scale, timing, and general path. Somehow, that information isn’t obvious to Donald Trump, who, after surveying some of the storm’s devastation in Georgia, told reporters Monday that “nobody” could have forecast Helene.“That’s a big one. And the devastation wrought by this storm is incredible,” Trump said during a presser in Valdosta, Georgia. “It’s so extensive, nobody thought this would be happening, especially now it’s so late in the season for the hurricanes.”Trump: Nobody thought this would be happening, especially now it’s so late in the season for hurricanes pic.twitter.com/tnLCkwKSXM— Acyn (@Acyn) September 30, 2024 It is, of course, not late in the season for hurricanes: September tends to be the most active month in the calendar year for the superstorms.But Trump’s own policy proposals are likely to keep him—and every other American—from obtaining such life-saving weather forecasts and emergency weather alerts in the future. Trump has touted elements of Project 2025, a 920-page Christian nationalist manifesto that proposes completely demolishing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose responsibilities as a federal agency include tracking the weather and predicting hurricanes.“The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories,” the far-right proposal reads on page 664.That would effectively privatize weather forecasts, forcing U.S. citizens to pay for weather subscriptions that would include crucial national weather alert systems for emergencies such as flash flooding, extreme heat, earthquakes, or otherwise.Trump has spent months trying to distance his campaign from Project 2025, but a flurry of the Republican presidential nominee’s recent comments, which include supporting demolishing the Department of Education, have practically glued himself to its policy points.Share This StoryRead more about Trump’s hurricane response:Trump Decides Hurricane Helene Is Perfect Time to Start New ConspiracyMost Recent PostHafiz Rashid/September 30, 2024/4:05 p.m. ETShare This StoryRudy Giuliani’s Daughter Backs Harris in Dire Warning on TrumpCaroline Rose Giuliani wrote a harrowing piece on how Donald Trump ruined her relationship with her dad—and how he could ruin the country next.Alex Wong/Getty ImagesRudolph Giuliani’s daughter, Caroline Rose Giuliani, endorsed Kamala Harris Monday, writing for Vanity Fair about how she has watched her father’s life “crumble since he joined forces with [Donald] Trump.” Caroline Giuliani wrote an article for the magazine warning of the dangers of another Trump presidency, saying his first term “was the worst thing that ever happened to my dad, to my family, and to our nation’s modern history.” “The consequences will only be more severe—and irreversible—a second time around. Thanks to the extremist Supreme Court he stacked, Trump would take office with full immunity: no checks on his power whatsoever,” Giuliani said. “If the president isn’t going to be subject to the law like every other citizen, which remains incomprehensible to me, then our president had better have a moral compass.”The article carries the headline “Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country, Too,” and Giuliani not only mentions the danger that Trump presents to the country, but also how her father’s work for the former president and convicted felon has brought him down and hurt their relationship. “I spent a lot of my life wishing my father had less power. But I never wanted it to happen like this. And selfishly, the deeper my dad gets stuck in the quicksand of his problems, the more fleeting our opportunities to connect as father and daughter become,” Giuliani said, alluding to her father’s financial and legal difficulties. “After months of feeling the type of sorrow that comes from the death of a loved one, it dawned on me that I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too,” Giuliani wrote. Giuliani also praised Harris for her understanding of the climate crisis and her support for reproductive rights, calling the vice president “a life-long public servant who has spent her career upholding justice and fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves.” Endorsing Harris is a big step for the daughter of a close confidant of Trump who also served as his lawyer. But as she wrote, Rudy Giuliani’s work for Trump has indeed imploded his life. He has been disbarred in Washington, D.C., and New York state. He’s on the verge of losing his assets thanks to a defamation lawsuit from Georgia poll workers and is facing criminal charges in Georgia and Arizona for election interference, as well as a pending sexual harassment lawsuit from one of his former assistants. Now, his daughter is openly expressing her sadness and shame over his support for Trump and where it has taken him. Will he listen to her?Share This StoryMore on Politics:Trump Decides Hurricane Helene Is Perfect Time to Start New ConspiracyMost Recent PostPaige Oamek/September 30, 2024/3:52 p.m. ETShare This StoryGeorgia’s Republican Governor Shuts Down Trump’s Hurricane ConspiracyDonald Trump is trying to spread a new lie about Hurricane Helene—but Georgia Governor Brian Kemp isn’t playing games.Alex Wong/Getty ImagesIn the wake of Hurricane Helene’s destruction, Donald Trump is eager to spread rumors about President Joe Biden’s inaction. The problem is, at least one Republican politician on the front lines is willing to call Trump out on his lies. On Monday, Trump visited Georgia, one of the six states seriously hit by the natural disaster, and claimed that while Governor Brian Kemp was “doing a very good job,” he was “having a hard time getting the president on the phone.”“I guess they’re not being responsive, the federal government is not being responsive,” he continued. “They’re having a very hard time getting the president on the phone. He won’t get on it.” While it’s true that the federal response to the hurricane leaves much to be desired, Trump was stretching the truth when he said that Kemp hadn’t heard from Biden.Just a few hours earlier on Monday, Kemp told press that Biden called yesterday afternoon and asked the Georgia governor what further support his state needed. Biden last week also declared a state of emergency in Georgia, approving federal disaster assistance for the state.Has Trump told Gov. Kemp, who said this today?"The President just called me yesterday afternoon." "And he just said ‘hey, what do you need?’" "He offered that if there's other things we need, just to call him directly, which, I appreciate that." https://t.co/ABiE0AE0GS pic.twitter.com/Y9WcwULJes— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) September 30, 2024 As Trump tours Georgia and North Carolina, Republicans continue to slam Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for not showing face in disaster zones. But perhaps while roads remain closed and many remain without power, it’s a better use of resources for the federal government to provide actual disaster relief, rather than divert resources for a tour bus. At least, that’s what many residents in Georgia thought about Trump’s publicity stunt Monday.Share This StoryMore on this dangerous conspiracy:Trump Decides Hurricane Helene Is Perfect Time to Start New ConspiracyMost Recent PostEdith Olmsted/September 30, 2024/2:37 p.m. ETShare This StoryEric Adams’s Idiot Lawyer Just Undermined His Own DefenseAlex Spiro appeared to admit that the New York City mayor accepted bribes.Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesNew York City Mayor Eric Adams’s lawyer is trying to get his federal bribery allegations dismissed by arguing that even if the mayor did accept gifts and favors from one Turkish official for years, it didn’t constitute bribery because it happened before Adams was elected mayor. Alex Spiro, Adams’s attorney with a long list of celebrity clients, argued in a filing Monday that the bribery charge against Adams should be dismissed. He argued that the alleged scheme did not satisfy the definition of bribery because Adams’s agreement to receive free and discounted travel and accommodations from a senior Turkish official was not quid pro quo in exchange for an official act.Rather, Spiro argued that Adams’s indictment simply alleged that he had “agreed to generally assist with the ‘operation’ or ‘regulation’ of a Turkish consulate building in Manhattan, where he had no authority whatsoever, in exchange for travel benefits.”Spiro cited the Supreme Court’s ruling in Snyder v. United States in June, which found that it is not illegal under federal anti-bribery law for state and local officials to accept gratuities for acts they have already taken. This decision, which overturned the conviction of a former Indiana mayor, substantially weakened the government’s ability to pursue federal anti-bribery complaints and challenge corruption.According to the indictment, Adams had been receiving benefits in the form of travel perks and straw-man donations long before the Turkish official allegedly tried to cash in on them. But Spiro argued that because one favor did not directly result in another, Adams’s alleged behavior does not constitute bribery, as the government accused in the indictment. During a press conference Monday, Spiro tried to downplay the allegations against Adams, while seeming to confirm that the mayor had in fact received travel perks, as alleged. “In the events in question, Mayor Adams was the Brooklyn borough president. He was not the mayor, he wasn’t even the mayor-elect, and the position of Brooklyn borough president does not have vast powers,” Spiro said. “It has, frankly, very little.”Spiro made no mention of allegations that those very same Turkish officials, who had allegedly given Adams so many freebies, had helped to illegally fund his ascendancy to a higher office. Adams, who was once lauded as the future of the Democratic Party, has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery, and to receive campaign contributions by foreign nationals. He was also charged with one count of wire fraud, two counts of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national, and one count of bribery.Share This StoryRead more about Eric Adams:Eric Adams’s Press Conference on Charges Goes Totally Off the RailsMost Recent PostHafiz Rashid/September 30, 2024/1:32 p.m. ETShare This StoryTrump Decides Hurricane Helene Is Perfect Time to Start New ConspiracyAs people are dying, Donald Trump has begun pushing a menacing, self-serving conspiracy theory about the hurricane response.Emily Elconin/Getty ImagesHurricane Helene has devastated much of the American Southeast, and yet Donald Trump thinks it’s a good time to push a new conspiracy theory against Democrats. The former president posted a long message on Truth Social Monday that he was headed to Georgia “to pay my respects and bring lots of relief material, including fuel, equipment, water, and other things, to the State.” But he added an unproven accusation to the end of that message, claiming that he received reports of “the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of [North Carolina], going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.” Trump didn’t elaborate on where these “reports” were coming from, which don’t seem to have any factual basis. Much of North Carolina votes Republican, so it would be near impossible for any relief efforts to occur that would neglect conservatives. Roy Cooper, the state’s Democratic governor since 2017, has deployed the National Guard and undertaken statewide efforts to help those affected by the hurricane, which has hit his state hardest, killing nearly 50 people and leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without power. President Biden has pledged “every available resource, as fast as possible, to your communities, to rescue, recover, and to begin rebuilding,” and even plans to visit communities affected by the hurricane later this week. On Sunday, Biden approved disaster declarations for both Florida and North Carolina, which allows immediate access to emergency funds for recovery efforts. Trump is clearly attempting to play politics with a natural disaster in a state where Kamala Harris is polling neck and neck with him. It’s a disturbing and familiar move for the former president, who, while in office, sought to withhold federal help from areas where people didn’t support him. As president, Trump deliberately downplayed the damage from wildfires in Oregon and California, and said he didn’t want “another single dollar going to [Puerto Rico],” even as the U.S. territory struggled to recover from Hurricane Maria. Perhaps he doesn’t think the public remembers how he handled those disasters and thinks projecting his old actions onto Biden, Harris, and the rest of the Democrats is a winning strategy. In any case, it does nothing to help people trying to recover from Hurricane Helene. Share This StoryMore on Hurricane Helene:MTG Dragged for Ditching Georgia as Hurricane Helene Hits the StateMost Recent PostEllie Quinlan Houghtaling/September 30, 2024/12:54 p.m. ETShare This StoryTrump Ally Forced to Make Embarrassing Admission on Health Care PlanDonald Trump has no clue what he’s doing on health care policy.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesAfter spending nine years on the campaign trail and four years in the Oval Office, Donald Trump still doesn’t seem to have a comprehensive health care plan for the American people—at least, that’s according to some of the Republican presidential nominee’s own allies.Speaking with Fox Business on Monday, Republican Representative Greg Murphy claimed that attacks by the Democrats on the MAGA leader’s health care plans were futile, almost entirely because Trump and his vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, don’t actually have a “full, fleshed-out plan.”“The Harris campaign has just released this new report, it came out this morning, they’re calling it ‘The Trump-Vance Concept of Healthcare: A plan to rip away coverage from people with preexisting conditions and raise costs for millions,’” said guest host Cheryl Casone. “We’re now starting to have that conversation about health care, which is still a main issue for voters across this country. What do you make of the campaign doing this?”“Well, Kamala and her crew, it’s absolute nonsense. There’s not a full, fleshed-out plan by the president or J.D. Vance, and for them to come out with a book of fiction, they’re just a bunch of damn liars,” Murphy retorted.“We’re going to have to go through—what’s happened since Obamacare has come out, care is infinitely more access—expensive, it’s less accessible, and it’s been an absolute disaster,” he continued, calling for tighter regulation of the medical industry. “The only people who have benefited are insurance companies.”GOP Rep. Greg Murphy admits that Trump doesn't have a "fully fleshed out" healthcare plan (He's been campaigning for 9 years and was president for four of them!) pic.twitter.com/Fk2RcuXSew— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2024 Obamacare—also known as the Affordable Care Act—provided more than 20 million Americans with health care coverage. For impact reference, that’s millions more people than live in any state other than New York, Florida, Texas, or California.Share This StoryRead more about Trump’s health care plan:“Concepts of a Plan”: Trump Roasted for Having No Clue What He’s DoingView More PostsRead More: Politics, Law, Supreme Court, Constitution, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Economic Inequality, Taxes, WashingtonBREAKING NEWS POLITICS CLIMATE CULTURE MAGAZINE PODCASTS GAMESEventsTravelBookstoreDonateAdvertiseFAQPressJobsSubmissionsSubscribe to The New RepublicSign Up for Our Newsletters Terms and ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie SettingsCopyright 2025 © The New Republic. All rights reserved.
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Giuliani’s Daughter Rips Trump for ‘Implosion’ of Dad’s Life as She Backs Harris
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Giuliani’s Daughter Rips Trump for ‘Implosion’ of Dad’s Life as She Backs Harris — The Daily Beast
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Number of voters affected by MVD citizenship proof ‘glitch’ grows to 218,000
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Liz Cheney and Colin Allred: An unlikely alliance with political repercussions
Skip to Main ContentSkip to footerSectionsSearchTDMNNewsBusinessSportsHigh School SportsArts & EntertainmentFoodGo See DFWOpinionSign InManage AccountePaperSubscribeSubscribe TodayStarting at 25¢Discover HoroscopesBest in DFWLife & Loss In Dallas AbodeThings to Do Podcasts ePaper ObituariesPublic NoticesHelp Center18°F26°18°AdvertisementThis is member-exclusive contenticon/ui/info fillednewsPoliticsLiz Cheney and Colin Allred: An unlikely alliance with political repercussions By endorsing a Democrat, Cheney faces questions about the right to call herself a Republican.By Gromer Jeffers Jr.political writerSep. 30, 2024|Published 5:00 a.m.|5 min. readFormer U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, left, endorsed U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, in his U.S. Senate race against incumbent Ted Cruz. They are photographed together in Dallas, Sept. 16, 2024.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)If you woke from an eight-year slumber and saw the recent photo of conservative Liz Cheney smiling with Colin Allred, her preferred candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, you’d likely figure someone got it twisted.The picture is real, and it’s a sharp reminder of how the Donald Trump era has made for strange bedfellows and reshaped the Republican Party.The GOP has embraced Trump’s populism and moved more to the right. Republicans who have publicly disavowed the former president have been driven from the party, losing not only their elected offices but their relevance in Republican ranks.Such is the saga of Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and not so long ago a leading Republican in Congress who represented deep-red Wyoming.Political PointsGet the latest politics news from North Texas and beyond.SIGN UPOr with: GoogleFacebookBy signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyAfter the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Cheney was one of 10 Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment. Four did not seek reelection and four were defeated in the 2022 primaries, including Cheney, who lost to Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman.Cheney remains a vocal critic of Trump. She endorsed Kamala Harris for president, as did her father. She upped the ante against today’s GOP by backing Allred over Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in the Nov. 5 Senate race.AdvertisementRelated:Liz Cheney is not a fan of Ted Cruz, the junior senator from TexasDallas-based conservative talk radio host Mark Davis said Cheney has forfeited her Republican credentials.“You can have reservations about Trump, but once he’s the nominee, anything that helps Kamala Harris win is an abandonment of conservatism,” Davis said.Advertisement“The obvious truth is that the Trump agenda contains much of what they have always wanted — stronger borders, lower taxes, a more sensible regulatory environment, environmental sanity,” he said.AdvertisementDavis sees Cheney’s backing of Allred as a betrayal.“This shows that it’s more than just a revulsion for Trump,” he said. “It is, in fact, a backlash against staunch conservatism. … Why in the world would she want to lose Ted Cruz in the Senate if she is conservative as she says she is?”Video: Where Ted Cruz and Colin Allred stand on key issues ahead of the 2024 U.S. Senate RaceIncumbent Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is facing a challenge from Democrat Colin Allred in the 2024 General Election.AdvertisementOther moderate Republicans are finding trouble fitting in with the Trump-era party.Former Dallas County Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Stoddard-Hajdu said Cheney has taken the Republican path less traveled.“At the moment they are not relevant,” she said. “That’s not necessarily a good thing, it’s just the truth.”Stoddard-Hajdu lost her reelection as Dallas County chair in March to former Texas Republican Party Chair Allen West. He’s also a former Florida congressman and 2022 primary candidate against Gov. Greg Abbott.AdvertisementStoddard-Hajdu is considered more moderate than West and was voted out of the party’s leadership because of it.“There are a lot of Republicans who are more moderate” than those leading the Republican Party, she said. “I’m one of the casualties of this kind of thing.”Stoddard-Hajdu was perplexed by Cheney’s endorsement of Allred.Cruz is locked in a close race with Allred, who would need the backing of some Republican and independent voters to win. Cruz has been in tough races before, including his narrow 2018 win over Democrat Beto O’Rourke.Advertisement“That takes it [a] step further,” Stoddard-Hajdu said. “You can understand some people don’t like the way Trump tweets or don’t like his behavior. However, now she’s endorsing Colin Allred over Ted Cruz, and Ted Cruz is a beloved figure in the Republican Party, and Texas Republicans believe he is doing a very good job in the Senate.”Cheney told The Dallas Morning News she’s backing Allred because she believes Cruz can’t be trusted. She mentioned his attempt to block the 2020 election results from being certified by Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.“It was a combination of things in this particular race, the fact that I know both of these candidates, and Colin is just head and shoulders above Ted Cruz in terms of the kind of person he is, and in terms of the kind of senator he is going to be,” Cheney said.FILE - Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, listens as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)(J. Scott Applewhite / ASSOCIATED PRESS)AdvertisementShe said she hasn’t gone down a list of issues to determine if she has more in common with Cruz than Allred.“I have been Republican my whole life. The first vote I ever cast was for Ronald Reagan in 1984,” Cheney said. “When you look at somebody like Ted Cruz, he’s shown that he’s willing to abandon what I think is the most important conservative principle, which is being faithful to the Constitution, and so I think there’s an extremism there that certainly people, leaders of our party in the past, would not have endorsed, would not have supported.”Cruz campaign spokesperson Macarena Martinez said, “No one takes Cheney’s endorsements of candidates seriously.”“She was overwhelmingly rejected by voters in Wyoming two years ago, just like Colin Allred will be … by Texas voters,” she said.AdvertisementWhen asked whether her push for Allred is a tough sell in Texas, Cheney said, “So many voters in Texas and across the country are exhausted by the toxic battles that go on and exhausted by politics.”Related:National Democrats pour advertising dollars into Colin Allred’s challenge to Ted CruzShe conceded many Republicans who oppose Trump are in tough positions. Cheney lamented Trump’s impact on the GOP.“What happened to the Republican Party around the country, nationwide — I think it’s heartbreaking,” she said. “There are many, many millions of people around this country, some of whom have traditionally been Republicans, some who are independents, but who won’t stand for that.”Advertisement“We need two strong parties, where both parties believe in the Constitution,” Cheney added. “Then you can begin debating substance and policy issues. We don’t ever get the chance to have those debates about policy issues if we’re in a situation where you elect somebody at the top of the ticket who’s really dangerous, someone who’s unstable, somebody who said he’s going to terminate the Constitution.”Many moderates, including those from the era of President George W. Bush, are trying to find a way to stay in the conservative fight.Supporters Chris Johnson, left, of Arlington and Kim Garrett of Dallas take a selfie in front of the banner during the Dallas County Republican Party watch party at Smoky Rose on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Dallas. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)Stoddard-Hajdu has started a political action committee called Dallas County Republicans United. She said the group will, among other things, focus on the May municipal elections in Dallas.AdvertisementThough these are nonpartisan races, Stoddard-Hajdu hopes to elect conservatives who will do a good job in local government and, perhaps, rise to higher office.“We have to approach things collectively,” she said. “We have to all start talking together, not only Republicans and Democrats, but Republicans who don’t agree.”That approach is particularly important in Dallas County, a Democratic Party stronghold, Stoddard-Hajdu said.“We have to recognize where we are, what the demographic makeup is, and what we can do to change what’s happening today,” she said. “Pushing something too far one way is not the right way.”ex.co script has been added to the pageMore about:Donald TrumpTexas Politics2024 Presidential ElectionBy Gromer Jeffers Jr.The Howard University graduate and Chicago native has covered four presidential campaigns and written extensively about local, state and national politics. Before The News, he was a reporter at The Kansas City Star and The Chicago Defender. You can catch Gromer every Sunday at 8:30 a.m. on NBC 5's Lone Star Politics.Connect:AdvertisementMost Popular1Power outages drop after over 5,000 people in D-FW were without power Wednesday morning2Southwest Airlines exec key to turnaround effort is leaving3How this Dallas restaurateur changed the history of the margarita4Mack Brown says North Carolina exit ‘probably more political than anything else’5What cold weather does to the body and how to protect yourself this winterAdvertisementAdvertisementTDMNTexas' Leading News SourceEst. 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Trump flunks American history with another rant about tariffs MSNBC LogoDECISION 2024 Rachel MaddowMorning JoeInside with Jen PsakiDeadline: Legal BlogThe ReidOut BlogTrump Documents LibraryColumnistsMSNBC FilmsMSNBC LogoFeatured ShowsThe Rachel Maddow ShowMondays 9PM ETMorning JoeWeekdays 6am ETDeadline: White House with Nicolle WallaceWeekdays 4PM ETThe Beat with Ari MelberWeeknights 6PM ETThe ReidOut with Joy ReidWeeknights 7PM ETAll In with Chris HayesTUESDAY-FRIDAY 8PM ETThe Last Word with Lawrence O’DonnellWeeknights 10PM ETThe 11th Hour with Stephanie RuhleWeeknights 11PM ETAlex Wagner TonightTuesday-Friday 9PM ETFollow msnbcMoreMSNBC on PeacockMSNBC ColumnistsTV ScheduleMSNBC NewslettersPodcastsTranscriptsMSNBC Insights CommunityMSNBC StoreHelpTrump Trials Documents LibraryWeekday ShowsWay Too EarlyJosé Díaz-Balart ReportsMSNBC ReportsAndrea Mitchell ReportsKaty Tur ReportsSymoneThe Katie Phang ShowWeekend ShowsVelshiInside with Jen PsakiWeekends with Jonathan CapehartAlex Witt ReportsPoliticsNationAymanAboutContactHelpCareersMSNBC StoreAD ChoicesPrivacy PolicyDo Not Sell My Personal InformationCA NoticeTerms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)MSNBC SitemapClosed CaptioningAdvertiseJoin the MSNBC Community© 2024 NBCNEWS.COMThe ReidOut BlogFrom The ReidOut with Joy ReidALL REIDOUTBLOG POSTSTHE REIDOUTPODCASTSFULL EPISODES Previous PostNext Post Trump flunks American history with another rant about tariffs Donald Trump’s plan for the American economy, which he touted again Friday, was adopted in the late 19th century and led to economic and political catastrophe.SHARE THIS —Sep. 30, 2024, 5:05 PM EDTBy Ja'han JonesDonald Trump’s murky economic vision for the United States is straight out of the ’90s. And not the 1990s — the 1890s.Following an event in Warren, Michigan, on Friday, Trump faced widespread backlash for reverential remarks he made about William McKinley’s tariff plan while touting his own proposal to institute massive tariffs on imported goods. A wave of economic experts have warned that Trump’s plan would likely lead to a spike in the cost of goods for everyday Americans.But Trump continues to tout it as his top economic proposal. I suspect that the potential for these tariffs to make some of his already wealthy megadonors even richer could have something to do with that.Nonetheless, during Friday’s town hall in Michigan, Trump gushed about McKinley:We’re going to use tariffs very, very wisely. You know, our country in the 1890s was ... probably the wealthiest it ever was, because it was a system of tariffs. And we had a president — you know McKinley, right? You remember Mount McKinley? And then they changed the name. But one of those things. He was really a very good businessman, and he took in billions of dollars at the time, which today it’s always trillions, but then it was billions and probably hundreds of millions. But we were a very wealthy country, and we’re going to be doing that now.
As is typical with most Trump claims, this one requires a fact check. McKinley was a member of the House — not president — when his proposal for massive tariffs was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison in 1890. And far from the economic boom Trump suggests it was, the tariffs were widely unpopular and contributed to major Republican electoral defeats in 1890 and 1892, followed by a depression known as the Panic of 1893. The 1890s also coincided with the end of the Gilded Age, a period known for extreme wealth inequality.President William McKinley.Library of Congress / Corbis/VCG via Getty ImagesWhen Trump praised McKinley’s tariffs earlier this year, Princeton University historian Sean Wilintz explained the foolishness of those comments to The New Republic:[The tariffs] raised average duties across all imports from 38 percent to 49.5 percent—a big leap. It was supposed to protect American industries from foreign competition and thereby bind a labor-capital alliance. Yet while it was great for manufacturers of wool and tin-plate, it became extremely unpopular in the country, which suffered from the profiteering indulged in by American manufacturers, causing a dramatic rise in consumer prices. In part this was responsible for the GOP getting clobbered in the 1890 midterms, and helped doom Benjamin Harrison’s re-election bid in 1892.
