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    Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities ‘torn apart’ by highways decades ago

    Joe Biden hailed the beginning of $3.3bn in infrastructure spending on US projects on Wednesday “to right historic wrongs” with efforts to reconnect city neighborhoods riven by interstate highways that plowed with particular impunity through many Black, brown, Asian American and Hispanic communities decades ago.The US president was in Milwaukee, where he traveled to announce new infrastructure investment and officially open his election campaign’s Wisconsin office in the vital swing state.Democratic party campaigns in Wisconsin are typically run from the state capital, Madison, whereas the Biden re-election campaign has picked Milwaukee, the more industrial and diverse city on Lake Michigan, where 40% of residents are Black. The Republicans will hold their convention in Milwaukee in July.Biden is striving to make an impact on the campaign trail in a number of swing states this week after his fiery State of the Union speech last week.He travels to Michigan on Thursday, part of the “blue wall”, along with Pennsylvania, where Biden was born and has made more campaign trips than any other state.Donald Trump flipped all three states to win the White House in 2016, but Biden took them back four years ago and almost certainly needs to hold them if he is to secure a second term.Biden and Trump unofficially clinched their parties’ respective nominations on Tuesday night after more primary wins, and expect to be officially anointed at their party conventions this summer.The rare presidential election rematch, the first since 1956, comes while Trump is due in court later this month for the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president, with more to come as he faces 91 criminal charges across four cases at federal and state levels.On Wednesday, the White House declared that $3.3bn in federal funding is being allocated in more than 40 states, originating from the Biden administration’s 2021 infrastructure legislation, to help areas “divided by transportation infrastructure decades ago and [that] have long been overlooked”.Biden announced a $36.6m federal grant on his Milwaukee visit to upgrade sidewalks and create cycle lanes, greater access to mass transit and more greenery in the South 6th Street area of Bronzeville, a historic majority African American neighborhood.Biden said the construction of interstate highways there led to the demolition of roughly 17,000 homes and 1,000 businesses, disproportionately impacting Black and poor neighborhoods in the 1960s, with a losses of prosperity and opportunities “that still reverberate today”.He pledged “to right historic wrongs and, in the process, deliver environmental justice to disadvantaged neighborhoods”.The US transportation department estimates that at least a million people and businesses in the US were displaced by decades of harmful urban renewal projects in the buildout of the federal highway system, a statement from the White House said.Biden said: “The story of Bronzeville here in Milwaukee is one we see all across the country. Our interstate highway system laid out in the 1950s was a groundbreaking connection of our nation, coast to coast … but instead of connecting communities, it divided them.”He added: “These highways actually tore them apart … along with redlining, they disconnected entire communities from opportunities, sometimes, in an effort to reinforce segregation.”Biden also took a jab directly at Trump’s conduct in dealing with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, when he was president.“My predecessor failed at the most basic duty any president owes the American people – the duty to care,” he said.The Associated Press contributed reporting More

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    Joe Biden announces $3.3bn for infrastructure projects in visit to key swing state Wisconsin – live

    “I’m here to announce the first-of-its-kind investment: $3.3bn and 132 projects in 42 states,” Biden said in response to cheers.“And in the process, delivering environmental justice by reconnecting disadvantaged communities and neighborhoods with new opportunities,” he added.Bernie Sanders is set to introduce legislation to enact a 32-hour week with no loss in pay. On Wednesday, Sanders, chair of the Senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions, said that he will introduce legislation that will establish a standard of 32-hour workweek in the US.In a statement on his legislation, Sanders said, “Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical idea… The financial gains from the major advancements in artificial intelligence, automation, and new technology must benefit the working class, not just corporate CEOs and wealthy stockholders on Wall Street.”“It is time to reduce the stress level in our country and allow Americans to enjoy a better quality of life,” he added.Joe Biden delivered a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during which he announced $3bn in infrastructure investments in local communities across the country.Opening his speech, the president said: “The story of Bronzeville here in Milwaukee is one we see all across the country. Our interstate highway system laid out in the ’50s was a groundbreaking connection [of] our nation’s coast-to-coast … But instead of connecting communities, it divided them. These highways actually tore them apart,” referring to Black communities and other communities of color that were separated as a result of the highway constructions.“Along with redlining, they disconnected entire communities from opportunities. Sometimes, in an effort to reinforce segregation … More than 100 years ago, Bronzeville was the home of a thriving hub of Black culture and commerce … Sadly too many communities across America face the loss of wealth, prosperity and possibilities that still reverberate today,” said Biden, adding that his latest infrastructure project is set to deliver “environmental justice by reconnecting disadvantaged communities and neighborhoods with new opportunities”.