(CNN)As Donald Trump heads to Vietnam for the second summit of his presidency with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, one big question remains: Is the rogue nation still a nuclear threat or, well, isn’t it?
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(CNN)As Donald Trump heads to Vietnam for the second summit of his presidency with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, one big question remains: Is the rogue nation still a nuclear threat or, well, isn’t it?
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But a ruling favoring the independent state legislature doctrine has consequences that could extend well beyond congressional maps. Such a decision, legal experts say, could limit a state court’s ability to strike down any new voting laws regarding federal elections, and could restrict their ability to make changes on Election Day, like extending polling hours at a location that opened late because of bad weather or technical difficulties.
“I just can’t overstate how consequential, how radical and consequential this could be,” said Wendy Weiser, the vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice. “Essentially no one other than Congress would be allowed to rein in some of the abuses of state legislatures.”
The decision to hear the case comes as Republican-led state legislatures across the country have sought to wrest more authority over the administration of elections from nonpartisan election officials and secretaries of state. In Georgia, for example, a law passed last year stripped the secretary of state of significant power, including as chair of the State Elections Board.
Such efforts to take more partisan control over election administration have worried some voting rights organizations that state legislatures are moving toward taking more extreme steps in elections that do not go their way, akin to plans hatched by former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team in the waning days of his presidency.
“The nightmare scenario,” the Brennan Center wrote in June, “is that a legislature, displeased with how an election official on the ground has interpreted her state’s election laws, would invoke the theory as a pretext to refuse to certify the results of a presidential election and instead select its own slate of electors.”
Legal experts note that there are federal constitutional checks that would prevent a legislature from simply declaring after an election that it will ignore the popular vote and send an alternate slate of electors. But should the legislature pass a law before an election, for example, setting the parameters by which a legislature could take over an election and send its slate of electors, that could be upheld under the independent state legislature doctrine.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Thursday order for everyone in the state to wear a face covering while in public or high-risk settings is going to be cheered and jeered, guaranteed.
I know this because that’s what happened to me after my Wednesday column about why some people resist wearing masks, even as COVID-19 infections and deaths continue to rise.
A reader named Paul had this to say:
“I think you should have used some stronger language than you did: call these folks selfish.”
But a reader named Robert was definitely a jeerer.
“Take a look in the mirror. In your case a mask is a good thing.”
That’s not nice. And Robert, who was just getting warmed up, went on to say:
“My wife and I both visited our physicians in the past week. Both advised to avoid wearing masks as much as possible. These are real doctors, not the ones you visit in the park down the alley behind the liquor store. Choke on your own mask dumbass!”
My doctor’s office is not in an alley, but I do need a drink. Maybe it will help get me through my inbox in this crazy time when so many people have worked themselves into a lather of defiance over a simple precautionary procedure that can save lives.
This is their brave and noble crusade? They’re anti-mask?
The good news — for me, at least — is that most of the people who responded to my column were not rooting for me to choke on a mask. Readers by and large shared my disdain for the resistance movement, and offered their own explanation for what’s going on.
“I am convinced the problem stems from a true lack of leadership on a national level,” wrote Howard. “When the president … refuses to wear a mask or social distance, it leaves the door open for millions of Americans to take off their masks and follow his lead…. People see stories of ‘reopening’ and … think the virus is adhering to man-made declarations.”
I think Howard is on to something there.
This is not the age of enlightenment, folks.
We’ve got a president who ignores the advice of his own public health experts and thinks we should look into injecting Lysol to beat back the coronavirus. And yet the loyal masses are expected to swarm a Trump rally Saturday in Tulsa despite pleas of local health officials to cancel.
Yes, we do need to get people back to work, but in much of the country, we could not be much dumber about how we’re reopening. You see mob scenes everywhere, with unmasked revelers shoulder to shoulder.
Several readers noted that massive demonstrations against police brutality may have added to the spread of the coronavirus. That’s surely possible, but I saw lots of masks out there at the protests. And there’s no disputing that COVID-19 cases are soaring in some states that trampled sensible protocols for reopening gradually and intelligently.
California is no gold medal winner in this regard, which is one reason Newsom went from nice guy to tough guy on Thursday.
“Simply put, we are seeing too many people with faces uncovered — putting at risk the real progress we have made in fighting the disease,” the governor said.
A lot of my readers feel the same way.
“I live in Orange County and have been asking myself why so many people are not wearing masks,” said Shannon. “Personally, I care enough to wear a mask to protect others and get angry at the stupidity of those who don’t. I … have a child that works at Starbucks and she worries all the time that the people who don’t bother to wear a mask may be giving her COVID and in turn infect our family.”
Speaking of Orange County, a reader named Diane had something to say about the item in my column on the public health director who resigned after she received a death threat and was compared to Hitler for requiring face coverings.
“As the daughter of Holocaust survivors who suffered under the real Hitler, I am doubly appalled by the idiots who have the gall to compare the former head of the Orange County health agency, who was simply following the best medical knowledge, to the person who caused the death of millions,” said Diane. “Unbelievable.”
A reader named Jackie said she and her husband are in their 70s and keeping indoors for the most part.
“I can’t believe how much ageism is on full display regarding COVID-19. Younger folks, especially, are seen all over the U.S., without masks, drinking, partying, or going about their daily activities as if nothing is wrong,” said Jackie, who thinks that’s going to delay a full recovery.
“I see our self-isolation extending way into the future, with no end in sight,” she said.
From across the divide, a reader named Jim seems to think that if not for Trump’s leadership we would have seen 2 million deaths by now, and guess what:
I did just choke on my mask.
Bob said it’s time to open everything without restrictions. The impact won’t be that bad, in his opinion.
“Those under 40 might get a slight cough,” said Bob, who must go to the same doctor as Robert, who wants me to choke on my mask. “The 40-65 group might need a few days off. Those older than 65 will have to make a risk assessment if they have an underlying condition.”
