Joe Biden faces potentially nightmarish June swoon with his re-election hopes fading
Opinion by Michael Goodwin • 12h


‘APRIL is the cruelest month,” poet T. S. Eliot famously declared.

Joe Biden might beg to differ.

June is shaping up as a potential nightmare for the 81-year-old president.

His re-election, his legacy and son Hunter Biden’s freedom are all on the line over the course of a month-long gantlet.
 
And he has only himself to blame.

Biden’s surprising demand last week that Donald Trump debate him twice, with the first face-off in June, underscores his desperation to get his campaign back on track.

His insistence on a televised showdown in a month already crammed with high-stakes events reveals that Biden knows his bid for a second term is in deep trouble.

Trailing in most if not all of the swing states and getting disastrous ratings from voters, he’s ready to put his chips on the table five months before the election.

Trump agreed to both debates, with the first scheduled for June 27 and the second for Sept. 10.

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Biden makes fresh appeals to Black voters, hoping they can return him to the White House

 CNN By Michael Williams, Kevin Liptak and Arlette Saenz 5/17/2024

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.

President Joe Biden is working to reverse an erosion of support among Black voters this week, placing renewed focus on a group he hopes can once again help propel him to the White House like they did four years ago.

A string of events designed to commemorate civil rights milestones and address the next generation of leaders at Martin Luther King Jr.’s alma mater comes amid polls showing Black voters flocking from Biden, frustrated by what they regard as inaction on their top priorities and turned off by his handling of the economy and the Israel-Hamas war.

In marking the anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education case that found laws promoting segregation unconstitutional, Biden hopes to reiterate his commitment to promoting and advancing historic gains by the Black community over the past 70 years.

And a speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, already the subject of controversy amid nationwide campus protests, will aim to uplift the next generation of Black men – a voting group where Biden’s decline in support has been most marked.

Since the Civil Rights era, Democratic presidential candidates have enjoyed wide support from Black voters. Yet leaders of several Black grassroots organizations have warned the president should not take for granted the support of Black Americans.

In the months before November, Biden is hoping both to underscore his own record and to reinvigorate the memories of all voters about what life was like under a Trump presidency.

“He has to answer two questions: Why go out and bother to vote, which is almost the same question of what’s in it for me for voters,” said Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond. “And then he has to answer the Janet Jackson test of: ‘What have you done for me lately?’”

More: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/politics/biden-black-voters/index.html

 
California Town Raises Hotel Workers' Minimum Wage to $23— Workers Claim It's Not Enough
Story by Ben Campbell • 17h
 
With over 8000 hotels in the Golden State, California has one of the largest hotel workforces in the United States.

In the last year, many who work in the industry have been campaigning to their local councils in an attempt to increase their minimum hourly wage, claiming that the pandemic has left staff with more responsibility and fewer hours.     

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California Ranks Last in Opportunity Due to Cost of Living
Heartland Author
May 17, 2024
 
(The Center Square) – According to new state rankings, California ranks dead last in opportunity due to its high cost of living, says the U.S. News and World Report.

USNWR’s report uses cost of living, economic opportunity, and equality to create its opportunity metric. California’s nation-worst cost of living was the main driver of the opportunity ranking, as its economic opportunity and income inequality were both better than more than half of American states’.

“California was the birthplace for opportunity where our ancestors came to seek a better life and pursue the California Dream,” State Sen. Brian Dahle, R-Bieber, who was California Governor Newsom’s opponent in the 2022 general election, told The Center Square. “Housing, electricity, and gas continue to rise, and [Democrats’] solution is to tax, regulate, and mandate no matter the outcome.”

https://heartlanddailynews.com/2024/05/california-ranks-last-opportunity-cost-of-living/

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