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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Putin’s War Remade Washington</strong> - From a revitalization of NATO to the return of superpower nuclear anxiety, it’s been a breathtaking three months. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/how-putins-war-remade-washington">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Trump Brings His Big Lie Playbook to the G.O.P. Primaries</strong> - Tuesday was a mixed bag for candidates endorsed by the former President, who is making fresh suggestions of election fraud. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trump-brings-his-big-lie-playbook-to-the-gop-primaries">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>American Racism and the Buffalo Shooting</strong> - The gunman seems motivated by a vision of history, pushed by the right, in which American racism never existed and Black people are undeserving takers. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/american-racism-and-the-buffalo-massacre">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Buffalo Shooter Shopped at their Gun Stores</strong> - New York and Pennsylvania shopkeepers recount their interactions with Payton Gendron, and the fears of civil war that have run rampant in his community since 2020. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-buffalo-shooter-shopped-at-their-gun-stores">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An Insurrectionist Could Be the Next Governor of Pennsylvania</strong> - Doug Mastriano, who won the Republican nomination, has pushed Trump’s lies about the election and sent busloads of supporters to the Capitol riot. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/an-insurrectionist-could-be-the-next-governor-of-pennsylvania">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>Why Trump is struggling to take down Georgia’s Brian Kemp</strong> -
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Gov. Brian Kemp greets attendees at a campaign event on May 17 in Alpharetta, Georgia. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images
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The power of a Trump endorsement has limits against the incumbent Republican governor.
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp hopes to become the next prominent Republican to show that GOP candidates don’t necessarily need former President Donald Trump’s help to win their primaries.
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Some Trump-backed candidates — including Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin in Idaho, and businessman Charles Herbster in Nebraska — have already suffered primary losses. Kemp’s strategy of limiting the impact national issues have on Georgia’s gubernatorial primary may see Trump’s pick in that race, former Sen. David Perdue, losing as well.
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Thus far, the strategy seems to be working: Kemp has widened his polling lead to nearly <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/governor/Georgia.html">25 percentage points</a> over Perdue, on average. Even Trump seems to have given up on Perdue: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/trump-washes-hands-perdue-georgia-campaign-limps-final-stretch-
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rcna29714">NBC reported</a> that the former president is dissatisfied with Perdue’s performance and isn’t planning to make any more campaign appearances on his behalf.
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Throughout the race, Kemp has focused on his record in office and refrained from mentioning Trump much, all while also seeking to placate the GOP base with red meat. Perdue, on the other hand, has attempted to put Trump’s lies about the 2020 election at the center of his campaign, accusing Kemp of failing to investigate false claims of widespread voter fraud. But Kemp, who became the target of Trump’s ire when he certified the results of the 2020 election, is a rare brand of Republican who hasn’t staked his candidacy on fealty to the former president.
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Kemp’s success has been seen as an indicator of the limits of Trump’s power within the GOP. But it might also be a testament to his popularity in the purple state: Half of Georgia voters, including 76 percent of Republicans, think <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2022/04/28/governor-
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approval-ratings-2022-election/">he’s done a good job</a>, and he’s outperforming the Democrats’ gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/governor/Georgia.html">polls</a>. In that sense, he’s operating from a position of strength to fend off a Trumpian challenger, but because of that, his strategy might not be repeatable for every Republican incumbent facing a Trump-backed challenger in 2022.
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Kemp is a popular governor and proven winner
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Kemp has leaned on his record — and that’s been to his advantage given that most Georgians view him favorably. Even former Vice President Mike Pence <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-05-13/pence-defies-trump-with-support-of-brian-kemp-for-
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georgia-governor">endorsed Kemp</a> over Perdue in direct defiance of Trump.
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How Kemp handled the pandemic played no small part in that perception. Republicans have credited him with the state’s strong economy because he allowed businesses to reopen as early as April 2020, shortly after the pandemic was declared. As of April, Georgia’s <a href="https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm">unemployment rate</a> was lower than many other states and its <a href="https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-state">GDP growth</a> was also well above the national average.
