Vicente Gonzalez compares Latino Trump supporters to “Jews for Hitler”
The South Texas Democrat said Latinos who support former President Donald Trump are voting against their self interest, but Republicans recoiled at the comparison.
Biden visits Michigan county emerging as the swing state’s top bellwether
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — Hurley Coleman Jr.’s parents were drawn to Michigan from the South by the promise of middle-class jobs in the booming automotive industry, an origin story shared by many African American families in Saginaw. Mass layoffs beginning in the late 20th century precipitated a dramatic decline in Saginaw’s population and economy, accompanied by a sharp rise in political turmoil within the city and throughout the region around it. This unrest peaked in 2016, mirroring the trend set off by economic stress in many Rust Belt cities, when the area voted Republican for the first time in decades and helped Donald Trump win the state. TRUMP HOLDS SLIGHT EDGE OVER BIDEN IN CRUCIAL BATTLEGROUND STATE: POLL “There was unrest in so many corners, in so many ways and it just happened that you had a candidate who was irascible enough to be able to tap into that unrest,” said Coleman. “There are a lot of people who still have that unrest, but they’re paying attention now.” Turning Saginaw County blue again in 2020 — by a margin of 303 votes — contributed to Joe Biden’s success in securing the critical “blue wall” states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, all pivotal in Trump’s previous victory as well. Leaders in both parties have said that it will be next to impossible for either presidential candidate to win the White House this year without winning Michigan. Biden, who traveled to Saginaw on Thursday to meet with supporters and volunteers, understands its importance. “Our democracy’s at stake” Biden told the group that packed the front porch of a Saginaw city council member’s home to meet with him. “I really mean it.” Later, Biden sat down with a Michigan family at a local public golf course. With the campaign season heating up, the president has made intimate conversations with families and small groups to discuss policy matters most impacting their lives a set part of his travels around the country. The visit was part of a two-day swing through Wisconsin and Michigan that started Wednesday as the president looks to create momentum for his reelection campaign after clinching the Democratic nomination on Tuesday night. “President Joe Biden knows that if there is a place in America that he can tell his story to a people that need to hear it, Saginaw is that typical place,” said Coleman, a pastor who is planning to help Biden in his reelection bid. Saginaw, a Democratic stronghold, is encircled by predominantly Republican areas within the larger county. Described as a microcosm of the entire state, Saginaw County is the only Michigan county to have voted for the winning presidential candidate in the last four elections. In that respect it has largely replaced Macomb County north of Detroit as the go-to destination for political consultants and media looking to take the temperature of what might well be the ultimate swing state, with Macomb sliding steadily further into the Republican camp. The Saginaw area boasts a large number of union-affiliated voters, a demographic that Biden has targeted in his reelection campaign. He has received multiple key union endorsements even as Trump lays claim to being the candidate of choice for working people despite many union leaders saying his first term showed otherwise. The 44,000-person city at the heart of the county is also home to a significant Black community, comprising 46% of Saginaw’s residents. Energizing this demographic could be pivotal in November as Biden’s campaign navigates challenges in other regions of the state. “I think that the president recognizes the importance of getting into a community as diverse as Saginaw and having the conversation and having the face-to-face time with folks,” said Michigan Democratic Party chair Lavora Barnes. Over 100,000 Democratic voters in Michigan opted to vote “uncommitted” in the state’s Feb. 27 primary in what had been pushed by activists as a protest vote against Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza. Top Biden advisors, both from the campaign and the White House, have traveled frequently over the past several months to places like Dearborn, a Detroit suburb with the nation’s highest concentration of Arab Americans, in their efforts to win back what had been a reliably Democratic constituency. But some Michigan Democrats in recent weeks have cautioned the party about overlooking restlessness within a significantly larger and politically influential demographic: Black voters. Biden’s support among Black voters has waned considerably since he assembled his winning coalition four years ago, when he was backed by 91% of Black voters nationwide, according to AP VoteCast. His approval rating among Black adults is 42% in the latest Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, a substantial drop from the first year of his presidency. Biden also is working to energize Black voters in the key swing states of Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Wayne County Executive Warren Evans was among the 13% of Democratic voters who voted “uncommitted” in Michigan’s primary, but for a different reason than the one pushed by activists. He said he withheld his support to make a point to the Michigan Democratic Party that they are “not doing the things that they need to do to engage significant portions of the African American community.” “We don’t see these programs and things that are talked about trickling down to us,” said Evans. “We don’t feel invested in. The philosophical stuff that you might hear in a speech, we’re not feeling that.” Saginaw resident Jeffery Bulls shares Evans’ sentiment, opting not to vote at all in the state’s primary rather than vote “uncommitted.” Once a Democratic voter, Bulls said that both Biden and Trump have proven to be “more of the same.” He said he “probably will be skipping that top spot on the ballot” in November. “We look around our community and 10, 20, 30 years go by and the same blight is here, the same joblessness is here, the same issues are here,” said Bulls. “Nothing has changed. That starts to click after a while
