TAKE with Rick Klein
President Joe Biden surveyed the broad picture of challenges facing the country and summarized his strategy in a very simple way at Thursday’s press conference: “One at a time”.
The ability to order your priorities has recently been dramatically disrupted. A second mass shootout in a week, North Korean provocations, a humanitarian crisis on the border and familiar but recently relevant party battles on Capitol Hill are threatening to impose new realities on Biden and his party.
One is the critical number, although not in the way the president wants. Democrats across the ideological spectrum are perceiving the power of any of them as a potential decisive vote, forcing strange White House compromises and setbacks.
Within the Republican Party, the attraction of partisanship remains much more prominent while Democrats do not agree with themselves. And there is a singular ex-president with a disproportionate role in ideology – a great endorsement and a great voice.
“They need to take a stand for a while,” the president said of the Republicans on Thursday.
He said the burden will still be with them to come to the table for negotiations on a number of issues. But there is no one – at least not yet – who seems willing to know you in these terms.
RUNDOWN with Averi Harper
During your first formal press conference since taking office on Thursday, Biden has condemned Republican efforts to hamper voting in states across the country, calling them “non-Americans”, “sick” and compared them to Jim Crow.
“It’s sickening. Deciding in some states that you can’t bring water to the people who are in line waiting to vote? Deciding that you’re going to finish voting at 5, when workers are leaving work? Deciding that there will be no absent ballots under the most rigid circumstances? ” said Biden referring in part to provisions included in a bill passed Thursday afternoon in the Georgia legislature and subsequently signed by the governor. “Everything is designed.”
He reiterated his support for broad electoral reforms set out in the “People’s Law” and also agreed that the obstruction is a relic of Jim Crow, but did not go so far as to say it should be discarded.
Biden has repeatedly promised that his government would eradicate institutional racism. If he believes the obstruction is a relic of the same discriminatory system that he criticizes, he will have to come up with a better answer as to why he refuses to ask for its elimination, as parliamentary procedure in its current form blocks much of the legislation he promised to deal with systemic racism.
The TIP with Alisa Wiersema
There are still more than three years to go before November 2024, but one of the first primary states is already beginning to see some high profile political traffic. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due to attend two events in Iowa on Friday, and Florida Senator Rick Scott is scheduled to visit next week.
Pompeo’s itinerary includes breakfast with the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, followed by lunch in Des Moines with the Iowa Bull Moose Club, a Republican group whose members are under 40. The sightings come in the wake of his trip to the emerging Texas battlefield for a conversation with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank. There, he discussed politically important topics, including US-China relations, as well as the situation of migrants on the southern border.
Despite frequently signaling his interest in the 2024 campaign by tweeting a countdown to the November election date, Pompeo still faces the unknown Trump candidacy factor. So far, his former chief has not publicly named the former senior diplomat as one of the Republicans he considers to be the future of the party.
Meanwhile, the importance of Iowa and New Hampshire – where Pompeo virtually appears on Monday – in presidential politics is another potential obstacle given to calls from across the corridor to elevate Nevada and South Carolina’s most diverse constituencies to cycle leadership. primary. While the ongoing debate could create a meta-battle for first place in the primaries, current candidates are moving forward with the status quo in mind.
THE PLAYLIST
ABC News “Start Here” Podcast. The Friday morning episode features ABC News chief correspondent at the White House, Cecilia Vega, who tells us about her interaction with President Joe Biden on immigration during her first formal press conference on Thursday. Ashley Riegle of ABC News informs us of a record assault deal in the case of the USC gynecologist. And ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams tells us why a university’s plan to require vaccines for face-to-face learning may become the standard for other sectors. http://apple.co/2HPocUL
FiveThirtyEight policy podcast. On Thursday, we released our updated assessments of researchers here at FiveThirtyEight. Although they have shown that surveys have not become much less accurate in recent years, they have had a very bad result in 2020. Our analysis also found that a long-standing truism in surveys – that surveys using live callers are more accurate – is no longer truth. Comparing live polls to online polls, text messages, automated calls and mixed methods, the former is not systematically more likely to reflect the final result of an election. In this edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, editor-in-chief Nate Silver talks to Galen Druke about why the gold standard of research has changed and what it means in the future. With the benefit of a retrospective view and up-to-date assessments from researchers, they also assess the performance of research in 2019 and 2020 in general. https://53eig.ht/3ro2mJy
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