Month: September 2020

Allowing Muslim Ban to Go into Effect, US Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Trump

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“Shameful… Another stain added to our nation’s history.” —Faiza N. Ali, social justice activist

In 7-2 ruling handed down Monday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court will allow full enforcement of a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries by lifting injunctions imposed by lower courts.

As the Associated Press reports, “The ban applies to travelers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Lower courts had said people from those nations with a claim of a ‘bona fide’ relationship with someone in the United States could not be kept out of the country. Grandparents, cousins and other relatives were among those courts said could not be excluded.”

As the ALCU notes, the ruling does not mean the court has sided with the Trump administration on the merits of the “Muslim Ban” itself—a policy that sparked fierce protests when it was first announced earlier this year and which civil liberties advocates have widely condemned—but instead stayed orders from lower courts which said that enforcement of the ban should be on hold while the various challenges to the policy made their way through the system.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor were the two dissenting voices on the bench.

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Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, had this reaction:

Others critics of the ban were swift in expressing their disappointment, but also explained that the order does not contain anything about the court’s overall assessment of the case:

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Deficit Hawk Myth Dead as GOP Unite Over Morally and Economically 'Obscene' Tax Bill

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“Hypocrisy rules in Washington.”

So said Frank Clemente, executive director for Americans for Tax Fairness, in the wake of the release by the Republican conference committee of the party’s final tax plan on Friday and news that both Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Mark Rubio (R-Fl.) had ended their so-called “principled” opposition to the bill and would vote ‘Yes.’

“The myth of the deficit hawk is now dead. Next year when Republicans propose deep cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid under the guise of deficit reduction, we will all remember that they increased the deficit by $1.5 trillion in order to give tax cuts to millionaires and big corporations. If this bill becomes law, it will be a travesty for working families, and a slap in the face to principles.”
Click Here: All Blacks Rugby Jersey—Frank Clemente, Americans for Tax FairnessAmong other details, the final bill will drop the nation’s corporate rate a full 14 percentage points, from it’s current 35% down to 21%, while also giving the nation’s richest a massive and permanent Christmas present by cutting the individual income rate from 39.6% down to 37%—a bigger giveaway, in fact, than earlier versions.

The final bill will also abolish individual mandate provision from the Affordable Care Act, which as New York Magazine‘s Eric Levitz notes, “will decrease participation in Obamacare — and thus, decrease the amount the government spends on health insurance subsidies by roughly $300 billion over the next decade. Republicans need that money to pass giant tax cuts for the rich without violating their budget resolution (which forbids them from adding more than $1.5 trillion to the deficit over the next ten years).”

Corker—the only GOP senator to vote against the Senate versions repeatedly said he would not support a bill if it would blow a gaping hole in the national deficit—as every credible analysis performed on the various versions showed.

But in the end, paving the way for a vote on the package early next week, he dropped his previous with little explanation.

“With Bob Corker’s reversal,” said Clemente, “the myth of the deficit hawk is now dead. Next year when Republicans propose deep cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid under the guise of deficit reduction, we will all remember that they increased the deficit by $1.5 trillion in order to give tax cuts to millionaires and big corporations. If this bill becomes law, it will be a travesty for working families, and a slap in the face to principles.”

On a conference call with Republican Party members on Friday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan indicated the votes are now there to pass the conference bill in both chambers. “This is happening,” Ryan said. “Tax reform under Republican control of Washington is happening. Most critics out there didn’t think it could happen…. Now we’re on the doorstep of something truly historic.”

But what Ryan describes as “historic,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called “a moral and economic obscenity.” The final plan, Sanders said late Friday night, “is a gift to wealthy Republican campaign contributors and an insult to the working families of our country. No member of Congress should vote for this disastrous legislation.”

In an interview with the Guardian published Saturday, Sanders explained that “what this is all about is nothing more than the Republican party very generously rewarding their wealthy campaign contributors.”

Alan Essig, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said, “This is not governing, it’s hijacking our tax code.” What is also clear now, he added, is that corporations and the rich will be served mightily if the final bill passes, but working people: “not so much.”

When the story is told about “the tax catastrophe of 2017” in the future, Essig said, “it will be the middle-class families with children who now pay higher taxes so that wealthy business owners can pay less. It will be the working people who pay more so that corporate shareholders, including foreign investors, can benefit from corporate tax cuts.”