Nevada Republican who lost 2022 Senate primary seeking Democratic Sen. Rosen’s seat in key US race
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown, who lost Nevada’s 2022 GOP Senate primary, filed his formal candidacy Thursday for the seat held by first-term Sen. Jacky Rosen in a race Republicans have targeted nationally as one of their best chances to knock off an incumbent Democrat. Brown, a Purple Heart recipient, has been considered the early GOP front-runner in a crowded primary field since he announced he was running last summer, less than a year after he lost his bid to challenge Nevada‘s other Democratic senator in the western battleground state. POLICE FATALLY SHOOT SUSPECT NEAR LAS VEGAS, FIND 3 DEAD WOMEN AT SCENE Last time, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto went on to defeat Republican Adam Laxalt by just 8,000 votes in the western battleground state — the closest Senate race in the nation in 2022. Brown, who was nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan that scarred his face, has made national security a priority in his campaign again this time around while painting Rosen as a loyalist to President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders. “The Biden administration and Democrat leadership in the Senate have not served Nevadans well. This is a movement of `We the People’ and we are going to put people over politics,” Brown said at a rally outside the state capitol in Carson City after he and his wife, Amy, submitted his filing papers at the secretary of state’s office. “Joe Biden and Jacky Rosen had their chance, and they’ve destroyed the American Dream,” he wrote in a post Thursday on X, previously known as Twitter. Laxalt won ex-President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 race and called Brown a carpetbagger who moved to Nevada after he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Texas state Legislature in 2014. Brown’s GOP primary opponents include Jim Marchant, a former state Assembly member who lost the 2022 race for Nevada secretary of state after promoting Trump’s lies of a stolen 2020 election, and Tony Grady, an Air Force veteran and former candidate for lieutenant governor. Marchant and Grady were among seven Republicans seeking the nomination who faced off at a debate in Reno in January and spent much of the time criticizing Brown for refusing to participate. They have characterized him as an “establishment” candidate. Rosen formally filed her candidacy earlier this month and has not drawn any well-known opposition for the Democratic nomination. She was a first-term congresswoman from a Las Vegas-area district when she defeated GOP Sen. Dean Heller in 2018. Nevada State Democratic Party spokesperson Katharine Kurz said Thursday that Brown was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s handpicked candidate in “one of the messiest and most crowded Republican Senate primaries in the country.” “MAGA extremist Sam Brown is a self-serving politician who puts the interests of his party leaders in Washington, out-of-state billionaires, and special interests over what’s best for hardworking Nevadans,” she said in a statement.
New EPA rule to slash cancer-causing emissions from sterilization facilities
Laredo residents who live near a sterilization plant say the new federal limits on the pollutant will improve air quality and reduce their city’s high cancer risk.
Schumer-affiliated PAC jumps into crucial GOP Senate primary to boost Trump’s endorsed candidate
A group linked to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is jumping in with last-minute funds to influence Ohio’s GOP Senate primary, one of the closest-watched races in the country. Duty and Country PAC, affiliated with the Schumer-linked Senate Majority PAC, launched at least $2.5 million on a TV ad in Ohio that will promote businessman Bernie Moreno, endorsed in the race by former President Trump, as too conservative in a presumed effort to boost him in the GOP Senate primary, Politico reported. “Bernie Moreno is too conservative for Ohio,”the narrator says in the 30 second ad, which began running in Ohio on Thursday morning. “In Washington, Moreno would do Donald Trump’s bidding. “That’s why Trump endorsed Moreno, calling him ‘exactly the type of MAGA fighter that we need in the United States Senate.” The ad explains that Moreno would “lead the charge” to lead Trump’s agenda to “repeal Obamacare” and “institute a national abortion ban.” OHIO GOP SENATE CANDIDATE TOUTS KEY PRO-2A GROUP’S ENDORSEMENT: ‘ONLY CANDIDATE’ VOTERS ‘CAN TRUST’ ON GUNS “Donald Trump needs Bernie Moreno,” the narrator adds. “Bernie Moreno does not.” “When Ohio voters head to their polling place they deserve to know the truth about Bernie Moreno — and the truth