Month: August 2022

His goal is to reach young voters of color, a notoriously hard-to-reach demographic that tends to shy away from politics. For Democrats, they are an important but fickle constituency. President Biden remains particularly unpopular among younger voters of color, who gravitated toward his more left-leaning opponents in the 2020 presidential primaries. It is this constituency that has consistently expressed displeasure with his presidency in the surveys An experiment is born Both strategists are themselves young people of color: Macdonald, the creative director of Community Change Action, is a 28-year-old of Japanese and Scottish descent, while Narayanan, founder and CEO of…

(The Center Square) – The political geography in Wisconsin politics is changing. Tim Michels won the Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday by winning 62 of the state’s 72 counties, most outside the traditional Republican base of southeastern Wisconsin. “Tim Michels won every region in the state,” noted Common Sense Wisconsin’s Joe Handrick. “The most impressive thing was not the margin, but the breadth of the victory. He performed well across the state.” Handrick said Michels won the Northwoods region by 19 percent, western Wisconsin by 17 percent, central and northeastern Wisconsin by 3 percent and southern and southeastern Wisconsin…

A suspect was killed Thursday afternoon in an exchange of gunfire with officers after an hours-long standoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, authorities said. Officials said the standoff began after the suspect tried to break into the Cincinnati FBI field office building around 9 a.m. and then led officers on a chase. The suspect, identified by two police sources as Ricky Shiffer, ended the standoff by shooting at the officers, Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Nathan Dennis said at a news conference Thursday evening . Officers returned fire and the suspect died at the scene. No officers were injured in the confrontation….

WAVERLY – Former US Vice President Mike Pence will be in Waverly next week. He will be the keynote speaker on the afternoon of Aug. 20 at the Bremer County Republican Party’s second annual “Summer Grill and Chill” at Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School, 501 Heritage Way, said party spokesman Bob Brunkhorst . Brunkhorst said he believes the Republican’s appearance in Waverly is his first in Bremer County. Tickets for events are available until Wednesday at 5 p.m., according to Brunkhorst. An informational meeting is scheduled for Monday from 5 to 6:30 pm at Waverly City Hall, 200 First St. Northeast….

Many political observers see the Wisconsin governor’s race as a proxy war between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. “If November is a referendum on Biden, the Republicans win. If it’s a referendum on Trump, the Democrats win,” said JR Ross, editor of WisPolitics, citing the conventional wisdom expressed by political consultants in both parties during a panel discussion Thursday with state and national political reporters. To win, Michels will want to focus on Biden’s record, while incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will try to tie Michels to Trump, who could quickly become a liability for the GOP…

President Biden, in response, has signaled his intention to stay out of the process while an independent watchdog investigates the inspector general. But Joseph V. Cuffari and his staff have refused to release certain documents and tried to block interviews, effectively delaying this investigation, which has now dragged on for more than 15 months and has evolved into a wide-ranging inquiry into more than ‘a dozen allegations of misconduct. raised by whistleblowers and other sources, according to three people familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an open investigation. Some Republican senators have also raised…