Just a reminder: We are approaching 120,000 deaths in the U.S.
Jon called me one of the “pro muzzlers,” said he was going on a 35-mile bike ride without a mask, and suggested there’d be more compliance if I wasn’t such a fascist.
Actually, Jon, I wouldn’t wear a mask on a bike ride or taking a walk in the woods, if I could stay far away from other people. But in settings where you can’t social distance, is it that much of a sacrifice to protect someone near you in the event you might be positive but asymptomatic?
Louise called herself an elder who wears a mask and gloves when she goes outside, but thinks that the threat of the disease is overstated and that the spread of the virus among young people will lead to immunity for all.
“I feel that in the big scheme of life the pandemic is really a panic-demic,” she said.
It’s a nice idea, and similar to the approach in Sweden, but the latest statistics from that country are not terribly encouraging.
“Nobody has a clue about the true infection/exposure rate,” argued Tim. “The most frequent statistic I have read is that 80% of COVID-19 exposures are either mild or asymptomatic. The death rate is therefore quite low.”
But if we know that distancing, hand washing and face covering can prevent spread and save lives, why do we have to be such hardheads?
A study from Germany found that the use of masks after wearing them became compulsory reduced the spread of COVID there. And another new study estimates that in New York City, the use of masks prevented 66,000 additional cases of COVID-19.
The virus attacks the lungs of those who contract it. But its very presence among us also seems to be destroying common sense and consideration of others.
“I have a cousin who won’t wear a mask because he says it’s unconstitutional. It takes away his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” said a reader named Rick, who added one last word.
“WOW.”
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Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam should not resign because he was an idiot in the past. He should resign because he is an idiot in the present.
On Feb. 1, a 35-year-old photo reportedly showing Northam dressed either in blackface or Ku Klux Klan regalia first surfaced on the right-wing news site Big League Politics.
Competing newsrooms, including the Virginian-Pilot, soon confirmed that the photo came from Northam’s page in a 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. He was 25 years old at the time of the book’s publication. A separate yearbook unearthed this weekend also shows Northam went by a few nicknames when he attended Virginia Military Institute, including “ coonman.”
Taken together, the blackface photo and the racial slur are not enough to disqualify Northam from office. It’s true there’s no “youthful indiscretion” defense for racist behavior the governor likely thought was funny when he was well into his 20s. But everyone deserves a mulligan for the dumb and awful things they did decades ago. Everyone deserves a chance to show they’ve changed.
The problem with Northam, however, is that he is too stupid to manage any of that.
After the blackface yearbook photo was published on Feb. 1, the governor immediately apologized for it.
“I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now,” he said.
However, by Saturday morning, after it became clear that his allies were not going to call it square after his apology, he adopted a new strategy: denial.
“When I was confronted with the images yesterday,” he said at a press conference, “I was appalled that they appeared on my page, but I believed then and now that I am not either of the people in that photo.”
The press conference got much worse. Much, much worse.
One reporter asked Northam why he apologized Friday if it wasn’t him in the yearbook photo. The governor responded, “I didn’t study it as well as I should. The first comment I made to the individual that showed it to me, I said this can’t be me.”
As to why he didn’t just say so from the beginning, Northam told reporters, “My word is important to me and my first intention … was to reach out and apologize. As you might imagine and understand, there are a lot of people that are hurt by this and I wanted to reach out to them. After I did that last night, I sat and looked at the picture. Today, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to classmates. My roommate and I am convinced that is not my picture.”
The governor also claims he “vividly” remembers donning blackface to look like Michael Jackson for a talent show in 1984, explaining that this memory makes him confident that he’s not the person featured in the medical school yearbook.
“I used just a little bit of shoe polish to put on my cheeks and the reason I used a very little bit because — I don’t know if anyone’s ever tried that — you cannot get shoe polish off,” he said.
As the governor recounted the talent show anecdote for reporters, Northam blanked on the name “Michael Jackson.” He had to be reminded by his wife, Pam, who whispered it in his ear.
The governor also told members of the press that he won the talent show because he learned to “moonwalk” like Jackson. One reporter asked Northam if he could still do the dance move. The governor was fully prepared to answer that question with a dance demonstration, but he was again saved by his wife. It was only after she told him the circumstances were “inappropriate” that he declined to answer whether he can still “moonwalk.”
Remember: This press conference, which was meant to salvage Northam’s gubernatorial career, came just days after he caused a major headache for his office and his party when he seemingly endorsed post-birth abortions.
No one should be automatically disqualified from holding office because of something hateful he said or did decades ago. Everyone deserves the chance to show they’ve matured in wisdom and judgment and that they’ve learned from their past mistakes.
On Saturday, the Virginia governor showed he is nearly every bit as stupid and tone-deaf as he was in college. Northam had a chance to show he is not the man that he was 35 years ago, and he blew it with an idiotic, hair-brained attempt at crisis management that would make even Anthony Weiner blush.
The governor should not be chased from office for things he did 20 or 30 years ago. He should be chased from office because can’t be trusted with a book of matches.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks with reporters after a vote. Journalists’ normal access is being constrained for the impeachment trial.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks with reporters after a vote. Journalists’ normal access is being constrained for the impeachment trial.
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News organizations and journalists’ advocates are battling restrictive new ground rules for reporters assigned to cover the Senate impeachment trial.
Correspondents who submit to an official credentialing process are granted broad access throughout the Capitol complex and usually encounter few restrictions in talking with members of Congress or others.
But now Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger has imposed new requirements for the impeachment trial, negotiated in part with Republican leadership:
Reporters are being confined to small cordoned-off sections of areas where unrestricted access was typically standard. They are being prevented from walking with senators to continue conversations — even when the senator involved is willingly participating.
Reporters also now may not approach senators for interviews in the halls surrounding the Senate chamber.
