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☆ Joe Manchin Criticizes Biden Over Comments on Closing Coal Plants
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Catherine Lucey | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Sen. Joe Manchin, who represents a coal-producing state, called on the president to apologize to coal workers. Sen. Joe Manchin criticized President Biden on Saturday over comments the president made the previous day about moving away from coal plants in favor of wind and solar energy. “President Biden’s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs,” the West Virginia Democrat said in a statement.
☆ White Suburban Women Swing Toward Backing Republicans for Congress
  + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Catherine Lucey | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WASHINGTON—White suburban women, a key group of midterm voters, have significantly shifted their support from Democrats to Republicans in the closing days of midterm campaigning because of rising concerns over the economy and inflation, according to the latest Wall Street Journal poll. The new survey shows that white women living in suburban areas, who make up 20% of the electorate, now favor Republicans for Congress by 15 percentage points, moving 27 percentage points away from Democrats since The Journal’s August poll. It also suggests that the topic of abortion rights has faded in importance after Democrats saw energy on that issue this summer in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
☆ Biden Avoids Some Battleground States in Midterms’ Final Stretch
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Ken Thomas | Catherine Lucey | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
President Biden with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in Syracuse, N.Y., last week, a solidly Democratic state that he has visited three times recently. WASHINGTON—President Biden is steering clear of some presidential battleground states with pivotal Senate and gubernatorial races, as his low approval ratings and voter frustration over the economy weigh on his party ahead of the November midterm elections. Of the 14 states with some of the most competitive Senate and governor races, based on ratings from the Cook Political Report, Mr. Biden has visited six since Sept. 1. He hasn’t been to Arizona, Nevada or Georgia, three states with high-profile midterm races that also helped put him in the White House.
☆ Republican Election Skeptics Propose Changes That Could Affect 2024 Vote
  + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Catherine Lucey | Ken Thomas | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WASHINGTON—Republican candidates for governor and secretary of state who have echoed former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rife with fraud have proposed changes in voting access and election certification that could have ramifications in key states in the next presidential election. Seven Republicans running for those offices in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan and Nevada—all presidential battlegrounds—haven’t all detailed how they would oversee the 2024 election but have publicly touted measures they say would ensure election integrity, as they question the outcome of the 2020 race. Federal authorities have said there was no widespread fraud that would have changed the result, and several court challenges by the Trump campaign failed. All states certified President Biden’s victory.
☆ Biden Says Very Slight Recession Is Possible, but He Doesn’t Anticipate One
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Catherine Lucey | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WASHINGTON—President Biden played down the likelihood of a recession during a television interview Tuesday, and said if there is one it would be “very slight.”“I don’t think there will be a recession. If it is, it will be a very slight recession. That is, we’ll move down slightly,” Mr. Biden said during a CNN interview. He later said: “Look, it’s possible. I don’t anticipate it.”
☆ Biden U.N. Speech to Renew Calls for Opposition to Russia’s War in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Catherine Lucey | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
President Biden plans to outline investments to ensure global food security amid food shortages caused in part by the war. President Biden will renew his calls for world leaders to oppose Russia’s war in Ukraine as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. Mr. Biden’s speech at the annual gathering in New York City comes as Ukraine has made gains with a rapid counteroffensive. The president has sought to unite countries behind his efforts to support Ukraine and isolate Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
☆ Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers
  + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Brandy-Zadrozny-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Brandy Zadrozny | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +23 min
Utah County Attorney David O. Leavitt speaks on July 31, 2019, in Provo. The accusations were part of a new case from Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith. Discussion about satanism and satanic abuse has increased in recent years, according to data provided to NBC News by Zignal Labs, which analyzes social media conversations. Popular culture and social media have also ferried ideas about satanism and widespread child abuse from fringe to the mainstream. (Anti-LGBTQ politicians and activists have equated LGBTQ people with predators who abuse children as part of a “gay agenda,” the well-worn panic that the gay rights movement’s true motivation is recruitment.
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