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David Foster’s Daughters Erin and Sara Blast CA Governor Gavin Newsom as ‘The Worst’ – TMZ
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Gavin Newsom says California won’t do business with Walgreens over its refusal to distribute abortion pills in 20 states – CBS News
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Harvey Weinstein Attorney in Testy Exchange With Gavin Newsom’s Wife
- Gavin Newsom’s wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom testified again in Harvey Weinstein’s LA rape trial.
- On Tuesday, Siebel Newsom faced intense cross-examination from Weinstein’s attorneys.
- She was grilled about her interviews with authorities, and the ‘pleasure sounds’ she brought up on Monday.
Harvey Weinstein’s attorney pressed California governor Gavin Newsom’s wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom at Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial on rape charges Tuesday, attempting to poke holes in her testimony during a testy cross-examination.
Siebel Newsom took the stand for the second day on Tuesday, clashing with Weinstein attorney Mark Werksman through his rapid line of questioning, which centered around Newsom’s allegation and previous testimony that Weinstein raped her at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills in 2005.
Weinstein — who is already serving a 23-year sentence after a separate trial in New York — is currently standing trial in LA on 7 counts of sexual assault, stemming from the allegations of five different women who say he abused them in hotels between 2004 and 2013. Weinstein denies the allegations and has pleaded not guilty.
Werksman zeroed in on what Siebel Newsom told Los Angeles District Attorney investigators and a grand jury in 2020 about the alleged assault, also prodding her testimony from Monday. Siebel Newsom told Werksman that she initially thought her claim was beyond the statute of limitations.
“When you told the police, do you think that the things that you told police would lead to the filing of criminal charges?” Werksman asked, according to the trial pool report. “I honestly was just telling my truth and I didn’t know what the outcome was going to be,” Siebel Newsom replied.
Siebel Newsom said under questioning Tuesday that she was unsure if she told police that in an effort to exit the assault, she helped Weinstein ejaculate, as she testified yesterday.
“Sometimes things are in my head and I can’t remember whether I’ve said them or not,” Siebel Newsom said.
“Yesterday you mentioned having nightmares. Have you had a difficult time actually discerning what happened in a nightmare and what actually happened in a bedroom at the Peninsula?” Werksman asked. “No, no.” Siebel Newsom answered.
“Over the last several days my client, Jane Doe 4, took the very difficult and painful step to publicly recount her sexual assault at the hands of Harvey Weinstein. She knew that it might have been easier to keep the memory of her 2005 assault buried, but she could not,” Siebel Newsom’s attorney Elizabeth Fegan told Insider in a statement. “Throughout her testimony she demonstrated tremendous strength and resolve in telling her truth and stood fast as Weinstein’s defense team ruthlessly tried to discredit her.”
On Monday, Siebel Newsom testified that to exit the situation, she made “pleasure sounds” and helped Weinstein ejaculate with her hand, then managed to dress and leave the room. Through Werksman’s questions, Siebel Newsom had taken issue with Werksman’s use of the word “orgasm.”
“You had faked an orgasm,” Werksman said. “It was not long. This is not When Harry Met Sally.” Siebel Newsom said, telling Werksman the use of the word orgasm was “so gross.”
In opening statements, Werksman said Siebel Newsom would “be just another bimbo who slept with Harvey Weinstein to get ahead in Hollywood” if she didn’t call herself a victim of rape.
Werksman suggested in opening statements that two of the women’s accounts were false, while the other three women engaged in “transactional sex” with Weinstein to further their careers.
“Your energy is just so intense, you’re just adding things,” Siebel Newsom told Werksman, who welcomed her to correct him and said she didn’t answer some of his questions.
Gavin Williamson, UK minister, resigns from post following bullying allegations
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British cabinet office minister Gavin Williamson resigned from his role on Tuesday following recent allegations of bullying, saying the accusations against him were “becoming a distraction for the good work this government is doing.”
