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☆ A top Democratic pollster says low primary voter turnout in Chicago is a 'warning sign' for Biden as cities 'need to be an engine of turnout' for his reelection bid
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said Chicago's low voter turnout last week is a "warning sign." "These cities need to be engines of turnout," she recently told The Chicago Sun-Times. "It's a warning sign for Detroit, where it will matter," she continued. "It's a warning sign for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh." "These cities need to be engines of turnout," she said.

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☆ Here's how Donald Trump could theoretically run for president in 2024 and govern the US from prison, according to 9 legal scholars
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Robin Bravender | Tina Sfondeles | Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

If Trump landed in prison, nothing in the Constitution would block him from another White House run, according to nine legal experts interviewed by Insider. He served eight years in federal prison after being convicted on public-corruption charges. In the Oval Office, Trump conducted business at the ornate Resolute Desk. If he wound up in federal prison, he'd likely have more sway over his fate. Hochul would all but certainly reject calls to cut Trump legal slack in any fashion, pardons included.

☆ Matt Gaetz's Florida sex game included a 'Harry Potter' challenge and 'extra points' for sleeping in sorority houses, a female Republican tells Insider
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-02 | by ( Robin Bravender | Kayla Epstein | Tina Sfondeles | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Rep. Matt Gaetz is accused of playing a sex "game" with a "Harry Potter" theme. People got points if they had sex with married colleagues or did sorority overnights, a source said. The sex competition even involved the "Harry Potter" book series, the GOP source told Insider. Anyone who had sex with a certain conservative woman "won the whole game regardless of points," she said. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images'I'm not a monk'During Gaetz's Tallahassee days, about two dozen male lawmakers participated in the sex competition, the GOP insider said.

☆ These are all the federal crimes Trump extremists could be charged with after their attack on the US Capitol
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-08 | by ( Dave Levinthal | Tina Sfondeles | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Federal authorities and other law enforcement will likely make more arrests within days, if not hours. "These fools made it easy for law enforcement to find them because they were posing for pictures. An Insider analysis of the United States Code, coupled with interviews with several leading experts on federal law, identified more than a dozen different federal crimes that could apply to Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding government officialsVideos both inside and outside the Capitol showed numerous pro-Trump extremists physically fighting with and otherwise interfering with federal law enforcement and other government officials. Anyone who "willfully injures or commits any depredation against any property of the United States" commits a federal crime.

☆ For US Capitol Police, months of relative calm preceded an unprecedented storm brought on by a pro-Trump mob
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-07 | by ( Tina Sfondeles | Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Those incidents resulted in fewer than 100 individual charges — from July 2020 to early January, records show. It wasn't until August 27 that Capitol Police arrested someone for stealing a package from a building. Perhaps the most bizarre incident of the past few months involved a man, his genitals exposed, fighting with a woman several blocks from the Capitol building. Capitol Police did arrest several people during the past several months for entering restricted areas of the Capitol grounds. Here's a categorized look at the types of offenses Capitol Police dealt with from July 2020 up until last week.

After helping Joe Biden win a grueling election, progressives want a say in key policies, like environmental protections, social justice, and immigration reform. Still, there are plenty of progressives — such as Sunrise Movement founder Varshini Prakash — who are ready to keep the pressure on the Biden administration from the outside. Against that backdrop, progressive lawmakers, media heavyweights and outside groups involved in everything from the environment to criminal justice reform say they will be watching Biden's every move. New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has given her stamp of approval to Biden's climate appointees: "I think Biden's climate appointments actually represent progress — real progress," she said. Here's Insider's list of 32 of the top progressives primed to help the Biden administration — or cause it headaches.

So how are politicians spending election night in the time of coronavirus? Others will be drinking beer and flipping channels between old movies and election results. That announcement helped kickstart a 36-day saga that finally ended with Bush winning the presidential election. There, she's having an election night party that's being live-streamed. "It's the ultimate easy comfort food for an election night that will be filled with a lot of anxiety early on, and hopefully a lot of joy later on."

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