October 8, 2024

Tuesday, October 8, 2024. Annette’s News Roundup.

Kamala is always busy.

Harris delivers remarks to commemorate one year since Oct. 7 attacks and plants a commemorative tree.

Check out the Vice President on the Oct. 7 massacre against Israel.

Kamala’s interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes. 👇 This is the full 20 minute interview.

I found the 60 Minute interviewer fixated on Republican talking points, but the Vice President handled the questioning well and made clear again why she should be our next President.

Women should expect no kindness when harsh Abortion laws and the Supreme Court come together.

This SCOTUS ruling makes clear why the rights given to women by the now overturned Roe v. Wade must be written back into law by the Congress and signed by President Harris.

It also makes clear why the next Supreme Court appointees must be chosen by President Harris.

It is up to us.

VoteBlue!

Supreme Court lets stand a decision barring emergency decisions that violate Texas ban.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

The Biden administration had asked the justices to throw out the lower court order, arguing that hospitals have to perform abortions in emergency situations under federal law. The administration pointed to the Supreme Court’s action in a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues.

The administration also cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. The administration said it brings Texas in line with federal law and means the lower court ruling is not necessary.

Texas asked the justices to leave the order in place, saying the state Supreme Court ruling meant Texas law, unlike Idaho’s, does have an exception for the health of a pregnant patient and there’s no conflict between federal and state law.

Doctors have said the law remains dangerously vague after a medical board refused to specify exactly which conditions qualify for the exception.

There has been a spike in complaints that pregnant women in medical distress have been turned away from emergency rooms in Texas and elsewhere as hospitals grapple with whether standard care could violate strict laws against abortion.

Pregnancy terminations have long been part of medical treatment for patients with serious complications, as way to to prevent sepsis, organ failure and other major problems. But in Texas and other states with strict abortion bans, doctors and hospitals have said it is not clear whether those terminations could run afoul of abortion bans that carry the possibility of prison time.

The Texas case started after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, leading to abortion restrictions in many Republican-controlled states. The Biden administration issued guidance saying hospitals still needed to provide abortions in emergency situations under a health care law that requires most hospitals to treat any patients in medical distress.

Texas sued over that guidance, arguing that hospitals cannot be required to provide abortions that would violate its ban. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court Appeals sided with the state, ruling in January that the administration had overstepped its authority.(Associated Press).

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The Times often sane washes Trump but this lead headline in the Times 👇 at least admits the economic damage another Trump term would cause.

Trump’s Plans Could Increase U.S. Debt While Raising Costs for Most Americans.

A new analysis estimates that the former president’s proposals could grow deficits by as much as $15 trillion over a decade.

Former President Donald J. Trump’s economic proposals could inflame the nation’s debt burden while ultimately raising costs for a vast majority of Americans, according to a pair of new economic analyses that are among the most in-depth studies to date of the Republican nominee’s plans.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group that seeks lower deficits, found that Mr. Trump’s various plans could add as much as $15 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade. That is nearly twice as much as the economic plans being proposed by Vice President Kamala Harris.

And an analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal think tank, found that Mr. Trump’s tax and tariff plans would, on average, amount to a tax increase for every income group except the top 5 percent of highest-earning Americans.

The two new studies differ in some respects. The budget group looked at the cost of both candidates’ tax and spending plans over 10 years, while the tax institute focused on what the impacts of Mr. Trump’s tax and tariff plans would be in 2026. But together they show that Mr. Trump’s agenda could be both costly and regressive by placing a greater burden on those making the least amount of money.

Over the course of his campaign, Mr. Trump has floated a flurry of potentially far-reaching policies, including exempting certain forms of pay from taxes and levying broad tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States. He also wants to extend elements of the tax law he enacted in 2017 that are set to expire after next year.

“It’s almost difficult to come up with a tax plan that would raise taxes on most Americans, but still increase the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars a year — and that’s what this does,” said Steve Wamhoff, the federal policy director at I.T.E.P.

The C.R.F.B. cautioned that its estimates remain subject to considerable uncertainty as many of the proposals that Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris have been pitching are thin on details. It presented three cost scenarios for each campaign’s nascent economic agenda.