“We’re going to ensure that good-paying construction jobs created in this project go to members of the community,” Biden continued.In Milwaukee specifically, Biden’s initiative will see $36m be put towards the 6th Street Complete Streets Project, which will reconnect communities along more than 2.5 miles of the 6th street corridor. The project will also help provide wider sidewalks for children walking to school, safe bike lanes, dedicated bus lanes for faster transit and green infrastructure, the White House announced.Other projects are set to take place in Atlanta, Georgia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Portland, Oregon, among other towns and cities in the US.“Today, we’re making decisions that will transform your lives decades to come and we’re doing it all across America,” said Biden.He went on to take jabs at Donald Trump, saying: “My predecessor … failed at the most basic duty any president owes the American people … the duty to care.”“We’re going to ensure that good-paying construction jobs created in this project go to members of the community,” Biden said.“We’re making sure the construction materials of this project are made in America,” he added.“I’m here to announce the first-of-its-kind investment: $3.3bn and 132 projects in 42 states,” Biden said in response to cheers.“And in the process, delivering environmental justice by reconnecting disadvantaged communities and neighborhoods with new opportunities,” he added.Joe Biden has started speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is set to announce billions of dollars in new infrastructure projects for local communities across the country.We will bring you the latest updates.Alabama’s Republican senator Katie Britt has responded to news outlets fact-checking her State of the Union rebuttal in which she used the story of a woman who was sex-trafficked as a child.Speaking to Texas senator Ted Cruz, Britt said: “Unbelievable!” before going on to accuse news outlets of wanting to “silence a conservative woman for speaking out on this topic”.She added: “They don’t want to bring light and help the women who are actually being trafficked.”During her State of the Union rebuttal – which was widely criticized by Republicans and Democrats alike, Britt appeared to imply that Karla Jacinto Romero, an anti-trafficking activist, was sex-trafficked in the US during Joe Biden’s presidency. However, Romero was actually trafficked in Mexico from 2004 to 2008 when George W Bush was president.Britt also claimed that Jacinto was trafficked by drug cartels; however, Jacinto said that she was trafficked by a pimp who was operating separately.Following the spotlight that was cast on to Jacinto Romero as a result of Britt’s speech, Jacinto told CNN: “I think she should first take into account what really happens before telling a story of that magnitude.”“Someone using my story and distorting it for political purposes is not fair at all,” Jacinto Romero added.Pennsylvania’s Democratic senator John Fetterman has issued his response to the latest TikTok bill, saying that the legislation does not seek to ban the popular social media app.Writing on Twitter/X, Fetterman said:“Let me be very clear: this legislation to restrict TikTok does NOT ban the app. It separates ties to the Chinese Communist party and prevents them from accessing the data of Americans – especially our kids.”He went on to urge Senate Democratic majority leader Chuck Schumer to put the bill on the Senate floor soon.Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi said the new bill that seeks to have ByteDance divest TikTok “is not an attempt to ban” the popular social media platform.Speaking on the House floor this morning, Pelosi said:
    This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It’s an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-tac-toe – a winner.
    Some Senate Democrats have publicly opposed the TikTok bill, which faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, citing freedom of speech concerns, and suggested measures that would address concerns of foreign influence across social media without targeting TikTok specifically.Senator Elizabeth Warren said:
    We need curbs on social media, but we need those curbs to apply across the board.
    The Democratic senator Mark Warner, who proposed a separate bill last year to give the White House new powers over TikTok, said he had “some concerns about the constitutionality of an approach that names specific companies”, but will take “a close look at this bill”.Authors of the bill have argued it does not constitute a ban, as it gives ByteDance the opportunity to sell TikTok and avoid being blocked in the US.Representative Mike Gallagher, the Republican chairman of the House select China committee, and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the panel’s top Democrat, introduced legislation to address national security concerns posed by Chinese ownership of the app. “TikTok could live on and people could do whatever they want on it provided there is that separation,” Gallagher said, urging US ByteDance investors to support a sale.
    It is not a ban – think of this as a surgery designed to remove the tumor and thereby save the patient in the process.
    No Labels, the centrist group planning a third-party presidential bid, will announce a nominating committee on Thursday to select a presidential candidate in the coming weeks, its co-chair Joseph Lieberman said.Lieberman, who is expected to be part of the committee, told the Washington Post that it will also be charged with making sure that the selected nominee has a path to victory in the 2024 election. He said:
    We are going to do a final determination that at least at this point we have met all of our standards, and we are not going to be a spoiler and that we are not going to re-elect Trump and that we actually have a chance to win.
