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They’re two comparatively younger and really high-profile governors of huge states who’ve knack for grabbing nationwide consideration and firing up the bases of the respective political events.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida are as soon as once more within the highlight this weekend, sparking extra hypothesis about their 2024 intentions.
DeSantis, whose reputation has soared amongst conservatives in Florida and throughout the nation the previous two and a half years, courtesy of his forceful pushback in opposition to coronavirus pandemic restrictions and his aggressive actions as a tradition wars warrior, sparked a brand new controversy earlier this week by flying Venezuelan migrants to the progressive bastion of Martha’s Winery in Massachusetts.
Whereas igniting outrage amongst Democrats, the calculated transfer spotlighted the flamable difficulty of unlawful immigration and border safety, which fires up the GOP base but additionally connects with impartial voters who could also be pissed off with the Biden administration efforts in dealing with the surge in border crossings into the U.S. over the previous 12 months and a half.
GAVIN NEWSOM CHALLENGES RON DESANTIS TO A DEBATE
File images of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California (left) and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida (proper)
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Newsom, who requested the Justice Division to analyze each DeSantis and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas — who’s transported migrants to progressive cities equivalent to New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. — accuses the conservative governors of utilizing the migrants as “political pawns.”
On Friday, Newsom challenged DeSantis to a debate, which triggered a disagreement on Twitter between the Newsom and DeSantis camps.
Newsom has been as artful in latest months as DeSantis in grabbing nationwide consideration, trolling each the Florida governor and Abbott with adverts of their states. And this previous week, Newsom captured the highlight as soon as once more by placing up billboards in a number of crimson states the place abortion is now restricted, highlighting that California is a haven for legalized abortion. The transfer additional bolstered his push as a champion for reproductive rights, which is a prime difficulty with many in his get together’s base within the wake of June’s transfer by the Supreme Court docket’s conservative majority to up finish the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
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Whereas the 2024 presidential election might find yourself being a rematch of the 2020 contest between President Biden and former President Trump, if the 2 70-somethings don’t find yourself operating, DeSantis, Newsom, and others within the subsequent technology are utilizing inventive methods to lift their nationwide profiles.
“Historically, with the run-up to midterm elections, political eyes flip to the early states of Iowa and New Hampshire for indicators of presidential candidate exercise. And whereas these visits are occurring, a brand new development is rising amongst those that are taking a look at potential runs that’s nationalizing their potential candidacies,” veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance famous.
“Each Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis have taken to the nationwide airwaves with their manufacturers of politics on the problem of immigration. It is good and, maybe most significantly, it is free air-time that is designed to enchantment to the bases of their events. And, it is working,” added Lesperance, who’s vp of educational affairs on the New Hampshire based mostly New England Faculty. “The nationalization of our presidential major course of has begun. Newsom and DeSantis are first in. Others will observe.”
Are DeSantis’ 2022 journeys ‘laying the groundwork’ for 2024?
As he runs for re-election in November, DeSantis is as soon as once more on the marketing campaign on Sunday — exterior of Florida. DeSantis will likely be in Kansas and Wisconsin, headlining rallies for these state’s GOP gubernatorial nominees -Derek Schmidt and Tim Michels — that have been organized by the conservative group Turning Level Motion.
“Governor DeSantis is America’s Governor and probably the most widespread leaders within the nation. He has grow to be the mannequin for a brand new conservative motion that’s keen to face on precept and to truly battle on behalf of the values of his voters,” Turning Level Motion founder and president Charlie Kirk mentioned in a press release.
The swing follows an analogous one final month, when DeSantis traveled to Arizona ato marketing campaign with gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and Senate nominee Blake Masters, to Pennsylvania to stump with gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, and to Ohio to staff up with Senate nominee JD Vance. Lake, Masters, Mastriano, Vance, Schmidt and Michels all gained their Republican nominations thanks partly to essential endorsements by Trump.
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The DeSantis journeys are undoubtedly being observed by the previous president.
“Trump blew a gasket” when DeSantis teamed up with Lake, a supply within the former president’s political orbit advised Fox Information. And the teaming up of DeSantis and Kirk — who’s a Trump ally and really shut with Donald Trump Jr. — can be “not going unnoticed,” the supply added.
Whereas within the Badger State on Sunday, DeSantis can be anticipated to fulfill with billionaire Wisconsin based mostly businesswoman and GOP mega donor Diane Hendricks, in accordance with a veteran GOP guide who requested to stay nameless to talk extra freely.
