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A wide field of 2024 presidential hopefuls are courting a very specific group this week: The all-important football constituency.
If you tune in tonight to catch the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs face the Detroit Lions in the NFL season opener, you may see an ad for President Biden‘s campaign. College football more your speed? A number of GOP candidates, including current frontrunner former President Trump, will be heading to the Iowa Hawkeyes versus Iowa State Cyclones game to work the fans there on Saturday. Never Back Down PAC, which is backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is hosting a tailgate at the Cy-Hawk rivalry game that the governor is expected to attend.
The Iowa Fourth District GOP is also hosting a tailgate for the game. According to the party, it has received RSVPs from several GOP presidential candidates, including tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former U.S. Rep. Will Hurd (Texas) and businessman Perry Johnson. Others have also been invited. |
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Biden heads to India for G20: 5 things to know |
President Biden is heading to India to meet with world leaders this weekend at the G20 summit. From who’s skipping to which topics could be kind of dicey, The Hill’s Alex Gangitano, Brett Samuels and Sarakshi Rai have the rundown on what you need to know about the trip here. Related: |
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✈️ Biden to nominate Michael Whitaker for new FAA head
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President Biden plans to nominate Michael Whitaker to serve as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, which has had no permanent head since March 2022 and has seen persistent ongoing issues with air travel.
Whitaker, a former deputy administrator at the FAA in the Obama administration, is the chief operating officer of Supernal, a Hyundai Motor Group aviation company. |
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🏛️ Feinstein grants daughter power of attorney
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has given her daughter power of attorney to handle her legal affairs, so the 90-year-old senator can focus on her work in Congress.
“It’s so I can focus on what I’m doing back here in Washington,” Feinstein, who has suffered multiple health setbacks, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “It’s a difficult time for me, and so I really don’t have time for other things.” |
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🗽 New York City mayor blames Biden: Migrant crisis will ‘destroy’ city
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the growing the migrant crisis “will destroy” the city and requires more state and federal attention.
“This issue will destroy New York City — destroy New York City. We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month,” Adams (D) said at a town hall this week. “People from all over the globe have made their minds up that they’re going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City.”
Adams has repeatedly called on the Biden administration and the New York state government for help. According to the mayor’s office, more than 110,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in the city since spring 2022. Last year, frustrated with border pressure, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) began busing migrants to major Democratic-held cities, including New York. |
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🙏 Praying football coach who won Supreme Court case resigns
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After just one game, the high school football coach who won a high-profile Supreme Court case over his right to pray on the field has resigned.
Joe Kennedy lost his job for praying following games, but was reinstated after the court’s 6-3 ruling in his favor. In the meantime, he had moved to Florida and became a cause célèbre for religious freedom.
Before his departure, Kennedy had one last 10-minute, 50-yard-line solo prayer before a small crowd after Friday’s game. |
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🇺🇸 13 presidential centers call for civility, protection of democracy
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Thirteen presidential centers are calling for civility, protection of democracy and respect in political discourse amid concerns over deepening political polarization.
In joining together, the sites with ties to presidents dating back to President Hoover emphasized that debate and disagreement are central to having a “healthy democracy,” but “civility and respect in political discourse, whether in an election year or otherwise, are essential.” |
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“How old is too old when it comes to our elected officials?” — Sheldon H. Jacobson, data scientist and computer science professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (Read here) “Overly data-dependent’ — how the Fed and the markets keep getting it wrong” — Vivekanand Jayakumar, associate professor of economics at the University of Tampa. (Read here) |
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20 days until the next GOP debate.
130 days until the Iowa caucuses. 312 days until the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
347 days until the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 425 days until Election Day. |
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- 8 p.m.: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears on Newsmax’s “The Balance with Eric Bolling.”
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8:20 p.m.: NFL season opener: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Detroit Lions. The Biden campaign is running 30-second ad during the game in battleground states.
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After a brief stopover in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, President Biden will head to New Delhi, India, for the Group of 20 summit weekend.
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