“As you know, there is an ongoing complaints process concerning text messages I sent to a colleague,” Williamson said in his resignation letter, addressed to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
“I am complying with this process and I have apologized to the recipient for those messages. Since then, there have been other allegations made about my past conduct. I refute the characterization of these claims, but I recognize these are becoming a distraction for the good work this government is doing for the British people,” he added in the letter.
“I have therefore decided to step back from government so that I can comply fully with the complaints process that is underway and clear my name of any wrongdoing,” Williamson said.
Sunak accepted his resignation “with great sadness,” according to PA news agency. “I would like to thank you for your personal support and loyalty,” Sunak said.
Williamson’s current stint in government only lasted for 14 days. Considered a close Sunak ally, Williamson had faced growing calls to quit following bullying allegations.
Former deputy chief whip Anne Milton described Williamson’s conduct five years ago, when he was the chief whip, as “threatening” and “intimidating,” in an interview with Channel 4 news released on Tuesday.
Milton, who worked alongside Williamson in the whip’s office – which enforces party discipline – also described his behavior as “unethical and immoral.”
“I got the impression that he loved salacious gossip and would use it as leverage against MPs if the need arose,” Milton told broadcaster.
Williamson has not yet publicly reacted to Milton’s claims. CNN has reached out to the lawmaker for comment.
The Conservative Party lawmaker was previously fired from his post as defense minister in 2019 by then-Prime Minister Theresa May over the leaking of a key decision related to the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.
May’s decision followed an inquiry into how the Daily Telegraph newspaper discovered that the UK government was preparing to give Huawei access to parts of the country’s 5G mobile network. Williamson at the time “strenuously” denied he was the source of the leak, in a letter posted to his Twitter account.
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson later appointed him as Secretary of State for Education, an ill-fated brief which saw Williamson preside over a controversial exam grading algorithm during the Covid-19 pandemic, as testing could not take place. The grading system was scrapped after widespread anger from parents, students and educators.
Williamson also made waves by appearing to confuse two major Black British sports stars, telling an interviewer he had spoken to Manchester United soccer player Marcus Rashford – who has been campaigning for free school meals for children in need during the pandemic – when in fact he had met with rugby player Maro Itoje.
Johnson removed him from the role in 2021 during a cabinet reshuffle.
Williamson is also a former ex-chief whip, and before his resignation Tuesday, held a position as Minister without Portfolio in Sunak’s government.
Penn State cancels event featuring Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes
One person was arrested, but the school said an investigation was ongoing and others could face charges.
In a statement to the campus community, Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi characterized McInnes and Alex Stein, who also was set to appear, as “provocateurs known for their abhorrent views and rhetoric.
The Proud Boys are a far-right extremist group with a history of violence, known for instigating street brawls with perceived enemies, including those in the anti-fascist or antifa movement. Federal investigators have accused leaders of the Proud Boys of conspiring to oppose by force President Biden’s swearing-in, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
McInnes stepped down from his role in the Proud Boys in 2018. But Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), said he continues to promote the group and “remains intimately involved in their internal matters.”
Daryle Lamont Jenkins, a veteran anti-fascist organizer who leads the hate-tracking group One People’s Project, attended the protest and said none of the aggression came from demonstrators.
A student protest group said hate-group members had sprayed a chemical irritant at people in the crowd. McIness countered, casting blame on the other side.
The Monday event was to be hosted by Uncensored America, which was founded by a Penn State student in 2020 with a stated mission of empowering “young Americans to fight for free speech in order to make American culture free and fun again.” It invited Stein, billed by the group as a comedian and professional troll, and McInnes, billed as a comedian and a political commentator, for a comedy show titled “Stand Back & Stand By” — echoing words used by Donald Trump, addressing the Proud Boys, during a 2020 presidential debate.
“I was clearly censored. Alex Stein was clearly censored,” McInnes said Tuesday. “The room was tiny. Fifty people probably could fit. Fifty people were denied jokes because of the media narrative about Proud Boys being racist, sexist, whatever the f— they’re pushing,” he said, insisting that the group is a “patriotic men’s drinking club.”
In a statement, Uncensored America said the organization always encouraged people to be peaceful and condemns all violence. “Sadly, attendees were intimidated by violent protests and could not enter the venue safely,” the organization said.