    He added that stopping Trump from being re-elected is “a goal even greater than restoring bipartisanship to Washington”.No Labels delegates on Friday voted in favor of moving forward to field a presidential candidate in the 2024 election after months of weighing the launch of a so-called “unity ticket”.The White House said it is “glad” to see a bill move forward that would require the TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a total ban in the US.Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the White House “will look to the Senate to take swift action” on the bill, adding that it “welcomes ongoing efforts to address the threats posed by certain technology services operating in the United States”.The bill would not ban apps like TikTok, she said, but it would “ensure that ownership of these apps wouldn’t be in the hands of those who can exploit us or do us harm”.She added that the White House will support the bill “in a technical way”, in order to make sure it is on the “strongest possible footing”.Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr will announce his running mate on 26 March, his campaign announced.The New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the former pro wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura are at the top of Kennedy’s list of potential running mates, the New York Times reported.Kennedy told the paper he was speaking to Rodgers – a fellow conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine campaigner – “pretty continuously” and had been in touch with Ventura since being introduced by him at an event in Arizona last month.In Kennedy’s search for a running mate, those who have turned him down include Rand Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky; Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii; and Andrew Yang, a tech entrepreneur who failed in runs for the Democratic presidential nomination and for the mayoralty of New York City.A group of congressional Democrats including the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and armed services veterans urged the current Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, to “lead, follow or get out of the way” of more military support for Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.“In the military, we have a great expression,” Mikie Sherrill, a House Democrat from New Jersey and a former navy helicopter pilot, told reporters on Capitol Hill.
    ‘Lead, follow or get out of the way.’ That is exactly what our speaker has to do.
    Last month, Senate Democrats and Republicans passed a $95bn foreign aid package covering Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel.The Democrats who spoke on Wednesday faced vocal competition from protesters with Code Pink: Women for Peace, opposing funding for Israel in its war on Gaza. On Ukraine policy, though, House Republicans have proved more obstructive than Medea Benjamin, the Code Pink co-founder, was able to be at the Capitol.Under the direction of Donald Trump, the presumptive presidential nominee who openly favors Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, Johnson has shown no sign of bringing the Senate package up for a vote. The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, recently emerged from meeting Trump to say that if Trump is re-elected, he will not give “a penny” to Ukraine.Joe Biden is expected to formally open his Wisconsin campaign headquarters when he visits Milwaukee this afternoon. He’s en route now.White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will talk to reporters and answer questions aboard Air Force One on the way.The Republican party will hold its convention in Milwaukee this July as it prepares to officially declare Trump its nominee to face Biden at the ballot this November.Wisconsin is crucial to Biden’s re-election ambitions. He very narrowly won the state in 2020 in his domination of the upper midwest against the former president.Then there was an almighty, surreal battle as Trump set his political dogs on the trail of overturning the result, with a variety of plots. All failed and last December, a group of Republican fake electors in Wisconsin acknowledged that Biden won the presidency and agreed they would not serve in the electoral college in 2024 as part of a settlement agreement in a civil lawsuit.Joe Biden is on his way to his second swing state of the week when he visits Wisconsin this afternoon, two days after showing up in New Hampshire to tout his election agenda and just hours after unofficially becoming the Democratic party’s nominee for president in the 2024 election.The current US president and his predecessor, Donald Trump, won primary elections in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state on Tuesday night, solidifying a rematch in November that a majority of voters aren’t looking forward to.They won’t be officially anointed until their respective party conventions this summer, but both have now amassed enough delegates during the primary season to be unassailable as the nominees.Biden, his vice-president Kamala Harris and cabinet members are fanning out across the country after Biden’s handily energetic State of the Union address last week, with swing states and districts very much in mind.With today’s latest poll numbers showing that many voters are disgruntled and open to persuasion this election (though maybe the hard work will be persuading them to vote at all, not to switch allegiance), Biden and Trump have their work cut out.The Associated Press notes that the last presidential election featuring a rematch came in 1956, when Republican president Dwight Eisenhower again defeated the Democratic opponent he had beaten four years prior, Adlai Stevenson. More

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    Biden slightly behind Trump but voters’ views of economy improve, poll shows

