cory gardner, joni ernst, monica webbe and tom cotton will fly to tampa. the fund-raising may also benefit the winner of the august 26 republican primary in alaska. this week was not so bright when it comes to jeb bush s iowa prospects. he was tied with christie for the highest negative rating of any republican tested in a new quinnipiac poll. his positive rating was even lower than christie s and he fared the worst against hillary clinton, trailing her by double digits. it s pretty clear, though, that jeb has a tough time. speaking of florida republicans, let s move to marco rubio. it s pretty clear these days that he s putting together the issues section of his presidential website. i d argue no potential 2016er has been more methodical about delivering policy speeches than rubio. started in january, february and march. rubio gave six big foreign policy speeches. in may he laid out his social security plan. this week his focus was economic policy and his pitch wednesday.
baker put skills to use when his home state of tennessee first elected him to the senate in 1966. he was described as affable, friendly, courteous and popular with lawmakers in both parties. he ascended to the position of minority leader in the late 70s. first he launched a bid for the presidency. i m going to redouble my efforts to become the republican nominee and i m going to do everything that i possibly can to accomplish that purpose. baker wound up dropping out early on, but took the position of senate majority leader after the republicans took over the senate post-1980. as leader he continued to use his power to try to bring the two parties together. unless we can arrive at a full bipartisan consensus on how to address the acknowledged problem of social security, that it will be the most contentious. in 1984 president reagan awarded baker the presidential medal of freedom and three years later he named him white house chief of staff. baker is credited with helping
we start with the delaware democrat state senator. first elected in 2012. she s a big advocate for special education. next up wilmington city council woman. first ever hispanic woman on the council. she s focussed on combatting gun violence through community outreach. over to the delaware republicans. we begin with greg lavelle. his focus has been balancing the state s budget, government accountability, and transparency. our second is state senator vernon lopez. focussed on education, health care, and child and family services. let s move over to maryland. we start with the democrats. state attorney nominee. on tuesday she knocked out the incumbent state attorney. she had a conviction rate of 83% during her career as a prosecutor. howard county executive. the nominee for lieutenant
joining me now pete williams and amy hough. let s go back to the recess appointment decision. pete, what was interesting is there were two decisions. explain. well, the court said three things. number one, they said that you can have a recess appointment not only between sessions of congress, but within sessions of congress. secondly, you can appoint people who are when the vacancies arise before the recess. the constitution says the president can fill up vacancies that arise during the recess of the senate and what the supreme court said is that means vacancies that exist, not that occur. and thirdly they said a recess has to be at least ten days. so for all practical purposes, when the white house and the senate are in opposite parties, the recess appointment power is dead. completely dead because they ll do these they said specifically these fake sessions, which harry reid started back in 06 and 07 to prevent judge packing in his mind, something that the republicans want t
way chris christie isn t. you know, the other thing about this week i thought was the jeb bush news, because it is you know, it s funny, people saying hillary clinton hasn t had a good book rollout. jeb bush hasn t done anything and yet everything is not you cannot everything has gotten harder for him to run for president. immigration, common core. he hasn t done anything and his numbers have gone down among republicans in iowa. a guy who works for me named philip bump, we re trying to figure out who s the most conservative on policy stuff on things that matter to republicans, common core being one, immigration being another. things that matter to one half of the republican party. the two people at the bottom of his rankings are jeb bush and chris christie and jeb bush is last. that s sort of the problem. if his name was jeb cillizza, i think we would say that guy is way too moderate to get elected. he s a bush and so we say, oh,