Stein said characterizations of him as a racist or fascist is “the farthest thing from the truth.”
Miller, of the SPLC, said the event was part of a broader far-right extremist playbook that seeks to use universities as a place to legitimize and normalize harmful ideas. She said violence has followed a previous public appearance of McInnes and wrote a letter to Penn State officials earlier this month voicing her concerns.
In her statement to the campus community, Bendapudi said Stein and McInnes “will celebrate a victory for being canceled, when in actuality, they contributed to the very violence that compromised their ability to speak.” Counterprotesters also were likely to “celebrate a victory that they forced the university to cancel this event,” she said, “when in actuality they have furthered the visibility of the very cause they oppose.”
When asked if he considered the cancellation of the event a “win,” McInnes said no, adding, “Antifa won this round.”
The event drew opposition in the weeks leading to it. A petition calling on the university to stop the event, which it described as “platforming fascists and promoting hateful, meritless disinformation,” garnered more than 3,200 digital signatures.
Wyatt DuBois, a spokesman for the university, said a mass email was distributed to Penn State students, faculty and staff Friday from an anonymous group opposed to the event. The message encouraged direct confrontation with the two speakers, he said. As a result, officials urged the campus community to avoid the event.
On Monday, several hundred students, faculty members and others gathered at an another location on campus for a counterprogramming event emphasizing unity. But many others massed to protest Stein and McInnes.
WATCH: On Monday night, tensions rose between police and protestors outside of the Thomas Building at an event hosted by Uncensored America https://t.co/Ok4fOpcGFq
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Stein walked into the peaceful protest and that escalated tensions, according to Bendapudi. Stein criticized the cancellation on social media, later tweeting a video of him laughing at and taunting furious protesters, one of whom spit on him.
A person wearing all black began brandishing a can before spraying chemical irritants into the crowd, according to a video from News2Share’s Ford Fischer. In the clip, police did not intervene.
“Some brave people were pepper sprayed by hate group members enabled by PSU admin to terrorize our campus,” the student group Student Committee for Defense and Solidarity said in an Instagram post. The group was also critical of the police response.
Gary King, a professor of biobehavioral health, watched the protests.
“I was glad to see Penn State students stand up for something other than a touchdown,” King said, “and lead the way for the administration to follow.”
María Luisa Paúl and Spencer Hsu contributed to this report.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife on Gov. Gavin Newsom, to testify in Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and actor who is the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, is among the accusers of Harvey Weinstein who will testify at his rape and sexual assault trial that began Monday, her attorney said.
The 70-year-old former film producer has already been convicted of rape and other sex crimes in New York. Now he’ll go on trial for similar charges in L.A., years after allegations that helped spark the #MeToo Movement in Hollywood.
Jury selection began Monday on rape and other sex-related counts involving five women who have said Weinstein attacked them in luxury hotels between 2004 and 2013.
All five of Weinstein’s accusers are expected to testify, as well as several other women whose accusations are not part of the criminal charges. However, they are expected to describe Weinstein’s past behavior.
ABC News confirmed one of those women is California’s First Partner.
“Like many other women, my client was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein at a purported business meeting that turned out to be a trap,” Siebel Newsom’s attorney, Beth Fegan, said in a statement. “She intends to testify at his trial in order to seek some measure of justice for survivors, and as part of her life’s work to improve the lives of women. Please respect her choice to not discuss this matter outside of the courtroom.”
To stand trial, Weinstein was extradited from New York, where he has already served two years of a 23-year sentence for sex crimes. That case is being appealed.
The #MeToo Movement gained momentum about five years ago after dozens of women accused Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault.
The multiple accusations over a period of time will help make the prosecution’s case stronger, according to one legal analyst.
“That’s going to be one of the strongest arguments for the prosecution,” said attorney and analyst Lou Shapiro. “It’s called pattern evidence. It’s not just one person coming across on this, it’s several people who don’t know each other. What are the chances of different people from different locations, different time periods all having similar stories? It’s not just a coincidence.”
