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WASHINGTON — If it’s Thursday. . . Gunman Kills 4 and Injures Others in Tulsa Hospital Shooting. . . Senate negotiators say they have a bipartisan framework for gun law in reaction to the Uvalde shooting. . . President Biden meets at the White House with the Secretary General of NATO to discuss the upcoming NATO summit. . . A Michigan appeals court is blocking Republican gubernatorial candidates from voting in the state. . . And NBC’s Natasha Korecki and Adam Edelman report on Nevada’s Republican Party Senate Reorganization.
But first: in case you don’t subscribe to Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform, get his press releases, or read the Substacks of MAGA journalists, here’s what the former president did over the past week:
He recycled conspiracies that Georgia’s Republican primary was fraudulent:
“On the day of the primary in Georgia, Kemp gets 74 percent and Perdue gets 22 percent. No one in any election in the United States gets 74% of the vote. Already. This happens.
“Blatant fraud,” former Newsmax correspondent Emerald Robinson wrote in her Substack newsletter, which Trump sent out Tuesday.
He accused the U. S. court ticket of being “corrupt,” because a jury did not convict Democratic lawyer Michael Sussman:
“Our legal formula is CORRUPT, our judges (and our judges!) they are very partisan, engaged, or just scared, our borders are OPEN, our elections are rigged, inflation is RISING, fuel and food costs are “through the roof,” our Military “Leadership” is waking up, our Country is going to HELL, and Michael Sussmann is guilty. How’s everything else?Enjoy your day!!!!” Trump published in Truth Social.
He celebrated how Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N. Y. , and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. , brought a solution to the House to overturn Trump’s impeachment:
“Thank you, Elise and Markwayne, it’s a total hoax!”
And ahead of the Jan. 6 hearings next week, he invited a man who was on limited ground in the attack on the U. S. Capitol. He is also the chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party, to speak at the former president’s rally last weekend. .
After more than seven years, it’s easy to become insensitive to Trump’s baseless conspiracies and accusations, which end up eroding acceptance as truth in American institutions.
After being fired from Twitter and Facebook, her posts are also a bit more tricky for global politics.
But it has changed.
And ballots like our recent NBC News ballot imply that a majority of Republican voters choose him to remain the leader of the Republican Party.
That’s the number of signatures needed to secure a spot in Michigan’s number one poll. But several Republican gubernatorial candidates are excluded from the poll for submitting fraudulent signatures.
On Wednesday, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that two Republican candidates, businessman Perry Johnson and investment adviser Michael Markey, will not be able to participate in the number one election. They were also blocked from the number one vote last week for allegedly submitting false signatures.
While the appeals court ruled in particular on Craig’s case, yesterday’s ruling is seen as a bad sign for his chances. The Associated Press reported that there is no evidence that the applicants themselves knew that paid petition providers were presenting fraudulent signals.
The drama of the election shook the race to face Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is one of the GOP’s targets. Cook’s Political Report calls his re-election run a lottery.
Other numbers you want to know:
4: The number of other people killed in a shooting at a Tulsa hospital on Wednesday.
$5. 8 billion: The amount of student loans the Ministry of Education cancels for students who have attended certain for-profit universities.
2: The age of the young Afghan who reunited with his parents after the baby was able to fly with his parents when they fled Kabul last summer because he had an Afghan passport.
96,798: The seven-day average of Covid cases in the United States, down 3% in the past two weeks, but twice as many as about six weeks ago.
Something is brewing in Nevada, a state where distant shots can win. Retired Army Captain Sam Brown is leading a stronger-than-expected race against former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt. They surprise you in fundraising; surpassed Laxalt in small dollar donations; surpassed Laxalt on television; and narrowed a once-large lead to 15 percentage issues in a recent poll.
And he did so in part by attacking Laxalt, the former co-chair of President Trump’s 2020 state crusade and his selection for the Senate now, for not acting temporarily enough to protest the outcome of the 2020 election. (Laxalt has continuously questioned the outcome of the election, there is no evidence of widespread fraud. )
NBC’s Natasha Korecki and Adam Edelman have more reports on Brown’s rise in NBCNews. com. But what’s important remains: Will Brown serve as a brief bump in Laxalt’s path to nomination, or can he pull off the surprise?
Elsewhere in the election campaign:
Georgia Senate: Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock came out with what appears to be his first negative TV ad targeting Republican Herschel Walker followed via AdImpact, broadcasting footage from an interview in which Walker pushes a frame spray, claiming it can kill the Covid-19 virus.
Kentucky Senate: Democratic candidate Charles Booker has released a new video criticizing Republican Senator Rand Paul for delaying passage of the federal anti-lynching law. Booker’s ad with a noose around his neck.
Illinois Governor: A new ad through Republican Richard Irvin seeks to make classified ads of repeated Democratic attacks on him evidence that he will be the hardest candidate for Democrats to beat in the fall.
Michigan Governor: Businessman Kevin Rinke has announced a “statewide seven-figure ad acquisition” presented through a new ad criticizing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for voter fraud and promising to create an election integrity unit.
Pennsylvania Governor: Republican candidate Doug Mastriano has sent documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and will request an interview, Politico reports.
Texas-34: Politico reports on the GOP’S OPTIMISM and democrats’ nervousness in the election in this South Texas district.
South Carolina-01: Republican Rep. Nancy Mace came out with a new announcement highlighting national security crises like the war in Ukraine, the “rise” of China, and the risk of Iran building a nuclear weapon to attack its main adversary, Trump, subsidized through Katie Arrington, over an investigation into its security clearance (the Palestinian Authority wrote about the confounder last month).
South Carolina-07: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan campaigned with Republican Rep. Tom Rice, who will defeat a major Challenger approved by Trump.
Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto, D-Nev. , came out with a new ad promoting her work on a bill that limits insulin prices. The challenge is that this bill has no law.
The TV ad features a young woman with diabetes, who says she wants insulin to survive, costing her circle of relatives thousands of dollars a year.
“Catherine Cortez Masto understands what this means for us and is fighting to cap the insulin charge at $35 per month,” she said in the announcement, referring to the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which passed through the House in March still stalled in the Senate.
The Florida Legislature worked heavily with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, helping him rack up political victories on key culture war issues ahead of a potential presidential bid.
NBC’s county-to-county assignment examines how a Georgia county is helping to show how Trump’s potential options in last week’s Republican number one failed.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she was “wrong” when she said last year that there was a low inflation threat and that it would be manageable.
Admiral Linda Fagan was sworn in as commander of the U. S. Coast Guard. She became the first woman to lead a branch of the armed forces.
Chuck Todd is moderator of “Meet The Press” and political director of NBC News.
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Bridget Bowman is the editor of NBC’s political unit.
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