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PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump is singling out Pennsylvania for his first rally of the general election on Saturday, where two of his most ...

“I think Oz is in a pretty good position,” said Rob Gleason, the former chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party. In a sign of how toxic his brand is in some parts of the state, Oz Some state Republicans grew more optimistic after the primary ended, but a TV advertising blitz by Shapiro over the summer went unmatched by Mastriano and the Republican Governors Association has yet to spend any money on his race. They are worried that he may be too far behind in the polls to win, especially since voters begin casting ballots by mail in a few weeks. Meanwhile, Shapiro, who is holding a campaign office opening on Saturday in Scranton, was the lone statewide Democratic candidate in 2020 to win Luzerne County. In 2016 Trump flipped the county, a white working-class area that was ancestrally Democratic, going a long way’s toward allowing him to capture the state. “His general-election win record is going to be incredibly important toward his 2024 prospects,” said a former Trump official. Many in the GOP still view Oz, on the other hand, as insufficiently conservative on abortion, gun rights and other key issues. Trump’s rally will be one of the first Mastriano events the national media is allowed inside to cover. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently said that the House is likelier to flip than the Senate, citing “candidate quality.” “Both of them want to run in an environment where their candidates have won in 2022.” John Fetterman by an average of more than 8 percentage points](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/pennsylvania/).

In his Thursday evening address to the nation, President Biden chooses a risky strategy of criticizing elected GOP officials while trying not to alienate ...

That is a very fine line for a president, who isn't always artful with his words, to walk and stick to. "Not even a majority of Republicans are MAGA Republicans," Biden said. Inflation is high, Biden is unpopular and people are pessimistic about the direction of the country. What's more, when you break down those who said threats to democracy were their top issue, 53% were Democrats, while 32% of Republicans and 11% of independents did. 1 issue, and that is significant, as it overtook cost of living, which was second. Election deniers are closer to controlling elections in key places, and as we've said many times watching the Jan. 6 hearings, the institutions of democracy may have held in 2020, but only because of the people who were running them. "It's pretty clear they want to amplify the MAGA message," said Democratic strategist Joel Payne. Lots of his candidates have won contentious primaries; he's consolidated his base; and his renewed presence has threatened to make the November elections a choice rather than a referendum on President Biden. It certainly shows the 180-degree shift McCarthy has made since after Jan. And now America must choose to move forward or to move backwards." And when you do that, it's going to look and sound political.

The administration's plans to strengthen their labor protections have been slowed by Congress, the courts and a lobbying blitz.

[said it was beginning the process](https://blog.dol.gov/2022/06/03/misclassification-of-employees-as-independent-contractors-under-the-fair-labor-standards-act) of creating a new rule for interpreting the Fair Labor Standards Act that would override the Trump-era rule and likely be more worker-friendly. Walsh [suggested to Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-us-labor-secretary-says-most-gig-workers-should-be-classified-2021-04-29/) that “in a lot of cases gig workers should be classified as employees,” sending shares of gig companies’ stock tumbling. But without the threat of federal enforcement, their state-by-state approach got legislation passed this year in [Washington](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/business/economy/washington-gig-worker.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article), Georgia and Alabama. “The Department of Labor will continue to do everything in our power to ensure that workers are protected,” said Jessica Looman, a Wage and Hour Division official. Anthony Foxx, Lyft’s former chief policy officer and now a senior adviser at the company, was the secretary of transportation for Mr. Uber and other gig companies argue that their drivers prefer being independent contractors, who are responsible for their own expenses, because of the flexibility to work whenever and however long they want. Labor activists say the companies are offering a false choice between flexibility and worker protections. [passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/us/politics/house-labor-rights-bill.html), which included language making it harder for companies to classify drivers as independent. “The president ran on an aggressive and comprehensive approach to addressing worker misclassification,” said Alexandra LaManna, a White House spokeswoman who used to be senior communications executive at Lyft. But as the Federal Reserve tries to tame inflation, Such a change would mean paying the drivers a minimum wage, giving them benefits and making them eligible to unionize. Biden, as president, would spearhead a flurry of activity aimed at forcing companies in the gig economy like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to classify drivers as employees rather than independent contractors.

President Joe Biden issued both a warning and an attempt to reframe the fall's elections, Republicans saw little of his promised unity, and Independence ...

](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22156173-220455-nbc-news-august-poll-82122-release) [22 NBC News ](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22156173-220455-nbc-news-august-poll-82122-release) [survey](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22156173-220455-nbc-news-august-poll-82122-release) found that threats to democracy were the top issue among voters nationwide. But democracy endures only if we the people respect the guardrails of the republic,” he said. ”This election is about whether we will have a democratic or authoritarian government in the U.S.A.” Only if we the people see politics not as total war, but mediation of our differences.” “I think we have to be very, very vigilant in fighting back.” “Only if we the people accept the results of free and fair elections. “They tried everything last time to nullify the votes of 81 million people,” Biden said. Capitol, inflammatory denunciations of the FBI, and the wave of Trump allies who Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered a roadmap to doing just that in his concurring opinion to the decision that overturned Roe v. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love,” Biden said, pointing to other rights that liberals believe could come under attack. While Democrats believe the Jan. But while he framed the cautions as his civic obligation, there’s clear political motivation as well.

