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    Six ex-Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ officers get 15 to 45 years for torture of Black men

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    Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers – prosecutors said the group called themselves the “Goon Squad” – who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced to between 15 and 45 years in prison on Wednesday.Brett Morris McAlpin, formerly the fourth highest ranking deputy in the Rankin county sheriff’s department, was sentenced to 20 years. Christian Dedmon was sentenced to 25 years. Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke were both sentenced to 20 years, while Hunter Elward was sentenced to 45 years and Joshua Hartfield was sentenced to 15 years.The Rankin county circuit judge Steve Ratcliff gave the men state sentences shorter than the amount of time in federal prison that they already received last month. Their sentences will run concurrently with their federal prison sentences. The men were all ordered to pay $6,431 within two years of release, and to permanently surrender their law enforcement certificates.In March, the former Rankin county sheriff’s deputies each received federal sentences of at least one decade: McAlpin, 53, was sentenced to serve about 27 years; Dedmon, 29, was sentenced to serve 40 years; Middleton, 46, and Opdyke, 28, both were sentenced to 17.5 years; Elward, 31, was sentenced to about 27 years; while the former Richland, Mississippi police officer Hartfield, 32, was sentenced to serve 10 years in federal penitentiaries.During the federal hearing, US district judge Tom Lee sentenced Dedmon for both his role in the group attack and for an incident the month before the attack. The six men pleaded guilty to state charges last year. He also noted that he viewed Hartfield, who was neither a member of the Rankin county sheriff’s department, nor a member of the “Goon Squad”, in a different light, saying that he was “not there by accident” because he made some “bad choices”.After the federal sentencing hearings, the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, said: “The depravity of the crimes committed by these defendants cannot be overstated, and they will now spend between 10 and 40 years in prison for their heinous attack on citizens they had sworn to protect.”The Mississippi attorney general’s office brought state charges of conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice against each officer in August. Dedmon, who kicked in a door, was charged with home invasion. Elward was charged with both home invasion and aggravated assault. Hartfield was off-duty when he took part in the attack.The attackThe six white officers called themselves the “Goon Squad”, a celebratory nickname that referenced their use of excessive force and their cover-up of the racist attack on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January of 2023.The attack came after a white neighbor complained to McAlpin that Black people were staying with a white woman who owned the home in Braxton in which the assault took place. McAlpin texted other members of the “Goon Squad”, and the group went to the home without a warrant.Parker lived there while helping to care for the owner of the home. Inside, the officers handcuffed Jenkins and Parker, poured liquids over their faces while verbally assaulting them with racial slurs. They also forced the men to strip naked and shower together.The officers kicked, waterboarded and used Tasers on the two men, while attempting to sexually assault them during the ordeal. Prosecutors said McAlpin urinated in a closet during the attack; Hartfield used a Taser on the two victims while they were handcuffed and tried to dispose of evidence of the assault.Opdyke and Dedmon also assaulted the two men with a sex object during the more than 90-minute assault, according to court documents.Elward removed a bullet from the chamber of his gun and forced the gun into Jenkin’s mouth before pulling the trigger in a “mock execution”. After no bullet was fired the first time, he pulled the trigger a second time. Jenkins eventually landed in the hospital with a lacerated tongue and broken jaw.Officers did not give Jenkins medical attention, but instead began discussing “false cover story to cover up their misconduct”, and planting and tampering with evidence, according to court documents. They agreed to plant drugs on the two men, prompting false charges that would stand for months.Prosecutors said McAlpin and Middleton threatened to kill other officers if they reported the assault. Still, Opdyke was first to admit to what they did, showing investigators a WhatsApp thread in which they discussed their plans.In his victim statement, Jenkins shared that he can no longer sing or play drums for his church.“I wake up at night covered in sweat because of the nightmares of my attack. Loud noises, police lights, sirens, all give me extreme fear and anxiety. I am broken inside and I don’t ever think I’ll be the person I was,” his statement read.Parker, too, said in his statement that he now lives in constant fear.“My life was not perfect. But it was mine. I doubt if I’ll ever experience it again … They should be given what they gave me and Michael Jenkins – which was no mercy and I pray for the maximum sentence,” he said.Some of the officers apologized for their participation in the attack, but an investigation by the Associated Press found that some of the officers were linked to at least four violent, racist attacks going back at least until 2019 that left two Black men dead. More

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      Ex-Mississippi officer gets 20 years for ‘Goon Squad’ torture of two Black men

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      A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced on Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year.Hunter Elward was sentenced by US district judge Tom Lee, who handed down a 241-month sentence. Lee is also due to sentence five other former law enforcement officers who admitted to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture.Before sentencing, Lee called Elward’s crimes “egregious and despicable”, and said a “sentence at the top of the guidelines range is justified – is more than justified”. He continued: “It’s what the defendant deserves. It’s what the community and the defendant’s victims deserve.”In January 2023, the group of six burst into a Rankin county home without a warrant and assaulted Jenkins and Parker with stun guns, a sex toy and other objects. Elward admitted to shoving a gun into Jenkins’ mouth and firing in a “mock execution” that went awry.The terror began on 24 January 2023, with a racist call for extrajudicial violence.A white person phoned Rankin county deputy Brett McAlpin and complained that two Black men were staying with a white woman at a house in Braxton, Mississippi. McAlpin told Deputy Christian Dedmon, who texted a group of white deputies so willing to use excessive force they called themselves “The Goon Squad”.Once inside, they handcuffed Jenkins and his friend Parker and poured milk, alcohol and chocolate syrup over their faces. They forced them to strip naked and shower together to conceal the mess. They mocked the victims with racial slurs and shocked them with stun guns.After a mock execution went awry when Jenkins was shot in the mouth, they devised a coverup that included planting drugs and a gun. False charges stood against Jenkins and Parker for months.Malik Shabazz, an attorney representing both victims, said the result of the sentencing hearings could have national implications.“Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker continue to suffer emotionally and physically since this horrific and bloody attack by Rankin county deputies,” Shabazz said. “A message must be sent to police in Mississippi and all over America, that level of criminal conduct will be met with the harshest of consequences.”Months before federal prosecutors announced charges in August 2023, an investigation by the Associated Press linked some of the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.The officers charged include McAlpin, Dedmon, Elward, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke of the Rankin county sheriff’s department and Joshua Hartfield, a Richland police officer.They pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy against rights, obstructions of justice, deprivation of rights under color of law, discharge of a firearm under a crime of violence, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Court papers identified Elward as one of the Goon Squad members. The others identified as part of the squad were Middleton and Opdyke.The majority-white Rankin county is just east of the state capital, Jackson, home to one of the highest percentages of Black residents of any major US city.The officers warned Jenkins and Parker to “stay out of Rankin County and go back to Jackson or ‘their side’ of the Pearl River”, court documents say, referencing an area with higher concentrations of Black residents.In the gruesome crimes committed by men tasked with enforcing the law, federal prosecutors saw echoes of Mississippi’s dark history, including the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers after a deputy handed them off to the Ku Klux Klan.For months, the Rankin county sheriff, Bryan Bailey, whose deputies committed the crimes, said little about the episode. After the officers pleaded guilty in August, Bailey said the officers had gone rogue and promised to change the department. Jenkins and Parker have called for his resignation, and they have filed a $400m civil lawsuit against the department. More