    Joe Biden officially begins his general election campaign with a slight polling deficit against Donald Trump, and no indications that his forceful State of the Union address has provided much of a boost with voters, according to a public opinion survey released on Wednesday.But the newly released USA Today/Suffolk University poll also shows views of the economy have hit their highest level of Biden’s presidency, a sign that voters may be starting to agree with the president that his policies helped the country recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.Biden and Trump on Tuesday clinched the final delegates they needed to win the Democratic and Republican nominations, respectively, with primary victories in Washington state, Mississippi and Georgia. They will be officially named the nominees at their party’s conventions over the summer, but by all indications, Americans are not looking forward to the first rematch between presidential candidates in almost seven decades.Polls have repeatedly shown both men are unpopular with voters, but the USA Today/Suffolk University survey finds Trump has a slight advantage over Biden nationally, with 40% of voters preferring him over the president’s 38%.And while unfavorability ratings for both men are 55%, the poll finds Republicans are more fired up about a second Trump presidency than Democrats are for another four years of Biden. Forty-three per cent of Republicans say they are “excited” about Trump’s nomination, versus 22% of Democrats about Biden.Biden’s approval ratings have been underwater for more than two and a half years, and the dip roughly coincided with the intensification of inflation that accompanied the economy’s bounceback from the mass layoffs and business closures caused by Covid-19.While the White House has tried to redirect voters’ attention to the strong labor market, ebbing rate of price growth and the potential offered by Biden’s legislative accomplishment, views of the economy specifically have remained negative.But the USA Today/Suffolk University poll shows that voters are becoming less pessimistic. A third of registered voters believe the economy is recovering, the highest share saying that since Biden took office, the survey says.“This data point is particularly important to track. If the trend continues, more voters could connect the economic recovery to President Biden, especially if the economy continues to dominate other issues as we get closer to November,” David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionDemocrats were also cheered by Biden’s performance at the annual State of the Union address last week. The president laid into Trump in a passionate speech that, for some of his allies, quieted fears about the 81-year-old Biden being too old to campaign effectively.But it didn’t do much to move the needle among the poll’s respondents. While a majority watched the speech, they were nearly evenly split on whether it improved or worsened their views of Biden, and 39% said it made no difference at all. More

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    The voting bloc that could decide the US election: Swifties

    After weeks of maddening speculation over whom Taylor Swift might support in the 2024 US presidential elections, the venerated pop star finally revealed her endorsement: the right to vote itself.“Vote the people who most represent YOU into power,” Swift urged fans in an Instagram story amid Super Tuesday’s primary elections, perhaps the last chance to stop Donald Trump from once again seizing the Republican nomination for president.Although Swift could still endorse a candidate in the months ahead, her “no comment” on who should win on Super Tuesday was a noted refusal to engage in party politics at this stage. Joe Biden’s campaign is still jockeying for her endorsement, while Trump has said Swift would be “disloyal” for backing Biden and rightwingers have suggested that her 18-year career is a “psy op” – a ludicrous theory that nearly one in five Americans have said they believe.What is true, though, is that Swift currently possesses unprecedented power: an endorsement from the most beloved singer in the United States could potentially tip the balance in what’s likely to be a close election. A reported billionaire, Swift can reroute economies, trigger congressional action and spur tens of thousands of people to register to vote. While her endorsement is unlikely to sway a voter who is undecided between Trump and Biden – if such an American exists – experts believe Swift could convince people who don’t feel energized by Biden to vote for him anyway.But whether Swift will wield that power or instead stay out of the electoral fray remains unclear. Although Swift endorsed Democrats in 2018, she has in recent years increasingly withdrawn from such overt displays of partisanship or making controversial statements. That change that has coincided with her return to the top of the celebrity food chain and, in the process, left some Swifties feeling like their idol could do better.View image in fullscreen“She’s at the height of her popularity right now, so I think she’s probably pretty hesitant to do any sort of political activism,” said Jared Quigg, a 22-year-old Indiana journalist who said he listened to Swift every day. “But because of the influence she has, if she came out and called for a ceasefire in Gaza, I think that … would put more pressure on the US government, especially if Biden wants her endorsement.“I don’t think that’s an exaggeration,” Quigg added. “She is one of the most popular people in the world.”So are Swifties a voting bloc the parties should be targeting?Usually portrayed as a blur of sequin-wearing women draped in friendship bracelets, Swifties are not quite so homogeneous as they may seem. More than half of Americans identify as Swift fans and 16% say they are “avid fans”, according to a March 2023 Morning Consult poll that was conducted before the launch of Swift’s Eras tour. While the avid fans are mostly white and suburban, 48% are men, contrary to the popular perception that Swift’s music appeals largely to women.If about one in six Americans is a Swiftie, there is simply no way they’ll all agree – on Swift, or on anything else.However, there is a clear political tilt within Swiftiedom. Swift’s own politics lean to the left, and her listeners follow suit: more than half of her avid fans are Democrats, while 23% are Republicans and another 23% are independents.Swift has long taken a pragmatic approach to