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The Republican governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, has admitted that an anti-abortion trigger law that he signed on to the books would lead to heartbreaking circumstances if Roe v Wade is overturned, in which girls as young as 11 who became pregnant through rape or incest would be forced to give birth.

Hutchinsons remarks give a revealing insight into the twisted human and political quandaries that are certain to arise should the US supreme court, as expected, destroy the constitutional right to an abortion enshrined in Roe v Wade when it issues its ruling next month. The governor told CNNs State of the Union on Sunday that in 2019 he had signed the Arkansas trigger law, Senate Bill 6, which would ban almost all abortions the instant Roe were reversed, even though he disagreed with its lack of exceptions for incest and rape.

Asked why he had put his signature on the law, despite the fact that it would prohibit all abortions other than in cases where a pregnant womans life were in imminent danger, he said: I support the exceptions of rape and incest I believe that should have been added; it did not have the support of the assembly.

Under intense questioning from the CNN host Dana Bash, the governor was asked why an 11- or 12-year-old girl who is impregnated by her father, or uncle or another family member be forced to carry that child to term?

He replied: I agree with you. Ive had to deal with that particular circumstance even as governor. While its still life in the womb, life of the unborn, the conception was in criminal circumstances either incest or rape and so those are two exceptions I think are very appropriate.

He added that if the supreme court does throw out the constitutional right to an abortion, then these are going to become very real circumstances. The debate and discussion will continue, and that could very well be revisited.

But Bash pressed Hutchinson on what would happen if the absence of rape and incest exceptions cannot be revisited in the law that he had personally approved, pointing out that his term as governor comes to an end in January. If you cant change [the trigger law], that means girls who are still children, 11- and 12-year-olds, might be in that situation in a very real way in just a couple of months, Bash said.

Those are heartbreaking circumstances, Hutchinson replied. When we passed these trigger laws we were trying to reduce abortions, but whenever you see that real-life circumstances like that the debate is going to continue and the will of the people may or may not change.

A report by the Guardian this month found that at least 11 US states have passed laws that ban abortions without any exceptions for rape or incest. Such trigger laws are legally written in such a way that they would come into effect the second that the constitutional right to an abortion embodied in Roe were overturned.

Earlier this month, a draft majority opinion of the supreme court written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico. With the apparent backing of five of the six conservative justices on the nine-member court, it would eradicate federal abortion rights in the most aggressive terms.

The court has insisted that the draft is not final and that changes to its wording or outcome are still possible. But the country on both sides of the abortion divide is bracing now for Roe to be undone and power over womens reproductive choices to be handed to individual states like Arkansas.

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CIBOLO, Texas A Black conservative and a rising star in the Republican Party, Wesley Hunt is almost certain to be elected to Congress this fall in a majority-white district in and around Houston.

The district is new, one of two added in Texas after the 2020 census, and was drawn in large part for Mr. Hunt, an example of Republican lawmakers crafting safe seats out of Texas diversifying suburbs rather than going after incumbent Democrats.

That safety has enabled Mr. Hunt, a regular on Fox News supported by top Republicans like Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, to focus his attention on something bigger than his own election: his conviction that the Republican Party needs more conservatives who look like him if it is going to survive.

Diversity in the Republican Party is not the best, Mr. Hunt, 40, said in an interview. If you dont have people like me, and women, step up and say, actually, its OK to be a person of color and to be a Republican, then were going to lose the next generation.

Mr. Hunt has been traveling far beyond his Texas district, raising money and giving support to conservative Black and Hispanic candidates, and talking frankly about the need for Republican officeholders to better reflect the nations changing demographics. He is part of a growing Republican effort to diversify its roster of candidates and undercut Democrats among voters they have long counted on.

On a recent evening, Mr. Hunt showed up more than two hours west of Houston at a political event for a young Hispanic woman, Cassy Garcia, in the town of Cibolo, a Republican area in the fast-changing farmlands outside San Antonio. Ms. Garcia is running in a longstanding Democratic district held by Representative Henry Cuellar that runs from around San Antonio down to the border with Mexico.