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      Dorie Ladner, Unheralded Civil Rights Heroine, Dies at 81

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      She risked arrest and worse in pursuit of her goals of integration and voting rights from the time she was a teenager.Dorie Ann Ladner, a largely unsung heroine on the front lines of the 1960s civil rights movement in the South, a crusade that shamed the nation into abolishing some of the last vestiges of legal segregation, died on Monday in Washington. She was 81.She died in a hospital from complications of Covid-19, bronchial obstruction and colitis, said her older sister and fellow civil rights activist Joyce Ladner, who called her a lifelong defender of “the underdog and the dispossessed.”Born and raised in racially segregated Mississippi by a mother who taught her to take no guff, Ms. Ladner joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as a teenager; left college three times to organize voter-registration campaigns and promote integration; packed a gun on occasion, as some of her prominent colleagues were shot or blown up; befriended the movement’s most celebrated figures; and participated in virtually every major civil rights march of the decade.Ms. Ladner carried an American flag when she attended the funeral of the four girls killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963.Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos“The movement was something I wanted to do,” she told The Southern Quarterly in 2014. “It was pulling at me, pulling at me, so I followed my conscience.”“The line was drawn in the sand for Blacks and for whites,” she said in an interview for the PBS documentary series “American Experience” the same year. “And was I going to stay on the other side of the line forever? No. I decided to cross that line. I jumped over that line and started fighting.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Biden and Trump clinch nominations, sealing presidential rematch in 2024 election

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      Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump won primary elections in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state on Tuesday, soldidifying a rematch a majority of voters aren’t looking forward to.Both men captured nearly all the votes cast so far in what had become token state primaries, along with the primary for Democrats Abroad and the Republican caucus in Hawaii. Biden also won the Northern Mariana Islands primary Tuesday morning, earning 11 delegates.In Georgia, a nascent effort to register opposition to the Biden administration’s support for the war in Gaza could not be easily expressed with “no preference” protest votes in Georgia, because the ballot does not provide a way to do so. One woman in Roswell, Georgia described voting for Representative Dean Phillips, who dropped out of the Democratic contest last week, as a substitute.“I voted a protest vote against the war in Gaza because I think it is horrible what is happening and I’m ashamed of my country right now,” said Robin Hawking, 56, a software developer from Roswell. She said she is normally a Republican voter. “I’m hoping if enough people vote for not-Biden, he’ll get the message that he’s going to lose this election unless he does a cease fire.”Uchenna Nwosu, a gynecologist, said her decision was a no-brainer.“It’s clear that I couldn’t vote for somebody who repealed women’s rights for abortion, for instance, for healthcare,” she said. “I don’t know why Trump should be in the race. I mean, that alone is a good reason. He doesn’t stand for anything that I stand for. So that’s it.”Trump ran unopposed in Georgia, though other names appeared still appeared on the ballot, attracting a few voters.Scott Carpenter of Roswell voted for former ambassador Nikki Haley because he hated Trump, he said. He voted for Biden in 2020. “I don’t like Trump. I don’t like Biden. I just wanted a different choice,” he said.Travis Foreman, 46, an attorney in Alpharetta, said he thought Trump was good for America and expressed frustration with the Democratic party.“I don’t agree with the party and some of their core beliefs,” Foreman said, adding that he’s voted Democratic and independent during his life. “And it’s hard for me as a preacher’s kid from South Georgia to just agree with some of their core fundamental beliefs that they want me to. A whole gender ideology, movement – I just have a problem with it. I don’t mind what anyone chooses to do with their lives and how they live their lives, but don’t try to force me to accept certain things against my own principles. It just came to me that’s the No 1 issue.”skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionBiden won enough delegates in Georgia almost immediately to win the Democratic nomination, which required 1,968 on the first ballot to win.“Four years ago, I ran for president because I believed we were in a battle for the soul of this nation. Because of the American people, we won that battle, and now I am honored that the broad coalition of voters representing the rich diversity of the Democratic party across the country have put their faith in me once again to lead our party – and our country – in a moment when the threat Trump poses is greater than ever,” he said in a statement.Trump was also on track to secure the required 1,215 delegates needed for the Republican nomination. More

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      Full live results of the 2024 presidential primaries, state by state

