Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has spoken with Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) about Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) Senate replacement. Menendez will resign from his seat effective Aug. 20 following his felony conviction in a corruption case. Booker will become the state’s senior senator after Menendez’s resignation. “I think the governor recognizes that when you have an […]
Anita Dunn, a former senior adviser to President Joe Biden, thought his June 27 debate performance wasn’t the reason for his campaign’s demise. The nightmare event would have been salvageable, Dunn said, but that the media’s reaction and the way Democrats turned on him and pressured him to abandon seeking reelection was what tipped him […]
President Joe Biden is expected to campaign alongside the Democratic nominee and his right-hand woman, Vice President Kamala Harris, next Thursday in Maryland. The White House announced the pair would travel to Maryland to “discuss the progress they are making to lower costs for the American people.” It is not yet clear what city or […]
Foreign policy plots The world looks a lot different in 2024 than it did in 2020. Former President Donald Trump liked to boast about how calm the world was when he was in charge — no war in Ukraine, no war in Israel, and Chinese and North Korean leaders “liked” and “respected” him a lot. […]
(The Center Square) – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee, admits that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “has a point” on the border crisis. The Democratic governor has waffled on his views about the border, opposed border wall funding, embraced so-called sanctuary city status, and blamed the Texas governor for the border […]
(The Center Square) – Democrat Josh Stein continues to edge ahead of Republican Mark Robinson, according to a new poll on the race for North Carolina governor. Expected to be among the nation’s most expensive of the 11 nationwide on 2024 ballots, the campaigning has been hard-hitting from both sides. It’s also been close since […]
(The Center Square) – There is agreement from all sides about the need for reforms for how police are hired in Illinois, but what reforms there need to be is still unclear. Gov. J.B. Pritzker continued taking questions Thursday about the aftermath of the police-involved shooting death of Sonya Massey last month in Springfield by […]
(The Center Square) – Business owners and taxpayers are paying a big price for retail theft. According to CWBChicago, shoplifting reports have soared 45% this year, making 2024 the worst year for retail theft in the city since at least 2003. Illinois Retail Merchants Association President and CEO Rob Karr told The Center Square that the […]
(The Center Square) – Retainment of the independent contractor model in the American workforce is being sought by a congressional committee and could lead to subpoena of a Biden administration leader, a North Carolina congresswoman says. Writing to interim Department of Labor Secretary Julie Su, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx said her failure to provide responses […]
(The Center Square) – Arizona Democrats will usher through some long-sought changes to ESA vouchers, teacher pay, school meals and all-day kindergarten if they can wrest the gavels away from Republicans in November. Only two seats away from having a Democratic majority in Arizona’s legislative chambers for the first time in six decades, the Democratic […]
