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Today, Democrats are dispatching a existent and a erstwhile president to battleground states arsenic Election Day rapidly approaches. President Biden and Vice President Harris are scheduled to talk astatine a fundraiser successful Pennsylvania to assistance Senate hopeful John Fetterman, gubernatorial campaigner Josh Shapiro and different Democrats connected the ballot. Former president Barack Obama plans to beryllium successful Georgia astatine a rally aiming to springiness a boost to Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.), gubernatorial campaigner Stacey Abrams and different Peach State Democrats.
Meanwhile, with quality that billionaire Elon Musk has cemented his acquisition of Twitter, questions are swirling astir what that means for the societal media level successful the remaining days before the midterms and for policies affecting Washington much broadly.
Your regular dashboard
- 5:30 p.m. Eastern time: Georgia Democrats clasp a “grass-roots event’ featuring Obama successful College Park, Ga.
- 7 p.m. Eastern: Biden, Harris present remarks astatine a fundraiser for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party successful Philadelphia.
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On our radar: Trump Republican oregon wide Democrat? Latinas conflict for House spot successful Texas.
After a airy circular of conchas and empanadas successful a humble location successful McAllen, Tex., decorated successful her campaign’s agleam pinkish and yellowish posters, legislature campaigner Michelle Vallejo talked to a country mostly filled with educators astir issues facing their community, similar debased wages and health-care access.
Just 3 miles away, the wide Democrat’s challenger Monica De La Cruz took the signifier astatine the Young Republicans of Hidalgo County convention. Like Vallejo, De La Cruz is besides the descendant of Mexican immigrants. She, too, grew up successful the Rio Grande Valley, on the U.S.-Mexico border. And she voted Democratic for astir of her big life.
Take a look: Democrats telephone Oz a ‘snake’ successful caller advertisement successful Pa. Senate race
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is retired with a caller advertisement successful Pennsylvania that calls Republican hopeful Mehmet Oz a “snake,” citing the personage physician’s promotion of questionable aesculapian treatments connected his long-running speech show.
The advertisement attacks Oz, who is moving against Democrat John Fetterman, connected issues including Social Security and Medicare. Notably, the 30-second spot makes nary notation of termination rights, an contented Democrats person pressed successful Pennsylvania and different battleground states.
The latest: Biden calls Pelosi pursuing convulsive onslaught connected her husband
President Biden called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) connected Friday to explicit his enactment aft her bureau said that her hubby was violently attacked during an aboriginal greeting break-in of the couple’s San Francisco home, the White House said.
“The President is praying for Paul Pelosi and for Speaker Pelosi’s full family,” White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre said successful a statement. “This greeting helium called Speaker Pelosi to explicit his enactment aft this horrible attack. He is besides precise gladsome that a afloat betterment is expected. The President continues to condemn each violence, and asks that the family’s tendency for privateness beryllium respected.”
Analysis: The historical — and unsurprising — partisan spread successful perceptions of crime
You whitethorn callback that President Donald Trump’s reelection run successful 2020 had an antithetic focus: Elect him to enactment a halt to rampant transgression … that was unfolding portion helium was president.
The Post’s Philip Bump writes that it was ever clunky erstwhile considered beyond a superficial level — What was Trump going to bash successful word 2 that helium wasn’t doing successful word one, exactly? But it wasn’t a rational appeal. It was an affectional appeal, meant to bolster perceptions of his toughness and his opponent’s weakness.
Per Philip:
Take a look: Cheney’s PAC debuts advertisement targeting Arizona predetermination deniers
A governmental enactment committee spearheaded by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is retired with a caller advertisement urging Arizonans to ballot against Kari Lake and Mark Finchem, the Republican candidates for politician and caput of state, some of whom person falsely claimed the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination was stolen from erstwhile president Donald Trump.
The 30-second spot features remarks from Cheney earlier this month astatine a gathering astatine Arizona State University successful Tempe, Ariz., sponsored by the McCain Institute.
“I don’t cognize that I person ever voted for a Democrat, but if I lived successful Arizona, I perfectly would,” Cheney says, adding that some Lake and Finchem person said “they volition lone grant the results of an predetermination if they hold with it.”
Take a look: How states are countering the battle connected elections
Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, astir Americans accidental ideology is nether threat. These are the efforts underway to sphere it. (Video: JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
In November’s midterms, predetermination deniers are connected the ballot for salient positions successful galore states, and myths and disinformation are highly prevalent arsenic voters effort to benignant done their choices. This video produced by The Washington Post’s JM Rieger surveys the scenery and looks astatine the efforts by elections officials to combat what’s happening. The video includes investigation from Post reporters Amy Gardner and Patrick Marley.
On our radar: Jill Biden to run with Sen. Hassan successful N.H.
Jill Biden is headed to New Hampshire connected Saturday to run with Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) arsenic the archetypal woman continues to measurement up her beingness connected the way successful the last agelong of the midterms.
Biden is scheduled to look with Hassan astatine events successful Manchester and Portsmouth. Hassan, a erstwhile politician serving her archetypal word successful the Senate, is seeking to fend disconnected a situation from Republican Don Bolduc, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general.
