Why the Media Are Afraid of Their Media: A Case Study Of A New Texan Attorney General who allegedly walked out of his home without a Witness
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It can be a difficult case to make. The Supreme Court decision ended federal abortion protections, but there are still state laws that ban abortion completely. Polls show that people across the political spectrum are on opposite sides of the abortion issue, and these laws and decades of Republican anti-abortion advocacy have put the party on the defensive.
The Texas Tribune said that in a sworn affidavit filed, the process server said that he knocked on the door of the Attorney General and was told he was not allowed to because he was on the phone. He stated in his statement that he would wait.
“Paxton and his wife exited the house and climbed into a truck that was parked in their driveway and drove off without taking the document.”
The two of them don’t dispute that he ran. He said he ran from a shady person outside his house, not from the subpoena. The media should be ashamed of themselves because this is a waste of time. There have been many threats against conservatives across the country and few coverage or condemnation from the mainstream media.
He claimed that the media wants to make a commotion about his work as Attorney General, so they were attacking him for avoiding a person outside his home with concern for his family.
Paxton makes a fair point: It’s awfully scary to have your privacy invaded, and infuriating when people try to interfere when you are trying to protect your own safety and the well-being of your family. Women in Texas can certainly relate.
Did Blake Masters Defend the Right Way to Ban Abortion? The Case against a Newly Deposed Reply from Marc Molinaro
Arizona’s Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters used to champion fetal personhood laws, which would fully criminalize abortion and potentially IVF as well, along with some forms of contraception; recently, though, that information was deleted from his website.
A DCCC ad released in mid-September claimed that Marc Molinaro, the Republican candidate in New York’s 19th District, would “stand with politicians who support a nationwide ban on abortion.” Text on the screen said, “MARC MOLINARO,” “POLITICIANS BANNING ABORTION NATIONWIDE,” “EVEN FOR VICTIMS OF RAPE AND INCEST.”
Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Republican running for Colorado, removed her support for “defending the sanctity of life” from her website as well as a video of her speaking at the March for Life.
Americans don’t support abortion bans. When you poll voters, even many who identify as pro-life and vote Republican, and even majorities in conservative states, hedge when it comes to actually criminalizing abortion.
Republicans may lose out on votes at the ballot box because of these laws. The solution is to stop passing laws that are wildly unpopular. Republicans have done it already, but then they raise their hands and say it wasn’t them. gesture when pressed on it.
The October surprise involving Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee in Georgia’s US Senate race, has upended the political landscape, throwing one of the nation’s closest midterm races into turmoil five weeks before Election Day, but it never had to be this way. Just as there should not be two Democrats representing a center-right state like Georgia in the US Senate, the Republican Party should not have found its chance of regaining a Senate majority hanging on an untested and unproven first-time candidate.
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They were planted in front of big homes with big yards, in a downtown storefront window, near the sidewalk by the Dairy Queen. There was a Confederate memorial on the corner near two other people.
The support appeared randomly scattered. A dot-to-dot drawing of a racial divide that has shaped Wrightsville for generations, is now shaping a major political race with national implications.
The campaign materials for the Republican Mr. Walker in the late 1970s were distributed in the white community according to the black man who taught and coached him. “The only other house that has a Herschel Walker poster is his family.”
During her primary contest, Ms. Scheller said she would be “open” to supporting federal legislation that would make it a criminal offense for a doctor to perform an abortion if cardiac activity is detectable. But she added that she would support abortion in cases of incest and rape. (That has not stopped Democrats from running ads accusing Ms. Scheller of wanting to criminalize abortion “even in cases of rape and incest.”)
According to theCTmirror.com, Logan didn’t support a national ban more than a week before the ad came out. I believe it is up to the states. In Connecticut, we have made it clear that a woman has a right to choose. I support that. In a July interview he said, “I believe abortion should be safe, legal and most importantly rare,” but later added that he is opposed to late-term abortions, but would support them if medically necessary.
“I believe it should be up to the states,” he said after a rally in New Britain hosted by the Republican National Committee, according to The Connecticut Mirror. In Connecticut, there is a woman’s right to choose. That is what I support.