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      View image in fullscreenGeorgia, Mississippi and Washington chose their presidential candidates on Tuesday in contests that come as both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are already their parties’ presumptive nominees.Hawaii also held its Republican caucuses on Tuesday and Democrats abroad and in the Northern Mariana territory voted as well.Biden has formally gained enough delegates to secure the nomination on 19 March. Meanwhile, Trump must win 140 delegates of 161 up for grabs on Tuesday to officially win the Republican party’s nomination.Trump no longer faces active opposition after former ambassador Nikki Haley’s withdrawal from the race after Super Tuesday. 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      Georgia Republican primaryTue 12 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedDonald Trump 84.5% 496,560 votes (56 delegates)Nikki Haley 13.2% 77,774 votes Ryan Binkley 0.1% 378 votes Ron DeSantis 1.3% Chris Christie 0.3% Tim Scott 0.2% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.2% Asa Hutchinson 0.1% David Stuckenberg 0.0% Doug Burgum 0.0% Perry Johnson 0.0% Georgia Democratic primaryTue 12 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedJoe Biden 95.2% 274,967 votes (108 delegates)Marianne Williamson 3.0% 8,644 votes Dean Phillips 1.8% 5,255 votes Hawaii Republican caucusesTue 12 Mar 2024Count in progress: 0% countedNikki Haley 0% 0 votes Ryan Binkley 0% 0 votes Donald Trump 0% 0 votes Chris Christie 0% Ron DeSantis 0% Doug Burgum 0% Vivek Ramaswamy 0% David Stuckenberg 0% Mississippi Democratic primaryTue 12 Mar 2024Count in progress: 0% countedJoe Biden (uncontested) (35 delegates)Mississippi Republican primaryTue 12 Mar 2024Count in progress: 94.78% countedDonald Trump 92.6% 218,648 votes (40 delegates)Nikki Haley 5.3% 12,530 votes Ron DeSantis 1.6% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.4% Washington Democratic primaryTue 12 Mar 2024Count in progress: 79.43% countedJoe Biden 86.7% 559,996 votes (92 delegates) Uncommitted 7.5% 48,619 votes Dean Phillips 3.1% 19,883 votes Marianne Williamson 2.7% 17,309 votes Washington Republican primaryTue 12 Mar 2024Count in progress: 80.45% countedDonald Trump 74.2% 442,048 votes (43 delegates)Nikki Haley 21.7% 129,394 votes Ron DeSantis 2.2% Chris Christie 1.1% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.9% Alaska Republican caucusesTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 87.6% 9,243 votes (29 delegates)Nikki Haley 12.0% 1,266 votes Vivek Ramaswamy 0.4% Alabama Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedDonald Trump 83.2% 497,739 votes (50 delegates)Nikki Haley 13.0% 77,564 votes Ryan Binkley 0.1% 508 votes Uncommitted 1.6% Ron DeSantis 1.4% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.3% Chris Christie 0.2% David Stuckenberg 0.1% Alabama Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedJoe Biden 89.5% 167,165 votes (52 delegates) Uncommitted 6.0% 11,213 votes Dean Phillips 4.5% 8,391 votes Arkansas Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedJoe Biden 88.5% 71,888 votes (31 delegates)Marianne Williamson 4.8% 3,876 votes Dean Phillips 2.9% 2,341 votes Stephen Lyons 1.8% Armando Perez-Serrato 1.1% Frankie Lozada 1.0% Arkansas Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedDonald Trump 76.9% 204,664 votes (39 delegates)Nikki Haley 18.4% 49,035 votes (1 delegates)Ryan Binkley 0.1% 183 votes Asa Hutchinson 2.8% Ron DeSantis 1.2% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.3% Chris Christie 0.2% Doug Burgum 0.1% David Stuckenberg 0.1% California Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 84.65% countedJoe Biden 89.3% 2,794,314 votes (424 delegates)Marianne Williamson 3.9% 121,630 votes Dean Phillips 2.8% 87,220 votes Armando Perez-Serrato 1.2% Gabriel Cornejo 1.2% President Boddie 0.7% Stephen Lyons 0.6% Eban Cambridge 0.3% California Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 85% countedDonald Trump 79.1% 1,742,482 votes (169 delegates)Nikki Haley 17.5% 386,000 votes Ryan Binkley 0.1% 3,267 votes Ron DeSantis 1.4% Chris Christie 0.8% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.4% Rachel Swift 0.2% David Stuckenberg 0.2% Asa Hutchinson 0.1% Colorado Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 93.25% countedJoe Biden 82.6% 473,533 votes (72 delegates)Dean Phillips 3.1% 17,717 votes Marianne Williamson 2.9% 16,487 votes Noncommitted Delegate 8.9% Gabriel Cornejo 0.7% Jason Palmer 0.7% Armando Perez-Serrato 0.4% Frankie Lozada 0.4% Stephen Lyons 0.3% Colorado Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 93.71% countedDonald Trump 63.4% 549,263 votes (24 delegates)Nikki Haley 33.4% 289,386 votes (12 delegates)Ryan Binkley 0.3% 2,192 votes Ron DeSantis 1.5% Chris Christie 0.8% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.6% Asa Hutchinson 0.1% Iowa Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedJoe Biden 90.9% 11,083 votes (40 delegates) Uncommitted 3.9% 480 votes Dean Phillips 3.0% 362 votes Marianne Williamson 2.2% 268 votes Massachusetts Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 60.0% 340,312 votes (40 delegates)Nikki Haley 36.9% 209,113 votes Ryan Binkley 0.1% 611 votes No Preference 1.0% Chris Christie 0.9% Ron DeSantis 0.7% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.3% Asa Hutchinson 0.1% Massachusetts Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedJoe Biden 82.9% 524,626 votes (91 delegates)Dean Phillips 4.6% 29,163 votes Marianne Williamson 3.2% 20,089 votes No Preference 9.3% Maine Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 98.96% countedJoe Biden 92.8% 58,950 votes (24 delegates)Dean Phillips 7.2% 4,561 votes Maine Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 98.88% countedDonald Trump 72.9% 78,493 votes (20 delegates)Nikki Haley 25.3% 27,300 votes Ryan Binkley 0.3% 303 votes Ron DeSantis 1.1% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.4% Minnesota Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedJoe Biden 70.7% 171,277 votes (64 delegates) Uncommitted 18.9% 45,914 votes (11 delegates)Dean Phillips 7.8% 18,960 votes Marianne Williamson 1.4% 3,459 votes Jason Palmer 0.3% Cenk Uygur 0.3% Armando Perez-Serrato 0.2% Gabriel Cornejo 0.1% Frankie Lozada 0.1% Eban Cambridge 0.1% Minnesota Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 69.1% 232,873 votes (27 delegates)Nikki Haley 28.8% 97,184 votes (12 delegates)Ron DeSantis 1.2% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.4% Chris Christie 0.4% North Carolina Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 98.97% countedJoe Biden 87.3% 606,303 votes (113 delegates) No Preference 12.7% North Carolina Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedDonald Trump 73.9% 790,763 votes (62 delegates)Nikki Haley 23.3% 249,654 votes (11 delegates)Ryan Binkley 0.1% 905 votes Ron DeSantis 1.4% No Preference 0.7% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.3% Chris Christie 0.3% Asa Hutchinson 0.1% Oklahoma Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedDonald Trump 81.8% 254,688 votes (43 delegates)Nikki Haley 15.9% 49,373 votes Ryan Binkley 0.1% 303 votes Ron DeSantis 1.3% Chris