DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

At an event in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Tuesday, Mr. Trump described Ruby Garcia, 25, and her killing at length. She faulted Mr. Trump for framing her sister’s death as a border issue. Mr. Trump recently derailed a bipartisan border deal in the Senate by urging Republicans not to support it, in a move that prevented a political win for President Biden and allowed Mr. Trump to continue campaigning on the issue. During the event, Mr. Trump described Ms. Garcia as an “incredible young woman,” though at one point mistakenly said she was 17 years old. Local Democrats pre-emptively criticized Mr. Trump for planning to make Ms. Garcia part of his campaign rally.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Ruby Garcia, Garcia, ”, Mavi Garcia, “, ” Mavi Garcia, Mr, “ It’s, I’ve, —, ” Ruby Garcia, Brandon Ortiz, Ortiz, Vite, Laken Riley, Biden, Justin Barclay, emptively, Debbie Stabenow, Garcia’s, Trump’s Organizations: Michigan, Republicans, NBC, West Michigan, New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, . Immigration, Customs, Augusta University, University of Georgia, Local Democrats Locations: Grand Rapids, Mich, United States, Grand, Mexico, Georgia, Athens, Venezuela, Michigan, Detroit

☆ Takeaways from New York’s high-stakes special election
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Democrat Tom Suozzi is heading back to Congress after defeating Republican Mazi Pilip in the special election to replace serial fabulist and expelled former GOP Rep. George Santos. The result will further narrow the GOP’s already thin House majority and hand President Joe Biden’s party a boost as the general election campaign comes into focus. If not redemption, the New York Democratic Party in this special election earned a reprieve. As the storm swept through Queens and Long Island on Tuesday, Republican groups and the Pilip campaign scrambled to drive – literally in some cases – their voters to the polls. (Democratic Rep. Grace Meng from the neighboring 6th congressional district, and the area’s Asian American voters, delivered above and beyond for Suozzi.)

Persons: Tom Suozzi, Republican Mazi Pilip, George Santos, Joe Biden’s, Donald Trump, Biden, he’s, –, Santos, Trump, Pilip, Suozzi, ”, George Santos’s, Rick Lazio, didn’t, Hakeem Jeffries, Kathy Hochul, Jay Jacobs, thrall, Israel –, Grace Meng Organizations: CNN, Republican, GOP Rep, Biden, Democrats, New York’s, ’, GOP, Trump, Santos, George Santos’s volleyball, New, Democratic, New York Democrats Suozzi’s, New York Democratic Party, – Gov, GOP House, Israel Defense Forces, Republicans, Democrat, Queens Locations: Long, dissing, Israel, New York City, New York, Queens, Gaza, Nassau County, Queens –, Suozzi

☆ Opinion: One big lesson from New Hampshire
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

America is a divided nation, even on the subject of open primaries. New Hampshire is a good example of why more states should move toward more open primaries, not fewer. For instance, Louisiana has long enjoyed an open primary, but its new GOP governor is swearing to make a closed partisan primary reality. That’s why an effort to create open primaries in Washington, DC, is meeting stiff resistance from local Democrats. Election reform efforts like open primaries are a practical, citizen-led step towards healing our divisions and fitfully forming a more perfect union.

Persons: John Avlon, “, Donald Trump, –, there’s, John Bynum, ”, they’re “, ” Bynum Organizations: CNN, Republican, Republicans, New, GOP, Trump, Trump’s Locations: “ Lincoln, CNN — New Hampshire, . New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Iowa, Louisiana, Tennessee, Washington , DC, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Tulsa , Oklahoma, Tulsa

☆ Biden backers rev up write-in campaign in New Hampshire to avoid loss
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

For an incumbent president, primary races -- the state-by-state competitions that nominate a political party's official presidential candidate -- are normally a perfunctory affair. Pro-Biden Democrats' volunteer-focused effort, with just a $100,000 budget, will encourage primary voters to put Biden's name on the New Hampshire ballot. Lyndon B. Johnson, then the Democratic incumbent, shunned the New Hampshire primary in 1968 due to over-confidence, only to see an insurgent campaign from Minnesota, U.S. Biden write-in organizers have largely settled on asking voters to write in "Joe Biden," but believe that other names like "President Biden" and "President Biden and Vice President Harris" satisfy a state law that says to count the vote if the reasonable intent of the voter is clear. "They're gonna use this as a way to say, look, we are good Democrats and organized this to protect President Biden," Smith said.