Walker denied that he paid for a woman’s abortion after the Daily Beast reported that he had fathered a child with a woman. The woman who asked to remain anonymous, was said to have supported the claims with a receipt from the abortion clinic, a bank deposit receipt and a “get well” card. The Daily Beast published a photo of the card, bearing what the outlet said was Walker’s signature.
Walker said that the anonymous source was use to further instruement him. They will do all they can to hold onto power. It is disgusting, gutter politics.
A first-time candidate for office, Walker, a Republican endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has opposed abortion rights. He said last month he would support a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks. He in May said he supports a ban on abortion rights and there are no exceptions in his mind.
Walker sent money to a lot of people, but he did not recall sending someone a $700 check. I help people with money all the time.
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The pundits will decide how it will affect the race. I’ve been consistent in my belief that a woman’s room in a hospital is cramped and too narrow, and that she and her doctor are unable to work in it. … My opponent is mentioning a nationwide ban without any exceptions.
After Herschel Walker denied a Daily Beast report about him, his son Christian Walker took to social media and said his father was lying. I don’t care about someone with a bad past who takes accountability. Christian Walker said that he wasmoral, Christian, upright man in one of the statements he made.
Walker has brushed off that criticism, saying at a Thursday news conference of his adult son, “He’s a great little man. I love him to death. And you know what, I will always love him, no matter what my son says.”
A DCCC ad released in mid-September identified April Becker, the Republican candidate in Nevada’s 3rd District, as one of the Nevada House candidates who “want to join the Republicans in Congress trying to ban abortion nationwide, including Nevada.”
Abortion rights have been a flashpoint not only in Georgia, but in Pennsylvania, where Fetterman has looked to turn voters’ attention to Oz’s comments about the procedure in this week’s debate. The Republican said that “local politicians” should contribute to women’s medical decisions.
Democrats are advertising that their candidate, Catherine Masto, will always fight for women’s right to make their own health care decisions, while Republicans don’t.
In Washington state, the Republican Senate candidate has aired ads opposing a federal ban. In one spot, she says that Patty Murray had spent millions to paint her as an extremists. “I’m pro-life, but I oppose a federal abortion ban.”
Shortly after Roe was overturned, Murray began airing a straight-to-camera ad, in which she says, “It is a horrifying reality: Extreme politicians across our country, now in charge of the most private health care decisions.”
In the month of September, Democratic campaigns and outside groups spent more than $70 million airing 285 unique ads about abortion, according to tracker AdImpact. Republicans spent $6 million on ads about abortion in the same period.
The National Republicans Senatorial Committee told their candidates not to allow the issue of abortion to define them and to fight the election on other issues.
Joe O’Dea has addressed the issue in his race against Michael Bennet, a democrat in Colorado who is in a blue-leaning state.
In his first campaign ad, the first-time candidate and businessman highlighted his outsider credentials and stated that abortion should only be performed for the first five months of a pregnancies’ existence.
O’Dea stated that he would have voted for Elena Kagan, who dissented from the Dobbs ruling, because he wanted to end the “blood sport” over the Supreme Court confirmation process.
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You should talk about it if you see it in your polling. If you don’t see the issue in your polling, talk about other issues that are more beneficial to you, such as the economy.
“The Supreme Court made it clear: This is a Raleigh decision, not a Washington decision,” North Carolina GOP Senate nominee Ted Budd said in a local interview in September.
But shortly after making that point, the congressman co-sponsored the House companion bill to Graham’s proposal, which would let elected officials in Washington, and not the North Carolina capital of Raleigh, decide how to regulate abortion.
The politics editor for The Daily Beast said that they were very solid about the story and stood behind every word.
“Well, I sent money to a lot of people,” he said. “I give money to people all the time because I’m always helping people. Being generous is something I believe in. God has given me something. I would like to bless others.
“I’m for life,” Walker reportedly told The AP and Associated Report on a Football Legend’s “Exotic Family”
The allegation against Walker is the latest in a series of stories about the football legend’s past that has rocked the first-time candidate’s campaign in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country. Earlier this year, Walker acknowledged reports that he had three children he had not previously talked about publicly.
The AP also has reported that a review of public records detailed accusations that Walker repeatedly threatened his ex-wife’s life, exaggerated claims of financial success and alarmed business associates with unpredictable behavior. Walker himself has at times discussed his long struggle with mental illness.
