Re: "Fake News!", In The News

[pothead]

>
>Trump staff defensive over claims
>of anemic turnout at Georgia rally:
>'Fake news!'
>Mar 28
>
>'This is the smallest crowd I've
>seen at a rally of his in Georgia
>since he won the 2016 election,'
>says journalist Greg Bluestein
>
>Donald Trump's staff has gone on
>the defensive over reports that
>his weekend rally in Georgia had
>low attendance, with Mr Trump
>himself attributing them to
>"fake news".
>
>Mr Trump addressed a rally in
>Commerce, Georgia on Saturday in
>support of several of Georgia's
>Republican primary candidates.
>
>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-tru
>mp-georgia-rally-low-turnout-b2045421.html?utm_source=reddit.com
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>
>

Trump's whole life is fake news.

I just wish he'd fall down and die like all fat old men his age.

It would be the decent thing to do.

[Klaus Schadenfreude]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:50:34 -0000 (UTC), freedyn.de moron wrote:


>Trump's whole life is fake news.
>
>I just wish he'd fall down and die like all fat old men his age.
>
>It would be the decent thing to do.
>

Ask Rudy to beat him up!

"I tell you what. I'm about eight inches shorter than Shitbag [6' 2"]
Trump, and at least 80 pounds lighter, and I would *love* to take the
fat fuck on in a fistfight. He gets to pick the *public* venue and
the referee."
-5' 6" Rudy, declaring his wish to fist-fight the President
of the United States, by posting on Usenet.
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>> Trumpchev is such a vile bit of filth.
> Why don't you challenge him to a fist fight?
I already have. It's legal, too. I even said he gets to pick the
referee and judges - not that they'll really have anything to do.
-A desperate Rudy, trying to claim his previous message was
where he "challenged President Trump to a fist fight."
Message-ID: <bIc1C.305646$oE2.1...@fx33.iad>

I'd have gotten a little longer sentence if I had ever got that close
to Trump,because in addition to slapping him in the face, I would have
kneed him in the groin as well. The fat fuck is still too chickenshit
to get into a fistfight with me.
-Rudy, wishing President Trump was aware of his existence, and that
he could bring his knee up that high.
Message-ID: <Nu7xI.46923$431....@fx39.iad>

[Lefty Lundquist]

Why are rightards always provoking violence?
Can't we disagree without it coming to fists?

--
Lefty Lundquist

[Klaus Schadenfreude]

I don't think Rudy would appreciate you calling him a "rightard."

[pothead]

>
>Trump staff defensive over claims
>of anemic turnout at Georgia rally:
>'Fake news!'
>Mar 28
>
>'This is the smallest crowd I've
>seen at a rally of his in Georgia
>since he won the 2016 election,'
>says journalist Greg Bluestein
>
>Donald Trump's staff has gone on
>the defensive over reports that
>his weekend rally in Georgia had
>low attendance, with Mr Trump
>himself attributing them to
>"fake news".
>
>Mr Trump addressed a rally in
>Commerce, Georgia on Saturday in
>support of several of Georgia's
>Republican primary candidates.
>
>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-tru
>mp-georgia-rally-low-turnout-b2045421.html?utm_source=reddit.com
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[Blue States are chicken coops]

On 30 Mar 2022, pothead <pothe...@gmail.com> posted some
news:t22bj7$3b9jk$1...@news.freedyn.de:

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> Trump owns my head.
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<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=364519195708837&set=a.2
47965794030845&type=3>

A cheerleading coach is accused of molesting several children
and teenagers, the Clermont Police Department said.

Officers said Vigiland D’Haiti, 39, was arrested at his home in
Winter Garden on Sunday. He had a warrant out of Lake County.

D’Haiti is facing several charges of lewd and lascivious
molestation on victims ages 12 to 15 years old, police said.

READ: Central Florida teacher, baseball coach arrested on sex
charge involving student

He is the owner and operator of Rush All Stars in Clermont,
according to investigators.

Several victims have come forward dating back to 2013 until as
recently as 2021.

READ: Report reveals that teen who died after fall from drop
tower was over weight, size limit for ride

D’Haiti has coached at several other gyms, including at high
schools in the Central Florida area.

The police department is urging any other victims to come
forward.

D’Haiti has been released on a $30,000 bond.

https://news.yahoo.com/cheerleading-coach-accused-molesting-
several-152308450.html

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The current faces of American leadership are a doddering
demented old man and an ignorant giggling Jamaican whore. Great
job Democrats.

[Blue States are chicken coops]

On 30 Mar 2022, Mike <pothe...@gmail.com> posted some
news:t22bj6$3b9jk$1...@news.freedyn.de:

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> It's too bad Trump
>

isn't in charge.

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/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTg0ODtjZj13ZWJw/https://s
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/https://media.zenfs.com/en/naples-daily-
news/f53aeb22752255359f881893085ea5b7>

A 60-year-old Naples man will serve nearly 44 years in prison
after he was found guilty of possession of child pornography.

Jean Jerome Dorlus, 60, of Naples, was adjudicated guilty and
sentenced to 43.75 years in prison. He was found guilty of 20
counts of possession of child pornography and designated a
lifetime sexual offender after a Collier County trial in
February.

The case was opened in August 2018 when a person witnessed
illegal sexual images of a young girl engaged in a sexual act on
the defendant’s phone. That person used their phone to capture
some of the images and reported them to the Collier County
Sheriff’s Office.

In case you missed it: Naples man found guilty of 20 counts of
possession of child pornography

Preivously: Five months after 18-year-old found dead in Golden
Gate, investigators seek public's help in his case

More like this: Naples man arrested, accused of possessing child
sexual abuse material

During an interview by detectives with the Sheriff's Office
Special Victims Unit the defendant admitted to having the
illegal images on his personal phone. The child victim, a 7-year-
old girl, was identified by investigators

Connect with breaking news reporter Michael Braun:
MichaelBraunNP (Facebook), @MichaelBraunNP (Twitter) or
mbr...@news-press.com.

This article originally appeared on Naples Daily News: Child sex
images lands 60-year-old Naples man in prison for 43.75 years

https://news.yahoo.com/naples-man-60-sentenced-more-
124512266.html

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[John Ratcliffe and Cliff Sims]

In 2005, Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms
Act (PLCAA), a federal statute which provides broad immunity to gun
manufacturers and dealers in federal and state court.

Sandy Hook families settle for $73M with gun maker Remington.

