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1. Trump to campaign in Wisconsin next week during off day from hush money trial01:51[-/+]
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Former President Trump will hold a campaign event next week in Wisconsin, marking the first time he will use a day off from his hush money trial in New York City to visit a battleground state.

Trump will head to Waukesha next Wednesday, where his campaign said he will deliver remarks "to contrast the peace, prosperity, and security of his first term with Joe Biden’s failed presidency."

Trump is expected to highlight rising prices that have been a persistent issue for the Biden administration, as well as the surge of migrants at the southern border that has had ripple effects in non-border states across the country.

"The bottom line is that the Badger State is suffering under Biden, and President Trump will once again deliver safety and affordability to Wisconsin!" Trump's campaign said in a release announcing the event.

Trump has repeatedly complained during appearances outside the courtroom in Manhattan that he is being kept off the campaign trail as he seeks a second term in the White House in a rematch with President Biden in November.

Trump is required to be in court four days a week as he faces charges over falsifying business records related to an alleged hush money scheme to keep quiet an affair during the 2016 campaign. Wednesdays are typically off days from the trial, and next week will mark the first time Trump will use that time to campaign.

The former president's rally was scheduled for last Saturday in North Carolina, but it was canceled due to severe weather.

Biden, meanwhile, has hit the road aggressively in recent weeks, visiting Pennsylvania, Florida, New York and other states to tout his agenda and attack Trump over abortion and his economic positions.

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2. Biden campaign to stay on TikTok after president signs bill that could ban app01:39[-/+]
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The Biden campaign plans to continue using TikTok to reach voters and spread its message even after the president signed legislation that could lead to a ban on the popular app several months down the road.

A Biden campaign official told The Hill that TikTok "is one of many places we're making sure our content is being seen by voters" as part of a strategy to reach Americans through a fragmented media environment.

"When the stakes are this high in the election, we are going to use every tool we have to reach young voters where they are," the campaign official said.

The campaign is using "enhanced security measures" on the app, the official said.

President Biden signed legislation Wednesday that could ban TikTok in the U.S. TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, will have up to a year to sell the app or face a ban from U.S. app stores and networks.

“This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court,” a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement.

Supporters of the legislation signed into law say TikTok poses national security concerns because of its ownership by a Chinese company, which they say exposes the sensitive data of American users to the Chinese government. TikTok has pushed back against those accusations.

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3. Biden, Trump tied for first time in months in 3-way race with RFK Jr.00:16[-/+]
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President Biden and former President Trump are tied in the latest national polling average of a hypothetical three-way general election race that includes independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).

Biden and Trump are tied at 41.3 percent support, with Kennedy following at 7.7 percent, according to DDHQ’s average of 130 polls that asked respondents about a hypothetical three-way match-up in the 2024 general election.

Trump has consistently led Biden in the three-way hypothetical race since Nov. 8, when Biden briefly overtook Trump, 39.3 percent support to 39.1 percent. In December and into January, Trump maintained a statistically significant lead over Biden, but Biden began gaining on Trump early last month.

“Since President Biden gave his State of the Union speech in early March, we have seen him close the gap nationally to be tied with former President Trump for the first time since November 2023,” DDHQ’s Scott Tranter said.

The narrowing in the polls, Tranter said, “is a foreshadowing of the intense campaigning and volatility in the polling we'll experience as we close in on November's election.”

In recent days, several polls added to DDHQ’s national polling average have pointed to a very close race. A recent Economist/YouGov poll showed Trump and Biden tied with 43 percent support and Kennedy with 3 percent. A recent Quinnipiac University poll also had them tied at 37 percent support, with Kennedy at 16 percent.

Other polls in recent days have been split. A Marist College poll showed Biden leading by 5 points, and an Emerson College poll showed Trump leading by 4 points.

The latest development in the national polling average of a hypothetical three-way race will come as welcome news to Biden’s campaign, which has doubled down on efforts to prevent Kennedy from hindering the president's reelection amid concerns about the independent candidate's momentum. Many Democrats worry Kennedy’s bid could do more harm to Biden’s reelection chances than to Trump’s.

