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CHICAGO — Donald Trump won the White House in 2016 by breaking the well-known electoral “blue wall,” wresting from Democrats the Midwestern battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as Pennsylvania. He lost the White House 4 years later when the same states passed to Joe Biden.
Both parties are already focusing on the Midwest ahead of next year’s presidential election, opting to hold their national conventions in the region. Republicans will have their chance in July 2024 in Milwaukee, the largest city in the swing state of Wisconsin. Democrats announced Tuesday that they would hold theirs the following month in Chicago, just 90 miles away, in solidly blue Illinois.
In opting for Chicago among the other finalists in New York and Atlanta, the Democratic National Committee declared that the component was “returning to the Midwest, a critical Democratic stronghold” and named Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota as part of Biden’s “blue wall. “. ” 2020 victory, as well as the good fortune of its component in last fall’s midterm elections.
That ignored Trump’s good fortune in the Midwest four years earlier, but the DNC also noted that Chicago embodied the “formidable coalition” of the electorate that will be important to Biden in his 2024 re-election campaign.
“We see the importance of those states and the popularity across the Democratic Party that we will have to win them,” said Illinois Democratic Gov. J. B. Pritzker, who was a leading supporter of Chicago’s bid.
The Midwest wasn’t the only component of the country that propelled Biden forward in 2020. He overthrew two Sun Belt states, Arizona and Georgia, and captured Pennsylvania, which is considered part of the “Blue Wall” but is not located in the Midwest. However, the variety on both sides of Midwest conference venues shows the region’s enduring political importance, even if it is no guarantee of support.
“The Midwest is the position to be,” said Cam Savage, a Republican strategist who has worked with the region’s most level-headed Republican lawmakers. those days. “
It was the time of a back-to-back election cycle in which Democrats turned to the Midwest for their convention. In 2020, the game chose Milwaukee to host it, but ended up holding it practically due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This year, it’s up to Biden to decide on a site, and he said Chicago would be a “showcase” for his administration’s oversight of the post-pandemic economic expansion and falling unemployment.
Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city, is also strongly pro-union, demonstrating Biden’s commitment to concerted work, which played a key role in helping him win the Democratic number one and presidency in 2020.
“Atlanta may also have been strategic. But that doesn’t allow the party to show all the principles it purports to stand for, and they can do that in Chicago,” said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants. She signed a letter to the DNC of primary hard work and hard work teams urging them to decide on Chicago.
Pritzker under pressure that the strong defense of abortion rights in his state is a vital factor. Other Democrats were involved in Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature and the state’s gun laws. This is despite the fact that Chicago is plagued by gun violence, attacks from Democrats on Republicans over rising crime rates in cities across the country.
Lisa Hernandez, chairwoman of the Illinois Democratic Party, said the candidacy goes beyond Chicago and her state, calling the conference site “the gateway to the blue bastion of the Midwest. “His party noted that Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota voted for Democrats. in one and both 2016 presidential elections over the past 30 years, and that both states re-elected their Democratic governor last fall.
Organizers of Chicago’s bid also argued early on to White House officials that he represents the Midwest as a whole. However, that has not been positive for Democrats.
Few places exemplify the ever-shifting electoral loyalties of the Midwest than Wisconsin, where Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson were re-elected in last fall’s midterm elections.
Meanwhile, Democrats continue to celebrate Justice Janet Protasiewicz’s victory last week in the race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which awarded liberal justices to the court for the first time in 15 years. Most likely, they will have the opportunity to counter an 1849 state abortion. prohibition caused by the annulment of Roe v. Wade. Wade by the U. S. Supreme Court, as well as maps of congressional districts that favored Republicans.
That night, however, Republican Dan Knodl won an open seat in the Wisconsin State Senate, giving the GOP a large majority in the House.
“Wisconsin will be 50/50, until the end,” said Democratic strategist Pete Giangreco, who worked on Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and advises U. S. Senate candidates. UU. de 2024 in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. ” But first you have to have the blue wall. “, in a different way Georgias and Arizonas don’t matter. “
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says he doesn’t make much money from his social network, but estimates it is worth between $5 million and $25 million, according to his form of monetary disclosure filed Friday.
He owns about 90% of his social media company, Trump Media.
He also reported earning between $100,000 and $1 million for a series of virtual trading cards he released in December that showed a virtually altered Trump in a series of cartoon images, an astronaut, a cowboy and a superhero.
The report filed with the Federal Election Commission is the first look at Trump’s finances since he left the White House and introduced several startups.
The real estate mogul and TV star introduced the Truth Social platform in 2022, a year after Twitter, Facebook and YouTube banned it following the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising at the U. S. Capitol. U. S.
Although Trump has since been allowed to return to those social media, he has relied on Truth Social as his number one approach to sharing messages with his followers, especially since he unveiled his 2024 presidential campaign.
The report provides limited data as it reports gains across wide ranges.
