NotedDC — Harris prepares for Texas visit

Vice President Harris will journey to the Lone Star State this weekend to fundraise for Texas Democrats in Austin, nevertheless it’s unclear whether or not she’ll make a cease on the U.S.-Mexico border some 220 miles away.

Conservative pundits and GOP lawmakers have knocked Harris for not going to the border extra typically, regardless of immigration being in her portfolio of points to deal with.

Harris traveled to El Paso, Texas, to go to a processing middle at the usMexico border in June 2021, her first and solely journey to the realm as vp. That journey adopted weeks of critics questioning why she hadn’t gone to the border.

The White Home has lengthy emphasised it’s targeted on addressing the “root causes” of migration from Central America, although questions in regards to the vp’s reluctance to go to the border continued even after she visited Guatemala and Mexico. 

Not each cease on the vp’s journey this weekend is listed on her public schedule, so stops may very well be added. Harris’s press workplace didn’t reply to NotedDC’s request for remark or present further details about the journey. 

Harris is slated to headline the Texas Democratic Get together’s annual Johnson-Jordan Reception on Saturday, and she or he plans to fulfill with folks to debate reproductive rights in gentle of Texas’ sweeping abortion ban.

Nonetheless, immigration can be a significant a part of the protection surrounding her journey, significantly after a number of GOP governors bused and flew migrants from the southern border to cities and states farther north led by Democrats.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has gone as far as to ship busloads of migrants from Texas to be dropped off close to the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., the place the vp resides.

With midterm elections mere weeks away, a Reuters-Ipsos ballot out Wednesday discovered that 40 p.c of respondents assume the GOP is healthier at dealing with immigration points, in comparison with 32 p.c who favored Democrats on the problem. 

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☀️ Uncommon second of unity

President Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) hit the pause button on their rising political rivalry on Wednesday because the pair appeared collectively alongside their wives to offer an replace on the response to Hurricane Ian in Florida.

• Throughout a joint look in hurricane-ravaged Fort Myers, Biden and DeSantis complimented one another and spoke of cooperation between federal and state restoration efforts.
• “I’m simply grateful everybody has banded collectively,” mentioned DeSantis, a doable GOP candidate for president in 2024. “We recognize working collectively throughout numerous ranges of presidency.” 
• Biden later informed reporters that DeSantis has “achieved a great job” in responding to the catastrophic affect of Hurricane Ian: “We’ve got very totally different political philosophies, however we’ve labored hand in glove … On issues associated to coping with this disaster, we’ve been utterly lockstep.”

The go to was freed from any of the type of politically fraught pictures that accompanied an analogous journey by then-President Obama to New Jersey following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when then-Gov. Chris Christie (R) caught flak from fellow Republicans for embracing the sitting president simply weeks earlier than a significant election.

Biden and DeSantis have ceaselessly been at odds over points starting from COVID-19 mandates to the therapy of migrants, and the pair have signaled they don’t intend to cease talking their minds in regards to the others’ insurance policies after the present hurricane response interval is over.

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HOGAN 2024? MARYLAND GOV HEADS TO NEW HAMPSHIRE 

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) can be having fun with a breakfast of Eggs & Politics on Thursday when he takes his flip keynoting the famend New Hampshire occasion sequence that has change into a should for presidential hopefuls. 

• Hogan, who’s term-limited, is amongst a couple of Republicans who’ve been gently testing the waters for a possible 2024 run — or at the least in search of a strategy to affect the GOP’s candidate choice.
• Politics & Eggs, which is hosted by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm School and The New England Council, has change into a vital cease for gauging voter curiosity within the first-in-the-nation major state. 

Hogan, a average Republican who hasn’t shied away from criticizing former President Trump, additionally hit the Iowa State Honest — one other key cease for would-be presidential candidates — in August.

As Trump continues to mull a run for a second time period, a number of potential contenders have chosen to remain mum about their intentions in order to not upset Trump or his loyal base.

However Trump’s former vp, Mike Pence, additionally has proven curiosity. He spoke at Politics & Eggs in August and attended the Iowa State Honest. 

🤐 Buttoned up

President Biden smiled and appeared onward as a small pool of reporters hurled questions at him whereas they had been hurried out of the president’s assembly with the White Home’s reproductive rights job power this week.

“Among the many solely press on the planet that does this. Significantly. Significantly,” Biden quipped to job power members and members of his Cupboard who had been within the room as reporters and their cameras had been ushered out of the realm.

• The press’ prodding for brand new info from the president after a photo-op or formal handle just isn’t a brand new phenomenon and occurs whatever the president’s social gathering. And Biden from time to time has obliged with headline-worthy solutions on necessary matters, although he frequently skips over such pleas.
• The president has shared some recommendation on the subject with different leaders: “I wouldn’t hassle answering,” Biden was caught on tape final month telling Philippines President Bongbong Marcos as media members had been escorted out of the New York Metropolis gathering. 

Based on knowledge tracked by The American Presidency Mission on the College of California, Santa Barbara, Biden has taken half in fewer than 20 press conferences since taking workplace. For context, his predecessor, former President Trump, held 39 press convention in his first two years. Former President Obama held 46 of them. 

The White Home didn’t reply to NotedDC‘s request for remark. The White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation additionally wasn’t instantly obtainable to reply, however the group has vocalized reporters’ issues about entry to the administration. 

NUMBER TO KNOW

$31,000,000,000,000 

New nationwide debt file reached this week, in line with the U.S. Treasury Division. 

ONE MORE THING

“The Actual Housewives of Potomac” — the wildly fashionable DMV-based franchise of the hit Bravo actuality present — returns this weekend and already at the least two of the present’s hottest stars are slated to carry watch events within the District. 

• Grande Dame Karen Huger can be at Soiled Goose in Shaw, whereas former mannequin Ashley Darby can be greeting followers at NoMa beer backyard Wunder Garten.
• Know of another VIP watch events? Spot any of the RHOP girls watching the premier? Drop us a observe. 

[Note: We’re choosing to forget the disastrous Real Housewives of DC that was canceled after one season following an embarrassing White House party crashing incident.] 

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