“I’m for life,” Walker has said repeatedly as he campaigns. There are no excuses for the procedure, he said when asked if he’d allow for any exceptions.
When The Daily Beast reported that the outcome in Georgia might be affected, Warnock wasn’t interested. “I’ll let the pundits decide,” he said.
Everyone is leaking, so it is sort of like everyone is anonymous. He said that Democrats and reporters want to confess things that they do not know. “But it just shows how desperate they are right now.”
An Observationary Look at the Recovery of Scott Walker in the Georgia Governor’s Race After the Donald Trump Insights Out Of The Daily Beast
The loyalty to Mr Walker is indicative of the approach conservative Christians used in the Trump era to further their policy objectives. After some hesitation in 2016, white evangelicals supported Mr. Trump in high numbers after reports about his history of unwanted advances toward women and vulgar comments about them. They stood by Roy Moore, who ran a failed campaign for Senate in Alabama, after he was accused of sexual misconduct and assault by multiple women.
“You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence,” Christian Walker wrote of his father on Twitter.
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Walker had already been endorsed by Donald Trump. He was (and is) a celebrity in Georgia due to his football accomplishments. None of the other potential high-profile GOP candidates – like Perdue and Loeffler – ended up running.
With the stakes set so high, Republican groups have vowed not to abandon Walker, even as the scandal sent his campaign scrambling. Scott Paradise gave a speech to staff earlier this week in which he acknowledged that the initial Daily Beast report was a setback but pointed to the victory of Trump in 2016 despite the initial backlash to the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape.
The Georgia governor’s race offers a better path for the Republicans. What was billed as a blockbuster re-match between the incumbent GOP Governor Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams has turned into a relative snoozer. As a rising national Democratic star, she raised almost $28 million dollars and became the most moneyed candidate in US history.
Her stock has since taken a sharp fall. Abrams famously refused to concede her 2018 defeat. Just days ago, a federal judge tossed out her group’s lawsuit claiming the election was decided improperly. The State Ethics Commission investigated her fundraising practices, but they decided against it this past summer.
Kemp is breathing easier this year because of the other factors that are not related to his flaws. He has his own record to fall back on, and it is one of his accomplishments. Georgia was recently named the best state for business for the ninth consecutive year by Area Development magazine. Kemp made a decision that angers the President and has aged well over time. As more people and businesses have re-located to our state for our business-friendly climate, Georgia has taken meaningful strides toward becoming the technology capital of the East Coast.
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There is a steady lead over Walker for the incumbent Democratic Senator. He has done so despite voting more than 96% of the time with President Joe Biden in a state where just 44% of voters approve of the President, compared to 53% who disapprove, according to a recent Quinnipiac University survey.
Those numbers are true. Our Senate race should be a referendum on Biden and his agenda. In an evenly divided upper chamber, he could have stopped all of the legislation that passed along party line votes, including the American Revival Plan Act and the $750 billion Inflation Reduction Act, two bills often cited by conservatives as the cause of the high inflation rates of four-decade highs.
If we want to get the American public to care about us, we need to start with candidates that they want to take seriously. The process goes beyond fame and celebrity. It requires leaders capable of winning elections by articulating a conservative vision for governing.
The Times wouldn’t say the name of the woman, she said they ended up with nothing, because she refused the request. Walker was unmarried at the time. Their son, she said, is now 10 years old.
The woman told the Times that she decided to come forward with more information about her relationship with Walker after Republican backers came to his defense after the first report.
The Daily Beast reported that Walker gave the woman a check for $700 for the procedure, which happened in Atlanta. According to both outlets, Walker also sent the woman a “get well” card afterward.
Earlier Friday, Walker’s campaign split from its political director, Taylor Crowe, over suspicions that he was leaking information to the media, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. Crowe did not respond to multiple requests for comment from CNN. It is unclear if there were other factors at play or if the move had any connection to the abortion allegations.
The last presidential administration shifted people’s tolerance for making allowances for their preferred candidates, said the Rev. Joseph N. Cousin, who leads Allen Temple A.M.E. Church in Cherokee County, a Georgia Republican stronghold that supported Mr. Trump by nearly 40 points in 2020. For many white evangelicals, there seems to be a comfort with religious hypocrisy if power can be achieved, he said.