Taken together, the new rules effectively prevent members of the press from reaching many senators.
The Capitol is one of the rare places in official Washington where journalists get direct access to newsmakers — in this case, elected officials and their staff members.
Elsewhere, as in the White House or the State Department, for example, reporters’ movements are controlled more closely and access to principals can be severely limited.
The Senate’s new security measures are unusually strict, and more restrictive even than the security protocols generally put in place for the annual State of the Union address — which is attended by the president, many members of the Cabinet and Supreme Court.
Stenger and the Capitol Police may fear that the additional attention drawn to the Senate impeachment trial may increase risks to members of Congress. But members of the press corps are vetted through a longstanding system and pass through security checks every time they enter the Capitol complex.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is questioned by reporters after a vote. The Senate is constraining access for the impeachment trial.
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Nearly 60 news organizations including NPR signed a letter organized by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press on Thursday urging Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to relax the new restrictions on reporters.
“Absent an articulable security rationale, Senate leaders, the Senate sergeant at arms, and the United States Capitol Police have an obligation to preserve and promote the public’s right to know,” the letter said. “Reporters must have the ability to respond quickly to rapid developments and need reasonable access to lawmakers who wish to speak to the press.”
Patricia Gallagher Newberry, president of the Society of Professional Journalists, faulted the new Senate restrictions because they deny reporters the ability to fully cover a once-in-a-generation spectacle.
“To deny journalists their constitutional right to document the historical events occurring now is a gross injustice to the American people,” she said.
“The press is charged with holding the government accountable. It is through its access that the public is informed. When the public is informed, it can make better decisions. The American public should also be outraged about these restrictions.”
Angela Greiling Keane, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, warned that the prospect of these continued restrictions could chill reporters’ ability to cover big events or even normal business in the Capitol in the future.
“These restrictions set a horrible precedent and reinforce the lie that the news media is dangerous and the ‘enemy of the people,’ ” Keane said. “Congress should be the most accessible institution in government. As the branch closest to the people, it is ironic that these limits only isolate those who are elected to serve.”
News organizations that assign correspondents to the Capitol — including NPR — are continuing to negotiate ground rules with Stenger, the sergeant-at-arms, and the Capitol Police.
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KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine — In a war fought on the expanse of steppe in southern and eastern Ukraine, victory or defeat is in large part decided by the logistics of moving men, weaponry, ammunition, fuel and food over vast distances — all of which could become more difficult for the Russian army after the partial destruction of the Kerch Strait Bridge.
The 12-mile span, part of which now slumps into the Black Sea, had been a linchpin of Russian military logistics for a sprawling land war. The bridge is important for tying Russia with the Crimean Peninsula; the peninsula, in turn, had been used as a staging area for attacks elsewhere in Ukraine.
Since early summer, Ukraine has focused its strikes on supply lines, with the Kerch Strait Bridge marking a cherished prize for a military force that for months has been publicly hinting at its plans to hit the span.
Russia has alternatives for transporting troops to staging areas where they can be reorganized into battle-ready units, but they are more costly, dangerous and time-consuming, Ukrainian and Western analysts and former military officials say. Other options include sailing ships to harbors in Crimea and sending trains and trucks on railroads and roads in other occupied areas of Ukraine.
“The biggest issue is not supplying, the biggest issue is staging,” Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defense minister, said in a telephone interview. “They were getting them ready for the battlefield safely in Crimea, forming battlefield units in Crimea and sending them to the frontline.”
With the bridge partly destroyed, Russia can use roads from the Ukrainian border that wind through the occupied towns of Mariupol and Berdyansk, hugging the coast of the Azov Sea, that weave in and out of range for Ukrainian rocket artillery. Troops would have to form battle-ready units inside Russia and travel longer distances in these formations, a less efficient means of supplying the front lines, Mr. Zagorodnyuk said.
By Saturday evening, rail service had been at least partly restored, and a train with 15 cars had successfully crossed the span, according to a Russian state news agency, Tass. On the undamaged side of the bridge, car traffic had resumed, the head of Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, said in a post on Telegram.
Those coastal routes are closer to Ukrainian positions than Crimea is and so are more vulnerable to attack. As if reinforcing these difficulties, Ukraine on Saturday struck a cargo train with rockets in Ilovaisk, a city in the occupied portion of Donetsk region, Petro Andrushenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
“The occupiers now have big problems with supplies from both sides,” from the south in Crimea and from the east via the land borders with Russia, he said.
Railroads, the means of military logistics so preferred by the Russian army that it has whole units dedicated to rail travel, called Railroad Forces, do not connect all areas occupied by the Russians in southeastern Ukraine.
The explosion on the Kerch Strait Bridge will affect Russia’s ability to resupply and reinforce units in the southern provinces of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Rob Lee, a Russian military specialist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, said in an email. Mr. Lee said it was unclear if the Russian military had enough ferries to cross the Kerch Strait to offset the disruption of rail and road traffic.
Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, said Russian logistics would shift toward a rail line to the city of Melitopol, far closer to Ukrainian front lines than Crimea.
The route, he said, is “vulnerable to disruption” by Ukraine’s army. Hindering Russian resupply efforts would particularly benefit Ukrainian towns near the front line, which have been repeatedly shelled, Oleksandr Vilkul, the military governor of Kryvyi Rih, said in an interview.
“The occupiers managed all supplies for the south over the Crimean bridge,” he said. “Any difficulties for them in these logistics is naturally positive for us.”
Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Frankfurt, Germany.
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In a new twist, the Navy is also expected to hold up the promotion of the senior officer onboard the Roosevelt, Rear Adm. Stuart Baker, the commander of Carrier Strike Group 9, said the two people.
“Strike Group Command will also be held accountable for poor decision-making and his second star is being put on hold,” said the aide.
After learning of the outbreak on the ship, Crozier argued for evacuating the entire crew as soon as possible. But Baker, Crozier’s superior on the ship, reportedly countered that less drastic measures should be taken.
