President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro are neck and neck ahead of Brazil’s October election, with a new poll giving the incumbent a slight edge, 42% to 41%, Bloomberg reports.
Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Waves Off Grabbing Women
Pastor Mark Burns, a spiritual adviser to President Trump, told the New Yorker that “it doesn’t matter” the president “grabbed” women and bragged about it.
Said Burns: “Well, I think that it could be said about all of us. I mean… you have things in your closet that you pray never show up on CNN. There are things that you’ve done that you pray to God never become a New Yorker story.”
He added: “It doesn’t matter what President Trump has done in his past… It doesn’t matter in the eyes of the Lord, and apparently, it doesn’t really matter to the eyes of the American voters because they voted for him and made him President twice. Many would argue three times.”
Wholesale Inflation Jumps 6%
“Wholesale prices in April posted their highest annual increase in more than three years, signaling more nettlesome inflation as pipeline costs intensify,” CNBC reports.
Trump Gets a Lavish Welcome to China
“President Donald Trump disembarked Air Force One in China on Wednesday for the first time in nearly a decade,” NOTUS reports.
“The Chinese rolled out a red carpet underneath the stairs of the presidential plane minutes before Trump descended and gave the waiting crowd two fist pumps.”
CNBC: Trump arrives in Beijing with CEOs ahead of Xi meetings.
Becerra Continues to Surge in California Primary
A new Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics poll of the primary election for California governor finds Xavier Becerra leading the field at 19%, followed by Steve Hilton and Tom Steyer at 17% respectively.
Ten percent support Katie Porter, and 8% Matt Mahan. Twelve percent are undecided.
Trump Distances Himself from Reflecting Pool Project
President Trump said he does not know the contractor that is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it, The Hill reports.
Inside the Democratic Battle Plan for Redistricting
CNN: “Jeffries and his allies have designed plans for the next two years to push Democratic-held states to set aside nonpartisan redistricting rules or gerrymander even more aggressively, with an eye toward producing a dozen or more new Democratic-held seats by November 2028, people familiar with the matter said. They’re eying seats from Oregon to New York in an effort that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars more in the next two years.”
“And they’re willing to put an uncomfortable spotlight on members of their own party to do it.”
Said Jeffries: “The days of Democrats unilaterally disarming are over, particularly given how high the stakes are.”
“Behind the scenes, the House minority leader’s allies are preparing a messaging push against any Democrats who stand in the way of gerrymandering, insisting that only ‘real Democrats’ are willing to fight.”
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A Window Into the President’s Mind
“Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s football team. And he had dinner with law-enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“After the sun went down, another familiar ritual began: late-night social-media posting. The president’s Truth Social account posted 55 messages between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m.”
GOP Lawmaker Denies Inappropriate Relationships
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) denied having any inappropriate relationship with staff and said an investigation by the House Ethics Committee will eventually clear him of any wrongdoing, CNN reports.
Brad Raffensperger Gets Credible Death Threat
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) received “a four-page ‘manifesto’ threatening the Republican’s life a day before authorities were alerted to a suspicious object that disrupted a Macon event for his bid for governor,” the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports.
Missouri’s New Map Approved
“The Missouri Supreme Court enacted the state’s Republican-drawn gerrymander on Tuesday, allowing it to likely take effect for the midterms by handing the GOP victories on two major redistricting cases,” Politico reports.
“The court ruled that the state’s new map — which Republicans in the Legislature drew to break up a Kansas City-area Democratic seat and shift the delegation from 6-2 Republican to a 7-1 advantage — did not violate the state constitution’s redistricting clause. The court also ruled against Democrats in the state who filed a petition seeking to force a referendum on the map, declaring the filing of the petition does not automatically suspend the new map.”
An Overwhelming Rebuke of Trump’s ICE Policies
Politico: “Ten thousand losses. That’s the Trump administration’s track record in court as federal judges grapple with the way ICE agents have swept through major U.S. cities and detained thousands of people in support of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.”
“More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.”
How the White House Views the Midterms
Playbook: “The mood within the camp has been transformed by an extraordinary two weeks in which high-stakes showdowns over redistricting landed decisively in Republicans’ favor — potentially handing them up to 12 Democratic House districts this fall. Blair, the architect of a strategy that just a few weeks ago seemed to be teetering on the brink of failure, is lapping it all up…”
“Blair hints that Republican donor concerns about Trump’s unspent millions are groundless, vowing GOP candidates won’t be outspent. And he spies opportunity in his opponents’ tribulations, enjoying the fratricidal warfare consuming Dems in several hard-fought primaries, including last night in Nebraska. He believes Democrats will repeat the ‘woke, weak and way too liberal,’ mistakes of 2024, and that his strategy will be ‘attack, attack, attack.’”
“But Democrats will see openings. There’s no acknowledgement of the infighting that’s beset Republicans in Texas, and may yet open the door for rising Democratic star James Talarico. There’s no acknowledgement of Trump’s abysmal polling. And there’s no attempt to confront the political catastrophe that is Trump’s war in Iran — a conflict that’s sent prices soaring with no end in sight.”
Is Trump Losing His Sway on Capitol Hill?
Punchbowl News: “On issue after issue, both in Washington and in state capitals around the country, Republicans are giving Trump the stiff arm. They’re ignoring his policy demands and overlooking his diatribes, even as they continue pledging allegiance to Trump politically.”
Trump’s Five-Alarm Economy
“President Trump flew to Beijing on Tuesday under some of the darkest economic clouds of his political career, leaving behind a country reeling from the cost of everyday life,” Axios reports.
“The bottom is falling out on Trump’s economic credibility — the central promise of his return to power. The inflation crisis that doomed his predecessor suggests he may not recover.”
Primary Winner to Drop Out to Support Independent
“A Democratic challenger who said she intends to drop out of November’s race for the US Senate in Nebraska to clear the way for an independent candidate has won the state’s Democratic primary,” The Guardian reports.
“Cindy Burbank ran against William Forbes, who Democrats contended was a Republican plant in the race, with the intent to drop out if she won. Forbes, a pastor who has voted for Trump and opposed abortion access, is currently registered as a Democrat.”
CNN: Democrats pin their hopes on an Independent to flip a GOP Senate seat.
Big Majority Oppose New Data Centers
“Public opposition to data centers is hardening as overwhelming majorities of Americans now oppose construction of the facilities in their communities,” according to a newly released Gallup survey.
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