He said if you brought it along race lines, it was likely a group that was trying to stay in the majority.
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Tony Perkins, president of the political action committee associated with the Family Research Council Action, endorsed Mr. Walker on Friday. Mr. Walker’s story, he said in the statement, “is about the power of grace, redemption, and the opportunity America still provides.”
And it’s been made worse by the fact that smart Republican strategists have known for the better part of a year that Walker was a) deeply untested and b) deeply unpredictable as a candidate.
More than a year ago, in response to an Associated Press story detailing Walker’s turbulent past – including reportedly threatening his ex-wife and exaggerating his business successes – Josh Holmes, a longtime confidante to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was blunt in his assessment of the situation.
And while McConnell stayed silent publicly, he was operating behind the scenes to try to maneuver Walker from his prime position in the Georgia Senate primary.
“McConnell has suggested to allies that former Georgia senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should take another look at running again, according to three sources familiar with the matter, after their narrow losses in January flipped the Senate to Democratic control.”
But those initial doubts that led him – and one of his top political consiglieres – to be skeptical of Walker never went away. It was a classic case of, “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” in action.
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Republican candidates have sought to dodge the topic or change it. But in these final weeks of the campaign, it’s not too late for a more deliberate counterattack to win over moderate voters.
We know that abortion is a huge motivating force for voters who identify as Democrats. But for independents, the dynamic is more complex. A recent KFF Health Tracking Poll found one-third of Democratic women want to hear candidates talk about abortion, but only 16% of independent women share this sentiment.
According to polling by FiveThirtyEight, abortion is no longer on the minds of some voters, as inflation, crime, and fears of an economic downturn continue. In the wake of the Dobbs ruling 29% of women aged 18 to 44 listed abortion as one of their top three political priorities. In a poll conducted in September, that number had dropped to 12%.
In the unsettled political environment of our post-Roe midterms, Republicans have little to lose sketching out a proactive vision rather than just hunkering down on defense. The left would love to paint a negative picture of feminism, but having an explicit stance in favor of support for women through stronger safety net spending and improvement of maternal health would change that.
Some Republicans have decided to move in that direction. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, locked in a closer-than-expected reelection campaign, responded to the Dobbs ruling by unveiling a package of safety-net proposals that would boost resources available to pregnant mothers and catalyze on-the-ground programs that give moms and their babies the support they need.
Red states like Tennessee, Florida and South Carolina have opted into a federal program that provides postpartum Medicaid coverage for a year after birth, up from the previous standard of 60 days; it should be a no-brainer for every state that advances restrictions on abortion to follow suit. Texas and Indiana both passed new funding for low income mothers at the same time as passing restrictions on abortion, which demonstrates their commitment to being pro-life both during and after pregnancy.
Reply to Comment on Differences concerning the Georgia Senate Election” by M. Walker, R.E.D. Biden, and J.B. Warnock
It showed the results of a recent poll in which voters in Georgia were asked to name their top concern. The most common answer, given by about 40 percent of them, was the economy. threats to democracy was given the second most common answer. Access to abortion came in a distant third. The percentage of respondents who said that was not much.
Were they not happy with the use of an executive order by Biden to forgive billions of dollars in student loans? Walker let them know that he too was. Is it possible that progressives showed too much contempt for the police? He was upset about that.
It was as if he was going through a checklist of the reasons that the Republicans should be on board with him, and he did so with a discipline that made it seem like he was a hapless buffoon. Is he eloquent? Please. Was he articulate? Sporadically — and that was all that was necessary to exceed the expectations for him.
During the debate, he swerved from past statements that he opposed abortion across the board — no exceptions — to an endorsement of a Georgia law that bans it after six weeks of pregnancy but makes various exceptions, including for medical emergencies and in cases of rape and incest if a police report has been filed.
He said for the record that Biden won, abandoning prior claims that the results of the election weren’t trustworthy. Walker was wearing a sandwich board at the time. Not as quirky as you thought I was.