politics. She timed her Instagram post endorsing Democrats in the 2018 midterms to hit the internet after the US leg of her Reputation tour concluded, breaking her career-long silence on politics but shielding herself from red-state backlash. Swift then portrayed her next album, Lover, as an embrace of liberalism and love – including queer love, in the song You Need to Calm Down.By any normal artist’s standard, both Reputation and Lover were wildly successful, but neither album sold quite as well as 2014’s 1989. Notably, neither garnered many Grammy nods; in her 2020 documentary Miss Americana, which tracked Swift’s political awakening, Swift was devastated by the snub to Reputation.Yet, at her (extremely relative) commercial lowest – and when politics could feed into the personal narrative linked to Lover – Swift was willing to use her cachet for divisive political causes. In May 2020, when that year’s presidential nomination process was all but sewn up – much like this year’s Super Tuesday – Swift took to the platform then known as Twitter to spit at Trump: “After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November.”Today, three original albums and one Ticketmaster-breaking world tour later, Swift has managed to soar past even the stratospheric heights of her 1989 fame, becoming as ubiquitous as gravity and just as untouchable. Yet after endorsing Democrats in 2018 and 2020, including Biden, she only urged fans to “vote” in the 2022 midterm elections, just as she did on Super Tuesday.“I feel like a lot of the things that she has spoken out about are things that are directly benefiting her if they go one way or negatively affecting if they go the other way,” said Jess Simpson, a 21-year-old who is a member of the University of Oregon Taylor Swift Society, which holds Swift-related karaoke and trivia events. “She claims to be a feminist, but that’s not what that is. It’s not just speaking out about the things that you fall into. It’s about reaching past that.”Ryan Kovatch, who also belongs to the University of Oregon Taylor Swift Society, was frustrated to see the Eras tour visit states that had passed laws attacking the rights of LGBTQ+ children.View image in fullscreenSwift did give a short, relatively vague speech about those laws and Pride month. “There have been so many harmful pieces of legislation that have put people in the LGBTQ and queer community at risk,” Swift told a Chicago crowd in June. “It’s painful for everyone, every ally, every loved one, every person of these communities, and that’s why I’m always posting, ‘This is when the midterms are, this is when these important key primaries are.’”Meanwhile, far less successful artists, such as Swift’s friend Haley Kiyoko, took a risk by bringing drag queens on stage in Tennessee after the state passed a law banning drag shows. Ariana Grande, whose fame comes closer to Swift’s, has publicly pledged to donate more than $1m to fight bills targeting transgender people.“It feels like the stakes have gotten higher and she’s backed off pretty starkly,” Kovatch said. “It is strongly disappointing, as a member of the LGBT community, to see that and see the potential there and watch it be foregone time and time again.“Especially using the rainbow during the You Need to Calm Down set,” Kovatch added, referring to a song in which Swift struts amid rainbow lights and proclaims her support for LGBTQ+ rights.“What is there to lose? You have billions of dollars,” asked Trey Pokorny, a 21-year-old whose drag persona is Treylor Swift and another member of the University of Oregon Taylor Swift Society. “Small artists – their careers can be canceled by a tweet. It takes so much more than a tweet to end Taylor Swift.”Swifties have also repeatedly raised eyebrows at Swift’s use of private jets. In 2022, Yard named Swift as the celebrity with the worst CO2 emissions; a Reddit post about the topic on the main subreddit for Taylor Swift fans triggered more than 2,000 comments.“It’s a little rough to see how many celebrities abuse their power of flying all over the place in their private jets and clogging up the environment,” said 19-year-old Addy Al-Saigh, who said she paid $2,000 to sit in nosebleed seats at the Eras tour. But, she added: “In the end, I know that there’s not really much I can do about it.”If Swift does endorse Biden, Al-Saigh said she would probably direct her Pennsylvania college’s Swift fan club to get involved in the 2024 elections. “If she came out and actually did that, I think I would have a reason to also put it up and say, ‘Go vote for Biden,’ because we’re related to Taylor,” she said.View image in fullscreenWhen it came to the 2024 elections, the Swifties who the Guardian spoke to said they were confident any Swift endorsement would ultimately be for Biden – a move they support. (Or, at least, preferred to the alternative.) But Quigg also cautioned fans to think for themselves.“I generally believe that people should not get their politics from a pop star,” he said. “At the end of the day, she’s a songwriter. She’s not a political genius.”He’s not sure fellow fans share that view. He recently saw a post on X declaring: “I definitely believe Taylor could convince Swifties to do a January 6.”“There is something to that,” Quigg said. More

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

    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

    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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    Robert Hur says he ‘did not exonerate’ Biden and refuses to rule out role in a Trump administration – as it happened

    In his opening statement, former special counsel Robert Hur defended his descriptions of Joe Biden’s memory and its relevance in his report as “necessary, accurate and fair”.Hur said:
    There has been a lot of attention paid to language in the report about the president’s memory, so let me say a few words about that. My task was to determine whether the president retained or disclosed national defense information “willfully” – meaning, knowingly and with the intent to do something the law forbids. I could not make that determination without assessing the president’s state of mind.
