President Biden launched his midterm push Thursday in deep-blue Maryland, with a rally selling the administration’s latest coverage wins as he begins promoting his agenda to voters forward of the high-stakes November election.
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Biden kicks off midterm campaigning, promotes Democratic wins
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In a Rockville highschool gymnasium lower than a half-hour from the White Home — in a state the place Democrats have a built-in registration benefit — the president shared the stage with the social gathering’s nominee for Maryland governor, Wes Moore, who faces Dan Cox, a Republican endorsed by former president Donald Trump.
The Maryland contest sketches the contrasts Democrats hope to focus on in midterms throughout the nation — touting their coverage concepts as inclusive and uplifting, and warning what Republicans would do to Democratic priorities in the event that they gained energy.
“We’re in a severe second in our nation’s historical past,” Biden mentioned, urging Democrats, independents and conservative Republicans to hitch him in “saving” the nation by voting in November.
“I respect conservative Republicans. I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans,” he mentioned.
Biden’s approval scores have climbed from historic lows as he secured long-sought coverage wins widespread with Democratic voters, together with local weather laws and caps on prescription drug costs. A Gallup ballot launched Tuesday confirmed his approval ranking at 44 % — a bigger bounce than different polls and the best ranking this 12 months, however nonetheless displaying the president with no majority’s approval.
White Home aides have mentioned Biden will journey the nation to attract consideration to the most well-liked measures within the Inflation Discount Act, and the White Home has plans for Biden to “showcase his accomplishments.”
The tour comes as many Democrats haven’t embraced Biden as their chief surrogate. The political head winds that usually disfavor the president’s social gathering in midterms had been heightened by file inflation. Biden joked about his tenuous reputation probably dragging down candidates Thursday, saying he informed his pal Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) that he would “marketing campaign for or towards him, no matter helped.”
Democrats are hoping losses don’t switch management of the Home or Senate to Republicans. Biden warned that might deliver abortion restrictions nationwide — which he vowed to veto — or an annual reconsideration of Social Safety and Medicare applications, citing latest feedback by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
About 3,600 folks gathered on the Democratic Nationwide Committee-organized rally at Richard Montgomery Excessive College, deep in Maryland’s largest Democratic stronghold, to listen to Biden, Moore and a roster of Maryland’s highest-profile Democrats: Home Majority Chief Steny H. Hoyer; Rep. Jamie B. Raskin; Sen. Ben Cardin; Moore’s operating mate, Aruna Miller; and comptroller candidate Brooke Lierman.
Moore remained onstage alongside the president, applauding as Biden sometimes embraced his shoulder.
Moore used his speech introducing Biden to element a private rise from a troubled teen with a single mom to a Rhodes scholar, navy veteran and nominee for governor, which he credited “to a neighborhood who didn’t depart me behind.”
He broadly promised to spend money on training, together with apprenticeship applications, free preschool who those that want it and neighborhood schools, and to make use of his expertise as a enterprise proprietor to bolster the state’s economic system, significantly amongst minority-owned companies.
Moore, who’s Black, famous that Maryland incarcerates younger Black males at a better charge than another state and vowed to vary that. He can be the state’s first Black governor if elected.
Though the governor’s mansion has been in Republican arms for eight years, Moore is closely favored to win in November. Democrats outnumber Republicans by greater than 2 to 1, and Cox’s shut ties to Trump might show to be an anchor, given Trump misplaced Maryland to Biden by 33 share factors in 2020. However Moore cautioned towards complacency.
Moore mentioned that since his major win, folks have informed him, “Isn’t it nice that it’s important to go up towards Dan Cox?”
“My reply is obvious and constant: Don’t underestimate what we’re up towards,” he mentioned. “It isn’t ‘nice’ that in November we face an election denier.”
Cox has referred to as the 2020 election “stolen” and mentioned he traveled to Pennsylvania to work on decertifying the vote. After the first, he deleted references to that work from his marketing campaign web site.
The Cox marketing campaign scheduled, then canceled, a “Freedom Rally” outdoors the DNC occasion.
In an announcement launched Tuesday, Cox accused Moore of avoiding debates with him and criticized Biden’s new plan for pupil debt aid, a $300 billion proposal that will cancel as a lot as $20,000 in federal pupil mortgage debt for thousands and thousands of debtors.
“I’ll win this November and vigorously serve the folks of Maryland as governor as a result of the failed insurance policies of the Biden Administration which Wes Moore is praising, advancing and can implement are disastrous for Maryland,” Cox mentioned in an announcement.
He later added, “And dealing Marylanders as an entire will find yourself paying for one thing they by no means had nor can they afford — another person’s school diploma.”
Cox’s place on pupil mortgage debt supplied a uncommon second of unity with term-limited Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who has questioned if Cox is “mentally steady” and refused to help him.
Hogan tweeted Monday that it will trigger “skyrocketing inflation. It is a actually unhealthy concept on the worst doable time.”
Biden’s reckless motion right this moment will solely trigger extra skyrocketing inflation. It is a actually unhealthy concept on the worst doable time.
Washington ought to give attention to making school extra inexpensive, not making inflation worse. pic.twitter.com/GhCnUc3mlz
— Larry Hogan (@LarryHogan) August 24, 2022
Biden informed the group that in the event that they needed to know what to think about Cox, they need to look no additional than feedback from the Republican chief of Maryland: Hogan.
Exterior the varsity, a line of a number of hundred folks ready to get inside stretched for greater than a block, with a number of hundred extra crowded close to the safety entrance. Males in black union T-shirts loved icees as Pharrell’s “Completely satisfied” performed from loudspeakers.
Juliane Caviston, 48, was feeling upbeat about Biden’s cancellation of pupil mortgage debt. She didn’t know a lot about Moore — “he in all probability doesn’t have an entire lot of presidency expertise,” she mentioned — however isn’t nervous about his probabilities in a deep-blue state.
Caviston mentioned she is extra involved that the Democratic Celebration is dropping contact with its liberal values amid the fixed battles over the 2020 presidential election and false claims over a number of points made by Trump supporters, together with Cox.
“Don’t neglect about our trans youngsters, don’t neglect about gender equality, don’t neglect about freaking abortion,” she mentioned.
Linda Lacey, 73, was excited to see the massive turnout, primarily as a result of her 14-year-old granddaughter, who begins at the highschool Monday, was enjoying piccolo within the band earlier than Biden spoke. A retired professor of metropolis and regional planning, Lacey, a Democrat, likes Hogan — significantly a 90-day suspension of the gasoline tax he championed — and is anxious that Cox represents a darkish flip within the state.
“I’m hoping that folks will come to their senses,” she mentioned.
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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