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Given Obama's dismal economic record, why should "the brothers" listen to a race card hustler who tells them to vote on race and gender?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Renowned financial analyst and former CIA advisor Jim Rickards has issued a stark warning about the impending 2024 presidential election, predicting a storm of economic collapse, political instability, and civil unrest that could devastate millions of Americans.

Armed with an education forged out of a traumatic upbringing in Nebraska, the state's new head IT officer "was hired to come in and be a change agent," he said.

To the editorTo the editor: Northeast Arc recently held two major fundraising events on back-to-back days and would like to thank the sponsors, attendees, volunteers, and many others involved in making both very successful. Northeast Arc’s 55th annual Mike Frangos Commodore Invitational Golf Tournament raised more than $177,000 to help the Northeast Arc support children and adults [...]The post LTTE: Northeast Arc thanks event participants appeared first on Itemlive.

A team from NPR speaks with voters along a 15-mile road that cuts through the Milwaukee area's segregated neighborhoods as election season continues in this crucial swing state.

The decision not to endorse has put headquarters at odds with its many local bodies that are supporting the Democratic nominee.

Donald Trump's racial insults belong to a lengthy history of false, fantastical and contradictory claims

Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo plans to report raising more than $2.2 million for the most recent quarter in her bid to win reelection in Colorado's most competitive congressional district, her campaign said Friday.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is returning this weekend to the town where an assassin's bullet grazed his ear in July. The assassination attempt on the former president was felt deeply in Butler County, a mountainous community north of Pittsburgh....

While many predict a large crowd to hear Trump speak back at the same Farm Show property in Butler, there is also apprehension in town.

Data: Real Clear Politics; Chart: Thomas Oide/AxiosSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and NRSC Chair Steve Daines are grappling with an uncomfortable reality: Republican Senate challengers are lagging well behind former President Trump in public surveys.Why it matters: The polling gap has baffled Republican candidates and strategists, who expected it to collapse as November neared.Its persistence is a warning for the Republican high command that a close Trump victory in any given swing state doesn't guarantee a GOP Senate seat — even if it also signals a bloc of still-persuadable voters.It could herald the return of something McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have seen vanish in the last two presidential races: The split-ticket voter.Between the lines: There are several theories about why Senate Republicans lag behind their presidential candidate, including a lack of name ID and getting outspent.Then there's the Trump factor. The former president appeals to many nontraditional Republicans and former working-class Democrats.Trump is "outperforming other Republicans because his base is broader than the traditional GOP coalition," Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Axios."Republicans should follow his lead to make our entire party stronger after November and cement the GOP as the party of the working class," Banks, who is running for Senate, said.Zoom in: In contested elections, the gap is most pronounced in Ohio. Trump is running 8.7 percentage points ahead of GOP Senate nominee Bernie Moreno, according to RealClearPolitics averages.The narrowest margin is in Wisconsin, where Trump is polling ahead of Eric Hovde by 2.2 percentage points. Both candidates are under 50%.One notable exception: Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is running nearly 10 points ahead of Trump in the deep blue state of Maryland. Hogan hasn't been shy about distancing himself from Trump and even rejected his endorsement.The other side: On the Democratic side, the trend is reversed, but the margins are much smaller.In four of the five battleground states that also have a tight Senate race, Vice President Kamala Harris trails her party's candidate by one or two points — and sometimes less. In Michigan, she's running a point ahead of Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.).President Biden was lagging behind his party's Senate candidates by bigger percentages before dropping out, but Harris has nearly erased the gap.What they're saying: "Democrat incumbents have maxed out their name ID and Democrat vote share, which is why they are matching Kamala Harris' ballot numbers," NRSC spokesperson Mike Berg told Axios."We are already seeing positive movement in our polls, and we expect continued positive movement over the next five weeks," he added.DSCC spokesperson David Bergstein told us: "Senate Republicans have a roster of deeply flawed candidates and their lies, scandals and baggage repel voters of every political persuasion, including many Republicans."The bottom line: Trump can still win the presidency — and Republicans feel confident about taking Montana to get to 51 in the Senate. But the former president might be forced to govern with the barest of Senate majorities.

Mayoral candidates Shane Clausen and Jim McKenzie met on Monday evening at Northeast Community College’s Lifelong Learning Center to discuss their priorities for Norfolk if elected, with well over 100 people in attendance.

