与...的关系里克·克莱因
乔·拜登总统对2022年国会初选的首次支持在时机和策略上都很奇怪，它发出的关于总统想法的信号将在即将开始的投票季节产生共鸣。
周六晚些时候，俄勒冈州众议员库尔特·施拉德的竞选团队宣布了这一消息。拜登支持施拉德，并发表声明称，他在帮助“将我的大部分议程纳入法律”方面发挥了作用，他有能力代表俄勒冈州和“全美国”
白宫官员此前曾表示，总统很可能不会在民主党初选中支持奥巴马。对于大多数战略家来说，俄勒冈州5月17日的初选并不是他们的首选，施拉德在国家政治中也是一个鲜为人知的人物。
在某种程度上，民主党活动人士知道施拉德的名字，主要是因为他反对拜登实际上支持的进步优先事项。他反对15美元的最低工资和控制处方药价格的提案，他最初投票反对去年1.9万亿美元的COVID救济法案。
在1月6日国会大厦遇袭后不久，他还激怒了同事，当时他将迅速推动弹劾比作美国广播公司新闻的本·西格尔对时任总统唐纳德·特朗普的企图“私刑”据报告的当时。
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众议员库尔特·施拉德在华盛顿的委员会听证会上询问证人
所有这些都为施拉德赢得了杰米·麦克劳德-斯金纳(Jamie McLeod-Skinner)的初选挑战者，他已经得到了四个县民主党、一系列进步团体和马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦的支持。在一个上周面试McLeod-Skinner与《华盛顿邮报》的David Weigel一起将施拉德称为“Joe Manchin或Oregon ”,并警告说，他将输掉大选，因为民主党的基础已经对他不利。
拜登的一名助手告诉美国广播公司新闻，总统正在“战略性地”提供支持，并将支持其他“与他一起投票并支持他的议程的现任者”。这位助手表示，施拉德是他第一个支持的人，这主要是投票日程的一个功能。
拜登的声明说，“在最重要的时候”，施拉德一直和他在一起然而，在这场竞选中，一些民主党人用来试图驱逐现任者的论点恰恰相反。
与...的概要阿维里·哈珀
随着拜登政府的行动向前随着对法官裁决的上诉，推翻了联邦公共交通口罩的命令，健康专家敲响了破坏疾病控制和预防中心的风险警钟。
明尼苏达大学传染病研究和政策中心主任迈克尔·奥斯特霍尔姆博士告诉《本周》节目主持人玛莎·拉达茨说:“这不会是我们为应对任何危机而采取的最后一项公共卫生措施。”在星期天。"明天的危机会是什么?"
拜登政府没有要求暂缓执行口罩授权，这将使该问题在法院得到解决的同时保持不变，这表明上诉可能与其说是为了保留即将到期的授权，不如说是为了确保疾病预防控制中心在出现另一个疫情时能够采取公共卫生相关措施。
在美国地方法院法官凯瑟琳·米泽尔(Kathryn Mizelle)裁定口罩授权超出“疾病预防控制中心的法定权限”之前，该授权仅被延长至5月3日。
尽管由于奥米克隆亚变异体，新冠肺炎感染率在38个州和地区增加了10%或更多，但病例数仍明显低于疫情以前的水平。
奥斯特霍尔姆周日表示:“美国公众已经与疫情断绝关系，尽管该病毒还没有与我们断绝关系。”。"我们必须认识到，在公共卫生领域."
小费亚里沙·维尔塞马
虽然前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)本周末在俄亥俄州重整旗鼓，但他的政治影响力正在密歇根州展开，密歇根州是他在2020年以超过154，000张选票落败的战场州。
周六，密歇根州共和党人提名特朗普支持的“弥天大谎”候选人克里斯蒂娜·卡拉莫(Kristina Karamo)和马特·德佩尔诺(Matt DePerno)在各自的国务卿和司法部长竞选中与现任民主党人竞争。如果卡拉莫和德佩尔诺在11月成功当选，他们将作为密歇根州的最高选举和执法官员，直接参与确认未来的选举结果。
据报道美国广播公司新闻的拉莉·伊布萨，律师德佩尔诺提起诉讼，寻求审计安特里姆县2020年选举结果;然而，这些努力周四被密歇根州法院驳回。卡拉莫是最高法院诉讼的一部分，该诉讼最终被驳回，要求推翻2020年的结果，因为她声称自己亲眼目睹了底特律的选举欺诈。
尽管他们的支持仍需在8月份的党内投票中得到正式确认，但在密歇根州共和党内部持续分裂的情况下，这两人现在将路测特朗普最热情的支持者在全州高管竞选中的表现。该党提名全国首批2020年阴谋论者参加主要战场竞选的举动创造了一个复杂的政治景观，引起了一些民主党人的抨击。
现任民主党国务卿乔斯林·本森在一次演讲中说:“我的对手更注重兜售制造分裂的虚假阴谋和谎言，而不是提供称职的、以客户服务为导向的领导。”自录音再现装置发出的高音，并补充说卡拉莫将“破坏我们的民主”
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32.根据综合社会调查(General Social Survey)的数据，这是2021年表示对科学界“非常有信心”的共和党人的比例。这大大低于民主党人(65%)和无党派人士(44%)的比例，更重要的是，这标志着从2020年到2021年共和党人对科学界的不信任明显加速。如同538的莫妮卡·波茨写道，反科学现在越来越成为许多共和党人身份的一部分，尤其是生活在美国农村的共和党人。阅读更多来自Monica的关于这对美国意味着什么的文章，尤其是当它涉及到另一个需要科学界信任的重大危机时。
Biden reopens intraparty wounds with 1st primary play: The Note
President Joe Biden’s first endorsement of the 2022 congressional primaries was a strange one in terms of both timing and strategy -- and the signals it sends about the president’s thinking will resonate through the voting season that’s about to commence.