“This isn’t about serving to different candidates, it’s about serving to Ron DeSantis,” the guide charged. “That is all Ron laying the groundwork” for 2024.
DeSantis’ political staff declined to verify or deny the governor’s assembly with Hendricks.
Trump was additionally on the path this weekend, holding a big rally in Ohio on behalf of Vance.
Pompeo spotlights his 2024 staff
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returns this week to New Hampshire, the state that for a century’s held the primary major within the race for the White Home.
Pompeo on Tuesday will headline the newest version of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics’ “Politics and Eggs.” The talking collection at St. Anselm Faculty, simply west of Manchester, has been a must-stop for practically a quarter-century for precise and potential White Home hopefuls of each main events.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo keynotes the Hillsborough County, New Hampshire GOP’s annual Lincoln-Reagan fundraising dinner, in Manchester, N.H. on April 7, 2022.
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The West Level graduate and Military armor and calvary officer stationed in West Germany throughout the Chilly Conflict who was later elected to Congress from Kansas earlier than serving as CIA director and America’s prime diplomat in former President Trump’s administration, has additionally made quite a few stops the previous 12 months and a half in Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada, the opposite three early voting states within the Republican presidential nominating calendar.
Pompeo, a Fox Information contributor, has repeatedly mentioned that he’ll decide on 2024 following the November midterm elections.
However this previous week, talking to the Navy Seal Basis Midwest Night of Tribute in Chicago, Pompeo revealed extra about his potential White Home run.
“We’ve received a staff in Iowa, a staff in New Hampshire and South Carolina. And that’s not random. We’re doing the issues one would do to prepare,” Pompeo shared.
And taking a pleasant jab his former boss, Pompeo joked that “in contrast to others, if I am going down an escalator, nobody will discover.”
Pompeo was reference Trump’s well-known trip down an escalator at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis in 2015 as he introduced his White Home run.
Pence stops in New Hampshire to spice up the final
Former Vice President Mike Pence returned to New Hampshire on Wednesday night, to headline a fundraiser for former Military Gen. Don Bolduc, who hours earlier narrowly gained the Republican Senate nomination in the important thing common battleground state.
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Bolduc will face former governor and first-term Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in November’s midterm elections in a Senate race which will decide if the GOP wins again the chamber’s majority.
Former Vice President Mike Pence headlines a fundraiser for New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc, on Sept. 14, 2022 in Wilton, N.H.
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“Now could be the time for us to unite and are available collectively as a celebration in New Hampshire, come collectively as a celebration all throughout this nation and do what must be completed. And I’m right here to let you know I do know we are going to,” Pence emphasised as he spoke following a simply concluded 2022 major season that have loads of turbulent Republican nomination battles.
The journey by Pence, who seems to be shifting in direction of launching a 2024 presidential marketing campaign, was his second this summer time and fifth over the previous 12 months and a half to New Hampshire. Throughout his final go to to the Granite State, he headlined “Politics and Eggs.”
And two days after his August cease in New Hampshire, Pence made a busy two-day swing by Iowa, whose caucuses have led off the presidential nominating calendar for half a century. The previous vp’s itinerary included one other must-stop for White Home hopefuls: a go to to the Iowa State Honest.
Hogan evokes Reagan in main worldwide handle
Time period-limited Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland has additionally made journeys to New Hampshire and Iowa this summer time, however this previous week he was removed from the marketing campaign path.
Hogan, who’s mulling a White Home bid of his personal, was in South Korea, the place he gave a keynote speech on the Jeju Discussion board of Peace and Prosperity, a global summit that features quite a few heads of state and former Secretary-Common Ban Ki-Moon. Former President Invoice Clinton and the late Soviet chief Mikhail Gorbachev have additionally beforehand spoken to the discussion board.
The Maryland governor urged the world to “stand united behind the enduring worth of freedom and democracy” at such a “pivotal second” in historical past.
“Most of the different nice leaders, like [former President] Reagan, that introduced in regards to the peaceable finish of the Chilly Conflict are now not with us, and the duty of making certain peace and prosperity in our time now falls to the world leaders right here at present on the Jeju Discussion board,” he emphasised in his handle.
The politics of the area have also shifted.
For two decades its voters reliably leaned Democratic, but Donald Trump won the county in 2016 and again four years later, both times by solid margins.