The hourlong debate in Atlanta featured an attack line from Mr. Warnock, as he stepped out of character to make thinly veiled criticisms of his opponent. He answered panelists’ questions with a mix of policy points and full-throated rebukes of Mr. Walker’s claims about his personal life, business prowess and academic record. He described Mr. Walker’s “well-documented history of violence” in reference to reports about Mr. Walker’s domestic violence against his ex-wife, Cindy Grossman, calling them “disturbing.”
The Senate race’s lesser-known contender, the Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, did participate in the debate, bringing up policy points like supporting L.G.B.T.Q. rights and keeping the government out of health care and energy investments. He found common ground with Mr. Warnock as both hammered their opponent for his absence from the debate stage.
The DCCC’s phrasing – King “stands with Republicans who want” a national abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest – allowed the ad to avoid explicitly claiming that King herself wants a national abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest. The ad didn’t mention that King has taken a public position against the proposals the ad implied she would support.
A lawyer for King sent a letter to the television stations asking them to stop playing the ad because it distorted King’s position. CNN was unable to determine how each station responded.
We don’t have a good way to know what Molinaro would do if elected, and this ad wasn’t worded to make anyone think that he wanted a nationwide abortion ban. But like the ad against King in Illinois, the ad against Molinaro did not acknowledge that the candidate is on the record opposing these proposals.
In an interview published five days before the DCCC ad began airing, NBC News quoted Becker saying she would “absolutely not” vote for an abortion ban in the House because she thinks a ban imposed by Congress “would be unconstitutional.” This was not a new position for her. She told Nevada Newsmakers in July she thinks a federal abortion ban would be unconstitutional since the Supreme Court said abortion is a matter for the states.
But even the DCCC’s research file on Becker notes that Becker herself has publicly expressed support for all three exceptions – and that she did so on her website even during the Republican primary.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America told CNN last week that it supports various kinds of anti- abortion legislation, including the one recently proposed.
In an interview with the Connecticut Examiner in October, he said that he was in favor of parental notification policies when a child is seeking an abortion. He believes that a women’s right to choose should be safe, legal and rare. I do not support late-term abortions out of convenience. I’m not talking about when there’s a medical emergency or those sorts of things.”
Sen. Pat Toomey is retiring, but his suprise affects Dr. Fetterman, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania has two statewide, open seat races, with US Sen. Pat Toomey retiring and Gov. Tom Wolf finishing the second of his two terms. It is a highly unusual occurrence in the commonwealth.
It is clear from the support that Shapiro has earned from many mainstream Pennsylvania Republicans that he is an honorable and decent man. If there is a GOP wave, it is hard to imagine a scenario in which the race would not be decided by the voters.
He has dominated on the air. What’s more, during an interview last week on the Real America’s Voice network, Mastriano falsely claimed the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia “is grabbing homeless kids and kids in foster care, apparently, and experimenting on them with gender transitioning, something that is irreversible.”
The US Senate race, on the other hand, is a toss-up between Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. Oz and Fetterman will debate on Tuesday for the first and only time, and the stakes couldn’t be higher for Fetterman, who suffered a near fatal stroke days before the primary election in May.
Questions have been raised about Fetterman’s capacity to perform the duties of a US senator due to auditory processing issues as a result of his stroke. All eyes will be on Fetterman, who will use closed captioning during the debate. Neurological experts have said people with auditory processing or hearing issues often use closed captioning.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/opinions/pennsylvania-elections-fetterman-oz-dent/index.html
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The polling is tight. Oz’s unfavorable ratings were high among Republicans, Democrats and independents after he emerged from the GOP primary. Republican voters are now back in Oz.
He has been campaigning on Fetterman’s support of the Green New Deal, a plan to wean the US from fossil fuels and cut greenhouse gas emissions. Fetterman has been attacked as a radical socialist after being an early supporter of the senator.
But Republicans are counting on crime to resonate as a concern among Pennsylvania swing voters. Fetterman’s role on the state Board of Pardons has come under close scrutiny over his votes to release convicted murderers, including Charles Goldblum, who was convicted of murder after a man was stabbed with garden shears 26 times in 1976.
Fetterman hammered Oz on the abortion rights issue in the Philadelphia media market, where there is a lot of interest in the issue. Fetterman has also attempted to tie Oz to Mastriano and all the baggage that comes with him.