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“I think the governor, as far as Republican voters go, has a very solid track record,” said Fred Hicks, a Georgia-based political consultant for both parties. “He led the state through the pandemic, the economy is roaring, people are back at work … Perdue has really failed to articulate why Kemp should be fired and he should be hired for the position.”
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Kemp also made overtures to the Republican base during the 2021 and 2022 sessions of the Georgia legislature, focusing on key GOP priorities in anticipation of a midterm challenge from his right.
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Last year, he signed into law sweeping <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/georgia-voting-
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restrictions/2021/03/25/91009e72-8da1-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html">new restrictions on voting</a> including limitations on mail-in voting, stricter ID requirements, a ban on providing food and water to voters standing in line, and measures that would transfer power from state and local election officials to legislators. In April, he signed a bill that allows Georgians to <a href="https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/04/13/kemp-signs-bill-allowing-permitless-carry-of-
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concealed-handgun-in-public">carry a concealed handgun</a> in public without a license. He’s also supported legislation to ban the teaching of <a href="https://georgiarecorder.com/2022/01/14/kemp-targets-critical-race-theory-transgender-
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sports-participation/">critical race theory</a> in K-12 classrooms, to create what he has called a “<a href="https://georgiarecorder.com/2022/01/14/kemp-targets-critical-race-theory-transgender-sports-
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participation/">parental bill of rights</a>” to exert more control over curriculum, and to <a href="https://georgiarecorder.com/2022/01/14/kemp-targets-critical-race-theory-transgender-sports-participation/">bar trans athletes</a> from school sports. Bills on those topics have passed at least one chamber of the state legislature and are expected to eventually become law.
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Kemp is also well-positioned to deliver on his promises to Republicans on abortion. A law Kemp signed in 2019 that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/health/georgia-
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abortion-bill/index.html">bans abortions</a> after fetal cardiac activity is detected — typically around six weeks of pregnancy and before most people even know they are pregnant — was <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/federal-
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appeals-court-puts-hold-on-georgias-abortion-lawsuit/SOIPKVNHKBCIFAWZ7LLV5W3SNQ/">blocked by a federal appeals court</a>, but could also soon go into effect if the US Supreme Court <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">strikes down <em>Roe v. Wade</em></a> as it’s expected to.
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“Brian Kemp understands that his audience is the entire Republican electorate. And I think that his strategy has been successful because he has not been stuck on one particular issue. He’s looking ahead,” said Julianne Thompson, a GOP strategist in Georgia.
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Beyond his policy achievements, Kemp has emphasized that he’s a proven winner. Georgia Republicans are worried about a repeat of the last election cycle, when Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock both pulled off surprise victories, giving Democrats effective control of the Senate. Kemp has been reminding them that he already beat Abrams once and could do it again.
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“If you nominate me, I will work every single day to make sure that Stacey Abrams is not your governor or your next president. I have the record to do that. We will save this state from Stacey Abrams,” Kemp said during an April 24 primary debate.
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Kemp has intentionally avoided the subject of Trump
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Perdue has sought to make the primary a test of loyalties to Trump. He has said that, unlike Kemp, he wouldn’t have certified the results of the 2020 election. He even filed a lawsuit calling for a “<a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/judge-perdues-election-fraud-claims-are-conjecture-and-
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paranoia/NDHMOFOZO5AM5LNWJULAAEZJUY/">forensic inspection</a>” of 2020 absentee ballots in Georgia, arguing that fraud cost him reelection and Trump the state. A Fulton County judge dismissed those claims as based on “<a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/judge-perdues-election-fraud-claims-are-conjecture-and-
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paranoia/NDHMOFOZO5AM5LNWJULAAEZJUY/">conjecture and paranoia</a>” earlier this month.