Though Corker was only the last Republican to cave when it came to “standing on principles” about the deficit, his support for the bill opened the floodgates for critics pointing out the obvious and far-reaching hypocrisy of the entire GOP project when it comes to government and the economy.

“This tax bill is a moral and economic obscenity. It is a gift to wealthy Republican campaign contributors and an insult to the working families of our country. No member of Congress should vote for this disastrous legislation.”
—Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

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“Don’t let your Uncle Bob be fooled,” wrote economist and former labor secretary Robert Reich on Saturday: “Republicans are voting for this because their wealthy patrons demand it. Their tax plan will weaken our economy for years – reducing demand, widening inequality, and increasing the national debt by at least $1.5 trillion over the next decade.”

He added, “Shame on the greedy Republican backers who have engineered this. Shame on Trump and the Republicans who have lied to the pubic about its consequences.”

Melissa Boteach, vice president of the Poverty Program at the Center for American Progress, started a running list of things the GOP—now that that their anti-deficit canard is irrevocably out in the open—is “never allowed to complain about again.” Her list included: 

  1. The deficit: you can’t add $1.5T to deficit for tax cuts for millionaires & corporations then whip up deficit hysteria over Medicaid… Seriously, if GOP says “We need to cut [X program for working families] because of ‘the deficit’” & media doesn’t mention this tax bill…
  2. “Decline of family values”: The leader of your party just endorsed an alleged pedophile to pass a tax cut. Some GOP leaders spoke out…
  3. “Charities best equipped to help struggling families” um… your tax bill just hurt their bottom line
  4. “We can’t afford to cut poverty” seriously after this tax bill, you NEVER get to say that again

Rubio, who did his best to garner admiration as a noble holdout, based his objections on the size of Child Tax Credit (CTC), but after he finally said he was a ‘Yes’ on Friday, tax analysts quickly showed that the apparent changes made to appease him were paltry at best.

“Republicans are voting for this because their wealthy patrons demand it. Their tax plan will weaken our economy for years – reducing demand, widening inequality, and increasing the national debt by at least $1.5 trillion over the next decade.” —economist Robert ReichAccording to Chye-Ching Huang, deputy director for tax policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the final bill released Friday “does nothing, compared to the Senate bill, to improve the CTC for 10 million children in low-income working families—meaning that those children will get only a token increase of up to $75 per family or no increase at all.”

Overall, Huang explained, “the last-minute changes that Republican leaders made were modest and did almost nothing to change the bill’s fundamental nature. It still provides large tax cuts heavily tilted toward wealthy households and profitable corporations and adds at least $1.5 trillion to deficits over ten years while doing little if anything for millions of low- and modest-income households.”

Now, with Rubio and Corker now firmly in the ‘Yes’ column—after folding, as the Huffington Post noted, “for hardly any reason at all”—focus is now back on Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), both of whom have not made a formal announcement about how they intend to vote. Two other GOP senators, John McCain of Arizona and Thad Cochran of Mississippi, are both in the hospital with health concerns but are expected to return to the Senate for a vote when the bill arrives.

Refusing to give up, national public interest and advocacy groups are targeted House members over the weekend and vowing to raise hell on Capitol Hill and in local districts nationwide next week:

Progressive opponents of the bill are also planning to join with Maine residents in the days ahead to increase the pressure on Collins. For Monday, national groups—including UltraViolet, Working Families Party, CREDO Action, and MoveOn.org—are planning a major protest outside her offices in Portland.

“Senator Collins needs to know that a vote for this tax bill is a vote against women,” said Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of UltraViolet, in a call to action. “While Collins is still undecided on the tax plan, if she votes ‘yes,’ it will give millionaires and billionaires huge tax breaks while raising taxes on everyone else and slashing programs that women rely on. Congress is headed for a final vote next week, and Senator Collins could make or break this disastrous tax plan, which is why it’s so important that we keep up the pressure until she decides her vote on the final bill.”

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After 'Advocating Killing Iranians' for Years, Neocon Bill Kristol Called Out for Faux Concern

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Weekly Standard founder and Iraq War booster Bill Kristol has emerged in recent days as a self-styled defender of the Iranian people as their country’s anti-regime protests continue to intensify. But during a panel discussion on MSNBC Tuesday, National Iranian American Council president Trita Parsi questioned how much Kristol really cares about Iranians, given his long record of calling for military actions that would potentially leave many thousands (or even millions) of them dead.

