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☆ How Has Trump Changed the G.O.P.? His Criminal-Trial Guest List Tells the Tale.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Republican Party has changed a lot since Donald J. Trump last spent this much time at Trump Tower. Stuck in New York City four days a week during his criminal trial, Mr. Trump is now back in the same 66th-floor penthouse suite where he weathered so many scandals during his 2016 presidential run. Back then, Mr. Trump was the Republican nominee, but still very much a party outsider. After the “Access Hollywood” video broke in October 2016 and he was heard bragging about grabbing women’s genitals, he spent the weekend in Trump Tower watching defections. Mr. Vance began his day at Trump Tower and then went inside the courthouse on the same day that some of the “Access Hollywood” episode was recounted and a secret recording played in which Mr. Trump discussed payoffs to bury harmful stories.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, J.D, Vance of, Vance Organizations: Republican Party, Trump, New York City, Republican, Trump Tower Locations: New York, Vance of Ohio

☆ Ted Cruz, Better Known For Derailing Bills, Tries on a New Hat: Legislator
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Kayla Guo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator Ted Cruz is rebranding — at least for now. But for the first time this week, Mr. Cruz, now the senior Republican on the Commerce Committee, embraced a wholly unfamiliar role: managing a major piece of legislation on the Senate floor. It came as Mr. Cruz, who is running for re-election in November, is trying to moderate his reputation in Texas and present himself as capable of bipartisanship. That involved protecting the package from the sort of legislative and procedural bombs he has lobbed proudly throughout his career. “I will admit that I’ve had a couple of chuckles about it,” Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, said with a smile.

Persons: Ted Cruz, Cruz, “, I’ve, Susan Collins of Organizations: Texas Republican, Affordable, Republican, Commerce, Federal Aviation Administration Locations: Texas, Susan Collins of Maine

☆ Opinion | Is There a Post-Religious Right?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

My one-liner “captured a widely shared assumption” that Trump’s rise signaled “the birth of an irreligious right animated by white racial grievance,” he wrote. The old religious right may have suffered a fatal blow in 2016. But what succeeded it was not a post-religious racialist party, as some feared and others hoped. was preparing to establish white supremacy now are more likely to denounce its ambitions as “Christian nationalist.” Whatever else one makes of this charge, it implies an acknowledgment that a post-religious right has failed to materialize. But when Schmitz says a post-religious right has “failed to materialize” I have to strongly disagree.

Persons: Donald Trump, Matthew Schmitz, “, ”, that’s, Schmitz, Mitt Romney, Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini, Vance, George W, Bush, Trump, Norman Vincent Peale Organizations: Republican, Trump, Christian, Republican Party Locations: American, Ohio

☆ Fresh Off Defeat in Speaker Fight, Greene Is ‘Thrilled’ With the Chaos She Wrought
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Annie Karni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As Republicans and Democrats booed her loudly Wednesday when she called a snap vote on the House floor to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, paused briefly to narrate the drama to viewers back home. “This is the uniparty, for the American people watching,” Ms. Greene sneered, peering over her glasses at her colleagues like a disappointed schoolteacher. Ms. Greene went on to take her shot at Mr. Johnson and miss, an outcome that she knew was a certainty. The move buoyed Mr. Johnson, confirming his status as the leader of an unlikely bipartisan governing coalition in the House that Ms. Greene considers the ultimate enemy. And it isolated Ms. Greene on Capitol Hill, putting her back where she was when she arrived in Washington three years ago: a provocateur and subject of derision who appears to revel in causing huge headaches for her colleagues.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ms, Greene sneered, Greene, Johnson, revel Organizations: Democrats, Republican, Republicans, Capitol Locations: Georgia, Washington

On Today’s Episode:Biden Says the U.S. Will Not Supply Israel With Weapons to Attack Rafah, by Erica L. GreenWith a Gaza Cease-Fire in the Balance, Netanyahu Maneuvers to Keep Power, by Steven ErlangerStormy Daniels Returns to the Stand, by Matthew HaagJohnson Survives Greene’s Ouster Attempt as Democrats Join G.O.P. to Kill It, by Catie Edmondson, Carl Hulse and Kayla Guo