There is a reason for Republican optimism. Republican momentum is building nationally as likely voters express concerns about inflation and the economy, and Oz is well-positioned to win. Republicans are surging throughout the country on economic issues, notwithstanding candidate quality problems, the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision on abortion, and former President Donald Trump’s unhelpful midterm interventions.
Pennsylvania also features three toss-up House races — in the Lehigh Valley, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and suburban Pittsburgh-based seats. In particular, watch the Lehigh Valley race between incumbent Democratic Rep. Susan Wild and Republican challenger Lisa Scheller, who runs a family-owned manufacturing business. It was the seat that I held for almost 14 years and is one of the most competitive swing districts. CNN’s John King produced an excellent report on the Lehigh Valley’s Northampton County, a key national bellwether that may determine the fate of the statewide races and control of Congress.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer expressed some concern Thursday over Democratic prospects in Georgia in the final weeks before the midterm elections, but he remained hopeful about Pennsylvania after the their nominee’s recent debate performance.
Georgia is where we are going downhill. It is hard to believe that they will support Herschel Walker, said the Democratic leader, adding later that the early turnout in Georgia is huge.
Schumer thought the debate did not hurt John Fetterman in Pennsylvania.
The overheard comments came as President Joe Biden and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul were on the tarmac. Biden gave a speech in the state Thursday in which he painted the Republicans as a threat to Americans pocketbooks.
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Less than two weeks out from Election Day, Democrats are fighting to hold onto their narrow majority in the 50-50 Senate, where Vice President Kamala Harris has the tie-breaking vote. Georgia and Pennsylvania, two states which Democrats are defending, are crucial to the mission.
The Democratic leader said his party was “picking up steam” in Nevada, where Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is among the party’s most vulnerable incumbents.
Fetterman told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Thursday that she couldn’t afford to give a clown a vote on the subject of abortion.
The Democrats immediately pounced on the comments Oz made in the debate, but most of the attention was put on Fetterman’s stroke.
We wanted to be there and it was important to be there. The democrat told the senator that they showed up. “And getting knocked down, I always got back up. To me, that is the main thing of our campaign, that we want anyone that has ever been knocked down in Pennsylvania to get back up. That is what we are running on.
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Some of the pivots were clumsy. Bo Hines, a former college quarterback who is running for a House seat in North Carolina, backs creating a panel that would decide whether to allow abortions in case of rape or incest. He has not been specific about how it will work.
“There are certainly legal mechanisms you could place legislatively that would create an individual basis,” Hines told Spectrum News. Democrats blasted out a news release calling the idea “post-Dobbs rape panels.”
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is running against Lt. Gov. John Fetterman for Senate in Pennsylvania, says he opposes a federal abortion ban. But he implied during their lone debate that “local officials” should be involved in the decision of whether to terminate a pregnancy. Who he meant was a mystery. county assessor? — and Democrats pounced.
A grass-roots coalition on the left, meanwhile, is pushing a ballot measure that would make abortion legal again in Michigan. In response, anti-abortion groups claim it would invalidate certain laws, such as the requirement for parental permission for child gender-reassignment surgery. Legal experts say all that would be for courts to decide, but Democrats have griped that the right “has done a good job of muddying the waters.”
In less than two years, the state which elected two Democratic senators in the last election cycle is once again home to a contest that has gripped both national parties and could determine President Joe Biden’s agenda.
During his address at a rally for GOP Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence did not mention Walker, but he did say he was supporting the whole Republican ticket.
Warnock’s lone debate with Obama: “I can’t do anything about it,” Walker told a tame debate
Warnock, meanwhile, initially sought to steer clear of directly addressing the controversy. But late last month, he launched a television ad titled “Hypocrite.”
Warnock’s play to undecided voters and moderates has focused on his efforts to expand access to health care – he often cites his work to lower the cost of insulin – along with his bipartisan record in the Senate.
In his lone debate with the Republican, he said that if he can help Georgia, he will work with anyone.
Obama stated at last week’s rally that there was little evidence that Walker had taken interest, bothered to learn anything about or displayed any kind of inclination towards volunteering.
Walker told those who are concerned about voting for him to think about the damage done to the country by politicians like Joe Biden.