Biden heads to New York connected Sunday for a bid of governmental events, including a fundraiser for Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), whose contention is tightening. Maloney faces Republican New York Assemblyman Mike Lawler.
This conscionable in: Pelosi’s hubby violently assaulted successful San Francisco home, spokesperson says
An assailant broke into the San Francisco residence of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) aboriginal Friday greeting and violently assaulted her husband, Paul Pelosi, a spokesperson said. Nancy Pelosi was not successful San Francisco astatine the time.
“The assailant is successful custody and the information for the onslaught is nether investigation,” a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi, Drew Hammill, said successful a statement.
Hammill said Paul Pelosi is successful the infirmary and is expected to marque a afloat recovery.
“The Speaker and her household are grateful to the archetypal responders and aesculapian professionals involved, and petition privateness astatine this time,” Hammill added.
Analysis: Hoyer says voters person ‘sticker shock’ but shouldn’t blasted Biden, chap Democrats
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) says voters are experiencing “sticker shock” but that they shouldn’t blasted President Biden and chap Democrats.
Hoyer spoke to our colleagues Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer for an interrogation that appears successful the Friday variation of The Early 202. Much of it is focused connected predetermination administration, but Hoyer veered into immoderate different topics, including challenges confronting Democrats successful the midterms.
“I deliberation the elector has sticker shock, whether it’s gasoline prices oregon market prices,” Hoyer said. “But it’s a worldwide phenomenon, but the elector doesn’t spot it arsenic a worldwide phenomenon, what helium sees it arsenic is, ‘This is thing that affects me. It’s gone up substantially since Biden was president therefore, I’m gonna clasp Biden and his enactment responsible.’ That’s not an antithetic phenomenon.”
Take a look: ‘Can helium truly beryllium our senator?’ Democrats inquire astir Walker successful caller ad
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is retired with a caller advertisement successful Georgia recounting home unit and different allegations against Republican campaigner Herschel Walker that ends with a blunt question: “Can helium truly beryllium our senator?”
The ad’s merchandise comes a time aft Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) was caught connected a blistery mic successful a speech with President Biden lamenting the authorities of the contention successful Georgia betwixt Walker and Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.).
“The authorities wherever we’re going downhill is Georgia,” Schumer said connected a tarmac successful Syracuse, N.Y., wherever Biden was visiting. “It’s hard to judge that they volition spell for Herschel Walker.”
Analysis: Yes, Obamacare is inactive around, and signup play starts Tuesday
Here’s thing notable connected a time that erstwhile president Barack Obama is stepping backmost retired onto the run trail: Obamacare’s 10th unfastened enrollment play begins adjacent week, and it whitethorn beryllium the busiest yet.
Writing successful The Health 202, The Post’s Rachel Roubein says that sign-ups reached an all-time high past year, with astir 14.5 cardinal Americans buying plans done the wellness law’s security exchanges. Per Rachel:
Congressional Democrats extended fiscal assistance for making wellness sum much affordable for millions of radical successful their wellness and clime measure passed this summer, successful the hopes of further bringing down the nation’s uninsured rate.
President Biden has centered his wellness docket astir lowering the pricey outgo of attraction and gathering connected the Affordable Care Act, raising the stakes for each enrollment period. ...
Prices are rising 4 percent, but the interaction volition beryllium minimal for galore Americans.
You tin work the afloat investigation here.
Noted: Election deniers anticipation manus number successful Nevada offers roadmap for future
Jay Goldberg, a retired electrician who enjoys four-wheeling with his wife, Bonnie, successful the dusty hills that loom implicit the godforsaken municipality of Pahrump, Nev., sat successful a tiny authorities bureau present this week counting ballots by manus due to the fact that helium believes the 2020 ballot was rigged against President Donald Trump.
“If thing tin beryllium manipulated, it yet volition be,” said Goldberg, 70, referring to unproven claims that tabulation machines made by Dominion Voting Systems threw the presidency to Joe Biden. “It’s that simple.”
On our radar: Obama to stump for Warnock, Abrams and different Ga. Democrats
Former president Barack Obama plans to look astatine a rally successful Georgia connected Friday with the purpose of boosting the candidacies of Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.), Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams and different Democrats connected the ballot successful the Peach State.
Obama, who remains fashionable successful the state, is slated to look astatine a “Georgia Grassroots Event” successful College Park, Ga.
Warnock is successful a choky contention with Republican challenger Herschel Walker, the erstwhile shot star, portion polls person shown Abrams trailing Gov. Brian Kemp (R) successful a rematch of a choky 2018 race.
On our radar: Biden to ballot aboriginal with granddaughter, a first-time voter
President Biden volition ballot aboriginal successful the 2022 midterms connected Saturday successful Wilmington, Del., alongside his granddaughter Natalie Biden, a first-time voter, the White House announced Friday.
Natalie Biden, 18, is the oldest kid of the precocious Beau Biden and his widow, Hallie Biden.
Natalie Biden has been successful and retired of the nationalist oculus ever since her days arsenic a toddler, erstwhile Joe Biden was vice president and she was often photographed with him.
She was among Biden’s grandchildren who appeared successful promotional videos during the 2020 Democratic Convention, conveying that Biden enjoys crystal pick and calls them each the clip and that now-first woman Jill Biden is “a prankster” and “very mischievous.”
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