Christie 0.4% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.3% Asa Hutchinson 0.1% David Stuckenberg 0.1% Oklahoma Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedJoe Biden 73.0% 66,824 votes (36 delegates)Marianne Williamson 9.1% 8,349 votes Dean Phillips 8.9% 8,177 votes Stephen Lyons 4.8% Cenk Uygur 2.2% Armando Perez-Serrato 2.0% Tennessee Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedDonald Trump 77.3% 447,219 votes (58 delegates)Nikki Haley 19.5% 112,963 votes Ryan Binkley 0.1% 722 votes Ron DeSantis 1.4% Uncommitted 0.8% Chris Christie 0.3% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.3% Asa Hutchinson 0.1% David Stuckenberg 0.1% Tennessee Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedJoe Biden 92.2% 122,835 votes (63 delegates) Uncommitted 7.8% 10,461 votes Texas Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedJoe Biden 84.6% 826,423 votes (244 delegates)Marianne Williamson 4.5% 43,499 votes Dean Phillips 2.7% 26,341 votes Armando Perez-Serrato 2.8% Gabriel Cornejo 1.8% Cenk Uygur 1.6% Frankie Lozada 1.2% Star Locke 0.9% Texas Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedDonald Trump 77.9% 1,805,040 votes (150 delegates)Nikki Haley 17.4% 404,116 votes Ryan Binkley 0.1% 2,579 votes Uncommitted 2.0% Ron DeSantis 1.6% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.5% Chris Christie 0.4% Asa Hutchinson 0.1% David Stuckenberg 0.1% Utah Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 71.44% countedJoe Biden 86.9% 58,643 votes (30 delegates)Marianne Williamson 5.2% 3,498 votes Dean Phillips 4.5% 3,010 votes Gabriel Cornejo 2.2% Frankie Lozada 1.3% Utah Republican caucusesTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 95.33% countedDonald Trump 56.4% 48,350 votes (40 delegates)Nikki Haley 42.7% 36,621 votes Ryan Binkley 1.0% 826 votes Virginia Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedDonald Trump 63.0% 440,314 votes (42 delegates)Nikki Haley 35.0% 244,527 votes (6 delegates)Ryan Binkley 0.1% 854 votes Ron DeSantis 1.1% Chris Christie 0.5% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.4% Virginia Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedJoe Biden 88.5% 316,944 votes (99 delegates)Marianne Williamson 8.0% 28,590 votes Dean Phillips 3.5% 12,576 votes Vermont Republican primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedNikki Haley 50.2% 36,226 votes (9 delegates)Donald Trump 45.9% 33,140 votes Ryan Binkley 0.4% 277 votes Chris Christie 1.4% Ron DeSantis 1.3% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.8% Vermont Democratic primaryTue 5 Mar 2024Count in progress: 99% countedJoe Biden 89.5% 56,906 votes (16 delegates)Marianne Williamson 4.5% 2,883 votes Dean Phillips 3.0% 1,933 votes Mark Greenstein 1.2% Cenk Uygur 1.1% Jason Palmer 0.6% North Dakota Republican caucusesMon 4 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 84.6% 1,632 votes (29 delegates)Nikki Haley 14.1% 273 votes Ryan Binkley 0.5% 9 votes David Stuckenberg 0.8% District of Columbia Republican primarySun 3 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedNikki Haley 62.8% 1,274 votes (19 delegates)Donald Trump 33.3% 676 votes Ryan Binkley 0.0% 1 votes Ron DeSantis 1.9% Chris Christie 0.9% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.7% David Stuckenberg 0.4% Idaho Republican caucusesSat 2 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 84.9% 33,603 votes (32 delegates)Nikki Haley 13.2% 5,221 votes Ryan Binkley 0.1% 40 votes Ron DeSantis 1.3% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.2% Chris Christie 0.2% Missouri Republican caucusesSat 2 Mar 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 100.0% 924 votes (51 delegates)Nikki Haley 0.0% 0 votes David Stuckenberg 0.0% Michigan Democratic primaryTue 27 Feb 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedJoe Biden 81.1% 623,415 votes (115 delegates) Uncommitted 13.2% 101,436 votes (2 delegates)Marianne Williamson 3.0% 22,805 votes Dean Phillips 2.7% 20,600 votes Michigan Republican primaryTue 27 Feb 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 68.1% 758,892 votes (12 delegates)Nikki Haley 26.6% 296,328 votes (4 delegates)Ryan Binkley 0.2% 2,348 votes Uncommitted 3.0% Ron DeSantis 1.2% Chris Christie 0.4% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.3% Asa Hutchinson 0.1% South Carolina Republican primarySat 24 Feb 2024Count in progress: 98.8% countedDonald Trump 59.8% 451,905 votes (47 delegates)Nikki Haley 39.5% 298,674 votes (3 delegates)Ryan Binkley 0.1% 527 votes Ron DeSantis 0.4% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.1% Chris Christie 0.1% David Stuckenberg 0.0% Nevada Republican caucusesThu 8 Feb 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 99.1% 59,984 votes (26 delegates)Ryan Binkley 0.9% 540 votes Nevada Democratic primaryTue 6 Feb 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedJoe Biden 89.3% 119,758 votes (36 delegates)Marianne Williamson 3.1% 4,101 votes None of These Candidates 5.6% Gabriel Cornejo 0.6% Jason Palmer 0.4% Frankie Lozada 0.2% Armando Perez-Serrato 0.2% John Haywood 0.2% Stephen Lyons 0.1% Superpayaseria Crystalroc 0.1% Donald Picard 0.1% Brent Foutz 0.1% Stephen Leon 0.1% Mark Prascak 0.0% Nevada Republican primaryTue 6 Feb 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedNikki Haley 30.6% 24,583 votes None of These Candidates 63.3% Mike Pence 3.9% Tim Scott 1.3% John Castro 0.3% Hirsh Singh 0.2% Donald Kjornes 0.2% Heath Fulkerson 0.1% South Carolina Democratic primarySat 3 Feb 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedJoe Biden 96.2% 126,336 votes (55 delegates)Marianne Williamson 2.1% 2,726 votes Dean Phillips 1.7% 2,240 votes New Hampshire Democratic primaryTue 23 Jan 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedJoe Biden write-in 63.9% 79,455 votes Dean Phillips 19.6% 24,335 votes Marianne Williamson 4.0% 5,006 votes Other write-in 8.3% Derek Nadeau 1.3% Vermin Supreme 0.7% John Vail 0.5% Donald Picard 0.3% Paperboy Prince 0.3% Paul LaCava 0.1% Jason Palmer 0.1% President Boddie 0.1% Mark Greenstein 0.1% Terrisa Bukovinac 0.1% Gabriel Cornejo 0.1% Stephen Lyons 0.1% Frankie Lozada 0.1% Tom Koos 0.1% Armando Perez-Serrato 0.1% Star Locke 0.0% Raymond Moroz 0.0% Eban Cambridge 0.0% Unprocessed write-in 0.0% Richard Rist 0.0% New Hampshire Republican primaryTue 23 Jan 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 54.3% 176,004 votes (12 delegates)Nikki Haley 43.2% 140,096 votes (9 delegates)Ryan Binkley 0.1% 315 votes Ron DeSantis 0.7% Chris Christie 0.5% Total Write-Ins 0.4% Vivek Ramaswamy 0.3% Mike Pence 0.1% Mary Maxwell 0.1% Tim Scott 0.1% Doug Burgum 0.1% Asa Hutchinson 0.0% Rachel Swift 0.0% Scott Ayers 0.0% Darius Mitchell 0.0% Glenn McPeters 0.0% Peter Jedick 0.0% Perry Johnson 0.0% David Stuckenberg 0.0% Donald Kjornes 0.0% Scott Merrell 0.0% John Castro 0.0% Robert Carney 0.0% Hirsh Singh 0.0% Samuel Sloan 0.0% Iowa Republican caucusesMon 15 Jan 2024Count in progress: All precincts reportedDonald Trump 51.0% 56,260 votes (20 delegates)Ron DeSantis 21.2% 23,420 votes (9 delegates)Nikki Haley 19.1% 21,085 votes (8 delegates)Ryan Binkley 0.7% 774 votes Vivek Ramaswamy 7.7% Asa Hutchinson 0.2% Other 0.1% Chris Christie 0.0% More