Late Saturday, the announcement came from the campaign of Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., that Biden endorsed Schrader, with a statement citing his role in helping “pass much of my agenda into law” and his ability to represent Oregon and “all of America.”
White House officials had previously said the president would most likely not endorse in Democratic primaries. Oregon’s May 17 primary hasn’t been top of mind for most strategists, and Schrader is a little-known figure in national politics.
To the extent that Democratic activists know Schrader’s name, it’s mainly been for his opposition to progressive priorities that Biden actually supports. He opposed a $15 minimum wage and a proposal to contain prescription drug prices, and he initially voted against last year’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill.
He also enraged colleagues shortly after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol when he likened the swift impeachment push to an attempted “lynching” of then-President Donald Trump, as ABC News’ Ben Siegelreportedat the time.
All of that earned Schrader a primary challenger in Jamie McLeod-Skinner, who has been endorsed by four county Democratic parties, a range of progressive groups and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. In aninterview last weekwith The Washington Post’s David Weigel, McLeod-Skinner called Schrader “the Joe Manchin or Oregon” and warned that he would lose the general election because the Democratic base has soured on him.
A Biden aide told ABC News that the president is being “strategic” in where he’s offering support and will be endorsing other “incumbents who have been with him on votes and supporting his agenda.” The fact that Schrader was his first endorsement was primarily a function of the voting calendar, the aide indicated.
Biden’s statement said Schrader has been with him “when it mattered most.” In this race, though, the argument some Democrats are using to try to oust the incumbent is exactly the opposite.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
As the Biden administration movesforwardwith an appeal to a judge’s ruling that struck down the federal mask mandate on public transit, health experts are sounding the alarm about the risk of undermining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"This is not going to be the last of the need for public health measures we've taken for any crisis," Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatzon Sunday. "And what could be the crisis of tomorrow?"
The Biden administration hasn’t called for a stay that would have allowed the mask mandate to remain in place while the issue works its way through the courts, indicating that the appeal may not be as much about preserving the soon-to-expire mandate as it is about ensuring that the CDC can put public health-related measures in place in the event of another pandemic.
Before U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Mizelle ruled that the mask mandate exceeded “the CDC’s statutory authority,” the mandate had only been extended until May 3.
Despite COVID-19 infection rates increasing 10% or more in 38 states and territories due to omicron subvariants, the case numbers are still significantly lower than at previous points in the pandemic.
“The U.S. public is done with the pandemic, even though the virus is not done with us," Osterholm said Sunday. "And we have to recognize that in public health."
The TIP withAlisa Wiersema
While former President Donald Trump rallied in Ohio this weekend, his political influence was unfolding in Michigan, a 2020 battleground state he lost by over 154,000 votes.
On Saturday, Michigan Republicans nominated Trump-endorsed "Big Lie" candidates Kristina Karamo and Matt DePerno to run against incumbent Democrats in respective contests for secretary of state and attorney general. If Karamo and DePerno are successful in November, they will hold positions directly involved with validating future election results as Michigan’s top elections and law enforcement officials.
As reported byABC News’ Lalee Ibssa, DePerno, a lawyer, filed suit seeking to audit the 2020 election results in Antrim County; however, those efforts were dismissed by a Michigan court Thursday. Karamo was part of the Supreme Court lawsuit that was eventually rejected seeking to overturn the 2020 results after claiming she personally witnessed election fraud in Detroit.
Although their endorsements still need to be officially confirmed by a party vote in August, the pair will now road test how well Trump’s most ardent supporters can fare in statewide executive races amid ongoing fractures within Michigan's Republican party. The party's move to nominate the nation's first 2020 conspiracy theorists to run in major battleground contests creates a complicated political landscape that has some Democrats pouncing.
"My opponent is more focused on peddling divisive fake conspiracies & lies than providing competent, customer-service driven leadership,” said incumbent Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson in atweet, adding that Karamo will "undermine our democracy."
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32.That’s the percentage of Republicans who said they had "a great deal" of confidence in the scientific community in 2021, according to data from the General Social Survey. That is significantly less than the share of Democrats (65%) and Independents (44%) who said the same and, what’s more, marks a stark acceleration of distrust in the scientific community among Republicans from 2020 to 2021. AsFiveThirtyEight’s Monica Pottswrites, being anti-science is now increasingly part of many Republicans’ identity, especially Republicans living in rural America. Read more from Monica on what it means for the U.S., especially as it pertains to another major crisis where trust in the scientific community is needed.
