Post Trump, House GOP recruiting chair looks to build off 2020 success
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Unlike President Trump and Senate Republicans in 2020, House GOP lawmakers were able to hold onto every seat held by an incumbent in 2020 and even succeeded in flipping 15 seats. They attribute their 2020 success to recruiting: Most of the candidates who flipped House seats were minorities, women or veterans. In 2022, they view recruiting as essential to flipping the five seats needed to win back the House.
Congresswoman Carol Miller, of West Virginia, the recruitment chair for the National Republican Congressional Committee, is leading that effort. She is the third woman in a row to serve in the position, following Elise Stefanik of New York and Susan Brooks of Indiana, who is coming off a cycle where 30 Republican women — a party record — were elected.Washington — More than 50 former football players and coaches, including several Pro Football Hall of Famers and Super Bowl MVP's, announced their endorsement Friday of Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The group represents 25 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU's) and consists of 10 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees, two Super Bowl champions and MVPs, former No. 1 overall picks and some of the first Black athletes and coaches to break the color barrier.
Jan. 7, 1994, started out like any other typical winter morning for Rebecca "Becky" Savarese of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. There was snow on the ground, and it was bitterly cold as the 12-year-old walked to school. Then, at around 7:10 a.m., at one of the busiest intersections in town, a man came up beside her. "He had a mustache, but he didn't shave. He seemed like a nerd to me," said Savarese. The stranger quickly pulled out a gun and held it up against her.
The Justice Department on Thursday announced it is opening a civil rights investigation into Rankin County, Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff's Department. A group of the agency's former officers — who called themselves the "Goon Squad" — pleaded guilty last year to a series of charges for torturing two Black men.