Persons: Biden, Erica L, Netanyahu, Steven Erlanger Stormy Daniels, Matthew Haag Johnson, Catie Edmondson, Carl Hulse, Kayla Guo Organizations: Will, Weapons, G.O.P Locations: U.S, Gaza

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday easily batted down an attempt by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia to oust him from his post, after Democrats linked arms with most Republicans to fend off a second attempt by G.O.P. The vote to kill the effort was an overwhelming 359 to 43, with seven Democrats voting “present.”Democrats flocked to Mr. Johnson’s rescue, with all but 39 of them voting with Republicans to block the effort to oust him. In addition to the seven who voted “present,” registering no position, 32 Democrats voted against thwarting Ms. Greene’s motion. While for weeks Ms. Greene had appeared to be on a political island in her drive to jettison yet another G.O.P. speaker, 11 Republicans ultimately voted against blocking her motion.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Johnson’s, “, Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, Greene, McCarthy Organizations: Democratic, Republicans, Democrats Locations: Georgia

☆ Campaign Updates Noem, under fire for her new book, joins other V.P. contenders at G.O.P. donor retreat.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

That will be corrected in future editions of the book, too, said Ian Fury, the chief of communications for Ms. Noem. “It was brought to our attention that the upcoming book ‘No Going Back’ has two small errors,” Mr. Fury said. “I had the chance to travel to many countries to meet with world leaders — some who wanted our help, and some who didn’t,” Ms. Noem writes. The conversation that Ms. Noem describes having with Ms. Haley, the former South Carolina governor who dropped out of the Republican presidential primary in March, suggests that Ms. Haley had threatened her because they were both prominent Republican women. It was weird.”Chaney Denton, a spokeswoman for Ms. Haley, said Ms. Noem’s story was inaccurate.

Persons: Kristi Noem, Kim Jong, Noem, Donald J, Trump, Noem’s, Nikki Haley, Ian Fury, Mr, Fury, Kim, “, —, Ms, I’d, Haley, “ I’ve, I’ve, ” Chaney Denton, “ Nikki, ” Ms, Denton, Sean Hannity, ” Organizations: North Korean, The New York Times, South, House Armed Services Committee, North, Republican, Trump, Cricket, Fox News Locations: South Dakota, North Korean, South Carolina

☆ Bill to Combat Antisemitism on Campuses Prompts Backlash From the Right
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Annie Karni | More About Annie Karni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A bipartisan push in Congress to enact a law cracking down on antisemitic speech on college campuses has prompted a backlash from far-right lawmakers and activists, who argue it could outlaw Christian biblical teachings. The House passed the legislation, called the Antisemitism Awareness Act, overwhelmingly on Wednesday, and Senate leaders in both parties were working behind the scenes on Thursday to determine whether it would have enough backing to come to a vote in that chamber. House Republicans rolled the bill out this week as part of their efforts to condemn the pro-Palestinian protests that have surged at university campuses across the country, and to put a political squeeze on Democrats, who they have accused of tolerating antisemitism to please their liberal base. But in trying to use the issue as a political cudgel against the left, Republicans also called attention to a rift on the right. members said they firmly believe that Jews killed Jesus Christ, and argued that the bill — which includes such claims in its definition of antisemitism — would outlaw parts of the Bible.

Persons: Jesus Christ Organizations: Republicans

☆ Democrats Announce That They Will Rescue Johnson if He Faces Ouster Vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Carl Hulse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

House Democrats said on Tuesday that they would join with the G.O.P. to kill an effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson if far-right House Republicans forced a vote to remove him from his post after he allowed a foreign aid package including assistance to Ukraine to be approved. In a joint statement after a closed-door party meeting, the three top Democrats said they would side with Republicans supportive of Mr. Johnson and vote to table any motion to vacate him from the speaker’s chair, blocking it from coming up. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, has filed such a measure and threatened to call a snap vote on it, a threat she renewed on Tuesday after Democrats made clear their intentions. “At this moment, upon completion of our national security work, the time has come to turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction,” the Democratic leaders said in a joint statement.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, ” Organizations: Republicans, Republican, Putin, Democratic Locations: Ukraine, Georgia

