President Biden is heading to Upstate New York to tour IBM as the company promotes a $20 billion investment over 10 years in the Hudson Valley.
Today, President Biden is traveling to New York to tour IBM’s facility as the company promotes a $20 billion investment in the Hudson Valley over 10 years, focused on semiconductors, computers, artificial intelligence and other programs. Ahead of the midterm elections, Biden and Democrats have highlighted the bipartisan law to boost production of domestic semiconductor chips.
Biden late Wednesday criticized a federal appeals court ruling that said a program to protect nearly 600,000 young immigrants, known as “dreamers,” from deportation is illegal. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit allowed those already enrolled to renew their status, but the future of the program — commonly known as DACA — is uncertain.
Before Bob Healey was a yacht manufacturer and Republican House candidate in New Jersey, he was, as a teenager, the lead singer in a punk rock band. He is leaning into that image in his most recent ad, as he looks to unseat Rep. Andrew Kim (D) in solidly Democratic district north of Atlantic City.
“While my mosh pit days may be behind me, I still know how to throw an elbow and get things done,” Healey says in this 30-second ad. He is dressed in a T-shirt, and walks through a scene complete with a President Biden-lookalike guitar player and people in suits bopping around as if they are in a mosh pit.
As Olivier Knox writes in Thursday’s Daily 202, the importance of prosecuting those who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and keeping track of the degree to which Republicans reject President Biden’s 2020 victory ultimately has less to do with the last election and more with the future of the republic, notably in November and in 2024.
For the past two years, the GOP has been enlisting candidates who profess to believe former president Donald Trump’s false claim that he was cheated out of a second term and trying to give those partisan believers new powers over future election results.
Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia, is denying the latest reports from the Daily Beast that he paid a former girlfriend to have an abortion — and that the woman is the mother of one of his children.
In an interview Thursday morning with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Walker reiterated his denials of the Daily Beast’s reporting.
“I know this is untrue. I know it’s untrue, and they keep telling me things like that, and it’s totally, totally untrue,” Walker said on the “Hugh Hewitt Show.” “And I’m not sure why that would be told. I know nothing about any woman having an abortion. And they can keep coming at me like that, and they’re doing it because they want to distract people.”
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A new Monmouth University poll on Thursday shows support for Josh Shapiro, the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania governor, is strengthening among voters, as numbers for his far-right Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano, have largely remained unchanged since the last poll on the race three weeks ago.
