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周二，乔·拜登作为总统首次出访爱荷华州。但是爱荷华州的政治找到了在他着陆前找到他和民主党的方法。
周日，一名法官裁定，爱荷华州参议院领先的民主党人、前众议员艾比·芬克瑙尔(Abby Finkenauer)没有资格参加初选投票，这一裁定可能会上诉。这是一个不祥的发展，在这一周，白宫希望通过在全国展开来展示其“农村剧本”。
与此同时，在华盛顿，民主党全国委员会预计本周将推进一项计划，该计划可能有效地杀死爱荷华州2024年的第一次全国预选。如果你需要另一个鹰眼州的头条新闻，农业部长汤姆·维尔萨克，该州前州长，将不会在周二与拜登一起在爱荷华州的门洛参观一家乙醇厂，在维尔萨克上周新冠肺炎检测呈阳性后。
众所周知，在2020年爱荷华州党团会议的惨败中，拜登在他所谓的“肚子痛”中名列第四，并在那年秋天以8个百分点的优势输给了前总统唐纳德·特朗普。但奥巴马-拜登组合在大选中两次赢得该州，2008年超过9个百分点，2012年超过5个百分点。
对于民主党人来说，这样的胜利是遥远的记忆，他们现在正努力弄清楚他们的品牌是如何在美国大片农村变质的。白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基说，总统将此行视为他如何代表“所有人，无论你是否投票给他”治理国家的一个例子，他没有通过“政治棱镜”看待周二的访问。
在爱荷华州，特别是在今天，这不完全是他的框架决定的。
与...的概要阿维里·哈珀
拜登总统在玫瑰园评论周一，他继续谴责从执法机构重新分配资金，或“解除对警察的资助”
拜登在掌声中说:“答案不是撤销对警察的资助，而是为警察提供资金，并为他们提供工具和培训，以支持他们成为我们有需要的社区的更好的合作伙伴和保护者的需要。”
这一评论是在一次演讲中提出的，演讲强调了政府正在采取的措施，以解决“”幽灵枪，“容易获得的套件，让一些人把一个往往无法追踪的枪支。拜登呼吁执法机构雇用更多的警察，并投资于社区警务和暴力中断者-社区领导人，他们可以帮助防止犯罪发生。
根据最新的ABC新闻/益普索民意调查，拜登处理犯罪的支持率仍然只有令人沮丧的38%。
在参议院夭折的警察改革努力尚未恢复，白宫解决这一问题的努力也没有产生拜登在竞选中承诺的变革性结果。在白宫新闻发布会上，新闻秘书珍·普萨基被问及关于警察改革的行政命令的状况。她指责国会在枪支和警察改革上无所作为。
普萨基说:“为了使改革产生长期影响并扩大范围，我们需要立法。
事实是，拜登做出了解决这两个问题的崇高承诺，但参议院以50比50的比例通过这两个问题上的里程碑式立法的可能性很小。在中期选举周期结束后，机会可能会变得更加渺茫，预计这对总统的政党来说不是好兆头，民主党人正在准备失去对国会两院之一或两院的控制。
小费亚里沙·维尔塞马
随着前总统唐纳德·特朗普的政治支持面临风险更严格的审查，至少他青睐的候选人之一——北卡罗莱纳州参议员候选人特德·巴德——的前景似乎在上升，尽管在全国最混乱的初选中被束缚住了。
除了特朗普的支持，巴德还看到保守的超级政治行动委员会(super PAC)增长俱乐部(Club for Growth)的支持，该委员会推出了数百万美元的广告购买，将巴德吹捧为前总统及其政策的盟友。这些广告还把巴德的主要初选对手、前州长帕特·麦克罗里描绘成一个“撒谎的自由派”，玩弄“肮脏的把戏”。
麦克罗里也在广告战中扮演角色——在周一发布的一则新广告中，这位前州长在一辆装满粪便的手推车旁摆姿势，巴德的形象在粪堆上方盘旋，周围是苍蝇。
“政治中有很多废话，就像国会议员巴德的虚假竞选一样，”麦克罗里为自己的保守主义者形象辩护说，然后提到他的州长颁布了一项法律，禁止北卡罗来纳州所谓的“避难所城市”政策。
麦克罗里还与另一项有争议的政策有关，该政策被称为“浴室法案”，限制变性人可以使用哪些公共厕所。这项政策引起了知名企业和组织的大规模抗议和谴责，这种反弹导致了麦克罗里的州长连任失败。
最近，特朗普在这个问题上的角色再次浮出水面，他在最近的北卡罗来纳州集会上嘲笑麦克罗里为“浴室州长”。
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据知情人士透露，前特朗普律师约翰·伊斯曼(John Eastman)是一名右翼律师，正在成为调查国会大厦袭击事件的众议院委员会的首要目标，他是特朗普盟友的一个小组的成员，该小组上个月前往威斯康星州，试图说服威斯康星州议会的共和党领袖取消乔·拜登总统的胜利告诉ABC新闻。这次私人会议只是一个例子持续努力由伊士曼，我的枕头首席执行官迈克林德尔和其他特朗普的盟友，他们不断推动推翻选举，尽管没有证据表明广泛的选民欺诈。消息人士告诉美国广播公司，特朗普一直在密切关注这一努力，并一直在与威斯康星州推动取消选举资格的个人接触。
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23.这是包括华盛顿特区在内的几个州的数字，目前在这些州，妇女无需去诊所就可以获得早期堕胎。在该国的这些地区，妇女可以使用处方药来终止意外怀孕。堕胎药丸是女性的一个重要选择，但是538的阿米莉亚·汤姆森·德沃和玛吉·科斯写道，由于反堕胎立法者试图在几个州打击堕胎药丸的邮件分发，现在访问可能会受到严重限制。
Biden heads to Iowa to confront Democrats' rural woes: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
President Joe Biden makes his first trip to Iowa as president on Tuesday. But Iowa politics found a way of finding him and the Democratic Party before he touches down.
