Gavin Newsom resumes out-of-state roadshow as 2028 White House buzz grows
Source: New York Post · Bias: Right
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is once again heading out of state to hit the campaign trail with a planned trip this week to Nevada, extending a whirlwind year of jet-setting that has included overseas trips and a national book tour.
Gavin Newsom resumes out-of-state roadshow as 2028 White House buzz grows
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is once again heading out of state to hit the campaign trail with a planned trip this week to Nevada, extending a whirlwind year of jet-setting that has included overseas trips and a national book tour.
The former reality television star and Los Angeles mayoral candidate was photographed sitting with three others, including what appeared to be his son and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
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President Donald Trump said the US could potentially take over Iran's Kharg Island and resume a blockade on the country's ports, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran and raising the prospect of a return to all-out war. He made the comments during a news conference at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey. (Source: Bloomberg)
A new effort to drum up attendance in the waning days of Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, which has been nothing less than a public relations disaster for the White House, saw organizers livestream a game show from the main stage, according to a new report. And, according to the Daily Beast’s Leigh Kimmins, no one is showing up to watch.Coming on the heels of entertainer cancellations, mechanical failures, horrific weather and crumbling attractions the latest desperate bid to attract visitors, organizers have started livestreaming a “bizarre new game show” hosted by Meghan McCain, a former panelist on "The View," and daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).According to the Beast report, McCain shared a picture on social media that "showed a stage at the Washington, D.C., fair just after 9 a.m. ET with the quiz show Race 2 Win on three screens. On the two side screens, the aspect ratio is off, so it doesn’t fit on the monitors. Nine empty chairs are dotted around a seemingly empty field, with bleak gray skies providing an apt backdrop"The game show is reportedly based on US historical trivia, with Kimmin's observing, "The new ploy is the latest in a long list of flops when it comes to Trump’s fair, supposed to be a celebration of all things American."The fair is scheduled to come to a merciful end on Friday.
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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Donald Trump thinks he has a new way to force Republicans to pass voter suppression legislation in time for the midterms. In a late-night tirade, Trump demanded that Republicans pass the so-called SAVE Act by attaching it to a must-pass defense spending bill. This comes as Republicans are getting more nervous about losing the Senate this fall, and some reportedly fear that Trump is setting them up. If they don’t pass the SAVE Act, they fear he’ll blame them for any midterm fiasco that takes place.We think it’s premature to rule out the possibility of Republicans actually passing this thing. It’s a high-stakes moment that’s passing largely under the radar. So we’re talking to congressional scholar Norm Ornstein, one of our go-to people for decoding the congressional GOP. Norm, nice to see you.Norm Ornstein: Good to see you too, Greg.Sargent: So Donald Trump and MAGA are pressuring Republicans to pass the SAVE Act, which is this disgusting piece of voter suppression legislation. It can’t pass the Senate, so Trump is demanding that Republicans end the filibuster to pass it, which they don’t want to do or can’t do. Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson is looking for a way to pass something that he can call the SAVE Act to placate all the hardliners allied with Trump. Norm, what exactly is Mike Johnson trying to pass, and what’s he trying to pull off here?Ornstein: So first let me note, Greg, that John Thune has been as loyal a leader to a president, and certainly to Donald Trump, as anyone could have wished. And now he’s taking all of this abuse. But for Mike Johnson—many of his members, and they’re of course in very real danger of losing the House—they’re talking, and he’s talking to Trump, about using every voter suppression measure possible. But they really, really, really want this SAVE Act, because so many of the districts that are vulnerable to them are in blue states. Red states are going to do a lot, including a lot that’s already in the SAVE Act. Florida’s talking about passing their own version, Texas and others. But he needs something, and the SAVE Act includes a whole series of measures that would limit votes, suppress votes, make it difficult for people to vote at a time when Republicans are worried about a surge in voting—requiring that everybody provide proof of citizenship. And even if you’re registered, you have to go back to the office to re-register with that proof of citizenship, which has to be either a passport or passport card or a birth certificate—but not just any birth certificate. It has to be one that’s embossed, not a copy. And of course, as we know, if you are a woman who got married and changed your name, you have to jump through additional hoops.Sargent: The SAVE Act, as Trump wants it to pass, would include both the proof of citizenship requirement and also basically an end to mail voting, among a bunch of other stuff as well. What Mike Johnson seems to be trying to do is put aside the piece that would end mail voting, because Republicans who aren’t crazy actually know that they need mail voting for themselves as well. So Mike Johnson wants to put that aside and pass the proof of citizenship piece, correct?Ornstein: Exactly so, Greg. And let’s note here that Mike Johnson has a couple of reasons for wanting to do this. He is desperate to get something done. The fact is, many of his own members—and it’s particularly true of Mike Lee in the Senate and a couple of the others—are agitating publicly for this over and over again. There is a fear on the part of Johnson and other House Republicans that if they don’t pass something that has the name “the SAVE Act” attached to it, it will demoralize a portion of their base, who will say, you’re not doing what you need to do. That’s one reason. The other, as we’ve discussed, is suppressing what they believe will be votes for Democrats. And the proof of citizenship, which is a poll tax, which ought to be unconstitutional and illegal, is the core part of it. But he wants to take out the mail-in voting, not just because it can hurt Republicans a lot—they use mail-in voting plenty—but also because he needs to get something through and then blame the Senate. Because frankly, if Mike Johnson had to choose one house to go over to the Democrats, he of course would rather have it be the Senate.Sargent: Right. And so Mike Johnson thinks that he can essentially have slightly more of a chance of passing a SAVE Act that doesn’t have the mail voting piece. So in this context, at 12:58 a.m., Trump unleashes a tirade on Truth Social, calling our military “the strongest and the hottest in the world” and so forth—never mind the Iran fiasco, which is ongoing.
“Unfortunately, Graham Platner’s team has repeatedly reached out to us in an attempt to put their thumb on the scale of what this process looks like,” Murphy-Anderson revealed.
President Trump threatened to launch another “big attack” against Iran and warned that the U.S. Navy could resume its naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, less than 24 hours after the U.S. military attacked the country in retaliation for Iranian attacks on commercial ships. “You know, normally I wouldn’t tell you, but you know…