He was very interested in our race, said Ms. Garcia, a former aide to Senator Ted Cruz. It means everything that Wesley is invested.

Mr. Hunt introduced himself to the mostly white audience and went over his background West Point graduate, Apache helicopter pilot, staunch conservative speaking loudly to the small crowd under a corrugated metal roof as if projecting into a room far larger than the cinder block bar he found himself in.

The stop at Ms. Garcias event in Cibolo was part of Mr. Hunts effort to support a diverse slate of upstart Republican candidates like John James in Michigan, Jeremy Hunt in Georgia and Jennifer-Ruth Green in Indiana. Each of those candidates, like Ms. Garcia, faces a considerably more difficult race this fall than Wesley Hunt does.

He believes in helping to change the face of the G.O.P., Tim Edson, a political consultant on Ms. Greens campaign, said of Mr. Hunt. I also think he recognizes that by helping others, it can help him hit the ground running and be effective in Congress.

If Mr. Hunt wins, as expected, he would be the third Black Republican in the House, joining Representatives Byron Donalds in Florida and Burgess Owens in Utah, who also represent majority white districts. Even as Republicans have made recent inroads, particularly with Hispanic voters in Florida and Texas, Democrats still outperform them in minority communities.

Unusual among not-yet-elected candidates, Mr. Hunt has already created a political action committee to make donations to others, which he named Hellfire PAC in a nod to his focus on helping those who are military veterans. Mr. Hunt has also been able to cultivate a roster of donors, raising nearly $4 million so far for his own run.

He is running in an area along Interstate-10 known as the energy corridor because of its high concentration of oil and gas businesses, executives and employees. To the extent that Mr. Hunt has firm policy goals, they revolve around questions of domestic energy production. In the interview, he said he hoped to be viewed as the energy congressman.

This is Mr. Hunts second try for Congress, having narrowly lost a bid to unseat Representative Lizzie Fletcher, a Democrat representing parts of western Houston and Harris County.

But rather than creating a more favorable rematch against Ms. Fletcher, a relatively moderate incumbent, during the redistricting process last year, Republican mapmakers redrew her district to make it safer, and created a new one Texas 38th Congressional District that would be a virtual lock for Republicans for the foreseeable future. The district would have overwhelmingly re-elected former President Donald J. Trump. (Mr. Hunts Democratic opponent will be chosen in Tuesdays runoff election.)

Instead of getting two seats that should be majority-minority districts, which should be majority Hispanic districts, they drew that seat to make it easier for Wes Hunt to be a member of Congress, said Odus Evbagharu, the head of the Harris County Democratic Party.

He added that the fact that Mr. Hunt is Black could be seen as an asset, particularly when it comes to attracting suburban white Republican voters.

It helps combat the notion that the Republican Party is racist: Hey, look, we have a white district, but were running a Black man in it, said Mr. Evbagharu, who is Black.

Mr. Hunt said nothing had been given to him, pointing to his dominant performance in the Republican primary in March in which he bested a field of 10 candidates without a runoff.

But he does not avoid the topic of race. Among the campaign advertisements from his first run is a spot highlighting his familys history of enslavement.

What I never want to do is ignore the clearly checkered past that weve had in this country, he said in the interview at a corner table at Avalon Diner, a preferred breakfast spot for Houston power brokers. I want to talk about the hope that we have that a descendant of a slave is now going to be a congressman in a predominantly white, Republican district. In Texas. Thats pretty cool.

Mr. Hunt is used to standing out in white spaces, starting at the elite private school he attended in Houston, more than an hours drive from his childhood home in a predominantly white northern suburb.

What is redistricting? Its the redrawing of the boundariesof congressional and state legislative districts. It happens every 10 years, after the census, to reflect changes in population.

How does it work? The census dictates how many seats in Congress each state will get. Mapmakers then work to ensure that a states districts all have roughly the same number of residents, to ensure equal representation in the House.

Who draws the new maps? Each state has its own process. Eleven states leave the mapmaking to an outside panel. But most 39 states have state lawmakers draw the new maps for Congress.