CIC Digital LLC, the company that owns the NFT virtual business cards, or non-expendable tokens, valued between $500,000 and $1 million, according to the report.
Trump said he earned more than $5 million in speaking expenses.
All federal applicants must record disclosures after making their candidacies. Trump, a Republican, was granted an extension and risked a fine if he fell any longer.
KNOCK, Ireland – In Ireland last week, supporters walked the streets to see President Joe Biden. Photos of his smiling face are plastered on windows, and one fan held a sign that read “2024: Make Joe President Again. “
No Biden is still joking about staying.
At home, Biden’s approval rating is near the lowest point of his presidency. And even some fellow Democrats have warned that he deserves not to run for office. During trips to the United States to talk about his economic and social policies, Biden receives a handful of admirers in his wake, and friendly crowds applaud his speeches. But the reception doesn’t compare to the overwhelming worship it receives here on the old lawn.
On Friday, his last day here, the president flew west to Mayo County, where his great-great-grandfather Patrick Blewitt lived until he left for the United States in 1850. New coat of paint and American flags hanging from shop windows.
It’s a dynamic that most of Biden’s predecessors have also faced: The world tends to love American presidents. At home, not always. Not so much.
“With the greatest respect, Mr. President, I have to say that you can draw a crowd,” said Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl, speaker of Ireland’s small parliament space, as he presented Biden’s joint speech to lawmakers on Thursday.
A U. S. President’s Vacation U. S. communications abroad provide a backdrop and substance that is difficult to reflect at home. Biden’s vacation in Ireland has been thrilling with nostalgia, brotherhood, faith and poetry: the wonderful hills and cozy villages suit that mood.
Biden, a Catholic who speaks of his faith, stopped Friday at the Shrine of Knock, a pilgrimage site where Saints Mary, Joseph and John the Evangelist are said to have made the impression along a stone wall in the nineteenth century.
The Rev. Richard Gibbons, parish priest of Knock, told the BBC that Biden was there with the priest who performed the last rites of Biden’s vanquished son, Beau, who died in 2015 at the age of 46. The Reverend Frank O’Grady now works at the Irish Shrine.
Gibbons said the president “laughed, cried, just hit the man, you can (see) how much he felt and meant to him. “Biden then stopped at a hospice where there is a plaque dedicated to Beau.
The presidential visits are accompanied by the spectacle of Air Force One, long caravans and Biden’s “beast,” the limousine, which world leaders, such as Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, love to drive.
“You can feel love in a way that’s hard to do at home,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. “There’s something about having an American president in your country that drives a country’s press and public crazy. “
“With the exception of the pope, the American president is the most coveted world figure,” Brinkley said.
During Biden’s visit to Warsaw, Poland, in February, thousands of people gathered at the foot of the royal castle to hear the president deliver a speech on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
When Biden addressed the Canadian Parliament in March, the House applauded 34 times. In a country where English and French are spoken, Biden drew thunderous applause as he opened his speech with “Good morning, Canada. “
However, even in Ireland, acclaim is not universal. The small left-wing People Before Profit party vowed to boycott Biden’s speech in parliament because of his opposition to U. S. foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere.
People Before Profit lawmaker Paul Murphy said the president was “treated as a scale of an attractive Irish-American celebrity, rather than a scale of the world’s toughest user being asked tough questions about types of policies. “that continues. “
But Biden’s critics tend to be far less discreet with his jokes than what he gets in the US. U. S.
In the United States, some protesters line the direction of the presidential motorcade with flags emblazoned with “Let’s Go Brandon,” a coded insult for something far more vulgar that has been adopted by some on the right. with symptoms claiming “Trump won,” a reference to former President Donald Trump’s repeated lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
Biden is far from the only U. S. president. The U. S. government finds an appreciation that is more elusive at home.
Then-President Bill Clinton discovered a safe haven abroad thanks to urgent investigations into him at the home. During his last year in office, President George W. Bush was as popular in the house as Richard Nixon just before he resigned amid the scandal, according to Pew. But Bush remained most popular in Africa, where he pushed for foreign aid and fought the AIDS epidemic. He visited five countries during his vacation on the continent in 2008.
His successor, President Barack Obama, saw their fortunes diverge in his first term. The devastating aftermath of the Great Recession lowered his approval ratings in the United States, but criticism elsewhere in the world remained intact.
The Irish reaction to Biden has been overwhelmingly positive for “cousin Joe,” as many have called him. In Dundundalk and Ballina, Knock and Dublin, thousands of people waited almost 8 hours to see it.
Biden took selfies. He smiled at the children. And he made a dizzying excursion through ancestral sites, preventing at Carlingford Castle. As he gazed out to sea, thousands of people cheered him from the streets, mingling with the sound of bagpipes floating from the hills.
“I don’t know why the hell my ancestors were here,” Biden said. “It’s beautiful. “
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