Republicans have claimed repeatedly that so-called blue state lockdowns in response to the coronavirus pandemic have destroyed their economies and that red states are enjoying robust recovery. However, a recent study has found that of the five states recovering jobs the most quickly since the beginning of the pandemic, four of them went blue in the 2020 presidential election â and the other is helmed by a Democratic governor. p The study, conducted by Wallet Hub and released on March 25, a href https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/states-where-unemployment-claims-have-recovered-the-most.html rel noopener noreferrer target blank found /a that Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire had the most marked decreases in unemployment claims between the beginning of the pandemic to the present, indicating at least some promising recovery for their respective job markets. Of these, three (Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire) went to President Joe B
Trump Defense Lawyers Donated To McConnell Campaign Warchest
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One of President Donald Trumpâs main campaign promises of 2016 was to âdrain the swampâ â in other words, aggressively fight against cronyism and blatant conflicts of interest in U.S. politics. But several members of Trumpâs impeachment defense team, the Louisville Courier Journal is reporting, have made generous campaign contributions to one of the presidentâs most prominent allies: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is up for reelection this year.
Louisville is in McConnellâs back yard: he represents Kentucky in the U.S. Senate. And Courier Journal reporters Ben Tobin and Morgan Watkins, analyzing campaign finance data, report that Ken Starr and Robert Ray â both members of Trumpâs impeachment defense team â have been generous contributors to McConnellâs 2020 reelection campaign.
The GOP s latest culture war is focused squarely on the nation s transgender community, specifically transgender youth. It isn t a new war, simply a new front in an old war that can be traced back to the famed bathroom bills from some years ago that spread across dozens of states. Those bills were introduced in tandem with former President Donald Trump s targeted federal government-led attacks that included the overturning of anti-discrimination statutes protecting trans people and an outright transgender ban in the U.S. military.
Now, in the wake of Trump s humiliating electoral loss, Republicans have accelerated the state-level attacks to a breathtaking level. In just the first three months of 2021, GOP-led state legislatures introduced more bills aimed at transgender people, especially youth, than they did over the entire previous year. There are now more than 80 bills introduced this year alone that, according to Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, are not
Questions continue to swirl around the timeline of Donald Trump s infection with the coronavirus. The White House continues to refuse to respond to questions about when Trump s last negative coronavirus test was information that could help with contact tracing as the infection spreads.
After serving eight years as a government official, Mayor Joyce Warshaw of Dodge City, Kansas, resigned Tuesday after threats of violence by people opposed to her city s mask mandate made her fear for her safety.