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NY_20th's Journal7 House primaries to watch in New York on June 26
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2018/06/21/7-house-primaries-watch-new-york-june-26/696051002/This article has a good breakdown of what to watch for in Tuesday's New York primaries.
Gigantic Gender Gap Opening Up Among Younger Voters
A Pew survey in March showed a rapidly increasing gender gap in party identification among millennials (defined as those born between 1981 and 1996) as of the end of 2017, when men were Democrats or Democratic-leaners by a 49/41 margin, but women tended in that direction by an astonishing 70/23 margin.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/giant-gender-gap-opening-up-among-younger-voters.html
Since the Women's March it's been pretty clear that the resistance is being led mostly by women.
I don't believe the media has grasped how angry women are with this administration.
Chaos on the border inflames GOP's split with Latinos
It marked the first time a presidential administration skipped the annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials in at least 24 years. The absence was another fracture in the increasingly broken relationship between Latinos in the U.S. and the Republican Party.
"Latinos don't just feel misunderstanding and meanness from Republicans. It's abject cruelty," said former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, who was the senior adviser to 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain. "For the Hispanic community, the Republican brand is gone forever. Kaput. They will never consider voting for a Republican."
http://www.tampabay.com/chaos-on-the-border-inflames-gops-split-with-latinos-ap_election501e44b94abb421db031440eb8a7f026
Melania Trump is a vile troll
The birtherism. Plagiarizing Michelle Obama's speech. Excusing Trump's "locker room" talk. Ignoring her husband's bigotry and foul comments and lies, and now the trolling coat.
The media needs to stop presenting her as a good person.
When someone tells you her they are, believe them.
All elections have consequences. 2018's are huge.
Which party controls the all-important investigative and intelligence committees?
In the House of Representatives, will it be Republicans like Reps. John Duncan, R-Tenn., or Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, as the next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee? Or will it be Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., holding the gavel? And ditto: Will it be Devin Nunes, R-Calif., staying in charge of the House Intel Committee? Or will it be Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.?
Will Trump filling court vacancies continue at its rapid pace? Or will it come grinding to a halt?
That’s the difference between Republicans retaining control of the Senate and its Judiciary Committee, or Democrats taking control. And that includes any Supreme Court vacancy that might take place after the midterms.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/all-elections-have-consequences-2018-s-are-huge-n885676
Gov. Cuomo was on CNN with John Berman this morning
He said that HHS will not give him any information on the children they sent to New York State, and they placed a gag order on NY Foster homes from giving information as well.
This is just insane, and sick.
Here's an excerpt from the letter he sent to HHS.
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/audio-rush-transcript-governor-cuomo-issues-letter-secretary-health-and-human-services
'The Person I Knew Had a Conscience':
Kirstjen Nielsen's Law School Classmates Call Her Out
More than 100 law school classmates of embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from the University of Virginia School of Law have signed a letter condemning the separation of migrant children from their parents and the indefinite detention of those families.
“The punishment you are imposing on families—on young children—is grossly disproportionate to the nature of the charge, and well beyond what is reasonable in a civil society,” reads the letter, signed by 110 UVA law alumni. “It is a cruel practice, one that may cause the children irreparable harm with lifelong consequences.”
Organizers sent the letter on Wednesday, the same day President Trump signed an executive order halting the controversial policy that has separated more than 2,000 migrant children from their families in the past five weeks. But in an email accompanying the letter sent to Nielsen, organizers explained that the executive order does not fully address their concerns.
“We do not believe that indefinite family detention effectively responds to our desire to see you mitigate the harm that an already vulnerable population will sustain,” it reads. “Similarly, we are concerned about the asylum seekers who are still being prosecuted when they fail to meet the formal requirement of presenting at a port of entry.”
The alumni also wrote that they are concerned by reports that currently separated families will not be reunited.
https://www.law.com/2018/06/21/the-person-i-knew-had-a-conscience-kirstjen-nielsens-law-school-classmates-call-her-out/?slreturn=20180521124436
Republicans are turning blue in Ohio, though GOP still on top statewide
Among Summit County’s 364,165 registered voters, 1,208 Democrats became Republicans and 3,305 Republicans became Democrats, by virtue of pulling a partisan ballot. Overall, 39,188 Democrat ballots and 31,208 Republican ballots were cast in Summit County in the May primary.
In terms of overall voter statewide turnout by party, 51 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of Republicans participated in the May election.
The bulk of the Democratic gains are from previously unaffiliated voters pulling a Democratic ballot in May. Among previously unaffiliated voters who picked a major political party last month, 211,184 joined Democrats and 8,037 got off the sidelines to vote for a Republican primary candidate.
https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/local/republicans-are-turning-blue-in-ohio-though-gop-still-on-top-statewide
Trump is a liar and a maniac
He doesn't need to sign anything to stop this grotesque humanitarian abuse.
The only good coming out of his latest stunt is that children will no longer be used as a bargaining chip for his disgusting immigration reform policy.
Too much damage has already been done. He's an evil, sick bastard.
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