☆ G.O.P. Asks Secret Service to Move Protesters Away From Convention Venue
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Chris Cameron | More About Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Republican Party sent a letter to the Secret Service on Friday urging the police agency to keep protesters farther away from the venue for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. The three-page letter, signed by Todd R. Steggerda, counsel to the Republican National Committee, objected to the placement of an area where protesters would be allowed to demonstrate. Mr. Steggerda argued that convention attendees would be forced to pass by the protesters on their way into the venue, raising the potential for confrontations. “As recent college and university campus clashes make plain,” Mr. Steggerda wrote in the letter obtained by The New York Times, “forced proximity heightens tensions among peaceful attendees and demonstrators of differing ideologies and increases the risk of escalation to verbal, or even physical, clashes.”

Persons: Todd R, Steggerda, Mr, ” Organizations: Republican Party, Republican National Convention, Republican National Committee, The New York Times Locations: Milwaukee

☆ Bucking G.O.P. Isolationists, McConnell Was Linchpin in Winning Ukraine Aid
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Carl Hulse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator Mitch McConnell does not give much away even in the most private of settings. “I wasn’t trying to convince Johnson of anything other than we had a time problem,” Mr. McConnell said in an interview on Tuesday, recounting the White House meeting and his message that help for Ukraine could not wait for Mr. Johnson’s political problems to sort themselves out. “I didn’t think we had time to fool around.”Mr. McConnell did not get immediate results. It took almost two more months and some legislative circuity. But Mr. Johnson finally acted last week and the House sent the aid package to the Senate, which followed suit on Tuesday night in overwhelmingly approving more than $60 billion in assistance for beleaguered Ukraine after months of delay and political strife.

Persons: Mitch McConnell, Biden, Mike Johnson, Johnson, McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, “, Mr, ” Mr Organizations: Republican, Oval, Democratic, House, Senate Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv

☆ Election Updates: Trump wins Pennsylvania primary, but remains haunted by Haley
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Chris Cameron | Anjali Huynh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

That exceeds the margin of 81,660 votes by which Mr. Biden won the state in the 2020 election. Tomorrow, Mr. Biden will head to Syracuse, N.Y., for a White House event, while Mr. Trump will head back to court. It remains unclear whether his decision to bypass any reconciliation with Ms. Haley will matter as November approaches. Mr. McCormick won an unopposed Republican primary for Senate in Pennsylvania, pitting him against Mr. Casey, the Democratic incumbent. Mr. Trump helped sink Mr. McCormick’s first run when he backed a rival candidate, the celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Persons: Biden, Donald J, Trump, Nikki Haley, Trump’s, Mr, Kamala Harris, Drew Barrymore, David McCormick, Bob Casey, Summer Lee, ‘ Scranton Joe ’ Biden, Haley holdouts, Dean Phillips, Haley, Lee, Bhavini Patel, Lee’s, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Jeff Swensen, McCormick, Casey, McCormick’s, Mehmet Oz, Dr, Oz, Oz eked Organizations: Republican, North, Unions, Democratic, South, Credit, The New York, Trump, Senate, Mr Locations: Manhattan, New York, Syracuse, N.Y, Pennsylvania, Gaza, Scranton, Pa, South Carolina, G.O.P, Wisconsin , Rhode Island , Connecticut, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Cortez of New York, Israel

☆ Election Updates: Biden to campaign in Florida, keeping the focus on abortion.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | Patricia Mazzei | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

The Biden campaign has made abortion one of its top issues, as polling shows it is one of the few subjects in which voters place more trust in Mr. Biden than Mr. Trump. While the vote could motivate liberal and independent voters to come to the polls, Mr. Biden would have to invest heavily in Florida to defeat Mr. Trump, which his campaign has not yet done. “Trump did this” has become a frequent messaging slogan from the Biden campaign. The Biden campaign, she said, should not give up on the nation’s third-largest state. Although the Biden campaign has a significant financial advantage over Mr. Trump’s operation, it has not spent heavily in Florida compared with the major battlegrounds.