The news brings to a close a highly publicized chain of events that started with an outbreak of the coronavirus onboard the Roosevelt in late March, which forced the ship to stop in Guam and offload its 5,000 sailors. Crozier caused an uproar when he wrote a letter pleading for help from Navy leadership as the coronavirus spread throughout his ship, which was later leaked to the media. Crozier was fired by then-acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, who later stepped down over remarks he made to the ship’s crew criticizing the captain’s actions.
The news that Crozier will remain relieved is a shift from the Navy’s recommendation in April. After a preliminary inquiry, the chief of naval operations recommended that Crozier be reinstated.
But Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was not satisfied and pushed for a broader investigation, a move that delayed a decision on reinstating Crozier, POLITICO first reported.
After recovering from Covid-19 on Guam, Crozier was moved to an administrative job in San Diego while the Navy wrapped up the broader investigation. The Roosevelt finally got underway in late May after nearly two months sidelined in Guam while its sailors fought the virus.
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Israel Herrera tiene la esperanza de que una de las voces que salen del laboratorio desplomado en las calles de Puebla y Valladolid, sea de su madre.
“Mi mamá estaba almorzando en el cuarto piso, no alcanzó a salir pero espero que siga viva”, dice.
Concepción López es compañera de Irma, a ella le dijeron que su compañera había fallecido en el sismo.
“Cuando llegué vi el edificio en el suelo, solo escombros y un compañero en crisis me dijo que vio a Irma muerta, su hijo no sabe y yo no quiero decirle”.
Miembros de la Semefo llegan a la zona del desastre para ir sacando los cuerpos que quedaron atrapados en el laboratorio.
“Todo lo que salga de aquí se va para la Semefo allá tendrán que ir a identificar a sus familiares cuando sea el caso”, gritó personal de la Policía Federal.
Concepción aseguró que más de 30 personas estaban dentro del laboratorio, a ella le tocaba entrar en turno vespertino por eso no presenció el sismo.
“Había como 30 personas adentro, la mayoría almorzando en el cuarto piso, no creo que hayan salido a tiempo”.
Vecinos con picos y palas están pidiendo que los dejen participar en las labores de rescate. Integrantes de Protección Civil pide a la sociedad que se acerque con agua, material de curación y mascarillas para respirar”.
El laboratorio Cencon que se ubica en la calle de Puebla, esquina con Salamanca, se colapsó con el sismo de esta tarde.
Hasta las autoridades han reportado cinco personas atrapadas, dos fallecidos, y algunos heridos que fueron trasladados al Hospital Siglo XXI o Magdalena de las Salinas.
Elementos de la Marina como del Ejército ya se encuentran apoyando en la labores de rescate.
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El gobernador demócrata del estado de Nueva York, Andrew Coumo, ofreció refugio a todo aquel que se sienta atacado, independientemente de su raza, credo, estatus social o preferencia sexual.
En su cuenta de Facebook, publicó “El estado de Nueva York está orgulloso de su legado como la capital progresista del país” y aclaró que los neoyorquinos tienen “filosofías fundamentalmente diferentes a las que Donald Trump estableció en su campaña“.
“Así que déjenme ser muy claro: si alguien se siente bajo ataque, quiero que sepa que el estado de Nueva York -el estado que tiene la estatua de la libertad en su puerto- es un refugio”, comentó.
Y agregó: “Si eres gay o heterosexual, musulmán o cristiano, rico o pobre, blanco o negro o marrón, respetamos a todas las personas (…) no importa lo que sucede a nivel nacional. No vamos a permitir que un gobierno federal que ataca a los inmigrantes lo haga en nuestro estado”.
Concluyó que Nueva York es un estado inmigrante, donde se han aprobado políticas públicas como el incremento al salario mínimo y al matrimonio igualitario.
El viernes, el alcalde de Nueva York, el también demócrata Bill De Blasio, sostuvo que el gobierno de Donald Trump no podría ejecutar ninguna medida que vaya en contra de los derechos constitucionales de Estados Unidos y advirtió “cualquier orden que amenace la calidad de vida de los neoyorquinos será combatida”.
Aunque admitió que “los miedos (ante las medidas del gobierno de Trump) son reales”, recordó que “mucho de lo que se hace en esta ciudad no depende de lo que Washington hace”.
Tanto De Blasio como el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, manifestaron su confianza para que el presidente electo Donald Trump no concrete su amenaza de retener los fondos federales para las llamadas “ciudades santuario” donde se concentra el mayor número de indocumentados.
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WeatherBELL.com meteorologist Joe Bastardi says he fears Dorian could become a major hurricane.
Hurricane Dorian is moving through the Caribbean and is expected to bring heavy rains to the Bahamas, Florida and the southeast U.S. by this coming weekend, the National Weather Service said, urging people in its potential path to start preparing.
Dorian is currently sustaining winds at about 80 miles per hour and is moving northwest at 13 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters have warned the Category 1 hurricane could grow in strength to a major Category 3 storm before potential Florida landfall.
The National Hurricane Center said Dorian was still moving away from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on Wednesday night as of 8 p.m. ET, and hurricane warnings and watches for those areas were discontinued. The storm is still expected to strengthen into a powerful hurricane in the Atlantic over the next few days.
While not much damage has been seen in the Caribbean, an 80-year-old man in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, died Wednesday after falling from his roof while cleaning debris ahead of the storm, police said.
PUERTO RICAN OFFICIALS URGE CALM AHEAD OF DORIAN
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Wednesday for counties in Hurricane Dorian’s path.
“It’s important for Floridians on the East Coast to monitor this storm closely,” DeSantis said. “Every Florida resident should have seven days of supplies, including food, water and medicine, and should have a plan in case of disaster. I will continue to monitor Hurricane Dorian closely with emergency management officials. The state stands ready to support all counties along the coast as they prepare.”