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The poll from the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics shows Harris well ahead among likely voters 18 to 29. It’s a promising sign for Harris, who is banking on high levels of youth support.

Shawnee Public Schools will host Jim Thorpe Night during the Shawnee Wolves football game on Friday, September 27, at Jim Thorpe Stadium. The event, honoring the legendary Jim Thorpe, will also celebrate native heritage and traditions. The Wolves will face Tulsa East Central, with kickoff scheduled for 7 p.m.The post SPS announces Jim Thorpe Night set Sept. 27 at Shawnee Wolves football game appeared first on Shawnee News-Star.

A hunger to be more aggressive and authoritative in the biggest policy fights in Congress is defining the race to lead the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the largest conservative caucus in the House. Reps. Ben Cline (R-Va.), 52, and August Pfluger (R-Texas), 46, are seeking the chairmanship for the group in the next Congress — [...]

Arizona rancher Jim Chilton says he has had more than 3,500 migrants come across the border since the Biden administration took office and stopped wall construction.

The Ricketts family has plowed millions of dollars into Nebraska politics over the past decade. An analysis of their spending shows how it sets the family apart.

The end to the shutdown drama is in sight. The end to House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) political headaches is not.Why it matters: This caps 10 excruciating days for Johnson. At each step, he's insisted the inevitable wasn't inevitable. No one bought it.Johnson spoke with Republican appropriators about drafting a "clean" three-month funding bill, Axios learned this afternoon.The speaker hasn't publicly endorsed the three-month plan, which the White House and Senate Democrats always favored.But he's inching toward the outcome many Senate Republicans privately said was coming: A spending bill through November that didn't include a GOP voting proposal to require proof of citizenship to vote. Johnson's six-month stopgap plus the voting legislation failed yesterday.Zoom in: Axios reported on Wednesday that Johnson has a Plan B — but he wouldn't share it. That's still the case.Into the void stepped Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who told reporters Thursday he's starting to work on a bill that funds the government through Dec. 13 or Dec. 20."There's a lot of conversations going on right now," Johnson told reporters. "We'll make a play call. We got time."The federal government will shut down on Oct. 1 unless a spending stopgap or new budget is approved.What we're hearing: Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said there'll be a "lot of disappointment" if Johnson goes bipartisan.Asked if Johnson would face a revolt if he moved ahead with a clean three-month bill, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) responded: "I sure hope so."🚨 Johnson's rank-and-file and deputies see warning signs coming.House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has broadened his help on fundraising and campaigning beyond his conservative core. Republicans see this as evidence he's ready for a leadership challenge.Jordan failed to become speaker last year — and still has enough GOP detractors to block a new bid, sources tell Axios.But becoming party leader only takes a majority vote.What's next: Appropriators in the House and Senate — the so-called four corners — are expected to hash out the details over the weekend, with votes expected early next week.Meanwhile, the White House has started to engage. Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke this afternoon with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the top Republican appropriator.

About 8 in 10 white evangelical voters supported Trump in 2020.

News of the electric vehicle market's demise not only is premature, it's wrong.

House Republicans are hauling in Army officials to testify at a hearing next week on a training presentation that referred to pro-life groups as terrorists.

“We are on the precipice of something big,” says Movement for Black Lives organizer M Adams.

Johnson can only afford to lose the support of four Republicans on a party-line vote if there are no absences.

While the housing market typically isn’t moved by presidential elections, both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have weighed in with varying proposals.

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A change made by the Legislature ended the school tax credit, which could result in property owners failing to receive the 30% rebate on their 2023 taxes due this year.

“Hamas’s global financial footprint and use of the regulated international financial system means that its facilitators likely have access to the US financial system,” thunders National Review’s Jim Geraghty.