Persons: Biden, Donald J, Trump, Biden’s, Floridians, Donald Trump, ”, Michael Tyler, “, Roe, Wade, “ Trump, Ron DeSantis, Debbie Mucarsel, Powell, Rick Scott, Ms, Mucarsel, DeSantis, ” Mr, Tyler, “ We’ve, Lauren Brenzel, ” Alex Andrade, Mr, Andrade Organizations: Biden, Republicans, Gov, Republican, Democratic, Florida Locations: Florida, Tampa, Trump . Florida, Arizona, Florida , Arizona, Miami, “ Florida, Kentucky , Kansas, Ohio, Dade County, Hialeah Gardens, Fla

☆ Mike Johnson and the Uneasy Coalition Government Keeping Ukraine Funded - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Brendan Buck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Saturday, the House of Representatives approved the most consequential legislation of this Congress, a foreign aid package for American allies. More Democrats than Republicans voted in favor of the measure that allowed the package to pass. The speaker, Mike Johnson, holds his role only because a few hard-line Republicans ousted the previous speaker for being too dismissive of their demands. For all its rank partisanship, the House right now is functionally and uneasily governed by a bipartisan group of Republicans and Democrats. Instead, a coalition has emerged that is willing to do what is necessary to save the House from itself.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Johnson Organizations: Republicans, Democrats, Republican

On a Monday in mid-March, the Wisconsin Republican Party gathered about 50 conservative activists on a Zoom call to train them in how to become poll workers, helping oversee and monitor the casting and counting of votes. Heavily Democratic areas of the battleground state were a key focus. “Eau Claire, Madison, Milwaukee — that type,” Mike Hoffman, the state party’s election integrity director, said as he ticked off places being targeted. “We’re keeping a close eye on you,” he recounted telling one city clerk, according to audio recordings of the party’s training sessions obtained by The New York Times. They will focus on every aspect of voting, including mail ballots, voting machines and post-Election Day recounts and audits.

Persons: Mike Hoffman, ”, Donald J Organizations: Wisconsin Republican Party, The New York Times, Republican National Committee Locations: Eau Claire, Madison, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

☆ Johnson, Like Pence, Does What Passes for Brave in Today’s G.O.P.: His Job
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Annie Karni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The accolades directed at Speaker Mike Johnson in recent days for finally defying the right wing of his party and allowing an aid bill for Ukraine to move through the House might have seemed a tad excessive. After all, a speaker’s entire job is to move legislation through the House, and as Saturday’s vote to pass the bill demonstrated, the Ukraine measure had overwhelming support. But Mr. Johnson’s feat was not so different from that of another embattled Republican who faced a difficult choice under immense pressure from hard-right Republicans and was saluted as a hero for simply doing his job: former Vice President Mike Pence. When Mr. Pence refused to accede to former President Donald J. Trump’s demands that he overturn the 2020 election results as he presided over the electoral vote count by Congress on Jan. 6, 2021 — even as an angry mob with baseball bats and pepper spray invaded the Capitol and chanted “hang Mike Pence” — the normally unremarkable act of performing the duties in a vice president’s job description was hailed as courageous. Mr. Pence and now Mr. Johnson represent the most high-profile examples of a stark political reality: In today’s Republican Party, subsumed by Mr. Trump, taking the norm-preserving, consensus-driven path can draw the ire of your constituents and spell the end of your political career.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Johnson’s, Mike Pence, Pence, Donald J, Mike Pence ”, Johnson, Trump Organizations: Republican, Republicans, Capitol, Republican Party, Mr Locations: Ukraine

