Why Hakeem Jeffries isn’t that upset about Jamaal Bowman’s loss
NEW YORK — Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Rep. Jamaal Bowman, donated to his marketing campaign — and in any other case sort of phoned it in. Jeffries, who represents a Brooklyn-based district, recorded a robocall this week for his weak colleague up in Westchester County in lieu of being an lively, seen presence on the marketing campaign path. And after the votes have been counted, he didn’t appear…
The Squad is shrinking. Now what?
Home Democrats say Jamaal Bowman is especially responsible for his personal defeat. However progressives nonetheless should confront the fact of a shrinking Squad — and stem additional electoral losses. Members of the bloc mentioned that they had no plans to alter their ways — together with their vocal criticism of Israel’s battle in Gaza, which prompted a pro-Israel PAC to show Bowman’s race into the most costly major in historical…
Leading New York City progressive, mulling 2025 challenge to Eric Adams, to blast mayor’s budget cuts
NEW YORK — New York Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander is becoming a member of an eleventh-hour push to thwart unpopular cuts to town’s preschool program as he inches nearer to difficult Mayor Eric Adams’ reelection bid subsequent yr. Lander, a progressive Democrat occupying a citywide workplace, will rally alongside fellow politicians, town lecturers union and oldsters denied a preschool seat Wednesday morning. In doing so, he's going after the centrist…
What to watch in tonight’s primaries in New York, Colorado and elsewhere
Main battles over the way forward for each events come to a head in key primaries on Tuesday. For the Republican Occasion, it’s the newest in a long-running struggle: Will the caucus be stuffed with potential rabble-rousers who may make governing much more tough than it's already, or made up of these extra consistent with an institution that sees governing as a high precedence? Within the curiosity of sustaining the…
Recount looms in Virginia as Good-McGuire race declared too close to call
The high-dollar, contentious Virginia main between Republican Rep. Bob Good and state Sen. John McGuire is simply too near name — and is probably going heading to a recount. Almost per week after the first, The Related Press mentioned Monday that McGuire led Good by 373 votes out of the greater than 62,000 ballots counted, a margin of 0.6 proportion factors. Below state legislation, the second-place candidate can request a…
‘Safe, legal and rare’: A California Republican’s Clintonian approach to abortion
A Republican operating to flip a aggressive California Home seat has an uncommon technique on abortion: Speak like a Clinton-era Democrat. “I’m a pro-choice Republican that believes abortion needs to be protected, authorized and uncommon,” stated Matt Gunderson, the automobile dealership proprietor difficult Democratic Rep. Mike Levin in Southern California. That place, a throwback to Democrats’ framing on abortion within the nineties, places Gunderson in a vanishingly small membership of…
Haley ran a near perfect race. She just couldn’t figure out Trump.
Few presidential candidates in current reminiscence have been as outwardly disciplined as Nikki Haley. The previous U.N. Ambassador spent two years getting ready to launch her bid for the White Home. And, over the course of 13 months, her stump speech barely modified — right down to the identical pauses, the identical inflections on the identical phrases, the identical giggle she conjured up when she acquired to the road about…
GOP navigates primary minefield as it tries to secure House control
Tremendous Tuesday boosted Republicans’ hopes of maintaining the Home majority. It additionally infected their fears of being unable to truly management it. Social gathering leaders have labored time beyond regulation to raise electable candidates throughout key swing seats. Due to that maneuvering, these contenders at the moment are well-positioned for November. However Tuesday’s races additionally noticed far-right candidates prevail in deep-red seats in Texas and North Carolina — regardless of…
Progressive LA District Attorney George Gascón wins spot in runoff vote
Embattled Los Angeles District Lawyer George Gascón has emerged because the first-place finisher within the main regardless of a serious problem to his progressive ways. Gascón will defend his seat from former lawyer common contender Nathan Hochman in a take a look at of voters’ dedication to lowering legal penalties and cracking down on police misconduct. The candidate in third-place, Deputy District Lawyer Jonathan Hatami, conceded Thursday as ballots are…
George Santos announces a bid to return to Congress
NEW YORK — George Santos needs to be again in Congress — or maybe simply again within the highlight. The indicted, ousted former Home Republican introduced late Thursday that he plans to major Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) on Lengthy Island. Santos posted the information in the course of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union deal with, which he attended after which insulted. “My promise is that I'll by no…
