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      Biden's Push for South Carolina Primary Is Clear Effort to Sabotage Progressive Gains Within Democratic Party

      The DNC should not be allowed to get away with this.

      Norman Solomon
      Dec 06, 2022

      President Joe Biden has directed the Democratic National Committee to reduce the danger that progressives might effectively challenge him in the 2024 presidential primaries. That's a key goal of his instructions to the DNC last week, when Biden insisted on dislodging New Hampshire--the longtime first-in-the-nation primary state where he received just 8 percent of the vote and finished fifth in the 2020 Democratic primary. No wonder Biden wants to replace New Hampshire with South Carolina, where he was the big primary winner.

      The White House and mainstream journalists have echoed each other to assert that Biden would face no serious challenge to renomination if he runs again. But his blatant intrusion into the DNC's process for setting the primary calendar is a sign of anxiety about potential obstacles to winning renomination.

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      House Report Shows Trump 'Deliberately and Repeatedly' Undermined Covid-19 Response

      "The Trump administration's nearly year-long crusade against FDA resulted in damaging consequences for the coronavirus response," the new publication states.

      Brett Wilkins
      Aug 24, 2022

      White House officials during the tenure of former President Donald Trump "deliberately and repeatedly" pressured the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize unproven and potentially dangerous Covid-19 treatments, while working to derail the agency's vaccine guidance ahead of the 2020 presidential election, a congressional report published Wednesday revealed.

      "Senior Trump administration officials undermined public health experts because they believed doing so would benefit the former president politically."

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      Progressives Rebuke Dem Leadership as Clyburn Dismisses Death of Roe as 'Anticlimactic'

      Progressives Rebuke Dem Leadership as Clyburn Dismisses Death of Roe as 'Anticlimactic'

      "The gap between the Democratic leadership, and younger progressives on the question of 'How Bad Is It?' is just enormous."

      Julia Conley
      Jun 24, 2022

      Progressives on Friday rebuked Democratic Party leadership for showing a lack of urgency over the end of abortion rights in the country, a failure epitomized by U.S. House Majority Whip James Clyburn who dismissed the U.S. Supreme Court's historic reversal of Roe v. Wade as an "anticlimactic" development.

      Even abortion rights supporter took immediately to the streets in anger and protest, the powerful South Carolina Democrat told USA Today reporter Dylan Wells that "we all expected this" and said he was considering "the extent to which we can move legislatively to respond to it."

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