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Trump's Already Gaming Out a 2024 Run--Including an Event During Biden's Inauguration

In the twilight of his presidency, Donald Trump is discussing different ways to disrupt the impending Joe Biden era, chief among them by announcing another run against him.

According to three people familiar with the conversations, the president, who refuses to acknowledge he lost the 2020 election as he clearly did, has not just talked to close advisers and confidants about a potential 2024 run to reclaim the White House but about the specifics of a campaign launch. The conversations have explored, among other things, how Trump could best time his announcement so as to keep the Republican Party behind him for the next four years. Two of these knowledgeable sources said the president has, in the past two weeks, even floated the idea of doing a 2024-related event during Biden’s inauguration week, possibly on Inauguration Day, if his legal effort to steal the 2020 election ultimately fails.

The president and some of his closest associates have already started surveying prominent donors to get a sense of who would be with him, or perhaps against him, if he chose to run in the 2024 election. Some top Trump allies have told The Daily Beast that they are doing what they can to stay in the president’s good graces, calculating that doing so will help ensure a seat at the table and a future in the party—in the event he runs again.

Trump’s scheming about a future White House run is both an implicit recognition that he views his own current legal efforts as longshots and a reflection of his inherent desire to maintain political power and public attention.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-already-gaming-out-a-2024-run-including-an-event-during-bidens-inauguration?ref=home

Upstate NY voters swung widely away from Trump

Remembering the lasting legacy of Harvey Milk 42 years since his death

Decades on since his death in 1978, and San Francisco residents each day peak out of their apartments to see the city’s tanned streets free from pet waste.

They have Milk to thank for this, a city official who sponsored an ordinance that fined people for not clearing up after their dogs.

But there’s more to Milk than a cosmetic improvement to the avenues and roads that criss-cross the city. A pioneer of the LGBT+ rights movement, Milk was the first openly gay man ever elected into public office in the US.

A victory indescribably seismic at a time where fledgeling LGBT+ rights movements were being curtailed by conservative lobbies. Yet Milk managed to galvanise support and, during his time in office, pass a stringent ordinance outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Less than a year after being elected to the board of supervisors in 1977, he was fatally shot by his former city supervisor opponent, Dan White.




https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/27/harvey-milk-gay-assassination-anniversary-legacy-tribute-dan-white-san-fransisco-california/

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A New Political Force Emerges in Georgia: Asian-American Voters

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Four years ago, Maliha Javed, an immigrant from Pakistan, was not paying attention to politics. A community college student in suburban Atlanta, she was busy paying for books and studying for classes. She did not vote that year.

But the past four years changed her. The Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban affected some of her friends. The child separation policy reminded her of living apart from her parents for three years during her own move to the United States. Then, this summer, the discovery that she was pregnant made it final: On Election Day, she marched into the Amazing Grace Lutheran Church near her house and voted for the first time in her life. She chose Joseph R. Biden Jr.

“I want it to be a better country for him to grow up in,” said Ms. Javed, who is 24 and is having a boy.

Ms. Javed is part of a small but powerful new force in Georgia politics: Asian-American voters. She lives in Gwinnett County, Georgia’s second-most populous county and the one with the largest Asian-American population. Mr. Biden, who narrowly defeated President Trump in Georgia, won Gwinnett County by 18 percentage points, a substantial increase over Hillary Clinton’s performance four years ago and only the second time the county went blue since the 1970s.

The county is also the heart of the only tightly contested House seat in the entire country that Democrats flipped this year — Georgia’s Seventh Congressional District. A survey of Asian-American early voters in that district found that 41 percent reported voting for the first time, said Taeku Lee, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who helped conduct it.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/georgia-asian-american-voters.html?referringSource=articleShare

Wendlandt confirmed to MA Supreme Court, will be first Latina to serve on state's highest benc

Dalila Argaez Wendlandt, a state appellate court judge who holds two mechanical engineering degrees, will become the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Judicial Court after unanimously clearing a state panel Wednesday.

The Governor’s Council voted, 7-0, to confirm Wendlandt’s nomination to the SJC, where she’s expected to fill the seat of associate justice Barbara Lenk, who is scheduled to retire next week.

Her confirmation is part of the rapid reshaping of the high court.

The Governor’s Council approved Kimberly S. Budd as the SJC’s new chief justice last week, and it’s expected to hold a confirmation hearing next week for Boston Municipal Court Judge Serge Georges Jr., whom Governor Charlie Baker nominated this month to the SJC. Georges would be Baker’s seventh appointee to the court, and would effectively fill Budd’s associate justice seat.



https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/25/metro/wendlandt-confirmed-supreme-judicial-court-will-be-first-latina-serve-states-highest-bench/?s_campaign=bostonglobe%3Asocialflow%3Atwitter

Pennsylvania GOP held on to the state legislature. But Democrats still feel good about redistricting

Pennsylvania Democrats had their best chance in years this election to take control of one or both houses of the state legislature.

They came up well short of that goal, as Republicans expanded their majority in the House — even defeating the Democratic minority leader in that chamber — and retained control of the Senate.

Despite the setback, Democrats will still play a significant role next year in drawing new congressional and state legislative maps in accordance with decennial redistricting.

The party is in a much better position than it was in 2011, when Republicans held the legislature, the governor’s office, and a majority on the state Supreme Court.

This time, the Democrats have Gov. Tom Wolf, who could veto a congressional map sent to him by the GOP-controlled legislature. Perhaps even more important, Democrats have a 5-2 majority on the Supreme Court.

That will almost certainly give the party an advantage in drawing new state legislative maps for the 203 districts in the House and 50 in the Senate.

That process is controlled by a five-member commission that includes the four floor leaders in the General Assembly — two from each party. If they can’t agree on a fifth member, that person is chosen by a majority of the Supreme Court.



https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-redistricting-republicans-democrats-20201123.html#loaded