In hypothetical head-to-head match-ups between the two presidents, Biden has similarly seen his numbers improve. Last Wednesday, Biden and Trump were tied at 45.1 percent support, according to DDHQ’s average of polls. Now, Trump leads Biden by 0.3 percentage points, well within the margin of error for most polls.

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4. 62 percent of Biden voters want to replace both candidates on the ballot: PollСр, 24 апр[-/+]
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Roughly 6 in 10 voters backing President Biden say they’d replace both the incumbent and his rival former President Trump on the 2024 ballot if they could, polling released Wednesday shows.

A Pew Research report found 62 percent of Biden supporters said they’d swap out both candidates at the top of the ticket, compared to just 35 percent of Trump supporters who said the same.

On the flip side, 27 percent of Trump voters and just 4 percent of Biden voters say they’d keep both candidates. About a third of each candidate’s backers say they’d keep just their candidate and replace the other.

Both Biden and Trump have secured the delegates they need to become their parties' presumptive presidential nominees in the fall, but the Pew Research figures are another signal of voter frustration about the idea of a 2024 Biden-Trump rematch. They also come as Biden continues to see protest votes in his party primaries from Democrats upset with the administration’s handling of Israel's war in Gaza — and concerns that young people are souring on his party.

Across both parties, younger voters were more likely than older voters to say they’d replace both candidates if they could – 73 percent of Biden supporters ages 18-49 and 38 percent of Trump supporters in the same range.

Fewer voters also say "it really matters who wins" the 2024 presidential race compared to those that said the same at this point in the 2020 cycle. Back then, 80 percent of Trump supporters and 77 percent of Biden supporters said the race really matters — but those figures have now dropped to 70 percent each.

The report draws from a wave of the Pew Research American Trends Panel conducted April 8-14 among 8,709 respondents, and the results had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.

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5. Christie says Biden 'stupid' for not reaching out to himСр, 24 апр[-/+]
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said it was “pretty stupid” for President Biden not to reach out and ask Christie to support his 2024 reelection campaign after Christie suspended his bid for the White House earlier this year.

In a 90-minute conversation hosted at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics on Tuesday night, Christie told The Washington Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell that Biden has not contacted him since he dropped out of the race for president.

“It’s pretty stupid for him not to,” Christie said, when asked whether Biden should contact him and ask for his support.

With Biden and former President Trump already the presumptive nominees of their respective parties, the 2024 election is all but certain to be a rematch of 2020.

Christie — an ally turned critic of Trump’s — has made clear he would not vote for the former president “under any circumstances” and reiterated that sentiment Tuesday. But he also said he won’t vote for Biden, pointing to Biden’s age as a key reason.

Still, Christie said Biden should still ask him, and he recalled a conversation with former President George W. Bush.

Bush gave Christie the advice years ago, when he ran for governor of New Jersey, to explicitly ask for people’s vote, saying, “People like to be asked,” Christie recounted Tuesday.

“If this were George W. Bush, man, my phone would have rung five minutes after I got out of the race,” Christie said.

“We need to be working together. And it would be a smart thing for Biden to do but so far, no,” Christie later added. “And I know he's got my number because, right after he was elected, I said some positive things on ABC, and I got in the car to head back to New Jersey, and he called and said, 'I listened to what you said. Thank you so much. Important for Republicans to be saying that.’”

“So he's got that number. I haven't changed it,” Christie added.

Christie said he suspected partisanship had a role to play in not contacting him and wondered whether Biden’s staff could be concerned about losing the far-left flank of the party.

A spokesperson for the Biden campaign pushed back on that suggestion, pointing to the campaign’s ad targeting non-Trump Republican voters and supporters of former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who was the final GOP challenger left standing against Trump in the race this year for the GOP nomination.

As soon as Haley dropped out of the GOP primary, the Biden campaign activated its strategy to try to get her supporters into Biden’s camp.

“Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters. I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign,” Biden said in a statement last month.

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6. Biden, Trump deadlocked in new national surveyСр, 24 апр[-/+]
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President Biden and former President Trump are deadlocked in a new national survey.

The Quinnipiac University poll found the two tied among registered voters at 46 percent.

It also found that even when other candidates for the presidency — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein — were included as options in the poll, Biden and Trump were still tied at 37 percent.

