Good morning. Today we will follow developments in Buffalo, where President Biden attended the funeral for the victims of the supermarket massacre. We’ll also look at how the new congressional district maps will pit some New York Democrats against each other.
President Biden went to the largely black community of Buffalo, the site of a supermarket massacre that left 10 people dead, and issued a brief statement. “What happened here is simple and straightforward: Terrorism. Terrorism. he said.
Biden took the time to describe each victim – he choked when he said one was a father who went to the supermarket to buy his 3-year-old son’s birthday cake – and he did not shy away from calling the attack “racist”. ethnicity. But my colleagues Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Peter Baker write that the challenge for an inaugural president to preach unity may be how to confront such preaching hate. .
Biden urges Americans to “reject lies” about racial surrogacy That is believed to have led the 18-year-old suspect to attack shoppers in a supermarket. “I condemn those who spread lies for power, political gain and profit,” the president said. “We can do this if we are determined to do it, if we are faced with haters and people who don’t even care. It’s just about profit and politics.”
The so-called replacement theory holds that elites want to disempower and “replace” white Americans with immigrants from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. That was the subject of Tucker Carlson’s nightly show on Fox News, though Biden did not mention Carlson by name. He described the alternative as “a hatred that, through the media and politics, the internet, has radicalized angry, alienated and lost individuals.”
Biden also did not later remove Carlson when reporters asked whether Carlson or some Republicans deserved to be blamed for promoting the replacement. “I believe anyone who talks about surrogacy is to blame,” he said.
Aside from calling for the restoration of the assault weapons ban, the president made no policy announcements in a speech not far from the supermarket that was attacked by gunmen on Saturday.
He told reporters there was little he could do about gun control through action and that he needed to “convince Congress” to introduce stronger gun laws – which he admitted would ” very difficult”. The legislators in New York are Consider ways to strengthen state gun laws, which are already some of the country’s most restrictive. Governor Kathy Hochul is expected to announce a package of proposals as early as Wednesday.
But there is a boom buy guns in U.S.A. Since 2000, gun manufacturers have nearly tripled the number of guns they produce each year.
When Biden spoke in Buffalo, some Black residents wondered if the area would receive the same attention after the next tragedy struck somewhere else. Shaniah Paige, 39 years old, noted that it took until this year for lynching to become a federal crime and said she doesn’t expect meaningful change to come anytime soon.
“When we got off we got free food and photo activities,” she said. “But this is embedded in decades of discipline: America was built on racism.”
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The redrawn map makes the Democrats fight with each other
New York’s decade-long redistricting began with a gamble by Democrats to knock out Republicans and win three more House seats. Now it looks like it will end in a starkly different way, with fierce Democratic infighting.
It was a consequence of a decision by the state’s highest court that invalidated the maps Democrats had drawn for the new congressional districts. Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, who has represented a county that includes Poughkeepsie and Newburgh since 2013, warned even before the ruling was made that such a decision would be “an extinction-level event.” “, according to three people who attended the private meeting at which he spoke.
[Fearing ‘Extinction-Level Event,’ N.Y. Democrats Turn Against Each Other]
The court appointed Jonathan Cervas of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to draw the new maps, which were released on Monday. I asked my colleague Nicholas Fandos to explain what happened next.
The maps Cervas drew don’t look like the ones Democrats approved. What is the result?
No they do not. The map passed by the Democratic-dominated Legislature would give Democrats a clear advantage in 22 of the 26 seats, helping them to overturn three of the Republicans’ current three seats. These new maps could give Democrats more than 15 safe seats in a Republican-friendly year like 2022, while also creating five Republican safe seats and half a dozen alternative positions. . One of the most notable changes: Cervas’ map will return Representative Nicole Malliotakis’ Staten Island-based county, a Republic, to a more conservative form. Democrats tried to solder Park Slope on it to turn it blue.
The new maps are not annoying for the incumbents. At least five of them were withdrawn from their districts, including Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a potential speaker of the House. But what happened in Manhattan?
This is one of the most surprising aspects of the new map. And it is likely to set up two major battles around New York City in the coming months between the Democratic incumbents.
The most prominent was in Manhattan, where Democrats Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney were brought together into a borough after serving together for 30 years.
Do not give up. Nadler and Maloney both announced Monday that they would seek elections in the same county, despite pleas from allies to retire or run elsewhere.
For Jeffries, how many problems are happening in a county you don’t live in?
Candidates are not required to live in the county they represent. Someone well known in the community like Jeffries or Representative Grace Meng of Queens could still run and win. But it certainly creates another layer of confusion for voters, potential challengers and even the candidates themselves as they seek to try to explain and navigate this.
In the case of Representative Mondaire Jones, who is drawn out of much of his area in the lower Hudson Valley, the calculation may be more difficult. Jones is currently in the district currently represented by a progressive freshman Jamaal Bowman. If he wants to stay in Congress, he may have to challenge him in the primaries or challenge Sean Patrick Maloney, who wasted very little time declaring his candidacy for the territory Jones currently holds. is declaring.
Dear Diary:
It’s a warm 4th of July in South Ozone Park, and my family and I are having our annual barbecue. After preparing the sausages, rice and potato salad and roasting the chicken, we sat down to eat, and I started pouring drinks.
It wasn’t until I filled my cup that I knew we were out of ice. My mom said to run to the corner snack shop for a bag or two before they ran out. I grabbed my wallet and dashed off.
When I got to the fast food store, I grabbed two of the four remaining bags, put them on the counter, and handed the owner a $20 bill.
He said he had no change.
I say that’s fine, he can keep the coins.
“No,” he said nonchalantly. “I don’t have any dollar bills.”
I am very confused and disappointed.
“Dude, how do you run a deli and have no dollar bills?” I shouted.
“Can you just help me a little bit and let me have it?” he said with a shrug.
I was so stunned that I didn’t even bother to protest. I just left with the tape. I’m out of $5, but the drinks are heating up.
– Shawn Sinanan