President Trump approved an emergency declaration in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday night. The president had declared a state of emergency in Puerto Rico on Tuesday ahead of the storm’s expected arrival.
“The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures,” the White House said.
“We are tracking closely tropical storm Dorian as it heads, as usual, to Puerto Rico. FEMA and all others are ready, and will do a great job,” Trump tweeted Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Dorian became a hurricane earlier Wednesday near St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, where islanders said the storm packed an unexpected punch.
“As of early this morning [Wednesday], Dorian was only supposed to be a weak tropical storm. It’s now just finished passing us with max winds of more than 100 miles per hour. I’m checking on my boat right now. There definitely are sunken boats around. None of us expected this,” private charter boat owner Scott Schroeder told Fox News.
John Wyatt, another St. Thomas resident, echoed the sentiment.
“It’s been a long day and a lotta work. Several trees were downed,” he said.
A hotel worker near Point Pleasant Resort said he spent most of the night “mopping up everything.”
Video from a boat that was in the water at the time showed rough conditions.
The National Weather Service said Dorian is “threatening Florida and the risk is increasing.”
DORIAN BECOMES HURRICANE NEAR US VIRGIN ISLANDS, MAY THREATEN FLORIDA AS CATEGORY 3 STORM
Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Airlines had issued travel waivers as of 5:45 p.m. ET.
Southwest issued alerts for airports in Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, and Allegiant is offering waivers for those flying through Sanford, Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale. All major carriers in the Caribbean, including San Juan, have travel waivers in effect, except for Alaska Airlines.
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No Black people who survived the massacre or their relatives have been given compensation in return. Insurance companies declined most Black victims’ claims, which were worth more than $27 million in today’s money. About 10,000 community residents were left homeless.
“I call on the American people to reflect on the deep roots of racial terror in our Nation and recommit to the work of rooting out systemic racism across our country,” Biden said in the proclamation on Monday, in which he committed to work to remove systemic racism from policies, laws and hearts.
In the proclamation, Biden also called on the federal government to “reckon with and acknowledge” how it has “stripp[ed] wealth and opportunity from Black communities.” He said his administration was “committed to acknowledging” how federal policy affected Greenwood in particular.
The president said that laws and policies made recuperating from the massacre “nearly impossible,” including federal highway construction splitting the community and federal involvement in redlining.
Biden also pledged that his administration would tackle racial inequities in a number of ways, including infrastructure, environmental justice, funds for businesses in “economically disadvantaged” regions, and in particular for minority-owned businesses.
On Tuesday, Biden is set to visit Tulsa, where he will give a speech on the massacre and meet with survivors.
Oklahoma has been caught in a culture war over education and race, with a new GOP-backed state law that will ban teachers from teaching subjects that cause anyone to “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress” because of their race or gender.
Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, has said the new law won’t bar teaching about the massacre, but state Sen. Kevin Matthews, a Democrat, has called the law “an affront to Black people.”
Republicans across the country have pushed back against the teaching of critical race theory, with many states moving to bar it from classrooms. Critics of such legislation have said it would limit schools from properly teaching and discussing subjects like diversity and equity.
The centennial comes just over a year after the nation faced a reckoning following the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer. Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deemed racism a “serious public health threat,” with CDC Director Rochelle Walensky pointing to “severe” and “unacceptable” inequities in health outcomes across racial and ethnic lines.
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This photo provided by Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office shows damage from Friday night’s severe weather, including the home of an elderly couple who died in Bossier Parish, La.
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This photo provided by Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office shows damage from Friday night’s severe weather, including the home of an elderly couple who died in Bossier Parish, La.
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Authorities say at least nine people have died in severe storms that are spreading across much of the United States, bringing dangerous winds across the South and blinding snow and ice to parts of the Great Plains and Midwest.
At least seven tornadoes have been confirmed in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, according to the National Weather Service.
Three people were confirmed dead in Alabama near the town of Carrollton in Pickens County after “an embedded tornado within a long line of intense thunderstorms” ravaged the area, according to the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.
In Lubbock, Texas, two first responders were struck and killed by a vehicle as they were attending to a traffic accident brought on by icy road conditions. A 27-year-old police officer died at the scene, the Associated Press reported, while a 39-year-old firefighter was pronounced dead at the hospital. A second firefighter injured at the scene was in critical condition.
A third person was reported dead in Texas when a car flipped into a creek in Dallas as severe thunderstorms swept through the city.
On the other side of the Texas border in the town of Benton in Bossier Parish, La., winds were so strong that they peeled the roof off an entire wing of a middle school, local TV station KSLA reported.
Firefighters in Bossier Parish recovered the bodies of an elderly couple on Saturday near their demolished trailer, the sheriff’s office wrote in a post on Facebook.
Another man died when a tree fell on his house in Oil City early Saturday morning, according to the Caddo Parish, La., coroner’s office, as reported by the AP.
The violent thunderstorms got underway in Texas and Oklahoma on Friday, dumping rain and bringing high winds as the storm system moved east and northeast. In Texas and Mississippi, meteorologists recorded winds as high as 80 miles per hour — the speed of winds in a Category 1 hurricane.
The National Weather Service reported an “enhanced risk” of severe storms in parts of the region, declaring “the greatest threat for tornadoes” in parts of Alabama, Georgia and the western Carolinas. Severe thunderstorms also passed through Arkansas on Friday night.
By Saturday, the destruction was widespread, with downed trees and power lines scattered across the streets, and many homes damaged or destroyed.
Parts of the region remained in a blackout on Saturday as storms continued to churn. More than 105,000 people in Georgia were without power, according to the website Poweroutage.us. Nearly 83,000 in Alabama and 35,000 people in Mississippi were also without power.