Darrell Brooks Jr deliberately drove over innocent people in a
street parade because some liberal asshole let him out on $1,000
bail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNKgHsTYMj0

Ford Motor Company should compensate the families of the dead people
for this reckless nigger's behavior.

Reparations motherfuckers! Reparations!

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[Democrat St Louis]

On 28 Mar 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_l...@ggmail.com> posted some
news:t1t98q$s2h$4...@dont-email.me:

> Terrible! Another black sexual pervert in deep blue Democrat St
> Louis!

ST. LOUIS — An Uber driver was charged Tuesday with trying to engage in
sexual contact with a woman he picked up in downtown St. Louis.

Will James, 54, of the 1200 block of Grieffield Place in Pagedale, was
charged in St. Louis Circuit Court with a misdemeanor count of sexual
misconduct.

A woman reported to police Sunday that James picked her up from a
friend's home in the 1600 block of Pine Street, and while driving her
home touched her leg and asked if he could masturbate in front of her.

She said no and quickly got out of the vehicle at her destination,
charges say.

A judge denied bail for James who did not yet have a lawyer.

It's not the first sex case involving ride-sharing companies in St.
Louis.

Former Lyft driver Larry Ward, 55, of St. Peters, has pending charges in
the alleged rape and kidnapping of a woman in downtown St. Louis in
December 2019. The woman later spoke out about the attack and is suing
Lyft for damages. Ward, whose trial is set for November, is on house
arrest except for reporting to his day job at a warehouse.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/uber-driver-asked-to-masturbate
-in-front-of-st-louis-passenger-charges-say/article_67ebc7b2-d4d0-55ad-a9
98-a1f170d3cc03.html

[Democrat control!]

On 28 Mar 2022, pothead <pothe...@gmail.com> posted some
news:t1ssh9$38elm$4...@news.freedyn.de:

> Imagine that. Another black rapist in deep blue St Louis.

ST. LOUIS — A former Lyft driver who rejected a plea deal on a rape case
just months ago was sentenced to 13 years in prison Tuesday.

On Monday, Larry Ward, 57, pleaded guilty to the first-degree kidnapping
and first-degree rape of a woman who called the rideshare company for a
ride home from a bachelorette party at a downtown bar on June 22, 2019.

St. Louis City Circuit Court Judge Scott Millikan sentenced Ward to five
years in prison for kidnapping and eight years in prison for the sexual
assault.

The sentencing range on the rape charge is five years to life, which is 30
years, and up to 15 years on a kidnapping charge. Millikan did not
elaborate on how he arrived at his decision to sentence Ward to 13 years,
with one year of credit for time served, although it did mirror the plea
Ward rejected in April.

Ward's attorney, Bob Taaffe, told the judge his client decided to enter a
blind plea Monday -- which was supposed to be the first day of his trial -
- to spare the victim from going through a trial.

Evidence against Ward included a rape kit performed on the victim, data
from her cell phone that showed the time and place where Ward picked her
up, how long the $9.02 ride lasted and an image of Ward on her receipt.

Millikan paused after the victim gave her impact statement to him, tears
welled in his eyes.

“I admire your strength and courage and that is going to get you through
from this day forward," Millikan said.

5 On Your Side typically does not identify victims of sexual assault, but
Ward's victim, Cristen Giangarra, 33, has spoken publicly about her
alleged attack.

She has told 5 On Your Side in previous interviews that what was supposed
to be a six-minute ride turned into 51 minutes of terror, which included
waking up with Ward smiling and on top of her.

“There is no justice in this case, no amount of tears will give me my life
back, but for the next 13 years, the city of St. Louis will be safer,”
Giangarra said during Tuesday's hearing.

She told the court she’s been taking anti-seizure medication to prevent
panic attacks, and nighttime teeth grinding has worn away the enamel on
her teeth.

“I became an expert at pretending to be OK,” she said.

She continued: "What this man took from me is irreplaceable irreparable.
He has robbed me of years of my life. He has stolen moments with friends
and family. And yet, he has been with me at every celebration, every
sorrow, every joy, every tear, every accomplishment. He haunts me. His
shadow is the burden I carry every day ... and on parole, I will haunt in
the form of a registered list."

She also talked about the trauma of undergoing a medical exam following
the rape, saying the only silver lining was learning she was not carrying
his child.

Ward said nothing when the judge asked him if he had any remarks to give,
and a woman who sat behind him began whaling and walked out of the
courtroom after Millikan delivered his sentence.

In April, former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s administration
offered Ward a 12-year plea deal. He rejected the offer about two hours
before that plea hearing was to begin, opting instead to go to trial.

In a handwritten letter he sent to Millikan on Sept. 20, Ward wrote that
he never told his attorney he was going to take the deal.

“We talked about if it come down to, but never did I say, ‘OK, tell the
judge we taking the deal,’ no not never,” Ward wrote. “I’m sorry that we
couldn’t see eye-to-eye, even when you said I didn’t have to be in court,
I was there. I’m sorry if it look like I was being an (expletive).”

In his letter, he told the judge his GPS monitoring conditions prevented
him from visiting his mother’s grave, visiting a brother dying of cancer
and pinning a military medal on his son’s shirt.

Millikan revoked Ward’s bond in August, and Ward told the judge his
incarceration created more stress on his wife and their 14 children – one
of whom is 16 years old and still lives with her parents.

Giangarra, who now lives out of state, was prepared to give a victim
impact statement and remained in a private room away from the courtroom
where Ward was meeting with his attorney during that April hearing.

“This case is a modern urban nightmare,” St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe
Gore wrote in a statement. “Our Victim Services Unit has worked closely
with the victim to ensure that she received the appropriate legal and
psychological support in the aftermath of her trauma.

“I am grateful to our prosecution team, including Jeremy Crowley and
Nicholas Fischbach, for pursuing justice for the victim of this violent
crime.”

Attorneys for Lyft also attended Tuesday's hearing.

Giangarra is suing Lyft, alleging it cut corners on checking criminal
backgrounds, which allowed Ward to work for the company despite warning
signs in his criminal history. She also claims the company refused to hire
him once before when a previous background check showed his felony
history.

Resources for crime victims
If you have been a victim of a crime or know someone who has been, 5 On
Your Side has compiled a list of resources.

The Crime Victim Center of St. Louis has multiple programs to support
victims of crime. Crime Victim Center’s programs range from direct
services to crime victims as well as “creating awareness and change within
the systems they encounter.”

