与...的关系里克·克莱因
华盛顿的共和党人希望谈论油价或通货膨胀，或边境和移民，或犯罪，乌克兰，或任何乔·拜登总统每天关注的事情。
但是他们的朋友和党内基层的前支持者们有其他的想法。2022年共和党中最受欢迎和最杰出的人物也是如此。
仅在本周，州和地方共和党集会就两次展示了关于2020年大选的“大谎言”的共鸣，其方式可能最终决定共和党提出的候选人类型和信息。
周末在科罗拉多州，一个共和党的州聚会提升参议院候选人资格一名1月6日的集会参与者和一系列其他候选人，他们围绕2020年追求阴谋论。周一在密歇根州，特朗普支持的一名候选人呼吁共和党人“突袭”他们后，几个县的共和党大会变得混乱。
这一切都发生在美国前总统唐纳德·特朗普的盟友上个月刚刚与威斯康星州议员会面，以推动取消2020年-是的，2020年-选举的认证，因为美国广播公司新闻的威尔·斯派汀、凯瑟琳·福尔德斯和劳拉·罗梅罗据报告的。
特朗普本人已经明确表示，他的一系列背书在密歇根州和其他地方已经被预测为忠诚于他的选举错误的声明。此外，还有一条不同寻常的反背书信息:周二，他宣布他不会支持的宾夕法尼亚州州长候选人比尔·麦克斯温(Bill McSwain)曾是他在该州的联邦检察官之一，他称他为“懦夫”，因为他没有更积极地追究对选民欺诈的毫无根据的指控。
大量共和党人认为，选民更关心拜登的领导能力以及犯罪和汽油价格等问题，而不是2020年的更多调查。但无论是自上而下还是自下而上，类似的信息并没有得到一致的传递。
与...的概要阿维里·哈珀
布鲁克林地铁枪击案后，二十多名受害者正在康复，这进一步引起了人们对全国暴力犯罪增长的关注。
这事件正值纽约市长埃里克·亚当斯(Eric Adams)推动解决公共安全问题，并敦促工人回到全市的办公室。
由于被诊断患有新冠肺炎，亚当斯仍处于隔离状态，告诉WABC他将指示NYPD加倍在地铁系统巡逻的警察人数。他还谈到了公共安全的重要性，因为这个城市试图恢复正常。
亚当斯说:“当我在其他城市与我的市长交谈时，枪支的泛滥，这些是流入暴力之海的许多河流。他后来补充说，“我们知道我们必须确保纽约人是安全的，在我们的系统中感到安全，因为这显然会阻碍我们试图为这座城市所做的恢复。”
枪击发生在一天后拜登在白宫发表讲话，呼吁采取行动打击枪支暴力，并宣布提名一名人士领导酒精、烟草、火器和爆炸物管理局。拜登星期二在前往爱荷华州的途中谈到了枪击事件。
拜登说:“我们感谢所有第一时间采取行动的人，包括平民——那些毫不犹豫地帮助他们的乘客并试图保护他们的平民。”
过去的大规模枪击事件永远改变了幸存者和受害者家庭的生活，但并没有促使联邦枪支改革立法的通过。尽管美国最重要的公共交通系统之一上的乘客被枪击中流血的可怕画面，但枪支改革立法仍不太可能在这个分裂严重的50-50参议院获得通过，许多共和党人坚决反对进一步限制枪支。
小费布列塔尼·谢泼德
经过一个月与自己的立法机关的推诿扯皮，佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯终于如愿以偿了——暂时如此。共和党立法领导人现在听从德桑蒂斯和他的顾问提出他喜欢的地图，重新划分他的州的28个国会选区——这种尊重在重划过程中很少见。
对于佛罗里达州共和党领导的州议会来说，这是一个思想上的转变，该州议会最初反对德桑蒂斯办公室在1月份提交的地图。当时，德桑蒂斯提出了一项积极的重新划分计划，将黑人占主导地位的选区数量从四个减少到两个，从而消除了佛罗里达州从塔拉哈西到杰克逊维尔的第五选区，该选区目前由黑人民主党众议员艾尔·劳森(Al Lawson)领导。自1月以来，州共和党人提出了他们自己的地图，非常有利于共和党，但这些建议似乎对德桑蒂斯来说不够，他否决了立法机构3月通过的两个地图计划。
德桑蒂斯周二表示，现在，州议会将从下周开始举行特别会议，预计德桑蒂斯的团队将提出一份“种族中立”的地图。
“我们不会有一个200英里长的选区，根据肤色来划分人群。这是错误的，”德桑蒂斯说。
虽然DeSantis最终提出的重新划分边界尚不清楚，但他们很可能会采取积极的态度，毫无疑问将面临那些认为它压制少数族裔选票的人提起的诉讼。根据五点三十八分佛罗里达只是三个还没有这样做的州之一完成他们的地图。
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2012.维克森林大学(Wake Forest University)专门研究LGBTQ权利的法学教授玛丽-艾米利·乔治(Marie-Amélie George)表示，正是在这一年，地方投票措施中对LGBTQ保护的支持减少了。正如FiveThirtyEight的Kaleigh Rogers所写，这种情况的发生，部分是因为反LGBTQ活动家开始强调这些法律中的性别身份保护。这再次成为我们全国政治的前沿，因为共和党主导的立法机构试图通过立法，限制在课堂上谈论性别问题，一些共和党政客和学者甚至声称公立学校已经成为“培养中心”，或儿童性虐待者的天堂。阅读更多来自Kaleigh的信息为什么“修饰”成了右翼选择的恐吓策略。
'Big lie' still a big deal inside GOP grassroots: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
Republicans in Washington want to be talking about gas prices or inflation, or the border and immigration, or crime, Ukraine, or just about anything President Joe Biden is focused on day to day.