As the severe weather continued to move northeast on Saturday into colder climates, the Chicago area braced for ice and snow, cancelling some 1,000 flights, the AP reported. The National Weather Service in Chicago also warned of nearly 20-foot-high waves on the city’s lake shore, and freezing rain brought power outages to more than 5,000 structures in northern Illinois.
Snow also fell in other parts of the region on Saturday. In Kansas, the streets were coated with a 1-inch dusting, while much of Iowa was in whiteout conditions as four inches of snow fell on Des Moines.
East of the Mississippi River, the weather was much sunnier, with temperatures that were 20 to 30 degrees higher than normal for this time of year. Many areas were expected to set record highs, including a high of 70 degrees in Washington, D.C. and 67 degrees in New York City.
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As Iran girds for possible war with the United States, President Trump may turn out to be the best friend it has.
Despite the saber-rattling of senior aides and Trump’s own tweets, when push has come to shove over the past two years, the president has repeatedly backed away from the threatened use of military force.
Whether the target has been North Korea, with which warnings of “fire and fury” have become little more than an exchange of “beautiful” letters between Trump and Kim Jong Un, or Venezuela, where the threat of “all options” has failed to upset the status quo, the president has blinked. With Iran, the dispatch of a U.S. aircraft carrier and a bomber task force, as well as reported plans to deploy 120,000 troops, were quickly followed by Trump’s insistence that he only wants to talk to Iranian leaders.
Trump has said that there is no inconsistency in his administration’s messaging but that the image of incoherence can be useful. “At least Iran doesn’t know what to think, which at this point may very well be a good thing!” he tweeted Friday.
But as he moves more deeply into the second half of his term with major foreign policy issues unresolved, Trump’s credibility has suffered, and his options have narrowed.
“If you make threats and then people decide you aren’t going to follow through, if you’re looking for the reaction and you stop getting the reaction, the options are either to make larger threats or to stop going down that road at all,” said Jon B. Alterman, Middle East Program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“Credibility is a hard thing for a president to maintain,” Alterman said.
[For inured foreign officials, the sting of Trump’s tweets has begun to dull]
Iran, which has said that it doesn’t want war but is ready for it, has responded with its own taunts and bellicose rhetoric.
“With the B Team doing one thing & @realDonaldTrump saying another thing, it is apparently the U.S. that ‘doesn’t know what to think,’ ” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted Friday in response to Trump. Zarif frequently refers to White House national security adviser John Bolton as the head of the “B team,” or simply, “the Moustache.”
“We in Iran have actually known what to think for millennia — and about the U.S., since 1953. At this point, that is certainly ‘a good thing!’ ” Zarif wrote. In 1953, the CIA orchestrated the overthrow of an elected leftist government in Tehran, bolstering the U.S.-backed monarchy that itself was ousted in 1979 by Iran’s current clerical rulers.
The administration sees Iran as now in the grip of devastating sanctions, its oil income effectively cut off, and close to economic and political collapse. But Iran is fortified by the success of its recent efforts to expand its power across Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. If its own messaging is to be believed, it perceives declining American influence across the Middle East, as Trump seeks to withdraw and regional powers seek closer relations with other world powers, notably Russia and China.
“The Americans are unwilling and unable to carry out military action against us . . . and their unwillingness stems from their inability,” Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, a military aide to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said last week, according to the Iranian Fars News Agency.
Trump has clearly made good on his campaign promises to cancel international agreements, wreak havoc on what he has called “unfair” trade agreements, and repair tattered U.S. relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia. But his desire to pull back from costly wars and avoid new ones has often seemed at odds with the bombastic rhetoric that comes from him and his aides — principally Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — and has forced both allies and adversaries to divine which of Trump’s instincts will prevail.
That has been particularly problematic in the case of Iran. The administration last week sent an aircraft carrier and bombers to the Persian Gulf in response to what it has said is intelligence indicating that Iran and its proxies in the region are preparing attacks on U.S. forces and their allies.
[John Bolton puts his singular stamp on Trump’s National Security Council]
Few in the region doubt that Iran was behind the sabotage that blew holes in the hulls of two Saudi tankers and a Norwegian ship in the Persian Gulf on Sunday. But “it was very well designed not to justify a violent reaction,” said Sami Nader, director of the Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs in Beirut. “The objective was to test American resolve to use power.”
“They calculate [Trump] will not risk a protracted or full-scale war,” Nader said. “We will see more incidents, and they could spin out of control.”
European allies, who agree with the administration’s assessment of Iran’s expansionist aims but are still smarting from Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal last year, have been skeptical of the intelligence and worry about the possibility of miscalculation. “I personally believe the American president doesn’t want to go to war. But that’s not the problem,” said a senior European diplomat whose government was briefed by Pompeo this week. “The problem is that the situation may at some point become so volatile and so unstable that it’s inevitable.”
Republican lawmakers have complained that the administration has not briefed them on its justification for the deployment, while Democrats have suggested the intelligence may have been exaggerated to justify an attack on Iran long advocated by Bolton.
“As we try to make sense of the raised tensions in the Persian Gulf, we should not forget that sixteen years ago, the United States went to war in Iraq on the basis of distorted and misrepresented intelligence,” Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.) said in a statement Wednesday. “That must never be allowed to happen again.”
In a briefing Thursday for a small group of journalists, senior administration officials offered a convoluted explanation, saying that their goal was not to start a war but to deter Iran from taking action in response to the intensifying pressure of U.S. sanctions.
Trump has expressed frustration with Bolton, joking to him and other aides that “we’d be in war everywhere if it was up to this guy,” according to a senior administration official who has heard the comments. Trump has often told advisers that he doesn’t want to send a single additional troop anywhere.
He has allowed Bolton, who issued the initial White House statement announcing warships were on their way, to take the lead in threatening Tehran. Just days later, Trump told reporters that Iran had “great potential.” Like North Korea, he said, Iran’s leaders should be “calling me up, sitting down,” so that “we can make a deal.”
Asked Thursday if the two countries were headed toward war, Trump said: “I hope not.”