Life Outside of Violence "helps those harmed by stabbing, gunshot or
assault receive the treatment, support and resources they need to find
alternatives to end the cycle of violence."

The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis has the Neighborhood Healing
Network, which serves people who have experienced crime, violence or been
the victim of an incident that caused trauma.

Cure Violence is an international organization that is present in a
handful of St. Louis neighborhoods. Violence interrupters are trained to
de-escalate violent situations within their own communities.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/former-st-peters-lyft-driver-
kidnapping-rape-sentencing/63-b584a3cd-34f3-4984-842f-2d688ca9276c

[Coonology]

In article <t1tkpb$38r74$9...@news.freedyn.de>
chrisv <chr...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
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> soup wrote:
>
> > Fat Hitlery.Lock her up <jth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I always wondered why the defund cops movement is so set on using psychological response units to respond to calls instead of police. Its because minority communities are loaded with mentally retarded
>
> Filthy racist. At least the other right-wingers won't chastise you.
> You fir right in, with them.

What is fir?

> >inbreeding and lack of education
>
> Inbreeding, huh? Filthy liar. Typical, for a right-winger.

Inbreeding is common in Delware.

You know, where Joe Biden comes from.

[Is Obama Behind The Biden Curtain?]

In article <t2epfb$3iqf1$5...@news.freedyn.de>
trumps bitch <patr...@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...Biden is done, stick a fork in him.

Shades of Obama's economic incompetence. Flash forward to Joe
Biden in 2022. The stench of Obama is everywhere.

It’s not just about how expensive housing became—it’s how fast
it got there. It only took 24 months for U.S. home prices to
soar a staggering 37%. For comparison, the biggest two-year
spike leading into the 2008 housing crash was 29%.

Heading into this spring, the Federal Reserve decided it had
seen enough. The central bank quickly raised interest rates,
which saw the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate climb to 6%—up
from 3.2% at the start of the year. Those higher rates, which
have priced out many home shoppers, ultimately ended the
pandemic housing boom. Now we're in a sharp slowdown, with the
Mortgage Bankers Association reporting on Wednesday that
mortgage applications are down 16% on a year-over-year basis.

As this shift occurred, we heard very little from the Fed. Well,
that was until chair Jerome Powell addressed reporters on
Wednesday.

Here's what Powell had to say: "We saw [home] prices moving up
very very strongly for the last couple of years. So that changes
now. And rates have moved up. We are well aware that mortgage
rates have moved up a lot. And you are seeing a changing housing
market. We are watching it to see what will happen. How much
will it really affect residential investment? Not really sure.
How much will it affect housing prices? Not really sure.
Obviously, we are watching that quite carefully…It’s a very
tight market. So prices might keep going up for a while, even in
a world where rates are up. So it’s a complicated situation and
we watch it very carefully. I'd say if you are a homebuyer,
somebody or a young person looking to buy a home, you need a bit
of a reset. We need to get back to a place where supply and
demand are back together and where inflation is down low again,
and mortgage rates are low again."

Three things stand out.

1. Powell says homebuyers "need a bit of a reset"

In the housing industry, the total number of active listings is
referred to as "inventory." Since 2014, annual inventory levels
have been declining. That was driven partly by shifting
household preferences (i.e. staying put longer), lower levels of
homebuilding following the 2008 housing crash, and the onset of
millennial first-time home buying. But once the pandemic housing
boom took off, inventory levels began to nosedive. By spring
2021, inventory hit a 40-year low. That has given homebuyers
little choice but to bid up home prices.

It's clear that Powell hopes the housing cooldown caused by
rising mortgage rates will help to push inventory levels up.
Powell suggest it'll help buyers, the thinking being: When
shoppers restart their house hunt, they'll be met with a
friendlier market. Higher inventory levels would give buyers
more time to decide, and reduce the chance they'll have to
engage in a bidding war.

Even before the Fed ramped up its inflation fight, Logan
Mohtashami, lead analyst at HousingWire, was openly rooting for
higher mortgage rates as a means to increase inventory levels.
According to the National Association of Realtors, U.S. housing
inventory inched up to 1.03 million heading into May. But to get
back to a “normal” housing market, Mohtashami says, inventory
would need to rise to 1.52 million to 1.93 million housing
units. Inventory levels nationwide (see chart below) are rising
fast, however, and over half of regional housing markets still
have inventory levels 50% below pre-pandemic levels.

"We need balance…The housing market is still savagely unhealthy
because total inventory levels in America are still below 1.52
million," Mohtashami says.

2. Falling home prices? Powell seems to have suggested it's
possible
Fed Chair Powell raised the hypothetical of home price drops on
Wednesday: "How much will it affect housing prices? Not really
sure. Obviously, we are watching that quite carefully. You’d
think over time...There is a tremendous amount of supply in the
housing market of unfinished homes, and as those come online..."

He then pivoted, and said: "Whereas the supply of finished
homes, inventory of finished homes for sale is incredibly low,
historically low. It's still a very tight market, and prices
might keep going up for a while, even in a world where rates are
up. So it’s a complicated situation and we watch it very
carefully."

For a moment it sounded like Powell was about to say home prices
would fall. Regardless, Powell didn't rule out falling home
prices. That matters. Historically speaking, outside of the
Great Depression and after the housing crash of the 2000s, year-
over-year home price declines almost never happen. But today's
circumstances could lead us into a rare period in which home
prices do indeed fall. It's telling that Powell didn't close the
door on the possibility of home price declines, and instead said
"we are watching that quite carefully."

Last month, Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi told
Fortune that spiked mortgage rates have pushed us into a full-
blown "housing correction." In the near future, Zandi expects
year-over-year home price growth to decline from 20.6% to 0%. In
significantly "overvalued" housing markets, he expects 5% to 10%
home price declines. If a recession does come, Moody's Analytics
said it expects a 5% decline in U.S. home prices and a 15% to
20% decline in significantly "overvalued" housing markets.
(Moody's Analytics determined "overvaluation" by comparing
regional home prices to what local underlying economic
fundamentals like household income would historically support).

Why are home prices now susceptible to a decline? It starts with
the fact that home prices have become detached from underlying
economic fundamentals. Basic economic theory teaches that home
price growth and income growth are interwoven, and neither can
outrun the other for long. That affordability crunch has only
been worsened by soaring mortgage rates. In fact, over the past
six months the typical new mortgage payment has spiked 52%,
according to Zonda, a real estate analytics company.