    Hur said that for that reason, he had to “consider the president’s memory and overall mental state, and how a jury likely would perceive his memory and mental state in a criminal trial”. He added:
    My assessment in the report about the relevance of the president’s memory was necessary and accurate and fair. Most importantly, what I wrote is what I believe the evidence shows, and what I expect jurors would perceive and believe. I did not sanitize my explanation. Nor did I disparage the president unfairly. I explained to the attorney general my decision and the reasons for it. That’s what I was required to do.
    Here’s a recap of the latest developments:
    Robert Hur, the justice department special counsel assigned to report on Joe Biden’s possession of classified documents, told Congress he was just doing his job when he shook up the US election campaign by criticizing the president’s apparent inability to recall certain events. In his opening statement, Hur defended his descriptions of Biden’s memory issues and the relevance of them to his investigation and in his report as “necessary, accurate and fair”.
    Appearing before the House judiciary committee, Hur said his investigation into Biden “did not exonerate” the president despite declining to charge him.
    Hur declined to rule out accepting a role in a potential second Trump administration. Hur was appointed as a US attorney by Donald Trump in 2017.
    A transcript of Hur’s interview with Biden shows the president repeatedly said he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice-presidency, but he was at times fuzzy about dates and said he was unfamiliar with the paper trail for some of the sensitive documents he handled.
    Ken Buck, the hard-right Republican congressman of Colorado, announced he will leave Congress at the end of next week, putting the GOP’s wafer-thin majority in the House in further jeopardy.
    The Pentagon will send a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $300m, the White House announced, the first such move in months as fresh funds for weapons have stalled in the House because of Republican opposition.
    The White House’s announcement that the US will send a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $300m marks the first such move in months as fresh funds for weapons have stalled in the House because of Republican opposition.It comes as Ukraine is running dangerously low on munitions, and after months of statements from US officials that the it wouldn’t be able to resume weapons deliveries until Congress provided the additional replenishment funds.The aid announcement comes as Polish leaders are in Washington to press the US to break its impasse over replenishing funds for Ukraine at a critical moment in the war. The Polish president, Andrzej Duda, met on Tuesday with Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate and was to meet with Joe Biden later in the day.Donald Trump’s second White House chief of staff tried to stop him from praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convince the then president that Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, was “a great guy in comparison”.“He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things,’” the retired marine general John Kelly told Jim Sciutto of CNN in an interview for a new book.
    I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing. I mean, Mussolini was a great guy in comparison.’