is that Moreno is a MAGA extremist who embraced Donald Trump just like he embraced his policies to ban abortion nationwide and repeal the ACA,” Senate Majority PAC spokesperson Hannah Menchhoff said in a statement. Moreno’s primary opponents, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Republican State Sen. Matt Dolan, took to social media and claimed the ad is evidence that Schumer views Moreno as the most favorable candidate for his Democratic colleague Sen. Sherrod Brown. TRUMP HEADING TO OHIO WITH HIS GOP CLOUT ON THE LINE IN CONTENTIOUS REPUBLICAN SENATE PRIMARY “Chuck Schumer is funding pro-Moreno ads because he knows Bernie’s background makes him the weakest candidate to face Sherrod Brown,” LaRose posted on X. “The more Ohioans learn about Moreno, the less they trust him.” “Seen those ads supporting Bernie Moreno? Know who is paying for them? It’s Chuck Schumer,” Dolan wrote on X. “Schumer just got CAUGHT meddling in our primary because he wants the weakest opponent for Sherrod Brown. Enough is enough.” The Moreno campaign told Fox News Digital that Democrats “constantly underestimate the America First movement at their own peril.” TRUMP-ENDORSED OHIO SENATE CANDIDATE BERNIE MORENO BLASTS BIDEN FOR ‘FAR OVERDUE’ VISIT TO EAST PALESTINE “They thought President Trump would be easy to beat in 2016 and then they got their clocks cleaned when he demolished Hillary Clinton. The same thing is going to happen to Sherrod Brown this year,” Moreno campaign communications director Reagan McCarthy said. Tuesday’s Senate primary will be closely watched as the 3 Republican candidates are locked in what many believe is a tight race to move on to challenge Brown, the only Democrat to win statewide in Ohio in the past decade. An Emerson College poll released this week showed Dolan in the lead by 3 points about a week after Moreno released an internal poll showing him in the lead by 10 points. Both polls showed a significant amount of voters, around 30%, still undecided. Cook Political Report ranks the Ohio Senate race in November as a “toss up” making it one of the few opportunities Republicans have to try and regain control of the Senate.
Democratic Texas congressman compares Latinos for Trump to ‘Jews for Hitler’
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, in an article published this week, compared Latinos who support former President Trump to “Jews for Hitler” as he discussed GOP outreach in the area, and the remark immediately drew accusations of racism from his Republican challenger in the upcoming election. “For [Republicans] to stay in power, even at the state level, they need to convince at least a percentage, even a small percentage, of Latinos to start voting Republican,” Gonzalez, who represents an area that includes some of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, told The New Republic. “If not, they will eventually lose elections. “If they didn’t have that racist, divisive element within their party, they would have a lot of Latinos, but they can’t seem to shake that off. The rhetoric you hear from the Republican Party is shameful and disgraceful for Latinos. And, you know, when you see Latinos for Trump, to me it is like seeing ‘Jews for Hitler,’ almost, you know?” MANHATTAN DA BRAGG ASKS FOR DELAY TO TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL Democrats have accused Republicans of embracing racist rhetoric in their platform of securing the border and limiting illegal immigration. But the New Republic article emphasized how Trump could win both Texas and the Rio Grande Valley as he pushes to restore the tougher border security measures seen during his presidency amid a record-setting border crisis. The remarks from Gonzalez drew an immediate rebuke from both the National Republican Congressional Committee and former Rep. Mayra Flores, who is seeking to unseat Gonzalez in November. SPEAKER JOHNSON FLOATS STAND-ALONE ISRAEL AID PLAN AFTER SCHUMER’S COMMENTS MADE SITUATION ‘EVEN MORE URGENT’ “Hispanic voters, especially those living in border communities, know that Democrats are failing them on the border, the economy and community safety. Vicente Gonzalez’s comments are insulting, and he should apologize,” NRCC spokeswoman Delanie Bomar said in a statement. “Vicente Gonzalez’s racist comments are incredibly hurtful to our entire Latino community in the Rio Grande Valley,” Flores told Fox News Digital. “While he continues peddling in hate and division, I’m going to focus on policies that uplift our entire community, including lower costs, a secure border, safer communities and a focus on faith, family and more opportunities in TX-34.” Reached for comment Thursday, Gonzalez stood by his remarks. “I’m stating the obvious. Mayra Flores champions President Trump, who was quoted calling hard-working Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals — saying they’re not our friends,” he said. “She threw her lot in with Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos instead of with South Texans.” The controversy comes as the border crisis, which is now into its third year, looks likely to be a top election issue this year. President Biden and former President Trump both visited the southern border this month. Biden has renewed calls for the Senate to pass a bipartisan border funding bill that he supports, saying it is needed to fix a broken system. Conservatives have said the bill doesn’t go far enough. Republicans say Biden has the power to fix the border crisis, including by restoring Trump-era policies, and passed a border bill of their own last year in the House.