Home prices can fall, however, but for it to happen inventory
will likely need to rise much higher. Once U.S. inventory levels
climb above 2 million units, Mohtashami says, home prices could
begin to fall nationally on a year-over-year basis.

If the Fed's "over-tightening" causes a recession, Ralph
McLaughlin, chief economist at Kukun, a real estate data and
analytics company, says inventory could reach levels that allow
home prices to fall.

"It’s looking increasingly likely we’re approaching a sharp
inflection point in the market," McLaughlin tells Fortune.

3. Powell explicitly said he'd like to see mortgage rates fall
The central bank raised interest rates to both halt the pandemic
housing boom and to rein in runaway inflation. Once the Fed has
inflation back under control, elevated mortgage rates could
begin to recede.

That said, home shoppers eager for mortgage rate relief might be
waiting for a while. As of last week, the Consumer Price Index
was at 8.6%. The Fed won't let up on inflation fighting until
the CPI returns to 2%. On Thursday, the Fed made it clear this
fight could last well into 2024.

Hungry for more housing data? Follow me on Twitter at
@NewsLambert.

https://fortune.com/2022/06/16/housing-market-reset-federal-
reserve-could-see-home-prices-fall/

[Mama's Boy]

In article <t24sf9$3cnco$2...@news.freedyn.de>
trumps bitch <patr...@protonmail.com> wrote:
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> Wise up and get rid of this socialist pussy, Canadians.
>

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described “climate change” as a
threat to Canadian national security during a press conference
on Friday in Cold Lake, Alberta, alleging that global warming
increases Russian military “accessibility” to Canada’s Arctic
north.

Trudeau was joined by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as
they delivered remarks on what they both described as the
dangers of “climate change” to the “security” of Canada, the
United States, and Europe.

Canadian military personnel, Trudeau claimed, must change their
methods of operation to deal with changing terrain due to
“climate change,” which he described as a “risk multiplier”
amplifying the likelihood of armed conflict around the world.

He remarked:

Yesterday, Secretary General Stoltenberg and I visited Cambridge
Bay in Nunavut. We toured a north warning system site and the
Canadian High Arctic Research Station. We spent a lot of time
with Inuit community leaders.

We heard about the ways global warning is changing the Arctic
environment, and changing the very terrain on which our Canadian
Armed Forces operate.

It is clear to researchers, military experts, and both the
Secretary General and I that climate change is a risk
multiplier. Not only are wildfires and floods increasing aid
demands on the CAF, but globally, climate change is raising the
risk of conflict. We need to take action to address its impacts
on national and international security.

Stoltenberg used “climate change” as a substitute for claims of
anthropogenic global warming, which he alleged is melting Arctic
ice. He remarked, “Climate change is making the High North more
important, because the ice is melting, and it becomes more
accessible both for economic activity and for military activity.”

“Security challenges in the High North are exaggerated by
climate change,” Stoltenberg added. “Climate change will require
us to transform — fundamentally — our approach to security and
defense.”

Trudeau echoed Stoltenberg’s claims that “climate change” makes
Canada and Europe more accessible to military threats from
Russia:

I think we understand that a number of factors are going into
putting the Arctic in play as a security concern.

It has been to all of our credit that over the past many decades
we have been able to work with partners and adversaries,
including Russia, to keep militarization of the Arctic to a
minimum, but the context is changing now for two reasons.

Obviously climate change is creating greater accessibility to
the Arctic and bringing with it real concerns and challenges
around that.

“Climate change” was mentioned 11 times in total by both Trudeau
and Stoltenberg across the half-hour press conference.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/27/justin-trudeau-
climate-change-makes-canada-easier-russia-attack/

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In article <t2k2nu$3masq$4...@news.freedyn.de>
trumps bitch <patr...@protonmail.com> wrote:
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> This is what happens to bitchy fat broads who stab honest men in the back.
>

WASHINGTON — Fresh off her congressional primary loss, Rep. Liz
Cheney, R-Wyo., said Wednesday that she plans to be part of a
bipartisan coalition whose goal is to ensure former President
Donald Trump never holds office again.

“I believe that Donald Trump continues to pose a very grave
threat and risk to our republic. And I think that defeating him
is going to require a broad and united front of Republicans,
Democrats and independents, and that’s what I intend to be a
part of,” she said in an exclusive interview with Savannah
Guthrie on NBC’s “TODAY” show.

She reiterated that she will be doing “whatever it takes” to
keep Trump from returning to the Oval Office in future
elections. Overnight, Cheney formed a new leadership political
action committee called “The Great Task,” an aide confirmed to
NBC. She filed with the Federal Election Commission to transfer
remaining cash from her federal campaign account to the new PAC.
At the end of July, she had more than $7 million cash on hand,
according to FEC filings.

NBC News projected Tuesday night that Cheney, former chairwoman
of the House Republican Conference and the elder daughter of
former Vice President Dick Cheney, lost her Republican primary
to Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman.

With 99% of the vote in Wednesday, Hageman led Cheney by about
37 percentage points.

Cheney told “TODAY” from her home in Jackson, Wyoming, that
defeating Hageman would have required that she “perpetuate the
big lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that
Trump had won it.

Asked if she plans to run for president, she first deflected and
argued that the GOP needs to be taken in a different direction.
“We’ve now got one major political party, my party, which has
really become a cult of personality, and we’ve got to get this
party back to a place where we’re embracing the values and the
principles on which it was founded,” she said.

Pressed again about whether she’s contemplating running for
president, Cheney said, “That’s a decision that I’m going to
make in the coming months, and I’m not going to make any
announcements here this morning — but it is something that I am
thinking about.”

When asked if Democrats should retain control of Congress
because of the state of the Republican Party, Cheney suggested
that would be preferable over the possibility of election
deniers holding office.

“The election deniers right now are Republicans, and I think
that it shouldn’t matter what party you are — nobody should be
voting for those people supporting them or backing them,” she
said.

Cheney said the GOP is “in very bad shape” and “it could take
several election cycles” before it’s reformed and detached from
Trump and what she said was a cult of personality around the
former president. She also denounced the former president for
allegedly releasing the names of FBI agents involved in a search
of his Mar-a-Lago resort “when he knows that our law enforcement
is the target of violence.”

“I am absolutely going to continue this battle,” she said. “It’s
the most important thing I’ve ever been involved in, and I think
it’s certainly the most important thing, challenge, that our
nation has faced in recent history, and maybe since the Civil
War. And it’s one that we must win.”

Nobody in their right mind would have voted for Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris.