If state legislators can draw their own districts, wont they be biased? Yes. Partisan mapmakers often move district lines subtly or egregiously to cluster voters ina way that advances a political goal. This is called gerrymandering.

Is gerrymandering legal? Yes and no. In 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal courts have no role to play in blocking partisan gerrymanders. However, the court left intact parts of the Voting Rights Act that prohibit racial or ethnic gerrymandering.

When I got to St. Johns in middle school, I was one of two Black kids in my entire grade, Mr. Hunt said. But I was elected class president in eighth grade! he said, laughing.

He said it was around that time he decided he was a Republican. He voted for Barack Obama in the Democratic primary in 2008, though he said he did so as part of an effort, promoted by Rush Limbaugh, to stoke disarray in Democratic ranks that election. In many ways President Obama is actually why somebody like me even exists, he said, adding that he voted for Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate, in the general election.

Mr. Hunt would go on to a military career, following the example of his father, who had been in the Army, and his two siblings, who like Mr. Hunt went to West Point.

During his time at West Point, Mr. Hunt said, he lived in barracks named for Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, and said he would never want its name changed. I loved walking in there and thinking to myself, there was a time when this general fought against the rights of people that looked like me, yet here I am, he said. If it were named anything different, I wouldnt have that perspective.

His views on most issues are well within the mainstream of Texas Republicans, attracting support from business conservatives and an endorsement in the primary from Mr. Trump. He supports recent restrictions on voting opposed by Democrats. He opposes transgender girls participating in youth sports as just not fair, and agrees with Gov. Greg Abbott that medically prescribed treatments for transgender children constitute child abuse.

For his supporters, Mr. Hunt is evidence that whom they vote for is driven by policy and ideology and not by what a candidate looks like.

I hate this whole identity race stuff, said Cody McCubbin, who works in the oil and gas industry and has held events for Mr. Hunt. Personally I dont care what people look like. Its all about whats between your ears.

Still, Mr. Hunt said he often found himself fielding questions from his white friends about race, such as the moment when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock onstage during the Academy Awards in March. My phone blew up immediately, asking whats your take on this, he said. It was the ask-a-Black-guy moment. You always get one, and Im totally fine with that.

At the campaign event in Cibolo, the heat rose to near 100 degrees just before sundown. Mr. Hunt arrived, looking the part of a congressman in a fitted navy suit, pocket square and American flag lapel pin. He was beaming after what he said had been a successful meeting with executives at Valero, a San Antonio-based oil and gas company a big, big meeting for us, he said.

In his remarks endorsing Ms. Garcia, Mr. Hunt praised her support of more restrictions on abortion, more border fortifications, more gun rights and more support for schools. She joked that she had recently been on Fox News, but added, I cant get on prime time like you, Wesley.

Sam Hines sat at the bar with his father and uncle. A police officer from the nearby town of Adkins, Mr. Hines, 29, came to the event to support Ms. Garcia shes almost like a foil for A.O.C., he said, referring to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic congresswoman in New York. He said he went away impressed by Mr. Hunt, whom he had never seen before.

Its good to have minority candidates be successful in the Republican Party, said Mr. Hines, who is white. It appeals to a broader base than a lot of people realize.

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Wirt Yerger, Jr. died May 2nd at 92. He founded the current Republican Party out of whole cloth beginning in the fifties. Back in the same period, I asked a prominent Sage in Greenville why we werent Republicans? He explained that the Republican Party at that time was controlled by a black attorney from Mound Bayou who lived and practiced in Washington. Perry Howard chose the convention delegates and what patronage there was.

It was a competition between the termed black and tans and the lily whites. This is just an indication of the political climate at that time. For example, in 1948, the Deweys forces paid Perry Howard $1,500 for the Mississippi votes. The bag man on the way from New York to Washington died on the train while he was trying to deliver the money.

The bag mans widow claimed the money and they had to pay twice. This story was confirmed to me by Lynn Hall the chairman of the Republican Party and by John Osborne a prominent reporter for the New Republic. In the late 1960s, Wirts good friend and mine Charles Blum slated to become the next Mississippi chairman.