Reacting to Kristol’s call for the U.S. to “respect the Iranian people’s desire for freedom,” Parsi said: “With all due respect, Bill, you’ve been arguing to bomb Iran for so long that I don’t know if you’re really respecting the Iranian people. You’ve been advocating killing Iranians.”

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle attempted to come to Kristol’s defense, insisting that he is “not advocating to kill anyone, let’s make that very clear.”

“No, on the contrary, there has been all of this argument for taking military action against Iran instead of actually having the nuclear deal that has been working,” Parsi responded.

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Stephen Miles, director of Win Without War, argued following the exchange that Kristol’s history is enough to show that he “is no more qualified to speak about freedom in Iran than an arsonist is to promote fire safety.”

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Kristol is just one of a number of American neoconservatives who have jumped at the opportunity to call for U.S. intervention in Iran in the midst of growing internal tensions.

“There’s a lot of interest in terms of agitating for instability in Iran from people who are pretending to care about the Iranian people, but who actually couldn’t care less about the Iranian people.”
—Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept

Often portrayed as an effort to “help” the Iranian people—just as the Iraq War was framed as a fight for “democracy”—critics have argued that hawks like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton are simply looking to exploit Iran’s domestic turmoil for their own war aims.

“Going back to 2005, 2006, the neocon slogan, after they toppled Saddam Hussein, was ‘real men go to Tehran,'” noted The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald in an interview on Democracy Now! Tuesday. “They were really most eager to facilitate regime change in Iran.”

As Common Dreams reported on Monday, President Donald Trump appeared to echo Republican warmongers in a tweet on Monday, writing emphatically, “TIME FOR CHANGE!”

Like Parsi, Greenwald interpreted this feigned concern for the freedom of Iranians as a cover for steps toward military action.

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“There’s a lot of interest in terms of agitating for instability in Iran from people who are pretending to care about the Iranian people, but who actually couldn’t care less about the Iranian people,” Greenwald concluded. “Lots of Western commentators who are posturing about being concerned about human rights in Iran are people in think tanks funded by other dictatorships and repressive tyrants in the same region. So I think we ought to be extremely skeptical when it comes to people like Donald Trump or people in Washington think tanks pretending that they’re wanting to intervene in Iran out of concern for human rights or for the welfare of the Iranian people.”

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OOOPS: 'Ballistic Missile Threat Inbound to Hawaii…This is Not a Drill'

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Full-blown panic, chaos and rage are being reported after all Hawaiians received emergency alerts on their cell phones, televisions and radios Saturday morning warning that a ballistic missile attack was imminent.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard tweeted that it was a false alarm.

President Trump was golfing at his Trump National Golf Club in Florida near his Mar-a-Lago estate when the alert was sent.

Congresswoman Gabbard told MSNBC: “Our leaders have failed us. Donald Trump is taking too long. He’s not taking this threat seriously … This is literally life and death that is at stake.”

“The people of Hawaii just got a taste of the stark reality of what we face here of a potential nuclear strike on Hawaii,” Gabbard said during a phone interview on CNN minutes after the alert was broadcast across the islands. “This is a real threat facing Hawaii,” she said.

There was no follow-up text saying it was a false alarm until 38 minutes after the original alert.

Hawaiian Governor David Ige told CNN that someone had “pressed the wrong button” during a shift change at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.

Patrick Granfield, a former strategic communications director at the Pentagon under President Obama tweeted “thank God the President was playing golf.” Granfield posted the tweet after Hawaii officials declared the emergency alert was a false alarm.

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Urging Dems to Stop Playing Defense, Warren Says Medicare for All 'Goal Worth Fighting For'

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on her fellow Democrats on Thursday to “go on the offense” to improve the country’s healthcare system instead of focusing on simply defending the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.

Speaking at a conference for the pro-Obamacare group Families USA, the senator noted that while the ACA has been credited with insuring 20 million Americans who previously had no health coverage, 28 million people remain uninsured nearly eight years after the law was passed.