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“The election in 2020 was rigged and stolen,” Perdue said during the April debate. “All the madness we see today … all that started right here in Georgia when our governor caved and allowed radical Democrats to steal our elections.”
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Kemp has largely refused to engage, towing a fine line to avoid offending the GOP’s core base of activists. He hasn’t outright criticized the former president or really talked about him much at all. He has urged the party not to look in the “rearview mirror” and relitigate the 2020 election all over again. When asked at the April debate what wing of the party he belonged to — the Trump wing or the establishment wing — Kemp said, “I belong to the wing of the voters.”
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“Kemp never trashes Trump, no matter what the [former] president says about him,” said Jay Williams, a GOP strategist in Georgia. “His secret sauce is to just stay focused on your race and your accomplishments and don’t make it about Trump.”
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Kemp’s success can only tell us so much about Trump as a kingmaker
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The Georgia primaries have been framed as a highly anticipated test of Trump’s clout in the Republican party.
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But it’s not clear just how much we can really learn about Trump’s influence from the outcome of Kemp’s matchup against Perdue. For one, it’s difficult to take down an incumbent, no matter who the challenger is. History has shown that governors in particular <a href="https://smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2021/12/09/how-
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many-2022-gubernatorial-incumbents-will-fall-in-primaries/">rarely lose reelection</a>.
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Trump’s endorsement might also be more effective in a crowded GOP primary: <em>Hillbilly Elegy</em> author JD Vance, for instance, was at the bottom of the polls in his <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23056350/winners-loses-ohio-
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indiana-primaries-jd-vance-trump">seven-way race in Ohio</a> until Trump endorsed him, propelling him to win the GOP nomination for US Senate. In that case, the endorsement helped voters differentiate among a slate of little-known candidates.
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But in places like Georgia, where it’s a two-way race in which one candidate is well- known and incredibly liked, Trump’s backing might not pack as much punch. Most Republican primary voters in Georgia <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/interactive-poll-of-georgia-republican-voters-
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april-2022/MXKO2MX2MBCEZLQMYPEKMQJMPM/">say</a> that a Trump endorsement either doesn’t make a difference in their decision of who to vote for or it makes them even less likely to vote for that candidate.
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“Trump definitely has juice. It just matters where he decides to deploy it and who he deploys it against,” Williams said. “In my opinion, you can’t learn a lot from [what happens in Georgia.]”
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, explained</strong> -
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<img alt="San Francisco Area Continues To Lead Nation With Highest Gas Prices" src="https://cdn.vox-
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All across the country, consumers are feeling the burden of high gas prices and are desperate for relief. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Democrats want oil and gas companies to pay for their greed, but critics believe that won’t reverse high fuel prices.
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As the average consumer bears the brunt of rising gas prices, big oil and gas companies have continued to rake in historic profits. Lawmakers alarmed at the stark contrast between the industry’s earnings and consumers’ struggles pushed for — and passed through the US House of Representatives on Thursday — <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-gas-price-gouging-bill/">a bill</a> that would make predatory price hikes unlawful and expand federal authority to investigate alleged price-gouging. The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7688/text">Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act</a> is meant to help alleviate rising gas prices; the national average gas price <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/national-gas-price-average-hits-new-record-high-at-4-45-per-gallon">reached $4.45 per gallon</a> last week — a record high for the US. Some states, like California, have seen gas prices <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/19/california-gas-average-6-gallon-record-high">reach $6 per gallon</a>.
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That has led to an unprecedented first quarter for oil and gas companies. According to an analysis by the watchdog group Accountable.US, the country’s top 21 companies took in <a href="https://2n36z24d9zdc4aq2uv1wn19p-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220509-Q1-2022-Oil-And-Gas-
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Profits.pdf">$41 billion</a> in profits during this year’s first quarter — $1.2 billion more on average per company compared to the same period last year, the report noted. Companies like Devon Energy are so flush with cash they’ve rewarded shareholders with “record” payouts. And Congress certainly has taken notice.
