Biden tries to reassure on COVID as he sells spending plan
President Joe Biden on Tuesday went to Minnesota to pitch his completed infrastructure deal an a giant social spending bill that heโs still trying to get passed, but also found himself reassuring the nation he would fight the evolving COVID-19 threat without resorting to โshutdowns and lockdowns.โ.
Even in death, pot candidate upends Minnesota US House race
The Star Tribune obtained a voicemail that Weeks left for his friend, Joey Hudson, four weeks before Weeks died last month. โThere are not that many third-party candidates running, and if you look at where they're running it's disproportionately in some of the most competitive districts in Minnesota,โ Evans said. โThe efforts of the marijuana legalization parties has been hijacked by Republican operatives seeking to game the system,โ they said. Craig first ran for the seat in 2016, losing to a Republican by two points with a third-party candidate drawing nearly 8%. Two years later, without a third-party candidate, Craig beat the same Republican by 5 points in a rematch.
US Rep. Craig asks supporters to vote despite snag in race
In a statement, Democratic U.S. Rep. Angie Craig urged voters to mark their ballots in her race anyway. "You should continue to vote for the entire ballot, including for this congressional race. Simon said the special election would be Feb. 9. Craig hinted that a legal challenge to the special election may be getting planned. Someone could argue that the state law violates that federal law, he said.
Vulnerable Democrats air impeachment concerns to Pelosi
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Vulnerable House Democrats privately met with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday to air out their views about the impeachment process with some still resistant to the notion about impeaching President Donald Trump. Rep. Angie Craig, a vulnerable freshman Democrat from Minnesota, who said earlier this week that she supported the impeachment inquiry said Pelosi and Democratic leaders mostly listened to the views raised by the lawmakers. Rep. Matt Cartwright, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, told CNN that he wouldn't -- at this point -- vote for articles of impeachment. Rep. Anthony Brindisi, a freshman from New York, who has resisted calls for an impeachment probe, told CNN that he's "not yet" there on impeaching Trump. More than half the members of the US House of Representatives have said they support an impeachment inquiry, according to a CNN count.