How the House Voted on Foreign Aid to Ukraine, Israel and TaiwanVotes on the Foreign Aid Bills Source: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of RepresentativesThe House passed a long-stalled foreign aid package on Saturday that gives funding to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, with a majority of lawmakers backing money for American allies across the globe. A majority of Republicans voted against Ukraine aid on Saturday, in a reflection of the stiff resistance within the G.O.P. to continuing to aid Ukraine against President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia’s invasion. While all Democrats voted in favor of aid to Ukraine and all but Ms. Tlaib supported funding to Taiwan, 37 left-leaning Democrats defected to vote against the Israel aid bill. The opposition to the Israel aid represented a minority of Democrats, but reflected the deep resistance to unconditional aid and the divisions in the party on Gaza.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Kevin McCarthy’s, Mr, McCarthy, Vladimir V, Putin, Elise Stefanik, Rashida Tlaib, Bob Good, Good, “, Tlaib, Jamie Raskin, Donald S, Beyer Jr, Earl Blumenauer of, John Garamendi of Organizations: Foreign Aid, Foreign, House, Senate, House Progressive Caucus, Fund, Caucus, Republican, Republicans, ”, Maryland, Democrats Locations: Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, New York, Michigan, Virginia, Gaza, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, John Garamendi of California, United States

☆ Ukraine Aid Divides Republicans, After Trump Tones Down His Resistance
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | Michael Gold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The House vote on Saturday to provide $61 billion in American aid to Ukraine was the clearest sign yet that at least on foreign policy, the Republican Party is not fully aligned with former President Donald J. Trump and his “America First” movement. But more Republicans voted against the aid than for it, showing just how much Mr. Trump’s broad isolationism — and his movement’s antipathy to Ukraine — has divided the G.O.P. Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the third time, had actually soft-pedaled his opposition to Ukraine aid in recent days as the dam began to break on the House Republican blockade. He stood by Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who assembled the complicated aid packages for Ukraine, Israel and America’s Asian allies, and against threatened efforts to bring down Mr. Johnson’s speakership and plunge the House back into chaos. And he stayed quiet on Saturday, declining to pressure Republicans to vote no.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Ukraine —, Mike Johnson of, Johnson’s Organizations: Republican Party, Republican, House Republican Locations: Ukraine, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, Israel

☆ This G.O.P. Senate Candidate Says He Grew Up on a Family Farm. Not Exactly.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Katie Glueck | Hannah Beier | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

David McCormick’s origin story goes something like this: He grew up in rural Pennsylvania, southwest of Scranton. He baled hay, trimmed Christmas trees and otherwise worked on his family’s farm. And from those humble beginnings, he rose to achieve the American dream. “I spent most of my life in Pennsylvania, growing up in Bloomsburg on my family’s farm,” Mr. McCormick, now a Republican candidate for Senate, told Pittsburgh Quarterly in 2022. “I’ve truly lived the American dream,” he wrote in a fund-raising appeal in October.

Persons: David McCormick’s, “, ” Mr, McCormick, “ I’ve, ”, — Organizations: Republican, Senate, Pittsburgh Quarterly, West, 82nd Airborne Division Locations: Pennsylvania, Scranton, Bloomsburg, West Point, Pittsburgh

☆ Ukraine Aid Bill Clears Critical Hurdle in the House as Democrats Supply the Votes
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Annie Karni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The House took a critical step on Friday toward approving a long-stalled package of aid to Ukraine, Israel and other American allies, as Democrats supplied the crucial votes to push the legislation past Republican opposition so that it could be considered on the floor. The 316-94 vote cleared the way for the House to bring up the aid package, teeing up separate votes on Saturday on each of its parts. But passage of those measures, each of which enjoys bipartisan support from different coalitions, was not in doubt, making Friday’s action the key indicator that the legislation will have the backing needed to prevail. The rule for considering the bill — historically a straight party-line vote — passed with more Democratic than Republican support, but it also won a majority of G.O.P. votes, making it clear that despite a pocket of deep resistance from the far right, there is broad bipartisan backing for the $95.3 billion package.

