Can’t overstate it: Roe v Wade was an electoral gift to Republicans while it was alive. It turned an issue that’s a huge loser for the party into a winner—they could mobilize their anti-abortion base without triggering a backlash by the abortion rights majority.
Now that’s over.
New: Rep. Lauren Boebert won by only 546 votes last year. She isn’t changing her ways.
The far-right lawmaker is throwing herself back into GOP fights in DC.
Adam Frisch wants a rematch and is out-raising her. “She doesn’t seem to be taking the job any more seriously than she was before,” he says.
NEW: Biden confronts a 'pissed-off generation' of young voters who may be decisive in 2024
Gen Z and millennials powered him in ‘20.
Today many aren’t satisfied.
Pollster sees “flashing red” signs on youth engagement.
Biden camp sees their importance, says it’ll meet them “where they are.”
In Iowa, Mike Pence patiently explains to an election denier that she and others have been lied to, that the 2020 result was legit, that courts rejected Trump’s claims of election-changing fraud, and a VP doesn’t (and shouldn’t) have the power to throw out votes.
Worth watching: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/voter-in-iowa-questions-mike-pence-about-his-actions-on-jan-6-186920005655
During a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa, former Vice President Mike Pence was confronted by a voter who was unhappy with his actions on January 6, 2021. The voter asked Pence, "Do you ever second guess yourself," and added, "That was a constitutional right that you had to send those votes back to the states."
NEW: McCarthy announces Republican bill to lift debt ceiling. It’s not clear it has the votes.
$1.5 trillion hike or thru 3/31/2024, whichever comes first.
Cut spending to 2022 levels, 1% growth, slash IRS $, undo student debt relief, rescind covid aid.
New Feinstein wrinkle.
Democratic aide says the Judiciary Committee can’t issue a subpoena as part of a Clarence Thomas inquiry; that would require a majority on the panel and Democrats don’t have it without her.
“So that option is out of the question.”
NEW: Republicans reject Feinstein committee swap, putting Democrats in a bind
Cornyn is a NO.
Tillis is a NO.
Blackburn, Cotton, Fischer, Capito and Ernst are also a NO.
Ernst: “We're not going to help the Democrats with that.”
No apparent path to 60.
Which Senate Democrats in competitive states are running for re-election in 2024?
Sherrod Brown (OH) ✅
Jon Tester (MT) ✅
Jacky Rosen (NV) ✅
Bob Casey (PA) ✅
Tammy Baldwin (WI) ✅
Joe Manchin (WV) ❓
Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) ❓
Debbie Stabenow (MI) ❌