He had a family problem that caused him to withdraw. Wirt turned to me and said you would take it if we cannot find anyone and the rest is history. I became state chairman in 1966. Wirt doggedly pursued what had to be done. For example, I met Wirt at his brother Swans wedding. He soon named me county chairman without anyones permission. Election was to come later.

The process of building a party was far more complex than this. He pushed to get every county in the state organized. There were miles to go but we were on a trajectory. By 1964, the Goldwater National Convention, the south and the conservative were clearly becoming the majority. Mississippi was on its way to become a majority Republican State. Rest in peace, Wirt.

Clarke Reed lives in Greenville, Mississippi. He is a former chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party.

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Massachusetts Republicans held their state party convention on Saturday as they wrestle with how far to the right they should move in a deeply blue state.

Members of the state GOP gathered in Springfield ahead of this autumn's elections to hear from candidates and party leaders as they hope to rebuild a bloc that's lost nearly all of the levers of political power in the state.

The top job for Republicans is hanging on to the governors office.

Gov. Charlie Baker, who has remained popular with voters throughout his two terms in the corner office, has decided not to seek a third, four-year term. Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito are the only statewide Republican officeholders in Massachusetts.

Neither planned to attend Saturday's convention, reflecting a rift between them and former state Rep. James Lyons, the state's GOP chairman, a stalwart supporter of former President Donald Trump.

Former GOP state representative Geoff Diehl and Wrentham business owner Chris Doughty are both vying for the chance to succeed Baker. The first hurdle both candidates faced at Saturdays convention was gathering the support of at least 15% of delegates a threshold needed to make sure their name appears on the Sept. 6 primary ballot.

Diehl won the support of 71% of the delegates, while Doughty came away with 29%.

Diehl has the backing of Trump, who endorsed his candidacy in October, calling him strong on crime, election integrity, the southern border and taking care of veterans.

Diehl was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018 and lost to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. He also served as co-chair for Trumps Massachusetts 2016 presidential campaign.

Doughty has touted his success at creating jobs as the president of a company that manufactures metal machine parts.

Hes said he wants to protect businesses, recruit high-paying jobs to the state, make Massachusetts an educational leader from early education through college and trade schools, and make the state more affordable.

Following a Republican tradition in Massachusetts politics, both candidates have named their preferred running mate although candidates for lieutenant governor and governor run separately in the primary and only as a ticket in the Nov. 8 general election.

Diehl is teaming up with former Republican State Rep. Leah Allen Cole while Doughty is hoping for a ticket with former state Rep. Kate Campanale.

Shiva Ayyadurai, who in 2020 lost a Republican primary bid for the U.S. Senate, has also said hes running for governor.

Whoever wins will face the winner of the Democratic primary for governor, a race that includes Attorney General Maura Healey and state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz.

There is little Republican primary drama in other statewide races.

Rayla Campbell, a Randolph resident and Republican who has worked in insurance and claims management, is running for secretary of state. Republican Jay McMahon, a trial attorney and lifelong Cape Cod resident, is running for attorney general, a job he ran for and lost in 2018 to Healey.

Anthony Amore, the head of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is running for state auditor. Amore ran for secretary of state in 2018 and lost.

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The false claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election has become gospel among most Republicans. Polls over the past year have shown that nearly 70 percent of all Republicans believe that President Joe Biden stole the election from Trump. The stolen election conspiracy theory runs so deep that, according to the New York Times, more than 350 Republican state legislators in nine critical swing states had taken steps to either discredit or overturn the 2020 election results. Election deniers represent 44 percent of GOP legislators in those states.

In light of this it seems notable that on Sunday, the man charged with helping the GOP win back the Senate, went on national television and admitted that Biden was in fact the countrys duly elected president:

Rick Scott, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is not the only Republican senator to publicly acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election, but he doesnt have a lot of company. In December 2020, a Washington Post survey of all GOP members of Congress found only 27 who would come out and admit that the election was not, in fact, rigged, and that Trump had lost fair and square. Nearly 90 percent of the Republican members simply refused to say who they thought won the election.