Dwayne McDavitt, a retired prison guard and a Bikers for Trump leader, is one of the more visible local backers of the former president.
Before the rally in Scranton, he explained that he doubted the result of the 2020 election because he simply did not believe Trump could have lost fairly: “Tell me how Joe Biden could get 81 million votes.”
But Democrats hoped they could move the county back in their direction and made an intensive effort to do so.
County officials were vigilant leading up to Election Day. Luzerne County became a hotbed of election denialism in 2020, and Pennsylvania is an open-carry state. Some people feared voters might bring guns to the polls. Election workers were told they could bring their own guns.
The night before the election, a group of campaign volunteers organized by Jennifer Ziemba, the wife of the Luzerne County Republican Party chairman, gathered at Ziemba’s home in Harveys Lake, a prosperous community outside Wilkes-Barre.
They were calling Republican voters whose mail-in ballots had flaws like a missing date to tell them they had to cast provisional ballots in person.
“We’re not really MAGA-looking,” one of the women said. But they were staunch Trump supporters.
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“The women voting solely on abortion make me crazy,” Ziemba said. “I’d gladly give up my abortion rights and my daughter’s for my son not to have to go to war. We’ll have peace with Trump.”
Another woman, Lee Ann McDermott, who owns a real estate appraisal business with her husband, John, thinks the economy will improve under Trump. “With the interest rates high, no one was refinancing.”
On Election Day, most of the state’s counties shifted further to the right, tilting Pennsylvania and its 19 Electoral College votes to Trump by about 130,000 voters.
She was sitting in the front parlor of her Wilkes-Barre home, built by her great-great grandfather.
Wynn’s ancestors escaped slavery by fleeing to Pennsylvania before the Civil War.
The morning after the election, some of the Bikers for Trump gathered to celebrate at D’s Diner, in the Wilkes-Barre suburb of Plains Township.
A man they did not know, a retired financial planner named Kim Pace, approached their table. He began by saying that his wife did not think it was a good idea to talk to them. He had voted for Harris.
“Congratulations, guys,” he said. “I hope it all works out.” His tone suggested that he was doubtful.
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Dave Ragan, a U.S. Army veteran who had arrived on his motorcycle, stood up to respond. “We changed the world!” he said. “I don’t have to worry about my stepdaughter having a boy in the locker room.”
“Let me tell you something,” Pace said. “That stuff is overblown.” He wished them well and left.
Away from the table, he said, “If Harris had won, there was going to be trouble.”
In the days after the election, political tensions lingered in the community.
On Thursday evening, John McDermott, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, sat at home with his wife, Lee Ann, drinking a vodka and tonic after a round of golf. McDermott voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Trump in 2020.
This year, he voted for Harris. “I couldn’t bring myself to vote for him,” he said. “He’s a convicted felon. He believes in conspiracy theories.”
Lee Ann, a county council member, saw matters differently: She was one of the women making calls at Jennifer Ziemba’s house on the eve of the election. Now she was on her way to meet some of them at a restaurant to toast Trump’s win.
The mood was festive when McDermott arrived. “We’re getting Trumpy!” one of the women exclaimed, as they raised their cosmopolitans and glasses of wine.
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Among the revelers was Shelley Meuser, the wife of Representative Dan Meuser, whose district includes a part of Luzerne County.
“We got our country back!” shouted Terry Eckert, who is a real estate agent.
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Thirty miles down the road from Wilkes-Barre is Luzerne County’s other city, Hazleton. Its population of 30,000 is 63 percent Latino, an estimated 90 percent of whom are from the Dominican Republic.
There are at least six Catholic churches and many Pentecostal congregations in the community. One of them is the Iglesia Cristiana Agua de Vida Hazleton, where Elizabeth Torrez is the pastor.
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Philip Montgomery is a photographer whose work examines the fractured state of America. Michael Sokolove, a contributing writer for the magazine since 2002, has written extensively on Pennsylvania and its politics.
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Ranked choice voting suffered a blow as several states, including Nevada, Oregon, Colorado and Idaho rejected measures last week.
In Colorado, Proposition 131 would have created an open primary system for candidates of any party and the top four vote-getters would move on to the general election, after voters ranked their choices from first to last.
“The ranked choice voting movement has pushed really hard to convince everyone it’s a great idea,” data scientist Seth Werfel told Colorado Public Radio. “It has some merits but it’s not a slam dunk, and I think voters are skeptical of anything that they can’t immediately understand.”
