-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 1
/
sample_70.txt
125 lines (99 loc) · 5.96 KB
/
sample_70.txt
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
The progressive wing of the Democratic Party has had a rough couple of
election cycles.
In 2018, not a single candidate endorsed by a progressive group like
Our Revolution or Justice Democrats won a swing House district. More
moderate Democrats, on the other hand, flipped dozens of districts. In
2020, the more liberal presidential candidates lost the nomination to
Joe Biden.
But the left flank of the party has had success in one kind of federal
race — primaries in safely Democratic House districts — and there is
one such high-profile election today. It has become a proxy fight
between establishment Democrats and progressives. Many on the left,
feeling emboldened by the coronavirus crisis and the success of Black
Lives Matter, see the race as a chance to create another prominent
figure along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley, who
both upset long-tenured House incumbents in 2018.
The incumbent this time is Eliot Engel, who is 73 and has been in
Congress since 1989. The Times calls Engel “a faithful practitioner of
old-school Washington politics, rising in committee ranks and bringing
home perks for his diverse and overwhelmingly Democratic district.”
He’s been endorsed by Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, the
Congressional Black Caucus, Planned Parenthood and multiple unions.
Engel has called criticisms of his record “a farce.”
The challenger is Jamaal Bowman, 44, who grew up in public housing and
became the founding principal of a Bronx middle school. “We’ve
anchored our race in fighting for racial and economic justice from the
very beginning,” he told my colleague Jesse McKinley. Bowman, who’s
black and has spoken about being unjustly arrested, supports reducing
police budgets. He has been endorsed by Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley,
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Socialists of America and
Move On.
The New York Times editorial board has also endorsed Bowman, while The
Yonkers Times has endorsed Engel.
Public polling in House primaries tends to be sparse and unreliable,
and the available evidence suggests either candidate could win.
Michelle Goldberg, a Times Opinion columnist, has called the race “a
test of whether the energy on American streets translates into votes.”
Other races to watch today:
The Democratic Senate primary in Kentucky — to decide who will face
Mitch McConnell — features Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot who ran
unsuccessfully for the House last year, against Charles Booker, a
progressive state representative. Ocasio-Cortez faces her own primary
challenge, from Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC anchor backed
by several Wall Street executives. The elections held today will also
be tests of how well voting can work during a pandemic. Results may
not be available tonight, because many more voters are casting
absentee ballots.
FOUR MORE BIG STORIES
1. Trump suspends work visas
President Trump signed an executive order temporarily barring hundreds
of thousands of foreign workers from coming to the U.S. to work,
including computer programmers and landscaping workers. He argued that
they would harm the job prospects of Americans during the economic
downturn.
The order, which includes exemptions for seasonal farm workers and
certain medical workers dealing with coronavirus research, will be in
effect until at least the end of the year. Business groups fiercely
oppose the move.
2. The new hot spots
As lockdowns have ended and public life resumes, the coronavirus is
spreading in many of the places people congregate and especially
indoors, in nightclubs, casinos, houses of worship and elsewhere,
researchers say.
Jim Justice, the governor of West Virginia, said that six outbreaks
had been linked to churches in his state, though he had no plans to
close them.
More coronavirus developments:
The University of Michigan said late Monday that it would withdraw
from hosting a presidential debate in October, citing concerns about a
large gathering. Saudi Arabia will drastically limit the number of
pilgrims to this year’s hajj, with only Saudis and foreign nationals
already in the kingdom allowed to take part.
3. Democrats’ Arizona dreams
No Democratic presidential candidate has won Arizona since Bill
Clinton did so in 1996. But Biden seems to have a real shot, leading
in recent head-to-head polls. Trump plans to campaign in the state
today, his third visit there in the past five months. In 2016, he beat
Hillary Clinton there by three and a half percentage points.
A simple way to understand Arizona’s importance: Biden could lose
Wisconsin or Michigan and still win the election if he were to win
Arizona. This hypothetical map, from the political website 270ToWin,
shows how. And The Times’s Jennifer Medina has just reported a story
from Phoenix that explains how the Biden and Trump campaigns are
thinking about Arizona.
The money race: Biden is closing his fund-raising deficit with Trump
and on Tuesday plans to hold an event with former President Barack
Obama.
No fourth debate: The Biden campaign has rejected the Trump campaign’s
request to add a fourth presidential debate to the usual three.
4. Square puts businesses in a crunch
Thousands of small enterprises that use the payment service Square to
manage their credit card transactions say the company recently began
holding back 20 to 30 percent of the money they collect from
customers, The Times’s Nathaniel Popper reports. Square, which is led
by the Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, said the reserves were
meant to protect consumers who may ask for refunds.
But small-business owners — like plumbers, legal consultants and
construction firms — accused Square of shielding its own struggling
bottom line. The businesses said they had to lay off employees, take
out loans and miss mortgage payments as a result.