Back in 2019, Matthew Yglesias wrote for Vox that Trump’s interest in the McKinkley era serves as “a powerful reminder of his unusual ability to be totally obsessed with trade policy without actually knowing anything about it — or caring to learn.”Indeed, this McKinley obsession speaks to two Trump truisms: He’s hopelessly ignorant about policy, and the policies he chooses to embrace favor the wealthy at all others’ expense.Ja'han JonesJa’han Jones is The ReidOut Blog writer. He’s a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. His previous projects include “Black Hair Defined” and the “Black Obituary Project.”CONTINUE READING Previous PostHow Vance and Walz represent a battle to define masculinity Next Post How Trump’s toxic masculinity threatens men’s healthLatest PostCowardly companies ditched DEI. Consumers are fighting back. AboutContactHelpCareersMSNBC StoreAD ChoicesPrivacy PolicyDo Not Sell My Personal InformationCA NoticeTerms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)MSNBC SitemapClosed CaptioningAdvertiseJoin the MSNBC Community© 2024 NBC UNIVERSALNBC News LogoMSNBC LogoToday Logo
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Kamala Harris says insomnia hit after Biden dropped out, was sleep deprived the day of Walz pick
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Gov. Josh Shapiro won’t endorse the Democratic nominee for treasurer, who criticized him during VP talks
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Gov. Shapiro won’t endorse Erin McClelland in Pa. treasurer race
Skip to contentWednesday, February 19, 2025Today's Paper|Get Win PaperSign In / Sign UpSign inSUBSCRIBESpecial offerKeep reading by creating a free account or signing in.Sign in/Sign upSubscribeSupport local newsSign outNewsSportsBusinessOpinionPoliticsEntertainmentLifeFoodHealthReal EstatePhilly FirstObituariesJobsAdvertisementPoliticsElectionGift this article!Link IconCopy gift linkFacebook LogoGift via FacebookXGift via XEmailGift via EmailLink copied to clipboardShare IconLink IconCopy linkFacebook LogoShare on FacebookXShare on XEmailShare via EmailLink copied to clipboardGov. Josh Shapiro won’t endorse the Democratic nominee for treasurer, who criticized him during VP talksShapiro’s decision to stay out of the treasurer’s race is the latest blow to Erin McClelland’s campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Treasurer Stacy Garrity.Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at a watch party at the Cherry Street Pier ahead of the Sept. 10 presidential debate in Philadelphia.Read moreSteven M. Falk / Staff Photographerby Gillian McGoldrick Published Sept. 30, 2024, 4:09 p.m. ETGov. Josh Shapiro will not endorse the Democratic nominee Erin McClelland for treasurer.The political outsider made waves over the summer when she criticized Shapiro while he was under consideration to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate.AdvertisementShapiro, a Democrat, has chosen not to endorse any candidate in the row office race for treasurer, a spokesperson said in a statement, a notable break from political tradition. However, he is supporting the two other Democratic row office candidates: Eugene DePasquale for attorney general and State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D., Philadelphia) for auditor general.Shapiro’s decision to stay out of the treasurer’s race is the latest blow to McClelland’s long-shot campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Treasurer Stacy Garrity, after Garrity gained the support of key labor unions that usually support Democrats, including the Philadelphia Building Trades Council and the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters.McClelland was the upset winner in the April primary election, beating the party’s endorsed candidate, State Rep. Ryan Bizzarro (D., Erie). But since winning the party’s nomination, she’s had little support from the party, as demonstrated by her minimal fundraising since the primary. According to campaign finance reports released last week, McClelland raised a little over $148,000 — including a $100,000 loan from McClelland to her own campaign — compared to Garrity’s nearly $1.2 million war chest.McClelland had drawn Pennsylvania Democrats’ ire when she publicly criticized Shapiro in July during the heated veepstakes when the nation’s eyes were trained on the governor, who had become a front-runner to join Harris on the ticket. Instead, McClelland, a political outsider, advocated for Harris to choose North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper as her running mate over him.“I want a VP pick that’s secure enough to be second under a woman, is content to be VP & won’t undermine the President to maneuver his own election & doesn’t sweep sexual harassment under the rug,” McClelland wrote on X in July, referring to a sexual harassment scandal in Shapiro’s office last year.Shapiro’s top legislative liaison was accused of sexual harassment and the governor’s office quietly reached a settlement with the accuser for $295,000. The liaison, Mike Vereb, did not resign until months after an internal complaint was filed, records show, and Shapiro was criticized for his administration’s handling of the scandal.While Shapiro never responded to McClelland’s remarks, Sen. Sharif Street (D., Philadelphia), the Pennsylvania Democratic Party chairman, said her post offended him at the time and that he planned to discuss it with her privately.“Every day when [Shapiro] gets up, he talks to Madame Speaker and Madame Pro Temp[ore],” Street said, referring to the titles of House Speaker Joanna McClinton (D., Philadelphia) and Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward (R., Westmoreland), the two top officials of their respective chambers. “Gov. Shapiro has shown an effective ability to work with them, and I think a suggestion to the contrary is deeply offensive.”The treasurer’s office is Pennsylvania’s top fiscal watchdog and is responsible for saving, investing, and withdrawing $150 billion in state funds. It’s one of Pennsylvania’s three independent row offices, which are all politically elected positions that maintain mostly administrative functions.Traditionally, party operatives will endorse their favored candidate in the primary election, but will support their party’s nominee no matter who it is. But Shapiro, the top Democrat in the state, chose to stay out of the race, using his political capital to weigh in on further down-ballot races for state House, as well as his support for Kenyatta and DePasquale.“Governor Shapiro is endorsing and campaigning for candidates up and down the ballot who have asked for his support and where he can make the biggest difference in electing candidates who will deliver for Pennsylvanians,” said Manuel Bonder, Shapiro’s spokesperson.Shapiro’s lack of involvement in the race has given Garrity a chance to make the claim that he is supporting her instead.Last week, at a GOP candidate forum in a West Chester retirement community, Garrity told the crowd that in addition to the labor union support she’s received, Shapiro told her in a phone call he was “supportive” of her. This was in reference to a call between Shapiro and Garrity to plan a joint government event, in which Garrity said Shapiro told her that although they disagree on politics, he believes she’s done a good job as treasurer.McClelland’s campaign declined to comment on Shapiro staying out of the race, but that Garrity “continues to say whatever untrue things she thinks voters want to hear, like that Donald Trump won Pennsylvania in 2020.”“Stacy Garrity should show the respect to the voters that they deserve and stop refusing to debate Erin McClelland to defend her record so that all voters can make an informed decision in this race,” McClelland’s campaign manager Chuck Pascal said in a statement.Garrity has so far declined to debate McClelland ahead of the Nov. 5 election.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAbout UsAbout The InquirerDiversity & InclusionAdvertiseContact UsLicensing & PermissionsPhoto ReprintsNewspapers in EducationJobs & InternshipsInquirer EventsAcel Moore WorkshopsNewsroom StaffHelp and FeedbackNews & InfoNewsSportsEntertainmentBusinessHealthFoodLifeOpinionPhilly FirstArchivesSpecial ReportsSite MapMarketplaceSubscribeInquirer StoreJob ListingsAll ClassifiedsDeath NoticesLegal NoticesGift Subscriptionse-EditionsThe InquirerThe Daily NewsSubscriber ServicesMobile AppsApple iOSGoogle AndroidXFacebookInstagram© 2025 The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLCTerms of Use/Privacy Policy/Cancellation Policy/California Notice/California residents do not sell my data request
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Log InGo Ad-FreeNEWSPOLITICSENTERTAINMENTLIFEPERSONALVOICESSHOPPINGGAMESU.S. EditionOpen editions submenuPoliticsDonald TrumpLGBTQEducationProject 2025 Contributor Doesn’t Deny He Appeared In Gay Porn Movies 10 Years AgoCorey DeAngelis, a prominent school privatization activist, said he "was a victim of poor decisions."By Lil KalishSep 30, 2024, 08:30 PM EDTLEAVE A COMMENTLOADINGERROR LOADINGA prominent school privatization activist who has been praised by former President Donald Trump and who has contributed to Project 2025 has spoken out for the first time after videos surfaced that appeared to show his involvement in gay pornographic videos earlier this month.“As an activist for parental rights and school choice, my passion is personal,” Corey DeAngelis wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday morning. “I was a victim of poor decisions and poor influences. I have turned that experience into the fuel that fires me to save young people from being put in the same position I was put in and to help parents protect their children.” Advertisement
Earlier this month, a blog called Str8 Up Gay Porn, which shares reviews of gay porn and articles about the adult entertainment industry, first reported that a person who resembles DeAngelis appeared in several gay adult films.The performer, who appears under the name “Seth Rose,” is in at least three gay adult films on the pornography website GayHoopla, dating to 2014. In the videos, “Rose” appears masturbating solo and alongside other men.DeAngelis’ post on Monday appears to acknowledge his appearance in these films, and that he was a “victim of poor decisions.” His post went out to his 163,000 followers on X, and received praise from conservative writers like Richard Hanania and Chris Rufo, who is largely credited with fabricating the panic over critical race theory. Advertisement
DeAngelis has been a fierce critic of what he views as “pornographic” content in school literature, often referring to any education materials that include discussion of LGBTQ+ people and their experiences. The day that Str8 Up Gay Porn posted its blog, DeAngelis shared a graphic on X illustrating a satirical lesson plan of the “radical left” in 2024, including “drag queen story hours,” “mandatory pronoun recognition,” and “boys participating in girls sports.” DeAngelis did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment, though he did post a screenshot of this reporter’s inquiry on X, and said that the article is “a hit piece against me because I don’t want porn in schools.” Advertisement
The self-described “school choice evangelist” is also listed as a contributor to Project 2025 on behalf of the American Federation for Children. Project 2025 is a policy roadmap for a second Trump presidency, authored by the Heritage Foundation and a network of conservative organizations. Corey DeAngelis during the 2022 Hazlitt Summit in Orlando, Florida.Gage Skidmore/ FlickrSarah Kate Ellis, the president of LGBTQ+ advocacy group GLAAD, told The Advocate that DeAngelis’ role as contributor to Project 2025 is “further proof that he is willing to sell out student safety to anti-LGBTQ extremists.” Advertisement
In the introduction, Project 2025 authors equate “transgender ideology” to “pornography” and call for it to be “outlawed.” The 900-page document boasts numerous policies to advance school privatization programs, while simultaneously urging to block public school officials from doing anything ― such as using a name or different pronoun ― to support trans and gender non-conforming students. The idea that the existence of trans people is synonymous with pornography is now a well-worn trope dating back to the 1970s, when anti-gay advocate Anita Bryant’s “Save the Children” campaign baselessly equated gays and lesbians with groomers and people who abuse children. DeAngelis has echoed these claims as reasons that parents should pull their kids out of public schools and opt for taxpayer funded school privatization. In his book, “The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids From the Radicals Ruining Our Schools,” which Trump promoted on Truth Social, DeAngelis warns that many popular books in public schools are “pushing gender ideology” that veers into “pornographic territory.” Advertisement
He has shared similar talking points on Fox News segments and criticized LGBTQ+ inclusive policies in schools, particularly those that allow trans girls to use girls’ locker rooms and play on girls’ sports teams. Currently DeAngelis heads the nonprofit Education Freedom Institute, which promotes “school choice,” a policy championed by some conservatives to use taxpayer money to subsidize private schools. He has been a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, another conservative education nonprofit that was founded by Trump-appointed former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.Advertisement
But since the videos surfaced two weeks ago, Rebekah Bydlak, a spokesperson for the American Federation for Children, told NBC News that DeAngelis was put on leave “as we look into this matter further.”Bydlak did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. Last year, DeAngelis supported school district policies in Chino, California, to “out” transgender students to their parents, and another in Temecula, California, to ban books that discuss LGBTQ+ people. “I can’t believe we’re at a point in America where authoritarians in power are fighting this hard to keep sexual secrets about children from their own parents,” DeAngelis, who is on the board of the Liberty Justice Center, a conservative legal advocacy group, said after California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino district over its parental notification policy. RelatedDonald TrumpLGBTQEducationPornproject 2025 Go to HomepageLEAVE A COMMENTSuggest a correction|Submit a tipAdvertisement
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For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Skip to ContentMSNBC LogoLatestRachel MaddowMorning JoeInside with Jen PsakiDeadline: Legal BlogRACHEL MADDOW PRESENTS: ULTRATrump on Trial The ReidOut BlogTrump Documents LibraryColumnistsMSNBC FilmsTrump Transition Share this —SearchSearchFeatured ShowsThe Rachel Maddow ShowMondays 9PM ETMorning JoeWeekdays 6am ETDeadline: White House with Nicolle WallaceWeekdays 4PM ETThe Beat with Ari MelberWeeknights 6PM ETThe ReidOut with Joy ReidWeeknights 7PM ETAll In with Chris HayesTUESDAY-FRIDAY 8PM ETThe Last Word with Lawrence O’DonnellWeeknights 10PM ETThe 11th Hour with Stephanie RuhleWeeknights 11PM ETAlex Wagner TonightTuesday-Friday 9PM ETMSNBC TVWatch LiveListen LiveMoreMSNBC Live EventsMSNBC on PeacockMSNBC ColumnistsTV ScheduleMSNBC NewslettersPodcastsTranscriptsMSNBC Insights CommunityMSNBC StoreHelpTrump Trials Documents LibraryFollow msnbcMore BrandsToday LogoNBC News LogoMore ShowsWay Too EarlyAna Cabrera ReportsJosé Díaz-Balart ReportsChris Jansing ReportsKaty Tur ReportsSymoneThe Katie Phang ShowVelshiInside with Jen PsakiWeekends with Jonathan CapehartAlex Witt ReportsPoliticsNationAymanSearchSearchFacebookTwitterEmailSMSPrintWhatsappRedditPocketFlipboardPinterestLinkedinDeadline: Legal BlogFrom Deadline: White House with Nicolle WallaceALL DEADLINE: LEGAL POSTSDEADLINE: WHITE HOUSEFULL EPISODESPODCASTNEWSLETTER Previous PostNext PostHere’s a simple debate question for JD Vance and Tim Walz When he was Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence refused to aid the Trump-backed plot to hold on to power despite losing the election. Vance has aired a different view.By Jordan RubinWould you have certified the 2020 election results?It’s a simple question that moderators can ask at Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance.Indeed, it shouldn’t be a matter of debate.But here we are, thanks to Vance’s comments seeking to cast doubt on former Vice President Mike Pence’s certification of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden.Following the failed Trump-backed effort to subvert the 2020 election, Congress strengthened federal law to make a future coup attempt less likely to succeed. And the current vice president is Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who, like her GOP predecessor, acknowledges the VP’s ceremonial role in the certification process.Follow live updates covering the 2024 vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz. But while the potential for legal mischief in this election has thankfully lessened (though it’s ever present), it would still be worth asking Vance and Walz whether they would’ve done their straightforward duty like Pence, who understandably is not endorsing his former boss, who basically left him for dead on Jan. 6, 2021. It could help clarify not only their positions on this specific important issue but also how the VP hopefuls view the rule of law more broadly.On that note, Vance’s comments about election certification — fueled by debunked voter fraud claims — aren’t the only area in which he has shown a willingness to cast the law aside in pursuit of Republican partisan interests. For example, he has pushed for Trump to “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state” and “replace them with our people. And when the courts — ’cause you will get taken to court — and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”Putting aside the dubious sourcing of the quote popularly attributed to then-President Jackson as he defied an 1832 Supreme Court ruling favoring Native American authority, Vance’s stance aligns with a Trumpian view of the law. That is, a view that calls for strict enforcement of the law when applied to others but optional compliance when that same law is turned toward Trump and his supporters.To the extent that Vance would seek to defend his comments by arguing that the executive branch wouldn’t have to abide by illegitimate court rulings, one could raise the same objection to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling granting broad criminal immunity to Trump. So another debate question for the candidates could be: Does an administration have to abide by the immunity ruling if it runs afoul of that administration’s legal view? Presumably, both Vance and Walz would say yes. For Vance, saying otherwise would theoretically leave Trump open to fuller prosecution. As for Walz, who will take the stage as a standard-bearer for his party, the mainstream Democratic Party response to the immunity ruling has been to press for a constitutional amendment to overturn it (i.e., going through a legal process to achieve a different result). At any rate, the candidates’ answers to that question, too, could help to educate any viewers who need more information about where the parties stand. The Deadline: Legal Newsletter returns Oct. 4. Subscribe for expert analysis on the top legal stories of the week, including updates from the new Supreme Court term and developments in Donald Trump’s legal cases.Jordan RubinJordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro," a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.Previous PostRFK Jr. to stay on Wisconsin presidential ballot in his latest legal lossNext PostEric Adams hopes Supreme Court’s curbing of corruption prosecutions helps gut his ownLatest PostHow Elon Musk and DOGE’s temporary win from Judge Chutkan could turn into a lossAboutContactHelpCareersMSNBC StoreAD ChoicesPrivacy PolicyDo Not Sell My Personal InformationCA NoticeTerms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)MSNBC SitemapClosed CaptioningAdvertiseJoin the MSNBC Community© 2025 MSNBC Cable, L.L.C.NBC News LogoMSNBC LogoToday Logo
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Jimmy Carter, former US president, celebrates 100th birthdayNew strain in Calif. Get the USA TODAY app Start the day smarter ☀️ 🐍Year of the SnakeU.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Life Money Travel Opinion CrosswordONLY AT USA TODAY:Newsletters For Subscribers From the Archives Crossword eNewspaper Magazines InvestigationsPodcasts Video Humankind Just Curious Best-selling Booklist LegalsOUR PORTFOLIO:10Best USAT Wine Club ShoppingBlueprint Southern Kitchen Home Internet President Jimmy Carter becomes the first US president to live to 100 years oldFormer president and Noble Peace Prize recipient Jimmy Carter becomes the first United States president to live to 100 years old.Mya Vinnett More VideosKennedy Center under President Donald Trump as chairmanFrom Veterans Affairs to the CDC: Trump, Musk fire federal workersTop DOJ officials resign after ordered to drop Eric Adams' chargesTrump pushes global reciprocal tariffs, escalating trade warLinda McMahon says Dept. of Education can only be closed by Congress'People will fight back': Advocates react to Trump's 'war on DEI'White House bars AP reporter over 'Gulf of America' renamingDOJ sues New York, Gov. Hochel, more over immigration enforcementSenators cite rising Arctic threats to justify US acquiring GreenlandSenate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligenceFarmers brace for cuts to USAID and USDAAmerican school teacher Marc Fogel released from Russian prisonWatch Next US, Russia to meet on war in Saudi Arabia, Ukraine won't attendFederal workers wonder what's next after mass layoffsWhich federal workers are out of a job?About Us Newsroom Staff Ethical Principles Responsible Disclosure Request a Correction Press Releases Accessibility Sitemap Subscription Terms & Conditions Terms of Service Privacy Policy Your Privacy ChoicesContact Us Help Center Manage Account Give Feedback Get Home Delivery eNewspaper USA TODAY Shop USA TODAY Print Editions Licensing & Reprints Advertise With Us Careers Internships Support Local BusinessNews Tips Submitting letters to the editor Podcasts Newsletters Mobile Apps Facebook X Instagram LinkedIn Threads YouTube Reddit Flipboard10Best USAT Wine Club Shopping Best-selling Booklist Southern Kitchen Jobs Sports Betting Sports Weekly Studio Gannett Classifieds Home Internet Blueprint© 2025 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC.
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HURRICANE HELENE WREAKS HAVOC ACROSS ASHEVILLE, NC; NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYED, 119 RESCUED Deanne Criswell, FEMA administrator, speaks during a news conference at the White House on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (Al Drago/Getty Images) "This requires that FEMA’s leadership and workforce demonstrate an increased commitment to integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in delivering the agency’s mission. FEMA must draw upon its staff’s diversity and range of experiences to consistently inform programming, policy, and decision-making," the FEMA plan continued. "Through investment in diversity and inclusion efforts – including Employee Resource Groups and multicultural training – FEMA can increase its employees’ involvement and participation in cultivating a culture of inclusion."After Hurricane Helene broke out, leaving over 100 dead across six states and millions without power, social media users began criticizing FEMA’s strategic plan in the midst of the damage. 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That is our mission and that is our focus," director of public affairs Jaclyn Rothenberg told Fox News Digital. "We care about people, all people. We take our responsibility very seriously to help all communities regardless of background, so that we understand where people are coming from and what their need is so we can provide life-saving and life-sustaining support."FOX CORPORATION LAUNCHES DONATION DRIVE FOR AMERICAN RED CROSS HURRICANE HELENE RELIEF EFFORTS "In case you’re wondering why the response to Hurricane Helene has been a disaster… Fema’s goal 1 is to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management. This is real," Libs of TikTok, an influential conservative account known for reposting far-left content, said in a post. The Rocky Broad River flows into Lake Lure and overflows the town with debris from Chimney Rock, North Carolina, after heavy rains from Hurricane Helene on Sept. 28, 2024. 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Trump accuses Kamala Harris of staging Hurricane Helene briefing photo: ‘You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work!’
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https://nypost.com/2024/09/30/us-news/trump-accuses-kamala-harris-of-staging-hurricane-helene-briefing-photo/
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Hurricane Helene scrambles mail and early voting plans in North Carolina
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Hurricane Helene scrambles mail and early voting plans in North CarolinaIE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Skip to ContentNBC News LogoTrump adminPoliticsLocalNew YorkLos AngelesChicagoDallas-Fort WorthPhiladelphiaWashington, D.C.BostonBay AreaSouth FloridaSan DiegoConnecticutU.S. NewsWorldBusinessEditors' picksShoppingTiplineSportsHealthScienceCulture & TrendsShare & Save —My NewsManage ProfileEmail PreferencesSign OutSearchSearchProfile My NewsSign Out Sign InCreate your free profileSectionsU.S. NewsDecision 2024PoliticsWorldBusinessSportsInvestigationsCulture & TrendsHealthScienceTech & MediaWeatherVideo FeaturesPhotosNBC SelectNBC Asian AmericaNBC BLKNBC LatinoNBC OUTLocalNew YorkLos AngelesChicagoDallas-Fort WorthPhiladelphiaWashington, D.C.BostonBay AreaSouth FloridaSan DiegoConnecticuttvTodayNightly NewsMSNBCMeet the PressDatelineFeaturedNBC News NowNightly FilmsStay TunedSpecial FeaturesNewslettersPodcastsListen NowMore From NBCCNBCNBC.COMNBCU AcademyPeacockNEXT STEPS FOR VETSNBC News Site MapHelpFollow NBC News news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeSearchSearchFacebookTwitterEmailSMSPrintWhatsappRedditPocketFlipboardPinterestLinkedinLatest StoriesTrump adminPoliticsU.S. NewsWorldBusinessEditors' picksShoppingTiplineSportsHealthScienceCulture & Trends2024 ElectionHurricane Helene scrambles mail and early voting plans in North CarolinaFlooding risks delaying or destroying mail ballots, which started going out this month in the state, and has forced the closings of several county election offices.Get more newsLiveonBy Jane C. Timm and Lindsey PipiaHurricane Helene has caused significant disruptions for election officials in North Carolina and across the Southeast, scrambling preparations for early and mail voting that have been in the works for months.In western North Carolina, one of the areas hit hardest by the storm, election officials were working Monday to evaluate what changes needed to be made in a key presidential battleground state where mail ballots started going out last week and early in-person voting is scheduled to begin in three weeks. North Carolina officials mailed 190,000 ballots last week, some of which may be delayed or destroyed by flooding. Mail service is suspended to many areas, which will halt the transport of the ballots. And there's more pressure for voters to get their ballots in early this year: State legislators recently eliminated a grace period that allowed ballots with on-time postmarks to be counted even if they arrived three days after the election.At least 14 county election offices are closed and are expected to be for several days, said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State Board of Elections. “At this point in time as we know it, all the members of our elections community are safe and sound and preparing themselves to serve all eligible voters in North Carolina,” Brinson Bell said, noting that the officials were working through challenging circumstances with power outages, limited cell service and impassable roads. One staffer in Buncombe County walked more than 4 miles to work Monday, she said.Officials in Buncombe County are assessing polling sites and working to account for staff and board members. Some staffers are stranded, Corinne Duncan, the county's election services director, said in an update shared by a spokesperson. The county's election offices have power but no water, but staffers still managed to drop off 200 mail ballots at the post office Monday.The State Board of Elections voted Monday to give counties the ability to reschedule board meetings where absentee ballot applications are reviewed. Brinson Bell said state officials will soon publish a website for hurricane-related information and hold a media briefing Tuesday to outline procedures for voters to cite a natural disaster as reason they don’t have photo ID, which is required to vote in North Carolina.Even ballots sent from unaffected counties could be affected, said Gerry Cohen, a member of the Wake County Board of Elections, if they're traveling to or through the western part of the state.“Anything to or from western North Carolina is probably greatly impacted by that. It would even affect Wake County,” Cohen said (Wake County, home to Raleigh, is farther east).Cohen said voters who have been displaced by the storm or don't end up receiving their mail ballots can cancel them and request other ones, though voters will need to contact their local election offices, which may be closed, to do so. They can also opt to vote in person, a move that will "spoil" their mail ballots so they can’t be counted even if they’re returned later, according to the state's voting site.Election officials were originally scheduled to start sending mail ballots Sept. 6 but were delayed after former third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sued to remove himself from the ballot. His lawsuit, which was successful, forced the state to reprint its ballots. Officials started mailing ballots to overseas and military voters on Sept. 20 and all other voters who requested them last Tuesday. Early in-person voting is scheduled to begin Oct. 17 across more than 400 locations in North Carolina. Each site in the affected counties will need to be checked for accessibility, power and water.Cohen also warned that the hurricane could cause staffing issues. Election officials will need to make sure their poll workers — many of whom he said will have already been trained — haven’t been displaced and can still work their scheduled shifts for the early voting period and on Election Day.North Carolina is among the core battleground states former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are competing in this fall. About 7% of the state's voters cast their ballots by mail in the 2022 midterm elections. The area of North Carolina hit by the hurricane tends to lean Republican politically, aside from Democrat-heavy Asheville. Election officials in other states affected by the hurricane, including Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, also face challenges. Robert Sinner, communications director for the Georgia secretary of state’s office, said most counties were spared substantial impact by the storm, though the Jenkins County elections office has faced some physical damage. TJ Lundeen, a spokesman for the South Carolina State Election Commission, said is expects some early voting center and Election Day sites will need to change.Doug Kufner, spokesman for the Tennessee secretary of state, said at least six Election Day polling sites and two county election offices in northeast Tennessee have experienced damage or will have driving accessibility issues.“The election community in Tennessee is united; when one hurts, we all hurt. The heartache, shock, and devastation are massive," he said in an email. "However, we are confident that the challenges caused by the flooding will be overcome because of the planning and resilience of election officials in the impacted counties."Jane C. TimmJane C. Timm is a senior reporter for NBC News.Lindsey PipiaLindsey Pipia is an Associate Producer for the 2024 Political Desk.AboutContactHelpCareersAd ChoicesPrivacy PolicyYour Privacy ChoicesCA NoticeTerms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)NBC News SitemapClosed CaptioningAdvertiseSelect Shopping© 2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLCNBC News LogoMSNBC LogoToday Logo
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Trump’s dark weekend proves his rants are becoming more incendiary, not less
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For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Skip to ContentMSNBC LogoLatestRachel MaddowMorning JoeInside with Jen PsakiDeadline: Legal BlogRACHEL MADDOW PRESENTS: ULTRATrump on Trial The ReidOut BlogTrump Documents LibraryColumnistsMSNBC FilmsTrump Transition Share this —SearchSearchFeatured ShowsThe Rachel Maddow ShowMondays 9PM ETMorning JoeWeekdays 6am ETDeadline: White House with Nicolle WallaceWeekdays 4PM ETThe Beat with Ari MelberWeeknights 6PM ETThe ReidOut with Joy ReidWeeknights 7PM ETAll In with Chris HayesTUESDAY-FRIDAY 8PM ETThe Last Word with Lawrence O’DonnellWeeknights 10PM ETThe 11th Hour with Stephanie RuhleWeeknights 11PM ETAlex Wagner TonightTuesday-Friday 9PM ETMSNBC TVWatch LiveListen LiveMoreMSNBC Live EventsMSNBC on PeacockMSNBC ColumnistsTV ScheduleMSNBC NewslettersPodcastsTranscriptsMSNBC Insights CommunityMSNBC StoreHelpTrump Trials Documents LibraryFollow msnbcMore BrandsToday LogoNBC News LogoMore ShowsWay Too EarlyAna Cabrera ReportsJosé Díaz-Balart ReportsChris Jansing ReportsKaty Tur ReportsSymoneThe Katie Phang ShowVelshiInside with Jen PsakiWeekends with Jonathan CapehartAlex Witt ReportsPoliticsNationAymanSearchSearchFacebookTwitterEmailSMSPrintWhatsappRedditPocketFlipboardPinterestLinkedinOpinionTrump’s dark weekend proves his rants are becoming more incendiary, not lessHis most recent rallies reveal a candidate seemingly intent on being more provocative, more angry, more hateful, and more supportive of violence.By Paul Waldman, author and commentatorAfter a disturbed young man attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in July, his allies quickly pinpointed the culprit: Democrats’ criticism of Trump. His opponents’ rhetoric, they said, is so inflammatory that it was bound to incite violence. “Everybody’s rhetoric just needs to change,” said Eric Trump. It was time to “turn the temperature down in this country,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson. When two months later an armed man laying in wait at Trump’s golf course was confronted by the Secret Service, JD Vance said “the left needs to tone down the rhetoric, and needs to cut this crap out.” The would-be shooter, said Trump himself, “believed the rhetoric of [President Joe] Biden and [Vice President Kamala] Harris, and he acted on it.” Yet after these appeals for a calmer political debate, with each passing week Trump is turning the rhetoric up. It’s difficult to tell if Trump believes this is a clever strategy or if, as the election nears, he is simply becoming less restrained, revealing his purest impulses in all their odiousness. Whatever the reason, his most recent rallies reveal a candidate seemingly intent on being more provocative, more angry, more hateful, and more supportive of violence than ever before.Targeting Trump’s enemies for threats and violence is now woven deeply into his movement.Over the weekend, the former president’s attacks on Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris became even more unhinged. At a rally in Wisconsin, Trump called her “a very dumb person,” claimed she was “mentally impaired” and that she “was born that way.” Even by his standards, it was a remarkably lurid attack on the competence of an opponent who soundly defeated him in the recent debate.Similarly, while it’s true that Trump has long fantasized about violence that might be committed against criminals, immigrants or his political foes (“I’d like to punch him in the face,” he said about a protester in 2016), lately his rhetoric has gotten even more intense. In the same Wisconsin rally, for instance, his usual description of immigrants as murderers included this vivid description: “They make our criminals look like babies. These are stone-cold killers. They’ll walk into your kitchen, they’ll cut your throat.” Of course, this is the fault of Kamala Harris, who is “letting in people who will walk into your house,” he said. “They’ll do anything they want. These people are animals.”At another rally the next day, Trump presented a new solution to all crime: more violence. “If you had one really violent day,” he said, the problem would be solved. “One rough hour — and I mean real rough — the word will get out and it will end immediately.” While some social media users likened this suggestion to “The Purge,” the movie series in which all crime is legalized for one day per year, Trump in fact was talking about government violence directed at members of the public, without any constraints of civil liberties and laws. If only we could unleash law enforcement for “one really violent day,” people would be sufficiently terrorized that all crime would cease. This is one part of a broader vision Trump has always had, in which America is saturated in threats and violence, which must in turn be met with even more threats and violence, from both the government and vigilantes, against those he and his supporters despise. Targeting Trump’s enemies for threats and violence is now woven deeply into his movement; if he singles you out, you can expect to live in fear, and the collateral damage is wide. We need look no farther than Springfield, Ohio, a city full of his running mate JD Vance’s constituents. After the two running mates began telling repugnant lies about Haitian immigrants there supposedly eating pets, the town was deluged with bomb threats, leading to school closures and evacuations.The lesson Trump seems to have taken from previous elections is that fear and hate are political winners.One local business owner, a Republican who voted twice for Trump, said publicly that the 10% of his employees who are Haitian immigrants are excellent and conscientious workers. In response, reported The New York Times, he faced “death threats, a lockdown at his company and posters around town branding him a traitor for hiring immigrants.”That series of events has become so common we no longer see it as remarkable: obviously if Trump targets you, or even if you’re an ordinary person who contradicts him publicly, your life will be upended with threats and harassment. Where do they get the idea that that’s how they should treat their political opponents? It’s no mystery.The stakes in this election, Trump tells them, are not merely consequential but positively apocalyptic. “If Kamala is re-elected, your town, and every town just like it,” he says, “will be transformed into a third-world hellhole,” with all the attendant rape, murder and throat-cutting. If you believed that was true, wouldn’t violence be a reasonable response?The lesson Trump seems to have taken from previous elections is that fear and hate are political winners, and the only thing he did wrong in 2016 and 2020 was to be too restrained in fomenting both. Five weeks remain until the election, and we have every reason to believe Trump will be “real rough,” as he puts it, every day between now and then. If all his rhetoric produces is the lusty cheers of a base that thrills to the prospect of violence — and is told that they have a part to play in meting it out — we should count ourselves lucky.Paul WaldmanPaul Waldman is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in dozens of publications. He writes The Cross Section, a newsletter about politics and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name. His latest book is "White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy."AboutContactHelpCareersMSNBC StoreAD ChoicesPrivacy PolicyDo Not Sell My Personal InformationCA NoticeTerms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)MSNBC SitemapClosed CaptioningAdvertiseJoin the MSNBC Community© 2025 MSNBC Cable, L.L.C.NBC News LogoMSNBC LogoToday Logo
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Georgia judge says women aren’t ‘community property’ as abortion ban struck down – as it happened
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Georgia judge says women aren’t ‘community property’ as abortion ban struck down – as it happened | US elections 2024 | The Guardian
Skip to main contentSkip to navigationClose dialogue1/1Next imagePrevious imageToggle captionSkip to key eventsSkip to navigationPrint subscriptionsNewsletters Sign inUSUS editionUK editionAustralia editionEurope editionInternational editionThe Guardian - Back to homeThe GuardianNewsOpinionSportCultureLifestyleShow moreHide expanded menuNewsView all NewsUS newsUS politicsWorld newsClimate crisisMiddle EastUkraineSoccerBusinessEnvironmentTechScienceNewslettersWellnessOpinionView all OpinionThe Guardian viewColumnistsLettersOpinion videosCartoonsSportView all SportSoccerNFLTennisMLBMLSNBAWNBANHLF1GolfCultureView all CultureFilmBooksMusicArt & designTV & radioStageClassicalGamesLifestyleView all LifestyleWellnessFashionFoodRecipesLove & sexHome & gardenHealth & fitnessFamilyTravelMoneySearch input google-search SearchSupport usPrint subscriptionsNewslettersDownload the appSearch jobsDigital ArchiveGuardian LicensingAbout UsThe Guardian appVideoPodcastsPicturesInside the GuardianGuardian WeeklyCrosswordsWordiplyCorrectionsSearch input google-search SearchSearch jobsDigital ArchiveGuardian LicensingAbout UsUS politics liveUS elections 2024 This article is more than 4 months oldGeorgia judge says women aren’t ‘community property’ as abortion ban struck down – as it happenedThis article is more than 4 months oldThis blog is now closed. You can read the full story on Georgia overturning its abortion ban below:
Georgia judge strikes down state’s abortion ban, allowing care to resume
Updated 30 Sept 2024Helen Sullivan (now); Lois Beckett, Chris Stein and Joanna Walters (earlier)Mon 30 Sep 2024 18.56 EDTFirst published on Mon 30 Sep 2024 08.59 EDTShareKey events30 Sept 2024Summary30 Sept 2024Why a judge in Georgia struck down the state’s very early abortion ban30 Sept 2024Judge strikes down Georgia's abortion ban - report30 Sept 2024Up to 600 people unaccounted for in Hurricane Helene, White House says30 Sept 2024Trump makes baseless claim that Biden administration 'left Americans to drown'30 Sept 2024Harris signals support for marijuana legalization in interview30 Sept 2024Man enters plea denying attempt to assassinate Trump in Florida30 Sept 2024Biden to visit areas affected by Helene 'later this week'30 Sept 2024Biden to give update on Hurricane Helene response30 Sept 2024Republican former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake endorses Harris30 Sept 2024Harris intends to visits areas affected by Hurricane Helene 'as soon as it is possible'30 Sept 2024Trump attacks Biden and Harris over Helene response at lengthy Pennsylvania rally30 Sept 2024Biden to address Hurricane Helene damage as Trump seeks to turn storm into campaign issue The Georgia state capitol in Atlanta Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenThe Georgia state capitol in Atlanta Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty ImagesHelen Sullivan (now); Lois Beckett, Chris Stein and Joanna Walters (earlier)Mon 30 Sep 2024 18.56 EDTFirst published on Mon 30 Sep 2024 08.59 EDTShareShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureLive feedFrom 30 Sept 202416.38 EDTGeorgia judge: ‘Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property’Some key quotes from the order in which Judge Robert McBurney struck down Georgia’s extremely restrictive abortion ban:
Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote.