Texas sues Colony Ridge development for fraudulent real estate practices
Residents of the Houston-area development, who were maligned by Republicans last year, have complained about the developer for years.
Disgraced Biden-nominated US attorney who was paraded as ‘national leader’ has law license suspended
Rachael Rollins, the disgraced former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts nominated by President Biden, has had her law license suspended less than a year after resigning from her position amid a lengthy DOJ investigation, court documents show. According to Massachusetts Appellate Court records, Rollins — who was paraded as a rising “national leader” after Biden nominated her for U.S. attorney — had her license to practice law in the state suspended effective Feb. 20 due to the nonpayment of registration fees. Prior to the DOJ investigation that centered on her alleged unethical misconduct relating to political activities in favor of the Democrat Party, Rollins — the then-Suffolk County district attorney — was praised by liberal media outlets and Democrats in Congress over her approach to crime in the Boston area. CNN FORCED TO CORRECT STORY AFTER ACCUSATIONS OF ‘SMEAR’ CAMPAIGN AGAINST KATIE BRITT “Rollins has been among President Biden’s smartest appointments, and if her nomination is finally approved in the Senate she would become the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, handling cases involving national security, white-collar crime, public corruption, cybercrime, gang violence and civil rights violations,” The Los Angeles Times’ editorial board wrote as it defended her from Republican criticism at the time. “Biden’s nomination of Rollins, while hardly radical, represents a threat to the Republican narrative about Democrats and crime, as do Boston’s enviable crime stats … The point is that when GOP senators claim that Rollins’ policies increase crime, they’re just making things up to justify blocking one of the nation’s most successful criminal justice leaders,” it added. Massachusetts Democrat Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren described Rollins as “a great choice for U.S. Attorney,” and that they were “proud to recommend her to the Biden administration.” WATCH: HUR FIRES BACK AT DEM ACCUSING HIM OF HELPING TRUMP BY TARGETING BIDEN’S MEMORY DURING HEATED EXCHANGE “District Attorney Rollins is a national leader on transforming the criminal justice system and shifting away from an approach based on punishment and penalization to one that combats the root causes of injustice, whether it be poverty, substance use, or racial disparity,” they said in a statement at the time. “She has prosecutorial experience, and is dedicated and committed to advancing equal justice for all, and we are certain that she will be a tremendous U.S. Attorney. We will work to make sure she is confirmed as quickly as possible,” they added. Rollins was ultimately confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate, but was later found by the DOJ to have unethically attended a partisan Biden fundraiser last summer and “falsely testified under oath” about leaking “sensitive DOJ” information to the press in an effort to help a Democrat win elected office. TEXAS DEMOCRAT COLIN ALLRED FACES 6-FIGURE AD CAMPAIGN FOR CALLING BORDER WALL ‘RACIST’ Details of Rollins’ misconduct — highlighted in the DOJ’s report released ahead of her resignation last May by Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s office — showed that Rollins attempted to swing an election by assisting “Ricardo Arroyo with his Democratic primary campaign for Suffolk D.A.” Rollins, according to the report, went so far as to offer Arroyo advice on how to handle the sexual assault allegations levied against him during his campaign and also provided media outlets with “negative information” about his challenger, Kevin Hayden. The DOJ also concluded that Rollins “falsely testified under oath during her OIG interview when she denied that she was the federal law enforcement source that provided nonpublic, sensitive DOJ information to the Herald reporter about a possible Hayden criminal investigation.” Rollins later admitted to being the source after she “produced relevant text messages, which definitively showed that Rollins had indeed been a source for the reporter and had disclosed to him the internal DOJ recusal memorandum quoted in the story,” the report said. The report also found that Rollins, despite ethics advice not to, attended a Biden fundraiser the year prior that included an appearance by first lady Jill Biden. Fox News Digital has reached out to Rollins, Markey, Warren and The Los Angeles Times for comment.