But their friends and erstwhile supporters in the party's grassroots have something else top of mind. So does the most popular and prominent figure in the GOP of 2022.
Twice this week alone, state and local Republican Party gatherings showcased the resonance of the "big lie" about the 2020 election in ways that could wind up dictating the types of candidates and messaging the GOP puts forward.
In Colorado over the weekend, a Republican state gatheringadvanced the Senate candidacyof a Jan. 6 rally attendee and a slate of other candidates who have pursued conspiracy theories surrounding 2020. In Michigan on Monday, several county GOP conventions turned messy after a Trump-endorsed candidate called for Republicans to "storm" them.
This all comes as allies of former President Donald Trump met just last month with Wisconsin lawmakers in a push to decertify the 2020 -- yes, 2020 -- election, as ABC News' Will Steakin, Katherine Faulders and Laura Romeroreported.
Trump himself has made clear that a range of hisendorsementsin Michigan and elsewhere have been predicated on fealty to his false claims about the election. Then there's the message of an unusual anti-endorsement: On Tuesday he announcedhe wouldn't supportBill McSwain, a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania who served as one of his U.S. attorneys in the state, calling him a "coward" for not being more aggressive in pursuing baseless accusations of voter fraud.
A wide swath of Republicans maintains that voters care far more about Biden's leadership and things like crime and gas prices than about still more investigations of 2020. But a similar message isn't consistently being delivered from either the top down or the grassroots up.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
More than two dozen victims are recovering after a subway shooting in Brooklyn, calling further attention to the increase in violent crime across the country.
Theincident, which occurred during the morning commute, comes as New York City Mayor Eric Adams pushes to address public safety concerns and urges workers to return to offices throughout the city.
Adams, who remains in isolation due to a COVID-19 diagnosis,told WABCthat he would direct the NYPD to double the number of officers patrolling the subway system. He also spoke about the importance of public safety as the city tries to return to normalcy.
"When I talk to my mayors in other cities, the proliferation of guns, those are the many rivers that feed the sea of violence," said Adams. He later added, "We know we have to make sure New Yorkers are safe and feel safe in our system because it would clearly stymie our recovery that we are attempting to do for the city."
The shooting took place justa day afterBiden's White House remarks calling for actions to combat gun violence and announcing a nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Biden addressed the shooting Tuesday during a trip to Iowa.
"We're grateful for all the first responders who jumped into action, including civilians -- civilians who didn't hesitate to help their fellow passengers and try to shield them," Biden said.
Past mass shootings which have forever changed the lives of survivors and victims' families have not spurred the passage of federal gun reform legislation. Despite the horrific images of passengers bloodied by gunfire aboard one of the nation's most important public transit systems, it remains unlikely gun reform legislation could pass in this bitterly divided 50-50 Senate with many Republicans staunchly opposed to further restrictions on guns.
The TIP withBrittany Shepherd
After a monthslong push and pull with his own legislature, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has finally gotten his way -- for now. Republican legislative leaders are now deferring to DeSantis and his advisers to put forth his preferred map that redraws his state's 28 congressional districts -- deference rarely seen in the redistricting process.
This is a flip in thinking for Florida's GOP-led statehouse, which originally opposed maps submitted by DeSantis' office back in January. At the time, DeSantis put forth an aggressive redistricting plan that halved the number of predominantly Black districts from four to two, which in turn eliminated Florida's 5th District which stretches from Tallahassee to Jacksonville and is currently helmed by Rep. Al Lawson, a Black Democrat. Since January, state Republicans put forward their own maps that heavily favored the GOP, but those proposals seemed insufficient for DeSantis, who vetoed a two-map plan passed by the legislature in March.
Now, the state legislature will hold a special session starting next week, and DeSantis' team is expected to propose a "race-neutral" map, DeSantis said Tuesday.
"We are not going to have a 200-mile gerrymander that divvies up people based on the color of their skin. That is wrong," DeSantis said.
While DeSantis' final proposed redistricting boundaries are unknown, they are likely to be aggressive and will no doubt face litigation brought by those who believe it suppresses minority votes.According to FiveThirtyEight, Florida is just one of three states that have yet tofinalize their maps.
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2012.That's the year when support for LGBTQ protections in local ballot measures decreased, according to Marie-Amélie George, a law professor at Wake Forest University who specializes in LGBTQ rights. And as FiveThirtyEight's Kaleigh Rogers writes, this happened, in part, because anti-LGBTQ activists began to highlight the gender-identity protections in these laws. It's something that's once again at the forefront of our politics nationally, as GOP-dominated legislatures move to pass legislation that restricts how gender can be talked about in the classroom and with some Republican politicians and pundits going as far as to claim that public schools have become "grooming centers," or havens for child sexual abusers.Read more from Kaleighon why "grooming" has become a scare tactic of choice for the right.