… [T]he liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.
… [L]iberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.
ShareUpdated at 16.45 EDTKey events30 Sept 2024Summary30 Sept 2024Why a judge in Georgia struck down the state’s very early abortion ban30 Sept 2024Judge strikes down Georgia's abortion ban - report30 Sept 2024Up to 600 people unaccounted for in Hurricane Helene, White House says30 Sept 2024Trump makes baseless claim that Biden administration 'left Americans to drown'30 Sept 2024Harris signals support for marijuana legalization in interview30 Sept 2024Man enters plea denying attempt to assassinate Trump in Florida30 Sept 2024Biden to visit areas affected by Helene 'later this week'30 Sept 2024Biden to give update on Hurricane Helene response30 Sept 2024Republican former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake endorses Harris30 Sept 2024Harris intends to visits areas affected by Hurricane Helene 'as soon as it is possible'30 Sept 2024Trump attacks Biden and Harris over Helene response at lengthy Pennsylvania rally30 Sept 2024Biden to address Hurricane Helene damage as Trump seeks to turn storm into campaign issueShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature30 Sept 202418.56 EDTSummaryWe’re wrapping up our live coverage of US politics for today, but our live coverage of what is happening now in Israel and Lebanon will continue.Some of today’s key events:
A Georgia judge struck down Georgia’s restrictive ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy, and ruled that abortion care could once again be provided until around 22 weeks of pregnancy.
The ruling follows weeks of national scrutiny after a ProPublica investigation of what experts called the “preventable” deaths of two Georgia women, related to the state’s punitive anti-abortion law.
Fulton County superior court judge Robert McBurney’s ruling overturning the abortion ban was strongly worded, arguing that, “Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote,” and that forcing women to remain pregnant is a kind of “involuntary servitude,” which forces “primarily poor women, which means in Georgia primarily black and brown women – to engage in compulsory labor, ie, the carrying of a pregnancy to term at the government’s behest.”
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, as many as 600 people are still unaccounted for, and at least 100 confirmed dead, the White House said.
Donald Trump made a series of baseless claims related to the Biden administration’s handling of Hurricane Helene, asserting without evidence that his Democratic rivals “left Americans to drown” and claiming at an election event that Biden had not spoken with Republican Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the wake of the storm. (Kemp told reporters they had spoken.)
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris expressed support for legalizing marijuana.
Share30 Sept 202418.42 EDTRichard LuscombeKamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has won the endorsement of Rudy Giuliani’s daughter, who declared: “I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to [Donald] Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too.”Caroline Rose Giuliani was writing in Vanity Fair, where she lamented how her father, who was once the former president’s personal attorney and trusted adviser, became caught up in the “destructive trail” and chaos of the Trump administration and its aftermath.“I’m unfortunately well suited to remind Americans of just how calamitous being associated with Trump can be, even for those who are convinced he’s on their side,” wrote Giuliani, a California-based film-maker and activist who has frequently taken issue with her father’s political positions.“I am constantly asking myself how America is back here, even considering the possibility of electing Donald Trump again, after all of the damage he has caused, both in office and since. There are unmistakable reminders of Trump’s destructive trail all around us, and it has broken my heart to watch my dad become one of them.”Rudy Giuliani, who became an immensely popular mayor of New York after guiding the city through the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, paid a severe price for promoting Trump’s lies that his 2020 election defeat was fraudulent.Rudy Giuliani’s daughter backs Harris and grieves ‘loss of my dad to Trump’Read moreShare30 Sept 202418.38 EDTOn Wednesday, Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz will debate Republican Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance for the first time. That debate takes place at 9pm EDT and we will bring it to you live.ShareUpdated at 18.42 EDT30 Sept 202418.33 EDTHere is more on Biden’s comments, from the press pool report:Asked about comments from Donald Trump, who has accused him and Governor Cooper of ignoring Republican-voting areas in their response to Helene, POTUS angrily interjected before pool finished asking the question.“He’s lying, and the governor told him he was lying. The governor told him he’s lying. I’ve spoken to the governor, spent time with him, and he told him he’s lying. I don’t know why he does it … that’s simply not true, and it’s irresponsible.”POTUS also defended spending the weekend in Delaware when asked about the matter. He said Wilmington, Delaware is “90 miles from here.”“I was on the phone the whole time,” he added.He also held up what he said was “a list of every resource we’re getting in there” and said the question of most import was “how to get it in.”“It’s hard to get it from point A to point B. It’s hard to get if somebody’s roads are wiped out. None of these are wiped out. There’s no ability to land, there’s no ability to get trucks, and no ability to get a whole range of things.”Share30 Sept 202418.28 EDTGeorge ChidiDonald Trump spoke in front of a furniture store gutted by Hurricane Helene in Valdosta, Georgia, on Monday, claiming falsely that Georgia’s governor had not been able to reach Joe Biden.Upon landing in Valdosta, Trump claimed to reporters the president was “sleeping” and that Brian Kemp, the governor, was “calling the president and hasn’t been able to get him”. He repeated the claim when speaking in front of the store.Kemp refuted the allegation earlier in the day. He said he had been playing phone tag with vice-president Kamala Harris, but also said: “The president just called me yesterday afternoon and he just said ‘Hey, what do you need?’ … He offered that if there’s other things we need, just to call him directly, which, I appreciate that.”During the White House press briefing on Monday, the homeland security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall said the president offered Kemp “anything” Georgia needed in terms of storm response.“So, if the governor would like to speak to the president again, of course, the president will take his call,” Sherwood-Randall said.Trump traveled to the area with evangelist Franklin Graham and truckloads of relief supplies in tow.“We brought many, many wagons of resources,” he said, without really describing what those resources were beyond a tanker of gasoline and some water. The Billy Graham Evangelical Association did not respond to a request for comment, though its website notes that it has sent chaplains to the affected areas.Trump visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia and makes false claims about BidenRead moreShare30 Sept 202418.15 EDTCNN’s Kaitlan Collins says that Biden has responded to Trump’s baseless claims earlier saying that Governor Kemp Biden had not spoken with Republican Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the wake of Hurricane Helene.Collins reports that, speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said Trump was lying. Collins said Biden spoke angrily, saying: “He is lying. Let me get this straight: he’s lying...I’ve spoken to the governor. I’ve spent time with him and he told me he’s lying. I don’t know why he does this.”Biden, seated in the Oval Office, angrily says Trump is lying. "He is lying. Let me get this straight: he's lying...I've spoken to the governor. I've spent time with him and he told me he's lying. I don't know why he does this."— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 30, 2024
Share30 Sept 202418.10 EDTJoe Biden has released a statement on crime rates, noting that the rates of homicide and violent crimes have declined, and that the homicide rate, in particular, is falling at “record speed”.The rate of violent crime has declined to its lowest level in 55 years, Biden says.The comments come as Donald Trump is accused of invoking plotlines similar to The Purge – a dystopian horror film in which officially sanctioned murder is occasionally legal – as a possible solution to crime in the US after saying it could be eradicated in “one really violent day”.Biden said, in part:
This year, the homicide and violent crime rates have continued their rapid decline from their peaks during the last administration. According to new preliminary data submitted to the FBI, in the first half of this year, the homicide rate continued to fall at record speed, declining by 22.7%, while the violent crime rate fell by 10.3% to its lowest level since 1969. These record decreases follow the historic declines in crime in 2023, including the largest-ever decrease in the homicide rate. Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office.
Under the previous administration, we saw the biggest increase in murder rates on record.”
This is Helen Sullivan taking over our live US politics coverage.Share30 Sept 202418.03 EDTAsked about Donald Trump’s claims today that Democratic leaders were failing to help Americans in storm-damageed Republican areas of North Carolina, president Joe Biden said, “He’s lying.”Today’s White House pool reporter noted that, when asked about Trump’s comments, Biden “ angrily interjected” before the reporter was even done with the question.“He’s lying, and the governor told him he was lying,” Biden said. “The governor told him he’s lying. I’ve spoken to the governor, spent time with him, and he told him he’s lying. I don’t know why he does it … that’s simply not true, and it’s irresponsible.”Share30 Sept 202417.29 EDTAfter a Georgia judge’s ruling struck down the state’s restrictive 2019 abortion law, which abortion after roughly around six weeks of pregnancy, advocates and analysts have highlighted the order’s bold arguments, which invoked the Handmaid’s Tale and compared certain kinds of abortion bans to “involuntary servitude” or “compulsory labor.”Some advocates, like senator Tina Smith of Minnesota, have highlighted the broader importance of Georgia allowing access to abortion care through 22 weeks of pregnancy, since many surrounding states in the south also have very restrictive anti-abortion laws.This map does a great job of explaining why blocking the enforcement of Georgia’s abortion ban is so important — especially for women in the South. https://t.co/iDqN32mmRB pic.twitter.com/jGCP8FEfqf— Tina Smith (@TinaSmithMN) September 30, 2024
Others, like my colleague Carter Sherman, have noted that this ruling comes after Georgia has made national headlines after a ProPublica investigation into the deaths of two Georgia women, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, who died what experts called “preventable” deaths after delays in care that were related to Georgia’s anti-abortion law.A Georgia committee of experts in maternal health deemed Candi Miller’s death “preventable.” The group, which includes 10 doctors, directly blamed the state’s abortion ban.https://t.co/SohvOopPxp— ProPublica (@propublica) September 30, 2024
Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for emergency care under the state’s abortion ban. Sen. Ron Wyden demanded records his committee could review to determine whether the hospital violated the law. “It’s not even a question,” one expert said.https://t.co/42Z3meMpT1— ProPublica (@propublica) September 29, 2024
Share30 Sept 202417.16 EDTGeorgia judge describes ‘subtext of involuntary servitude’ in abortion debateAnother key quote from the order, by Fulton county superior court judge Robert McBurney, that overturned Georgia’s restrictive ban on abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy, which state legislators passed in 2019:“There is an uncomfortable and usually unspoken subtext of involuntary servitude swirling about this debate, symbolically illustrated by the composition of the legal teams in this case. It is generally men who promote and defend laws like the Life Act, the effect of which is to require only women – and, given the socio-economic and demographic evidence presented at trial, primarily poor women, which means in Georgia primarily black and brown women – to engage in compulsory labor, ie, the carrying of a pregnancy to term at the government’s behest.”Read my colleague Carter Sherman’s full report here:Georgia judge strikes down state’s abortion ban, allowing care to resumeRead moreShareUpdated at 17.48 EDT30 Sept 202417.06 EDTWho is Judge Robert McBurney, who struck down Georgia’s restrictive abortion ban?It’s not the first time Robert C I McBurney, a Fulton county superior court judge based in Atlanta, has made national headlines.McBurney previously struck down Georgia’s very restrictive ban on abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy and he also presided over parts of the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and key allies, a case that is currently stalled.McBurney, a former federal prosecutor, was appointed to his role in 2012 by Republican governor Nathan Deal, to fill the seat of a judge who was retiring. He has since run for reelection and won.In 2023, a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution called McBurney “the hardest working judge in Georgia” and said that a joke recently at the Atlanta courthouse was , “Aren’t there any other judges in the county?”McBurney is also set to hear a key case on election regulations in Georgia tomorrow, the Associated Press reports.ShareUpdated at 17.45 EDT30 Sept 202416.38 EDTGeorgia judge: ‘Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property’Some key quotes from the order in which Judge Robert McBurney struck down Georgia’s extremely restrictive abortion ban:
Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote.
… [T]he liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.
… [L]iberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.
ShareUpdated at 16.45 EDT30 Sept 202416.21 EDTWhy a judge in Georgia struck down the state’s very early abortion banMore from the Associated Press on the legal reasoning behind the order:
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his order that ‘liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.’
McBurney wrote that his ruling means the law in the state returns to what it was before the law was passed in 2019:
When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then – and only then – may society intervene.
An “arbitrary six-week ban” on abortions “is inconsistent with these rights and the proper balance that a viability rule establishes between a woman’s rights of liberty and privacy and society’s interest in protecting and caring for unborn infants”, the order says.ShareUpdated at 16.48 EDT30 Sept 202416.18 EDTAbortions in Georgia can once again be performed through 22 weeks – reportAfter a judge in Georgia struck down the state’s ban on abortions once a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat, which is usually about six weeks into pregnancy, the procedure is once again legal in Georgia through about 22 weeks of pregnancy, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.More context from the Associated Press:
When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022 and ended a national right to abortion, it opened the door for state bans. Fourteen states now bar abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with some exceptions. Georgia was one of four where the bans kick in after about the first six weeks of pregnancy – which is often before women realize they’re pregnant.
ShareUpdated at 16.44 EDT30 Sept 202415.53 EDTJudge strikes down Georgia's abortion ban - reportA judge in Georgia struck down the state’s ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.The law was similar to many passed by Republican-led states after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022. Democrats, including Kamala Harris, have recently seized on the law as an example of the consequences of electing Donald Trump and the Republicans, after a woman was reported to have died in the state after being denied lifesaving care due to the law. Here’s more on that:Harris blames Trump for Georgia abortion-related death: ‘It’s what we feared’Read moreShare30 Sept 202415.41 EDTUp to 600 people unaccounted for in Hurricane Helene, White House saysAs many as 600 people remain missing after Hurricane Helene swept through the south-eastern United States, White House homeland security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall told reporters.“The current data we have is that it looks like there could be as many as 600 loss of lives, but we don’t have any confirmation of that. We know there are 600 who are either lost or unaccounted for, and so that work is ongoing,” Sherwood-Randall said at the White House press briefing.She added that there’s a high degree of uncertainty to the numbers:
I’ll caution you, because we’ve seen this before. Those numbers vary widely. There’s a lot of reporting that doesn’t add up about the numbers. And so, while we may see the numbers go up as we get to more locations that have not yet been fully developed in terms of disaster immediate emergency response operations, we may see more people who unfortunately perished, but we may also not see the numbers skyrocket as people have predicted they might.
Authorities in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and elsewhere have already confirmed more than 100 deaths from the storm that swept in from the Gulf of Mexico:Hurricane Helene leaves more than 100 dead and a million without powerRead moreShareUpdated at 16.09 EDT30 Sept 202415.17 EDTDonald Trump’s dystopian vision for the United States took a new turn on Sunday, when he mulled adopting something only seen in horror films to fight crime. The Guardian’s Robert Tait has more:Donald Trump has been accused of invoking plotlines similar to The Purge – a dystopian horror film in which officially sanctioned murder is occasionally legal – as a possible solution to crime in the US after saying it could be eradicated in “one really violent day”.In what was seen as an extreme display of demagoguery even by his standards, Trump drew cheers from an audience in Erie, Pennsylvania, with a picture of an out-of-control crime spree that he said could be ended “immediately” with one “real rough, nasty day”, or “one rough hour”.“You see these guys walking out with air conditioners with refrigerators on their back, the craziest thing,” Trump said. “And the police aren’t allowed to do their job. They’re told, if you do anything, you’re gonna lose your pension.“They’re not allowed to do it because the liberal left won’t let them do it. The liberal left wants to destroy them, and they want to destroy our country.”In a passage that provoked a storm on social media, the former president and Republican nominee then said: “If you had one day, like one real rough, nasty day with the drug stores as an example, where, when they start walking out with … ”Trump condemned for suggesting ‘one really violent day’ to combat crimeRead moreShareUpdated at 15.23 EDT1 of 3NextOldestOldestExplore more on these topicsUS elections 2024US politics liveUS politicsDonald TrumpKamala HarrisJoe BidenHurricane HeleneAbortionShareReuse this contentMost viewedMost viewedNewsOpinionSportCultureLifestyleOriginal reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morningSign up for our emailAbout usHelpComplaints & correctionsSecureDropWork for us Privacy policyCookie policyTerms & conditionsContact usAll topicsAll writersDigital newspaper archiveTax strategyFacebookYouTubeInstagramLinkedInNewslettersAdvertise with usGuardian LabsSearch jobsBack to top© 2025 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. (dcr)
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September 30, 2024 8:00pm EDT Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email close Video White House pressed on ICE data about criminal noncitizens in the US Fox News White House senior correspondent Peter Doocy asks the press secretary about the convicted murderers on the loose Monday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pressed by Fox News' senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy on the news that tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in the U.S. have serious criminal records. Jean-Pierre responded to the line of questioning about the Border Patrol numbers by claiming it was a "false representation of the data." Doocy said, "13,000 people who have been convicted of murder across the border illegally and are living among us. So how much danger are U.S. communities in right now?" "I think it's important to correct the record here," she responded. "It's been fact-checked by some of your colleagues here, by multiple outlets. That has been debunked on what has been falsely misrepresented, misrepresented here. So we have to call that out." OHIO RESIDENTS IN SMALL TOWN ERUPT OVER HAVOC CAUSED BY MASSIVE INFLUX OF 20,000 OF HAITIANS White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addressed data that 13,000 noncitizens facing deportations have homicide convictions. (Fox News Digital) Doocy responded, "Can you clarify what the misrepresentation is?" Jean-Pierre responded, "If we're going to report something, data that's out there, we got to do it in a way that is not confusing the American people and certainly not lying." "If you look at the total returns and removal of the past year, that has been higher than every year under the previous administration since 2010," she said, reiterating claims the story has been fact-checked and falsely represented. EXPERTS WARN DHS EQUITY PUSH HAS MADE THE COUNTRY LESS SAFE: 'LITERALLY A ROAD TO ANARCHY' New data released to Republican lawmakers showed the number of noncitizens who have final orders of removal or are going through removal proceedings but are not in ICE custody. Out of 7.4 million people on that docket, 425,431 are convicted criminals and 222,141 have pending criminal charges. The border wall has yet to be completed in Arizona. (Adam Shaw/Fox News Digital)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPIn the latest data, the criminal records included 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions, and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions. There are an additional 1,845 with pending homicide charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges and 4,250 with assault charges. The Department of Homeland Security released a statement pushing back on the figures, stating, "[The data] includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more... It also includes many who are under the jurisdiction or currently incarcerated by federal, state or local law enforcement partners." Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report. Hannah Grossman is a Reporter at Fox News Digital. Fox News First Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. Arrives
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Trump rally: Erie to seek reimbursement from Sunday's eventNews Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ELECTIONSErie to bill Trump for rally. His campaign still owes from two previous events. Matthew RinkErie Times-NewsThe bills are piling up for former President Donald Trump's campaign.The city of Erie will bill Trump's campaign for costs incurred by the Erie Bureau of Police and other departments for his rally Sunday at the Bayfront Convention Center, according to Renee Lamis, chief of staff for Mayor Joe Schember, who said the city is reviewing the expenses associated with the rally and did not have a dollar figure to provide yet."The Trump campaign still owes the City of Erie a total of $40,330 for public safety costs associated with campaign visits in 2018 and 2023," Rob Lee, a spokesperson for the Schember administration, said in an email to the Erie Times-News. "These costs were for police, fire and public works personnel overtime."Already paid for:Trump campaign paid in advance to rent Bayfront Convention CenterThe city billed Trump $35,130 in 2018 after the then-sitting president held a midterm-election rally at Erie Insurance Arena. The city billed Trump $5,200 in 2023 when he held a second rally at Erie Insurance Arena. It was his first stop to the bellwether county of the 2024 election cycle. Both bills remain unpaid.Neither Trump nor President Joe Biden campaigned in the city in 2020. Trump instead held a rally at a hangar at Erie International Airport and Biden held a much smaller, invitation-only event at a Summit Township union training center, where the campaign strictly adhered to COVID-19 health guidelines, including social distancing, which curtailed attendance.Pennsylvania Voter Guide: The who, what, where & when of the 2024 election Walz returns to Erie, meets with undecided voters, visits Puerto Rican restaurant In return to Erie County, VP nominee Vance urges Trump voters to cast ballots early From Obama to Trump to Biden, why Erie County's next choice will likely be our new president Kamala Harris speaks to thousands of supporters at Erie rally Trump slams Harris for handling of immigration, fracking reversal in Erie campaign stop Inflation, greedflation, shrinkflation: Casey, McCormick duel on key election topic VP hopeful Tim Walz: 2024 election likely runs through Erie. What else he said JD Vance says Harris will harm trucking industry, raise costs, at Erie campaign stop Upset watch: Dems think these PA. state house seats are up for grabs in Nov.Matthew Rink can be reached at [email protected] or on X at @ETNRink.Careers Staff Directory Accessibility Sitemap Legals Our Ethical Principles Responsible Disclosure Subscription Terms & Conditions Terms of Service Privacy Policy Your Privacy ChoicesContact Us Support Local Business Advertise Your Business Licensing & Reprints Help Center Subscriber Guide Manage Account Give FeedbackSubscribe Today Newsletters Facebook X eNewspaper ArchivesJobs Cars Homes Classifieds Shopping 10Best LocaliQ Digital Marketing Solutions© 2025 www.goerie.com. All rights reserved.
