Trump latest: Former president to address Wisconsin rally tonight as Milwaukee selected for 2024 GOP convention

Joe Manchin was seen giving Sinema the hard sell earlier this week and he looked like he was enjoying it. Her sudden decision to sign the latest bill was both surprising and encouraging. However, that is not the end of the Democrats’ problems.

The Republican National Committee has announced it will host its 2024 convention in Milwaukee as the party hopes to retake Wisconsin in the next presidential election.

The RNC released a statement saying its committee members chose the city unanimously.

Sen. Joe Manchin sealed the deal that revives President Joe Biden’s big economy, health care and climate bill. But it was another Democratic senator, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who persistently, quietly and deliberately shaped the final product.

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent last month as the U.S. economy added 528,000 jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.

Despite persistent inflation, the Labor Department said U.S. job growth was “broad” in July, with the “leisure and hospitality, professional and business services and health care” sectors adding jobs.

Rep. Dan Newhouse maintained his lead Friday among other Republicans in the Washington state primary, but fellow Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler saw her lead over a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump shrink in recent polling updates.

Both have drawn cross-party challenges over their votes to impeach Trump after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Democrat Marie Perez was the top vote-getter in Southwest Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, with 31 percent of the vote. Herrera Beutler, who had about 24 percent Tuesday night, fell to just over 23 percent Thursday night, less than 2,000 votes ahead of Joe Kent — a former Green Beret endorsed by Trump.

One of the booths at CPAC in Dallas, Texas, featured a “silent disco” with a man pretending to be the January 6 prisoner crying in a cell.

Freelance journalist Laura Jedeed shared on Twitter that it was “the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen”.

“In this booth at CPAC you get a silent acoustic disco playing chilling testimony from people who were arrested for participating in the riot on Capitol Hill on January 6th,” he added. “Instead of dancing, you stand around and watch this guy cry.”

Democrats covered part of the proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes to their giant economic bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday, as they pushed for a primary victory for President Joe Biden on the domestic agenda. of.

In an unusual look at the closed-door negotiations, Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats withdrew a proposed tax boost for hedge fund executives after centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., said she would otherwise vote “ no”.

Here’s how the negotiation went:

designed to prevent voting misinformation or foreign interference in US elections as the November midterms approach.

It’s a sharp departure from the social media giant’s multibillion-dollar efforts to improve the accuracy of posts about the US election and regain the trust of lawmakers and the public after they were outraged that the company had exploited the data. of people and allowed fakes to flood her site during the 2016 campaign.

The pivot raises alarm about Meta’s priorities and how some could exploit the world’s most popular social media platforms to spread misleading claims, create fake accounts and infuriate partisan extremists.

Comedian Jon Stewart hit back when Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked his height and called him “demented.”

Mr. Carlson targeted the former Daily show host on his show Thursday night, saying he looks like a “mental patient.”

“He’s screechy and scruffy and very short. Really short, very short to date. Was he always this short? What happened? Where have they been for the last seven years? If you know, please let us know. We want answers,” he added sarcastically.

Gustaf Kilander reports what Jon Stewart said in response.

Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate was confirmed as the winner of Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Friday, meaning all of Trump’s preferred candidates in the state won their contests.

Former news anchor Kari Lake beat Karrin Taylor Robson, who had been endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence and current Republican Gov. Doug Ducey.

Ms. Lake has been one of the most prominent parrots of Trump’s lie that they stole the 2020 presidential election. Despite her victory, Ms. Lake continued to claim voter fraud in her race.