In the Senate, Scott is joined only by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who voted to impeach Trump, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), and latecomer Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who finally admitted in January that Biden had fairly won the election. For this indiscretion, Rounds was promptly attacked by Trump, who released a statement saying, Senator Mike Rounds of the Great State of South Dakota just went woke on the Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020. He made a statement this weekend on ABC Fake News, that despite massive evidence to the contrary, including much of it pouring in from Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and other states, he found the election to be ok just fine. Is he crazy or just stupid?

What makes Scotts admission particularly noteworthy is that he was one of eight Senate Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results. Scott has hitched his wagon so closely to Trump, particularly in messaging and fundraising campaigns for the 2022 midterm elections, that he invented an award to give to the former president in April 2021. Making Trump the first recipient of the NRSC Champion of Freedom award, Scott called Trump a proven champion for all Americans. Trump has reportedly urged Scott to run against McConnell for the senate leadership post, and his PAC has defended Scotts unpopular 11-point plan to rescue America that included raising taxes on poor people and sunsetting Medicare and Social Security, two programs used by millions of voters in his home state. But now, Scott, the richest member of the Senate, seems to be gearing up to run for president himself. Last week, he launched a second national ad campaign targeting Biden, calling him incompetent and confused.

Given Scotts acknowledgment of Bidens legitimacy and his recent moves suggesting he is mulling a presidential bid, its a wonder that Trump hasnt denounced him in a press release. Though perhaps Trump, a famous devotee of TiVo, has yet to watch Scotts appearance on Face the Nation.

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MINOT, N.D. Jeffrey Powell is an administrator at Mayville State University and the Democratic-NPL candidate for secretary of state. He was endorsed by the partys executive committee (he made a late decision to run so didnt attend the partys state convention in Minot) and in November will be facing off against one of two potential Republican candidates.

State Rep. Michael Howe is squaring off with Bismarck mechanic Marvin Lepp in the NDGOP primary.

Powell has been watching that race, and on this episode of Plain Talk, said it frustrates him when the Republican candidates talk about election integrity, arguing thats a code word for voter suppression.

He said the primary job of a secretary of state is to protect the right of the people to vote, and he accused Republican lawmakers of enacting laws to suppress votes in past legislative sessions.

Powell also spoke about running as a Democrat in a state that has become deeply Republican over the last couple of decades. He said there is a sense of fear among Democrats who think about running for office in North Dakota. He acknowledged that both Republicans and Democrats have become more extreme in recent years, but that the alleged danger is more keenly felt by people who are more likely to be Democrats.

Powell said he hasnt personally felt any danger in running for office.

Also on this episode, Dickinson-based oil worker Riley Kuntz, who is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. John Hoeven for the NDGOPs primary nomination, spoke about why he decided to mount what he admits is a long-shot bid to defeat one of North Dakotas most popular political figures.

He said he was disappointed state Rep. Rick Becker, who challenged Hoeven at the NDGOPs state convention, wasnt successful and felt he had to continue the challenge to Hoeven.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today warned that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has become at least the second House Republican this year to say that, if Republicans are in the majority next year, they should repeal the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which gave D.C. an elected chief executive (mayor) and legislature (Council). In February, Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA) also said that a Republican House should repeal the Home Rule Act, and he said he was working on a bill to do so, which he has yet to introduce. Several other House Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) and Representative James Comer (KY), the ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, which has jurisdiction over D.C., have told the press this year that they plan to limit D.C.s authority to govern its own affairs next Congress.

The last time we heard such threats to D.C. self-government from Republicans was in the early and mid-1990s, Norton said. Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andrew Clyde literally want the federal government to resume running D.C. as a colony. Republicans are scared that D.C. has gotten closer to statehood than ever, and their response is, predictably, to try to take away what democracy the nearly 700,000 D.C. residents, a plurality of whom are African American, have. I will defeat their efforts, and their efforts will only strengthen our case for statehood.