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      Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack

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      Mississippi is withdrawing from a federal program to feed children during their summer break from school, the governor there announced, characterizing the decision as a way to reject “attempts to expand the welfare state”.Governor Tate Reeves, a Republican, declined to participate in the federal program that would give electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards to low-income families to supplement food costs when academic classes are out of session, Mississippi Today reported.Eligible families would have received $40 a month, or a total of $120 to account for the break between school terms.However, Mississippi’s welfare agency undercut Reeves’s reasoning, saying the state does not have the capacity to administer the program.“Both [the Mississippi department of education] and [its department of human services] lack the resources, including workforce capacity and funding, to support a summer EBT program,” a spokesperson for the state human services department, Mark Jones, said.Reeves’s latest comments ignited fierce backlash.Nikole Hannah-Jones, a scholar and creator of the 1619 Project, criticized Reeves’s decision as “cruelty”.“The cruelty of being the poorest state in America and choosing – choosing – to turn down federal aid for poor children to eat,” Hannah-Jones said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.Keith Boykin, author and co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition, said funds earmarked for welfare in Mississippi have previously gone to superfluous objectives, including the construction of a sports stadium.“Mississippi gave millions of dollars of welfare funds to former NFL quarterback Brett Favre to build a volleyball facility for his daughter’s school, but they won’t take federal funds to feed hungry children. Because helping poor kids is the kind of welfare that Republicans hate,” Boykin said on X.Reeves is one of 15 Republican governors who have rejected the federally funded food program meant to help feed children during the summer, the New York Times reported.Other states that have opted out of the program include Alabama, Oklahoma, Alaska, Florida, South Carolina, South Dakota, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming.More than 8 million children will be shut out of the federal food assistance program, which provides $2.5bn in assistance to families who qualify for free or reduced lunch.In addition to Reeves, the Iowa governor, Kim Reynolds, also announced in December that Iowa would not be participating in the program.Reynolds claimed that the federal assistance program was not a “long-term” solution. She also claimed that an EBT card “does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic”.The Nebraska governor, Jim Pillen, who has also rejected federal funding, said he does not “believe in welfare”, the Washington Post reported. More

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      Colorado and Maine, which blocked former President Donald J. Trump from the ballot, have grappled with the harassment of officials.The caller had tipped off the authorities in Maine on Friday night: He told them that he had broken into the home of Shenna Bellows, the state’s top election official, a Democrat who one night earlier had disqualified former President Donald J. Trump from the primary ballot because of his actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.No one was home when officers arrived, according to Maine State Police, who labeled the false report as a “swatting” attempt, one intended to draw a heavily armed law enforcement response.In the days since, more bogus calls and threats have rolled in across the country. On Wednesday, state capitol buildings in Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi and Montana were evacuated or placed on lockdown after the authorities said they had received bomb threats that they described as false and nonspecific. The F.B.I. said it had no information to suggest any threats were credible.The incidents intensified a climate of intimidation and the harassment of public officials, including those responsible for overseeing ballot access and voting. Since 2020, election officials have confronted rising threats and difficult working conditions, aggravated by rampant conspiracy theories about fraud. The episodes suggested 2024 would be another heated election year.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?  More

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      White House decries ‘nasty personal smears’ after House Republicans subpoena Biden family – US politics live