If convicted of the Los Angeles charges, Weinstein faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison.
Because of the public’s awareness of Weinstein and the accusations against him, jury selection could take two weeks, with the trial itself estimated to take about two months. No cameras will be allowed in the courtroom.
Before his downfall, Weinstein was seen as one of the most influential and successful film producers in Hollywood, with his company putting out Oscar winners and highly regarded classics such as “Shakespeare in Love” and “Pulp Fiction.”
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill limiting the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal proceedings
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Friday that limits the use of rap lyrics in criminal court cases in the state.
The law requires “a court, in a criminal proceeding where a party seeks to admit as evidence a form of creative expression, to consider specified factors when balancing the probative value of that evidence against the substantial danger of undue prejudice.”
The new law underscores a larger national conversation around prohibiting the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal proceedings, a tactic critics have called a racist double standard and an infringement on First Amendment rights.
Democratic US Reps. Hank Johnson of Georgia and Jamaal Bowman of New York proposed legislation in July that would ban lyrics from being used as evidence in legal claims though there has been no movement on the legislation in the House since its referral to the House Judiciary Committee.
“Artists of all kinds should be able to create without the fear of unfair and prejudicial prosecution,” the Democratic governor said in a statement Friday. “California’s culture and entertainment industry set trends around the world and it’s fitting that our state is taking a nation-leading role to protect creative expression and ensure that artists are not criminalized under biased policies.”
Under the new law, California courts must consider, if relevant and provided, testimony on the context of a genre of creative expression, “research demonstrating that the introduction of a particular type of expression introduces racial bias into the proceedings,” as well as evidence rebutting those findings.
In addition to limiting the use of rap lyrics in California criminal court proceedings, the legislation, which passed unanimously in the California state Senate and Assembly, also encompasses the use of “performance art, visual art, poetry, literature, film, and other media.”
Rap artists Meek Mill, Too $hort, E-40, Killer Mike, YG, Ty Dolla $ign and Tyga were present in a video call with the California governor when he signed the legislation, according to Newsom’s office.
Scholars Erik Nielson and Andrea Dennis, authors of “Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics and Guilt in America,” have argued that “Rap music is the only fictional musical genre used this way because its primary producers are young Black men, who the criminal justice system happens to target.” They say the genre’s lyrics are vulnerable to being perceived as self-incriminating to law enforcement because of trends in first person narration and focuses on “criminal themes” and “violent imagery.”
Calls from the music industry for legislation addressing the use of lyrics in criminal cases have grown in the wake of a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) indictment of Grammy-award winning rapper Young Thug in Fulton County, Georgia, earlier this year. CNN previously reported that some of Young Thug’s song lyrics were used as examples of “overt acts” in his indictment, some of which constitute racketeering.
“Today we celebrate an important victory for music creators in the state of California. Silencing any genre or form of artistic expression is a violation against all music people. The history that’s been made in California today will help pave the way forward in the fight to protect creative freedom nationwide,” Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, said in a statement on Friday.
Gavin Escobar: Former Dallas Cowboys tight end found dead after apparent rock climbing accident
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Former Dallas Cowboys tight end Gavin Escobar was one of two climbers who died after an apparent accident in California, officials announced on Wednesday. Escobar was 31 years old.
Firefighters attempted to reach two injured rock climbers at Tahquitz Rock near Idyllwild in the San Bernardino National Forest, the Cal Fire and Riverside County Fire Department said on Twitter on Wednesday.
Later in the day, the department said rescuers reached the location and that “both victims perished at the scene.” The Riverside sheriff’s coroner’s office identified the victims as Escobar and 33-year-old Chelsea Walsh.
Escobar was selected by the Cowboys with the 47th pick in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft.
He played four years in Dallas before moving on to the Baltimore Ravens for one season. He finished his NFL career with 30 receptions and eight touchdowns – all with the Cowboys.
The Cowboys posted a tribute on their Twitter page late Thursday, remembering the tight end.
Escobar last played in the NFL in 2018.
Earlier this year, Escobar began working as a firefighter for the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD).
