7/24/2023 0 Comments Nytimes georgia runoff![]() ![]() ![]() This take is consistent w/ my sense that Hawley is the next Ted Cruz rather than the next Trump: a very junior senator who persistently steps out of line and irritates his co-partisan Senate colleagues by putting them in difficult positions. Currently, he's one of the leading supporters of Trump's doomed and disreputable election fraud claims. The only reason this is a big deal is because it's part of Hawley's pattern of making things up that dates back to his time as Missouri's attorney general. The group said was a copy of the Constitution.Ī local police officer said cops warned the group they were breaking the law by protesting outside a private home and writing in chalk on a public sidewalk, as well as violating a local noise ordinance, and the group left without any trouble. While the demonstrators mostly stayed on the public street and sidewalk, at one point four people walked onto Hawley's property to place a pamphlet on his front door. "The protest of about 15 activists was organized by Shutdown DC," who "posted a more than 50-minute video of what it called a 'Vigil For Democracy,'" says the Kansas City Star: "The police spokesman told me this was such a minor event that they're not even putting out a press release," Lowry added. However, "a local police spokesman says they have no reports of property damage in Hawley's Virginia neighborhood," reports Bryan Lowry, a correspondent for the Kansas City Star. "They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door." "Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can't travel," tweeted Hawley on Monday night. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) claims that Antifa protesters vandalized his home and terrorized his family. ![]() ![]() Police dispute Hawley's claims of vandalism. Biden's "Build Back Better" plan calls for $2 trillion in investments related to climate change and $775 billion to help fund child and elder care, among other items. Democrats, including the Georgia Senate candidates, have echoed the president's call for a round of $2,000 stimulus checks and want to fund state and local budgets. While Democratic priorities on issues like voting rights and immigration, as well as contentious proposals to expand the courts, would likely be off the table without GOP support, much of Biden's agenda could pass via the same budget reconciliation procedure Senate Republicans used under Trump, which only requires a bare majority.Īt the top of the list: A much larger coronavirus relief package. That means "trillions of dollars in spending and taxes might be determined" by the outcome of these races, as Benjy Sarlin of NBC News put it: If Ossoff and Warnock are both victorious, which looks quite likely, it means a 50-50 split between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris getting the deciding vote in a tie. I'm too tired for long takes but on a scale from 0 to 10 on how bad this is for the GOP, it's maybe like a 9, not just because of the immediate implications, but also because it may imply that Trump is sort of a poison pill for how the party navigates its future.Ī whole lot more than just who represents Georgia is at stake, of course. "Most uncounted votes remain in Democratic strongholds in the metro Atlanta area."ĭecision Desk has already called the race for Ossoff. "Trailing much of the night, Ossoff surged ahead of Perdue by more than 8,500 votes after batches of votes from Democrat-heavy DeKalb County were released," notes USA Today this morning. Kelly Loeffler -though, taking a page from President Donald Trump's election loss playbook, she isn't conceding -and Democrat Jon Ossoff on his way to beating incumbent Republican Sen. Tuesday's runoff elections in Georgia appear to have handed Democrats control of the Senate, with Democrat Raphael Warnock beating incumbent Republican Sen. ![]()
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