by Jim McMahon, Ricky Williams, and Kyle TurleyWhen we played in the NFL, they told us when drug tests were. Everyday Americans don’t get that option. Despite what President Biden proclaims, individuals are still being locked up for a plant that others are making millions selling. Patients in the greatest country in the free world still don’t have access to or the necessary research for a potentially life saving medicine. While we may have enjoyed privileged access to information and resources during our careers, the vast majority of Americans remain in a system that restricts their rights and access to a plant that has proven benefits.We dedicated our careers to the love of the game and our fans, often at great physical and mental cost. Our experiences have led many of us to use cannabis for healing. Recognizing the need for safe, effective therapeutic options for everyone, we are committed to breaking the stigma around cannabis, advocating for fair legislation, and ensuring access to this vital plant for all who need it. According to Marijuana Policy Project, since legal cannabis sales began in Colorado and Washington state in 2014, the U.S. adult-use cannabis market has generated a combined total of more than $20 billion in tax revenue from legal sales for state budgets. This figure does not include medical cannabis tax revenue, application and licensing fees paid by cannabis businesses, additional income taxes generated by workers in the cannabis industry, or taxes paid to the federal government. It also excludes the hundreds of thousands of dollars in new revenue from adult-use cannabis taxes generated for local municipalities.Billions of dollars are transacted every year on cannabis, yet because it remains illegal at the federal level any revenue generated from its sales is like kryptonite to banks. Do you know ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

Spartanburg Democratic Party Chairwoman Kathryn Harvey is the first serious Democrat to run for South Carolina's 4th Congressional District in years. Running in a conservative district versus GOP incumbent William Timmons, she believes she can compete — even as history...

Suddenly, Kamala Harris’ favorite word is freedom. She and Tim Walz are crafting a campaign strategy to hijack the "freedom” mantle from Republicans, a brand that the GOP has claimed since the Reagan era.

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The family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says it has reached an agreement with a credit collection company to avert the foreclosure of their historic hotel as he runs for U.S. Senate. The Greenbrier resort came under threat of...

MAGA loyalist Vivek Ramaswamy was swiftly fact-checked after claiming that Kamala Harris had slurred Republican voters as "weird."The failed GOP presidential candidate appeared Thursday morning on CNN to discuss the Democratic National Convention and urge fellow Republicans to remain focused on attacking Harris on the issues rather than insulting her personally, and he tried to claim that Democrats were more engaged in that sort of activity than the famously denigrating Donald Trump."We have not been going hard enough at her for that policy record," Ramaswamy said. "You look at the other side, their strategy has been to call about 70-plus million Americans 'weird.' I think that's a winning strategy for us, especially against the backdrop of Democrats, who have made this quite personal. I think that's a contrast from Democrats. Think about the Democratic convention, chanting 'lock him up,' chants of 'weird,' effectively calling 70-plus million Americans on the other side weird."ALSO READ: ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer hired by Trump campaign for Election 2024 endgameCNN's John Avlon had been pressing Ramaswamy to comment on Trump's personal attacks on Harris, but co-host Sarah Sidner jumped in at this point to correct their guest. "They're not calling the Americans that, they're not calling Americans weird," Sidner said, as Ramaswamy protested. "They're not calling the electorate weird. You know they're specifically talking about the vice president, Republican vice presidential nominee [J.D. Vance], and Donald Trump, not the electorate."The loquacious Ramaswamy was monetarily left speechless and could only agree to disagree."Well, I beg to differ on that characterization," he said. "You look at the way that many Republicans, even down-ballot Republicans, are treated in these races. My goal is not to play the victim card here, my goal is actually to highlight an opportunity that Republicans have to say that, at a moment when they're leveling personal insults at you, you know what? You have an opportunity, we have an opportunity, to attack even harder on the policy record."Watch below or click the link here.

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Mary Ellen McIntire, Daniela Altimari and Niels Lesniewski Editor’s note: At the Races will not come out on Aug. 29. It will return [...]The post At the Races: Can ‘joy’ give Democrats the House gavel? appeared first on Roll Call.