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“We need to build on that progress and do more to hold America’s insurance companies accountable,” said Warren, who is considered a potential challenger to President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

The senator also touted her support for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All proposal, saying it provides a plan “to give every single person in this country a guarantee of high-quality coverage.”

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“This is a goal worth fighting for and I am in this fight all the way,” she added. “For too long giant insurance companies have pretty much run the show.”

Since the ACA passed in 2010, insurance companies have restricted the doctors patients are able to see, raised premiums, and dropped coverage for certain prescriptions with no warning.

Many insurance companies left the state-run health insurance exchanges in 2017, complaining of financial losses as they were covering people with more health issues than they had before the ACA, and as Trump ended cost-sharing payments for coverage of low-income households.

When companies leave, said the senator, Congress should “call their bluff” and “replace their policies with public alternatives.”

“Private insurance companies are failing the American people,” Warren said. “There is no reason on earth for us to continue to allow the healthcare of the American people to be held hostage by an industry that both attacks any new healthcare proposals and at the same time refuses to do anything to fix it.”

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For Refusing to 'Ignore or Accept Racial Discrimination,' Amnesty International Honors Colin Kaepernick With Highest Award

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Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sparked a league-wide protest that has spanned two seasons since he first kneeled down before a game to protest racial violence and police killings in 2016, was awarded Amnesty International’s highest honor on Saturday.

“While taking a knee is a physical display that challenges the merits of who is excluded from the notion of freedom, liberty, and justice for all, the protest is also rooted in a convergence of my moralistic beliefs, and my love for the people.” —Colin KaepernickPresented at a ceremony in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Saturday, the secretary general of the human rights group Salil Shetty said Kaepernick earned its Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2018 for his “refusal to ignore or accept racial discrimination.”

“Just like the Ambassadors of Conscience before him,” Shetty added, “Colin Kaepernick chooses to speak out and inspire others despite the professional and personal risks. When high profile people choose to take a stand for human rights, it emboldens many others in their struggles against injustice. Kaepernick’s commitment is all the more remarkable because of the alarming levels of vitriol it has attracted from those in power.”

As Amnesty recounted in a statement:

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On social media, Kaepernick was lauded for his activism:

Accepting the award in Amsterdam, Kaepernick stated, “I would like to thank Amnesty International for the Ambassador of Conscience Award. But in truth, this is an award that I share with all of the countless people throughout the world combating the human rights violations of police officers, and their uses of oppressive and excessive force. To quote Malcolm X, when he said that he, ‘will join in with anyone — I don’t care what color you are — as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth,’I am here to join with you all in this battle against police violence.”

He added, “While taking a knee is a physical display that challenges the merits of who is excluded from the notion of freedom, liberty, and justice for all, the protest is also rooted in a convergence of my moralistic beliefs, and my love for the people.”

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BFC announces second round of fashion fund recipients

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The British Fashion Council (BFC) on Tuesday announced the second round of recipients of its Fashion Fund, which sees 30 UK designers receive a shared sum of 500,000 pounds, with a maximum payout of 50,000 pounds. Over 350 applications were made for financial support.

At the start of the pandemic the BFC launched an emergency fund of one million pounds that was distributed to viable fashion businesses in need back in May. The BFC said the funds are allocated depending on urgency and capability for a business to come through and thrive post crisis.

In a statement the BFC said it took the decision to support Fashion East designers in creating collections this season to secure the pipeline of creatives from the talent launchpad led by Lulu Kennedy which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. A small number of start-up stage businesses were also supported to create collections for continuity based on their exceptional creativity.

Caroline Rush, Chief Executive BFC said: “The UK leads the way in the number of highly creative, entrepreneurial and responsible SMEs in the global fashion industry. Protecting these businesses through the most challenging period we have all faced has been a priority and the need for funds is still great. We are extremely grateful for each and every one of our funders and hope to continue scaling the fund to help secure the future of the next generation of designer businesses. This is a critical moment to protect British fashion’s global position and reputation in terms of creative designer fashion businesses.”