On the high end, Mr. Trump’s plans would cost $15 trillion over 10 years, while Ms. Harris’s would cost $8 trillion. In a midrange scenario, the former president’s second-term agenda would cost $7.5 trillion and Ms. Harris’s plans would cost $3.5 trillion. And at the low end, Mr. Trump’s plan would add $1.45 trillion to the debt by 2035 while Ms. Harris’s would add nothing, making it “deficit neutral.”

“Both the Republican and Democratic candidates for president have put forward campaign plans that would, at best, maintain the status quo and, at worst, add tremendously to our debt and deficits,” the C.R.F.B. report said. “Even in the best-case scenario, neither candidate’s plan would be sufficient to put debt on a downward path and point America toward a more secure and sustainable fiscal future.”

The Harris campaign noted that she has said publicly that her policies would be paid for and that the Biden-Harris administration has proposed budgets that would reduce the deficit by $3 trillion.

The Trump campaign suggested that the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget was misjudging the effect that the former president’s proposals would have on the economy.

“President Trump’s plan will rein in wasteful spending, defeat inflation, reduce the burden of interest costs and ignite economic growth that fuels federal revenue so we can make our economy great again,” said Brian Hughes, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign.

A persistent difficulty for budget forecasters in Washington has been estimating the impact of Mr. Trump’s plans to exempt overtime pay and tips from taxation. Many experts have cautioned that the proposals would encourage more people to classify their earnings as tips or overtime. Whether that happens could vastly change the cost of the plans — and potentially reward high-income Americans with the resources to exploit the tax breaks.

The team of researchers from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy assumed that Americans would not significantly change their behavior because of those exemptions, noting the uncertainty around that factor. They analyzed all of Mr. Trump’s tax proposals — extending his 2017 tax cuts, restoring the full state and local tax deduction, cutting corporate taxes and exempting tips, overtime and Social Security benefits from taxes. They found that those plans would cut taxes across the income spectrum, with the highest-income Americans benefiting the most.

But the savings many Americans would see under those cuts are more than offset by Mr. Trump’s plans to impose widespread tariffs on imports, according to the think tank’s estimates. Mr. Trump has thrown out several different ideas for raising tariffs, and the researchers base their analysis on a 20 percent tariff on all imports and a 60 percent tariff on goods from China. Another tax increase included in their estimate is repealing the green-energy tax credits passed under President Biden.

Overall, Mr. Trump’s plans would provide a tax cut worth, on average, 1.2 percent of overall income for the richest 1 percent of Americans, while the rest of the top 5 percent would see a 1.3 percent boost. Every other income group would lose money because of the higher costs created by the tariffs, with the bottom 20 percent experiencing a loss worth 4.8 percent of their income on average.

That’s the equivalent of the richest 1 percent paying $36,320 less in taxes, while the bottom 20 percent pay $790 more, I.T.E.P. estimated. The middle 20 percent of Americans would pay $1,530 more, on average, equivalent to 2.1 percent of their income.

Because tariffs increase the cost of goods, they fall disproportionately on poorer Americans who spend much of their money on groceries, clothing and other consumer items. Rich Americans would also pay more because of the tariffs, but the extra costs amount to a far smaller share of their overall income. Low-income Americans pay less in taxes, meaning tax cuts do not benefit them as much as they do high earners.

Mr. Trump and his campaign have argued that his tariffs will only affect companies operating abroad, but economic studies have repeatedly found that the costs of import taxes are ultimately passed on to American consumers and businesses.

At the Economic Club of New York last month, Mr. Trump said that his tariffs “will be bringing in billions and billions of dollars, which will directly reduce our deficits.” He also said he would save money by creating a “government efficiency commission.”

While Ms. Harris has repeatedly attacked Mr. Trump’s plans, neither candidate has made deficit reduction a priority in their campaigns. Instead, both have been one-upping each other with new tax cuts and spending initiatives. The cost estimates come as the United States is already saddled with nearly $36 trillion in debt, with interest costs eclipsing spending on the military and social safety net programs.

For Ms. Harris, the biggest question in her plans is how much of Mr. Trump’s 2017 tax law she would allow to expire at the end of next year. The vice president has said that she will not allow taxes to go up for those earning under $400,000. But it is not clear how she would handle certain deductions that benefit small businesses or tax benefits that businesses get for equipment purchases and research.