As concern over escalating tensions with Iran has risen this month, the president has sharply denied any daylight between him and Bolton. Media accounts of “infighting with respect to my strong policy in the Middle East” are “Fake News,” he tweeted this week. “Different opinions are expressed and I make a decisive and final decision — it is a very simple process.”
Privately, Trump is dismissive of turmoil in the Middle East, telling White House officials and informal advisers that nothing good comes from being involved.
As he has repeatedly described it, his goal is to have a “tough” and “strong” military that doesn’t have to do anything — and to use rhetoric that scares people. In a 70-minute meeting Wednesday with surrogates who often appear on television to back him, Trump concentrated on China and immigration. He never mentioned Iran.
Rep. Peter T. King, a New York Republican and Trump ally, said there was a plan behind the seeming confusion. “His strategy is to shake things up with Iran and also say he doesn’t want to go to war,” King said. Trump, King said Friday, is “a good cop and a bad cop. We’ll see if it works. I don’t think we’ll end up going to war.”
The president, he added, “is verbally aggressive and loves sanctions. . . . It could cause them to be more conciliatory. It might not work, but I think people shouldn’t prejudge it. We’ll see in a year.”
Sly reported from Beirut.
EL PASO, Texas — When an outsider came to El Paso and shattered the sense of security Joel Martinez had always felt in his hometown, he grabbed his family and huddled in a closet.
Their home is down the street from the Walmart where 20 people were killed and 26 wounded by a gunman who walked in Saturday during back-to-school shopping time and opened fire.
Text messages and news reports flooded Martinez’s cellphone. Soon, the shutters in their home began shaking as police and news helicopters whirled overhead. Martinez feared he and his wife Zylene, 32, and their boys Jovani, 4, and Mikey, 7, were in danger.
“We’ve lived here all our lives and for the first time, I felt — get in the closets,” said Martinez, 32. “I started preparing. I was in the military so it was, start getting ready, anxiety, turn the TV down.”
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Martinez and his wife, both born and raised in El Paso, left a bunch of bright yellow daisies Sunday at a makeshift memorial near the Walmart, which remained cordoned off by police.
On Sunday, as law enforcement officials continued the grim task of identifying victims, residents of El Paso and Juarez, its sister city across the U.S.-Mexico border, tried to take stock of how they went from the center of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration stance and anti-Latino rhetoric to being the target of a mass shooter.
Robert Chavez, 65, an El Paso native retired from Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a 27-year career, shopped Sunday at another Walmart not far from the shooting scene. He was apprehensive and alert for threats.
“What did he come over here for? I guess he had to come somewhere where there’s more Latinos,” Chavez said about the gunman. “He shouldn’t have made a trip anywhere.”
El Paso residents bridge many divides in their daily lives because they share a border with Mexico.
They regularly navigate differences in citizenship and government through commonalities in language, culture and history but were left groping to understand how division within their own country brought horror to their city.
“There was like a lot of shooting happening because it was on the news and on Facebook,” Gia Nuñez, 7, blurted out while she and her father loaded groceries into a cart at another Walmart.
Her father, Adrian Nuñez, 40, always goes to the Walmart where the shooting occurred, and when she saw what happened on the news, she called to check on him, she said. Adrian, who works the graveyard shift, had worked overtime. Feeling tired, he decided to put off the grocery shopping trip he was going to make the morning of the shooting.
“I had a feeling something like this was going to happen eventually,” Nuñez said. “Ever since all the mass shootings have occurred and nothing has been done, I just said something would happen here. I was just hoping it wouldn’t be a school.”
Nuñez said he believes Trump is conveying messages of hate and division, and that combined with anti-Latino rhetoric and a lack of stricter gun control laws, is creating a lethal mix.
El Paso, with its shopping center and its largely Mexican and Mexican American patrons were a “clear cut target” for the shooter and maybe a product of Trump’s “rivalry” with Beto O’Rourke, said Nuñez, referring to the city’s former congressman who is now a Democratic candidate for president. The two held dueling rallies in El Paso in February, when Trump was pushing for money from Congress to build a border wall.
The shooter was “trying to slap us in the face and say, ‘Hey, you think you are such a safe city? Here you go,” Nuñez said.
Before prosecutors said they would treat the deadly shooting as an act of domestic terrorism, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus already had deemed it one, based on an anti-Latino, anti-immigrant screed believed to have been posted by the suspect in the shooting, who is in custody.
The posting discusses a “Hispanic invasion” and rails against “racial mixing.” The document also took aim at both political parties, and its author said the views were developed before Trump’s presidency.
Caucus chairman Joaquín Castro, D-Texas, twin brother of Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro, said the language in the document “is consistent” with Trump’s description of Latino immigrants as “invaders” and said the deadly shooting was “a tragic reminder of the dangers of such rhetoric.”
Since the launch of his 2016 campaign, Trump has focused rhetoric and policies on Latinos and immigrants, even though for the 2020 election, he has formed Latinos for Trump and his campaign has said he wants to expand his Latino support.
More recently, he told four women in Congress, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is Puerto Rican, to go back to their countries. Three were born in the U.S. and the fourth, a Somali refugee, is an American citizen.
“This vile act of terrorism against Hispanic Americans was inspired by divisive racial and ethnic rhetoric and enabled by weapons of war,” Castro said. “Hispanic Americans and immigrants have been directly and violently attacked. This crime was intentional violence to strike fear in our communities, for our lives and for our families.”
Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, told National Public Radio that the mass shootings the nation has seen are not just “an epidemic of guns,” but also, “an epidemic of hate” and residents of the city and county that are about 83 percent Latino did feel targeted.
“He came here to hurt us,” Escobar said.
Julián Castro, the only Latino candidate in the presidential race, said Trump’s rhetoric has contributed to the “toxic brew of the white nationalism” in America.