In his signing statement on the Home Rule Act in 1973, President Nixon wrote, One of the major goals of this Administration is to place responsibility for local functions under local control and to provide local governments with the authority and resources they need to serve their communities effectively. The measure I sign today represents a significant step in achieving this goal in the city of Washington. It will give the people of the District of Columbia the right to elect their own city officials and to govern themselves in local affairs. As the Nation approaches the 200th anniversary of its founding, it is particularly appropriate to assure those persons who live in our Capital City rights and privileges which have long been enjoyed by most of their countrymen.

But the measure I sign today does more than create machinery for the election of local officials. It also broadens and strengthens the structure of the city government to enable it to deal more effectively with its responsibilities.

D.C. is denied voting representation in Congress and full self-government, which is undemocratic. Statehood is the remedy. Congress has the constitutional authority to grant D.C. statehood. D.C. has a larger population than two states, pays more federal taxes than 23 states, pays more federal taxes per capita than any state, has a larger budget than 12 states, has a larger gross domestic product than 17 states, has a triple-A bond rating, and federal funds constitute a smaller percentage of its budget than the percentage of total state revenue.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene flexes during a Bikers for Trump campaign event held at the Crazy Acres Bar & Grill on May 20, 2022 in Plainville, GeorgiaPhoto: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)

Congress passed a pair of bills last week to help alleviate the baby formula shortage in the U.S., while President Joe Biden initiated Operation Fly Formula, which tasked the military with flying thousands of pounds of formula from Europe. And while every decent person supports giving families easier access to formula, there are some Republicans who seem to lack that basic form of empathy in a crisis.

When the Access to Baby Formula Act was voted on last week in the House of Representatives, 414 congressmen, both Democrats and Republicans, voted in favor of the legislation. The bill will allow families on the food assistance program WIC to buy whatever formula brand is available in stores, instead of being forced to buy a particular brand. But precisely nine members of the House voted against the bill, all Republicans.

Who are these people that voted against making it easier for families to get the baby formula they need? Many of the same people who consider themselves pro-life and defenders of American families.

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WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) discussed thefuture of the Republican party and the Biden Administrations disastrous energypolicy on Fox Business Kudlow. Excerpts and full video are below.

On Future of the RepublicanParty:

The Trump doctrine matters. Donald Trump tapped into somethingreally important that Americans care about: an America First form ofconservatism and an America First form of trade. Id lovefourmoreyears with Donald Trump as well.

I also have a lot of friends andknowa lot of peoplewho want the Donald Trump face back because they want that same fightingspirit. But whatever the field looks like, they better be prepared toarticulate an America First Trump doctrine. If they dont, they are missingwhats been going on in this country and whats been going on in the RepublicanParty for the last several years.

I submit that you and I probably felt a little bit differentlyabout international trade 5, 6, or 7 years ago than we do now or globalizingthe economy or Americas role in foreign policing efforts. Donald Trump did notjust tap into something Americans feel, he educated us on what our prioritiesought to be. I respect him for that and I appreciate that. Thats still whereAmerica is and still where our party is. If you want to be the President of theUnited States or United States Senator, Congressman, or Governor, you betterunderstand that.

On the Biden Administrations Energy Policy:

If people believed [what Secretary Granholm espoused], Joe Bidenwouldnt have a 26% approval rating today. The problem with this Administrationis they never learned from their own mistakes. Either they believe their ownrhetoric or they resign themselves to losing in November and they want to do asmuch damage as they can before we get there.

Words matter. Larry, you and Kevin [Hassett] were talking aboutmarkets. Markets respond to politics, geopolitics, consumer confidence,investor confidence, taxes, and regulations. If you have a tax increase,regulation increase Administration talking like this, markets have to respondto that. [The Biden Administration is] still in charge and they will be in theWhite House forthe nextcouple of years. So these are significantwords. Sometimes I like to think that maybe shes just ignorant. She has saidso many crazy things, quite honestly, but Im afraid they kind of believe it.

How about when you push this [environmental, social, andcorporate governance (ESG)] nonsense on the [Securities and ExchangeCommission], the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, [U.S.Department of Agriculture], and every chamber, every administrative agency andsubagency? Theyre all pushing the same narrative thathas a chilling effect on investment.