Fox News Politics: Schumer steps in it
Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail. What’s happening? -Biden announces infrastructure projects during tour of Democratic states -Congress once again embraces earmark spending -Democrats increasingly worry about third party spoiler bid Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is taking a lot of heat over his comments about Isreal. During a floor speech Thursday, the Senate majority leader called on Israel to elect a new prime minister and advance a two-state solution for Israel and Gaza. Schumer said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of four obstacles to lasting peace. Republicans quickly demanded he apologize for his comments. The top four GOP lawmakers held an impromptu press conference during their annual retreat at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia, just after Schumer’s statement. “As we were in a work session here within the last half hour, there was a buzz among the audience as people were seeing notices come across their phone as something that was rather shocking to us,” Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said. Johnson suggested in an interview with Fox News Digital that the House may move ahead with a standalone Israel aid package, given the “urgency” after Schumer’s comments. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the upper chamber, said Israel deserved “an ally who acts like one.” “It is grotesque and hypocritical for Americans who hyperventilate about foreign interference in our own democracy to call for the removal of a democratically elected leader of Israel,” McConnell added. BLUE WALL: Biden announces infrastructure projects during tour of Democratic ‘blue wall’ states …Read more ‘IMMORAL’: Kamala Harris becomes first VP to visit abortion clinic, where she says people don’t need to ‘abandon their faith’ to back access to abortion …Read more $12 BILLION: Congress embraces earmarks in bipartisan fashion — Until they don’t …Read more TIME IN A BOTTLE: Bernie Sanders moves to reduce work hours for millions of Americans …Read more ‘RUNNING AWAY’: Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner slams him for not appearing at House hearing …Read more COUNTERING AIPAC: Left-wing coalition forms to protect the ‘Squad’ against massive election spending …Read more THUMBSCREWS: Johnson says House will ‘apply every amount of pressure’ to Senate to pass TikTok bill …Read more ‘SANCTUARY’ CRACKDOWN: GOP rep eyes punishing blue states for not cooperating with ICE …Read more PARTY CRASHERS: Democrats increasingly worried about third-party spoilers for Biden …Read more REMATCH: Trump & Biden face off again in history-making fight for the White House – what to know …Read more SPEAKING OUT: Lauren Boebert won’t ‘further imperil’ slim GOP majority by running in special election for Ken Buck’s seat …Read more ‘LYING’: DeSantis and Libs of TikTok get into spat over online post …Read more CUTTING BACK: Illinois moves to cut back on experimental healthcare programs for illegal migrants …Read more ‘HELPING HAND’: More blue cities, states beg private residences to help house migrants …Read more TIKTOK: TikTok CEO voices disappointment in House vote to ban Chinese-run social media platform …Read more Subscribe now to get Fox News Politics newsletter in your inbox. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.
VP Harris visits Planned Parenthood, says people don’t need to ‘abandon their faith’ to back abortion access
Vice President Harris said that Americans need not “abandon their faith” to support access to abortion during a tour of a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic on Thursday. “One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree that the government should not be telling women what to do with their body,” Harris said during remarks following a tour of the clinic. “If she chooses, she will consult with her priest, her pastor, rabbi, her imam. But is that for the government to tell her what she can and cannot do with her own body?” CHEMICAL ABORTION HARMS WOMEN. SUPREME COURT CAN’T IGNORE THEM Harris is the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion facility. She said her trip to the Planned Parenthood clinic was meant in part to draw attention to women who travel from other states to Minnesota to obtain an abortion. “The work that happens here is about providing assistance to women who do not live in the state of Minnesota, because, sadly, this state exists in a neighborhood where laws have been passed to deny people reproductive health care. And so women have to travel here,” Harrris said. Harris, whose campaign has been pushing for more widespread abortion access, went on to say that “attacks against an individual’s right to make decisions about their own body are outrageous, and in many instances, just plain immoral.” After Harris’ comments, pro-life nonprofit group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America slammed the VP for going on an “abortion fearmongering tour.” PRO-CHOICE OBGYNS CRITICIZE FETAL DEVELOPMENT VIDEO FOR SEX ED CLASSES: ‘LAST THING KIDS NEED TO BE WATCHING’ “Kamala Harris has spent her whole career in the pocket of Big Abortion,” SBA Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement. “It couldn’t be clearer who is aligned with the overwhelming majority of Americans who support pregnancy centers and want fewer abortions, not more,” she said. “They are extreme and wildly out of step with America.” Sarah Traxler, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood, told reporters following Harris’ visit that Planned Parenthood has seen a 25% increase in abortion procedures since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Roe v. Wade was a landmark 1973 federal decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Abortion is currently outlawed in more than a dozen states and restricted in more than 10. “I am a proud abortion provider,” Traxler said. “After the Dobbs decision a year and a half ago, Minnesota has become a bastion of access for abortion care.” ‘ABORTION IS OK’ HIGHWAY BILLBOARDS ANGER SURVIVORS: ‘ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING’ “I’ve cared for patients from everywhere,” she added. Last year, Minnesota moved to fortify its status as a refuge for patients from restrictive states who travel to the state to seek abortions — and to protect providers who serve them. Maine is currently considering a similar bill. In January, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a fast-tracked bill to codify the state’s abortion rights. The Associated Press contributed to this report.