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Tim WalzForest Hunt, Caspar von Au and Curtis GilbertSeptember 30, 2024 4:00 AMTim Walz’s experience in China could help him as veep, but he barely mentions it as a candidateA collection of screenshots of Tim Walz in China taken from videos by Travis Hofmann in 1995.Courtesy of Travis HofmannPlayListenTim Walz’s experience in China could help him as veep, but he barely mentions it as a candidateGo Deeper.CloseCreate an account or log in to save stories.Log inCreate a free AccountLike this?CloseThanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories.Show me!SaveShareX (twitter.com)FacebookMailThe warning from the U.S. State Department in June 1989 was stark. It told Americans to stay away from China, citing an “extremely volatile and potentially life-threatening” situation there following the Tiananmen Square massacre. Two months later, even though the department was still discouraging “non-essential” travel to the country, a 25-year-old teacher from Nebraska went there anyway.“I’m somewhat apprehensive, but I’m also excited,” Gov. Tim Walz told a local newspaper before departing for a yearlong teaching appointment in the southern Chinese city of Foshan. “It will be an interesting experience, I’m sure.”That experience sparked in Walz a lifelong fascination with Chinese culture — one he shared with hundreds of high school students on elaborately planned annual trips over the course of a decade and touted proudly when he first entered politics. Walz was so proud of his extensive experience abroad that he occasionally used to exaggerate it. His campaign now acknowledges that Walz’s past claims that he had been to China around 30 times were overstated, and the actual number of trips he’s taken from the United States to China is “closer to 15.”But, now as Minnesota’s governor and the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president, Walz has chosen to emphasize his folksy image as a down-home Midwestern dad and state-championship football coach rather than his history as a peripatetic world traveler. His biography on the Harris-Walz campaign’s official website makes no mention of his extensive international experience. Turn Up Your SupportMPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding. Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. ♡ Donate nowAs vice president, he would have a far bigger foreign policy role than he does now. Since Walz joined the national ticket, APM Reports has interviewed more than a dozen people and combed through business records, government documents, yearbooks and old news clippings in search of a better picture of his experience in China. The reporting — which includes exclusive video obtained by APM Reports of his time in China — paints a picture of a distinctive and often-overlooked part of Walz’s life. Republicans have sought to portray that experience as nefarious. House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has demanded the FBI help his committee investigate whether the Chinese Communist Party sought to groom a small-town social studies teacher as part of a shadowy program that “seeks to co-opt influential figures in elite political, cultural, and academic circles to influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans.”That line of criticism pervades right-wing social media and could very well surface Tuesday, when Walz debates Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance.“It’s a very misguided reaction,” said Peter Hessler, who has written four books on China and lived there for more than a decade.“American policy has enormous impact on parts of the world that are developing, that have gone through poverty and isolation, and almost none of our leaders have spent much time in those places,” he said. “It's never been seen as a positive of course, I think, because America is a fairly isolationist society in many ways. And people don't understand why this is important, but it is important.”Walz first went to China through WorldTeach, a small nonprofit based at Harvard University that sent American teachers to work in schools overseas. During his year there, Walz has said he made frequent trips to Macau, which was still a Portuguese province and became a semi-autonomous part of China, similar to Hong Kong, in 1999. He also traveled thousands of miles to Tiananmen Square and Tibet, which was restricted at that time.“I'm really quite impressed that he was able to pull that off in 1989 or 1990,” said Evan Dawley, a former China-based field director for WorldTeach. (WorldTeach is now defunct, and its archives at Harvard won’t be open to researchers and journalists until 2039, under a university policy that seals administrative records for at least 50 years.)Sydney Rosen, who co-founded WorldTeach with economist Michael Kremer and served as its first director when Walz was sent to China, said volunteers often ignored her admonition to “stay away from the action … because these were 22-year-olds who thought it was exciting.” It clearly was for Walz, and when he returned to Nebraska a year later to teach social studies in the 10,000-person town of Alliance, he was eager to share the experience with its residents. He gave presentations about his adventures to the local chapters of the Jaycees and the Rotary Club.A screenshot from a video of Tim Walz at the Great Wall of China in 1995.Courtesy of Travis HofmannA cultural exchangeIn 1993, Walz arranged what would be the first in a series of summer trips to China for his students.“Mr. Walz made all the reservations by phone — in Chinese!” Alliance High School student Anne Hjersman wrote in a letter to the editor published in the local paper. Students and teachers who knew him recalled that he spoke at least proficient Mandarin, though he told a reporter in 1990 after he returned from Foshan (where the locals speak Cantonese) that he had “great difficulty” with Mandarin pronunciation. A Chinese New Year greeting he recorded as governor in 2021 includes brief messages in both Mandarin and Cantonese.The trips would not have been possible without Walz’s connections in China. The Guangzhou University’s Physical Education Institute covered in-country costs for at least one of the early trips, a local newspaper reported in 1993. Students needed to come up with just $1,600 apiece to cover everything else on the first two-week trip. Students further defrayed costs by selling coupons for ice cream bars door to door — six bars for $2.The goal of the program was “no different from the classroom,” explained Travis Hofmann, who went on the first three trips, and still has old VHS recordings from 1995. On the tape, Walz can be seen glistening with sweat aboard a sweltering train car, waving to people hiking the impossibly steep steps on the Great Wall and flashing a grin after he plucks a morsel of meat from a snail shell with a toothpick. “You just want to educate, learn, grow — understand people and differences and similarities,” Hofmann said.The trips were extensively planned. The 1994 trip had about 50 participants and included six basketball games between the Americans and Chinese teams. The first game was in an aircraft hangar, but they also played in an arena nicer than any of the kids from rural Nebraska had ever seen, former Alliance basketball coach Rocky Almond recalled. The Americans, some of whom were over 6 feet tall and towered over their Chinese rivals, swept the games.In 1994, Tim Walz took about 50 people to China. The group included high school students, a basketball team made up mostly of college students, a dance group, and Alliance radio announcer Mike Glesinger. Walz is seated in the middle of the front row.Courtesy of Sara Lohmeyer“I can't fathom how they got all that put together,” said Almond, who attended as a chaperone. “I don't know if we could do that at the scale now that we did back then.”The hotels where the groups stayed provided elaborate meals each day, and Walz showed everyone how to use chopsticks. But the American students didn't always enjoy Chinese cuisine. Participants recalled multiple times when students snuck away to eat McDonald's. Eventually, hotel staff noticed some students weren’t eating, and the next day, the kitchen served American food instead."We all got in so much trouble," said Sara Lohmeyer, one of the students on the trip. "That’s probably the only time I ever saw Tim upset." Walz told the group it was disrespectful and could not happen again. He also apologized to the hotel. Walz’s love of the culture eventually rubbed off on Lohmeyer. When she had a severe asthma attack during the trip, Walz suggested Lohmeyer try acupuncture. "I, being a 16-year-old from Nebraska, was like, absolutely not," she recalled. "Nobody's sticking needles in me." Today, Lohmeyer runs an acupuncture practice in Denver.Tim Walz in China in 1997 with fellow teachers Sarah Dixen (left) and Kim Hermer.Courtesy of Kim HermerWalz briefed the groups on topics to avoid during the trip, chief among them the Tiananmen Square massacre. But the square itself was a frequent stop for the school groups. During the 1997 trip, former Mankato West High School teacher Kim Hermer recalled locals gathering around them to have their pictures taken with a chaperone who had long blond hair.“They were just so excited to see somebody who looked so different,” Hermer said. Then some guards showed up and demanded that the crowd disperse. “It was just very joyous and very fun and then it was over.”None of the people APM Reports talked to felt that the Chinese government interfered with their travels, although Hermer did recall what she described as “minders” — “people who were just making sure that we saw what they wanted us to see .... We weren't going in there trying to look for political secrets or anything like that. The focus was really just on the people.”Walz’s China experience a point of pride in CongressWalz proudly touted his experience in China in 2006 when he first ran for Congress. “What we need in education, what we need in the military, and what we need when I'm fostering cultural exchanges with China, is real solutions,” he said during a debate with then-U.S. Rep. Gil Gutknecht, whom he would defeat handily that November.His campaign website at the time noted his role as a visiting fellow of international relations at China’s Macau Polytechnic Institute. It also played up the small business he and his wife, Gwen, founded called Educational Travel Adventures, Inc., which it said “conducts annual educational trips to China for high school students,” a seeming reference to summer travel programs he ran in the schools where he worked. Available documents show that the Walzes first incorporated the travel agency in Nebraska at the end of 1995 and ran ads in the local paper promoting a tour of Hong Kong, China, Nepal and Tibet and another one of Australia and New Zealand. In 1998, Nebraska’s secretary of state dissolved the corporation for failing to pay a $26 annual tax, something the state says happens to thousands of companies every year. The Walzes eventually paid $235.56 in back taxes and interest and shut the company down voluntarily. They registered a new Minnesota company under the same name at the end of 2002, and shut it down permanently in 2008 during Walz’s first term in Congress. As a congressman, Walz continued to build and promote his expertise on China. During his first term, records show Walz used a personal email address with the username “macau.”Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed him to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a body that monitors human rights issues and the rule of law there. He met with Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong and the Dalai Lama, and tweeted frequently in support of Chinese democracy advocates. Walz was also part of a congressional delegation to China and Tibet in 2015. In 2017, he and U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., cosponsored the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. The bill was eventually passed in 2019. By then, Walz had left Congress to become governor.‘Closer to 15 times’While in Congress, Walz sometimes exaggerated his already substantial experience in China. In 2016, he told an agricultural publication he had been there “about 30 times.” During at least two hearings of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China he claimed to have traveled to China “dozens of times.” Numerous media outlets have repeated those claims. But Walz’s annual trips with high school students between 1993 and the early 2000s would have accounted for around a dozen visits, give or take, and he made only one official trip there as a congressman.APM Reports asked the campaign for documentation on the additional trips, and after weeks of searching, a spokesman finally acknowledged that Walz had traveled from the United States to China “closer to 15 times.”Walz also once described being in Hong Kong in May 1989, during the student uprising that culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre — an assertion that is belied by newspaper accounts at the time. “As the events were unfolding, several of us went in,” Walz said at a 2014 hearing commemorating the massacre’s 25th anniversary. “I still remember the train station in Hong Kong.” A photograph published May 16, 1989, showed Walz working in the National Guard Armory in Alliance. And a story published in another Nebraska paper on August 11 that year said he would “leave Sunday en route to China” after having “about given up participating [in WorldTeach] earlier this summer during the student revolts in parts of China.” The August departure date is also consistent with WorldTeach’s 1989 promotional materials about the program.The campaign was unable to produce documentation to back up Walz’s statement that he was there during the uprising.Republicans attack Walz’s China connections Walz’s deep experience in China clearly sets him apart from most people who have run for vice president — or president for that matter. That would seem to be an asset if he becomes vice president, but the campaign is saying little about it.His biography on the campaign website mentions his work as a teacher and football coach, including his team’s state championship victory 25 years ago, but nothing about his time in China.Conservative commentators have tried to label him “Tiananmen Tim,” “The Great Walz of China” and even made the far-fetched claim that he is some sort of “Manchurian candidate,” a reference to the 1962 Cold War-era film about an American soldier brainwashed by Chinese agents to become an assassin. “It’s very possible that China would be grooming an up-and-coming, rising star in the political process to try to have a foothold in our government,” U.S. Rep. Comer told Fox News in August. “This is how China operates. They think long term.” Walz was hardly a “rising star” in politics when he was living in China and leading summer trips there. He was a small-town social studies teacher years before he ran for office.The Harris-Walz campaign issued a brief written statement in response to questions for this story: “Throughout his career, Governor Walz has stood up to the [Chinese Communist Party], fought for human rights and democracy, and always put American jobs and manufacturing first,” it read in part. “Republicans are twisting basic facts and desperately lying to distract from the Trump-Vance agenda: praising dictators, and sending American jobs to China.”Comer sent a letter to the FBI in August demanding information on Walz. In a follow-up letter dated Sept. 12, he said he had received no response.“The FBI appears to deem these concerning facts unpersuasive to require its cooperation with a congressional investigation,” Comer wrote. His office did not respond to multiple interview requests.Hessler, who wrote about his time in China between 1996 and 2007, says Comer’s line of attack reflects “the xenophobia of the moment, and the sinophobia of the moment.”Kent Pekel, now the superintendent of Rochester Public Schools, lived in China during some of the same times Walz did. He said China and the United States didn’t view each other as adversaries in the 1990s.“If you had told me then that there would be the level of animosity that exists [now] between the U.S. and China, I would never have believed it,” Pekel said. “It was a time of optimism — a time when the United States was very, very popular and widely admired.”Additional reporting by MPR News senior reporter Hannah Yang and APM reporter Jennifer Lu.Curator talks archiving Walz’s bid for VP, preserving political legaciesAfter losing VP bid, Walz searches for role in pushing back against TrumpGov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris’ running mate. What happens now in Minnesota politics?Kamala Harris taps Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Democratic running mateProgram ScheduleStation DirectoryProviding Support for MPR. Learn More
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Trump rally: Erie to seek reimbursement from Sunday's eventNews Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ELECTIONSErie to bill Trump for rally. His campaign still owes from two previous events. Matthew RinkErie Times-NewsThe bills are piling up for former President Donald Trump's campaign.The city of Erie will bill Trump's campaign for costs incurred by the Erie Bureau of Police and other departments for his rally Sunday at the Bayfront Convention Center, according to Renee Lamis, chief of staff for Mayor Joe Schember, who said the city is reviewing the expenses associated with the rally and did not have a dollar figure to provide yet."The Trump campaign still owes the City of Erie a total of $40,330 for public safety costs associated with campaign visits in 2018 and 2023," Rob Lee, a spokesperson for the Schember administration, said in an email to the Erie Times-News. "These costs were for police, fire and public works personnel overtime."Already paid for:Trump campaign paid in advance to rent Bayfront Convention CenterThe city billed Trump $35,130 in 2018 after the then-sitting president held a midterm-election rally at Erie Insurance Arena. The city billed Trump $5,200 in 2023 when he held a second rally at Erie Insurance Arena. It was his first stop to the bellwether county of the 2024 election cycle. Both bills remain unpaid.Neither Trump nor President Joe Biden campaigned in the city in 2020. Trump instead held a rally at a hangar at Erie International Airport and Biden held a much smaller, invitation-only event at a Summit Township union training center, where the campaign strictly adhered to COVID-19 health guidelines, including social distancing, which curtailed attendance.Pennsylvania Voter Guide: The who, what, where & when of the 2024 election Walz returns to Erie, meets with undecided voters, visits Puerto Rican restaurant In return to Erie County, VP nominee Vance urges Trump voters to cast ballots early From Obama to Trump to Biden, why Erie County's next choice will likely be our new president Kamala Harris speaks to thousands of supporters at Erie rally Trump slams Harris for handling of immigration, fracking reversal in Erie campaign stop Inflation, greedflation, shrinkflation: Casey, McCormick duel on key election topic VP hopeful Tim Walz: 2024 election likely runs through Erie. What else he said JD Vance says Harris will harm trucking industry, raise costs, at Erie campaign stop Upset watch: Dems think these PA. state house seats are up for grabs in Nov.Matthew Rink can be reached at [email protected] or on X at @ETNRink.Careers Staff Directory Accessibility Sitemap Legals Our Ethical Principles Responsible Disclosure Subscription Terms & Conditions Terms of Service Privacy Policy Your Privacy ChoicesContact Us Support Local Business Advertise Your Business Licensing & Reprints Help Center Subscriber Guide Manage Account Give FeedbackSubscribe Today Newsletters Facebook X eNewspaper ArchivesJobs Cars Homes Classifieds Shopping 10Best LocaliQ Digital Marketing Solutions© 2025 www.goerie.com. All rights reserved.
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The approximately 218,000 affected registrants are reportedly comprised of 79,000 Republicans, 61,000 Democrats, and 76,000 Other Party
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PHOENIX — The Arizona Secretary of State's office released updated numbers on registrants impacted by an "administrative error," bringing the total to approximately 218,000. According to officials, these voters could have had access to a full ballot for decades when they should have been receiving a federal-only ballot.See ABC15's original reporting from when the issue was announced in the player above.Like Arizona’s electorate overall, the affected voters lean Republican. This new group of approximately 120,000 voters includes 79,000 Republicans, 61,000 Democrats and 76,000 independents.State and county officials came out earlier in September to announce that they are investigating the issue impacting the voting status and ballots of some people living in Arizona who have not provided documentation of U.S. citizenship.The Secretary of State and County Recorder differed on their positions on how to move forward from the issue. County Recorder Steve Richer said the issue was going to courts “to get a clear answer.”On September 20, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that those whose citizenship documents hadn’t been confirmed can vote in state and local races.The voter registration database is now updated to correctly flag the impacted voters as needing proof of citizenship, according to a Monday statement.Those who are impacted by this issue will be contacted by election officials regarding their voting status after this year's election, if necessary, according to Secretary of State Adrian Fontes.THE ISSUEBeginning Dec. 8, 2004, Arizona law required registrants who provided documentation to receive full ballots and those who did not provide documentation to receive federal-only ballots. According to the law, a driver’s license issued after Oct. 1, 1996, could be used as proof of citizenship.An MVD and "AVID system" administrative issue reportedly involved duplicate licenses and their issuance dates.“The AVID system was programmed to query the duplicate issuance date and would not alert the county that the license was originally issued before 10/1/1996,” according to the governor’s office."This flaw has existed since 2004. In every county. Across the state," Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer previously said on X.Fontes’ office said it is continuing to work with the MVD to determine if more people are affected.
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The Maricopa County Recorder's Office found about 98,000 registrations that were grandfathered in from prior to the 1996 DPOC law. The glitch came from the motor vehicle department side. These voters have been receiving a full ballot for decades when they should have been receiving Federal only.
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PHOENIX — The Arizona Secretary of State's office released updated numbers on registrants impacted by an "administrative error," bringing the total to approximately 218,000. According to officials, these voters could have had access to a full ballot for decades when they should have been receiving a federal-only ballot.See ABC15's original reporting from when the issue was announced in the player above.Like Arizona’s electorate overall, the affected voters lean Republican. This new group of approximately 120,000 voters includes 79,000 Republicans, 61,000 Democrats and 76,000 independents.State and county officials came out earlier in September to announce that they are investigating the issue impacting the voting status and ballots of some people living in Arizona who have not provided documentation of U.S. citizenship.The Secretary of State and County Recorder differed on their positions on how to move forward from the issue. County Recorder Steve Richer said the issue was going to courts “to get a clear answer.”On September 20, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that those whose citizenship documents hadn’t been confirmed can vote in state and local races.The voter registration database is now updated to correctly flag the impacted voters as needing proof of citizenship, according to a Monday statement.Those who are impacted by this issue will be contacted by election officials regarding their voting status after this year's election, if necessary, according to Secretary of State Adrian Fontes.THE ISSUEBeginning Dec. 8, 2004, Arizona law required registrants who provided documentation to receive full ballots and those who did not provide documentation to receive federal-only ballots. According to the law, a driver’s license issued after Oct. 1, 1996, could be used as proof of citizenship.An MVD and "AVID system" administrative issue reportedly involved duplicate licenses and their issuance dates.“The AVID system was programmed to query the duplicate issuance date and would not alert the county that the license was originally issued before 10/1/1996,” according to the governor’s office."This flaw has existed since 2004. In every county. Across the state," Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer previously said on X.Fontes’ office said it is continuing to work with the MVD to determine if more people are affected.
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September 30, 2024, 10:31 AM
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Sixteen and 17-year olds can get married in the District. New legislation introduced this month by D.C. Council members would ban that.
They can’t drink, smoke or vote, but 16- and 17-year-olds can still get married in the District. New legislation introduced this month by D.C. Council members would ban that.
The new “Child Marriage Prohibition Amendment Act of 2024” bill, sponsored by nine council members, would close that loophole and raise the age one can get married to 18 years old, totally banning child marriage in the nation’s capital.
Currently, older teens can get married in D.C. with written or verbal consent from their parents or guardians.
While not common, the District has seen an increase in child marriages over the last few years, according to the D.C. Council. In 2020, just two children were married. Three years later, that number soared to 15 people under the age of 18.
D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto, one of the bill’s sponsors, argued in a letter introducing the legislation that the rise could be due to neighboring states banning marriages for people under 18 years old.
In 2022, Maryland barred marriage for people under 18 years old, except in rare circumstances where a 17-year-old would be allowed to get married with a judge’s consent. In Virginia, an outright ban on child marriage went into effect this year.
The Virginia-based Tahirih Justice Center, which has advocated for such legislation, stated that children who are married are 50% more likely to drop out of high school and around 30% more likely to face poverty in the future.
So far, 13 states, mostly in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, have banned child marriage.
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The Meaning of Kamala Harris' Job at McDonald's | TIMESign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POVSubscribeSubscribeSectionsHomeU.S.PoliticsWorldHealthClimateFuture of Work by CharterBusinessTechEntertainmentIdeasScienceHistorySportsMagazineTIME 2030Next Generation LeadersTIME100 Leadership SeriesTIME StudiosVideoTIME100 TalksTIMEPiecesThe TIME VaultTIME for HealthTIME for KidsTIME EdgeTIMECO2Red Border: Branded Content by TIMECouponsPersonal Finance by TIME StampedShopping by TIME StampedJoin UsNewslettersSubscribeGive a GiftShop the TIME StoreTIME Cover StoreDigital MagazineCustomer CareUS & CanadaGlobal Help CenterReach OutCareersPress RoomContact the EditorsMedia KitReprints and PermissionsMoreAbout UsPrivacy PolicyYour Privacy RightsTerms of UseModern Slavery StatementSite MapConnect with UsPresented ByHistoryMade by HistoryWhat Kamala Harris’ Rhetoric About McDonald’s Reveals About Democrats’ Shifting Views on PovertyWhat Kamala Harris’ Rhetoric About McDonald’s Reveals About Democrats’ Shifting Views on Poverty9 minute readBy Alex Park / Made by HistorySeptember 24, 2024 9:00 AM EDTThe American public is talking about “McJobs” again. First, Kamala Harris and her Democratic allies, including former president Bill Clinton, touted the candidate’s experience working at McDonald’s on the campaign trail and at the Democratic National Convention. Then the campaign launched an ad that cites her time working at the fast food chain as a marker of her middle-class upbringing — and as a major point of contrast between her life and the privileged upbringing of Donald Trump.The conversation about McDonald’s workers has prompted a discussion about the struggles of minimum wage earners. While Harris worked in fast food to earn “spending money” during one college summer, she observed that some of her colleagues “were raising families on that paycheck.” As President, she has pledged, helping people in the same position today by bringing down the costs of everyday expenses would be a “top priority.”Harris’ acknowledgment that fast food wages are often not enough to sustain a living is a stark contrast to the way Clinton and other Democrats once argued that such jobs were the key to getting people out of poverty. In his second term, Clinton made “welfare to work” a central component of his overhaul of the American social safety net. “Welfare,” Clinton said, would be “a second chance, not a way of life,” and welfare recipients would have to work to keep their benefits. The American public was largely supportive of change, believing a job at Wendy’s or McDonald’s should be the first step on the path out of poverty, and that the government’s role should be to get them into one. Harris’ very different position indicates how Americans have rethought poverty, wages, and fast food jobs over the last two decades. As a presidential candidate in 1976, Ronald Reagan began popularizing tales of a woman in Chicago who used a string of fake names and addresses to collect tens of thousands of dollars in benefits while hard working middle-class Americans underwrote her life. Read More: At DNC, Bill Clinton Urges Voters to Reject Trump: ‘He Creates and Curates Chaos.’Similar stories of “welfare queens” would become a staple of newspaper columns and TV news. They stoked fury, in part because of their racial element. Although rarely articulated as such, these stories were an invitation for white, suburban voters to think of welfare recipients as lazy, Black, urban freeloaders taking advantage of working people like themselves. Some thoughtful observers could see that the oft-cited stories were either not representative or totally false. As the anthropologist Katherine Newman noted, welfare beneficiaries typically worked full time, but as mothers and caretakers, not wage earners.American voters, however, largely didn’t see it that way. An overwhelming bipartisan consensus developed that the only work that counted was the kind that paid wages. During his 1992 campaign, Clinton pledged to “end welfare as we know it.” And in 1996, after vetoing two previous versions, he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, popularly known as “Welfare Reform,” to align policy with the public misperceptions around welfare. 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Read More: Why the Republican Job Requirements Push Won’t Actually Get People to WorkBurger King executives also touted that the company hired welfare recipients — who were disproportionately Black — out of its “commitment to diversity and opportunity.” And adding them to the payroll came with other, more material benefits. While welfare recipients faced the stick of a threatened loss of benefits, Congress offered employers like Burger King and its franchisees a carrot: subsidies worth up to $8,500 for each welfare recipient they hired.To justify the subsidies, companies spoke of the difficult work involved with training welfare recipients to become contributing members of society. “I have learned that many welfare recipients need training beyond the nuances of ‘having it your way,’” one Burger King franchisee said in the same report, citing the brand’s signature slogan. Training new hires in “life skills” was “the most critical aspect of the welfare to work program,” he said. Media personalities and politicians had spoken of welfare recipients with so much pity and scorn for so many years, employers could safely claim that hiring them was a public service deserving of taxpayer compensation. In Clinton’s vision, a job was the locus of assistance, the door through which all other help would pass. But while Welfare Reform introduced the job requirement, few of the benefits he envisioned ever materialized. In his first term, Clinton tried to pass legislation that would have required low-wage employers to cover healthcare costs. The measure failed. Years later, the president successfully pressured Congress to raise the federal minimum wage by $0.90 per hour — a modest gain for people living on the edge. In speeches, he enthused about the millions of people who had been forced into jobs and echoed claims that welfare recipients stayed at their jobs longer than other employees — once more, without stopping to consider why that might be the case. 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After the event, a Trump campaign spokesperson said, in reference to the radical idea, the former president was “clearly just floating it in jest.”Perhaps, though there’s reason to believe otherwise. For one thing, he’s made comments like these before: It was exactly one year ago this week, for example, when Trump suggested combatting shoplifting by having the police shoot shoplifters. This would, he put it at the time, “immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft.”For another, watching a video clip of the comments, he did not appear to be kidding.Read moreIn fact, during the same event, the Republican also endorsed the idea of police departments becoming “extraordinarily rough“ as a way of combatting crime.Why should voters care? Right off the bat, there’s no evidence to suggest “extraordinarily rough” police officers, engaging in “nasty” and “violent” behavior, will actually reduce crime.Just as notably, as the Politico report noted, “Trump has a long history of endorsing police violence.” It adds necessary context to the GOP candidate’s campaign recently claiming that Democrats are the “party of violence.”But let’s also not lose sight of the broader conversation: As Election Day draws closer, Republican officials are practically begging the former president to focus less on personal attacks, and more on public policy.The candidate’s comments about “one really violent day” served as a timely reminder: Trump can’t talk about public policy, and when he tries, the results are ridiculous.There are a variety of explanations for this, but at its root is an unfortunate assumption: As I argued in my first book, Trump genuinely seems to believe that every challenge can and should be addressed through unexamined, overly simplified answers that appeal to his version of common sense.The immigration system is broken? Build an ineffective wall. Hurricanes are approaching American soil? Hit them with nuclear weapons. There are too many shooters killing children in schools? Put more guns in the hands of school officials who might shoot back. A virus is killing hundreds of thousands of Americans? Try injecting people with disinfectants.RecommendedMaddowblogAs errors pile up, Musk and DOGE appear increasingly incompetentRussia is waging a brutal and unnecessary war in Ukraine? Slap some Chinese flags on U.S. fighter jets and point them in Moscow’s direction. There are social justice protesters outside the White House? Shoot them in the legs. There are drug cartels in Mexico? Launch missiles into our allied neighbor. There was a terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Impose “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”Drugs are ravaging communities? If we simply executed drug dealers, the problem would go away. Some businesses are struggling with shoplifters? “One real rough, nasty” and “violent day” would end such crimes “immediately.”Drugs are ravaging communities? If we simply executed drug dealers, the problem would go away.In Trump’s mind, there’s no such thing as a complex challenge requiring a complex solution. Everything is easy. Every question has a simple answer, and every problem can be solved with a simple fix.It’s post-policy politics at its most obvious: Trump doesn’t want to be bothered with analyses and relevant details, which only leave him confused. He wants to bark out bumper-sticker-style “proposals” that generate applause at rallies.The next time you hear complaints about Kamala Harris not delving deeply enough into the details of her policy proposals, keep this in mind.This post updates our related earlier coverage.Steve BenenSteve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."CONTINUE READING Previous PostJD Vance speaks at event hosted by radical Christian nationalistNext Post As Trump hawks expensive watches, corruption concerns lingerLatest PostAs errors pile up, Musk and DOGE appear increasingly incompetentAboutContactHelpCareersMSNBC StoreAD ChoicesPrivacy PolicyDo Not Sell My Personal InformationCA NoticeTerms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)MSNBC SitemapClosed CaptioningAdvertiseJoin the MSNBC Community© 2024 NBC UNIVERSALNBC News LogoMSNBC LogoToday Logo
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PoliticsSeptember 30, 2024A Court Just Threw Out Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban“Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property,” Judge Robert McBurney wrote.
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Two weeks after the deaths of two Georgia women highlighted the very real risks to maternal health posed by the state’s six-week abortion ban, a judge has thrown out that draconian law, declaring it unconstitutional in a remarkable ruling that drips with sarcasm and rage. It’s a resounding legal victory in a key swing state that is likely to reverberate throughout the South—at least temporarily.
“A review of our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes…the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her health care choices,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in a 26-page order issued Monday. “When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then—and only then—may society intervene,” he added.
“Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote,” McBurney writes. “Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have.”
“Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights.”
Before Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion was legal in Georgia until the fetus was viable—around 22 weeks. Lawmakers first passed the six-week ban, known as the LIFE Act, in 2019, but courts blocked it until the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022. The six-week ban has been the subject of litigation ever since, even as the Georgia Supreme Court upheld it in 2023. Now, according to McBurney’s ruling, “the law of Georgia reverts to what was (and remains) constitutional in this State” before 2019.