    Kelly, a retired US Marine Corps general, was homeland security secretary in the Trump administration before becoming Trump’s second chief of staff. Resigning at the end of 2018, he eventually became a public opponent of his former boss.Kelly told Sciutto it was “pretty hard to believe” Trump “missed the Holocaust” in his assessment of Hitler, “and pretty hard to understand how he missed the 400,000 American GIs that were killed in the European theatre” of the second world war. But I think it’s more … the tough guy thing.”Trump’s liking for authoritarian leaders, in particular Vladimir Putin of Russia, is well known. His remarks to Kelly about Hitler – like his former practice of keeping a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bed – have been reported before.The Biden campaign is feeling good about Robert Hur’s testimony before the House judiciary committee today, a campaign official has told CNN.After nearly five hours, the House judiciary committee has adjourned its meeting and former special counsel Robert Hur has been released.Reaction is coming in to the announcement that Colorado Republican representative Ken Buck is leaving Congress before the end of the month.One GOP-er called it “alarming”.Buck announced last November that he wouldn’t stand for re-election but gave no indication then that he would leave before the end of his term. He cited the dysfunction of Congress in general but also slammed the Republican party as it “continues to rely on this lie that the 2020 election was stolen” by Joe Biden from Donald Trump.Buck is currently questioning Robert Hur in the judiciary committee hearing.The House judiciary committee hearing has resumed in the questioning of now-former special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Joe Biden’s having kept hold of classified documents after he left office as the US vice-president.Hur concluded that the US president should not be punished, which enraged Republicans, but justified that decision by saying, essentially, that a jury would find Biden too forgetful, because of his age, to be able to conclude that he committed a crime.“I stand by every word in the document,” Hur said in testimony at the hearing.National security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the fresh consignment of $300m of weapons that the US is dispatching to Ukraine won’t last long.The weaponry including artillery ammunition will “maybe only last for a couple of weeks”, Sullivan said during a media briefing at the White House.Meanwhile, the outgoing Senate minority leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, has just urged the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, to hold a vote in the lower chamber on the stalled bill that supplies new aid to US allies Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, Reuters reports.The US Senate gave final approval to a $95bn wartime aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other American allies, including Taiwan, last month and sent the bill to the Republican-controlled House, where it screeched to a halt amid rightwing opposition.Sullivan has left the west wing briefing room now and White House the press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, is answering questions that focus more on US domestic topics.The Pentagon will rush about $300m in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, the Associated Press reports.The relatively small input will happen even though the US military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10bn to replenish all the weapons it has pulled from its stocks to help Kyiv in its desperate fight against Russia, the White House announced a little earlier.It’s the Pentagon’s first announced security package for Ukraine since December, when it acknowledged it was out of replenishment funds. It wasn’t until recent days that officials publicly acknowledged they weren’t just out of replenishment funds, but overdrawn.The announcement comes as Ukraine is running dangerously low on munitions and efforts to get fresh funds for weapons have stalled in the House because of Republican opposition. US officials have insisted for months that the United States wouldn’t be able to resume weapons deliveries until Congress provided additional replenishment funds, which are part of a large supplemental package stalled in Congress.National security adviser Jake Sullivan, in announcing the $300m in additional aid:
    When Russian troops advance and its guns fire, Ukraine does not have enough ammunition to fire back.
    The aid announcement comes as Polish leaders are in Washington to press the US to break its impasse over replenishing funds for Ukraine at a critical moment in the war. Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, met on Tuesday with Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate and was to meet with Joe Biden later in the day.The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has so far refused to bring the $95bn package, which includes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, to the floor.Republican congressman Ken Buck of Colorado is leaving Congress short of his elected term, he announced within the last half hour.Buck is a hard-right representative. He had already announced that he would not seek re-election but now he’s leaving much sooner, putting the GOP’s wafer-thin majority in the House in further jeopardy.Here’s the congressman’s post on X/Twitter:The congressional hearing for former special counsel Robert Hur to be questioned about his report into Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents after leaving the vice-presidency has taken a recess for lunch. There are some unrelated votes to be taken in the House and the hearing will resume after those this afternoon but without an exact time given.Here’s where things stand:
    National security adviser Jake Sullivan is now briefing the media in the west wing, and will be followed by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. We’ll bring you highlights.
    Robert Hur declined to engage in Republicans’ questions at the hearing in front of the House judiciary committee about whether Joe Biden is “senile”. Asked whether he found that Biden was senile, after interviewing the US president at length about how he hung on to classified documents after his vice-presidency, Hur said: “I did not. That conclusion does not appear in my report.”
    Hur said he “did not exonerate” Biden in his report. Hur interrupted Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat congresswoman from Washington, when she said Hur’s report amounted to a “complete exoneration” of the president. Hur shot back: “I did not exonerate him. That word does not appear in my report.”
    Hur declined to rule out accepting a role in a potential second Trump administration. Hur was appointed as a US attorney by Donald Trump in 2017. Trump is running for re-election to a second term as a Republican president.
    In his opening statement, Hur defended his descriptions of Joe Biden’s memory issues and the relevance of them to his investigation and in his report as “necessary, accurate and fair”.
    Hur is testifying before the House judiciary committee as a private citizen after leaving the justice department. According to a report by the Independent, Hur arranged his departure from the justice department to be official as of Monday, 11 March.