Another wild card is how she would approach the state and local tax deduction, known as SALT. Mr. Trump’s tax bill capped the SALT deduction at $10,000 in order to hold down the overall cost of the legislation. That limit is set to expire in 2025, and many Democrats from high-tax blue states, including the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, have pushed for restoring the full deduction. That would add more than $1 trillion to the deficit over 10 years and overwhelmingly benefit rich households. (New York Times).

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Trump always picks the “best people.”

The ‘Crypto Punks’ Behind Trump’s Murky New Business Venture.

The serial entrepreneurs behind Donald J. Trump’s new cryptocurrency project have left a trail of lawsuits, unpaid debt and tax liens.

Chase Herro is an online salesman who proudly calls himself a “dirtbag of the internet,” able to sell anything to anyone. Zachary Folkman ran a company called Date Hotter Girls, offering advice under a pseudonym on how to pick up women at bars.

For the past decade or so, the two men have been serial entrepreneurs, leaving behind a trail of lawsuits and unpaid debt and taxes.

Now they are former President Donald J. Trump’s business partners.

Mr. Herro and Mr. Folkman are the forces behind World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency venture that Mr. Trump and his three sons announced on a livestream last month. The Republican presidential candidate declared his new enterprise would help turn the United States into “the crypto capital of the world.”

His eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., said Mr. Herro and Mr. Folkman would help engineer a financial revolution based on digital dollars. “You could put them in a boardroom at Goldman Sachs, and they’re going to smoke the people in the room,” he said.

Other crypto experts have expressed doubt, even alarm, about the business, the former president’s involvement and his partners. Eswar Prasad, an economics professor at Cornell University, said Mr. Herro and Mr. Folkman did not appear to have the technical or financial savvy to make the venture work.

The concept behind it, which was pitched as groundbreaking, seemed similar to other existing crypto ventures, said John Reed Stark, a former senior official with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“It’s a bunch of nonsense, and a terrible opportunity for investors,” he said.

For Mr. Trump, the project is part of an extraordinary effort to mix his personal finances with his bid to return to political power. Mr. Trump campaigns daily on a social platform owned by the Trump Media & Technology Group. Since he announced his new election effort, he has sold silver coins, Bibles, gold hightop sneakers, digital trading cards and, as of last week, diamond-encrusted watches, all branded with his name, image or campaign themes.

Like his social media company, his new crypto business stands out for its potential conflicts of interest. If Mr. Trump is elected, he would be in a position to influence the regulations that could determine whether World Liberty Financial succeeds or fails. Mr. Trump has already said he opposes strict federal intervention in the industry, which now operates in a legal gray area.

Even the project’s leaders sounded a little incredulous that the presidential candidate was jumping into a partnership with two little-known 39-year-olds in a high-risk industry just before Election Day.

“If you would have thought six months ago that Donald Trump is dropping a decentralized finance project, would anyone have believed it?” Mr. Folkman asked on the livestream announcing the project. Especially, the event’s moderator added, “with two crypto punks.”

A Trump campaign spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Asked about the company’s plans, Jim Redner, who was hired in September as World Liberty Financial’s spokesman, said he had just quit. Mr. Herro, Mr. Folkman and World Liberty Financial did not respond to requests for comment.

Trump’s Evolution

As recently as 2021, Mr. Trump himself said crypto “seems like a scam.” The F.B.I. has said it is riddled with pervasive fraud that cost Americans billions of dollars last year alone.

But Mr. Trump’s views started to change, he said last month, after he discussed the technology with his sons, who were enthusiastic about its potential.

World Liberty Financial first took shape about nine months ago, when Mr. Herro and Mr. Folkman were connected to the Trump family through Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer, and his son, Zachary, an investor in crypto projects.

Mr. Witkoff is a close friend of Mr. Trump’s and a donor to a pro-Trump political action committee. He testified for Mr. Trump in the former president’s civil fraud trial in New York this year, and was playing golf with Mr. Trump during the latest attempt on the former president’s life.