Persons: —, Biden Organizations: Democratic, Republican Locations: Ukraine, Israel

☆ Prosecutions of Fake Electors for Trump Gain Ground in Swing States
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Danny Hakim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The chairman of the Nevada Republican Party has been indicted. In Michigan, a former co-chairwoman of the state party is facing charges. The investigations focus largely on the plan to deploy fake electors in states that Mr. Trump lost. Documents emerging from the state cases highlight divisions among Trump advisers after the 2020 election about whether to use hedging language in the phony certificates that they sent to Washington purporting to designate electoral votes for Mr. Trump. They also undercut claims by some Trump aides that they played little role in the fake-electors plan.

Persons: Donald J, Trump Organizations: Nevada Republican Party, New, Trump, Mr Locations: Georgia, Michigan, New York, Washington

Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday said he planned this week to advance a long-stalled national security spending package to aid Israel, Ukraine and other American allies, along with a separate bill aimed at mollifying conservatives who have been vehemently opposed to backing Kyiv. It came days after Iran launched a large aerial attack on Israel, amplifying calls for Congress to move quickly to approve the pending aid bill. lawmakers on his plan, Mr. Johnson said he would cobble together a legislative package that roughly mirrors the $95 billion aid bill the Senate passed two months ago but that is broken down into three pieces. Lawmakers would vote separately on a bill providing money for Israel, one allocating funding for Ukraine and a third with aid for Taiwan and other allies. “We know that the world is watching us to see how we react,” Mr. Johnson told reporters.

Persons: Mike Johnson, G.O.P, Johnson, “, Mr, Putin, Xi, ” Organizations: Congress, Israel, Ukraine, Republicans Locations: Israel, Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, America

☆ Opinion | J.D. Vance: The Math on Ukraine Doesn’t Add Up
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( J. D. Vance | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ukraine needs more soldiers than it can field, even with draconian conscription policies. The Biden administration has applied increasing pressure on Republicans to pass a supplemental aid package of more than $60 billion to Ukraine. Mr. Biden suggests that a $60 billion supplemental means the difference between victory and defeat in a major war between Russia and Ukraine. $60 billion is a fraction of what it would take to turn the tide in Ukraine’s favor. Fundamentally, we lack the capacity to manufacture the amount of weapons Ukraine needs us to supply to win the war.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Republicans, Senate Locations: Ukraine, United States, Russia

☆ Kari Lake Backs G.O.P. Effort to Drop 1864 Abortion Law in Favor of 15-Week Ban
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Kellen Browning | Jack Healy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A handful of Arizona Republican legislators looking to overturn a 160-year-old state law that bans nearly all abortions have a new high-profile supporter: Kari Lake, a prominent Senate candidate and a close ally of Donald J. Trump. Now, some Republicans are looking for a way out of their political dilemma after their party blocked efforts to reverse the law. They see Ms. Lake, who is in a competitive race that could determine control of the Senate, as an important ally. Ms. Lake has called a handful of state legislators to offer her support in any effort to repeal the law and revert to the 15-week abortion ban that was in effect in Arizona, according to a person familiar with the outreach. Ms. Lake herself had praised the 160-year-old ban during her 2022 run for governor, calling it a “great law,” but on Tuesday condemned the court decision, saying it was “out of step with Arizonans.”

Persons: Kari Lake, Donald J, Trump, Roe, Wade, Lake, ” Organizations: Arizona Republican, Arizona Republicans, U.S, Supreme Locations: Arizona

☆ Opinion | How the Pro-Life Movement’s Deal With Trump Made America More Pro-Choice
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The captivity of the pro-life movement to the character of Donald Trump is a crucial aspect of contemporary abortion politics. That refusal was a sign of the anti-abortion movement’s political weakness but not necessarily a major blow to its cause. The contemplated legislation was unlikely to pass the Senate no matter what stance Trump took, and positioning the G.O.P. The captivity of abortion opponents, in this sense, isn’t about the specific policy stances that Trump might choose and that they might then have to reluctantly accept. But since the mid-2010s there has been a clear shift in favor of abortion rights: More Americans support abortion without restriction that at any point since Roe v. Wade was handed down.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Roe, Wade Organizations: Republican Party Locations: Arizona

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