Arizona Democrats are calling former President Donald Trump’s planned visit to the Arizona border Thursday nothing more than a photo op, after he blew up a bipartisan border security bill earlier this year. Trump is set to make a campaign stop in Cochise County, to visit the state’s border with Mexico.“He likes to make a trip (to the border), it seems, about once a year to get his picture taken by the fence,” U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly said during an Aug. 21 call with journalists.And Kelly said he believes that Americans see through Trump’s posturing.“They know that there’s only one person who is actually interested in finding some real solutions to solving the issues at our border, and that is Vice President (Kamala) Harris,” Kelly said.GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX SUBSCRIBEAhead of his visit to Arizona, Trump’s campaign blamed Harris for the border crisis, including “crime and chaos caused by illegal immigrants” and overdoses of the opioid fentanyl that has been trafficked into the country from Mexico.According to the United States Sentencing Commission, 86% of people sentenced for trafficking fentanyl from 2017 through 2021 were U.S. citizens.“President Donald J. Trump knows that the people of Arizona and the rest of the country cannot take another four years of a missing-in-action border Czar who refuses to act to secure our border and protect our country,” the Trump campaign wrote in an email. “President Trump will Make America Great Again by stopping the migrant invasion and carrying out the largest deportation operation in American history.”But Kelly and Bisbee Mayor Ken Budge, both Democrats, castigated Trump for running on a promise to secure the border after he told Republicans in the U.S. Senate not to vote for a bipartisan border security bill earlier this year.Trump urged Senate Republicans not to support the proposed legislation because he wanted to campaign on the issue, and didn’t want to hand a win to President Joe Biden. Some progressive Democrats and members of the Hispanic Caucus also criticized the bill for providing too many concessions to Republicans.The bill was aimed at reducing border crossings, bolstering restrictions for asylum seekers and would have allowed the government to sanction and seize the assets of those involved in the fentanyl supply chain.Kelly characterized Trump’s ordering Republicans to kill the bill as “one of the most hypocritical things I’ve seen.”He added that, if Harris is elected president, she has promised to sign a bipartisan border security bill, which will include higher pay for border patrol agents as well as funding to hire more agents.Kelly accused Trump and Vance of wanting to campaign on the issue of border security, without a desire to actually address the issues.“When that border bill blew up, I just couldn’t stand it any longer,“ Budge said, acknowledging that the bill wasn’t perfect but that he believed it would have “produced results.”Budge said that it’s important to keep the flow of commerce open between border cities like Bisbee and sister cities in Mexico, and that the mass deportations that Trump has promised if he’s elected would make Latinos feel targeted and separate families.Both Kelly and Budge avoided directly answering a question from a reporter about whether Harris would visit the border. Trump has repeatedly criticized Harris for failing to make the trip.“Just to have your picture taken with a big, rusty wall behind you, I don’t think accomplishes anything,” Budge said.Instead, Harris is hearing — through surrogates — from the people and leaders of border cities, which Budge said was more important.In late July, mayors of some left-leaning Arizona border cities — Bisbee, Nogales, Somerton and San Luis — endorsed Harris.Those mayoral positions are nonpartisan, but Jorge Maldonado, the mayor of Nogales, spoke alongside Trump-backed Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Kari Lake during her “Mama Bear Border Tour” last November.After speakers last night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago called out Trump for the part he played in blowing up the border security bill, he lashed out at Harris via social media.“Tomorrow, I will be going to the Southern Border to address the plague of Migrant Crime and Migrant Rape that so-called Border Czar, Comrade Kamala Harris, has unleashed on America,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, a social media site that he founded. “This nightmare ends, and ends immediately, with our VICTORY in November!”The Trump campaign also sent out emails placing the blame on Harris for a “porous border” and for releasing “criminals and terrorists” into the country.It’s true that unauthorized border crossings spiked during Biden’s first three years as president, before seeing a steep drop this year. But those numbers were influenced by many factors, including the end of COVID-19 lockdowns and turmoil in multiple Latin American countries.In June, Biden issued an executive order that barred most immigrants who entered the country illegally from seeking asylum, a move that was criticized by Republicans as “too little, too late” and by progressives as a betrayal of Biden’s promises of humane action at the border.Unaccompanied children are exempt, along with victims of human trafficking, people with visas, people with medical emergencies or those who report serious threats to their lives.After his visit to the border today, Trump is hosting a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale on Friday, the same venue where Harris drew a crowd of approximately 15,000 supporters on Aug. 9.SUPPORT NEWS YOU TRUST. DONATEArizona Mirror is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Arizona Mirror maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Jim Small for questions: [email protected]. Follow Arizona Mirror on Facebook and X.

The Trump campaign gave journalists a letter it published on X and sent to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz blasting him over claims of stolen valor.

The Trump campaign released a campaign policy website for Vice President Kamala Harris, as she has yet to release one despite rising to the top of the Democratic ticket weeks ago.

Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, courted Republican and Libertarian voters in Nebraska Saturday while speaking to supporters in Omaha.

Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., won the nomination to another term Tuesday, unlike colleague Jamaal Bowman, a fellow progressive who lost his primary in New York in June.

Democratic Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, left and Republican challenger Eric Hovde have been battling each other for months, making Tuesday’s primaries more of a formality.

If he wins in November, former President Trump would likely attempt to take a more hands-on role steering the Federal Reserve's policy moves than has been seen in decades.Why it matters: Trump could attempt to install Fed appointees who are personally loyal to him — and willing to take direction from the White House — in ways that would surely reverberate through the U.S. economy and markets.However, there are some limits — both political and economic — on his ability to follow through on those instincts.What they're saying: "The Federal Reserve is a very interesting thing and it's sort of gotten it wrong a lot," Trump said at a news conference Thursday."And you know that's very largely a — it's a gut feeling. I believe it's really a gut feeling. And I used to have it out with [Fed chair Jerome Powell]. I had it out with him a couple times very strongly. I fought him very hard," Trump said."I feel the president should have at least say in there, yeah. I feel that strongly. I think that, in my case, I made a lot of money. I was very successful. And I think I have a better instinct than, in many cases, people that would be on the Federal Reserve or the chairman."State of play: As we've previously reported, Trump would have few options to remake the Fed in his image in the first 16 months of a new term. There are no governor vacancies until January 2026, and Powell's term as chair extends until May 2026.But after that, Trump could look to appoint Fed leaders who have agreed to abandon modern norms around keeping the White House at arm's length.Since at least the 1990s, the conventional wisdom among presidents and their close advisers has been that jawboning the Fed is counterproductive.Between the lines: It's crystal clear that Trump wants more obedient central bankers. He would face two major constraints: the bond market and the Senate.If Trump successfully installs Fed leadership that will cut interest rates on his orders, it could cause bond markets to lose confidence in the central bank's credibility on inflation, paradoxically causing longer-term interest rates to rise.And there is strong support in the Senate for the principle of central bank independence. Even assuming a Republican majority, appointees seen as excessively deferential to the White House may have a hard time winning confirmation.Zoom out: The paradox of Trump's pursuit of a complaisant Fed chair is that he would need to find an appointee who listens to Trump on policy, but whom markets and the Senate view as firmly independent.If Trump wins and seeks to assert greater power over the Fed's decisions, it won't be without historical precedent. Several presidents did exactly that, though their approaches — and success levels — varied.Flashback: Richard Nixon's administration pressured Fed chair Arthur Burns to loosen the money supply in many subtle and not-so-subtle ways, hoping to rev up the economy before the 1972 election."I respect his independence," Nixon said at Burns' swearing-in ceremony in 1970, adding ominously, "however, I hope that independently he will conclude that my views are the ones that should be followed."Later, Nixon's dirty-tricks squad spread the accusation that Burns was seeking a large pay raise amid high inflation, meant to pressure Burns to acquiesce to the president's preferred monetary easing.Burns largely acquiesced to Nixon's desire for monetary stimulus heading into the 1972 election — a decision that many economic historians believe contributed to inflation becoming unmoored as the decade progressed (though there is some revisionist thought that this is unfair to Burns).Only somewhat more subtle was the Reagan administration. In 1984, Fed chair Paul Volcker was summoned to the White House."As I arrived, the president, sitting there with Chief of Staff Jim Baker, seemed a bit uncomfortable," Volcker wrote in his memoir. "He didn't say a word. Instead, Baker delivered a message: 'The president is ordering you not to raise interest rates before the election.'""I was stunned," Volcker wrote. "Not only was the president clearly overstepping his authority by giving an order to the Fed, but also it was disconcerting because I wasn't planning tighter monetary policy at the time.""What to say? What to do?," Volcker wrote. "I walked out without saying a word."Volcker added that he had already been planning to ease policy following the collapse of the Continental Illinois bank.

POCATELLO — The fifth annual Prepare to Roar athletics fundraising campaign begins Monday, with sights set on a fundraising record for a third consecutive year.

Then-Rep. Tim Walz speaks about deportation of veterans at a news conference on Nov. 16, 2017.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert made a rare appearance at the annual National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday.

Trump’s rhetoric this week indicates that divisive attacks on race may emerge as a core GOP argument.