In Idaho, Proposition 1 would also have ended the party primary system.
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A vote center in Anchorage, Alaska. (Hasan Akbas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
It was rejected by nearly 70% of the voters.
“You need a scandal, you need corruption, you need something that’s happening statewide to make the case to pass something complicated like this,” CalTech professor Michael Alvarez told Boise State Public Radio. “I’m not super deeply immersed in the politics of these various states, but I don’t see that common ‘why’ there.”
Oregon’s ranked choice voting measure, Proposition 117, was rejected by 58% of the voters.
“Voters this year were reluctant to make dramatic changes to the way they vote,” Chandler James, who teaches political science at the University of Oregon, told Oregon Public Radio. “But I don’t think that it spells the end for ranked choice voting in the future.”
Voters in Portland, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)
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A similar measure in Nevada was rejected by 53% of voters. The same measure was passed by nearly 6% in 2022, but Nevada measures that require amendments to the state constitution don’t go into effect until they’re passed in two consecutive elections, according to the Nevada Independent.
Ranked choice voting is already used statewide in Alaska and Maine and places like New York City, but in Alaska a measure to repeal it looks like it could pass narrowly. Hawaii uses ranked choice voting for some special elections.
A voter in Denver, Colorado. (Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)
And in Missouri, voters approved a constitutional amendment banning ranked choice voting.
“We believe in the one person, one vote system of elections that our country was founded upon,” Missouri state Sen. Ben Brown, who sponsored the measure, previously said in an interview, according to NPR.
Other states that have bans on ranked choice voting include Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee and Florida.
Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term “squaw” from more than 30 geographic features and place names on California lands, according to an announcement Friday by the state Natural Resources Agency.
The action stems from a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in 2022, and follows a similar move by the U.S. Department of the Interior, which said “the term has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women.”
The California law, Assembly Bill 2022, banned use of the word in future location names and ordered the resources agency to begin renaming all places that used the term, including streets, bridges, public buildings, forest fire fuel breaks and cemeteries.
For Deputy Secretary for Tribal Affairs at the Natural Resource Agency Geneva Thompson — the first official to hold the title and a member of the Cherokee Nation — it’s a meaningful step to heal centuries of harm the state has inflicted on Indigenous people.
“Acknowledging those historical wrongs that were committed against Native Americans is extremely important, but we need to take the next step toward healing,” Thompson said. “While there are differences among folks, we can build communities that reflect and honor and celebrate those differences instead of alienating and perpetuating historical wrongs.”
The renaming will occur in early 2025. It comes on the heels of an order from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to rename any geographic features or location names on federal lands that use the term, including dozens in California.
The California Advisory Committee on Geographic Names, which the California Natural Resources Agency oversees, scoured maps of California for any uses of the word under state jurisdiction, and the agency partnered with local governments and Native tribes to select new names.
In West Sacramento, a local public agency worked closely with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation to rename two streets.
The new name for the streets, “Tebti,” is a word and blessing that translates to “the streams that flow together” — a reference to the Sacramento and American rivers, which join in West Sacramento.
One local official framed the new name as a “gift to the community,” Thompson said.
“The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation has led the effort to change demeaning mascot imagery of Native people, and we support replacing derogatory names locally and across state lands,” said Anthony Roberts, tribal chairman of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, in a statement announcing the name changes. “With continued consultation, tribes can lead initiatives to eliminate such words from California’s public places.”
Some scholars believe the now-offensive term originated from the Algonquin language, which was spoken by many tribes on the East Coast, and originally meant “woman,” but was later corrupted by European colonists.
“It’s a racial stereotype. At times, it can even be a way of exerting harm against an individual or a group of people,” said Thompson. “You see that play out in the history of the state of California. You see this term written in military generals’ journals as a way of othering Native women to justify violence that was committed against them.”
AB 2022 was brought to the floor by Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland), who became the state’s first Native American lawmaker in 2018.
The word “denigrates Native American women and dehumanizes them,” Ramos said in a statement announcing the name changes.
“I believe that dehumanization has contributed to the Murdered and Missing Indigenous People crisis that affects all of our people but that strikes women and girls in disproportionate numbers,” he said. “Not one of my colleagues in the legislature voted against the bill because so many recognize this word is not a place name that belongs in California.”
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