Same goes for Miss Piggy Cheney.

<https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-says-shes-thinking-
about-a-white-house-bid-after-primary-loss-will-do-whatever-it-
takes-to-keep-trump-out-of-power.html>

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A few folks, like the usually astute Quin Hillyer, argue that if
Liz Cheney wants to run for president in 2024, she must do so as
an independent. I concur that there is no realistic path to
Cheney getting the GOP nomination against Trump, either in a one-
on-one race, or in a multi-candidate field that included someone
like Florida governor Ron DeSantis. (If you’re getting blown out
in a one-on-one GOP primary in Wyoming, you’re not gonna win the
GOP presidential nomination. Maybe, if you’re lucky, you get a
respectable finish in the New Hampshire primary.)

But I am skeptical that an independent or third-party bid by
Cheney would have much of an impact at all.

Quin makes the best argument available, pointing to the “22
percent of Trump voters, some 16 million, [who] were motivated
more against eventual winner Joe Biden than for Trump. It is
from that universe of hold your nose for Trump voters from which
Cheney could draw, although she certainly wouldn’t attract all
of them.”

Yes, theoretically, Cheney could. The problem is, those 16
million or so all ended up voting for Trump anyway. They could
have voted for other candidates, who represented the longest of
longshots, but they chose not to do so. Maybe some factor like
the January 6 riot would make these people not vote for Trump in
2024. But polling and the 2022 primaries indicate those
Republicans are relatively few and far between.

The Libertarian presidential candidate isn’t a perfect
comparison, because Cheney would be better known, probably
better funded, and hold different positions on several issues.
But I think the number of ballots cast for the Libertarian
candidate gives us a sense of the portion of the electorate that
was intractably anti-Biden, and simultaneously found Trump
unacceptable. In 2020, Libertarian Jo Jorgenson got 1.18 percent
nationwide; that ranged from 2.6 percent in North Dakota to .6
percent in Mississippi. As much as people complained about the
options of Trump and Biden, 98.17 percent of Americans who voted
opted for one of the two.

It was a similar story in 2016, when Libertarian nominee Gary
Johnson did a little better, but not by much. Johnson won 3.28
percent nationwide; that ranged from 9.3 percent in Johnson’s
home state of New Mexico to 1.19 percent in Mississippi.
Separately, independent Evan McMullin won .54 percent of the
vote (a bit more than one-half of 1 percent) nationwide, ranging
from 21 percent in his home state of Utah to effective zero in
states where he wasn’t on the ballot.

Once again, as much as people complained about the lousy options
of Trump and Hillary in 2016, 94.27 percent of voters voted for
one of the two major party candidates.

When push comes to shove, roughly 94 to 98 percent of American
voters put aside their complaints and pick one of the major-
party nominees. That could change in the coming years, but I
wouldn’t bet on it.

As an independent candidate, in which state does Cheney threaten
to play spoiler? Wyoming and its three electoral votes?
Virginia, where she and her husband own a house? You really have
to squint to see a scenario where the conservative-but-anti-
Trump demographic ends up swinging a state, and leaving Biden or
Harris with the largest plurality.

Quin does offer a scenario where the threat of a Cheney
independent bid effectively strongarms Republican primary voters
into nominating someone besides Trump:

If keeping the dangerous and increasingly deranged Trump from
office again is Cheney’s main motivator, her outsider run would
thus pose more of a threat to him (if he is the Republican
nominee) than to Democrats. In fact, that might be part of her
message: Nominate Trump, and she stays on the ballot and hands
victory to Democrats; nominate someone else, and she drops out.
Such a threat might motivate just enough GOP primary voters to
consolidate around another GOP contender to provide that
contender a fighting chance against Trump.

But a scenario of metaphorical hostage-taking where Cheney
effectively threatens GOP primary voters, “Nominate DeSantis, or
I’ll run as an independent and help reelect Biden,” is a
scenario ensuring that Cheney is effectively loathed by
Republicans for the rest of her days. It also probably wouldn’t
help DeSantis much.

Everyone would know, from the get-go, that Cheney had no shot of
being sworn in at noon on January 20, 2025. If she launched an
independent bid against Trump, everyone would know she was doing
so just to ensure that the Democratic nominee won the election.
And Republicans have a word to describe a person whose primary
objective is to ensure Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Gavin
Newsom or some other like-minded figure heads the executive
branch for the next four years. They call people like that
“Democrats.”

<https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-folly-of-a-liz-cheney-
independent-presidential-bid/>

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Donald Trump’s
fiercest Republican adversary in Congress, soundly lost a GOP
primary, soundly lost a GOP primary, falling to a rival backed
by the former president in a rout that reinforced his grip on
the party’s base.

The third-term congresswoman and her allies entered the day
downbeat about her prospects, aware that Trump’s backing gave
Harriet Hageman considerable lift in the state where he won by
the largest margin during the 2020 campaign. Cheney was already
looking ahead to a political future beyond Capitol Hill that
could include a 2024 presidential run, potentially putting her
on another collision course with Trump.

On Wednesday, calling Trump "a very grave threat and risk to our
republic," she told NBC that she thinks that defeating him will

require "a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and

independents — and that’s what I intend to be part of." She
declined to say if she would run for president but conceded it’s
"something that I’m thinking about."

Cheney described her primary loss on Tuesday night as the
beginning of a new chapter in her political career as she
addressed a small collection of supporters, including her
father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, on the edge of a vast
field flanked by mountains and bales of hay.

"Our work is far from over," she said, evoking Abraham Lincoln,
who also lost congressional elections before ascending to the
presidency and preserving the union.

The primary results — and the roughly 30-point margin — were a
powerful reminder of the GOP’s rapid shift to the right. A party
once dominated by national security-oriented, business-friendly
conservatives like her father now belongs to Trump, animated by
his populist appeal and, above all, his denial of defeat in the
2020 election.

Such lies, which have been roundly rejected by federal and state
election officials along with Trump’s own attorney general and
judges he appointed, transformed Cheney from an occasional
critic of the former president to the clearest voice inside the
GOP warning that he represents a threat to democratic norms.
She's the top Republican on the House panel investigating the
Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump
supporters, an attack she referenced in nodding to her political
future.

"I have said since Jan. 6 that I will do whatever it takes to
ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office
— and I mean it," she said Tuesday.

Four hundred miles (645 kilometers) to the east of Cheney’s
concession speech, festive Hageman supporters gathered at a
sprawling outdoor rodeo and Western culture festival in
Cheyenne, many wearing cowboy boots, hats and blue jeans.