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      The Republican-led House oversight committee today sent subpoenas to the president’s son Hunter Biden, his brother James Biden and family associate Rob Walker, prompting a furious response for the White House.The subpoenas, which compel the three men to appear for depositions, come as House Republicans press forward with an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden that centers on unproven allegations that he benefited from corrupt business dealings by his family members.“The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes. Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence,” the committee’s chair James Comer said in a statement.In addition to the three subpoenas, Comer requested that five other members of the Biden family and their associates appear for interviews.In a statement, White House spokesman Ian Sams condemned the GOP for dragging the president’s relatives into their long-running investigations:Joe Biden will meet this evening with a groups of Democratic and Republican senators who just returned from a trip to the Middle East, Punchbowl News reports, as his administration navigates the ongoing fallout from Israel’s invasion of Gaza following Hamas’s terrorist attack last month:Biden traveled to Israel shortly after the 7 October terrorist attack, and his secretary of state Antony Blinken in recent days visited the country, including the West Bank, as well as Iraq. However the president’s policy has attracted criticism from some Democrats as well as many Arab American voters, who see Biden as enabling the thousands of civilian deaths reported in Gaza since Israel’s counterattack against Hamas began.It’s a big news day in New York City, where Ivanka Trump just departed the witness stand in the ongoing civil fraud trial against Donald Trump and his family.The former president’s daughter kept her testimony in line with her two brothers, who already testified, while repeatedly saying she did not recall details of correspondences about loans – a plank of the case against the family, which centers on a judge’s finding that the Trump Organization for years inflated the value of its assets to secure better loan terms and other benefits.We have a separate live blog that will tell you all about Ivanka’s time on the witness stand today, and you can read it here:The Republican-led House oversight committee today sent subpoenas to the president’s son Hunter Biden, his brother James Biden and family associate Rob Walker, prompting a furious response for the White House.The subpoenas, which compel the three men to appear for depositions, come as House Republicans press forward with an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden that centers on unproven allegations that he benefited from corrupt business dealings by his family members.“The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes. Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence,” the committee’s chair James Comer said in a statement.In addition to the three subpoenas, Comer requested that five other members of the Biden family and their associates appear for interviews.In a statement, White House spokesman Ian Sams condemned the GOP for dragging the president’s relatives into their long-running investigations:Indeed, what to make of yesterday’s off-year election victories by Democrats and their causes, particularly if you are somebody worried about Joe Biden’s poll numbers?Tuesday’s election came just days after the New York Times and Siena College released a survey that found Biden was trailing the Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in five of the six swing states expected to decide the winner. Democrats’ strong electoral performance yesterday seems to contradict that grim conclusion, but, in an analysis, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics says the result is actually not as surprising as it appears.“Off-year elections feature smaller electorates and don’t feature presidential candidates at the top of the ballot,” the center writes.All signs point to next year’s race being a close contest between Biden and Trump. Here’s more from the Center for Politics’s piece:
      Last night’s results have given Democrats a shot in the arm and have confounded the recent narrative about Democrats being in deep trouble next year. But it’s also true that these races in many respects differ from the election coming up next year. It may be the case that President Biden is in fact uniquely vulnerable, and that even former President Trump – himself dragged down by plenty of vulnerabilities that likely are not getting the kind of attention now that they will if he is renominated – could beat Biden. It may also be the case that polling a year out from an election is not predictive (and it often is not). Maybe the Democrats do just have an advantage now in smaller turnout, off-year elections as their base has absorbed many higher-turnout, college-educated voters while shedding lower-turnout voters who don’t have a four-year degree. Maybe the presidential year turnout will bring out more Trump voters and give the Republicans a clearer shot. About all we feel comfortable saying is that we should continue to expect the presidential race to be close and competitive – a boring statement, we know, but probably true.
      Kentucky has not supported a Democratic president in more than 25 years, but last night, voters in the Bluegrass State decided to give Democratic governor Andy Beshear a second term.In an interview with CNN, Beshear was asked if his victory in the strongly Republican state offered any lessons for beleaguered Democrats elsewhere. Here’s what he had to say:Speaking at the White House, Kamala Harris told reporters yesterday was a “good night” after voters in Ohio and Virginia handed victories to advocates of reproductive rights:The bigger question that is undoubtedly on her mind – and, of course, on Joe Biden’s – is whether the momentum Democrats have seen at the state-level since Roe v Wade was overturned will remain in a year, when the presidential elections are held.The Council on American-Islamic Relations has denounced the Republican-led House of Representatives’ decision to censure Rashida Tlaib over her criticisms of Israel.In a statement released on Wednesday, CAIR national executive director Nihad Awad said:
      The American Muslim community stands against this hypocritical and racist targeting of representative Rashida Tlaib, whose voice is indispensable in representing the concerns of millions of Americans who are horrified by the war crimes our government supports against the Palestinian people. She should wear this cowardly censure as a badge of honor. We will not be cowed by those attempting to muzzle our voices.
      Both Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives who orchestrated the suppression and censure of the only Muslim Palestinian voice in Congress under the cover of darkness while ignoring the openly racist, bigoted and violent remarks that members of Congress have made about Muslims and Palestinians, should be deeply ashamed of their actions. They are on the wrong side of history.
      Speaking to reporters, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called last night’s Democratic victories across the country an “important night for the American people.”
      “They rejected these extreme, extreme policies that we’re seeing from the Republican party and they also lifted up the president’s agenda, the president’s values.”
      In response to a follow-up question on Joe Biden’s low approval ratings, Jean-Pierre said:
      “You have to take these polls with a grain of salt… I talked about 2020…what we saw is a president that was able to bring an incredibly strong, diverse coalition to win in 2020. We saw the same thing in 2022…we kept on hearing about a ‘Red Wave’ that didn’t materialize…
      We don’t put much stock in polls. The president’s going to focus on delivering for the American people. He has an agenda that is incredibly popular and that matters.”