Sunday brought a judge's ruling -- subject to appeal -- that the front-running Democrat for Senate in Iowa, former Rep. Abby Finkenauer, failed to qualify for the primary ballot. It's an inauspicious development during a week the White House hopes to use to showcase its "rural playbook" by fanning out across the country.
In Washington, meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee is expected to move ahead this week with a plan that couldeffectively killIowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses in time for 2024. In case you need another Hawkeye State headline, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the state's former governor, won't be with Biden in Menlo, Iowa, on Tuesday when the president visits an ethanol plant, after Vilsack tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
Biden famously finished fourth in what he called a "gut punch" amid the debacle that was the Iowa caucuses in 2020 and lost the state to former President Donald Trump by eight points that fall. But the Obama-Biden ticket won the state in the general election twice, by north of nine points in 2008 and more than five points in 2012.
Such victories are distant memories for Democrats who are now struggling to figure out how their brand soured in huge swaths of rural America. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the president sees the trip as an example of how he governs on behalf of "all people, whether you voted for him or not," and that he doesn't see Tuesday's visit through a "political prism."
In Iowa, on this day in particular, that's not entirely his framing to dictate.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
President Biden, inRose Garden remarksMonday, continued his denunciation of reallocating funds away from law enforcement agencies, or "defunding the police."
"The answer is not to defund the police, it's to fund the police and give them the tools and training to support the need to be better partners and protectors of our communities in need," Biden said to applause.
The comment came during a speech highlighting steps the administration is taking to tackle the proliferation of "ghost guns," easy to acquire kits that allow someone to put together an often untraceable firearm. Biden called for law enforcement agencies to hire more police and invest in community policing and violence interrupters -- community leaders who can help prevent crimes from happening in the first place.
Approval of Biden's handling of crime remains at a dismal 38%, according to the latest ABC News/Ipsos Poll.
Police reform efforts that died in the Senate haven't been revived and efforts from the White House to address the issue haven't yielded the transformative results Biden promised on the campaign trail. During the White House press briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about the status of an executive order on police reform. She pointed the finger at Congress for inaction on both gun and police reform.
"In order to make reforms impactful over the long term and more expansive, we need legislation," said Psaki.
The fact remains that Biden made lofty promises to address both, but the likelihood of this 50-50 Senate passing what would be landmark legislation on either issue is slim. Chances could get even slimmer after a midterm election cycle not expected to bode well for the president's party, with Democrats bracing for what could be a loss of control of one or both chambers of Congress.
The TIP withAlisa Wiersema
As the stakes of former President Donald Trump's political endorsements come undersharper scrutiny,the prospects of at least one of his favored candidates -- North Carolina Senate contender Ted Budd -- appear to be on the rise despite being tied up in one of the nation's messiest primaries.
In addition to Trump's backing, Budd is also seeing an outpouring of support from the Club for Growth, a conservative super PAC, which launched multimillion-dollar ad buys that tout Budd as an ally of the former president and his policies. The ads also cast Budd's main primary opponent, former governor Pat McCrory, as a "lying liberal" who exercises "dirty tricks."
McCrory is also playing in the ad wars -- in a new ad released on Monday, the former governor is posing next to a wheelbarrow full of manure with Budd's image hovering above the pile, surrounded by flies.
"There's a lot of crap in politics, just like Congressman Budd's false campaign," McCrory said in defense of his branding as a conservative, before referencing his gubernatorial enactment of a law that banned so-called "sanctuary city" policies in North Carolina.
McCrory is also associated with another controversial policy nicknamed the "bathroom bill,"which restricted which public restrooms transgender people could use. The policy drew mass protests and rebukes from high-profile businesses and organizations, and the backlash contributed to McCrory's gubernatorial reelection loss.
More recently, his role in the issue was resurfaced by Trump, who mocked McCrory as "the bathroom governor" at a recent North Carolina rally.
ONE MORE THING
Former Trump lawyer John Eastman -- a right-wing attorney who is emerging as a top target of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack -- was part of a small group of Trump allies who went to Wisconsin last month in an attempt to convince the Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Assembly to decertify President Joe Biden's win, multiple sources familiar with the meetingtold ABC News. The private meeting was just one instance of anongoing effortby Eastman, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell and other Trump allies who have continually pushed to overturn the election despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Trump has been paying close attention to the effort and has been in contact with individuals in Wisconsin who are pushing to decertify the election, sources told ABC.
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23.That's the number of states, including Washington, D.C., where it's currently possible for women to obtain an early abortion without ever setting foot in a clinic. In these areas of the country, women can use prescription drugs to end unwanted pregnancies. Abortion pills are an important option for women, but asFiveThirtyEight's Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Maggie Koerthwrite, it's possible that access is now about to be severely restricted as anti-abortion lawmakers try to crack down on the mail distribution of abortion pills in several states.
