UAW expands strike, invites Biden to picket line
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The United Auto Workers expanded its strike from a few locations to 38 on Friday as the union remains at an impasse with two of the Big Three automakers — General Motors and Stellantis.
President Biden will travel to Michigan on Tuesday in support of the strike. “The union is asking for increased pay and benefits, as well as more security for part-time staffers,” The Hill’s Brett Samuels writes. “Also at issue is the fate of union members as auto companies increasingly transition toward manufacturing electric vehicles.” UAW President Shawn Fain invited all supporters to join the picket line, “from our friends and families all the way up to the president of the United States.” Biden has pressed automakers to offer more to workers, citing “record profits.” Background: - The union and Biden have had a tense relationship surrounding the president’s push to transition the U.S. to electric vehicles (EVs), with the union withholding its endorsement of Biden’s reelection campaign.
- Fain also recently pushed back against the White House playing a role in ongoing contract negotiations.
- UAW has been more sharply critical of former President Trump, who’s traveling to Detroit next week in lieu of attending the second GOP debate to give a speech showing support for union workers.
Read more on the expanded strike here. |
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Welcome to Evening Report! I’m Amee LaTour, catching you up from the afternoon and what’s coming tomorrow. Not on the list? Subscribe here. |
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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley detailed her economic plan at an event in New Hampshire on the heels of next Wednesday’s second GOP presidential primary debate.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced he’ll remove $300 million in Ukraine aid from a stalled Pentagon appropriations bill and put Ukraine funding to a separate vote. Votes on four spending bills are slated for next week, and McCarthy hopes to also pass the GOP’s stopgap bill.
Dress code drama has continued to unfold in the Senate throughout the week after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) dropped the chamber’s informal code. Read more here.
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Menendez calls indictment a ‘smear campaign’ |
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Friday declared that prosecutors are engaged in a “smear campaign” against him after he and his wife were indicted on federal bribery charges.
“For years, forces behind the scenes have repeatedly attempted to silence my voice and dig my political grave,” Menendez said. “Since this investigation was leaked nearly a year ago, there has been an active smear campaign of anonymous sources and innuendos to create an air of impropriety where none exists.” The Context: -
Federal prosecutors say Menendez and his wife Nadine Menendez accepted “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in exchange for using the senator’s influence to enrich three co-defendants and benefit Egypt.
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Menendez has served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but will temporarily step down from that role, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Friday.
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At least two Democratic lawmakers have called for Menendez to resign.
Learn more about the charges here and read the indictment here. |
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Each week we highlight an interesting poll on the campaign trail or data set out of Washington. |
Today: Breaking down GOP candidates’ support base |
Former President Trump has a clear lead in early-state primary polls, but several GOP rivals have made inroads with specific voter cohorts.
In New Hampshire, for example, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy all drew double-digit support behind Trump in a recent CNN/University of New Hampshire poll. Among different ideological groups: -
Trump is the top choice among self-described conservatives and libertarians for the first-in-the-nation primary, while Ramaswamy and DeSantis have their best percentages among libertarians.
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Self-described moderates, meanwhile, were about evenly divided between Haley, Trump and Christie, with Christie and Haley pulling their highest shares from that group.
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Keep in mind: Of 1,004 likely GOP primary voters who answered the question, 458 identified as conservative, 282 as moderate and 151 as libertarian. The poll has an overall margin of error of 3.4 percentage points
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Hill Illustration, Madeline Monroe / Flourish chart |
Over in Iowa, which holds the first GOP nominating contest of 2024, a Fox Business poll of 813 likely caucus participants found Trump at 46 percent, DeSantis at 15 percent, Haley with 11 percent and Ramaswamy and Scott both at 7 percent. While Trump won a plurality of support across the ideological spectrum in the poll, others stood out among specific groups: -
Among “moderates,” Haley and Christie were second and third with 18 percent and 10 percent support, respectively (Trump had 36 percent).
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voters, DeSantis and Haley were top picks at 17 percent and 9 percent, respectively, with Trump at 49 percent.
- Among “very conservative” voters, DeSantis drew 21 percent and Ramaswamy got 8 percent, with Trump at 54 percent.
That poll was conducted Sept. 14-18, though the margin of error varied widely among the different voter subsets: 4 percentage points for conservatives, 5.5 points for “very conservative” voters and 7.5 points for moderates, according to figures obtained by Evening Report.
Keep in mind: Some candidates who aren’t Trump are polling better in early states than they are in national polls. (Check out the Quinnipiac poll from last week for candidate support by ideological group at the national level.) These candidates are campaigning hard in these states, hoping a surge in support will help propel them elsewhere in the race.
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Biden, Harris establish gun violence prevention office
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President Biden and Vice President Harris officially launched the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in remarks at the Rose Garden on Friday. Stephanie Feldman, White House assistant to the president, will lead the office, with Harris overseeing. The office is focused on implementing policies already in place, coordinating support for survivors of gun violence, advising the president on new executive actions and expanding the coalition of partners at the state and local level, Biden said. Watch the event here. |
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© AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, Pool, File |
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U.S., China form economic working groups |
The U.S. announced the creation of two economic working groups with China — led by the Chinese Ministry of Finance, the U.S. Treasury Department and the People’s Bank of China — as the countries work to ease tensions between them. | |
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Biden campaign sending Newsom to GOP debate |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will head up the GOP debate response on behalf of President Biden‘s reelection campaign. |
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ProPublica report: Thomas attended Koch donor events
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A new ProPublica report says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas attended donor events for the Koch network. A spokesperson for the network, known as Stand Together, told ProPublica, “All of the sitting Justices and many who came before them have contributed to the national dialogue in speeches, book tours, and social gatherings. Our events are no different. To claim otherwise is false.” Read more here.
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“Hey, Donald: You can’t ignore the human rights issue of our time and still get our vote” — Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America & Students for Life Action. (Read here) “What Democrats can learn from the UK’s resurgent Labour Party” — Will Marshall, founder and CEO of the Progressive Policy Institute. (Read here) |
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5 days until the next GOP presidential primary debate. 8 days until the government funding deadline. |
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Saturday: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s interview with Glenn Beck airs. Sunday shows:
Sunday night: Yom Kippur starts at sundown. |
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