McBurney called the ban’s exception for rape and incest, which requires victims to file a police report, “a peculiarly cynical proviso.”
He was just as scornful of the ban’s insistence that medical exceptions should only be granted for life-threatening physical health issues. “There is no basis—rational, compelling, or sensical—to distinguish between diagnosed medical emergencies involving the brain (an essential human organ if ever there was one) versus the heart or the lungs or the liver,” McBurney wrote. “A law that saves a mother from a potentially fatal pregnancy when the risk is purely physical but which fates her to death or serious injury or disability if the risk is ‘mental or emotional’ is patently unconstitutional.”
And he threw in a few more zingers, just for good measure.
[Women] alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could—or should—force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.
The ruling comes as the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, first reported in ProPublica, has thrust Georgia to the center of the national conversation about the impact of abortion restrictions and bans in the post–Roe era. Days after the ProPublica stories, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Atlanta to highlight the threat that Donald Trump poses to reproductive freedom, and Thurman’s mother and sisters appeared with Harris in an emotional town hall hosted by Oprah Winfrey.
Nearly three-quarters of Georgians—including 62 percent of Republicans and 83 percent of Democrats—want abortion to be legal before the point of fetal viability, according to a University of Maryland poll in early September. But Georgia, like many of its neighbors in the South, does not allow residents to weigh in on the issue via the type of voter initiatives that are on the ballot in 10 states this November, including Nevada and Arizona.
“This afternoon’s court ruling marks a critical milestone for Georgians and supporters of reproductive justice who have remained steadfast in their vision of a Georgia free from abortion bans,” said Shanté Wolfe, Southeastern field director for the advocacy group URGE. “The court’s move is a testament to the power of collective action, driven by activists, organizers, legislators, and most importantly, everyday people.”
“We have known that Georgians overwhelmingly support abortion, and today we see that it is indeed possible for our state’s laws to reflect the majority,” Wolfe said.
Even so, no one expects McBurney—who was first appointed to the bench by former GOP governor Nathan Deal in 2012—to have the last say. “We believe Georgia’s LIFE Act is fully constitutional,” Kara Murray, communications director for Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, said in a statement Monday that promised an immediate appeal.
“Once again, the will of Georgians and their representatives has been overruled by the personal beliefs of one judge,” Governor Brian Kemp echoed in his own press release. “Georgia will continue to be a place where we fight for the lives of the unborn.”
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Donald Trump, Unhinged Sociopath, Says Police Should Violently Assault Americans for “One Rough Hour” to Stop Shoplifting | Vanity FairSkip to main contentOpen Navigation MenuMenuSearchSearchPoliticsBusinessHollywoodStyleCultureRoyalsCelebrityVideoPodcastsArchiveVF ShopWhat Is Cinema?ArchiveVF ShopMagazinePoliticsDonald Trump, Unhinged Sociopath, Says Police Should Violently Assault Americans for “One Rough Hour” to Stop Shoplifting“The word will get out and it will end immediately.”By Bess LevinSeptember 30, 2024WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump talks reporters at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters headquarters on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. Trump met with leaders and members of the organized labor group while looking for union support after the United Auto Workers endorsed President Joe Biden's re-election campaign one week ago. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesSave this storySaveSave this storySaveOne of the most absurd lies promulgated by MAGA Republicans is the idea that Donald Trump does not regularly endorse violence. They did it during his time in office, they did it after January 6, and they did it, most recently, following two attempts on his life—while claiming it was actually Democratic rhetoric that led to two men allegedly trying to assassinate him. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, and the latest example tearing their claims to shreds would be Trump’s call over the weekend for the police to violently assault Americans en masse in order to stop crime.Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania, the ex-president said the key to preventing crimes like shoplifting is state-sanctioned police beatings, which he lamented the “left” does not allow. “You see these guys walking out with air conditioners, with refrigerators on their back. The craziest thing,” Trump said. “And the police aren’t allowed to do their job. They’re told, if you do anything, you’re gonna lose your pension…. They’re not allowed to do it because the liberal left won’t let ’em do it. The liberal left wants to destroy them, and they want to destroy our country.” Then he unveiled his big idea: “If you had one really violent day…one rough hour, and I mean real rough, the word will get out and it will end immediately.”X contentThis content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.During his remarks, Trump also falsely claimed one can steal up to $950 worth of goods with no consequences in California, which appeared to be both a reference to Proposition 47—which downgraded some theft offenses to misdemeanors from felonies—and an attempt to tie the law to then California attorney general Kamala Harris. But as Politico notes, while Harris was in office when the ballot initiative was approved, “she remained neutral on the matter.” Meanwhile, “the dollar threshold Trump referenced actually became law four years earlier, signed by then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.”Following Trump’s remarks in Pennsylvania, a spokesperson for his campaign absurdly claimed he was “clearly just floating [police beatings] in jest,” adding: “President Trump has always been the law and order President and he continues to reiterate the importance of enforcing existing laws. Otherwise, it’s all-out anarchy, which is what Kamala Harris has created in some of these communities across America, especially during her time as attorney general when she emboldened criminals.”Trump, of course, is the only person currently running for president who is a convicted felon. Meanwhile, the notion that he is all about “law and order” is fully laughable given that (1) he has called for defunding the DOJ and FBI and (2) prosecutors say January 6 was “the largest single-day, mass assault of law enforcement officers in our nation’s history.” As for the idea that he was totally just joking about that “one really violent day,” well, that is not exactly believable given his long history of calling for violence, a rap sheet that includes:Endorsing assaulting reportersTelling police officers to knock suspects’ heads against the sides of their squad carsMusing about “Second Amendment people” preventing the appointment of liberal judgesTelling supporters, of a man who’d been ejected from one of his rallies, “I’d like to punch him in the face”Telling a crowd at one of his rallies, “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay. Just knock the hell—I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise”Whipping his supporters into a violent frenzy with months of lies concerning the 2020 election, which led to a violent attack on the Capitol that left numerous people dead, and which he tried to justify by saying: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”Defending his supporters’ decision to chant, “hang Mike Pence”Calling for alleged shoplifters to be “shot” as they leave the storeSo yeah, maybe believe him when he says these things.More Great Stories From Vanity FairSee Our Winner Predictions for the 2025 SAG AwardsHow Patrick Schwarzenegger “Eye-F—ed” His Way Onto The White LotusThe White Lotus Season 3: All the Easter Eggs You May Have MissedThe Education—and Anointment—of Barron TrumpMillie Bobby Brown on Stranger Things, Marriage, and Life on the FarmWhere to Watch Every 2025 Oscar-Nominated MovieA Lovesick Aristocrat and the Royal Family’s Nazi-Connected ShamesChronicling JD Vance’s Circuitous Rise to Power: Listen to the Inside the Hive Podcast with Host Radhika JonesEvery Steven Spielberg Movie, RankedFrom the Archive: Seduction-to-Spilt Secrets From Ava Gardner’s Three MarriagesBess LevinPolitics CorrespondentBess Levin is a politics correspondent at Vanity Fair. An essential voice of our current tragicomedy, she is an incisive, hilarious daily narrator of the horrors that never seem to stop. If you need catharsis in these terrifying times—or even if you don’t!—she is a must-read. You can follow her ... Read moreSee More By Bess Levin »Read MoreNewsDonald Trump Kicks Off Second Term With a Litany of Gripes and GrudgesIn rambling remarks after his inaugural address, the 47th president resurfaced baseless claims of election fraud, and aimed invective at Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Joe Biden.By Eve BateyPolitics“Nobody Knows What’s Coming Next”: Will Donald Trump Be Able to Use the Military Against Immigrants—and US Citizens?Follow orders—or disobey? 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His concerns about car seat rules probably won't help, either.By Steve BenenHeaded into this year’s only vice presidential debate, Sen. JD Vance has some work to do: Most recent polling suggests the voters who know the Ohio Republican don’t much care for him.As we discussed last week, the latest NBC News poll found that 32% of American have a favorable impression of the Ohioan, while 45% gave him a negative rating. Among all of the people included in the national survey, literally no one finished below Vance.Much of this likely stems from Vance’s unfortunate comments about “childless cat ladies" and related rhetoric about American families without children, coupled with his metamorphosis on Donald Trump.But that’s not the GOP vice presidential nominee’s only problem. The New York Times reported:[O]n Friday, footage circulated on social media showing Mr. Vance asserting in a Senate hearing last year that car-seat regulations had driven down the number of babies born, drawing mockery from his critics.In March 2023 — at which point Vance’s career in elected office spanned roughly two months — the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on consumer protections in air travel. The panel’s newest and youngest member spent some time exploring cost-benefit analyses.“What I worry here is that in the name of safety improvements — and I don’t doubt that there are marginal safety improvements — we’re actually proposing a change that would make things much, much more miserable for parents for very little marginal improvement in safety,” Vance said.The Republican then pivoted to familiar ground. “One thing that I really worry about, and I think both Democrats and Republicans should worry about, is we have some real demographic problems in our country,” Vance added. “American families aren’t having enough children. And I think there’s evidence that some of the things that we’re doing to parents is driving down the number of children that American families are having. In particular, there’s evidence that the car seat rules that we’ve imposed — which, of course, I want kids to drive in car seats — have driven down the number of babies born in this country by over 100,000.”In other words, as far as the Republican senator was concerned last year, there’d be over 100,000 more Americans were it not for Americans’ concerns related to “car seat rules.”When USA Today asked Vance’s team last week to substantiate the claim, the newspaper did not get a response. The Times also didn’t get a comment.In fairness, the Times’ report pointed to research that suggested car seats might've had some effect on American birth rates, but the article also quoted John S. Santelli, a professor of population and family health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, who seemed skeptical.“As a pediatrician who studies U.S. and global fertility, I see no scientific evidence that regulations around car seats or use of car seats reduces birthrates,” he said. “They do help kids survive motor vehicle accidents.”I don’t imagine we’ve heard the last of this one.Steve BenenSteve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."Previous PostU.S. Attorney Damian Williams has come for the kingsNext PostOn mental impairment, Trump picks a fight with Harris he can’t winLatest PostAs errors pile up, Musk and DOGE appear increasingly incompetentAboutContactHelpCareersMSNBC StoreAD ChoicesPrivacy PolicyDo Not Sell My Personal InformationCA NoticeTerms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)MSNBC SitemapClosed CaptioningAdvertiseJoin the MSNBC Community© 2025 MSNBC Cable, L.L.C.NBC News LogoMSNBC LogoToday Logo
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Why JD Vance will be no match for Tim Walz during the vice presidential debateIE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Skip to ContentMSNBC LogoLatestRachel MaddowMorning JoeInside with Jen PsakiDeadline: Legal BlogRACHEL MADDOW PRESENTS: ULTRATrump on Trial The ReidOut BlogTrump Documents LibraryColumnistsMSNBC FilmsTrump Transition Share this —SearchSearchFeatured ShowsThe Rachel Maddow ShowMondays 9PM ETMorning JoeWeekdays 6am ETDeadline: White House with Nicolle WallaceWeekdays 4PM ETThe Beat with Ari MelberWeeknights 6PM ETThe ReidOut with Joy ReidWeeknights 7PM ETAll In with Chris HayesTUESDAY-FRIDAY 8PM ETThe Last Word with Lawrence O’DonnellWeeknights 10PM ETThe 11th Hour with Stephanie RuhleWeeknights 11PM ETAlex Wagner TonightTuesday-Friday 9PM ETMSNBC TVWatch LiveListen LiveMoreMSNBC Live EventsMSNBC on PeacockMSNBC ColumnistsTV ScheduleMSNBC NewslettersPodcastsTranscriptsMSNBC Insights CommunityMSNBC StoreHelpTrump Trials Documents LibraryFollow msnbcMore BrandsToday LogoNBC News LogoMore ShowsWay Too EarlyAna Cabrera ReportsJosé Díaz-Balart ReportsChris Jansing ReportsKaty Tur ReportsSymoneThe Katie Phang ShowVelshiInside with Jen PsakiWeekends with Jonathan CapehartAlex Witt ReportsPoliticsNationAymanSearchSearchFacebookTwitterEmailSMSPrintWhatsappRedditPocketFlipboardPinterestLinkedinOpinionTim Walz is primed to outdo JD Vance in a populist match-upIn the vice presidential debate between two midwestern populists, my money’s on Walz over Vance.By Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC Opinion Writer/EditorVice presidential debates are typically a lot less interesting than presidential ones. Despite the pundit buzz surrounding the veepstakes, VP candidates rarely sway voters, and it follows from that historical pattern that vice presidential debates are unlikely to be consequential. They’re low-stakes affairs that feature candidates tasked with playing a supporting role: The candidates are meant to act as defenders or attack dogs on behalf of their running mates, and they don’t usually announce policies or break new ground politically. The bar for a solid performance is avoiding any gaffes.But Tuesday’s vice presidential debate is going to be different. The presidential race has unfolded unconventionally, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ surprise last-second nomination. She is still filling in a number of gaps in the public’s perceptions of her agenda, and for this reason, her VP pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, could play an outsize role in shaping how undecided voters perceive the Democratic presidential ticket. The quality of Walz’s performance could conceivably determine some voters’ decisions on whether they trust the Democrats on the top-tier issue of economic policy — or even just on the level of “vibes.”In the clash of the populisms, Walz has the advantage.But the exceptional importance of this debate goes beyond the time crunch that Harris and Walz face in introducing themselves to voters before Election Day. Both Walz and his opponent, Republican Sen. JD Vance, occupy unusually influential roles on their tickets. In particular, both are at the leading edge of their respective parties’ ongoing experiments in populism, and they have taken a muscular role in shaping the communications strategies of their campaigns. Walz has played a formative role in the Harris campaign’s efforts to frame the Democrats as joyful normies and to depict Republicans as “weird” extremists. Vance, meanwhile, has been doing a striking amount of heavy lifting on the ground for Trump, establishing new Trumpian theories in defense of lying and charting new territory in denigrating migrants and women by putting nativism and social traditionalism front and center in the race.Follow live updates covering the 2024 vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz. In the clash of the populisms, Walz has the advantage. He is well positioned to poke holes in the ruse of right-wing populism and to make Vance look like a phony. Walz should lean into those differences as hard as he can if he wants to have a chance at leaving a lasting mark.At a stylistic level, populism comes to Walz naturally. He grew up in rural Nebraska, he served in the Army National Guard, he only attended state schools, and he was a teacher and a football coach before getting into politics. He is the first person on a Democratic presidential ticket in about half a century not to have attended law school. He organically exudes the “everyman” affect that many politicians strive desperately for but rarely achieve. His comfort with his identity as a regular dude is what helped him stick the “weird” put-down that transformed the Democratic Party’s comms strategy overnight and has continued to vex MAGA ever since. And his natural ease with people underpins the Harris campaign’s emphasis on documenting the quotidian details of life on the campaign trail.On the other side, Vance also comes from a working-class background and served in the military. But his life eventually went down a more conventionally elite path: He attended Yale law school, went into venture capital, and then parlayed punditry and relationships with Silicon Valley billionaires into a vice presidential candidacy. Vance’s journey also involved a swift and opportunistic political transformation, during which he went in just a handful of years from denouncing Trump as “cultural heroin” to stumping as a MAGA zealot. Vance is intelligent, but during unscripted public appearances he does not appear as comfortable in his own skin as Walz does, perhaps in part because he has chosen to reinvent his political worldview to secure access to power. He also simply seems to lack the people skills that are deployed so deftly by his counterpart. (This may also explain in part why Walz’s favorability among registered voters is much higher than Vance’s.)To take down Vance at the debate, Walz has plenty to work with. Walz can argue that his own record — a life of public service — demonstrates a more reliable commitment to the people than palling around with tech tycoons and a scam-addicted billionaire politician. Walz can nail Vance for his massive flip-flops on his positions on Trump. Walz can continue to point out how right-wing populism uses culture wars to obscure their encroachment on Americans’ civil liberties and the restructuring of the economy to benefit the rich. Walz can wield his record supporting unions and helping pass sweeping social policies in Minnesota, such as the biggest child tax credit in the nation, to demonstrate his commitment to the people, which contrasts with Vance’s mostly shallow posturing in support of organized labor and devotion to protecting corporate interests.I can’t predict who will be better received by voters at Tuesday’s debate or who will land the zingers that echo across the internet the next day. But Walz’s career and political sensibilities have primed him to be a strong foil against the false populism of the right. He has all the tools in his hand — he just needs to use them.Zeeshan AleemZeeshan Aleem is a writer and editor for MSNBC Daily. Previously, he worked at Vox, HuffPost and Politico, and he has also been published in, among other places, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The Intercept. You can sign up for his free politics newsletter here.AboutContactHelpCareersMSNBC StoreAD ChoicesPrivacy PolicyDo Not Sell My Personal InformationCA NoticeTerms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)MSNBC SitemapClosed CaptioningAdvertiseJoin the MSNBC Community© 2025 MSNBC Cable, L.L.C.NBC News LogoMSNBC LogoToday Logo
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All Rights Reserved.By using this website, you accept the terms of our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, CCPA, and understand your options regarding Ad Choices.Learn about Careers at Cox Enterprises.Jimmy CarterJimmy CarterJimmy Carter’s life is quiet now, with nearby family, and marked by routineHow breakfast for dinner, the Braves, family and presidential politics keep him going.Celebrities and guests honor former President Jimmy Carter at the Fox Theatre for his 100th birthday.By Ernie SuggsSept 30, 2024When it is his week to watch over his father, Chip Carter usually arrives at the house around 5:30 a.m.At 99 years old, former President Jimmy Carter is an early riser and likes to talk politics, the presidential race and the Atlanta Braves in the morning. His extraordinary life has largely settled into a quiet regimen.One of six full-time caregivers will make breakfast for the one-time leader of the free world. Chip will turn on the television and sit next to him as he eats.“I have been doing this for years now,” said James Earl “Chip” Carter III, a 74-year-old grandfather. “I am pretty used to the routine of it. He’s my dad.”Credit: AJC Archive at GSU LibraryCredit: AJC Archive at GSU LibraryNineteen months after entering home hospice care, Jimmy Carter is marking a milestone that few Americans ever do.Today, he’ll celebrate his 100th birthday. He’s lived longer than any other former president. Next on the list is George H.W. Bush, who died six years ago at the age of 94.More than 20 members of Carter’s extended family are expected to make it to his hometown of Plains for a special birthday lunch.Celebrations and events honoring Carter have been held all over the state, including a star-studded concert at the Fox Theatre, a 100-mile community bicycle ride in his home county and a free film festival in Atlanta organized by the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.ExploreHow Georgia is celebrating Jimmy CarterToday, on his actual birthday, Plains will dedicate a monument called the Charters of Freedom — a permanent display of replicas of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence — at the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park.Naturalization ceremonies, each welcoming 100 new Americans, will be held in the small Sumter County town and at the Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta. And, depending on the weather, a United States Navy jet flyover is scheduled to be held in Plains to honor the 1946 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.The day will round out with an evening concert, appropriately called “Happy Birthday, Mr. President! … Celebrating 100 years of Jimmy Carter in Plains,” featuring pianist David Osborne and singer-songwriters Cindy Morgan and Andrew Greer.“We are thrilled,” said Jill Stuckey, superintendent of the National Park Service’s Jimmy Carter National Historic Site. “We never thought that this day would come. After he went into hospice, we thought it would be a matter of days, but it has been a matter of years. We couldn’t be happier.”President Carter is not expected to attend any of the public events.Constant careOver the past 19 months, the Carters have set up a rotation of family members to be with him.In addition to the professional caregivers, Chip, along with his wife, Becky, and his sister, Amy, each spend alternating one-week stints looking after President Carter.Credit: AJCCredit: AJCExploreJimmy Carter is doing ‘good’ after 19 months in hospice careLast November, Carter’s wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, died at age 96.Chip said that, while his father is still mourning the loss of Rosalynn, his spirits are high, buoyed by the excitement of the upcoming presidential election. But some days, according to Chip and Becky, are better than others.“He sleeps a lot. When he is awake, sometimes he is conversant and sometimes he is not,” Becky Carter said. “Sometimes, he will be in a good mood and wake up with an amazing smile and those blue eyes. Then sometimes, as Chip says, he has those ‘report card’ eyes.”The former president — who gets around in a wheelchair, aided by caregivers who work around the clock — sometimes gets frustrated when people don’t understand him, she said.“But other times, he is crystal clear,” she added.When immediate family members are in Plains, they sometimes stay at the family’s Pond House, where Jimmy Carter’s mother, Lillian Carter, lived from 1968 until she died in 1983.It is about 2 miles down the road from the main house that he and Rosalynn moved into in 1961.Chip said mornings with his father usually begin with baseball, which was a more urgent proposition as the Braves fought for a playoff spot.President Carter usually goes to bed around 7:30 p.m., often about the time of the Braves’ first pitch. So, Chip records all the games and the two of them begin to watch them in the morning.“It might take all day to watch a game,” Chip Carter said.Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJCCredit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJCIntermittently, they will watch the news or old black-and-white movies, or sometimes “Matlock” and “Perry Mason” on MeTV.Chip says family members usually control the remote to try to monitor the news that his father sees. The content is long on national and local politics and short on international conflict, like the Israel-Gaza war. They don’t want to upset the man who brokered the Camp David Accords, the historic 1978 peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.“He really feels bad about what is going on over there,” Chip said. “He still feels that he can help.”In their talks, Chip might bring up the Carter family farm, which he now runs. He recently planted close to 1,500 acres of longleaf pines, much to his father’s delight.At about 10 a.m., Chip usually heads into town to run errands and call on family friends and associates.He always visits his mother’s grave to place fresh flowers.On Aug. 18, his mother’s birthday, Chip took his father to the grave site, located at the edge of a pond in front of their home.Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJCCredit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJCChip worried about the short jaunt because of his father’s fragile health.At the grave that day, Chip remembers, his father ordered him to be quiet. The elder Carter then sat in silence for about 20 minutes, maybe praying, Chip surmised.“But he could have been having a conversation with mom,” Chip thought, before wheeling his father back to the house.The size of the heartBecky Carter’s turn in the rotation rolled around last week. Retired from the Carter Center, where she worked in fundraising, she has been married to Chip for 23 years.She began relieving Chip and Amy and sitting with her father-in-law because she could see the toll it was taking on the siblings. She wanted to absorb some of their stress.“That is what families do, and they haven’t run me off yet,” Becky said. “It is an honor.”For Becky, the pressure comes when she’s trying to find something to talk to Carter about.“I have never felt like I was smart enough to have a reasonable conversation with him,” she said. “So I am always hesitant to have a conversation with him. That is part of the stress. But I also want to make sure that he is as comfortable as he can be.”Last Wednesday, as Hurricane Helene made its way to Georgia, Becky took her seat next to her father-in-law and read to him.As the rain fell, she read from a book she had gotten from the library about hummingbirds.“It was about the heartbeat of hummingbirds and the size of their hearts — how their hearts can beat so many times in the blink of an eye,” Becky said. “It was about all of the love that people and animals feel with their hearts. He liked it.”ExploreHurricane skips Jimmy Carter’s hometown just before big celebrationBreakfast for dinnerAbout once a week, the National Park Service’s Stuckey makes the drive to what is known as the Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home.All of Carter’s life, chickens have been raised there. Stuckey carefully picks about a dozen or so eggs.Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJCCredit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJCShe takes them home to her roommate, Andi Walker.Walker used to live behind the Carters and has been cooking for them in some form or fashion for more than 20 years.Walker will scramble the eggs and add a side of grits and sausage or bacon. She will fix up a plate and give it to Stuckey to deliver.“The president likes breakfast for dinner,” said Stuckey, one of Carter’s regular visitors.Chip Carter usually makes a point of sitting with his father during dinner time, which might end with mini cupcakes for dessert.The two of them will talk and watch more television. Sometimes, they watch more of the previous night’s Braves game, until the former president falls asleep.One last voteIn August, they watched most of the Democratic National Convention. The former president has become a huge supporter of Kamala Harris.Credit: Rick Diamond / The Carter CenterCredit: Rick Diamond / The Carter CenterHis birthday comes 36 days before the presidential election.He’s told Chip that he wants to be around long enough to vote for Harris to become the first female president of the United States.“He does not believe Donald Trump should be president again,” Chip Carter said.It would be the 20th time Jimmy Carter has voted in a presidential election. His first vote came in 1948 for Democrat Harry S. Truman, who defeated Thomas E. Dewey.During Carter’s tenure as president, he placed in the Oval Office a bust of Truman. According to Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander, Truman was his favorite president.Stuart E. Eizenstat, who wrote “President Carter: The White House Years,” said Plains’ favorite son also kept Truman’s motto, “The buck stops here,” on his desk.Credit: HandoutCredit: Handout“He admired Truman’s no-frills style and his willingness to make tough decisions, regardless of the political consequences, like integrating the military,” said Eizenstat, who worked as Carter’s chief White House domestic policy adviser. “Ironically, both left office highly unpopular and shunned by their party, but remained loyal to it. And each came to be recognized as consequential presidents who made the world a better place.”In his post-presidency life, Carter worked to strengthen democracy throughout the world. Since 1989, the Carter Center has deployed election observers to 40 countries and three Native American nations to monitor and assess the legitimacy of the electoral process.ExploreNearly 50 years later, Jimmy Carter’s White House crew still meets — on ZoomCredit: DEBORAH HAKESCredit: DEBORAH HAKESCarter’s grandson, Jason Carter, said the nation’s 39th president cast a mail-in ballot during the May 21 Georgia presidential primary. Absentee ballots for the Nov. 5 general election go out in mid-October.“His vote is personal, and it is his final civic duty,” Chip Carter said. “Then, I think, he’s ready to be with mom.”About the Author Ernie SuggsErnie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. 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Jack Smith Is Trying to Offer the Public His Evidence Against Trump
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Jack Smith tests Trump’s presidential immunity.
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Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the New York hush money case—but there’s a lengthy appeals process ahead. And what ever happened to the other three cases against him—Jack Smith’s federal election interference and classified documents cases, and Fani Willis’ Georgia election interference case? All three have hit various roadblocks. To make it easier to follow all of Trump’s ongoing legal entanglements, each Monday, we’ll keep you updated on the latest developments in Keeping Up With the Trump Trials.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump took a major step last week when Smith submitted a court filing that argues the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision should not prevent the former president from facing prosecution in the case. It’s Smith’s first formal argument over presidential immunity since the high court’s bombshell opinion. Meanwhile, Trump’s attorneys hoped to erase his $450 million civil fraud judgment out of New York, arguing the case in front of an appeals court.
Jack Smith Tests Trump’s Presidential Immunity
Smith’s court filing is one of the first documented efforts across Trump’s criminal cases to formally argue over presidential immunity since the Supreme Court’s historic decision in July ruled that former presidents are protected by presidential immunity for certain “official” acts taken while in office. In the special counsel’s Jan. 6 case, that means Trump’s discussions with his Justice Department are off-limits and cannot be used to charge Trump or be used as evidence. However, the high court carved out a second category of presidential acts that hold “presumptive immunity,” which lower courts have to determine and where Smith’s latest court filing comes in.
It was filed under seal—that means it’s not viewable by the public—since it includes materials the government considers sensitive; grand jury testimony, materials seized through search warrants, transcripts, and witness interviews. All of the evidence supports Smith’s superseding indictment, a new indictment filed in light of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision where he raises the exact same four charges against Trump but removes any mention of Trump’s efforts to use the Department of Justice to overturn the election.
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Prosecutors also prepared a redacted version of the document that excludes individuals’ names but keeps direct quotes and summaries of sensitive materials. There are also some redactions to publicly available information, like Trump’s old tweets, since some of them identify people who could serve as potential witnesses for the government and could face threats or harassment that would affect their trial testimony.
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Smith asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to consider allowing the public to see the redacted version of this court filing, but first Trump’s attorneys get to respond. Chutkan has given the defense until noon on Tuesday to dispute Smith’s proposal and until Oct. 10 to dispute proposed redactions to documentary exhibits, all which will also be filed under seal.
Appeals Process Begins in Trump’s Civil Fraud Judgment
Earlier this year, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump must pay $450 million to the state of New York for lying about the value of his real estate portfolio. The former president’s attorneys appealed that decision and last week they argued before a five-judge panel why they believe the judgment should be tossed.
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“This case involves a clear-cut violation of the statute of limitations,” John Sauer, Trump’s lawyer, said during oral arguments, since New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against Trump and his namesake company focused on financial documents from 2011 to 2021. Sauer also insisted that the case had no merit because “there are no victims, no complaints, no evidence of causation, materiality,” Sauer said.
