Voters. And they found Jd Vance whose Memoir Elegy chronicling his working Class Upbringing in kentucky and ohio as a source. Vance became a translater of sorts explaining the plight of E Rural voter to blue america. Their communities have been struggling in a lot of different ways 20 or 30 years and nobody has really cared and trump is the first person to at least see these communities even if you think he doesnt have all the solutions. Oeas he became a Media Darlii his book received Rave Reviews and was turned into a movie by ron howard. I know i could have done better but you got to decide you want to be somebody or not. Even in 2016, some caught a cynical undertone to vances narrative as The New Republic put it. Quote. His great ewtake away from life in Americas Underclass is this. Pull up those Boot Straps and dont question elites. Public policy can help but there is no government who can fix these problems for us. It starts when we stop blaming Obama Or Bush or faceless companies
That biden will be laying out and here is where the urgency comes from, these graphs. The u. S. Is averaging 1500 deaths a day from coronavirus right now. Efforts to get more people vaccinated have hit a wall with daily vaccinateds declining in the last week. And with coronavirus infecting more children, Los Angeles would require all eligible students to be vaccinated. Lets get to all of this. First with cnns John Harwood who is live at the White House this hour. John, on the the president s speech, what more are you learning about it . Reporter well, kate, hes going to talk, as you indicated, about tHree principle objects or areas of focus. But one is by far and away the most important one and that is vaccinations. Trying to ramp up that level of vaccination, we still have about a quarter of the country that has resisted getting a first shot of vaccinations we know are the key of guesting out of the pandemic so you mentioned the federal requirement for federal workers and contractors
Take on this law, because it was specifically designed to deflect legal challenges. Were really looking specifically who theyre focused on, who is the defendant in whatever action theyre going to take because historically when you want to challenge an over restrictive Abortion Law you would traditionally go after the government, the one who would be enforcing punishment for anyone that violated the law. Here the law is designed so it is not the government that imposes punishment. Every citizen is deputized to bring an action. Thats why it is difficult to bring a challenge against the law. Even if you succeed in getting temporary or permanent relief against one person, you have all of these other people that can potentially sue these providers, which is right now providers say theyre not performing abortions after six weeks. Now, the Attorney General is under enormous pressure from fellow democrats to do something to stop this law, but so far the ideas hes put forth have really been mor
Going back to cali. Can she help save the democratic governors political life . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. And we begin today in our Health Today with a stunning rise in new covid19 cases among children in the United States. A 250 jump from just five weeks ago. Kids making up one in four new covid cases in the United States. Hospitalizations among children also seeing an uptick. A 12 increase in just one week. Still, we should underline severe infection in children remains rare. Less than 2 of kids infected with covid end up in the hospital. This is a pandemic that remains largely of the unvaccinated and largely of adults. 13 Miamidade County School employees have died in the past month all unvaccinated. And now as Cnns Nick Watt reports, a new study shows when severe Breakthrough Cases do happen, they tend to be in older, sicker people. Reporter misinformation, fear mongering, swirl around Breakthrough Infections. The vaccinated who still catch covid. The science shows the v
Good tuesday morning. Im erica hill. The united states passing another covid milestone. 40 Million cases in the united states and there is currently no sign of that number slowing down. And just to put it in perspective, more than 4 Million of those cases were reported in just the last four weeks. The Sevenday Average of new coronavirus cases, 300 higher than it was at this same time Labor Day. After last year. Tomorrow President Biden we are learning is set to deliver a major speech in the next phase of the pandemic recovery. According to sources, Hell Layout key steps on what the White House and the federal government can take, key steps that can be taken next in the fight against the virus. The speech will also contain multiple components related to schools, private companies and federal employees. Lets get straight to the White House, Cnn Correspondent Phil Mattingly is standing by. Phil, the president set to tour damage in the northeast. What more do we know, though, about this ma