"In a country at odds over wars and the economy, abortion, immigration and the very survival of democracy, there is one current point of agreement: there's no daylight between the candidates. It's a tie," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.

The poll also found more registered voters viewing Trump in a favorable light than Biden. Forty-one percent of registered voters in the poll said they had a favorable opinion of the former president, while 37 percent said they had a favorable opinion of the current president.

Another recent Quinnipiac poll found the two presidents close in North Carolina, a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential race. Among Tar Heel State voters, Trump received 48 percent of support and Biden got 46 percent.

Biden’s campaign has set its sights on flipping North Carolina in the next presidential election, after Trump won the state in the 2020 and 2016 elections. Last week, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said he thinks Biden can win the state in this year’s election.

“I believe President Biden can win North Carolina,” Cooper said at Semafor’s World Economy Summit. “And the campaign obviously believes that because they are investing. And they are there.”

The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted Thursday through Tuesday. It featured 1,429 self-identified registered voters and had a margin of error of 2.6 percentage points.

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7. Gallego nabs two key Latino endorsementsСр, 24 апр[-/+]
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Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (UFW), the union she founded alongside Cesar Chavez, on Wednesday endorsed Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) in his Senate bid.

Endorsements from Huerta and the UFW, key players in the birth of Hispanic political power, hold a special significance for many Latinos, particularly in the Southwest.

“Ruben is a stalwart advocate for immigration reform and his commitment to advancing the circumstances of working people, especially Latinos, is undeniable,” Huerta said.

Gallego called Huerta “a true champion for civil rights and one of our nation’s greatest activists, and a pillar of our community.”

“Her tireless advocacy for working people, particularly Latinos, has inspired generations, and I am committed to continuing her fight for better opportunities for working families and all Americans,” he said.

Gallego is running to replace Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who flipped the seat for Democrats in 2018 but left the party and became an independent in 2022. She is not running for reelection.

But Gallego’s race has Democrats fired up because he’s likely to increase participation from both young and rural Hispanic voters in a key state for the presidential election.

“He is a longtime friend of our union and has always fought to ensure that Arizona’s workers and immigrants have better pay, fair working conditions, and quality opportunities,” said United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero.

“Arizona’s agricultural industry, which provides the nation with nearly all of its winter lettuce crop, would simply not be possible without the contributions of hard-working farm workers, most of whom are of Latino background. Those Arizona farm workers deserve elected representatives who know them, care about them, and will fight for them. Ruben knows what it means to take on hard jobs, and Arizonans could not have a better advocate in the U.S. Senate.”

Gallego, who grew up in a union family, said unions “are the backbone of our Arizona economy, and Arizonans deserve a Senator who knows the value of hard work and how to fight for everyday family.”

He is running against Kari Lake, a hard-line MAGA conservative and former TV journalist who lost the 2022 gubernatorial election to now-Gov. Katie Hobbs (D).

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8. Biden leans into courting union workers by bashing Trump: ‘He looks down on us’Ср, 24 апр[-/+]
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President Biden put his strategy of appealing to union workers on display Wednesday by painting himself as more like them and less like former President Trump.

Biden has spoken to crowds of union workers twice in the past week, using each occasion to bash Trump about his upbringing in working to appeal to the critical voting bloc on a personal level.

“Folks, we all know people like Trump who look down on us. Don’t we? We all know somebody we grew up with like that,” Biden said at the North America’s Building Trade Union (NABTU) National Legislative Conference on Wednesday. “It’s either Scranton values or Mar-a-Lago values.”

Biden painted Trump as a bully to working class Americans while using words like “us” to include himself in the labor movement.

“A defeated former president who sees the world from Mar-a-Lago and bows down to billionaires, who looks down on American union workers. It’s not that he’s not supportive, he looks down on us,” he said.

“Think about the guys you grew up with who you’d like to get into the corner and just give them a straight lift. I’m not suggesting we hit the president,” he added to laughter. “But we all know those guys growing up.”

Last week, he told a conference for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), “my opponent learned the best way to get rich is [to] inherit it.”

The NABTU endorsed Biden on Wednesday, and IBEW had already endorsed him ahead of its conference.

It’s part of Biden’s efforts to rebuild the coalition that won him the White House in 2020, with a particular eye on union workers recently. He often says he’s the most pro-union president in history. He became the first commander in chief last year to join a picket line to strike with autoworkers.