    Jerry Nadler, the Democrat House judiciary committee ranking member, began his opening statement at the hearing by saying that House Republicans are “desperate to convince America that white conservative men are on the losing end of a two-tiered justice system, a theory … that has no basis in reality”. Nadler opined that Biden “probably committed a verbal slip or two” in his interviews with Hur. More

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    Divided Washington state to choose Biden or Trump: ‘Everything seems a mess right now’

    Had he heard it, Joe Biden would surely have been delighted by Bianca Siegl’s comment – and the fact she barely paused before making it.“Of course I will be voting on Tuesday,” says the 47-year-old, speaking at a farmers’ market in Seattle’s University district. “If Trump were to get elected, it would be incredibly dangerous for the world and for my family.”After Nikki Haley suspended her campaign following disappointing results on Super Tuesday and the US president made an unusually partisan and pugnacious State of the Union address, America is in general election campaign mode. While polls show up to 70% of people do not want to see a rematch between Biden and Donald Trump it appears that is set to happen. As the campaigns step up their efforts, Washington state holds its presidential primary on Tuesday. Selections for local legislators and federal lawmakers get made in the summer, so Tuesday is solely a choice for voters to show their preference between the 77-year-old former president and the 81-year-old incumbent.Tina Sutter is also backing Biden. The 46-year-old registered nurse says she tends not to get involved in politics as it does not make a “lot of difference”. Things are complicated by the fact her parents support Trump, and she “cannot speak to them about politics”. She is not voting on Tuesday, but will definitely do so in November.“Trump is terrifying and everybody needs to make sure we don’t go through that again,” she says. Her policy priorities are reproductive rights, social justice and the environment, all areas in which she believes Trump would move the nation backwards.Washington state’s heartland is famous for its fruit farms and being the nation’s largest producer of apples, so cities such as Seattle and Tacoma are known for markets where city residents are hours away selecting from apples such as Cosmic Crisp, Fuji and other less common varieties. Eastern and central Washington are more conservative than the west – the state’s two GOP-held congressional districts, the fifth and the fourth are in the east – and the markets can be a rare coming together of people who live on either side of the Cascade Mountains. At the same time, politics per se tends to be avoided.In 2020, exit polls showed more than 90% of Black women voted for Biden. But a 63-year-old stall holder who asks to be identified as Marylynn P says she is not prepared to say who she is voting for.“Everything seems a mess right now,” she says. “But there seemed to be [less undocumented immigration and] people pouring into our cities under Trump.”Trump certainly has his supporters, and they tend to be very committed indeed.Loren Culp, a former police chief, was backed by him in 2022 to oust the Republican congressman Dan Newhouse, one of 10 GOP “traitors” in the House who voted to impeach Trump over January 6. (While Newhouse held his seat, another Washington member of Congress who voted against Trump, Jaime Herrera Beutler, lost hers albeit to a Democrat, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who saw off a Trump-backed military veteran, Joe Kent.)Speaking from Goldendale in the south of the state, Culp says he is convinced Trump will win a second term.Biden rarely campaigns in Washington; the last Republican president to win the state was Ronald Reagan, but he comes for private fundraising events and to tap into the wealth of liberal-leaning tech-rich millionaires.In 2020, Biden beat Trump here 58 to 39, and a poll posted recently by the website FiveThirtyEight puts Biden leading Trump 54 to 38.Yet Biden may not have things entirely without a bump. As in Michigan and Minnesota, where 100,000 and 45,000 people respectively voted as “uncommitted”, activists in Washington are looking to send a similar protest message over the administration’s support for Israel’s military operation in Gaza that has killed more than 31,000 Palestinians.Most Washington voters cast ballots by mail once they are sent out in late February. The first release of results in the state typically skews more conservative than the electorate as a whole, then moves farther to the left over time as more results from later mail returns and same-day voting comes in.Rami Al-Kabra, the deputy mayor of the city of Bothell and an organizer for the uncommitted group, says “enough is enough”.“We need to do more than just calling and protesting in the streets. As Americans, the most precious tool we have is our right to vote.”Al-Kabra, who believes he is the only elected Palestinian American official in the state, added: “And in Washington, we have this uncommitted delegates option to leverage this.”Professor James Long, a political scientist at the University of Washington, says he will be watching how many vote “uncommitted”. Though he suspects some of those “uncommitted voters” will “return home” in November, there could be a number on Tuesday who want to express dissatisfaction.“We don’t have as large a pro-Gaza, or pro-Palestinian, cause as in Michigan, but we have a lot of people on the left,” he adds.While the Guardian spoke to several Democrats who said they would prefer a younger candidate than Biden, nobody said they had thought about picking “uncommitted”.Many said they felt the election of 2024 was too important to do anything that might weaken Biden’s chances.Roger Tucker, 68, a retired architect who was browsing the stands with his wife, Becky, 65, a former university administrator, said: “If Trump is in office for another four years, he’s going to be more powerful than before and less worried that people are going to push back on him.” More