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Officials decried at the time. there were moments where south dakota was among the highest per capita deaths from covid. so really thats the record here when she talks about that, but nevertheless that is what has put her on the map as someone we could be talking about over the next months and years as someone who could rup in 2024. mike pence has been out working this circuit, others we talked about making the quiet connections here locally as well. speaking at these kind of state conventions, ...

Two days after Russell Moore s official exit as president of the Southern Baptist Convention s Ethics Religious Liberty Commission, which he announced in May, the denomination is reporting strong year-over-year increases in designated giving as well as giving to its Cooperative Program for May

John Pudner The combination of ranked choice voting and the VA State GOP convention May 8 may offer a pathway to a “Final 5” election process that revives the giant State Conventions of the 1990s. In the 1990s, three efforts in Virginia turned out 13,000 or more Republican state delegates to choose the Republican party’s statewide nominees. Candidates and their teams visited every County or City GOP Mass Meeting and let the people in each county ask questions of the f...

President Ronald Reagan said: “I am deeply disappointed that, although a majority of the Senate voted for it, the school prayer amendment fell short.” On September 25, 1982, Reagan said: “Unfortunately, in the last two decades we’ve experienced an onslaught of such twisted logic that if Alice were visiting America, she might think she’d never left Wonderland. We’re told that it somehow violates the rights of others to permit students in school who desire to pray to...

After the Constitutional Convention ended, George Washington commented to Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788: “With regard to the two great points (the pivots on which the whole machine must move) my creed is simply: First, That the general Government is not invested with more powers than are indispensably necessary to perform functions of a good government … Secondly, That these Powers … are so distributed among the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, into which t...

Organize this and not be stuck? what we normally see in these oversight hearings where members go back and forth five minute periods to make a statement and ask their questions. it doesnt get to the heart of the questions we have. i think a much more orderly process would potential will i take some of the emotion out of the question and allow us to get to the facts and make the decisions after we get the information we need. neil: in the meantime, the democratic candidates who want to be preside...

Activists, but thousands of members from the public. weve been here -- last hour we talked the to joe biden people. i want the to introduce to carrie. what led you to volunteer for cory booker? >> i met him in april at a house party and i loved what he had to say. >> reporter: have you done one much these state conventions before? >> no. >> reporter: what brings you out this morning. >> i started volunteering for his campaign in small ways and i feel i can follow his positive message and the cha...

That is laid out in the green new deal rather than 2050, and youre only talking about a few decades here but this is one of the key things that activists, democratic activists are looking for when they want to know if somebody is really being serious about climb change and talked to some of the democratic activists this morning. very excited about senator warrens plan and they are not excited about bidens plan and part of this is because warren shopped this around and bide dehn no. they did it i...

Legislatures to the congress that we have a convention of states or a constitutional convention and so thats whats been going on here. let me just provide a little bit of context. this is something that happens about every 70 years interestingly in our political landscape as a nation and in 1790 to 1830 there were the antifederal lists that filed for state conventions, constitutional conventions to limit the federal power. then of course in 1861 the confederates filed a fleury of papers. and the...

Unfortunately, in some of those, i have received death threats. i had people that have talked about putting a bullet in the back of my mouth, burning my family, sending me pictures of nooses. its been a pretty despicable frankly experience from getting letters from people like that. >> simply no place for that in this system. the michigan state law, let me read it. refusal or failure to vote for the candidates for president and vice president appearing on the michigan ballot of the political par...