Biden on Wednesday argued to union workers that Trump inherited wealth. Trump notably started his business ventures with a $1 million loan from his father, Fred Trump, and he reportedly received at least $413 million from his father over time.

“People like Donald Trump learned a different lesson. He learned the best way to get rich is inherited. He learned that paying taxes is something working people did, not him. That telling people you’re fired is something to laugh about. Not in my household, not in my neighborhood,” he said. “If you grew up where we grew up, nobody handed you anything.

Biden was referencing Trump’s popular reality show “The Apprentice,” where he would fire contestants with his signature style in a boardroom.

Meanwhile, Biden painted himself as “Middle Class Joe,” a title he has referred to himself as throughout his decades in politics.

“The guy has never worked a day in a working man’s boots,” Biden said, referring to Trump. “By the way, you gave me a pair of boots … I know how to put them on. I still sometimes cut the yard. The Secret Service doesn’t let me do it anymore.”

But 2016 saw a significant shift in union support toward Republicans. That year, union households started to shift from blue to red, helping lead to Trump’s victory in states like Michigan. Biden won that state in 2020, but faces a fresh set of obstacles there in 2024 with protests votes centered on his policy on Israel.

The Biden campaign this cycle has invested heavily in battleground states with a large union presence, including Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.

But, recent polling shows Trump ahead of him in these swing states. Trump holds a 6-point lead over Biden in six of seven states — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona, according to a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll on Wednesday. He was ahead of Trump by 2 points in Michigan.

Biden has been endorsed by several of the top union groups, including the United Auto Workers and the United Steelworkers, as well as the major union group, AFL-CIO.

The president on Wednesday thanked the NABTU for endorsing him. The group’s president Sean McGarvey said Wednesday that his union will not “waste a lot of time” with supporters of Trump.

The president also praised unions for their work, noting that labor workers are helping to rebuild Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after the deadly collapse. He often praises union workers for their contribution to the U.S., as well as for being a group that “brung him to the dance,” referencing their support for him in 2020 and during his time as a senator.

“That’s America, that’s the union movement,” he said.

He added another bash at Trump before closing: “Folks, the choice is clear. Donald Trump’s vision of America is one of revenge and retribution.”

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9. Abbott endorses Texas congressman who called colleagues 'scumbags'Ср, 24 апр[-/+]
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) endorsed Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) on Wednesday, defending the congressman as he faces criticism from fellow Republicans after dubbing two far-right members of the caucus “scumbags.”

Gonzales went after Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Bob Good (R-Va.) over the weekend, saying the Freedom Caucus members “walk around with white hoods,” and referencing allegations that Gaetz "paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.” Gaetz has denied wrongdoing. Gonzales also took aim at Good’s endorsement of his opponent, who Gonzales described as a “neo-Nazi.”

Abbott came to Gonzales’ defense Wednesday, arguing that he is the best choice to continue representing Texas in Congress, though he did not directly address the "scumbugs" blowback.

“Tony Gonzales is a fierce champion for bolstering border security measures in Congress,” Abbott wrote in a statement. “I urge all Texans across Congressional District 23 to join me in supporting Tony Gonzales for re-election in the upcoming May primary runoff election.”

Gonzales faces a primary runoff election against gun rights advocate and social media influencer Brandon Herrera after neither candidate gained a majority of votes in a March primary election. Both Gaetz and Good have backed Herrera in the race.

In the primary, Gonzales received 45 percent of the vote to Herrera’s 25 percent. The runoff election is May 28.

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10. Union leader endorsing Biden: 'We're not gonna waste a lot of time' on Trump supportersСр, 24 апр[-/+]
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The president of North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) said Wednesday his union will not "waste a lot of time” with supporters of former President Trump as it gives President Biden its endorsement.

“We’re not gonna waste a lot of time talking to every American that supports Donald Trump, and we're not gonna waste a lot of time with some of our members that support Donald Trump, because we're not gonna change their minds,” Sean McGarvey said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

The NABTU said in a press release that it would formally endorse the president and Vice President Harris at its annual national legislative conference. Biden is set to give remarks at a NABTU conference Wednesday.

