Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) violated a federal conflicts-of-interest law by improperly disclosing his wife’s sale of stock in a gold mining company, Insider reports.
Peter Thiel Plans to Wind Down Involvement
“Billionaire tech mogul Peter Thiel won big when his longtime friend J.D. Vance succeeded in Tuesday’s Ohio Senate GOP primary, surging to victory in the final days of the race after a last-minute endorsement from former President Donald Trump and a seven-figure boost from Thiel,” CNN reports.
“But as the 2022 midterm cycle heats up, Thiel is winding down.”
Said a person familiar with his plans: “He’s done for the cycle. He’s not putting any more money into any more races or getting involved in new races.”
Feds Seized Items from North Dakota Lawmaker’s Home
Federal agents searched the home of North Dakota state Sen. Ray Holmberg (R) “and seized several items in November, less than three months after he exchanged text messages with a jailed child porn and child sex abuse suspect,” the Fargo Forum reports.
The Power Couple in the White House
“Second gentleman Doug Emhoff has emerged as a go-to fundraiser for the Democratic Party leading into the 2022 midterms,” McClatchy reports.
“Emhoff has racked up more appearances at fundraisers benefiting the Democratic National Committee than any other White House principal besides his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, and is expected to appear this summer at a number of state party political functions.”
A Wildcard In Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate Race
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Top Trump Fundraiser Vacationed with Russian Oligarch
“A top financier for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the legal charade to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election spent three days in 2019 on a now-seized superyacht owned by an influential Russian oligarch,” Forensic News reports.
Senate Showdown In Colorado
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Majority Say Abortion Should Be Mostly Legal
A new Pew Research poll finds 61% of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 37% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.
Job Openings Soar
Associated Press: “The economy now has, on average, two available jobs for every unemployed person. That’s the highest such proportion on record.”
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Pompeo Hints Dr. Oz Could Have Dual Loyalties
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz’s (R) ties to Turkey as raising “national security concerns,” The Hill reports.
Said Pompeo: “Not only did he not engage in the American process but he engaged in the Turkish political process. That raises in my mind a lot of judgments about his priority.”
Oz’s campaign quickly denounced the remarks as akin to dual loyalty “tropes used against Catholics and Jews.”
ABC News reports Oz actually cast a ballot in Turkey’s 2018 presidential election.
California Could Have 30% of All U.S. Abortion Clinics
“If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this summer, as a recently leaked draft opinion indicates it will, clinic shutdowns across the country could mean that California ends up being home to nearly 30% of all abortion clinics in the U.S., despite having just 12% of its population,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Trump Wanted To Activate Generals to Court-Martial Them
According to a copy of former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s memoir, A Sacred Oath, former President Donald Trump demanded that former Gen. Stan McChrystal and former Navy Admiral William McRaven be recalled into active duty so that they could be court-martialed for criticizing the president, TPM reports.
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Carville Says Republicans Don’t Fear Democrats
James Carville told CNN that Republicans do not fear the potential political ramifications of overturning longstanding abortion precedent because Democrats are currently dysfunctional.
Said Carville: “They have no fear of Democrats, that’s why they do this… Roe is over two to one in approval, and Alito and them said we don’t care, we’re not fair, and we don’t care and all the Democrats are going to do is sit around and talk about veganism and pronouns. And to some extent, that is a justified opinion that they have.”
He added: “If this doesn’t motivate people, if this doesn’t get you going, then I can’t do anything to help you.”
The Republican Axis Reversing the Rights Revolution
Ron Brownstein: “Since the 1960s, Congress and federal courts have acted mostly to strengthen the floor of basic civil rights available to citizens in all 50 states, a pattern visible on issues from the dismantling of Jim Crow racial segregation to the right to abortion to the authorization of same-sex marriage.”
“But now, offensives by red-state governments and GOP-appointed federal judges are poised to retrench those common standards across an array of issues. The result through the 2020s could be a dramatic erosion of common national rights and a widening gulf—a ‘great divergence’—between the liberties of Americans in blue states and those in red states.”
“The only lever Democrats have to resist these efforts is their unified control of the White House and Congress. In theory, this allows them to pass federal legislation establishing a new floor of nationwide rights on voting, abortion, LGBTQ issues, and other areas. In practice, that’s proved to be an empty promise.”
PR Giant Tells Clients to Stay Silent on Abortion Rights
“A massive public relations firm, Zeno, is privately advising its high-profile corporate clients to avoid commenting on the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade,” according to Popular Information.
“Zeno is also a subsidiary of Edelman, the world’s largest public relations conglomerate.”
Musk’s Twitter Funding Could Draw Scrutiny
“Elon Musk’s decision to accept some foreign investors as part of his $44 billion buyout of Twitter runs the risk of inviting the kind of regulatory scrutiny over U.S. national security that social media peer TikTok faced,” Reuters reports.
Running Against MAGA Extremism
Dan Pfieffer: “The Republicans are in the driver’s seat despite pushing one of the most unpopular, extreme agendas in modern political history. For all the handwringing about how Democrats can win the culture wars, it’s the Republicans who should fear a high-profile conflict on those cultural issues.”
“And it’s not just the ‘culture war’ issues where Republicans are off base. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stated that one of his first acts as Speaker would be to shut down the investigation into the January 6th insurrection, but that investigation is supported by two-thirds of Americans.”
Johnson Escalates ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Medicine
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told a group of Covid vaccine critics that he’s in a “guerrilla war” against the medical establishment, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Said Johnson: “I need every guerrilla fighting this guerrilla war right now. Don’t get out ahead of what the public is willing to accept as truth.”