Mr. Witkoff is no crypto expert — he mispronounces the word “memecoin,” a type of digital currency, as “me me coin,” according to a person who requested anonymity to describe a private conversation. But he believed the project would be good for the youngest Trump son, Barron, an 18-year-old college freshman, giving him business experience and steering him away from more scam-ridden segments of the crypto industry, the person said.

The company’s promotional materials, reviewed by The New York Times, called Barron a crypto “visionary.”

Its business model remains murky. One person involved in the business, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private planning, said the platform would facilitate borrowing and lending in cryptocurrencies. The promotional materials say the company isn’t owned or managed by Mr. Trump, the Trump Organization or Trump family members, though they may receive compensation.

Serial Entrepreneurs

Mr. Herro and Mr. Folkman have a history of jumping from project to project. Together or separately, they have formed at least 17 companies, gravitating to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, both tax havens.

Their ventures have largely involved social media marketing and selling advice on how to get rich quick through e-commerce or crypto. One 2021 podcast featuring Mr. Herro hit a typical theme: “From Broke to Millionaire in 14 Days.”

Both men were involved in Dough Finance, a crypto platform that was hacked in July, according to a person who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the situation. A vulnerability in the project’s code led to the theft of $2 million. “I lost a lot,” one customer wrote on social media. “Hard to sleep at night.”

Mr. Herro, who sometimes spells his last name as Hero, has made a rags-to-riches tale part of his pitch. As a teenager, he was convicted of theft and marijuana possession and spent nearly two weeks in a Wisconsin jail for probation violations. He has said he cut off his ankle bracelet and fled as a felon to California, although Wisconsin records show his offenses were misdemeanors.

His problems continued. Two cars were repossessed. His landlord sued to evict him. An investor in a medical marijuana dispensary he partly or wholly owned claimed fraud and won a $207,000 court judgment.

His girlfriend left him after he demanded she get an abortion and told her she would look fat in a swimsuit, he has said.

“I was a bad human being,” he said on a podcast in 2019.

In his telling, everything changed when he discovered social media marketing and made his first million within months. “All the bad things about me are from like, 10, 11 years ago,” he has said.

But the turnaround wasn’t complete: In 2015, he missed the birth of his second child, he later said, because he was tripping on LSD in Puerto Rico. He paid $79,000 in federal back taxes in 2016, but only after the authorities filed a lien. California tax liens, filed in 2018 and 2019 for a total of $281,000, remain on the books, according to state officials.

It’s unclear when Mr. Herro met Mr. Folkman. A Skidmore College graduate, Mr. Folkman founded Date Hotter Girls in his 20s, offering dating advice under the pseudonym Zack Bauer. “You’re going to be ripping their clothes off and throwing them up against the wall,” he promised in a 2011 seminar.

Two years later, the two men started the Nexus Group, which sold advertising on social media websites. By 2016, they were living together in a $12,000-a-month oceanside villa in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The property owners later claimed that they had skipped out on $36,000 in rent and caused $75,000 in damage. The lawsuit was settled in 2019.

The Nexus Group also ran into legal trouble. In 2017, a client sued, claiming the company had failed to provide the promised services, a complaint that was later withdrawn. A few years later, American Express sued the group and Mr. Folkman for $77,000 in unpaid credit card bills. The credit card company lost the case after missing a filing deadline. Mr. Folkman also owes $7,300 in taxes to California, according to state records.

Mr. Herro claimed in a 2019 interview that he had been wildly successful, generating more than $700 million in e-commerce sales. In 2021, he bought a $7 million home in Boca Raton, Fla.

In 2020, Mr. Herro and Mr. Folkman started a new business in Puerto Rico — Subify, a subscription-based platform meant to connect online creators with their fans. One client claimed the website Subify had created crashed on launch day and customers’ account information had disappeared; Subify sued the client for nonpayment.

In a court filing last month, a lawyer for Subify said the firm was winding up its business. Like the Nexus Group, it has been officially dissolved, corporate records show.

A Shift to Crypto

Mr. Herro and Mr. Folkman began laying the groundwork for their turn to crypto years ago. Mr. Herro ran a crypto trading firm called Pacer Capital in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and over the years, he and Mr. Folkman have evangelized about the technology.