      White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “we strongly disagree” with Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib’s support for the controversial pro-Palestinian phrase “from the river to the sea”, for which the sole Palestinian congresswoman was censured by the Republican-controlled House on Tuesday night.“We strongly disagree with using that phrase – it’s been said by many people at the White House. I do not have any conversations to read out to you with the congresswomen,” Jean-Pierre said after being asked if Joe Biden has spoken to Tlaib about the matter.But Jean-Pierre added: “We have been very, very clear how it is important to be mindful about the language that we use at this time, and we will continue to speak out on that.”Tlaib, who is the only Palestinian American in the US Congress, on Tuesday defended her criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza and urged US lawmakers to join in calling for a ceasefire.Tlaib has long criticized Joe Biden’s support of Israel, but received intense backlash after her defense of the slogan “from the river to the sea”.In a social media post on Friday, Tlaib defended the phrase as “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate”.The full slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, references the land that sits between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. While many recognize the slogan as a call for Palestinian liberation, others argue that the term has been used to call for the destruction of Israel and the persecution of Jewish people.White House national security spokesman John Kirby was just asked at the daily press briefing how long is a humanitarian pause – in the sense of something being characterized as such.Is, for example, a 72 hour humanitarian pause different from a ceasefire, Kirby was asked by one of the gathered journalists.Kirby said a humanitarian pause was “as long as it needed to be”, eg to get aid in to Gaza or people out of the Palestinian territory, and was something different from “a general ceasefire” that stands as a “cessation of hostilities” between both sides as they seek to negotiate towards an end game in a war, he said.“We do not support that at this time,” Kirby said. He said the White House regarded at ceasefire as currently being to the benefit of Hamas, as opposed to Israel, in military and propaganda terms.A humanitarian pause, in contrast, is something “temporary, localized and for specific purposes,” Kirby said.White House national security spokesman John Kirby adds, at the press briefing now ongoing in the west wing, that it could take “more than one pause” in the fighting in Gaza to get all hostages out of the territory.That is not to say there is any sign today that an opportunity has yet been created for them to be released.Israel’s military is currently reiterating that there will be no ceasefire in Gaza – but the military will allow for “humanitarian pauses,” Reuters notes.The White House reckons such pauses could “last hours or days.”Kirby says the US continues to urge Israel to minimize civilian deaths in Gaza, especially putting people who are currently trying to flee to the south of the territory or out of it altogether “in harm’s way”.He acknowledged that “most Palestinians don’t want to leave” and there are around a million people internally displaced within Gaza right now.The White House is holding its press briefing and national security spokesman John Kirby is reiterating a point he made yesterday, that the notion of Israel occupying Gaza is “not a long term solution to post-conflict governance.”This follows Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration earlier this week that Israel would take control of security in Gaza for an indefinite period, adding to the sense of uncertainty over the future of the Palestinian territory even as it is currently gripped by war and humanitarian crisis.Kirby said, meanwhile, that there are still between 500 and 600 Americans that the US is trying to get out of Gaza. And, asked by journalists about what the militant group Hamas, that controls Gaza, is demanding to release the more than 200 hostages that its fighters snatched when they attacked southern Israel on October 7 and killed at least 1,400 people, Kirby would not give details. The hostages include Americans.“We have a way to communicate with Hamas, we are using that way. We are doing everything we can to get those folks back with their families,” he said.Bernie Sanders has also hit back at the Republican-led House’s decision to censure Rashida Tlaib over her criticisms of Israel amid its deadly bombing campaign that has killed over 10,000 Palestinians, saying:
      “The House should pass desperately needed aid for Gaza, work to stop the conflict in the Middle East, and address the pressing needs of the American people.
      Instead they voted to censure my friend Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress. Pathetic and shameful!” the Independent Vermont senator said.
      MPower Change, a Muslim-led grassroots organization, has thrown its support behind Rashida Tlaib following her censure by the Republican-led House of Representatives.In a post on Instagram, the group said:
      “Shame on those who voted to silence the only Palestinian voice in Congress. Rep. Rashida Tlaib has been censured for defending the rights of Palestinians to live free of Israeli occupation and siege and for demanding an end to the bloodshed in Gaza.
      Rashida has always been on the side of humanity and she will continue to do that regardless of those who try to stop her.”
      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spoken out against the House’s censure of Rashida Tlaib over her criticisms of Israel amid its deadly bombing campaign across Gaza that has killed over 10,000 Palestinians in reponse to the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
      “It is not lost on anyone how many offensive, violent, and racist things people regularly hear members of Congress say, yet virtually the only one that gets censured for her political speech also happens to be the only Palestinian American.
      It does not reflect well. At all,” the New York Democratic representative said.
      The Republican-led House of Representatives has voted to censure Rashida Tlaib, Michigan’s Democratic representative and Congress’s only Palestinian-American.The Guardian’s Chris Stein reports:The 234-188 tally came after enough Democrats joined with Republicans to censure Tlaib, a punishment one step below expulsion from the House. The three-term congresswoman has long been a target of criticism for her views on the decades-long conflict in the Middle East.The debate on the censure resolution on Tuesday afternoon was emotional and intense. The Republican representative Rich McCormick of Georgia pushed the censure measure in response to what he called Tlaib’s promotion of antisemitic rhetoric. He said she had “levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7”.Tlaib provoked criticism last week by defending the controversial slogan “from the river to the sea”.In remarks on the House floor, Tlaib defended her criticism of the country and urged lawmakers to join in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.“I will not be silenced and I will not let you distort my words,” Tlaib said. “No government is beyond criticism. The idea that criticizing the government of Israel is antisemitic sets a very dangerous precedent, and it’s been used to silence diverse voices speaking up for human rights across our nation.”She also said she had condemned the Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens several times.For further details, click here:Following a series of Democratic wins across the country, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said that “it’s time to recognize Maga extremism is the wrong answer.”In an address on Wednesday, the New York senator said:
      “There is no possible takeaway from last night other than this: Americans fiercely opposed Maga extremism, fiercely opposed total abortion bans and want bipartisan leaders who can put America’s needs first.
      After last night’s results, I have a message to my Republican colleagues:
      When the Maga agenda can’t win in deep-red Kentucky or in Ohio or help you in Virginia, it’s time to recognize Maga extremism is the wrong answer, not just for the country but even for the GOP.”
      Here is more from the Guardian’s staff and agencies on Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated ‘“Central Park Five” members who won a New York City council seat following yesterday’s election:Salaam, a Democrat, will represent a central Harlem district on the city council, having run unopposed for the seat in one of many local elections playing out across New York state on Tuesday. He won his primary election in a landslide.The victory comes more than two decades after DNA evidence was used to overturn the convictions of Salaam and four other Black and Latino men in the 1989 rape and beating of a white jogger in Central Park. Salaam was imprisoned for almost seven years.“For me, this means that we can really become our ancestors’ wildest dreams,” Salaam said in an interview before the election.Elsewhere in New York City, voters were deciding whether to re-elect the Queens district attorney and cast ballots in other city council races. The council, which passes legislation and has some oversight powers over city agencies, has long been dominated by Democrats and the party is certain to retain firm control after the election.Local elections on Long Island could offer clues about how the city’s suburbs could vote in next year’s congressional elections.For the full story, click here: More