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The AG’s office disputed that, arguing Trump’s fraudulent asset valuations did harm the public and the markets. By falsely inflating the value of the Trump Organization’s assets, the company was able to secure loans, favorable insurance rates, and tax benefits, all things “they otherwise could not have obtained, including over $360 million in illegal profits.”
Some of the judges on the appeals court panel questioned whether the statute James used to prosecute Trump was lawful. Particularly, Associate Justice David Friedman prodded around whether the AG had ever used the law “to upset a private business transaction that was between equally sophisticated partners.”
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Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the New York hush money case—but there’s a lengthy appeals process ahead. And what ever happened to the other three cases against him—Jack Smith’s federal election interference and classified documents cases, and Fani Willis’ Georgia election interference case? All three have hit various roadblocks. To make it easier to follow all of Trump’s ongoing legal entanglements, each Monday, we’ll keep you updated on the latest developments in Keeping Up With the Trump Trials.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump took a major step last week when Smith submitted a court filing that argues the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision should not prevent the former president from facing prosecution in the case. It’s Smith’s first formal argument over presidential immunity since the high court’s bombshell opinion. Meanwhile, Trump’s attorneys hoped to erase his $450 million civil fraud judgment out of New York, arguing the case in front of an appeals court.
Jack Smith Tests Trump’s Presidential Immunity
Smith’s court filing is one of the first documented efforts across Trump’s criminal cases to formally argue over presidential immunity since the Supreme Court’s historic decision in July ruled that former presidents are protected by presidential immunity for certain “official” acts taken while in office. In the special counsel’s Jan. 6 case, that means Trump’s discussions with his Justice Department are off-limits and cannot be used to charge Trump or be used as evidence. However, the high court carved out a second category of presidential acts that hold “presumptive immunity,” which lower courts have to determine and where Smith’s latest court filing comes in.
It was filed under seal—that means it’s not viewable by the public—since it includes materials the government considers sensitive; grand jury testimony, materials seized through search warrants, transcripts, and witness interviews. All of the evidence supports Smith’s superseding indictment, a new indictment filed in light of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision where he raises the exact same four charges against Trump but removes any mention of Trump’s efforts to use the Department of Justice to overturn the election.
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Smith asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to consider allowing the public to see the redacted version of this court filing, but first Trump’s attorneys get to respond. Chutkan has given the defense until noon on Tuesday to dispute Smith’s proposal and until Oct. 10 to dispute proposed redactions to documentary exhibits, all which will also be filed under seal.
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President Jimmy Carter Turns 100
A range of tributes go out to the oldest living president – and the oldest president to ever live
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A mere 1 percent of males born in the U.S. live to the age of 100, and none of our 45 U.S. presidents had ever done so — until now. Jimmy Carter hits the century mark on Oct. 1, a milestone that’s being met with celebrations and homages from around the country.
Carter began his long life in a very different world, to be sure. In 1924, Calvin Coolidge was president, women had only recently been given the right to vote, Ford’s Model T was the most popular car, televisions were inconceivable, and a loaf of bread cost about 9 cents.
In the ten decades since, Carter grew up on his family’s farm near rural Plains, Georgia, went on to become the state’s governor, and then the nation’s 39th president, from 1977 to 1981. His post-White House years were filled with philanthropic work, including home building with Habitat for Humanity, and international diplomacy efforts that won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
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Carter's health has declined sharply in recent years — he’s been in hospice care at his Plains home for about 19 months, and he’s reportedly suffered greatly since the death last year of his wife, Rosalynn, at age 96.
Meanwhile, admirers are marking his 100th birthday with celebrations, concerts and other tributes, including at The Jimmy Carter National Historical Park in his tiny hometown. Among other festivities planned in Plains for Oct. 1, F18s and the Navy Tailhook Flight Association will offer a flyover to honor the president’s military service. And Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is broadcasting multiple airings of The Carter Center’s Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song, filmed on Sept. 17 at Atlanta’s Fox Theater and featuring artists such as Chuck Leavell, BeBe Winans, Drive-By Truckers, Eric Church, The B-52’s and The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus. The show premieres Oct. 1 at 7 p.m., and is available on demand at gpb.org/jimmycarter100.
Here, we honor the former president with moments from his 100 years.
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Jimmy Carter and wife, Rosalynn, who died last November at age 96, in 1976. “The best thing I ever did was marrying Rosa,” the 39th president once said. “That’s the pinnacle of my life.”
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Jimmy, Rosalynn, and daughter Amy, who’s now 56, on his presidential inauguration day in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 1977.
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter working on a house for Habitat for Humanity. “When they worked with Habitat for Humanity, that wasn’t a PR stunt,” Chris Matthews, retired cable news network host and Carter’s former speechwriter, told AARP when Rosalynn passed away. “Rosalynn had her nail apron on, and she carried two-by-fours around.”
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Carter speaking to the congregation at Maranatha Baptist Church before teaching Sunday school in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, in 2019.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — David Steinglass, a wealthy donor, has supported scores of Democrats running for office and calls himself an activist for transgender rights.So his donation earlier this year to a far-right candidate in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race seemed wildly out of character. He gave the maximum $3,300 to help get a man on the ballot who had these items in his background: He was investigated in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, he is a gun rights activist and he has called for banning some gender-affirming treatments for minors.Far from an anomaly, the donation is part of a larger design. Steinglass’ contribution to “America First” candidate Thomas Leager, and thousands more he and his wife gave to other far-right independents in key congressional races, is supporting a plan to boost Democrats and siphon votes from Republicans, an Associated Press examination found.
As the election cycle enters an urgent, final five weeks, both Democrats and Republicans are engaging in questionable tactics that threaten to subvert the democratic process by trying to shape the ballot through deceptive means.
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“Whether it’s congressional or presidential races, this kind of activity is a real problem and it undermines the functioning of democracy,” said Edward B. Foley, a law professor who leads Ohio State University’s election law program.Leager told the AP he was recruited last year to run by operatives who said they were with the Patriots Run Project. That group promoted itself as a pro-Trump grassroots movement that attacked both parties and urged conservatives to run for office as independents. The AP found the group was supported by Democratic firms and donors who worked to install several pro-Trump independent candidates in key House races. Most of them were disabled, retired or both.
Records show Democrats have given tens of thousands of dollars seeking ballot access for the far-right candidates. The supporters include Steinglass and his wife, Liz, who have given more than $5 million to support Democratic political groups, and others who have contributed to and worked for Democratic candidates.
While the strategy hasn’t always worked, Leager is among the candidates who qualified for the Nov. 5 ballot and could complicate Republicans’ efforts to reclaim the Senate. He’s running as a right-wing alternative to GOP nominee Eric Hovde, who is challenging two-term Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.,speaks during a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris at West Allis Central High School, July 23, 2024, in West Allis, Wis. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf, File)
The AP’s findings triggered a criminal investigation in Iowa and prompted a conservative group to file a legal complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that it had violated political disclosure laws.The Patriots Run Project came under scrutiny after the AP reported that one of its candidates in a House race in Iowa suspected he’d been tricked and removed his name from the ballot last month.The man, Joe Wiederien, who is impaired after suffering a stroke, said an Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent visited him last week and he filed an election fraud complaint.
“Whoever it is, I think that project is going down sooner or later,” said Wiederien, who was among several recruited to run through the group’s network of now-shuttered Facebook pages.The Patriots Run Project is not a registered business, nonprofit organization or political committee. After AP’s report last month, the group moved even further underground, disabling its account for X, formerly Twitter, and websites. More than 10 donors and consultants supporting its efforts haven’t returned messages. Liz Steinglass declined comment when a reporter visited her at the family’s Washington, D.C., home. Her husband, a retired private equity fund manager, didn’t return a message. The couple has given at least $9,900 to three candidates who said they were recruited by the Patriots Run Project, records show.When an operative for Patriots Run Project called him last summer and urged him to enter the Senate race in Wisconsin, Leager said he told the group that he would be a controversial candidate because of his association with some of the men charged in the 2020 plot to kidnap Whitmer. He was not among several defendants charged in state and federal court, and he has said he never discussed plans to kidnap her. Court documents show he was among 16 others listed by the Michigan attorney general’s office as an unindicted co-conspirator.
But the Patriots Run Project nonetheless arranged roughly $20,000 in donations from Democratic donors to gather the signatures needed to qualify for the ballot, which went to a firm that usually works for Democrats.Leager was subpoenaed to testify at a 2022 trial for four defendants and exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination after a judge found he had legal exposure. A prosecutor said at that hearing that Leager was “under investigation for a similar plot involving a different” politician, had encouraged violence against the FBI on his podcast, and had invited armed protesters to appear outside a courthouse in an effort to intimidate jurors. Leager has denied supporting violence.
Leager is former executive director of Wisconsin Gun Owners Inc., which takes a maximalist position on the Second Amendment. In 2020, he organized protests for ReOpen Wisconsin, which included armed demonstrations opposing government closures and mandates intended to curb the spread of COVID-19.Through his activism he became acquainted with Stephen Robeson, with whom he later broke ties with after correctly suspecting he was an FBI informant. Leager attended a field training exercise in Cambria, Wisconsin, where investigators alleged the idea of attacking government officials was discussed.Leager said he was an associate of alleged kidnapping plot leader Barry Croft, who is serving a lengthy prison term. Croft argues he was entrapped by government informants and is asking for a new trial.“I was the Wisconsin target for the FBI in the Whitmer case. We just happened to slip through their nets,” Leager said in March on “The Free Men Report,” a show he streams on Rumble.Leager said an operative calling himself “Johnny Shearer” told him Patriots Run Project had seen his work and he was the exact type of candidate they wanted, saying the group was impressed “that I had not caved under pressure from the feds.”Six donors gave Leager the maximum $3,300 donation. In addition to David Steinglass, they include venture capitalist Richard Thompson of Wyoming and political consultant Joe Fox, a veteran of Democratic campaigns and House Majority PAC, congressional Democrats’ super PAC.Leager said their money paid for signature-gathering efforts by Urban Media LLC, a Milwaukee firm that usually works for Democrats and has done work for Vice President Kamala Harris and Baldwin.The Steinglass family, Fox and Thompson also donated to independent conservative candidates Robert Reid and Thomas Bowman in House races in Virginia and Minnesota, records show.A small network of Democratic donors also supported the three candidates as well as Vann Whitley, who unsuccessfully sought ballot access as a Libertarian in a Colorado House race. Leager said he was “suspicious a little bit” of the group’s motives but that he ultimately didn’t care. “I was like, ‘if this gets me on the ballot, that’s the main point.’ I wanted to get in the game,” he said.Leager said the Patriots Run Project had no other “real influence” on his campaign but he was angry to have been misled.Hovde has alleged publicly that Leager is a “Democrat plant” intended to take votes from him.Baldwin’s campaign said it had no role in getting Leager on the ballot.Leager rejected the allegation that he would hurt only Hovde, saying he expects to take votes from both sides.“They are trying to say I am some kind of Democratic operative, which is silly because I am more conservative than Hovde is,” he said.___Foley reported from Iowa City, Iowa. AP news researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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Democrats believe Tester can still defy the odds. And the seat could decide who controls the Senate next year.Tim Sheehy; Jon Tester.Getty Images fileBy Bridget Bowman and Alex TabetThe central clash in the pivotal Senate race in Montana — and the fight for control of the Senate itself — was on full display Monday night as Democratic Sen. Jon Tester and Republican Tim Sheehy faced off in a heated debate. Like other Republican challengers around the country, Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, painted Tester as liberal cog in the national Democratic Party machine, unable to address concerns about high costs and border security in a state that former President Donald Trump has twice won easily.Like other vulnerable Senate Democrats, Tester tried to make it personal — touting his bipartisan bona fides, highlighting his own connections to his red-leaning state and suggesting his opponent cannot be trusted.“You got somebody like me,” Tester said in his closing statement, casting the race as a “stark” choice. “Somebody who’s been raised within 100 miles from where I was born, who will support public lands, support our health care system, support a woman’s right to choose.” Sheehy used part of his closing statement to note that Tester voted twice to impeach Trump and opposed Trump’s Supreme Court nominees. “He voted with Biden and Harris every single time it mattered,” Sheehy said. The Montana race could have national ramifications and ultimately decide which party controls the Senate. Republicans need a net gain of just two seats to take control of the Senate or one if Trump wins the White House, because the vice president casts tiebreaking votes in the chamber. The GOP effectively already has one seat in its column: the open Senate race in West Virginia. Montana is the party’s next top target, with Tester running for re-election in a state Trump won by 16 points in 2020. If Republicans defeat Tester, they will control the Senate, unless Democrats can conjure a long-shot upset of one of the GOP senators up for re-election in a Republican-leaning state. Tester’s fate could depend on just how much Montana has changed in recent years. A changing stateSheehy and his Republican allies are betting that the Republican-leaning state will no longer back a Democrat for statewide office, especially with Trump on the ballot. In his closing statement, Sheehy also noted that Tester said of Trump in a 2019 interview on MSNBC, “You need to go back and punch him in the face.” Tester's metaphorical remark illustrated his belief that Democrats from red states should not be afraid to publicly criticize the then-president — advice he is not heeding himself five years on.Sheehy’s attacks underscored the broader case Republicans have been making against Tester for months, running ads tying Tester to national Democrats that feature video of Tester supporting President Joe Biden and defending his mental fitness. James Richmond, 50, an IT consultant and voter in Helena, pointed to those comments in explaining why he plans to support Sheehy, despite supporting Tester’s work for veterans. “The line that broke for me is when [Tester] got up there and said: ‘Joe Biden’s great. He’s sharp as a tack, everything, he has no problems.’ And basically telling me, with my own eyeballs, what I see, I’m full of s--t,” Richmond told NBC News. “He went with the Democrats in Washington instead of standing up for the Montana values.”Richmond backed Trump in 2016 and 2020, and Republicans believe Trump’s dominance in the state will boost Sheehy, as well. Montana has had a surge in new residents in recent years. While Montana voters do not register by party, a National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee analysis of voters new to the state from elections in 2018 through early 2023 found that around 40% were previously registered as Republicans in other states, while 25% were registered as Democrats. That is partly why some Republicans believe attacks painting Sheehy as a wealthy out-of-stater haven’t stuck. An AARP poll conducted in late August found Sheehy leading Tester by 6 points, 55% to 49%. The spread was within the survey’s 3.5-point margin of error, but it also lines up with other publicly released surveys indicating Sheehy with an advantage. Sheehy had a net-positive favorability rating, with 48% viewing him positively and 45% viewing him negatively. Tester, meanwhile, had a net-negative rating, with 43% viewing him favorably and 52% viewing him unfavorably. In an interview with Fox News on the eve of the debate, Sheehy projected confidence as he reflected on recent polls. Sheehy said that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., “controls Jon Tester” and that “the people of Montana are waking up to this reality.” “We’re going to win this thing,” he said. But Tester and his allies believe he can still peel off Trump supporters — the AARP survey found Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris by 15 points, 56% to 41%. The question is whether Tester can peel off enough to win. Democratic optimismTester’s allies think so. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., likened Tester to Sen. Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who won re-election in 2020 even as Trump lost her state by 9 points, noting both Maine and Montana have smaller populations. “He’s been able to win tough, tough races,” Peters said of Tester at an event at the National Press Club in Washington last week. “So what he’s facing now is no different. And he is a great retail politician. Retail really matters, particularly in a small state. Montana is a really big state geographically but small state from a population perspective.”Peters said Democrats are committed to devoting resources to Montana “right to the very end.” So far, Tester and his Democratic allies have spent $105 million on ads in Montana, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact, while Republicans have dropped $82 million on ads in the state. Tester has far outspent Sheehy, $43.2 million so far to Sheehy’s $11 million. Tester does need to win over some Trump-supporting independents and Republicans, a tall order in a state Trump is expected to win easily. Tester appeared to try not to anger Trump supporters Monday night, referring to “party bosses” instead of Trump directly when he chided Sheehy and his fellow Republicans for opposing a bipartisan border security bill this year. Tester does have a history of bucking the state’s partisanship, winning more than 30,000 more votes than President Barack Obama in 2012, outperforming him by 7 points to win a second term. But Republicans point to more recent results and higher turnout as signs of trouble for Tester. In 2020, Democratic former Gov. Steve Bullock won nearly 30,000 more votes than Biden as he ran for Senate, but he still lost to GOP Sen. Steve Daines by 10 percentage points. Still, some Democrats believe Tester could defy the odds, buoyed by a robust ground game that also leverages his support among Native American voters. Toward the end of Monday evening’s debate, Tester criticized Sheehy for his statements in 2023, when he used stereotypes about alcoholism as he was talking about Montana’s Crow tribe, according to audio recordings first reported by the Char-Koosta News.“If you really feel this way about Native Americans, you ought to apologize for the statements you made about them,” Tester said. Sheehy responded by referring to his military background. “The reality is, yeah, [it was] insensitive. I come from the military, as many of our tribal members do. We make insensitive jokes and probably off-color sometimes,” he said. It was not the first time Sheehy’s use of Native American stereotypes haunted him Monday. Two Native American protesters interrupted a rally he held with Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk just hours before the debate. “You are a racist! You are a racist!” one of the demonstrators chanted at Sheehy as he was forcibly removed from the University of Montana theater where the event was held Monday afternoon. Democrats also believe an abortion ballot initiative could also boost Tester among voters who want to codify the right to abortion in Montana. WinSenate, a Democratic outside group, recently began launching abortion-related ads in the state. Sheehy said Monday that he would respect Montana voters’ decision, but he also appeared open to supporting federal action on abortion, saying he supports “common-sense life legislation” that includes exceptions for rape and incest and to protect the life of the woman. Tester cast the issue as “fundamental to who we are as Montanans” who do not want the federal government involved in medical decisions. “The bottom line is this: If we want situations not to happen like just happened in Georgia with a woman dying because doctors were afraid to treat her because she was afraid to go get help, then here’s your man,” Tester said. “If you want somebody who’s going to make sure that women can make their own health care decisions, I’m your guy.”Sarah Thaggard, 34, a custodian and baker from Helena, told NBC News that she is supporting Tester out of concerns that Sheehy could support a national abortion ban. “I just know that if Sheehy gets into office, it’s going to look really bad for women,” Thaggard said. Montana Republican strategist Chuck Denowh, a former executive director of the state party, said in a phone interview that the abortion ballot initiative is expected to boost Tester but that Tester still faces a tough road with turnout expected to be high in November. “I don’t think it’s enough to tip the scales for Tester. I think it helps him a little bit to bring out a few more of his voters,” Denowh said. “But it looks, from the polling I’ve seen, it looks like Sheehy is in a very good position right now.”Bridget Bowman reported from Washington and Alex Tabet from Missoula, Montana.Bridget BowmanBridget Bowman is a national political reporter for NBC News.Alex TabetAlex Tabet is a 2024 NBC News campaign embed.AboutContactHelpCareersAd ChoicesPrivacy PolicyYour Privacy ChoicesCA NoticeTerms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)NBC News SitemapClosed CaptioningAdvertiseSelect Shopping© 2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLCNBC News LogoMSNBC LogoToday Logo
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In the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election season, Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz faced off Tuesday night on issues from abortion to gun control in a civil, policy-focused matchup.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In a debate that evoked a calmer era in American politics, Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday went after each other’s running mates and sought to shore up their campaigns’ vulnerabilities at a time of renewed fears of a regional war in the Middle East and sadness over devastation from Hurricane Helene.Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, and Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio, focused many of their criticisms on the top of the ticket, as is traditional for vice presidential debates. They each pointed to the crises of the day as reasons for voters to choose Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump. The debate unfolded in the final weeks of a campaign that has been defined by harsh, personal attacks and historic convulsions, including a candidate dropping out and another facing two attempted assassinations. Polls have shown Harris and Trump locked in a close contest as early voting begins across the country, giving added weight to anything that can sway voters on the margins, including the impression left by the vice presidential candidates.Despite the milder tone of the debate, there were still glimpses of the political fractures that threaten American democracy. Vance papered over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and echoed Trump’s election denial by refusing to acknowledge that President Joe Biden won the race in 2020. But throughout much of the rest of the night, two Midwesterners struck a noticeably friendlier tone than the matchup between Trump and Harris — or, earlier this year, the showdown between Trump and Biden before he dropped out of the race following a disastrous performance.In one raw moment when Walz said his teenage son had witnessed a shooting at a community center, Vance expressed empathy.“I’m sorry about that. Christ have mercy,” Vance said.“I appreciate that,” Walz said.In other parts of the debate, Vance tried to soften his image, ratcheting down his typically forceful and aggressive delivery and acknowledging that people watching might not agree with him or Trump. He discussed Trump’s ideas with polish while avoiding being pinned down on the more controversial parts of the former president’s record. His performance immediately delighted the Trump campaign and many of its allies.Walz depicted Trump as wrong on the issues and a chaotic leader. He occasionally stumbled over his words, even saying “I’ve become friends with school shooters” when he was talking about meeting with survivors. He did deliver several points sure to please Democrats, including on abortion rights and democracy — even if he never used the word “weird,” the branding he attached to Trump and Vance that brought him to national prominence.The debate began with a discussion of the Middle East, where Israeli forces are fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran has fired missiles at Israel. In Gaza, Israeli forces continue to fight Hamas after the Oct. 7 attack.“What’s fundamental here is that steady leadership is going to matter,” said Walz. “And the world saw it on that debate stage a few weeks ago, a nearly 80-year-old Donald Trump talking about crowd sizes is not what we need in this moment.”Vance, in his reply, argued that Trump is an intimidating figure whose presence on the international stage is its own deterrent.“Gov. Walz can criticize Donald Trump’s tweets, but effective, smart diplomacy and peace through strength is how you bring stability back to a very broken world,” he said. A sharper turn on immigration The debate in New York hosted by CBS News opened with a sober tone that reflected growing domestic and international concerns about safety and security. But it gave way to sharper attacks from both Walz and Vance — and a moment in which the moderators stopped the discussion by cutting the two men’s mics. Walz accused Vance and Trump of villainizing legal immigrants in Vance’s home state. He pointed to the fact that Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine had to send in extra law enforcement to provide security to the city’s schools after Vance tweeted about and Trump amplified false claims about Haitians eating pets.“This is what happens when you don’t want to solve it, you demonize it,” Walz said, saying not doing so would allow people to “come together.”Vance said the 15,000 Haitians in the city had caused housing, economic and other issues that the Biden-Harris administration was ignoring.When the debate moderators pointed out that the Haitians living there had legal status, Vance protested that CBS News had said its moderators would not be fact-checking, leaving the onus to the candidates. As Vance continued and the moderators tried to move on, his microphone was cut and neither man could be heard. A heavier focus on policyThe senator and the governor, both picked for their ability to communicate their party’s points, seemed to spend more time talking policy than the presidential candidates have in their matchups.On abortion, both men shared personal stories of women. Walz talked about Amanda Zurawski, a Texas woman who was denied an abortion despite developing a life-threatening infection, and Hadley Duvall, who was a 12-year-old girl when she was raped and impregnated by her stepfather. Vance spoke of a close friend who, he said, “told me something a couple of years ago that she felt like if she hadn’t had that abortion, that it would have destroyed her life because she was in an abusive relationship.”The senator also said he never supported a national ban when running for the Senate in 2022 even though he had suggested as much, saying instead that he wanted a “minimum national standard.” Trump, meanwhile, posted on his social media site during the debate that he would veto a national abortion ban, though he has also taken credit for the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and clearing the way for conservative-led states to ban or restrict the procedure.Walz and Vance also talked about housing policy, the economy and climate change in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which devastated several states and caused at least 160 deaths. “I’m sure Gov. Walz joins me in saying our hearts go out to those innocent people. Our prayers go out to them,” Vance said, giving a far different answer than his running mate, who has accused Biden and Harris of politicizing the hurricane response. “And we want as robust and aggressive as a federal response as we can get to save as many lives as possible.”The debate ran longer than the allotted 90 minutes, but there were still some key topics left unaddressed by the moderators and the candidates. Vance was not asked about Ukraine, although he’s among the Republican Party’s leading opponents of U.S. aid to the besieged country. No one talked about Trump’s criminal cases, including his conviction in a New York case related to hush money payments.Vance downplays Jan. 6Vance downplayed Trump’s assault on the 2020 election, saying Trump had told people to “peacefully” march on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The subsequent violence by Trump’s supporters disrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.The real threat to democracy, Vance claimed, was censorship of the opposition.“We ought to debate our differences. We ought to argue about them. Kamala Harris is engaged in censorship on an industrial scale,” Vance said. Walz said Vance was helping to deny “the first time in American history that a president or anyone tried to overturn a fair election and the peaceful transfer of power.”He also asked Vance if Trump won the election in 2020.“I’m focused on the future,” Vance responded.“That is a damning non-answer,” Walz said.Both men acknowledged past misstepsThe role of a presidential running mate is typically to serve as an attack dog for the person at the top of the ticket, arguing against the opposing presidential candidate and their proxy on stage. Both Vance and Walz have embraced that role.But in a political era where apologies are rare, Walz and Vance each admitted missteps and vulnerabilities Tuesday.Vance was asked to address his past biting criticisms of the former president, including once suggesting Trump would be “America’s Hitler.”“When you get something wrong and you change your mind, you ought to be honest with the American people,” he said Tuesday. Walz, meanwhile, was pressed on his misleading claim, which was investigated this week by Minnesota Public Radio and other outlets, that he was in Hong Kong during the turbulence surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, part of a broader pattern of inaccuracies that Republicans hope to exploit.Confronted with his misstatements about his travels to China years ago, Walz defended himself by saying, “I’ve not been perfect.” In fact, he said, “I’m a knucklehead at times.” Eventually, he acknowledged he misspoke about his history. Aside from the contentious exchange surrounding the attack on the Capitol, the debate featured more moments of good feeling than might have been expected. Walz said he’d “enjoyed tonight’s debate, and I think there was a lot of commonality here” before noting that he’s “sympathetic to misspeaking on things and I think I might have with the senator.” “Me too, man,” Vance responded.___Price, Megerian and Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Josh Boak in Baltimore, Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio, and Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.
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Women and girls in the midst of the brutal conflict between rival militaries in Sudan are being disproportionately impacted.
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Peace and Security Women and girls in the midst of the brutal conflict between rival militaries in Sudan are being disproportionately impacted, including 5.8 million who are now displaced, according to an alert released by UN Women on Friday.
The need for gender-based violence-related services has increased 100 per cent since the crisis began in April 2023, the UN agency championing gender affairs reported, with up to 6.7 million people needing assistance by the end of last year.
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Cases of conflict-related sexual violence, sexual exploitation, and abuse have been growing since then, especially in Khartoum, Darfur, and Kordofan.Many cases of abuse perpetrated against displaced women and girls go unreported due to a fear of stigma from other community members and inadequate support.Insufficient food and healthcareWith cases of acute food insecurity and abuse now at a record high in war-torn Sudan, female-headed households are being more affected than male-headed households.Additionally, 1.63 million women of reproductive age lack access to adequate healthcare services, even though around 54,000 childbirths are expected over the next three months.The alert explained that “women and girls also continue to be disproportionately impacted by the lack of safe, easily accessible, and affordable water, sanitation, and hygiene.”“At least 80 per cent of the internally displaced women are unable to secure clean water due to affordability, safety concerns, and distance,” it continued.
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PoliticsSeptember 30, 2024A Court Just Threw Out Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban“Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property,” Judge Robert McBurney wrote.
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Two weeks after the deaths of two Georgia women highlighted the very real risks to maternal health posed by the state’s six-week abortion ban, a judge has thrown out that draconian law, declaring it unconstitutional in a remarkable ruling that drips with sarcasm and rage. It’s a resounding legal victory in a key swing state that is likely to reverberate throughout the South—at least temporarily.
“A review of our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes…the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her health care choices,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in a 26-page order issued Monday. “When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then—and only then—may society intervene,” he added.
“Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote,” McBurney writes. “Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have.”
“Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights.”
Before Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion was legal in Georgia until the fetus was viable—around 22 weeks. Lawmakers first passed the six-week ban, known as the LIFE Act, in 2019, but courts blocked it until the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022. The six-week ban has been the subject of litigation ever since, even as the Georgia Supreme Court upheld it in 2023. Now, according to McBurney’s ruling, “the law of Georgia reverts to what was (and remains) constitutional in this State” before 2019.