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“I’m a proud capitalist, and what we’re experiencing with fuel prices is the result of a broken market,” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-gas-price-gouging-bill/">said</a> Rep. Katie Porter, a California Democrat and one of the original co-sponsors of the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act. “Big Oil executives are bragging to shareholders about price-gouging families at the pump. They’re purposely keeping supply low to earn record-high profits, squeezing families — and our entire economy — in the process.”
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House legislators passed the bill with a vote of 217-207, with zero support from Republicans. Four moderate Democrats — Reps. Lizzie Fletcher, Jared Golden, Stephanie Murphy, and Kathleen Rice — bucked party line and voted against the bill.
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“The Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act would not fix high gasoline prices at the pump, and has the potential to exacerbate the supply shortage our country is facing, leading to even worse outcomes,” Fletcher <a href="https://fletcher.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3893">wrote</a> in a statement. “For these reasons, I voted no on this legislation.”
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Even some Democrats who ultimately supported the legislation voiced concerns over the bill. “It just, you know, seems like we’re treating oil and gas like Big Tobacco, and sometimes they’re unjustly targeted,” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-gas-price-gouging-bill/">said</a> Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas.
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In addition to vetoes from the four Democrats and widespread Republican opposition, the legislation has received pushback from powerful industry lobbying groups, including the American Petroleum Institute and the National Association of Manufacturers.
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With oil and gas corporations resisting regulations and virtually no support from Republicans, the fuel price-gouging bill may face an uphill battle in the Senate, where Democrats hold a slim majority.
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What does the fuel price-gouging bill really do?
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><img alt="President Biden ahead of an Illinois appearance to discuss
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combatting inflation and high gas prices." src="https://cdn.vox-
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Under the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, President Biden could move to declare an energy emergency.
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The Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act is comprised of a few main components: Firstly, the legislation would allow the president to declare an energy emergency effective for up to 30 days, though that declaration could be renewed.
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During that energy emergency period, it would become unlawful for any person to sell consumer fuel at a price that is “unconscionably excessive” or that suggests exploitative practices. The bill would also expand the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to investigate and address potential instances of fuel price-gouging conducted by larger companies, defined as companies with $500 million in yearly wholesale or retail sales in the US. Under the bill, state authorities would be granted enforcement powers against fuel price-gouging violations through civil court action.
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The legislation is meant to address record-high gas prices in the US, which some lawmakers and watchdogs allege have largely been manufactured by oil and gas corporations. Like other goods on the market, the cost of a gallon of gas is influenced by the market’s supply and demand. Major events like the COVID-19 crisis, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a disrupted supply chain can influence the supply and demand of certain goods on the market.
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What remains debatable, however, is how much the price of certain goods becomes affected when variables in the market change. There is <a href="https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/supply-and-demand-or-price-gouging-an-ongoing-debate">no legal definition</a> of what exactly constitutes price-gouging in the US. Oil and gas companies like Chevron and Shell may take advantage of the market’s instability by excessively hiking up gas prices while limiting production to boost profits, which in turn hurts consumers.
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It is difficult to know how much of an increase in oil and gas production — which lawmakers like Rep. Porter are demanding — would be enough to alleviate current price-gouging concerns, or even if it would help address the gas crisis at all. Republicans nonetheless believe that targeting the industry isn’t a viable solution, but rather increasing domestic production is the way to alleviate pain at the pump. But GOP lawmakers likely won’t get their wish for a variety of reasons, including resistance from oil and gas companies. A <a href="https://www.dallasfed.org/research/surveys/des/2022/2201#tab-report">survey</a> conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in March found that many companies did not anticipate increasing production anytime soon. The Federal Bank of Dallas covers the Eleventh Federal Reserve District, including high oil-producing states like Texas and New Mexico.