“North America’s Building Trades Unions can honestly say no elected official has shown our members and their families more respect than President Joe Biden,” McGarvey said in the press release. “Through his policies and his personnel, President Biden has demonstrated his laser-like focus on not only rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure and manufacturing sector but rebuilding the American middle class itself.”

McGarvey said in the “Morning Joe” interview that his union is going to “concentrate” on “10 to 15 percent of our members who we can have a conversation with … explain to them the facts, give them the projects that they're actually working on, the way they're feeding their family today.”

“'You know how that project came about? It came about through three monumental pieces of legislation after he saved our pensions, that are now creating the biggest infrastructure boom this country has ever seen,'” McGarvey said, simulating a conversation with union members. “We call it the ‘infrastructure generation’ that Joe Biden’s creating.”

McGarvey also went after Trump in the press release, stating his union “took him at his word that he would have a worker-centered agenda and deliver on long-stalled issues such as infrastructure investment.”

“Instead of delivering, he aligned himself with his billionaire buddies to enact tax cuts that raised costs for our members,” McGarvey said of Trump. “Simply put, he failed to deliver. Given our experience and knowing his track record the choice is clear.”

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11. Biden speaks at national trade union conference: Watch liveСр, 24 апр[-/+]
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President Biden is addressing a conference Wednesday of North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU), the latest of several major labor organizations to offer him its endorsement.

As Reuters reports, NABTU President Sean McGarvey has thrown his support behind Biden and offered harsh condemnation of former President Trump. McGarvey said he believes Trump is “not a good man” and “very, very dangerous for this country.”

Support from workers in the construction industry could bolster the Biden campaign as his administration works to shore up the nation’s infrastructure.

The president is scheduled to speak at 12:30 p.m. EDT.

Watch the live video above.

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12. Lara Trump says RNC will have people 'who can physically handle' ballots on Election DayСр, 24 апр[-/+]
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Republican National Committee (RNC) co-Chair Lara Trump said the national committee will have both poll watchers and people “who can physically handle ballots” on Election Day.

“We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers — people standing in polling locations — but people who can physically handle the ballots,” Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Trump, told Eric Bolling in a Newsmax appearance Tuesday.

The RNC and former President Trump's campaign last week announced an "election integrity program" of more than 100,000 volunteers and attorneys “deployed across every battleground state.”

“Whenever a ballot is being cast or counted, Republican poll watchers will be observing the process and reporting any irregularity,” the RNC said in a release.

Poll watchers, who typically observe the ballot-counting process and report any issues to authorities or officials, can’t touch ballots or machinery.

“So, there was a moratorium for about 40 years on the RNC actually training people to work in these polling locations and the tabulation centers where the mail-in ballots come in. And last year, the judge who implemented that passed away. So, that was lifted, and that gives us a great ability as we head into what I assume everyone understands is the most important election of our lifetime,” Lara Trump said.

Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee for 2024, has long touted false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and rigged against him. Lara Trump, who was endorsed for the top RNC role by the former president, has said 2020 is “in the past” — but stressed earlier this month that the RNC is “leaving nothing to chance” this fall.

“This election cycle, Republicans will beat Democrats at their own game by leveraging every legal tactic at our disposal based on the rules of each state," RNC spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement. "That includes ballot harvesting in states like California and Nevada and nominating Republican poll workers in states like Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat."

Updated at 5:19 p.m.

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13. Cornel West: Both parties 'beyond redemption'Ср, 24 апр[-/+]
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Independent presidential candidate Cornel West said both major American political parties are beyond saving in an interview with The Washington Post released Tuesday.

“Both parties are beyond redemption,” West said.

Explaining the need for him to stay in the race, West pointed to the “crisis in the Republican Party, the undercutting and the neofascism of [former President Trump] on the one hand, and now the Democratic establishment especially around Gaza.”

“We just have to be true to ourselves,” he told the Post.

West, an activist, has been a fierce critic of Israel's war in Gaza, joining pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University in recent days. He has defended his third-party candidacy as a moral imperative, despite Democratic concerns that it could undermine President Biden's reelection bid.

Biden has faced mounting criticism from the left on his handling of Israel’s war in Gaza, even from some in his party. A recent CBS News/YouGov poll found an increasing number of Americans wanting the president to push Israel to halt military action in Gaza, from 31 percent in February to 37 percent in the newer poll.