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In the era of Donald Trump, a major plank of the modern Republican Party platform is outright racism. Whether its the leader of the free world telling four congresswomen of color to go back to the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came, a U.S. senator saying he wasnt afraid of the January 6 rioters but would have been worried if they were Black Lives Matter protesters, a U.S. congresswoman speaking at event put on by a white nationalist, the complete and total hysteria over the idea of children being taught about systemic racism, or a prime-time conservative hosts regular white-power hour, this hateful little ecosystem just loves to appeal to the lowest common denominator by demonizing anyone who isnt white. But when their actions actually have consequences? And it turns out their hate speech matters? And people have the audacity to suggest theyre part of the problem? Well, they really get their noses out of joint.

Take, for instance, New York representative Elise Stefanik. Following the horrifying mass shooting in a Buffalo grocery store that left 10 dead after a gunman allegedly targeted Black people, The Washington Post and other outlets thought it was important to note that Stefanik, the third-ranking House Republican, among other conservatives, had previously echoed the great replacement rhetoric (the conspiracy theory that liberal politicians are trying to replace white Americans with nonwhite immigrants). In a series of Facebook ads highlighted in a tweet Saturday by Representative Adam Kinzinger, Stefaniks campaign claimed in September 2021 that Democrats were letting undocumented immigrants into the country in an attempt to ultimately silence Republican (read: white) voters. Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION, reads one of the ads, with an accompanying image of migrants reflected in Joe Bidens sunglasses. Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington. At the time they ran, Albanys Times Union, the congresswomans hometown paper, called the ads despicable, and blasted her in an editorial, writing that she isnt so brazen as to use [Nazi-inspired] slogans themselves; rather, she couches the hate in alarmist anti-immigrant rhetoric thats become standard fare for the party of Donald Trump. As The New York Times reported over the weekend, Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old white suspect in the Buffalo shooting, had posted a hate-filled manifesto online, in which he wrote of his plan to shoot Black shoppers and went on racist, anti-immigrant rants arguing that white Americans are at risk of being replaced by people of color. Kind of like the ads run by one Elise Stefanik!

The congresswoman, though, did not appreciate any insinuation whatsoever that someone might have actually taken her words to heart, and in a statement released on Sunday, a senior adviser, Alex deGrasse, insisted that the implication or attempt to blame the heinous shooting in Buffalo on the congresswoman is a new disgusting low for the Left, their Never Trump allies, and the sycophant stenographers in the media. The shooting was an act of evil and the criminal should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He added, Despite sickening and false reporting, [the] congresswoman has never advocated for any racist position or made a racist statement, a claim that is obviously not true at all. On Monday, Team Stefanik followed that up with a press release accusing the media of disgraceful, dishonest, and dangerous smears.

Stefanik, of course, is far from the only member of her party to push racist rhetoric intended to rile up the base. As the Post notes, Pennsylvania Republican representative Scott Perry, current chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus,saidduring a subcommittee hearing concerning migration from Central America last year that many Americans believe were replacing national-born Americannative-born Americansto permanently transform the political landscape of this very nation. Senator Ron Johnson has suggested that Democrats want to remake the demographics of America to ensure theirthat they stay in power forever. Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick has declared that the revolution has begun and Democrats are trying to take over our country without firing a shot by allowing immigrants to enter the country who will vote for Democrats to thank the Democrats and Biden for bringing them here. Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance has claimed Democrats want to let in 15 million immigrants into the U.S. to shiftthe democratic makeup of this country so Republicans [will] never win a national election in this country ever again.

And, of course, we cant forget the fear-mongering, hateful commentary that appears on Fox News on a daily basis, which has included Laura Ingrahams claim that Democrats want to replace you, the American voters, with newly amnestied citizens and an ever-increasing number of chain migrants; Jeanine Pirros that Democrats immigration policies are a plot to remake America, to replace American citizens with illegals who will vote for the Democrats; and basically everything that comes out of Tucker Carlsons mouth

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Republicans Are Furious People Remember Theyve Been Pushing the Racist Great Replacement Rhetoric for Years - Vanity Fair