In a post on Facebook, the LBFD said: “It is with deep sadness that we announce the off-duty death of Long Beach Firefighter Gavin Escobar.”
The LBFD said he leaves behind a wife and two young children.
Gavin Newsom-Ron DeSantis war of words a possible 2024 or 2028 preview
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They’re two relatively young and very high-profile governors of large states who have knack for grabbing national attention and firing up the bases of the respective political parties.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida are once again in the spotlight this weekend, sparking more speculation about their 2024 intentions.
DeSantis, whose popularity has soared among conservatives in Florida and across the country the past two and a half years, courtesy of his forceful pushback against coronavirus pandemic restrictions and his aggressive actions as a culture wars warrior, sparked a new controversy earlier this week by flying Venezuelan migrants to the progressive bastion of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
While igniting outrage among Democrats, the calculated move spotlighted the combustible issue of illegal immigration and border security, which fires up the GOP base but also connects with independent voters who may be frustrated with the Biden administration efforts in handling the surge in border crossings into the U.S. over the past year and a half.
GAVIN NEWSOM CHALLENGES RON DESANTIS TO A DEBATE
File photos of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California (left) and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida (right)
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Newsom, who asked the Justice Department to investigate both DeSantis and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas — who’s transported migrants to progressive cities such as New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. — accuses the conservative governors of using the migrants as “political pawns.”
On Friday, Newsom challenged DeSantis to a debate, which triggered a war of words on Twitter between the Newsom and DeSantis camps.
Newsom has been as crafty in recent months as DeSantis in grabbing national attention, trolling both the Florida governor and Abbott with ads in their states. And this past week, Newsom captured the spotlight once again by putting up billboards in several red states where abortion is now restricted, highlighting that California is a haven for legalized abortion. The move further bolstered his push as a champion for reproductive rights, which is a top issue with many in his party’s base in the wake of June’s move by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to up end the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
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While the 2024 presidential election may end up being a rematch of the 2020 contest between President Biden and former President Trump, if the two 70-somethings don’t end up running, DeSantis, Newsom, and others in the next generation are using creative ways to raise their national profiles.
“Traditionally, with the run-up to midterm elections, political eyes turn to the early states of Iowa and New Hampshire for signs of presidential candidate activity. And while those visits are happening, a new trend is emerging among those who are looking at potential runs that is nationalizing their potential candidacies,” veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance noted.
“Both Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis have taken to the national airwaves with their brands of politics on the issue of immigration. It’s smart and, perhaps most importantly, it’s free air-time that’s designed to appeal to the bases of their parties. And, it’s working,” added Lesperance, who is vice president of academic affairs at the New Hampshire based New England College. “The nationalization of our presidential primary process has begun. Newsom and DeSantis are first in. Others will follow.”
Are DeSantis’ 2022 trips ‘laying the groundwork’ for 2024?
As he runs for re-election in November, DeSantis is once again on the campaign on Sunday — outside of Florida. DeSantis will be in Kansas and Wisconsin, headlining rallies for those state’s GOP gubernatorial nominees -Derek Schmidt and Tim Michels — that were organized by the conservative group Turning Point Action.
“Governor DeSantis is America’s Governor and one of the most popular leaders in the country. He has become the model for a new conservative movement that is willing to stand on principle and to actually fight on behalf of the values of his voters,” Turning Point Action founder and president Charlie Kirk said in a statement.
The swing follows a similar one last month, when DeSantis traveled to Arizona to campaign with gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and Senate nominee Blake Masters, to Pennsylvania to stump with gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, and to Ohio to team up with Senate nominee JD Vance. Lake, Masters, Mastriano, Vance, Schmidt and Michels all won their Republican nominations thanks in part to crucial endorsements by Trump.
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The DeSantis trips are definitely being noticed by the former president.
“Trump blew a gasket” when DeSantis teamed up with Lake, a source in the former president’s political orbit told Fox News. And the teaming up of DeSantis and Kirk — who’s a Trump ally and very close with Donald Trump Jr. — is also “not going unnoticed,” the source added.