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      Election 2023: How Abortion Lifted Democrats, and More Key Takeaways

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      The political potency of abortion rights proved more powerful than the drag of President Biden’s approval ratings in Tuesday’s off-year elections, as Ohioans enshrined a right to abortion in their state’s constitution, and Democrats took control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly while holding on to Kentucky’s governorship.The night’s results showed the durability of Democrats’ political momentum since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion in 2022. It may also, at least temporarily, stem the latest round of Democratic fretting from a series of polls demonstrating Mr. Biden’s political weakness.After a strong midterm showing last year, a blowout victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race in April and a series of special election wins, Democrats head into Mr. Biden’s re-election contest with the wind at their backs. The question for the party is how they can translate that momentum to Mr. Biden, who remains unpopular while others running on his agenda have prevailed.Here are key takeaways from Tuesday:There’s nothing like abortion to aid Democrats.Democratic officials have been saying for months that the fight for abortion rights has become the issue that best motivates Democrats to vote, and is also the issue that persuades the most Republicans to vote for Democrats.On Tuesday, they found new evidence to bolster their case in victories by Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, who criticized his opponent’s defense of the state’s near-total ban; legislative candidates in Virginia who opposed the 15-week abortion ban proposed by the Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin; and, above all, the Ohio referendum establishing a right to abortion access. A Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidate who ran on abortion rights, Daniel McCaffery, also won, giving Democrats a 5-2 majority.Where Trump Counties in Ohio Voted to Support Abortion RightsOhio’s referendum drew support from both liberal and conservative areas of the state, and polled well ahead of President Biden’s results three years ago.Abortion is now so powerful as a Democratic issue that Everytown, the gun control organization founded and funded by Michael Bloomberg, used its TV ads in Virginia to promote abortion rights before it discussed gun violence.The anti-abortion Democrat who ran for governor of Mississippi, Brandon Presley, underperformed expectations.It’s a sign that no matter how weak Mr. Biden’s standing is, the political environment and the issues terrain are still strong for Democrats running on abortion access and against Republicans who defend bans.The last six Kentucky governor’s elections have been won by the same party that won the presidential election the following year. The president may not be able to do what Mr. Beshear managed — talking up Biden policies without ever mentioning the president’s name — but he now has examples of what a winning road map could look like for 2024.In Virginia, a Republican rising star faces an eclipse.Governor Youngkin had hoped a strong night for his party would greatly raise his stature as the Republican who turned an increasingly blue state back to red. That would at the very least include him in the conversation for the Republican presidential nomination in 2028, if not 2024.Democratic victories in the Virginia legislature undercut Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s agenda, which was focused on abortion.Carlos Bernate for The New York TimesBut Mr. Youngkin’s pledge to enact what he called a moderate abortion law — a ban on abortions after 15 weeks with exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of an endangered mother — gave Democrats an effective counter as he sought full control of state government.The Democratic argument won the day, at least in part. The party seized the majority in the House of Delegates, kept control of the State Senate and definitely spoiled Mr. Youngkin’s night. The results offered nervous national Democrats still more evidence of abortion’s power as a motivator for their voters while upending the term-limited Mr. Youngkin’s plans for his final two years in office, and possibly beyond.A Democrat can win in deep-red Kentucky, if his name is Andy Beshear.Being the most popular governor in the country turns out to be a good thing if you want to get re-elected.Mr. Beshear spent his first term and his re-election campaign hyperfocused on local issues like teacher salaries, new road projects, guiding the state through the pandemic and natural disasters and, since last summer’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, opposing his state’s total ban on abortion.Gov. Andy Beshear focused on local issues in Kentucky, and avoided mentioning President Biden by name.Jon Cherry for The New York TimesThat made him politically bulletproof when his Republican challenger, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who was endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump, sought to nationalize the campaign and juice G.O.P. turnout by tying Mr. Beshear to Mr. Biden and attacking him on crime and L.G.B.T.Q. issues. (Mr. Beshear vetoed new restrictions aimed at transgender young people, though G.O.P. lawmakers voted to override him.)It’s not as if Republican voters stayed home; all the other Republicans running for statewide office won with at least 57 percent of the vote. Mr. Beshear just got enough of them to back him for governor. A Democrat who can win Republican voters without making compromises on issues important to liberal voters is someone the rest of the party will want to emulate in red states and districts across the country.Attacks on transgender rights didn’t work.As abortion access has become the top issue motivating Democrats, and with same-sex marriage broadly accepted in America, Republicans casting about for an issue to motivate social conservatives landed on restricting rights for transgender people. On Tuesday, that didn’t work.In Kentucky, Mr. Cameron and his Republican allies spent more than $5 million on television ads attacking L.G.B.T.Q. rights and Mr. Beshear for his defense of them, according to AdImpact, a firm that tracks political advertising. Gov. Tate Reeves in Mississippi spent $1.2 million on anti-L.G.B.T.Q. ads, while Republicans running for legislative seats in Virginia spent $527,000 worth of TV time on the issue.Daniel Cameron and his Republican allies spent more than $5 million on television ads attacking L.G.B.T.Q. rights — a strategy that did not pay off in Tuesday’s election.Michael Swensen/Getty ImagesIndeed, in Virginia, Danica Roem, a member of the House of Delegates, will become the South’s first transgender state senator after defeating a former Fairfax County police detective who supported barring transgender athletes from competing in high school sports.In Ohio, voters back both abortion and weed.Ohioans once again showed the popularity of abortion rights, even in reliably Republican states, when they easily approved a constitutional amendment establishing the right to an abortion.The vote in Ohio could be a harbinger for the coming presidential election season, when proponents and opponents of abortion rights are trying to put the issue before voters in the critical battleground states of Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania.Abortion rights groups entered Tuesday on a winning streak with such ballot measures since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. And ultimately, Ohio voters did as voters before them had done — electing to preserve the right to an abortion in their state.Voters at a high school in Columbus, Ohio. Ohioans legalized recreational marijuana.Maddie McGarvey for The New York TimesAnd with a margin that was almost identical to the abortion vote, Ohioans also legalized recreational marijuana use. That will make Ohio the 24th state to do so.Where abortion wasn’t an issue, a Republican won easily.Mississippi’s governor’s race was the exception to this off-year election’s rule on abortion: The incumbent governor, Mr. Reeves, and his Democratic challenger, Mr. Presley, ran as staunch opponents of abortion rights.And in that race, the Democrat lost.Mr. Presley hoped to make the Mississippi race close by tying the incumbent to a public corruption scandal that saw the misspending of $94 million in federal funds intended for Mississippi’s poor on projects like a college volleyball facility pushed by the retired superstar quarterback Brett Favre. He also pressed for the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to save Mississippi’s collapsing rural hospitals.Gov. Tate Reeves won his re-election campaign easily Tuesday night in Mississippi.Emily Kask for The New York TimesBut in Mississippi, Mr. Reeves had three advantages that proved impenetrable: incumbency, the “R” next to his name on the ballot, and the endorsement of Mr. Trump, who won the state in 2020 by nearly 17 percentage points.In Kentucky races beneath the marquee governor’s contest, Democrats also did not run on abortion, and they, like Mr. Presley, lost.Rhode Island sends a Biden aide to the House.Rhode Island is hardly a swing state, but still, the heavily Democratic enclave’s election of Gabe Amo to one of its two House seats most likely brought a smile to Mr. Biden’s face. Mr. Amo was a deputy director of the White House office of intergovernmental affairs and as such, becomes the first Biden White House aide to rise to Congress.The son of African immigrants, Mr. Amo will also be the first Black representative from the Ocean State.Gabe Amo became the first Black person to represent Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress, according to The Associated Press.Kris Craig/Providence Journal, via Associated PressWhite House officials said the president congratulated his former aide on his victory. The special election fills the seat vacated by David Cicilline, a Democrat who left the seat to run a nonprofit. More