"Obviously we’re all very grateful to President Trump, who
recognizes that Wyoming has only one congressional
representative and we have to make it count," said Hageman, a
ranching industry attorney who had finished third in a previous
bid for governor.

Echoing Trump’s conspiracy theories, she falsely claimed the
2020 election was "rigged" as she courted his loyalists in the
runup to the election.

Trump and his team celebrated Cheney’s loss, which may represent
his biggest political victory in a primary season full of them.
The former president called the results "a complete rebuke" of
the Jan. 6 committee.

"Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and
her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others,"
he wrote on his social media platform. "Now she can finally
disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am
sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you
WYOMING!"

The news offered a welcome break from Trump's focus on his
growing legal entanglements. Just eight days earlier, federal
agents executing a search warrant recovered 11 sets of
classified records from the former president’s Florida estate.

Cheney’s defeat would have been unthinkable just two years ago.
The daughter of a former vice president, she hails from one of
the most prominent political families in Wyoming. And in
Washington, she was the No. 3 House Republican, an influential
voice in GOP politics and policy with a sterling conservative
voting record.

Cheney will now be forced from Congress at the end of her third
and final term in January. She is not expected to leave Capitol
Hill quietly.

She will continue in her leadership role on the congressional
panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack until it dissolves at the
end of the year. And she is actively considering a 2024 White
House bid -- as a Republican or independent -- having vowed to
do everything in her power to fight Trump’s influence in her
party.

With Cheney’s loss, Republicans who voted to impeach Trump are
going extinct.

In all, seven Republican senators and 10 Republican House
members backed Trump’s impeachment in the days after his
supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress tried to certify
President Joe Biden’s victory. Just two of those 10 House
members have won their primaries this year. After two Senate
retirements, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is the only such
Senate Republican on this year’s ballot.

Cheney was forced to seek assistance from the state’s tiny
Democratic minority in her bid to pull off a victory. But
Democrats across America, major donors among them, took notice.
She raised at least $15 million for her election, a stunning
figure for a Wyoming political contest.

Voters responded to the interest in the race. With a little more
than half of the vote counted, turnout ran about 50% higher than
in the 2018 Republican primary for governor.

If Cheney does ultimately run for president — either as a
Republican or an independent — don’t expect her to win Wyoming’s
three electoral votes.

"We like Trump. She tried to impeach Trump," Cheyenne voter
Chester Barkell said of Cheney on Tuesday. "I don’t trust Liz
Cheney."

And in Jackson, Republican voter Dan Winder said he felt
betrayed by his congresswoman.

"Over 70% of the state of Wyoming voted Republican in the last
presidential election and she turned right around and voted
against us," said Winder, a hotel manager. "She was our
representative, not her own."

<https://www.fox13news.com/news/rep-liz-cheney-primaries-gop-
direction-wyoming-alaska-august-16-2022>

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A progressive Virginia prosecutor this year dropped charges
against a felon with a history of gun charges. Months later,
that felon killed two innocent men.

In July, Francis Rose shot two "innocent bystanders" in the head
while robbing an apartment complex in Alexandria, Va., according
to police. In February, he was freed from jail by the office of
Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti
(D.). Rose, who was already on probation for illegally carrying
a weapon in Washington, D.C., was arrested in October 2020 for
possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine and fentanyl
with intent to distribute.

The double murder is the latest instance where soft-on-crime
Virginia prosecutors enabled violent felons. Dehghani-Tafti’s
ally Steve Descano (D.), Fairfax County’s top prosecutor,
released three offenders with gun charges who each went on to
murder. Both prosecutors’ campaigns received over $600,000 from
the Democratic megadonor George Soros. Like Soros-backed
prosecutors across the country, Dehghani-Tafti and Descano have
abolished cash bail and pushed for decarceration.

"What happened in Alexandria was senseless and tragic," Virginia
attorney general Jason Miyares told the Washington Free Beacon.
"Unfortunately, it continues to be true that the vast majority
of violent crime is committed by the same repeat offenders."

Police announced the double homicide of Adrian de Jesus Rivera
Guzman and his step-son, Juan Carlos Anaya Hernandez, on
Tuesday. Rose’s victims were landscape workers who had escaped
gang-led violence in their native El Salvador.

Arlington police arrested Rose during a traffic stop in 2020
after finding a loaded handgun, cocaine, and fentanyl on him. In
February, a county judge ruled the search unconstitutional. The
evidence was not legally admissible because the drugs and gun
were "appended" to Rose rather than in the car, his defense
attorney argued, according to the Washington Post. Dehghani-
Tafti’s office dropped the charges following the judge’s ruling
and criticized the arresting officers’ conduct.

But before the ruling, a prosecutor in Dehghani-Tafti’s office
praised the officers’ conduct, according to the Arlington
Coalition of Police. Her office held Rose in jail without bond
for more than a year before his trial, the law enforcement group
said, implying prosecutors believed the officers had acted
lawfully.

Rose will appear in court on Oct. 28. He faces up to 40 years in
prison for each count of second-degree murder. Juan Hernandez’s
wife told the Post she hopes he will stay behind bars this time.

"I know that if he’s in prison, my son and husband, they won’t
come back," Laura Hernandez said. "But this man can’t get out.
He can’t get out."

Update 7:05 p.m.: This piece was updated to include comment from
Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares.

Published under: Crime, George Soros, Progressive Movement,
Virginia

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/virginia-progressive-
prosecutor-freed-felon-who-went-on-to-murder-two-men/

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As she positions for a presidential bid, the defeated
representative imagines herself as Lincolnesque. That’s absurd.

iz Cheney wanted to prove that the Republican Party was not a
wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump.

She failed. Miserably.

The three-term US representative from Wyoming didn’t just lose
her reelection bid in that state’s Republican primary on
Tuesday; she was wiped out. In the state that has long served as
a political launchpad for the national ambitions of the Cheney
family, Liz Cheney won less than 29 percent of the vote, as
opposed to the more than 66 percent that went to challenger
Harriet Hageman. Cheney lost all but two of Wyoming’s 23
counties—Albany, the home of liberal Laramie and the University
of Wyoming, and Teton, the wealthy ski-resort enclave that has
long been the most Democratic County in one of the nation’s most
Republican states.