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On average, the Federal Reserve in Dallas survey found that oil and gas companies operating in the district are expecting crude oil prices to hit $93 per barrel by the end of the year, while some even expected prices to go as high as $200 per barrel. At the time of the survey in March, the price of crude oil had hit $100 per barrel. Nearly 60% of corporate respondents in the survey cited “investor pressure to maintain capital discipline” as the main reason oil companies weren’t drilling more despite soaring gas prices. Lawmakers naturally took notice.
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Price gouging is anti-capitalist. Big Oil is threatening our entire economy by keeping supply low and jacking up prices at the pump far beyond the inflation rate to satisfy Wall Street.<br/><br/>Oil and gas company executives are <em>literally</em> admitting it. (THREAD ⬇️) <a href="https://t.co/HosywUxU8Y">pic.twitter.com/HosywUxU8Y</a>
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— Rep. Katie Porter (<span class="citation" data-cites="RepKatiePorter">@RepKatiePorter</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1527359373223219209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2022</a>
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“Big Oil is threatening our entire economy by keeping supply low and jacking up prices at the pump far beyond the inflation rate to satisfy Wall Street,” Porter wrote in a tweet ahead of the fuel price-gouging bill’s approval by the House, citing the survey’s results. “Oil and gas company executives are <em>literally</em> admitting it.”
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Analysts believe the best indicator of inflation is the consumer price index (CPI), which essentially measures changes in the prices of goods and services frequently bought by average consumers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the consumer price index had increased 8.3% over the last 12 months ending in April. Among all categories included in measuring CPI, fuel oil prices had <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm#cpi_pressa.f.1">increased</a> the most by far, jumping more than 80% over the past 12 months.
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But high inflation rates aren’t only affecting gas prices — the housing market, as well as food and grocery prices, have seen soaring prices, too. The ripple effect can have an outsized impact on the average American, particularly <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/357731/inflation-causing-hardship-
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households.aspx">low-income families</a> with limited transportation options and who are already running on a tight household budget.
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“This inflation thing is a real problem. When you’re paying twice as much to fill your gas tank and twice as much for everything, you’ve got to say to yourself, ‘Well, do I really need to buy everything at King’s [Food Market]?’” one shopper, who now splits her shopping between multiple stores to get the cheapest prices, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/business/inflation-grocery-prices.html">told</a> the New York Times.
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Will the fuel price-gouging bill actually make a difference?
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><img alt="San Francisco Area Continues To Lead Nation With Highest Gas Prices" src="https://cdn.vox-
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23579424/1398387713.jpg"/> <cite>Justin Sullivan/Getty Images</cite></p>
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The San Francisco Bay Area leads the nation in high gas prices
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Opponents of the bill argue that price gouging is already illegal in most states, rendering the legislation moot. Instead, they believe that legislators should be focusing on increasing domestic energy production and improving the country’s competitive edge in the global market. The American Petroleum Institute <a href="https://www.governing.com/now/anti-gouging-bill-wont-lower-california-gas-prices-soon">called</a> the bill “misguided” and <a href="https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/blog/2022/05/18/what-theyre-saying-about-misguided-
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price-gouging-legislation">labeled</a> it as an empty attempt by Democrats to sway voters ahead of the midterm elections in November. Other industry groups feel similarly to many Republicans, who claim their concerns have to do with domestic production and energy security.
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“[Combatting price-gouging] starts with opening our diverse resources on federal lands, approving responsible exploration and production, supporting sustainable permitting, and quickly building out more energy infrastructure,” Rachel Jones, vice president of energy and resources policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, <a href="https://documents.nam.org/ERP/NAM%20Opposes%20HR%207688%20and%20Supports%20Domestic%20Energy.pdf?utm_source=253495&utm_medium=email">wrote</a> in a letter to House leadership in response to the bill.
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According to AAA, the main factor driving high gas prices across the country is the tight supply of oil up against market demand.