While in the Badger State on Sunday, DeSantis is also expected to meet with billionaire Wisconsin based businesswoman and GOP mega donor Diane Hendricks, according to a veteran GOP consultant who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely.
“This is not about helping other candidates, it’s about helping Ron DeSantis,” the consultant charged. “This is all Ron laying the groundwork” for 2024.
DeSantis’ political team declined to confirm or deny the governor’s meeting with Hendricks.
Former President Donald Trump welcomes JD Vance, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator for Ohio, to the stage at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)
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Trump was also on the trail this weekend, holding a large rally in Ohio on behalf of Vance.
Pompeo spotlights his 2024 team
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returns this week to New Hampshire, the state that for a century’s held the first primary in the race for the White House.
Pompeo on Tuesday will headline the latest edition of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics’ “Politics and Eggs.” The speaking series at St. Anselm College, just west of Manchester, has been a must-stop for nearly a quarter-century for actual and potential White House hopefuls of both major parties.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo keynotes the Hillsborough County, New Hampshire GOP’s annual Lincoln-Reagan fundraising dinner, in Manchester, N.H. on April 7, 2022.
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The West Point graduate and Army armor and calvary officer stationed in West Germany during the Cold War who was later elected to Congress from Kansas before serving as CIA director and America’s top diplomat in former President Trump’s administration, has also made numerous stops the past year and a half in Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada, the other three early voting states in the Republican presidential nominating calendar.
Pompeo, a Fox News contributor, has repeatedly said that he’ll make a decision on 2024 following the November midterm elections.
But this past week, speaking to the Navy Seal Foundation Midwest Evening of Tribute in Chicago, Pompeo revealed more about his potential White House run.
“We’ve got a team in Iowa, a team in New Hampshire and South Carolina. And that’s not random. We are doing the things one would do to get ready,” Pompeo shared.
And taking a friendly jab his former boss, Pompeo joked that “unlike others, if I go down an escalator, no one will notice.”
Pompeo was refering to Trump’s famous ride down an escalator at Trump Tower in New York City in 2015 as he announced his White House run.
Pence stops in New Hampshire to boost the general
Former Vice President Mike Pence returned to New Hampshire on Wednesday evening, to headline a fundraiser for former Army Gen. Don Bolduc, who hours earlier narrowly won the Republican Senate nomination in the key general battleground state.
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Bolduc will face former governor and first-term Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in November’s midterm elections in a Senate race that may determine if the GOP wins back the chamber’s majority.
Former Vice President Mike Pence headlines a fundraiser for New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc, on Sept. 14, 2022 in Wilton, N.H.
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“Now is the time for us to unite and come together as a party in New Hampshire, come together as a party all across this country and do what needs to be done. And I’m here to tell you I know we will,” Pence emphasized as he spoke following a just concluded 2022 primary season that experience plenty of turbulent Republican nomination battles.
The trip by Pence, who appears to be moving towards launching a 2024 presidential campaign, was his second this summer and fifth over the past year and a half to New Hampshire. During his last visit to the Granite State, he headlined “Politics and Eggs.”
And two days after his August stop in New Hampshire, Pence made a busy two-day swing through Iowa, whose caucuses have led off the presidential nominating calendar for half a century. The former vice president’s itinerary included another must-stop for White House hopefuls: a visit to the Iowa State Fair.
Hogan evokes Reagan in major international address
Term-limited Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland has also made trips to New Hampshire and Iowa this summer, but this past week he was far from the campaign trail.
Hogan, who’s mulling a White House bid of his own, was in South Korea, where he gave a keynote speech at the Jeju Forum of Peace and Prosperity, an international summit that includes numerous heads of state and former Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Former President Bill Clinton and the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev have also previously spoken to the forum.
The Maryland governor urged the world to “stand united behind the enduring value of freedom and democracy” at such a “pivotal moment” in history.
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“Many of the other great leaders, like [former President] Reagan, that brought about the peaceful end of the Cold War are no longer with us, and the task of ensuring peace and prosperity in our time now falls to the world leaders here today at the Jeju Forum,” he emphasized in his address.