Cheney never really had a chance. After she broke with Trump,
the former president who has made himself the undisputed boss of
the Grand Old Party, she was doomed to defeat in a Republican
primary where her last best hope was a massive Democratic
crossover vote that still would not have been enough to save
her. Even if every Democrat and Democratic-leaning independent
in the state had voted for Cheney, she would have lost because
she was so incredibly unpopular with the Republican base.

So, in this moment of complete and utter rejection by the
Republicans who know her best, Cheney is busy making her next
political move. And it’s a big one.

On the morning after her crushing defeat, the soon-to-be former
congresswoman went on NBC’s Today show and signaled that she is
interested in bidding for the presidency in 2024. “It is
something that I am thinking about, and I’ll make a decision in
the coming months,” said Cheney, who on Wednesday announced the
formation of a new group that could serve as a base for a
presidential run.

The group will have plenty of money. Instead of going all in as
a Wyoming primary candidate, Cheney banked a lot of the money
she collected from donors across the country. Her last pre-
primary campaign finance report showed that she had spent only
half of the more than $15 million she raised for the
congressional race.

Cheney, an ambitious and calculating politician, will keep right
on raising money to keep herself in contention. But for what?
Her presidential prospects would appear to be no better than
those of her father, Dick, who before installing himself as vice
president mounted a failed bid for the 1996 Republican
presidential nomination. So there’s a creeping suspicion that
all the post-primary positioning could be more about promoting
Liz Cheney’s brand than her stated goal of “doing whatever it
takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.”

The notion that Cheney would be a serious contender for the
Republican nomination in a challenge to Trump’s all-but-certain
2024 bid is comic. The Grand Old Party is now Trump’s political
plaything. Of the almost 200 candidates he has endorsed in 2022
Republican primaries, 182 have won and just 15 have lost. Cheney
is the fourth House Republican who voted for Trump’s impeachment
to be defeated in a GOP primary, and four others decided to drop
their reelection plans rather than face a Trump-backed
challenger.

The likelier route for Cheney is as an independent, or as the
leader of a new party that would try to attract disaffected
Republicans, as well as independents and Democrats who have been
impressed with the representative’s fierce opposition to Trump.

That’s comparable to what Abraham Lincoln did in 1860, when he
and his allies pulled former Whigs, Free Soil land reformers,
dissident Democrats, and abolitionists together in a Republican
Party that won an election where four major candidates split the
presidential vote. Cheney would very much like to be considered
the Lincoln of her time.

“The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln,
was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he
won the most important election of all,” Cheney said after
suffering her own defeat. “Lincoln ultimately prevailed, he
saved our union, and he defined our obligation as Americans for
all of history.”

In case anyone missed the connection she was trying to make,
Cheney added:

Speaking at Gettysburg of the great task remaining before us,
Lincoln said that, “We here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the
people, and for the people, shall not perish from this earth.”
As we meet here tonight, that remains our greatest and most
important task.

The reference to “the great task” was a marketing move. Within
hours of referencing Lincoln’s 1863 reflection on winning the
Civil War as “the great task remaining before us,” Cheney’s
political team announced that the new group that will serve as
her springboard for future fundraising and campaigns will be
called The Great Task.

Cheney egos are every bit as big as Trump egos. Don’t doubt for
a moment that Liz Cheney does, indeed, see herself as similar to
the 16th president.

But she’s not, personally or politically. And the notion that
Cheney might form a new party with appeal to moderate
Democrats—or even moderate Republicans—is absurd.

While her work on the House Select Committee to Investigate the
January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol has been exemplary,
Cheney’s record is that of an extreme right-wing advocate for
positions that have mirrored those of Trump when it comes to
attacking immigrants, refugees, Muslims, and Democrats. Before
her split with the 45th president, she voted with him 93 percent
of the time. And she has an ugly history of exploiting political
divisions by promoting Big Lies, as Cheney did when she refused
to reject Trump’s vile “birther” lies about former President
Barack Obama, and when she claimed that Vice President Kamala
Harris “sounds just like Karl Marx.”

Lincoln, like other early Republicans, read Marx, who was the
European correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune,
the newspaper that played a critical role in calling the party
into being. Indeed, a number of Marx’s German followers were
among the great many immigrants and refugees who helped to forge
a Republican Party that opposed the spread of slavery, promoted
worker rights, and implemented land reforms that were aimed at
alleviating poverty. When the Republican Party was founded in
Ripon, Wis., in 1854, a number of the people in the room were
members of the socialist Ceresco commune.

Lincoln was not as militant as the Radical Republicans who
supported him. But he was no conservative. Raised in a working-
class family on the frontier, he had nothing to do with the sort
of dynastic politics in which Liz Cheney was raised. Lincoln was
a circuit-riding country lawyer who won his campaign for the
state legislature as a champion of workers and farmers. Liz
Cheney came to prominence as a defender of the Iraq War that was
launched based on her father’s lies, and as a champion of the
sort of empire-building military interventionism that Lincoln
opposed as one of the US House’s most ardent critics of the 1846
US invasion of Mexico. Lincoln took inspiration from the anti-
colonial pamphlets of Thomas Paine. Cheney perfected her
rhetorical skills as a Fox News regular who defended the use of
torture.

No matter how hard Liz Cheney wants voters to think of her as a
new-model Lincoln, the reality is that she’s just a slightly
refurbished Cheney.

<https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cheney-no-lincoln/>

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday launched a formal
partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing
offshore wind industry, a key element of President Joe Biden’s
plan for climate change.

Biden, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and other top
administration officials met with governors, wind industry
officials and labor leaders Thursday at the White House. The
session focused on ways to expand important segments of the
offshore industry, including manufacturing facilities, ports and
workforce training and development.

“Together we’re stepping up. We’re about to build a better
America," Biden said. “It’s not just about the future. It’s
about right now."

The partnership comprises governors of both parties from
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
and Rhode Island.

Missing from the compact is Virginia, where Republican Gov.
Glenn Youngkin has moved to withdraw the state from a regional
carbon-limiting initiative meant to combat climate change.

Spokesperson Macaulay Porter said Youngkin supports the offshore
wind industry, and his administration has participated in calls
with the White House on the topic.

“The commonwealth is already a leader in offshore wind, and the
Youngkin administration is focused on ... this emerging sector
in a way that is consistent with promoting jobs for Virginia and
its right-to-work philosophy," Porter said, referring to a state
policy that promotes a worker’s right not to be required to join
a labor union.

Youngkin is “fully committed to Virginia’s current offshore wind
project” and will continue to support any future project “that
meets Virginia’s economic needs and protects ratepayers from
high energy costs," Porter said.