George P. Bush, Texas land commissioner and the son of Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and 2016 presidential candidate, has not been openly critical of Trump, but he said on Twitter that “fighting terrorism remains a national priority.”
“And that should include standing firm against white terrorism here in the U.S.,” said Bush, who noted he served in Afghanistan as a naval officer.
Outside the police line at Walmart on Sunday, Gabriel Gonzalez, 21, handed out bottles of cold water and soda from an ice chest in the bed of a Ford pickup truck. He had the Mexico and United States flags on each side of the truck’s rear.
“For all those people who think like him, there’s not much you can do,” Gonzalez said, referring to the suspect in the shooting. “We’re here. My family’s here. There’s a bunch of Hispanics that are going to stay here. Might as well get used to it.”
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WASHINGTON — Exactly one year out from the 2020 general election, a majority of all Americans — or close to it — support impeaching President Donald Trump and removing him from office, disapprove of his job performance and back his top Democratic rivals in head-to-head matchups.
Those are the findings from the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which was conducted amid the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against the president, after Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, and after the military raid that killed the leader of ISIS.
Despite those grim numbers for Trump, the poll also contains silver linings for the president, including more than 50 percent who approve of his handling of the economy and a GOP base that remains loyal to him, with nine-in-10 Republicans opposing his removal from office. That party support is a crucial factor given that an impeachment conviction in the Senate requires a two-thirds vote.
“At this very early stage of the impeachment inquiry the data suggest a path for victory for Trump with the judges in the Senate,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff at Public Opinion Strategies.
“But there’s a much more challenging road ahead come next November with the judges at the ballot box,” Horwitt added.
In the poll, 53 percent of Americans say they approve of the impeachment inquiry regarding Trump’s actions with Ukraine’s president, while 44 percent disapprove.
The results largely break along partisan lines, with 89 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of independents supporting the inquiry — versus just 9 percent of Republicans who agree.
Then asked if Trump should be impeached and removed from office, 49 percent answer yes, while 46 percent say no.
That’s a reversal from a month ago, when the survey found the numbers essentially flipped — 43 percent yes, 49 percent no.
The increase in those supporting removal from office comes mainly from Democrats and independents.
And once again, the partisan divide here is striking: 88 percent of Democrats now support Trump’s impeachment and removal from office, compared with 90 percent of Republicans who oppose it.
Independents are split, with 43 percent supporting Trump’s removal and 46 percent opposing it.
A year away from the 2020 general election, the NBC/WSJ poll contains other ominous signs for the president.
Fifty-three percent of Americans disapprove of hisjob performance, including 45 percent who say they strongly disapprove.
That’s compared with 45 percent who approve, including 31 percent who do so strongly.
These numbers are essentially unchanged from the last month and over the past year.
“These are the same exact numbers we’ve been seeing,” said McInturff, the GOP pollster.
By party, 91 percent of Republicans approve of his job, versus just 6 percent of Democrats and 38 percent of independents.
In addition, half of Americans — 50 percent — say they have no confidence that Trump has the right goals and policies to be president, compared with just 35 percent who say they are “extremely” or “quite” confident.
“What should trouble Donald Trump is both the size of the opposition to him and how locked in it is,” said Horwitt, the Democratic pollster.
And the president trails the leading Democratic candidates by nearly 10 points in hypothetical general-election matchups.
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Trump by nine point among registered voters, 50 percent to 41 percent. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is ahead of him by eight points, 50 percent to 42 percent.
In a separate question, 46 percent of all registered voters say they are certain to vote against Trump in 2020, versus 34 percent who say they are certain to vote for him.
Seventeen percent — made up disproportionately of independents, soft Republicans and younger voters — say they might vote either way depending on the nominee.
On this same question in the Dec. 2011 NBC/WSJ poll, 34 percent said they were certain to vote for Barack Obama; 37 percent said they were certain to vote against him; and 27 percent said they could vote either way depending on the nominee.
Despite those challenging numbers for Trump, there are positive signs for him in the poll.
For starters, a majority of Americans — 52 percent — approve of his handling of the economy, which is higher than his overall job rating (45 percent) and his foreign-policy handling (41 percent).
Next, Republican voters are essentially tied with Democrats when it comes to expressing high interest in the upcoming election — which wasn’t the case at this stage in the 2018 midterms, when Democrats won control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
And, by a 40 percent-to-9 percent margin, Americans say that the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi makes the United States safer rather than less safe.
By contrast, the public believes Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria makes the United States less safe by a 35 percent-to-10 percent margin.
Turning to the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden gets the support from 27 percent of Democratic primary voters in the new NBC/WSJ poll.
He’s followed by Elizabeth Warren at 23 percent and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at 19 percent.
After that, it’s South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 6 percent, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., at 5 percent, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., at 4 percent and entrepreneur Andrew Yang at 3 percent.
No other Democratic presidential candidate gets more than 2 percent support in the national poll.
In September’s NBC/WSJ poll, Biden was at 31 percent, Warren at 25 percent and Sanders at 14 percent.
More than eight-in-10 Democratic primary voters say they’re satisfied with their presidential field, with 31 percent saying they’re “very” satisfied and another 54 percent saying they’re “fairly” satisfied.
And 37 percent of Democratic primary voters say they prefer a candidate who will build on former President Barack Obama’s legacy, versus 55 percent who want a candidate who will take a new and different approach.
Biden (at 34 percent support) and Warren (24 percent) lead among the Democratic voters who want to build on Obama’s legacy.
And among the Democrats who want to go in a different direction, it’s Sanders (at 27 percent), Warren (22 percent) and Biden (20 percent).
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Oct. 27-30 of 900 adults — including more than half who were reached by cell phone – and the overall margin of error in the poll is plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
The poll also surveyed 720 registered voters (a margin of error of plus-minus 3.7 percentage points) and 414 Democratic primary voters (plus-minus 4.8 percentage points).
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