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Voters in Los Angeles Say They ‘Don’t Have a Lot of Good Choices’
Many said they were struggling to choose from candidates they saw as uninspiring in both the mayor’s and governor’s races.
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Becerra’s Heritage Appeals to Many Latino Voters, but Some Shrug
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If Xavier Becerra wins the primary, he has a strong chance of becoming California’s first Latino governor since 1875. That’s a draw for some Latino voters, but other factors are driving their votes.
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These voters feel like L.A. city residents, but their ballots say otherwise.
After hearing about the Los Angeles mayor’s race for months, some voters realized Tuesday that they don’t have a say in it.
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Washington Examiner
Appeals court questions Philadelphia’s authority to force the federal government to keep slavery exhibits
A federal appeals court sharply questioned lawyers for the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday over their lawsuit seeking to restore a slavery exhibit to the President’s House site in the city, which is operated by the federal government. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard arguments in a […]
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US Appeals Trade Court Order for Broad IEEPA Tariff Refunds
The Trump administration has formally appealed a judge’s order compelling customs authorities to refund all importers who paid the $166 billion in global tariffs that the US Supreme Court declared unlawful earlier this year.
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Xavier Becerra: 5 Facts About the Candidate for California Governor
Mr. Becerra has become an unexpected front-runner in the race for California governor after lagging in polls for months.
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The Strange Appeal of the Solitude Influencer
Some of them say they have no friends—and they love it.
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CNN data guru: Platner's latest scandal 'looks different' to Maine voters
Graham Platner has survived a string of scandals in his run for Maine’s Democratic U.S. Senate nomination. But his latest one “looks different,” says CNN analyst Harry Enten.Platner seemed to have survived his controversial tattoo scandal, his “angry and offensive” Reddit comments scandal, and the scandal surrounding him “amplifying a post by a notorious anti-semite on social media and appearing on a podcast with a different antisemitic conspiracy theorist,” as TIME reported last month.Platner’s latest scandal involved his alleged sexually explicit texts to women who were not his wife, texts his wife reportedly told his campaign about last year. Campaign aides “ultimately decided the texts were a private matter that was being handled by the couple in marriage counseling, a campaign official said,” according to the Wall Street Journal.But now, Enten says, Google searches for “Graham Platner” and “Maine” have been up “significantly” over the past few days.“We’re talking about up 275 percent over the last three days versus the three-month average, and more than that, more people searched for him on Sunday in Maine than at any point that I could find, even given the past revelations, about the tattoos, as well,” says Enten. “So it seems to me that this time may, in fact, be different where Mainers’ focus on Graham Platner is higher.”Enten found that “one of our first glimpses into how this might affect Platner’s electoral fortunes is from the prediction market, so you can see that’s right here in the Kalshi prediction market, chance to win the Maine Senate race.”“About 10 days ago, Democrats had a 70 percent chance — that’s essentially Platner — had a 70 percent chance of winning the general election. Now, that number has fallen. It’s fallen rather significantly.” Platner has dropped from 70 percent to 59 percent against incumbent GOP Senator Susan Collins. Enten says that is now “well within the margin of error.”“I dare say too close to call, although Platner is still favored, but his chances have gone down significantly and Collins’ have gone up significantly.”Polls have consistently underestimated Collins, Enten noted.Meanwhile, Puck News reports that Democrats are “fretting that their best chance in decades to unseat” Collins is being “jeopardized” by the latest Platner scandal.Puck notes that “multiple Democrats have described a sense of resignation” that Platner “is the only candidate they’ve got.”But Maine’s Democratic incumbent Governor Janet Mills, “who suspended her state’s Senate primary, has reminded voters her name is still on the ballot.”
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Iowa voters pick their nominees for competitive general elections
Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek will face Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson in the Senate race. For governor, Democrat state Auditor Rob Sand and Republican businessman Zach Lahn move on to November.
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