McBurney called the ban’s exception for rape and incest, which requires victims to file a police report, “a peculiarly cynical proviso.”
He was just as scornful of the ban’s insistence that medical exceptions should only be granted for life-threatening physical health issues. “There is no basis—rational, compelling, or sensical—to distinguish between diagnosed medical emergencies involving the brain (an essential human organ if ever there was one) versus the heart or the lungs or the liver,” McBurney wrote. “A law that saves a mother from a potentially fatal pregnancy when the risk is purely physical but which fates her to death or serious injury or disability if the risk is ‘mental or emotional’ is patently unconstitutional.”
And he threw in a few more zingers, just for good measure.
[Women] alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could—or should—force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.
The ruling comes as the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, first reported in ProPublica, has thrust Georgia to the center of the national conversation about the impact of abortion restrictions and bans in the post–Roe era. Days after the ProPublica stories, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Atlanta to highlight the threat that Donald Trump poses to reproductive freedom, and Thurman’s mother and sisters appeared with Harris in an emotional town hall hosted by Oprah Winfrey.
Nearly three-quarters of Georgians—including 62 percent of Republicans and 83 percent of Democrats—want abortion to be legal before the point of fetal viability, according to a University of Maryland poll in early September. But Georgia, like many of its neighbors in the South, does not allow residents to weigh in on the issue via the type of voter initiatives that are on the ballot in 10 states this November, including Nevada and Arizona.
“This afternoon’s court ruling marks a critical milestone for Georgians and supporters of reproductive justice who have remained steadfast in their vision of a Georgia free from abortion bans,” said Shanté Wolfe, Southeastern field director for the advocacy group URGE. “The court’s move is a testament to the power of collective action, driven by activists, organizers, legislators, and most importantly, everyday people.”
“We have known that Georgians overwhelmingly support abortion, and today we see that it is indeed possible for our state’s laws to reflect the majority,” Wolfe said.
Even so, no one expects McBurney—who was first appointed to the bench by former GOP governor Nathan Deal in 2012—to have the last say. “We believe Georgia’s LIFE Act is fully constitutional,” Kara Murray, communications director for Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, said in a statement Monday that promised an immediate appeal.
“Once again, the will of Georgians and their representatives has been overruled by the personal beliefs of one judge,” Governor Brian Kemp echoed in his own press release. “Georgia will continue to be a place where we fight for the lives of the unborn.”
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Toronto is one of the largest urban areas in Canada, with an ever-increasing demand for goods and services. For many businesses, owning a truck is crucial to delivering goods, offering services, or transporting materials. However, purchasing a truck outright can be a significant financial burden, especially for small businesses and owner-operators.
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Skip NavigationThe New RepublicThe New RepublicLATESTBREAKING NEWSPOLITICSCLIMATECULTUREMAGAZINENEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGAMESPolitics HomepageTrumpworldCongressSupreme Court WatchMediaThe New RepublicThe New RepublicLATESTBREAKING NEWSPOLITICSCLIMATECULTUREMAGAZINENEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGAMESPolitics HomepageTrumpworldCongressSupreme Court WatchMediaGil Duran/July 22, 2024Dark RealmWhere J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian IdeasYes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty ImagesVance at the Republican National Convention last weekIn 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed “not productive”: “convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.” Yarvin, a self-described reactionary and extremist who was 35 years old at the time, clarified that he was “just kidding.” But then he continued, “The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide.”He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance, whom the Republican Party just nominated to be Donald Trump’s vice president. If Trump wins the election, there is little doubt that Vance will bring Yarvin’s twisted techno-authoritarianism to the White House, and one can imagine—with horror—what a receptive would-be autocrat like Trump might do with those ideas. Trump’s first campaign was undoubtedly a watershed moment for authoritarianism in American politics, but some thinkers on the right had been laying the groundwork for years, hoping for someone to mainstream their ideas. Yarvin was one of them. Way back in 2012, in a speech on “How to Reboot the US Government,” he said, “If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.” He had also written favorably of slavery and white nationalists in the late 2000s (though he has stated that he is not a white nationalist himself). Both Thiel and Vance are friends of Yarvin. In The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power, reporter Max Chafkin describes Yarvin as the “house political philosopher” of the “Thielverse,” a term for the people in Thiel’s orbit. In 2013, Thiel invested in Tlön, a software startup co-founded by Yarvin. In 2016, Yarvin attended Thiel’s election night party in San Francisco where, according to Chafkin, champagne flowed once it became clear that Thiel’s investment in Donald Trump would pay off. Since entering politics, Vance has publicly praised—and parroted—Yarvin’s ideas. That was worrying enough when Vance was only a senator. Now that he could soon be a heartbeat away from the presidency, his close ties to Yarvin are more alarming than ever. Superficial analyses of why certain tech billionaires are aligning with Trump tend to fixate on issues like taxes and regulations, but that’s only part of the story. Tech plutocrats like Thiel and Elon Musk already have money. Now they want power—as much as money can buy.
Stories about Vance tend to focus on his hardscrabble Ohio roots, but his relationship with Thiel—and his stint in San Francisco—are key to understanding his politics. Vance owes his meteoric rise to Thiel, who largely bankrolled it. As a Yale Law student in 2011, he heard Thiel give a speech in which he suggested that smart people should be working in tech instead of wasting their time at elite schools. Afterward, Vance emailed Thiel, who invited him to California. Following a brief stint as a lawyer, Vance moved to San Francisco. Eventually, he landed at Mithril Capital, a company co-founded by Thiel. He finished writing Hillbilly Elegy while there, and Thiel wrote a blurb praising it. When Vance moved back to Ohio and eventually started his own fund, Narya Capital, both Thiel and Marc Andreessen invested. When Vance ran for U.S. Senate in 2022, Thiel spent an unprecedented $15 million on the campaign and persuaded Trump to endorse him (Vance had previously compared Trump to Hitler). In 2024, Thiel led the charge to convince Trump to pick Vance as V.P. Vance is a Thiel creation. And like his billionaire benefactor—who once wrote, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”—Vance embraces a radical ideology hell-bent on destroying government as we know it. And they got these ideas, at least in part, from Yarvin.Yarvin is the chief thinker behind an obscure but increasingly influential far-right neoreaction, or NRx, movement, that some call the “Dark Enlightenment.” Among other things, it openly promotes dictatorships as superior to democracies and views nations like the United States as outdated software systems. Yarvin seeks to reengineer governments by breaking them up into smaller entities called “patchworks,” which would be controlled by tech corporations.“The basic idea of Patchwork is that, as the crappy governments we inherited from history are smashed, they should be replaced by a global spiderweb of tens, even hundreds, of thousands of sovereign and independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions,” he wrote in Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century.Each patchwork would be ruled by a “realm”: a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity. For example, Yarvin says the tech overlords of the San Francisco realm could arbitrarily decide to cut off its citizens’ hands with no fear of legal consequences—because they’re a sovereign power, beholden to no federal government or laws.The realm, having sovereign power, can compel the resident to comply with all promises. Since San Francisco is not an Islamic state, it does not ask its residents to agree that their hand will be cut off if they steal. But it could. And San Francisco, likewise, can promise not to cut off its residents’ hands until it is blue in the face—but, since it is a sovereign state, no one can enforce this promise against it.In “Friscorp,” as Yarvin calls the San Francisco realm, an all-seeing Orwellian surveillance system would enforce public safety: “All residents, even temporary visitors, carry an ID card with RFID response. All are genotyped and iris-scanned. Public places and transportation systems track everyone. Security cameras are ubiquitous. Every car knows where it is, and who is sitting in it, and tells the authorities both.”Vance has not advocated for realms—yet—but some of his most extreme ideas echo Yarvin. They’re both fond of political purges, for instance. In a 2021 podcast interview, Vance was asked how to get liberals out of government institutions. “De-Nazification, De-Baathification,” he replied. “I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left. And turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.” He predicted Trump would run again and win, then offered some advice: “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” He added that Trump should defy any court orders that tried to halt this partisan purge of the civil service.Yarvin calls this plan RAGE: Retire All Government Employees. It’s captured perfectly in Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump administration, which calls for firing an estimated 500,000 federal employees and dismantling entire agencies. If Trump wins, Vance may well be in charge of executing the plan.Vance did not get this extremist ideology from his Appalachian upbringing or—needless to say—Yale Law. It was incubated in America’s tech capital, San Francisco, where he forged crucial ties with Thiel, Yarvin, and David Sacks, the longtime Thiel associate and pro-Putin crusader who recently hosted a Trump fundraiser at his mansion in Pacific Heights. And if Vance ends up in the White House, it will be with $45 million in monthly campaign contributions from Musk, who already made a $44 billion in-kind contribution by gutting San Francisco-based Twitter and transforming it into a right-wing misinformation weapon.In a fateful twist, San Francisco also launched the political career of Kamala Harris, who is set to inherit the task of saving American democracy from tech authoritarianism.Gil Duran Gil Duran is a San Francisco journalist who previously served as editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee and The San Francisco Examiner.Read More: Politics, J.D. 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In swing states, voter registrations surge, shaking up 2024 raceNew strain in Calif. Get the USA TODAY app Start the day smarter ☀️ 🐍Year of the SnakeU.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Life Money Travel Opinion CrosswordONLY AT USA TODAY:Newsletters For Subscribers From the Archives Crossword eNewspaper Magazines InvestigationsPodcasts Video Humankind Just Curious Best-selling Booklist LegalsOUR PORTFOLIO:10Best USAT Wine Club ShoppingBlueprint Southern Kitchen Home Internet ELECTIONSKamala HarrisAdd TopicBattleground states see waves of new voters sign up who could sway 2024 race Savannah KucharUSA TODAY(This story has been updated to note Arizona's electorate grew by nearly 125,000 voters from between August of 2020 to the end of July 2024.)WASHINGTON – Recent spikes in voter registrations are shaking up the already contentious 2024 presidential race, with hundreds of thousands of new voters now signed up to cast ballots and help determine who resides in the White House for the next four years. In the majority of the seven key battleground states where Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris are particularly close in the polls, the current number of registered voters is up compared with the 2020 presidential contest that coincided with the COVID-19 global pandemic. North Carolina, as one example, boasts nearly a half million more registered people in 2024 compared with 2020, when Trump eked out a win over Joe Biden in the Tar Heel State by about 74,000 votes.Over in Michigan, the total count of registered voters has grown by more than 350,000 since October of 2020. Biden's margin of victory that year over Trump in the midwestern battleground state: a little more than 150,000 votes. Similar voter registration trends are also playing out in Arizona, where Biden bested Trump in 2020 by about 10,500 votes, and Nevada, where the current Democratic president beat his predecessor by nearly 33,600 votes. Between August 2020 and the end of July this year, the Arizona electorate grew by nearly 125,000 voters. In Nevada − the least populated of this year's swing states − more than 260,000 additional registered voters have signed up compared with this time four years ago.There's an important caveat to this data: Registered voters are not the same thing as actual voters, which is why the Trump and Harris campaigns are focused heading into November on driving up turnout among their core constituencies while also finding potential new pockets of supporters.Keeping up with Election 2024? Sign up for USA TODAY's On Politics newsletter.The surge in names that have been added to the voter rolls happens for a variety of reasons. For one, more than 8 million people across the U.S. are newly eligible to vote upon reaching their 18th birthday since the last mid-election cycle in 2022, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. On top of that, election experts told USA TODAY that several specific recent events – including Biden's decision to stand down in place of Harris and a particular high-profile celebrity endorsement – could be motivating factors behind many of the new registrations.Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Florida, said that voter registrations reliably increase every campaign season as Election Day nears, especially during events such a national political convention. “What's different this year,” he said, “is we're seeing a different campaign event.”Major moments lead to major voting interestA tumultuous summer in politics culminated in Biden’s late July decision to drop out of the presidential race and throw his support behind Harris, his incumbent vice president. Harris' campaign kickoff roused a flood of donations, refreshed enthusiasm among liberal voters and seemingly launched a surge of voter registrations. In the 48 hours that followed Harris taking over, nearly 39,000 people registered to vote, according to the nonpartisan platform Vote.org. Less than a week after that, the number surpassed 100,000. From door knockers to donors:Harris' war chest has many first-time contributorsThen came pop icon Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris via Instagram. Her post, which garnered more than 11 million likes and followed right after Harris’ Sept. 10 debate with Trump, included a custom URL to voting resources and a call for fans to get registered. Vote.gov received 405,999 visitors in the 24 hours following Swift’s announcement, according to a General Services Administration spokesperson. In comparison, the website had about 30,000 daily visitors in the week prior. It was unclear how many of these visitors successfully registered. Vote.gov itself is not a registration page but directs users to websites with state-specific information. Swing states could see more voters in 2024During National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 17, Vote.org reported registering more than 150,000 new voters, a record for the organization during the annual civic holiday. Sixteen percent of those came from the seven key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. North Carolina had one of the largest jumps in total registered voters between now and this time four years ago, with more than 500,000 additional voters, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections. In 2020, Trump narrowly won the Tar Heel State's 15 Electoral College votes.In Pennsylvania, the current number of registered voters is about 150,000 less compared with Election Day in 2020, when Biden won the commonwealth by about 80,500 votes. But there are already about 60,000 more voters in the state as of late September than there were during the 2022 midterm elections, when Democrats won critical and closely contended races for governor and the U.S. Senate.A Swift surge of voters?What data says about new PA voter registrationThe handful of battleground states emerged as the ones to watch given their neck-and-neck numbers of Republicans and Democrats, which puts each in the position to tip the scales for either Trump or Harris. The Trump campaign recently told Fox News they have put "maximum attention and resources" into boosting Republican registrations in these states."And in states where the winner will be decided by mere percentage points, it could make all the difference," Trump campaign senior adviser Tim Murtaugh said.Efforts by the Trump campaign and GOP allies appear to be paying off: In all four swing states where voters register by party, Republicans have grown their share of voters since 2020. In Arizona, Republicans have extended their lead over Democrats, with nearly 260,000 more red than blue registered voters. And in North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania, Republicans have cut significantly into the Democratic advantage.'Shot in the arm' for DemocratsAcross the board, voter growth isn’t limited to the battlegrounds. Nationwide, the number of voters registering in late July following Harris’ ascension were as much as triple that compared to the same time four years ago, said Tom Bonier, Democratic strategist and CEO of political data provider TargetSmart. Many of the new registrants, he said, have been younger voters and more specifically, younger women and younger women of color. His best comparison: The summer of 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that made abortion legal nationwide."At the time we saw that and thought, ‘Wow, you'll never see anything like this again. We haven't seen anything like it before,’” Bonier said. Bonier said numbers from this summer, though, exceeded what they witnessed then. The potential influx of new voters from these certain demographics could be a boon for Democrats, who tend to score well with voters under 35 and, prior to the Biden-Harris ticket shake-up, were being largely outpaced by Republicans in terms of registrations, McDonald said. “Democrats have needed to get this shot in the arm,” he said. “Harris' entry provided the opportunity for people to become enthused and start registering.” Owen Wallace, 18, is among more than 3.5 million voters registered in Wisconsin, which as of the start of this month is up by about 27,000 since 2020, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. A freshman studying data science at the University of Utah, Wallace registered to vote for the first time in July. He said he was inspired by a high school government class, along with participation in the event, America in One Room: The Youth Vote, which gathered hundreds of first-time voters together in Washington, D.C., for a weekend this summer. Wallace said he plans to vote absentee in his home state of Wisconsin and cast his ballot for Harris. While the college freshman opted to register just ahead of Biden’s surprise exit, Wallace said the decision reaffirmed his determination to vote this fall. “It was sort of a reinvigoration of hope,” he said. Turnout remains a question and concernStill for many, registration does not automatically equal participation. Out of the nearly 7 million Georgia residents registered to vote in 2022, around 4 million actually cast a ballot. 'You have no choice':Trump urges voters who don't like him to consider the alternativeThe numbers do improve in presidential years, though. Of the more than 8 million Michiganders registered to vote in 2020, approximately 5.5 million turned out. In Pennsylvania that year, about 9 million people were registered and almost 7 million cast a vote. "The election will be won by those who show up, and that’s where the ground game comes in," Murtaugh, of the Trump campaign, told Fox News.McDonald said he expects poll numbers this November to likewise reflect growing engagement and enthusiasm. “People who register between now and Election Day, they are doing so with an intention to vote,” McDonald said. 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Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene
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Hurricane Helene is scrambling the presidential candidates’ plans this week. Republican candidate Donald Trump visited Valdosta, Georgia to see the storm’s impact.
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Hurricane Helene is shifting the presidential candidates’ plans this week. Democratic nominee Kamala Harris left the campaign trail to return to Washington for briefings.
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President Joe Biden says he’ll visit North Carolina later this week to tour damage from Hurricane Helene. The president also slammed Donald Trump for “lying” about his contacts with Georgia officials during the storm response.
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President Joe Biden says the federal government will be with survivors and others in the nation’s southeast affected by Helene for “as long as it takes.” Biden says he intends to travel to North Carolina to survey storm damage later this week.
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks as he visits downtown Valdosta, Ga., a town that was impacted by Hurricane Helene, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at Valdosta Regional Airport to visit areas impacted by Hurricane Helene, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, in Valdosta, Ga. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris attends a briefing at FEMA headquarters, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, in Washington, on recovery and assistance efforts after Hurricane Helene. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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President Joe Biden, right, and White House Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall, left, speak with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, on screen at center right, and Administrator of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency Deanne Criswell, onscreen at center left, about the Biden administration’s efforts to aid in recovery from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s efforts to aid in recovery from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks outside the Chez What furniture store as he visits Valdosta, Ga., a town impacted by Hurricane Helene, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump visits Valdosta, Ga., a town impacted by Hurricane Helene, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks outside the Chez What furniture store as he visits Valdosta, Ga., a town impacted by Hurricane Helene, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris attends a briefing at FEMA headquarters, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, in Washington, on recovery and assistance efforts after Hurricane Helene. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods Monday about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster as he toured hard-hit areas in south Georgia. The former president and Republican nominee claimed upon landing in Valdosta that President Joe Biden was “sleeping” and not responding to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who he said was “calling the president and hasn’t been able to get him.” He repeated the claim at an event with reporters after being told Kemp said he had spoken to Biden.“He’s lying, and the governor told him he was lying,” Biden said Monday.The White House previously announced that Biden spoke by phone Sunday night with Kemp and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, as well as Scott Matheson, mayor of Valdosta, Georgia, and Florida Emergency Management Director John Louk. Kemp confirmed Monday morning that he spoke to Biden the night before.
“The president just called me yesterday afternoon and I missed him and called him right back and he just said ‘Hey, what do you need?’ And I told him, you know, we’ve got what we need, we’ll work through the federal process,” Kemp said. “He offered if there are other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that.”
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In addition to being humanitarian crises, natural disasters can create political tests for elected officials, particularly in the closing weeks of a presidential campaign in which among the hardest-hit states were North Carolina and Georgia, two battlegrounds. Trump over the last several days has used the damage wrought by Helene to attack Harris, the Democratic nominee, and suggest she and Biden are playing politics with the storm — something he was accused of doing when president.
Biden is defiant about spending time at his beach houseWhile the White House highlighted Biden’s call to Kemp and others, the president faced questions about his decision to spend the weekend at his beach house in Delaware, rather than the White House, to monitor the storm. “I was commanding it,” Biden told reporters after delivering remarks at the White House on the federal government’s response. “I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well. I commanded it. It’s called a telephone.”
AP AUDIO: Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene
AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports Donald Trump is touring Hurricane Helene’s damage in Georgia, while blasting the Biden administration’s response to the deadly storm.
Biden received frequent updates on the storm, the White House said, as did Harris aboard Air Force Two as she made a West Coast campaign swing. The vice president cut short her campaign trip Monday to return to Washington for a briefing from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Trump, writing on his social media platform Monday, also claimed without evidence that the federal government and North Carolina’s Democratic governor were “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.” Asheville, which was devastated by the storm, is solidly Democratic, as is much of Buncombe County, which surrounds it.The death toll from Helene has surpassed 100 people, with some of the worst damage caused by inland flooding in North Carolina. Biden said he will travel to North Carolina on Wednesday to get a first-hand look at the devastation, but will limit his footprint so as not to distract from the ongoing recovery efforts.
During remarks Monday at FEMA headquarters, Harris said she has received regular briefings on the disaster response, including from FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, and has spoken with Kemp and Cooper in the last 24 hours.“I have shared with them that we will do everything in our power to help communities respond and recover,” she said. “And I’ve shared with them that I plan to be on the ground as soon as possible without disrupting any emergency response operations.”When asked if her visit was politicizing the storm, she frowned and shook her head but did not reply.
Trump partnered with a Christian charity to bring suppliesThe Trump campaign partnered with the Christian humanitarian aid organization Samaritan’s Purse to bring trucks of fuel, food, water and other critical supplies to Georgia, said Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary.Leavitt did not immediately respond to questions about how much had been donated and from which entity. Samaritan’s Purse also declined to address the matter in a statement.Trump also launched a GoFundMe campaign for supporters to send financial aid to people impacted by the storm. It quickly passed its $1 million goal Monday night.“Our hearts are with you and we are going to be with you as long as you need it,” Trump said, flanked by a group of elected officials and Republican supporters. “We’re not talking about politics now,” Trump added.Trump said he wanted to stop in North Carolina but was holding off because access and communication is limited in hard-hit communities.When asked by The Associated Press on Monday if he was concerned that his visit to Georgia was taking away law enforcement resources that could be used for disaster response, Trump said, “No.” He said his campaign instead “brought many wagons of resources.”
Katie Watson, who owns with her husband the home design store Trump visited, said she was told the former president picked that location because he saw shots of the business destroyed with the rubble and said, “Find that place and find those people.”“He didn’t come here for me. He came here to recognize that this town has been destroyed. It’s a big setback,” she said.“He recognizes that we are hurting and he wants us to know that,” she added. “It was a lifetime opportunity to meet the president. This is not exactly the way I wanted to do it.”Trump campaign officials have long pointed to his visit to East Palestine, Ohio, the site of a toxic trail derailment, as a turning point in the early days of the presidential race when he was struggling to establish his footing as a candidate. They believed his warm welcome by residents frustrated by the federal government’s response helped remind voters why they had been drawn to him years earlier.Trump fought with Puerto Rico and meteorologists while presidentDuring Trump’s term as president, he visited numerous disaster zones, including the aftermaths of hurricanes, tornadoes and shootings. But the trips sometimes elicited controversy such as when he tossed paper towels to cheering residents in Puerto Rico in 2017 in the wake of Hurricane Maria.It also took until weeks before the presidential election in 2020 for Trump’s administration to release $13 billion in assistance for the territory. A federal government watchdog found that officials hampered an investigation into delays in aid delivery. In another 2019 incident, Trump administration officials admonished some meteorologists for tweeting that Alabama was not threatened by Hurricane Dorian, contradicting the then-president. Trump would famously display a map altered with a black Sharpie pen to indicate Alabama could be in the path of the storm.___Fernando reported from Chicago, and Amy reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin in New York, Chris Megerian and Aamer Madhani in Washington, and Will Weissert in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
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Trump’s $100,000 Watches Are the Most Tragic Celebrity Watch Yet
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Trump’s $100,000 Watches Are the Most Tragic Celebrity Watch Yet | WIREDSkip to main contentOpen Navigation MenuMenuSearchSearchSecurityPoliticsGearThe Big StoryBusinessScienceCultureIdeasMerchPodcastsVideoNewslettersMagazineTravelSteven Levy's Plaintext ColumnWIRED Classics from the ArchiveEventsWIRED InsiderWIRED ConsultingCouponsBuy It for LifeAudio AdventuresFancy GadgetsThe WIRED 101Deals DeliveredAlistair CharltonGearSep 27, 2024 1:48 PMTrump’s $100,000 Watches Are the Most Tragic Celebrity Watch YetFormer president Donald Trump wants you to buy gaudy, overpriced timepieces “made for those who combine boldness and elegance.” He got one part right.Photo-Illustration: TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC; GettySave this storySaveSave this storySaveCelebrities partnering with watch brands is nothing new. Sometimes a bona fide watch enthusiast like John Mayer partners with Audemars Piguet, or Ed Sheeran (owner of a unique Patek Philippe, no less) teams up with Casio. Then there's the other end of the scale, where controversial Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy and his own watch company resides.Now, however, there’s a new nadir: the Trump Watch. Announced this week by former US president Donald Trump, the collection consists of two pieces. One is called “Fight Fight Fight” and is priced from $499, and the other is the “Victory Tourbillon.” The latter is claimed to be made from solid 18-karat gold, with 122 diamonds and a tourbillon automatic movement. It’s priced at a nice, round $100,000—about three times the price of an equivalent Rolex Submariner—and, yes, crypto payment is available.The watches are claimed to feature “premium, Swiss-Made materials and intricate details,” but so far as we can tell, the Fight Fight Fight uses a movement by Japanese company Seiko, while the Victory Tourbillon has a movement alleged to be partially built from Chinese components.It gets better. In what quickly starts to resemble the tweet-riddled fever dreams of the extremely online, the watches are produced by a company called TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC, which is based in Sheridan, Wyoming, and, despite no watchmaking history to speak of, has a license agreement to use the Trump name for its timepieces.“We also accept Bitcoin as payment!”, the GetTrumpWatches website yells, as if handing over actual dollars to a company who admits the images of the timepieces “are for illustration purposes only” isn’t enough to raise an eyebrow.We’ll come back to the Tourbillon in a moment. For now, let's look at the cheaper of the two, called the Fighter. At least that’s what the website address suggests it’s called, but it’s also described as the “Fight Fight Fight Watch”—and in the description of the black and gold colorway it’s “The Fight Fight Fight Black Watch.” Either way, it resembles a Rolex Submariner described down a patchy phone line.But don’t just take our word for it. WIRED Watch expert Tim Barber told us: “Trump evidently has some cut-through among certain watch fans, since the gold sneakers he auctioned earlier this year were bought by Roman Sharf, one of the most prominent gray-market watch dealers, with a sizable YouTube following." (Incidentally, the companies that made the gold sneakers and the new Trump Watches were established by the same register agent, Andrew Pierce of Cloud Peak Law, Wyoming.)“Having said that, I doubt these hideous pieces will increase his equity among most watch collectors. As it happens, all-gold watches being very on trend in the luxury market at the moment, he joins Rolex in producing a gold dive watch this year. But I would be less confident of this sharing any other qualities with a Rolex.”Trump Watches says the timepiece “was made for those who combine boldness and elegance,” and that its gold accents “create a tasteful balance of color, perfect for a dress watch”—which is odd when you consider the fact this is quite clearly a dive watch.Trump's $500 dive/dress watches boast a screw-down case back which features an image of the former president after he narrowly escaped assassination, and an automatic movement that costs $55.
Courtesy of TheBestWatchesonEarth LLCThe screw-down case back features an image of Trump after he narrowly escaped assassination, along with his signature, plus a “200 meters” engraving. Strangely, all three variants of the Fight Fight Fight have the same waterproofing claim on their case back, but only the limited-edition $799 all-gold version states as much on its product page. The other two models, each priced at $499, state 200 meters on their cases, but contradict this with 100 meters of water resistance in their specifications. Perhaps consider removing your Fight Fight Fight before you go swimming.The $799 model has a day and date window at the three o’clock position, and is powered by the NH36 movement from Japanese watch company Seiko. The other two variants have just a date window and use the simpler NH35 movement. Both movements can be bought online from about $55. Again, this seems completely at odds with claims on the Trump Watches website of “premium, Swiss-Made materials and intricate details.”The Trump Victory Tourbillons cost $100,000 and are limited to 147 pieces, but our watch expert says “these would suck as $50 mall watches.”
