“Florida banned local police from installing license-plate readers on state roads, responding to growing concern about the proliferation of surveillance cameras made by Flock Safety and other companies,” Bloomberg reports.
San Francisco Dems Break with Party Over Billionaire Tax
“San Francisco Democrats have broken with their statewide party over California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax, rejecting Proposition 40 in a lopsided vote that exposes a growing divide over whether taxing extreme wealth is worth the potential economic consequences,” Fortune reports.
“The San Francisco Democratic Party voted 17-4 to oppose Proposition 40—with five members abstaining, five members absent, and one member with no endorsement.”
Tonight’s Primary Results
“Tuesday’s Democratic primaries in Massachusetts are likely to determine who will represent the state in Washington next year,” the New York Times reports.
“The state is so Democratic that its primaries are usually more consequential than general elections in congressional races. The state’s last Republican House members left office after the 1996 elections. Scott Brown, who won a special election in 2010 after the death of Edward Kennedy, was the only Massachusetts Republican to serve in the Senate since 1979.”
Polls close at 8 p.m. ET.
Leave your reactions in the comments as the results come in.
Talarico Described Capitalism as ‘Oppressive System’
“Six years before becoming Texas Democrats’ U.S. Senate nominee, James Talarico described capitalism as an ‘oppressive system’ during a Sierra Club event, grouping it with White supremacy and climate change and saying ending the ways all three worked together was necessary to begin the process of ‘dismantling them,'” CNN reports.
Abdul El-Sayed Leads in Michigan Senate Race
A new EPIC-MRA poll in Michigan finds Abdul El-Sayed (D) leading Mike Rogers (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 47% to 43%.
Michigan Senate Race
Abdul El-Sayed (D) 47%
Mike Rogers (R) 43%
James Talarico Is Flooding the Airwaves in Texas
Wall Street Journal: “The Talarico campaign is still considered a long shot in red Texas, but the candidate is giving Democrats hope that they can fulfill the elusive dream of winning statewide office there for the first time since the 1990s. Race raters at Fox News, Cook Political Report and The Center for Politics all recently have moved the contest from ‘leans R’ to ‘tossup.'”
“Throughout August, Talarico has been on offense. His ads are ubiquitous in the state, thanks to his fundraising advantage, and have included digs against Paxton including one accusing his opponent of stealing a $1,000 pen. His campaign recently hired a top aide to Republican Sen. John Cornyn, whom Paxton defeated in a tight primary.”
Mike Lindell’s Bid for Recount Rejected
“MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has long denied President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he’s refusing to accept his own election loss in the GOP primary for governor of Minnesota,” NBC News reports.
“The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Lindell’s bid Saturday to order a full recount of his Aug. 11 loss to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth after she won the Republican primary by 45,000 votes.”
Greg Abbott Blocks Funding for Flock Cameras
“Republicans and Democrats once praised Flock Safety as a protection tool for American communities. Now politicians across the political spectrum are turning against the mass-surveillance technology,” the Washington Post reports.
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) froze state spending this week on the shoebox-size cameras that have proliferated across the nation.”
NOTUS: What the Flock?
Trump Criticizes Hochul After She Rejects ‘Lake America’
“President Donald Trump hit back at New York Governor Kathy Hochul after she said her state wouldn’t use ‘Lake America,’ the administration’s new name for Lake Ontario,” Bloomberg reports.
“Trump belittled the Democratic governor in a social media post Friday, claiming that Canada has been taking economic advantage of Hochul as well as New York state.”
Axios: Dems plan bill to counter Trump’s “Lake America” order.
California Sues Trump Over Offshore Wind Cancellation
“In the latest salvo in California’s ongoing environmental battle with the White House, the state on Friday sued the Trump administration over its attempt to kill offshore wind farms,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Trump has long despised offshore wind power, falsely saying that it does not work and kills whales. This spring, his administration struck deals with energy companies. In exchange for refunds for what they paid for offshore wind leases, the companies agreed to use the money on oil and gas projects.”
Texas Republican Predicts GOP Losses Over Data Centers
“Texas’s outgoing agriculture commissioner is warning fellow GOP leaders that if they don’t take action soon against data centers, they could lose key races in November,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Miller: “I’ve been leading the charge against these data centers for a year or more, and it’s all falling on deaf ears. It’s going to hurt us in the midterms. I think we could lose some statewide races.”
“Among the Republicans most at risk, he said: Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking a fourth term; Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s running to replace Sen. John Cornyn; Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick; and Nate Sheets, who is running to replace Miller.”
House Majority Could Hinge On Governors’ Races
“A pair of polls released early this week reaffirmed the conventional wisdom in two key races: Democratic governors in Arizona and Pennsylvania appear headed for victory,” NOTUS reports.
“And the margins in those polls suggested the potential for the type of coattails that could boost Democrats to down-ballot victories and a House majority.”
Joe Biden Considered Pardoning Donald Trump
“Joe Biden discussed the possibility of granting President Trump a pardon in a bedtime conversation with his wife, Jill, according to Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox,” the New York Post reports.
“In an anecdote from his upcoming book, the governor revealed that he pitched Biden on the idea of pardoning Trump back in August 2023 — only to find out that the then-president and first lady had already been mulling it.”
DeSantis Administration Misspent $10 Million
“Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration ‘misappropriated’ $10 million in taxpayer money by diverting it to a charity tied to his wife, according to a leaked Florida grand jury report that took a sharply critical view of the dealings,” the New York Times reports.
Wyoming’s Governor Sounds Alarm Over Election Monitors
“Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) expressed concern Wednesday over how election observers from the U.S. Justice Department observed the state’s primaries last week, saying it was ‘aggressive’ and ‘irregular,'” NBC News reports.
Said Gordon: “It sounded like the behavior of the observers was a bit aggressive. It just was irregular and I have asked the attorney general to start looking into, you know, kind of the nature of the visits and all that sort of stuff.”
Shapiro Blames RFK Jr. for Vaccine Distrust
“Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro blamed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for sowing distrust in vaccines as the state confronts a widening measles outbreak that has killed two people and infected hundreds of others,” Bloomberg reports.
“Shapiro said Kennedy’s rhetoric and efforts to reshape federal public health policy had contributed to confusion about vaccines at a time when immunization rates are falling.”
Ron DeSantis Says Flock Cameras ‘Out of Control’
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the use of automated-license plate readers has gotten ‘out of control,’ as debates continue across the country over Flock Safety’s AI-enabled cameras,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said DeSantis: “No one’s been stronger on law enforcement than me—but I don’t want to have this become a surveillance state.”
Poll Shows Talarico Beating Paxton in Districts Trump Won
A new Texas Southern University poll of the Texas Senate race finds James Talarico (D) with a solid lead over Ken Paxton (R) in three congressional districts that President Donald Trump carried by double digits.
And don’t miss the new Polling Dashboard for the latest.
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