TAKE with Rick Klein
Former President Donald Trump won the first round in the battle for approval of the primary season last week with the triumph of JD Vance in the primary elections in the Senate of the Republican Party in Ohio.
From here it just gets harder.
That fact came directly to Trump’s face Friday night when the mention of Dr. Mehmet Oz’s name sparked booing at the former Pennsylvania president’s rally. Some in attendance even turned their backs when Oz himself – Trump’s choice in the next major Senate race – spoke to the crowd, according to ABC News’s Lali Ibsa.
U.S. Senate Republican Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks at a rally in support of his campaign, sponsored by former President Donald Trump, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, May 6, 2022.
Trump uses little time to attack Republican Oz’s main rival, David McCormick, as a “non-MAGA” and “Washington establishment” candidate, linking a man who was a former Trump aide to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and a representative. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
For his part, McCormick released a new ad questioning Oz’s position on abortion rights and suggesting that Trump had chosen the wrong candidate in the race, as Axios’ Mike Allen first reported. McCormick is counting on the help of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ahead of the May 17 primary.
Next Tuesday will see decisions on Trump’s high-ranking approvals in deep red West Virginia and Nebraska. The election of Trump as governor of Nebraska, Charles Herbster, faces sad accusations from two Republican women; Herbster, a high-ranking Trump donor, dismissed the allegations as political slander.
This race remains to be grabbed in a split field. But even if Herbster and Oz win, Trump’s hopes of triumphing against the current governors appear to be fading in states including Georgia and Idaho.
Speaking on behalf of Oz on Friday, the former president highlighted the success of his candidate’s TV show and pointed out what, if he wins, could be considered the main reason: “It is very important that he is supported by someone known as me.” .
This remains important. But while the majority of Republican voters are loyal to Trump, accepting his word up and down the ballot is a different story.
The RUNDOWN with Avery Harper
While the leadership of the Republican Senate raises the idea of a national ban on abortion, Democratic MPs insist that reproductive rights will make voters vote in support of their candidates.
In an interview with USA Today on an expired draft Supreme Court ruling that will overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion across the country, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Called a national ban on abortion “possible”. “
“If the expired opinion becomes a final opinion, the legislature – not only at the state level but also at the federal level – could certainly pass laws in this area,” McConnell said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke to reporters after a week-long Republican political lunch in Washington on May 3, 2022.
Even without a national ban, 26 states are likely to ban abortions if Rowe is repealed, including 13 with “trigger laws” linked to the decision, according to an analysis by the Gutmacher Institute’s Reproductive Health Research Group.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., is expected to vote this week on legislation to codify abortion rights, but does not have the required 60 votes and is expected to fail. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Believes the next line of defense is this fall’s by-elections.
“We are marching straight to the ballot box and the women in this country and the men standing with them will vote like they have never voted before,” Klobucar told ABC co-host Marta Radac on Sunday.
What remains to be seen is whether reproductive rights will bring Democrat voters to the polls in large enough numbers to counter historical trends that often make by-elections unfavorable to the White House-controlled party, and in this case to the party that supports abortion access.
The council with Hannah Demisi
Efforts to prevent the election of officials allegedly involved in the January 6 uprising in the Capitol received a devastating blow last week.
A Georgia administrative judge has ruled that Republican Marjorie Taylor Green will remain on the ballot after a group of voters challenged her right to run for re-election – claiming Green supported the uprising and disqualified her. Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger adopted the opinion a few hours later.
MP Marjorie Taylor Green spoke at a pre-election rally for JD Vance, a Republican candidate for the US Senate in Newark, Ohio, April 30, 2022.
Green is one of several politicians across the country facing challenges under the 14th Amendment disqualification clause. Other lawmakers whose candidacies were challenged and later rejected include Arizona officials Paul Gossar and Andy Biggs.
Voters in Georgia plan to appeal the decision. But the sheer number of challenge challenges under the disqualification clause, which have been dropped by judges across the country, does not bode well for voters hoping to see Green and others removed from voting during this election cycle using this provision after the Civil War.
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200. This is approximately the number of anti-criticism bills on racial theory that Republican state lawmakers have introduced since January 2021, according to data collected by the nonprofit PEN America. Few of these bills are actually aimed at teaching critical racial theory, and as FiveThirtyEight contributors Theodore Johnson, Emelia Gold, and Ashley Zhao write, one of the most troubling aspects of these bills is the severe punishments they impose on those for whom it is found to be in breach of the law. Of the 84 proposed bills reviewed by FiveThirtyEight, 47 outline penalties ranging from fines to potential lawsuits.
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