Courtesy of TheBestWatchesonEarth LLCNow for the Tourbillon, the $100,000 flagship of the Trump watch collection. “This isn’t just any watch,” the former president said. “It’s one of the best watches made,” he adds without context.Limited to 147 pieces—although the website admits they’re made to order—the watch is offered with a solid gold case and dial, a gold case and black dial, or a rose gold case and dial. All three have the “Trump” name at the twelve o’clock position and a window revealing their tourbillon movement within.The watch is claimed to use a “TX07 Tourbillon” with 105 hours of power reserve, but finding any record of such a movement online is tricky. Watch commentator Nico Leonard van der Horst said in an Instagram post: “This is hilarious … the manufacturer of this movement is Olivier Mory, who ironically is known for making very affordable Tourbillons half made in China, half made in Switzerland.” Van der Horst added: “If you were to buy this movement and put it in your own watch, you would be able to buy it for under $3.5k.”The movement is visible through an exhibition case back, which in marketing material from Trump Watches seemingly includes the personalized message from Trump “James, let’s think big!”, along with Trump’s signature. Bizarrely, the diamond-covered bezel appears to have grips around its circumference. These are usually only seen on rotating bezels, but since there are no markings on this bezel, there’s no reason for it to rotate, and thus no reason for the gripped design.“The watches are as tawdry, ill-designed, and generic as you’d expect, and look as though they’ve been assembled from leftover bits in the parts bin.”
Courtesy of TheBestWatchesonEarth LLCBack to Barber for more informed analysis: “The watches are as tawdry, ill-designed, and generic as you’d expect, and look as though they’ve been assembled from leftover bits in the parts bin of whichever white label company was prepared to take Trump‘s dime. These would suck as $50 mall watches, let alone as a facsimile of luxury watchmaking.“Nevertheless, these monstrosities may not be the worst watches associated with Donald Trump. Back in 2019, Moritz Grossmann, a German firm specializing in high-end artisanal horology, saw fit to mark a meeting between Trump and Kim Jong-Un with a commemorative limited edition. Although arguably even more brazen in its bad taste, at around €13,000, it probably offered rather better value for the workmanship involved.”The latest Trump watches are available to order now, if you really must, but the website states vaguely how shipping starts in “October/November/December.” Despite only accepting pre-orders at this stage, the seller warns “there are no refunds. All sales are final.”It adds: “Shipping and delivery dates are estimates only and cannot be guaranteed. We are not liable for any delays in shipments … We cannot guarantee when an order will arrive.” Most rarely find themselves in the market for a $100,000 watch, but WIRED imagines buyers generally seek more assurances on when their expensive purchases might arrive.The Trump Watches website says money spent on these watches does not go to Trump’s presidential campaign, adding: “Trump Watches are not designed, manufactured, distributed or sold by Donald J. 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Massive Dockworkers Strike to Ripple Through U.S. Economy: What to Know
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What to Know About the Dockworkers Strike Set to Ripple Through the Economy | TIMESign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POVSubscribeSubscribeSectionsHomeU.S.PoliticsWorldHealthClimateFuture of Work by CharterBusinessTechEntertainmentIdeasScienceHistorySportsMagazineTIME 2030Next Generation LeadersTIME100 Leadership SeriesTIME StudiosVideoTIME100 TalksTIMEPiecesThe TIME VaultTIME for HealthTIME for KidsTIME EdgeTIMECO2Red Border: Branded Content by TIMECouponsPersonal Finance by TIME StampedShopping by TIME StampedJoin UsNewslettersSubscribeGive a GiftShop the TIME StoreTIME Cover StoreDigital MagazineCustomer CareUS & CanadaGlobal Help CenterReach OutCareersPress RoomContact the EditorsMedia KitReprints and PermissionsMoreAbout UsPrivacy PolicyYour Privacy RightsTerms of UseModern Slavery StatementSite MapConnect with UsPresented ByU.S.EconomyMassive Dockworkers Strike to Ripple Through U.S. Economy: What to KnowMassive Dockworkers Strike to Ripple Through U.S. Economy: What to Know5 minute readBy Laura Curtis / BloombergUpdated: October 1, 2024 6:20 AM EDT | Originally published: October 1, 2024 1:50 AM EDTDockworkers walked out of every major port on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts for the first time in nearly 50 years, staging a strike that could ripple across the world’s largest economy and cause political turmoil just weeks before the presidential election.The 36 affected ports have the combined capacity to handle as much as half of all U.S. trade volumes, and the closures immediately halt container operations and auto shipments. Energy supplies and bulk cargo won’t be directly affected. Some exceptions will be made to allow for the movement of military goods and cruise ships.The significance of a work stoppage at every major container port from Houston to Miami and New York-New Jersey depends on how long the strike lasts. The economic loss from the shutdown, which began at 12:01 Tuesday morning Eastern Standard Time, will be between $3.8 billion to $4.5 billion a day, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.Shipping congestion resulting from a week-long strike would take about a month to clear, according to Grace Zwemmer at Oxford Economics.Shares of Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S and Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd AG fell on Tuesday, after both container lines gained more than 11% in September.The International Longshoremen’s Association is seeking higher wages and a rollback of the language on automation in a six-year contract that expired at midnight. Union leader Harold Daggett has for months threatened a strike starting on Oct. 1 if no deal is reached before the deadline. The last time East and Gulf coast dockworkers went on strike was in 1977.“We are prepared to fight as long as necessary, to stay out on strike for whatever period of time it takes,” Daggett said in a statement posted to Facebook. The last offer from the companies “fell far short of what ILA rank-and-file members are demanding in wages and protections against automation.”The ocean carriers and terminal operators represented by the U.S. Maritime Alliance, also known as USMX, have accused the ILA of refusing to negotiate since the union called off talks back in June. A strike was all but certain until Monday afternoon, when reports emerged that the White House has been in communication with the two sides over the weekend and some progress has been made on wages.President Joe Biden, who prides himself on being pro-union, has said the dispute is a matter for collective bargaining and he wouldn’t invoke his authority under national security laws to order dockworkers back to the ports while negotiations continue.Trade, transportation and retail industry groups have been urging the White House to intervene to limit damage from the strike. Container carriers are preparing to impose surcharges tied to the disruption, raising the overall cost of shipping.“It would be unconscionable to allow a contract dispute to inflict such a shock to our economy,” Suzanne Clark, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, wrote in a letter to Biden on Monday.“Taft-Hartley would provide time for both parties in negotiation to reach a deal on a new labor contract,” Clark continued, referring to the 1947 congressional act that allows a president to intervene in labor disputes that involved national security.Estimates from the National Association of Manufacturers show the strike jeopardizes $2.1 billion in trade daily, and the total economic damage could reduce GDP by as much as $5 billion a day. NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons urged Biden to force a resumption of operations while negotiations continue.“The president can protect manufacturers and consumers by exercising his authority, and we hope he will act quickly,” Timmons said in a statement late Monday.The Teamsters union issued a statement Monday urging the Biden administration to stay out of the dispute. ILA leader Daggett has warned the White House not to intervene, and said if forced back to the ports, dockworkers would handle fewer containers than usual, slowing operations.The union hasn’t endorsed a presidential candidate, though according to Daggett, former President Donald Trump, “promised to support the ILA in its opposition to automated terminals” during a Mar-a-Lago meeting last fall. Neither Trump nor Vice President Kamala Harris has drawn public attention to the strike threat.“Moments ago, the first large-scale eastern dockworker strike in 47 years began at ports from Maine to Texas, including at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said a statement just after midnight.“In preparation for this moment, New York has been working around the clock to ensure that our grocery stores and medical facilities have the essential products they need,” she said.Meanwhile, the flow of goods has already been redirected by the threat of disruption. Many importers brought their goods in early or through West Coast ports to mitigate the risk and pad inventories.Port terminals along the coasts wound down their operations ahead of the midnight deadline, and railroads are also pulling back service.“The most important thing is going to be for the carriers, shippers and workers to come to terms,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Bloomberg Television’s “Balance of Power.” “There’s really no substitute for the ports being up and running.”More Must-Reads from TIMEInside Elon Musk’s War on WashingtonWhy Do More Young Adults Have Cancer? 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In the bustling construction industry of Toronto, access to reliable and efficient equipment can be the difference between completing a project on time and facing costly delays. Among the essential machinery, dump trucks and other construction equipment play pivotal roles in moving materials, clearing sites, and facilitating various projects. For many construction companies, securing financing for these expensive pieces of equipment is a vital step in maintaining operations and growing their business.
This blog explores the benefits of dump truck financing, construction equipment financing, and truck leasing options available in Toronto, focusing on how these financial solutions can help businesses thrive.
The Importance of Dump Trucks in Construction Projects
Dump trucks are indispensable in the construction sector, especially in large-scale infrastructure projects. They are used for transporting bulk materials such as sand, gravel, and demolition debris. However, purchasing a dump truck outright can be a hefty investment, especially for small and medium-sized businesses. This is where Dump Truck Financing comes into play.
With dump truck financing, construction companies can acquire essential vehicles without the upfront financial burden. By spreading the cost over time with manageable monthly payments, companies can free up capital to invest in other areas of their business. Financing options can also include flexible terms, allowing businesses to upgrade to newer models when necessary, ensuring that their fleet remains efficient and up-to-date.
Why Consider Dump Truck Financing?
Affordability: Financing options allow businesses to avoid large upfront costs, making it easier to invest in high-quality dump trucks.
Flexibility: Customizable repayment terms mean that companies can tailor their financing plans to suit their cash flow.
Preserve Working Capital: By opting for financing instead of a large initial purchase, construction companies can preserve their working capital for other operational expenses or investments.
Tax Benefits: Depending on the structure of the financing, companies may be able to deduct interest payments, which can have tax advantages.
Finding Dump Truck Financing in Toronto
Toronto is home to a variety of financing companies that specialize in helping construction businesses acquire the vehicles and machinery they need. Whether you’re a startup looking to expand or an established company aiming to update your fleet, there are tailored solutions available for Used Dump trucks Toronto.
Considerations When Financing a Dump Truck
When looking into financing options, it’s important to evaluate a few factors:
Loan Terms: Ensure that the terms fit within your long-term financial planning.
Interest Rates: Compare rates to ensure you’re getting the best deal.
Payment Schedule: A manageable repayment schedule is key to maintaining positive cash flow.
Insurance: Ensure your financing package covers insurance for potential risks, such as damage or theft.
Construction Equipment Financing: An Avenue for Growth
Beyond dump trucks, construction companies rely on a range of machinery to get the job done efficiently. From excavators and bulldozers to cranes and loaders, construction equipment is essential but often comes with a hefty price tag. Construction Equipment Financing allows companies to spread the cost of these machines over time, enabling them to scale their operations without significant financial strain.
Much like dump truck financing, construction equipment loans offer flexibility and help preserve cash flow, allowing businesses to invest in other areas such as manpower, marketing, or additional projects.
Benefits of Construction Equipment Financing
Upgrade Potential: Financing gives companies the option to upgrade to more modern or efficient equipment when needed.
Improve Efficiency: Modern equipment can significantly improve job site productivity, leading to faster project completion times and reduced labor costs.
Boost Competitiveness: With the latest equipment, companies can take on larger or more complex projects, enhancing their market position.
Truck Leasing in Toronto: A Cost-Effective Alternative
For companies that require trucks for short-term projects or want to avoid the commitment of ownership, Truck Leasing Toronto offers a viable alternative. Leasing provides access to well-maintained vehicles without the long-term financial commitment of purchasing or financing.
In Toronto, a range of leasing options are available, from short-term leases for specific projects to long-term agreements that provide more flexibility. Businesses can lease dump trucks or other commercial vehicles to meet their needs without worrying about depreciation or maintenance costs.
Why Choose Truck Leasing?
Lower Initial Costs: Leasing often requires less upfront capital than purchasing or financing a truck.
No Depreciation: With leasing, the company does not bear the cost of vehicle depreciation.
Flexible Terms: Lease agreements can be tailored to the duration of your project, whether it’s a few months or several years.
No Maintenance Worries: Leasing companies typically cover maintenance costs, so businesses don’t need to worry about repairs or servicing.
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Jimmy Carter is setting a new record for American presidents. It’s important for everyone
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Former President Jimmy Carter teaches a Sunday school class at the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, on August 23, 2015.
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Jimmy Carter sets a new record on October 1, his birthday, when he will become the first American president to reach triple digits.
It’s a milestone more and more Americans will reach in the years to come – and something the American social safety net is not prepared for.
Carter’s post-presidency began in 1981 after he lost his bid for reelection and when he was 56, too young for Social Security and Medicare.
A very long, incredible retirement
Carter did not dedicate his post-presidential life to sitting on corporate boards and raking in speaking fees, as other recent presidents have done.
In this June 9, 1977 file photo, President Jimmy Carter waves as he departs the First Baptist Church in Washington with daughter Amy and daughter-in-law Caron Carter.
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Carter got his hands dirty building houses, took on peace missions to Cuba and the Middle East, negotiated the release of hostages, lived in his home town, taught Sunday school and college classes, wrote books, and won Grammys.
His has been, indisputably, the longest, most righteous and most productive post-presidency in history, although John Quincy Adams’ post-presidential, anti-slavery efforts in Congress get honorable mention.
In the nearly 44 years since he left office, Carter helped essentially eradicate Guinea worm, a parasite that infected around 3.5 million people in the mid-’80s and just 14 in 2023, according to The Carter Center.
It’s been 22 years since he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, just as the US was preparing for war in Iraq. Carter also paid a landmark visit to Cuba that year.
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It’s been nine years since Carter announced at a news conference that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer and might not have long to live.
CNN’s Stephen Collinson wrote at the time:
“I have had a wonderful life,” Carter said with the same unsparing honesty and meticulous detail that marked his presidency. “I’m ready for anything and I’m looking forward to new adventure,” Carter said, in the 40-minute appearance before the cameras, in which he frequently beamed his huge smile and never fell prey to emotion. “It is in the hands of God, whom I worship.”
Carter had more to do
By December 2015, Carter announced that after treatment, the cancer was gone. A timeline of his life maintained by CNN’s research library has many more notable entries.
It’s been nine years since Carter published an autobiography, “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety.” He won a Grammy Award – his second – for the audiobook. He would win a third a few years later.
It’s been seven years since he was hospitalized for dehydration in Winnipeg, Canada, where he was outdoors – still working! – for Habitat for Humanity, the organization with which he had a long association.
It’s been five years since 2019, when he won that third Grammy, broke his hip and joked that there should be an age limit on the presidency since he couldn’t have done the job at 80. That was also the year he turned 95 and became the longest-living American president, surpassing George H.W. Bush.
It’s been nearly two years since Carter entered hospice care and nearly one year since his wife, Rosalynn, died. They were married in 1946.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, speaks in Elk City, Oklahoma, in 1979.
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Carter is held by his mother, Lillian, when he was just a month old. Carter was born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. He was the first US president to be born in a hospital.
Jimmy Carter Library
Carter, 6, poses with his sister Gloria in 1931.
AP Photo
Carter graduated from the US Naval Academy in June 1946 after completing the accelerated wartime program.
A.A. Bradley/AP
Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, are seen on their wedding day in July 1946.
Jimmy Carter Library
The Carters share a light moment at his campaign headquarters in Atlanta in 1966. Jimmy, a Georgia state senator at the time, ran for governor but lost in the Democratic primary.
Horace Cort/AP
Carter is applauded at his Atlanta headquarters in 1970. He was running for governor again — and this time he won.
John Storey/AP
Carter shovels peanuts in the '70s. Carter was the son of a peanut farmer, and he took over the family business in 1953 before his political career took off.
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Carter gets a haircut during his first year as governor of Georgia. He was inaugurated in 1971.
Stan Wayman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Carter holds his 7-year-old daughter, Amy, in 1974, just after he officially announced that he would be running for president.
AP
After becoming the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1976, Carter raises hands with running mate Walter Mondale at the Democratic National Convention in New York. Standing to Carter's right is his wife, Rosalynn, and their daughter, Amy. Carter ran as a Washington outsider and someone who promised to shake up government.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Carter and President Gerald Ford debate domestic policy at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia in September 1976. It was the first of three Ford-Carter presidential debates.
White House Photo/National Archive
Carter embraces his wife after receiving news of his election victory in November 1976. Carter received 297 electoral votes, while Ford received 241.
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Chief Justice Warren Burger swears Carter into office in January 1977 while Rosalynn Carter looks on.
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Carter, second from left, and his brother Billy, left, visit Georgia's St. Simons Island in 1977.
Pictorial Parade/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Carter is applauded by members of Congress after he signed a bill creating the Department of Energy in August 1977.
Barry Thumma/AP
Carter meets with civic leaders from Georgia and Florida to explain his new Panama Canal treaty in August 1977.
Harvey Georges/AP
Carter delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in January 1978. "Government cannot solve our problems," he said. Anti-government sentiment at the time was brought on by economic pessimism along with the end of the Vietnam War and the unraveling of the Watergate saga.
AP Photo
Carter and members of his Cabinet meet in the White House in March 1978.
Karl Schumacher/Camera Press/Redux
Carter and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt are all smiles as they prepare to depart Berlin in July 1978. Carter and Schmidt came to Berlin to see the Berlin Wall and the Airlift Memorial and hold a town meeting with citizens of Berlin.
AP
Three days before his birthday in 1978, Carter blows out candles on a birthday cake presented to him at a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee.
Barry Thumma/AP
Carter jogs on the South Lawn of the White House in December 1978.
Karl Schumacher/AFP/Getty Images
From left, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin join hands after the signing of peace accord ended 31 years of war between Egypt and Israel in March 1979. It was one of the highlights of Carter's presidency.
Frank Johnston/The Washington Post/Getty Images
Carter visits the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania in April 1979.
Dirck Halstead/The Chronicle Collection/Getty Images
Carter pauses to kiss his wife, Rosalynn, before boarding a helicopter at the White House in May 1979.
Barry Thumma/AP
Carter walks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev outside the US embassy in Vienna, Austria, in June 1979. They held private talks before heading to the Imperial Hofburg Palace to sign the SALT II nuclear treaty.
AP
College student Chuck McManis watches Carter's nationally televised energy speech from a service station in Los Angeles in July 1979. In this speech, Carter described what he saw as a growing "crisis of confidence" in the country. An Arab oil embargo led to fuel shortages and sky-high prices throughout much of the 1970s. At times, Americans were waiting in line for hours to fill their gas tanks.
Mao/AP
Carter sits with President-elect Ronald Reagan en route to Reagan's inauguration in January 1981. Reagan had defeated Carter in a landslide.
Ronald Reagan Library/Getty Images
Before departing for Georgia following Reagan's inauguration, Carter holds his crying daughter as his wife blows a kiss at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Robert Burgess/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
Carter gets a hug from his mother, Lillian, as he arrives home in Plains, Georgia, after Reagan's inauguration.
Joe Holloway Jr./AP
Carter traveled to Wiesbaden, West Germany, in January 1981 to greet the 52 American hostages who had been released by Iran after 444 days of captivity.
AP
The Carters wear glittering garlands and a turban given to them by Pakistani tribesmen at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in 1986. They also received a pair of rams.
AFP/Getty Images
Carter addresses a United Nations interfaith service at New York's Trinity Church in 1991. His speech was entitled "The Present Role of the United Nations in a Changing World."
Evy Mages/AFP/Getty Images
From left, former President George H.W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, Carter and Vice President Al Gore attend the Presidents' Summit for America's Future in Philadelphia in 1997. They helped clean up local neighborhoods as part of the effort to encourage volunteer service.
Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images
Clinton presented Carter with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1999. Carter was recognized for his diplomatic achievements and humanitarian efforts.
Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images
Carter works at a construction site sponsored by the Jimmy Carter Work Project in Asan, South Korea, in 2001. The Carters have been involved with the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity since 1984.
Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
Cuban President Fidel Castro calls for time as Carter prepares to throw the first pitch at a baseball game in Havana, Cuba, in May 2002. It was the first time a US president, past or present, had visited Cuba since the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images
Students at the University of Havana listen to Carter outline his vision for improved relations between the United States and Cuba in May 2002. The speech was broadcast live and uncensored on Cuban state television.
Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images
Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, in December 2002. He was recognized for his many years of public service, and in his acceptance speech he urged others to work for peace.
Arne Knudsen/Getty Images
Carter adjusts his headphones at a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2003. He proposed a referendum on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's presidency or an amendment to the constitution as a way to end the political crisis in the South American nation.
Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean speaks beside Carter during a campaign stop in Plains, Georgia, in January 2004.
Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images
Rosalynn Carter smashes a bottle of champagne against the sail of the USS Jimmy Carter during the submarine's christening ceremony in Connecticut in June 2004.
Department of Defense/National Archive
The Carters wave to the audience at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July 2004.
Scott Olson/Getty Images
Carter checks his notes while observing a polling station in Maputo, Mozambique, in December 2004. Since 1989, the Carter Center has been observing elections around the world to determine their legitimacy. The nonprofit organization was founded by Carter and his wife to advance human rights across the globe.
Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images
Carter is interviewed at a Washington, DC, hotel room in 2006.
Michael Williamson/The The Washington Post/Getty Images
In 2007, Carter speaks to children in Ghana on the seriousness of eradicating guinea worm disease.
Courtesy Carter Center
The Carters arrive for President Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009.
Alex Wong/Getty Images
Carter meets with Obama and other former presidents at the White House in January 2009. From left are George H.W. Bush, Obama, George W. Bush, Clinton and Carter.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Carter testifies in May 2009 during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on energy independence and security.
Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya speaks in June 2009 during a joint news conference with Carter in Gaza. Carter denounced the deprivations facing Palestinians in Gaza as unique in history, asserting that they are being treated "like animals."
Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
Carter delivers a speech in Seoul, South Korea, after receiving an honorary doctorate degree from Korea University in March 2010. During a four-day visit to South Korea, Carter urged direct talks with North Korea, saying a failure to negotiate nuclear disarmament might lead to a "catastrophic" war.
Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images
Carter greets South African leader Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg in May 2010.
Jeff Moore/Getty Images
Carter hugs Aijalon Mahli Gomes at Boston's Logan International Airport in August 2010. Carter negotiated Gomes' release after he was held in North Korea for crossing into the country illegally in January 2010.
Darren McCollester/Getty Images
Carter visits a weekly anti-settlement protest in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in October 2010. Former Irish President Mary Robinson is on the right.
Bernat Armangue/AP
Carter and other former presidents, including Clinton and both George Bushes, attend the Points of Light Institute Tribute to Former President George H.W. Bush in March 2011.
Kris Connor/Getty Images
Cuban President Raul Castro greets Carter and his wife at the Revolution Palace in Havana in March 2011.
Javier Galeano/Getty Images
In April 2011, Carter addresses students at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Richard Lewis/The Elders/Getty Images
Carter was interviewed for "The Presidents' Gatekeepers" project at the Carter Center in Atlanta in September 2011.
David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images
Carter fly fishes in Kilkenny, Ireland, in May 2013.
Jeff Moore/eyevine/Redux
From left, President Obama, Carter, first lady Michelle Obama and Clinton wave from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 2013. It was the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, which is best remembered for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
Carter talks with reporters in Chicago at a signing for his book "A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power" in 2014. In the book, Carter argues that the abuse and subjugation of women and girls is one of the biggest challenges the world faces.
Brian Kersey/Getty Images
Carter talks about his cancer diagnosis during a news conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta in August 2015. Carter announced that his cancer was on four small spots on his brain and that he would immediately begin radiation treatment. In December 2015, Carter announced that he was cancer-free.
Kevin D. Liles/The New York Times/Redux
Carter and his wife arrive for the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017.
Saul Loeb/Getty Images
Carter, center, speaks alongside other former US presidents as they attend a hurricane relief concert in College Station, Texas, in October 2017.
Jim Chapin/AFP/Getty Images
Carter holds up a copy of his new book "Faith: A Journey For All" at a book-signing event in New York in March 2018.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Carter greets visitors before teaching a Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, in April 2018.
Melissa Golden/The New York Times/Redux
Carter walks with his wife, Rosalynn, and Secret Service members after having dinner at a friend's home in Plains, Georgia, in August 2018.
Matt McClain/The Washington Post/Getty Images
The Carters speak with Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Quinn prior to an NFL game in September 2018.
Scott Cunningham/Getty Images
Former President George W. Bush greets Carter and other former presidents during the state funeral for his father in December 2018.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Carter fell and hit his head in 2019 while getting ready for church, requiring 14 stitches above his brow. But he didn't let that stop him from heading to Nashville, Tennessee, that afternoon for a week of building houses with Habitat for Humanity.
Mark Humphrey/AP
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden met with the Carters at the Carters' home in April 2021. The photo grabbed people's attention on social media because of what appeared to be a significant size difference between the two couples. While many experts theorized that it was the result of a wide-angle lens, Adam Schultz, the chief official White House photographer, declined to explain when reached by The New York Times.
Adam Schultz/The White House
The Carters celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary in Plains in July 2021. "The best thing I ever did was marrying Rosalynn," Carter once said.
John Bazemore/Pool/Reuters
The Carters appear at the Peanut Festival Parade in Plains in September 2023. It was the first time the former president had been seen in public since he began receiving hospice care at home in February of that year.
Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post/Getty Images
Carter attends his wife's tribute service in November 2023.
Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
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More people will turn 100
As remarkable as Carter made his years since American voters retired him from the White House, there’s also something increasingly normal about people living to 100.
Former presidents, all well-to-do and protected by a generous pension, aren’t a representative sample of society, but it’s notable that the four oldest former presidents – Carter, Bush, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan – all lived in the 21st century.
Overall, US life expectancy dropped during the Covid-19 pandemic. It has not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels, and it lags behind other developed countries, according to an analysis by KFF. As of 2022, the life expectancy for US males was 74.8 and for US females was 80.2.
But the population of 100-year-olds is expected to quadruple in the coming decades, according to Pew Research Center. It estimated in January that the current number of centenarians was around 101,000 and that the figure would increase to about 422,000 within 30 years, a small but growing portion of the US population as the average age increases and the birth rate declines.
CNN’s Eva Rothenberg wrote a year ago about the challenges many Americans will face later in life as they live longer, with more than half of older Americans likely needing long-term care in the future – something that many will not be able to afford and that is not covered under Medicare, the federal health insurance program that primarily benefits older Americans.
A major issue during Carter’s presidency and in 1980
Carter signed a law in 1977 that increased taxes to pay for Social Security and changed how benefits were calculated for younger people, which was supposed to help the program’s finances. Later, in 1980, Carter signed additional legislation to control the growth of disability benefits.
In the 1980 presidential election, which Carter ultimately lost to Reagan, the long-term viability of Social Security and Medicare was a major campaign issue and featured prominently in debates. And with good reason: The long-term viability of the social safety net programs, despite the law Carter signed in 1977, was still in serious question.
“There you go again,” Regan said dismissively to Carter in a presidential debate, denying that he opposed the very idea of Medicare. Reagan said he simply opposed the version that became law. Carter later accused Reagan of what we might today call “gaslighting” voters on the issue.
“Governor Reagan has a right to change his mind. He does not have a right to rewrite history,” Carter said in a statement days before Election Day that year.
Reagan-Carter Oct. 28, 1980 Debate - "There You Go Again"
Reagan, despite his previous opposition to safety net programs, vowed during the campaign to tend to their finances. Carter, on the other hand, was talking about creating a new national health insurance plan, which remains a dream for many Democrats.
More tough changes under Reagan
As president, after first unsuccessfully proposing benefit cuts, Reagan empaneled a commission, chaired by Alan Greenspan, that suggested fixes – some of which ultimately became law in 1983, and not a moment too soon. Social Security was months or weeks away from being able to pay full benefits in 1983, according to the Congressional Research Service.
The 1983 tweaks to Social Security included, for instance, the counting of some Social Security benefits as taxable income and a gradual increase of the retirement age from 65 to 67.
How gradual? The increase is still kicking in more than 40 years later. The 1983 amendments made the full retirement age 67 for people born in 1960 or later. So those seniors still have a few years to go, although people can retire early for a reduced benefit.
Former President Jimmy Carter greets people as he leaves after the funeral service for his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Maranatha Baptist Church, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Plains, Ga.
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That 1983 law, passed near the beginning of Carter’s very early and long political retirement, was the last major structural change to address the solvency of Social Security. There have been more frequent tweaks and major changes to Medicare.
Now the social safety net programs are again teetering on insolvency. Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits in just over a decade, according to the government. Medicare has a smidge more time.
Today, there are new calls to incrementally raise the retirement age or increase the taxes that fund Social Security, which apply only to the first $168,600 of income.
Like in the 1970s and 1980s, changes to the safety net will require a serious debate on all sides of the issue. It’s a debate few people are having at the moment.
Neither presidential candidate this year is talking much about the long-term funding of these programs. In fact, one of Donald Trump’s major proposals is to end the taxation on Social Security benefits that Reagan and lawmakers imposed in 1983. Vice President Kamala Harris has a vague plan to impose new taxes on the wealthy.
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