In April 2022, Mr. Herro led a seminar on crypto at the home of Jordan Belfort, who defrauded more than 1,500 financial clients and whose memoir inspired the 2013 movie “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Mr. Herro told the group he was a fan of the cryptocurrency TerraUSD, calling it “one of the coolest assets in history.” The next month, Terra’s price collapsed overnight, setting off an industrywide implosion that erased billions of dollars in savings and forced several high-profile companies into bankruptcy.

As they announced World Liberty Financial last month, Mr. Trump and others involved in the project declared they had unbridled confidence in the effort. Mr. Herro described the firm’s goals in the loftiest terms — nothing less than harnessing the power of crypto to restructure trillions of national debt.

Mr. Witkoff, the developer, said that Mr. Herro and Mr. Folkman were “as smart as any currency traders I’ve ever met.” (New York Times).

Even President Biden predicts violence if Trump loses.

Remember this. 👇

Why This Election Aftermath Will Be Even Worse (Maybe Much Worse)

Hubert Lawrence Block (Herblock) The New Yorker 1974

https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/why-this-election-aftermath-will?utm_medium=email

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Hurricane Milton is about to strike Florida.

A Category 5 Hurricane threatens our people and all MAGA does is lie and cause confusion and hurt those at risk.

Fact Checker from the Washington Post.

No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did.

No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did
> . Donald Trump falsely accuses President Biden of redirecting disaster funds, a budget maneuver Trump himself approved in 2019.

“The Harris-Biden administration says they don’t have any money [for hurricane relief]. … They spent it all on illegal migrants. … They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them.”
— Former president Donald Trump, remarks at a campaign rally in Saginaw, Mich.

Trump has been trying to weaponize the Hurricane Helene relief efforts, accusing the Biden administration of failing to provide adequate assistance. As part of his critique, he claims there is no money available for hurricane relief because it was spent already to handle the surge of migrants at the southern border.


“They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank,” Trump charged, referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, adding in the additional falsehood that Vice President Kamala Harris wants illegal immigrants to vote for her. As we have explained many times before, this would be against the law and there is no evidence to support this claim.

Trump’s claims have been echoed by his supporters, such as billionaire Elon Musk. But Trump is completely wrong.

Even though Trump was once president, he still appears to have little clue about the appropriations process. What’s even richer is that when he was president, he did exactly what he claims Biden did — take money from FEMA’s disaster fund to fund migrant programs at the southern border.


The Facts

FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security. On Wednesday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters: “We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.

He emphasized there was plenty of money to deal with the current disaster. “We are meeting the moment,” he said, adding: “We have the immediate needs right now. On a continuing resolution, we have funds, but that is not a stable source of supply, if you will.”


Congress, as part of a short-term spending bill, recently provided $20 billion to the FEMA disaster relief fund. But Mayorkas noted: “That doesn’t speak about the future and the fact, as I mentioned earlier, that these extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity, and we have to be funded for the sake of the American people. This is not a political issue.”

In other words, Trump falsely claimed that there is no money left for Hurricane Helene survivors. That’s the opposite of what Mayorkas said.
“FEMA has what it needs for immediate response and recovery efforts,” FEMA spokeswoman Jaclyn Rothenberg said on X.

“As [FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell] said, she has the full authority to spend against the President’s budget, but we’re not out of hurricane season yet so we need to keep a close eye on it. We may need to go back into immediate needs funding and we will be watching it closely.”
So how does Trump link this to migrants?

A Trump campaign spokesman pointed to FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program, which gives grants to local governments and nonprofits to take care of undocumented immigrants. Congress boosted the budget from $360 million in fiscal year 2023 to $650 million in fiscal year 2024. The program’s 2023 annual report says it provides shelter, such as hotel/motel services, food and transportation, including plane tickets up to $700 a person.

As we said, Congress appropriated this money, just as it did the disaster fund. There’s no evidence that any money from the disaster fund was used to help migrants.
“These claims are completely false,” DHS said in a statement Thursday night. “

As Secretary Mayorkas said, “FEMA has the necessary resources to meet the immediate needs associated with Hurricane Helene and other disasters. The Shelter and Services Program (SSP) is a completely separate, appropriated grant program that was authorized and funded by Congress and is not associated in any way with FEMA’s disaster-related authorities or funding streams.”