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“The high cost of oil, the key ingredient in gasoline, is driving these high pump prices for consumers,” Andrew Gross, a spokesperson for the company, said in a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/19/california-gas-
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average-6-gallon-record-high">statement</a>. “Even the annual seasonal demand dip for gasoline during the lull between spring break and Memorial Day, which would normally help lower prices, is having no effect this year.”
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Supporters of the bill contend that corporate profiteering by oil and gas companies inherently worsen gas prices. But there is little consensus among experts on the fuel price-gouging bill’s effectiveness. Some believe it may even have a negative effect on the market.
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“There is no material prospect that, in any enduring way, gouging legislation can have any substantial effect on inflationary pressure,” Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under the Clinton administration, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/summers-
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compares-price-gouging-bill-to-trump-s-bleach-injections">told</a> Bloomberg Television in an interview last week. He added that there was a possibility such legislation may “cause and contrive all kinds of shortages” and undermine companies’ moves to boost supply.
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Arguments over whether the fuel price-gouging bill is an effective enough solution to the US’s high gas prices may be for naught if the law is not approved by the Senate, where Democrats have been <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22876361/freedom-to-vote-act-senate-filibuster-what-
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next">unable to pass</a> important legislative items in the past, frequently failing to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to end a filibuster and move legislation forward.
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But this may not be the last we hear of anti-price gouging legislation as lawmakers try to find ways to fight the economic downturn. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/12/fact-sheet-
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president-biden-announces-additional-steps-to-address-infant-formula-shortage/">called</a> on the FTC and state attorneys general to crack down on price-gouging as part of efforts to manage <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-
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politics/2022/5/12/23068472/baby-formula-shortage-2022-why">the country’s baby formula shortage</a>, following reports of unfair practices by individual resellers. He could follow suit for oil and gas as well.
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<li><strong>Is the center shrinking in the Democratic primaries?</strong> -
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<img alt="Pennsylvania state representative Summer Lee smiles in a photo at a campaign event." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/V24ROThLezqfthExuhQ9pZj-vr0=/179x0:3763x2688/1310x983/cdn.vox-
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Pennsylvania Democratic congressional candidate, state Rep. Summer Lee, talks to the press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | Nate Smallwood/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Democratic voters are moving their party to the left — and dragging candidates with them.
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This year’s Democratic primaries are being largely framed as an ideological struggle between the national party’s moderate and progressive wings. But voting patterns over the last few weeks have complicated that narrative.
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In marquee contests in Pennsylvania and Oregon, progressive wins led to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/18/tough-senate-races-democrats-shift-
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away-centrists-toward-progressive-diverse-candidates/">proclamations</a> that the left wing of the party is <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/18/progressive-democratic-primary-wins-00033557">gaining</a> <a href="https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3493293-progressives-feel-vindication-after-major-primary-
|
||
wins/">influence</a>, while some moderate victories defied that thinking. What’s becoming clear as votes are counted, however, is that Democratic primary voters seem to care less about who the “progressive candidate” is and more about if candidates are campaigning on progressive goals. What many of the Democrats who won this week have in common is that they all embraced progressive priorities tailored to where they were running.
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Perhaps nowhere encapsulated this reality better than swing-state Pennsylvania, where a relatively progressive and locally trusted candidate who repeatedly rejected the progressive label — <a href="https://www.vox.com/23068819/democrats-pennsylvania-
|
||
senate-primary-progressive-moderate">Lt. Gov. John Fetterman</a> — trounced the more moderate, Washington favorite, Rep. Conor Lamb, in the primary race for the US Senate.