Biden has recently ramped up public criticism of Israel's handling of the war, and he has increased efforts to move more aid into Gaza amid fears of a famine. But the president has not supported placing conditions on aid to Israel, despite a strike that killed seven workers with the U.S.-based World Central Kitchen.

He also criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another independent presidential candidate, who has said Palestinians are "pampered" with international aid and described Israel as a "moral nation."

“He just strikes me as just so far removed from the realities of suffering,” West said of Kennedy.

In a recent interview, West called Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel last year a “counter-terrorist” response.

“There’s no doubt that there’s a variety of different Palestinian voices in the resistance movement,” West said to CNN anchor Abby Phillip earlier this month. “Hamas doesn’t speak for every Palestinian.”

“I don’t believe in killing an innocent anybody,” West later added.

“But you don’t start with those voices without coming to terms with the vicious killings and occupations that’s been going on for 75 years, and then you get a counter-terrorist response to that.”

On April 10, West announced his vice presidential pick, Melina Abdullah, a professor at California State University, Los Angeles. He said he “wanted someone whose heart, mind and soul is committed to the empowerment of poor and working people.”

“She has a record of deep commitment and investment in ensuring poor and working people are at the center of her vision,” West said of Abdullah.

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14. Alabama Senate passes measure ensuring Biden can be on ballotСр, 24 апр[-/+]
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The Alabama State Senate unanimously approved a measure Tuesday that would ensure President Biden can be on the state’s ballot in November, after a state elections official warned that he may miss the deadline to qualify.

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) sent a letter to state Democratic Party Chair Randy Kelley earlier this month noting that the state’s deadline for certifying candidates to be on the general election ballot is Aug. 15, four days before the start of the Democratic National Convention where Biden will officially become the nominee.

“If this Office has not received a valid certificate of nomination from the Democratic Party following its convention by the statutory deadline, I will be unable to certify the names of the Democratic Party’s candidates for President and Vice President for ballot preparation for the 2024 general election,” Allen said in the letter.

Kelley contacted the Democratic National Committee in response to try to figure out what to do.

The state Senate passed a bill in a 31-0 vote Tuesday to move the certification deadline back to 74 days before the election, instead of 82 days before, as state law currently requires.

The Alabama Legislature previously moved the deadline back in 2020 as a one-time fix to accommodate the date of both parties’ conventions that year.

The latest bill now heads to the state House for approval. The Alabama-based news outlet AL.com reported the legislation could receive final approval in the Legislature as soon as next week.

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15. Haley attracts more than 150K votes in Pennsylvania GOP primary, weeks after dropping bidСр, 24 апр[-/+]
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Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley received more than 150,000 votes in the Pennsylvania GOP primary Tuesday despite having dropped out of the race almost two months ago.

The most recent election returns, from just after 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday, show Haley with nearly 157,000 votes, enough for 16.6 percent of the total, with 90 percent of votes cast counted.

Former President Trump still easily won the primary, with more than 80 percent of the vote as of the latest count, and he will win all of Pennsylvania’s delegates in the winner-take-all primary. But Haley’s total is still a significant amount for a candidate who has not been in the race since early March.

The former United Nations ambassador emerged as the last remaining rival to Trump in the Republican primaries after a much larger field narrowed to two candidates by January. But Haley was ultimately unable to overcome Trump’s lead, and she dropped out following Super Tuesday in March.

Still, Haley appears to have reached or came close to 20 percent in several counties Tuesday. Her showing may not have significantly impacted Trump taking the state on his way to officially becoming the Republican nominee, especially as he became the presumptive nominee last month after clinching enough delegates.

But it could indicate a reason for concern in the general election, in which Pennsylvania is one of the key battleground states that could determine the winner of the Oval Office. The polling average of the state from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill has Trump ahead of President Biden in the state by just 0.4 percent, meaning every vote may have added importance there compared to many other states.

Haley has seen continued support over recent weeks in other states. She received more than 77,000 votes in the Georgia primary in March a few days after she dropped out, more than 150,000 votes, or almost 20 percent, in the Washington primary and more than 110,000 votes in the Arizona primary.

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