Persons: Joe Biden, Jonathan Ernst, Joe Biden's, Ro Khanna, Dean Phillips, Phillips, Khanna, it's, Biden, Andrew Smith, Lyndon B, Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, PHILLIPS, Marianne Williamson, Jeff Weaver, Bernie Sanders, Mickey Mouse, Harris, Dave Watters, Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Barack Obama, Smith, Jarrett Renshaw, Heather Timmons, Alistair Bell Organizations: Portsmouth Port Authority, REUTERS, Biden Democrats, New, Democratic Party, Biden doesn't, The University of New, Democratic, U.S, Thomson Locations: Portsmouth, Portsmouth , New Hampshire, U.S, California, Minnesota, New Hampshire, The University of New Hampshire, Vietnam, South Carolina, United States

☆ Opinion | The War in Gaza Is Splintering the Democratic Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

Should a few members of the Squad lose their primaries, the blow to Democratic unity could be severe. “And they’ll either stay at home or they’ll go to a third party.”Already, there are signs that the party is fracturing over Israel. Advocates for the freedom and safety of Palestinians, horror-struck by more than 10,000 civilian deaths in Gaza, believe that the Democratic Party is giving its approval to atrocities. These big-footed donors, who are overwhelmingly targeting representatives of color, are going to exacerbate the fissures in the Democratic Party. Diana Lovett, a Democratic Party district leader who held a fund-raiser for Bowman last year, said polarization over the congressman was tearing apart local Democrats.

Persons: Ryan Grim, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Bernie Sanders, she’d, ”, Ilhan Omar, who’ve, Tlaib, “, Omar, Mark Mellman, Israel, ” Mellman, Bowman, Eliot Engel, Grim, he’d, George Floyd, Giddins, —, Don Samuels, Cori Bush, Wesley Bell, Summer Lee, Bhavini Patel, Bowman doesn’t, George Latimer, imploring, Latimer, hadn’t, Waleed Shahid, Ocasio, imploring Biden, they’ve, He’s, ” Bowman, I’m, haven’t, hasn’t, Shahid, Ta, Nehisi Coates, Coates, Isaac Herzog, Weinberger, Sam Bankman, Nina Turner, Andy Levin, Republican megadonors, Bernie Marcus, “ I’ve, Mark Pocan, Mellman, Diana Lovett, Lovett, who’d, dreading, “ He’s, we’re Organizations: Israel, ”, Democratic, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Times, New, New York Democratic, The New York Times, Minneapolis City, Missouri Democrat, Pittsburgh Democrat, Squad, Justice Democrats, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialists of America, West Bank, Democratic Socialists, U.S, Westchester Jewish Council, New York Democratic Socialists of America, Jewish, Politico, United Democracy, AIPAC, Jewish Democrat, Republican, Home Depot, Wisconsin Democrat, Congressional Progressive Caucus Locations: Israel, Palestine, Gaza, New York, Minneapolis, Missouri, Louis County, Hebron, “, Manhattan, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin

☆ The mayor of deep blue Dallas has ditched the Democratic Party, citing his disdain for 'virtue signaling.' It gives the GOP a foothold in one of America's biggest cities.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Eric Johnson, the mayor of Dallas, has left the Democratic Party and joined the GOP. Johnson, in a WSJ op-ed, called out Democrats for what he said was their "virtue signaling" on issues. The party switch gives Republicans a major foothold in one of the country's most populous cities. AdvertisementAdvertisement"In other words, American cities need Republicans — and Republicans need American cities," he continued. "Mayors across the country, Democratic mayors, we are the boots on the ground.

Persons: Eric Johnson, Johnson, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, Johnson —, —, Republicans —, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudy Giuliani, Richard Riordan, he'll, Ken Paxton, Matt Rinaldi, Sylvester Turner, Turner Organizations: Democratic Party, GOP, Service, Republicans, Dallas Mayor, Wall, Republican Party, The Dallas mayoralty, Democratic, Texas, Representatives, Texas Republican, Houston, New York Times Locations: Dallas, Wall, Silicon, America's, America, New York, Los Angeles

☆ The once-mighty Iowa Democratic Party is struggling as the GOP dominates the onetime swing state: 'I can't even describe to you how bad it is'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Iowa Democrats find themselves at a crossroads. Iowa Democrats have watched Republicans dominate in a slate of competitive contests in recent years. Former Iowa state Sen. Rita Hart, who lost a close congressional race in 2020, now leads the state's Democratic Party. Celsi pointed to the Democratic minority's inability to curtail the conservative agenda of the GOP legislature and the diminished importance of Iowa in the Democratic presidential nominating process. Hart is now the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party.

Persons: Barack Obama, Obama, Tom Harkin, Harkin, Republican Sen, Joni Ernst, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Trump, Joe Biden, Kim Reynolds, coattails, Rob Sand, he'd, Davenport, —, Sen, Rita Hart, Matt Rourke, State Sen, Claire Celsi, Dave Loebsack, Republican Mariannette Miller, Meeks, Hart, we've Organizations: Local, Service, Democratic, Iowa, Republican, Republican Gov, Trump, Iowa Democrats, Republican Party, GOP, Democratic Party, AP, The New York Times, Republicans, Times, Iowa Democratic Party Locations: Iowa, Wall, Silicon, Illinois, Arkansas, South Dakota , Tennessee, West Virginia, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, South Carolina, Former Iowa, State, West Des Moines

Search resuls for: "Local Democrats"

7 mentions found