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“Just being a centrist anymore, it’s hard to get things done. There’s shrinking room left in the middle,” Mustafa Rashed, a Democratic strategist in Philadelphia, told me about the state’s dynamics.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="nmojyZ">
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Around the state, candidates who delivered digestible versions of progressive messages did well, from the <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-election-2022-results-
|
||
williams-prescod-evans-hunt-20220518.html">left-leaning candidates</a> who won races in heavily Democratic areas for state and federal legislatures to the <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2022/05/18/pennsylvanias-
|
||
democratic-progressives-and-establishment-face-off">moderate incumbents</a> who survived tough challenges from the left. In nearly all of these races, a general shift to the left was apparent among the party’s base and candidates.
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This trend isn’t necessarily universal: Plenty of more traditional moderate Democrats won their races in Ohio and North Carolina. And it’s possible upcoming races in California, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas may upset this narrative. But for the most part, the primaries so far appear to show that progressive activism and ideas have changed what primary voters want and what their candidates are offering.<strong> </strong>
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</p>
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<h3 id="AWPTZP">
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Every team scored wins on Tuesday
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="SI4PrF">
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Both sides of the Democratic ideological spectrum could claim wins on Tuesday. From North Carolina to Oregon, there wasn’t uniformity in who emerged victorious.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ZEPT1T">
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What does tie a lot of Tuesday’s races together, though, is how few moderates ran openly down the middle of the ideological spectrum without co-opting at least some of the issues and language progressives have used in previous races. That includes things like advocating for a higher minimum wage, expanding health care access and coverage, more openly embracing gun control and abortion rights, and at least addressing climate change.
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A more moderate, establishment type prevailed in Pennsylvania’s Third Congressional District, where Rep. Dwight Evans beat back progressive challengers by focusing on affordable housing, criminal justice reform, gun violence, and crime. A similar dynamic could be seen in <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-election-2022-results-williams-prescod-evans-hunt-20220518.html">other seats in the state legislature</a>, including with longtime state Sen. Anthony Williams, who campaigned on abortion access, gun-violence prevention, and criminal justice reform as he faced his first serious challenge from the left. And in the primary for lieutenant governor, frontrunner Rep. Austin Davis defeated rivals to his left running on abortion and criminal justice reform.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="TbAbXf">
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This trend wasn’t just seen in Pennsylvania.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="fLtgeL">
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In Kentucky, liberal state Senate Minority Leader Morgan McGarvey defeated a lefty rival to represent the Louisville-area Third Congressional District, which is solidly Democratic, by supporting partial student loan cancellation, single-payer health care, and endorsing the idea of a Green New Deal.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="9xi2Hw">
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In North Carolina, a similar picture emerged. Centrist-minded state Sen. Don Davis, backed by outgoing US Rep. GK Butterfield, comfortably beat his progressive challenger, a former state senator endorsed by US Sen. Elizabeth Warren and an array of progressive groups. Though Davis doesn’t back a Green New Deal or Medicare-for-all, he still campaigned on affordable health care, voting rights, reproductive rights, and increasing the minimum wage.
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</p>
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Things were a little different in Democrat-dominated Oregon, however, where progressives were ascendant. The solidly centrist incumbent Rep. Kurt Schrader, who campaigned on pragmatism and consensus-building, is on track to lose to progressive activist Jamie McLeod- Skinner in the Fifth District, while crypto-backed lawyer Carrick Flynn, who had no political experience, is also trailing the progressive state Rep. Andrea Salinas. And after a difficult campaign, former state House Speaker Tina Kotek defeated a moderate challenger, state Treasurer Tobias Read, in the primary for Oregon governor.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="2BLxV0">
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Oregon’s results, which saw voters gravitate toward the conventional, genuine progressive, add another layer of complexity to the primary picture. Regardless, races this week showed Democratic candidates of all ideologies feel compelled to address their left flank.