In working with states and the private sector, the White House
said it will “provide Americans with cleaner and cheaper energy,
create good-paying jobs and invest billions in new American
energy supply chains," including construction of wind turbines,
shipbuilding and servicing.

Biden has set a goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind
power by 2030, enough to provide electricity to 10 million
homes, support 77,000 jobs and spur $12 billion per year in
private investment in offshore wind. Offshore wind is a key
component in the Democratic president’s plan to make the
nation’s electric grid carbon free by 2035.

The Biden administration has approved two large-scale wind
projects, Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts and South Fork Wind off
New York and Rhode Island. Both are under construction with
union labor. The Interior Department has begun reviews of
another 10 offshore projects that, if approved, would produce 22
gigawatts of clean energy.

Danish wind developer Orsted signed a project labor agreement
last month with a national union representing 3 million people
in the building trades to construct the company’s U.S. offshore
wind farms with an American union workforce. Orsted currently
has six offshore projects in five states.

A national agreement signed with North America’s Building Trades
Unions covers contractors working on those projects and future
ones, with no termination date on the project labor agreement.
It sets the terms and conditions for union workers to build
offshore wind farms, with targets to ensure a diverse workforce.
It contains provisions for training to ensure they can construct
the complex infrastructure, which costs billions of dollars.

“We recognize that states are huge players here," said David
Hayes, a White House climate adviser. With a formal partnership,
the Biden administration can “work with the governors on
policies going forward and help ensure that there is an American-
made supply chain for this brand-new industry," Hayes said.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, said he and other East
Coast governors “are united with our regional and federal
partners not just by geography but by a shared commitment to
clean and affordable energy, economic opportunity and a future
in which all community members are shielded from the worsening
impacts of climate change."

The federal-state collaboration comes as the Biden
administration has announced a plan to conduct up to seven
offshore wind auctions by 2025, including one held last month
off North Carolina and earlier this year in a coastal area known
as the New York Bight. Other sales are expected in the Gulf of
Maine, the central Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as
offshore in California and Oregon.

Environmental and clean energy groups hailed the federal-state
collaboration.

“Today, there are just seven offshore wind turbines in the
United States, and we’re going to need a lot more, done
responsibly, to meet our clean energy goals," said Diane
Hoskins, campaign director for the conservation group Oceana.
She called for “strong safeguards for marine life to avoid,
minimize and mitigate the impacts of offshore wind."

Heather Zichal, CEO of the American Clean Power Association, an
industry group, said wind energy developers support the federal-
state initiative. “Clear and predictable permitting for offshore
wind is essential to recognizing its potential, and there is
still work to do," Zichal said.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-biden-and-environment-
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(CNN)The surprising story out of Tuesday's Republican House
primary in Wyoming wasn't that Rep. Liz Cheney lost. The pre-
election polls all showed her losing handily to eventual winner
Harriet Hageman.

The big news from the Cowboy State was her margin of defeat.
Cheney's loss is one of the biggest on record for a House
incumbent and is part of a pattern this primary season pointing
to former President Donald Trump's strength within the
Republican Party.
Cheney's defeat appears to be the second worst for a House
incumbent in the last 60 years, when you look at races featuring
only one incumbent. As of Wednesday afternoon, she trailed
Hageman by 37.4 points, which is just worse than California Rep.
Marty Martinez's loss by 37.2 points to fellow Democrat Hilda
Solis in a 2000 blanket primary.

Assuming the Wyoming result margin stands, South Carolina
Republican Bob Inglis would then be the only House incumbent in
the last 60 years to lose by a wider margin than Cheney. He lost
by 41 points in a 2010 primary runoff to Trey Gowdy.

The Inglis comparison to Cheney's loss is notable for two
reasons.

The first is that Inglis' lopsided defeat occurred in a runoff,
with only about 77,000 people voting. That was down from the
about 87,000 who voted in the first round for the upstate South
Carolina seat and far less than the roughly 217,000 who voted in
the fall election in that district.

Cheney can't blame low turnout for her historic defeat. About
170,000 votes have been counted in Wyoming as of Wednesday
afternoon. That's not too far off from the approximately 201,000
Wyomingites who voted in the last midterm general election.
Cheney's loss was no fluke.

The second reason the comparison is notable is that Inglis had
alienated the Republican base by opposing the 2007 Iraq troop
surge, voting for the so-called bank bailout in 2008 and
believing in man-made climate change.
In Cheney's case, the offense in voters' minds was that she
voted to impeach Trump last year and seemed to relish her
opposition to him.

Beyond Cheney
Cheney's loss wasn't the only historic defeat this primary
season.

GOP Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina, who also voted to impeach
Trump, got blown out in his primary in June. He pulled in a mere
24.6% of the vote while losing to Russell Fry. That percentage
appears to be the worst performance for a House incumbent in a
partisan primary with just one incumbent running since 1992.

Indeed, all six House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump and
ran for reelection faced tough battles. Four of them (including
Cheney and Rice) lost their primaries, which is extremely
unusual. Just 2% of other House Republicans who have run for
reelection this season have lost primaries, and those defeated
lawmakers were either scandal-plagued or lost to a fellow
incumbent because of redistricting.

Perhaps, more notable is that none of the aforementioned six
impeachment-backing Republicans got a majority of votes cast for
GOP candidates in their primaries. Since 1956, House incumbents
have averaged more than 90% of the primary vote.
All of these historical anomalies related to those who voted to
impeach Trump help us understand Trump's strength with the
Republican Party today.

It makes Cheney's postelection goal of stopping Trump from
regaining power a tough one. (She told NBC's "Today" show on
Wednesday that she was "thinking about" running for president in
2024, something Trump is also considering.)

The former President is averaging about 50% of the national GOP
primary vote for 2024 right now. That's the best for any
nonincumbent Republican at this point in the modern primary era.

Cheney's favorable rating among Republicans nationally is 13%,
which probably makes her a terrible messenger to GOP voters.

The truth is that Republicans are inclined to believe that
President Joe Biden didn't win the 2020 election (which he did).
Trump's favorable rating with this group is somewhere north of
80% in most polls. But if Trump is going to be beaten in a GOP
primary, it'll very likely be by someone who has adopted most of
his message. Someone like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

If Trump is defeated in a general election, it will almost
certainly be by a Democrat.

An effort led by a Republican who doesn't like Trump would be
speaking to a very small part of the US population.

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