The goal was to make "MAGA Republicans" a label for everything that voters find politically toxic about the GOP right now.

“Democracy is on the ballot in November,” said the California Republican. The change in the political climate tracks to June, after the Dobbs decision in which the Supreme Court held that women have no constitutional right to an abortion. At times Biden’s rhetoric seemed almost indistinguishable from that of a Republican never-Trumper like Liz Cheney, who wants to rescue the GOP to from Trumpism. Biden’s speech was prebutted hours before by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a machine shop in northeastern Pennsylvania. [Dark Brandon memes](https://www.vox.com/culture/23300286/biden-dark-brandon-meme-maga-why-confusing-explained) as the traditional trappings of the presidency, Biden’s warnings were mixed in with in political language aimed at voters who seem have recently seen reasons — like the [overturning of Roe vs. MOOSIC, Pennsylvania — President Joe Biden’s primetime speech Thursday night was an attempt to yoke two different but connected concepts together.

In a primetime address, the president said the Republican party was 'dominated, driven and intimidated' by Trump. Plus, the scientists rushing to find ...

“We think both biodegradability of material, or environmental impact, and the performance of the batteries are important for a product, which has the potential to be commercialised,” said Liangbing Hu, the lead author of the paper, published in the journal Matter. [the death toll exceeded 1,200](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/02/aid-pours-into-pakistan-as-deaths-from-floods-pass-1200), officials have said, with families and children at special risk of disease and homelessness. It is a crisis for plants, which have fewer defense mechanisms available at night, posing a huge threat to the global food system. The ninth flight from the United Arab Emirates and the first from Uzbekistan were the latest to land in Islamabad overnight, as a military-backed rescue operation elsewhere in the country reached more of the 3 million people affected by the disaster. Limited staff at the main water treatment facility struggled to treat water arriving in far higher volumes owing to the flooding, and dealt with a pump failure. A man has been detained after he aimed a handgun at point-blank range at Argentina’s vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in what the president said was an attempt on her life. A Pitchfork investigation published last week detailed claims against the Butler, which he denies. He said Trump Republicans “promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence”, adding that they believed there were only two possible outcomes to an election: either they won or they were cheated. Most had already been without drinkable water for more than a month but flooding last weekend, caused by weeks of rain, further interrupted operations at the city’s beleaguered main water plant. It also suggests how extreme flooding, exacerbated by the climate crisis, will take a toll on infrastructure. Maga is an acronym of “Make America great again” – a slogan from Trump’s 2016 election campaign. Why was the speech significant?

President Joe Biden speaks outside Independence Hall. In his recent speech, Joe Biden criticized MAGA Republicans in unsparing terms.Photograph by Evan Vucci / ...

[history](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/vitalstats_ch2_tbl4.pdf) and [most of the evidence](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/), to turn the midterm election, once again, into a referendum on Trump, and, in so doing, to save their control over the Senate and maybe even the House. How telling it is that, when the President of the United States today speaks of threats to the nation, he is warning not about adversaries abroad but the danger within. Arriving in Moscow a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I often heard Russians I interviewed complaining about the upending of their world, with the attendant economic and social collapse, in ways that were strikingly similar to the complaints of many Americans today. The country is clearly in for another period of electioneering in which playing to the fears of one’s supporters will be just about all that matters. “Too much of what is happening today in our country is not normal,” Biden said, early in his speech, a statement that was both correct and wildly understated. Wade](https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/when-the-supreme-court-takes-away-a-long-held-constitutional-right), will be enough to overcome the odds in November. “It depicts the president of our nation, as he took to the airwaves and spoke about his fellow citizens as if they were sewer rats.” Rick Scott, the Republican Senate campaign chief, [tweeted](https://twitter.com/ScottforFlorida/status/1565521139778084867) the photo and dismissed Biden as a “raving lunatic” who “attacked half the country tonight.” [Mike Huckabee](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/28/prodigal-son), the former governor of Arkansas, [called it](https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1565494783442915330) a “hate speech.” Over on Fox News, [Tucker Carlson](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/10/tucker-carlsons-fighting-words) was very, very angry about the “blood-red Nazi background” and the Marine honor guard in front of Independence Hall, a setting that he termed a “complete outrage.” Even before Biden spoke, [Kevin McCarthy](https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/its-not-news-that-mcconnell-and-mccarthy-are-craven-patsies-for-trump-but-the-danger-has-grown)—the House Minority Leader, whose slavish devotion earned him the sobriquet “my Kevin” from Trump—gave a [prebuttal](https://www.c-span.org/video/?522592-1/republican-leader-mccarthy-pres-biden-apologize-slandering-tens-millions-americans-fascists&live=), in which he said that the President should “apologize for slandering tens of millions of Americans as fascists.” Storming the Capitol and defying the will of the voters in 2020 was totally fine. [the ominous setting](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/01/biden-speech-philadelphia-extremist-republicans-threaten-democracy)—the front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall at night, with dramatic red floodlights as the backdrop for the President while he spoke in dire terms about the possibility of political violence from the Trumpists who still refuse to concede Trump’s 2020 defeat, and who celebrate the violent mob that stormed the Capitol in hopes of overturning it. The current President may not have mentioned his predecessor’s name much, but Biden’s speech, as is the case with the rest of his Presidency, was all about standing against Trump and the unique threat to American democracy that he and his “Make America Great Again” supporters pose. In the inverted logic of Trumpworld, theirs is the grievance that matters. Vance](https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/what-j-d-vances-victory-in-the-ohio-republican-primary-means-for-trumpism), the Trump-backed Republican nominee for Senate in Ohio, [tweeted](https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1565506626660048896).

Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference. At its core, Biden's speech was about an issue as grave as any that a president might ...

[“Stephen Glasser, co-founder of the Legal Times newspaper, dies at 79,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/09/01/legal-times-founder-stephen-glasser-dead/) by WaPo’s Harrison Smith: “When Mr. [per Betsy Woodruff Swan](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/01/mastriano-lawsuit-jan6-committee-00054554). [The ruling](https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2020cv3460-115) [The lawsuit](https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000182-fac6-de9f-a9eb-fbf7415c0000) [Pelosi laid out issues](https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/9122) with the legislation in its current form Thursday. FOX “Fox News Sunday,” guest-anchored by Mike Emanuel: DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) … [Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney and Nick Wu report](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/01/trump-lawyers-doj-court-00054521). The committee is specifically focused on Gingrich’s “advice to top Trump allies about advertisements spreading false election fraud claims and Trump’s plan to put forward so-called alternate electors.” [The letter](https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/2022-9-1.BGT%20letter%20to%20Gingrich%20Final.pdf) ICYMI, national Republicans seem to be pumping $4 million into the race in a last-minute attempt to shift momentum from Bolduc to establishment-friendly CHUCK MORSE in the race, [Natalie Allison reported](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/31/republican-super-pac-2-million-new-hampshire-senate-primary-00054402). Trump propelled Kent, an Army veteran with [ties to white nationalist groups](https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-race-and-ethnicity-be616cae0967ca6ee9c78ac1efee8e31), to the general election over GOP Rep. In addition to the well-reported financial struggles, Vance “goes days without any public events, and his campaign gives little information about his whereabouts.” (The explanation: “he likes to keep a light schedule.”) “They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fanned the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.”

Slowing job growth and rising worker participation follow the president's road map for economic transition.

The most cited recession indicator — preferred by more than two in five respondents — was “the price of goods and services you buy.” The report showed the country added 315,000 jobs in August, down from 526,000 in July. One of the most encouraging signs in the report for the White House was that more workers were searching for work, which could further dampen inflation. The president has argued that strong job growth is a sign that the economy is nowhere near a recession, because employers generally fire workers and hire fewer people in a downturn. There were also signs in the report that inflation could be coming down, as the Federal Reserve aggressively raises interest rates in order to tame price growth that has reached a 40-year high. Biden and his economic aides have been making for months: that the economy is beginning to step down from a high-growth, high-inflation expansion coming out of the pandemic recession but avoiding another recession.

President Biden is shifting his focus to economic investment a day after a forceful speech warning of a menace to democracy from Donald Trump and MAGA ...

Former president and current president are both in Pennsylvania this weekend to rally for candidates – follow all the latest news.

It’s 10 weeks before the midterms, and it’s starting to feel like it’s 2020 again. Trump, despite intensifying investigation into alleged unauthorized retention of sensitive government documents, has also geared up his talk about the 2024 election, saying on Thursday that he would seriously consider full pardons for participants of the January 6 US Capital insurrection. Though Trump has not officially announced a run in 2024, he and his allies have dropped plenty of hints that he is wanting to. The latest jobs report is the last to be released before the Fed meets again in September. In July, the US unexpectedly added 528,000 new jobs, restoring employment to pre-pandemic levels. “The president was trying to give the American people a choice: how do we move forward in this inflection point?” Jean-Pierre said. Pennsylvania is being seen as a key state to watch this midterm season. The gap is the largest since Pew started polling Americans on their opinion of the court. “Everything we stand for rests on the platform of democracy.” In his press conference, Biden emphasized that the stimulus created jobs, especially in manufacturing. A new Pew Research poll shows that opinions of the supreme court are more polarized than ever. They were voting for a philosophy he put forward.”

Kennedy School's Thomas Patterson on the political press's sudden change of heart on Biden.

A lot of the “turnaround” is the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Those are longstanding tendencies and weaknesses in coverage and a lot of it goes to a space limitation. There’s almost no accounting of the context in which leadership is taking place — that’s been a longtime complaint about the press back to the Hutchins Commission of the late ’40s. Edward Kennedy’s death, had a filibuster-proof Senate and a huge majority of the House. There is a meta narrative that settles into the news coverage and that frames even how journalists look at developments. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.