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</p>
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<h3 id="oGgZa2">
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Progressive ideas have changed the way candidates run
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="bZeEWS">
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A lot has changed since the last midterms in 2018, when progressives made <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/19/17585606/2018-midterm-elections-democrats-ocasio-cortez">big gains</a> but moderate Democrats were instrumental in giving the party a <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-
|
||
politics/2018/11/5/18042804/2018-midterm-elections-moderates-indiana-ohio-west-virginia">majority in the House</a>. So far, the party’s primaries are showing an electorate much more willing to accept populist, progressive(-ish) ideas than before — a big win for left-wing activists and thinkers who have managed to move the party’s ideological center in their direction.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="jkjvT6">
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Few candidates so far have run overtly as centrists without at least paying lip service to progressive priorities. Where they refused to do so, as in Schrader’s race, they faced headwinds from a changing Democratic primary electorate.
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</p>
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“Ten years ago, blue-dog and corporate Democrats would run on that [centrist] message against progressives,” Adam Green, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which has endorsed several progressive upstarts this election cycle, told me. “These days, they’re more willing to use the language of progressives against progressives in primaries — but Schrader was the exception to this rule.”
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</p>
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That’s not to say a moderate using progressive talking points has a sure path to success. Marcia Wilson, the chair of rural Pennsylvania’s Adams County Democratic Party, said Lamb’s campaign showed how some Democrats fear electing an apparent liberal who turns out to be a Joe Manchin-style Democrat.
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</p>
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“Democrats are feeling more galvanized and want to be known as Democrats, not because they are unwilling to compromise but because we want to support Democratic ideals,” she said. Wilson told me that partly explains why Lamb’s pitch to the state didn’t resonate — a more conservative background and platform in past races made his leftward shift in the Senate primary seem inauthentic.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="jVdo2t">
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But still, Lamb attempted some ideological change. A similar thing happened in earlier Democratic primaries in Ohio, where more moderate candidates like Tim Ryan (in the state’s Democratic Senate race), Nan Whaley (in the governor’s race), and Shontel Brown (in the 11th Congressional District) were <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23056350/winners-loses-ohio-indiana-primaries-jd-vance-trump">pushed to the left</a>. Upcoming races will test this trend, but so far, it appears Democratic voters want their candidates to speak like progressives, even if they aren’t actually progressive.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="F3Fuxi">
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The general election may in turn change the way these candidates talk about their priorities. The citizens who typically turn out to vote in November tend to be less <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/too-much-democracy-is-bad-for-
|
||
democracy/600766/">ideological</a> and <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-2018-primaries-project-the-
|
||
ideology-of-primary-voters/">party-affiliated</a> than the voters who participate in primary elections. And the progressive ideals beloved by hardcore Democrats may not be as well received by moderates and centrists in competitive general election seats.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="nOlJ0A">
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If progressives — and progressive ideas — do win <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/07/politics/republicans-midterms-roe-v-wade/index.html">uphill battles</a> in these swing districts, however, Democrats may end up with a newly empowered left flank, catalyzing the political polarization Americans have come to expect from their government.
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</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>French Open 2022 | Ons Jabeur becomes first major casualty</strong> - Linette will next play Martina Trevisan of Italy or Briton Harriet Dart.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Australia’s Titmus smashes Ledecky’s 400m freestyle world record</strong> - It capped an impressive meet for Titmus who won the 200m freestyle in 1:53.31, the third fastest time ever, and clocked a personal best in the 100m.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SIT to probe death of man in clash over Jharkhand panchayat poll victory procession</strong> - The team will probe the death of Birendra Singh in Pararia panchayat after a clash erupted owing to the procession taken out by Pappu Rajak, who was elected ‘Mukhiya’ of the panchayat</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The weekend’s best deals: Epic PC games sale, 1Password subscriptions, and more</strong> - Dealmaster also has discounts on Hulu memberships, AirPods, and LG OLED TVs. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855398">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden administration lays out plan for four carbon-capture facilities</strong> - Big infrastructure package includes funds for the underdeveloped technology. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855569">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Researchers find backdoor lurking in WordPress plugin used by schools</strong> - If you’ve used School Management Pro, it’s time to check your site, stat. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855563">link</a></p></li>
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