Trump has a habit of assuming other politicians act in the same way as he would. So we wondered why he would accuse Biden of raiding the FEMA disaster fund to handle undocumented migrants.


It turns out that’s because he did this. In 2019, the Trump administration, in the middle of hurricane season, told Congress that it was taking $271 million from DHS programs, including $155 million from the disaster fund, to pay for immigration detention space and temporary hearing locations for asylum seekers who had been forced to wait in Mexico. “The U.S. is facing a security and humanitarian crisis on the Southern border,” the administration said in its notice that it was redirecting the funds.

The monthly reports issued by the FEMA disaster fund show $38 million was plucked and given to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August that year — just before the prime storm period of September and October.


The Trump campaign did not respond to questions about Trump’s actions in 2019.
The Pinocchio Test
Trump falsely claims FEMA has run out of disaster money — and then falsely says that’s because money instead was spent on migrants. There is no evidence the Biden administration spent FEMA disaster money on migrants. Rather, that’s what Trump did.
He earns

Four Pinocchios.
 Four Pinocchios
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One more thing. Or two.

1. Donald Trump elaborated on a shocking threat during his visit to Racine, Wisconsin, Tuesday, warning the crowd that the country will be pushed into World War III if he isn’t re-elected in November.

“Under Crooked Joe Biden, the world is in flames, our border is overrun, inflation is raging, Europe is in total chaos, the Middle East is exploding, Iran is emboldened, China is on the march, and the worst, most incompetent, most corrupt president in history is going to drag us into World War III,” Trump said. (New Republic)

1. WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday there are "a lot of bad genes" in the United States, while discussing murders allegedly committed by immigrants living illegally in the United States.

"How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers," Trump said in an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, while discussing the immigration policies of his Democratic opponent in the Nov. 5 election, Vice President Kamala Harris.

"Many of them murdered far more than one person, and they're now happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it's in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now."

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The House Majority runs through New York.

Poll shows tight races for NY-17 and NY-18 congressional seats

NEW YORK (PIX11) — New exclusive PIX11 polling with Emerson College and The Hill reveals two incredibly close races and even a ballot controversy just four weeks from election day.

Incumbent Republican Congressman Mike Lawler has a razor-thin lead over former Democratic Congressman Mondaire Jones in New York’s 17th Congressional District 45%-44%.

Working Families Party candidate Anthony Frascone appears to be sapping support from Jones. The Jones campaign has claimed in court Frascone, a former Republican, was a phony candidate Republicans recruited to spoil his chances in this close race.

The head of the Working Families Party has disowned Frascone, who does not appear to have a campaign page or be active on social media.

Meanwhile, in the 18th District incumbent Democratic Congressman Pat Ryan has a five-point lead in our poll over retired NYPD deputy inspector Alison Esposito– the Republican.

The poll shows Ryan has 48% support and Esposito with 43%. However, 10% are still undecided– the race is very much unsettled.

In New York 18, the economy is by far the most important issue according to 39% of those surveyed. Housing affordability is second at 16%. Immigration is third at 14%.

Of most voters of NY-18, 45% said their financial situation was worse off than one year ago. Still, overall a combined majority of 54% said they were doing the same or better.

Aside from the economy, Esposito has really focused a lot on immigration. 53% of the district said New York has a migrant crisis. 35% said migrants were a problem but not a crisis. 13% said there was no problem.

Ryan has talked quite a bit about abortion rights. The majority of the district, 57% said the federal government should enshrine the rights that used to be guaranteed by Roe vs. Wade.

43% say let states decide.

In NY-17 the data on the economy and immigration were similar. 32% of voters in that district said the economy was the top issue. 20% said immigration. 13% named housing affordability as the top issue. 44% of those in the district said they were worse off than one year ago, 38% said they were doing about the same, and 18% felt they were better off. (PIX 11).

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Your Daily Reminder

Trump is a convicted felon.

On May 30th, he was found guilty on 34 felony counts by the unanimous vote of 12 ordinary citizens.

The Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump was scheduled to be sentenced on July 11th and September 18th. He will now be sentenced on November 26.

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