The recipients for the Fund are:

Camilla Elphick, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, Clothsurgeon, Cottweiler, Danshan, Emilia Wickstead, Eudon Choi, Feng Chen Wang, Fyodor Golan, Goomheo (Fashion East), Helen Kirkum, Liam Hodges, Marques ‘ Almeida, Maximilian (Fashion East), Molly Goddard, Mother of Pearl, Nensi Dojaka (Fashion East), Nicholas Daley, Olubiyi Thomas, Osman Yousefzada, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Prism, Racil, Richard Malone, Roberts | Wood, Rokh, Saul Nash (Fashion East), Sharon Wauchob, Ssōne, Supriya Lele, Teatum Jones, Teija, Thom Sweeney, Wicker Wings

In line with the BFC’s focus on diversity and inclusion, the organisation said ensured all funding panels had increased diversity.

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Renault seeks to channel classic Ford fight with Ferrari

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Renault wants to evoke the battling spirit of Ford’s classic battle with Ferrari at Le Mans in the 1960s as it overhauls its strategy for success in Formula 1.

Ford’s ambitious campaign to topple Ferrari as masters of the endurance event was recently the subject of the Ford v Ferrari/Le Mans ’66 film starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale.

It told the story of how the US motor vehicle manufacturer built the Ford GT40 to finally win the race, which for years had been dominated by Ferrari.

Now Renault team principal Cyril Abiteboul says that this is serving as an inspiration for the current day F1 team as it seeks to turn its own fortunes around which includes a rebranding of the team in 2021 to Alpine.

In an exclusive interview with Motorsport.com, Abiteboul said that the impetus was coming from new Renault CEO Luca de Meo.

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“He has got a good knowledge of sport, and a good knowledge of the people,” Abiteboul said. “His knowledge of the sport means he values and he appreciate the difficulty and the competitiveness of this sport.

“Even if he is not going to interfere on a day-to-day basis, it’s a game changer for me to know that I have someone in the back expecting that the team delivers.

“If I draw a little bit of a comparison it’s like the movie Ford v Ferrari,” he continued.

“He is approaching it not purely as a business, but also with the emotion and the determination that Ford had in the past when they decided they wanted to beat Ferrari.

A recent run of strong results for Daniel Ricciardo has helped improve the team’s spirits. It remains fifth in the constructors championship and behind its engine customer team McLaren, but one place ahead of the ailing Ferrari.

“It is a sport where only the result of laptime and ultimately the championship matters,” Abiteboul acknowledged. “And in that it’s still not that not good enough.

“We had a few years back some good progression,” he said. “[But] that progression sort of stopped, due to what was probably at the time a wrong aerodynamic concept of the car.

“We made the decision to go for quite a different aerodynamic concept, which is always a risk – in particular for an organization size like ours.

“But actually we’ve been able to not only to recover what you lose in changing concept but also progressing, and we see that it’s working.

“The team is starting really to work better together with all the changes that have happened, and we have a better understanding of the car.”

But Abiteboul admitted that the team had not taken advantage of opportunities when they had arisen.

“We have failed to score what we should be scoring and therefore to be where we would like to be,” he said.

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Heller leads Dem Senate challenger by 1 point: poll

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Nevada Sen. Dean HellerDean Arthur HellerOn The Trail: Democrats plan to hammer Trump on Social Security, Medicare Lobbying World Democrats spend big to put Senate in play MORE (R) leads his Democratic challenger by just 1 point in a new poll.

A survey from the Nevada Independent/Mellman Group finds that Heller leads Democratic Rep. Jacky RosenJacklyn (Jacky) Sheryl RosenThe Hill’s Coronavirus Report: Mnuchin sees ‘strong likelihood’ of another relief package; Warner says some businesses ‘may not come back’ at The Hill’s Advancing America’s Economy summit The Hill’s Coronavirus Report: CDC Director Redfield responds to Navarro criticism; Mnuchin and Powell brief Senate panel Hillicon Valley: Experts raise security concerns about online voting | Musk finds supporter in Trump | Officials warn that Chinese hackers targeting COVID-19 research groups MORE (Nev.) 40-39 in the state, with 21 percent of respondents still undecided about their vote in the upcoming midterms.

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Heller is considered one of the most vulnerable senators on the ballot in November, after Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE won Nevada in 2016.

Notably, Rosen leads Heller by 2 percent in the category of voters who “strongly” support a candidate, suggesting an enthusiasm gap that favors Democrats. Thirty percent of respondents “strongly” support Rosen, according to the poll, while just 28 percent “strongly” support Heller.

Heller’s favorability in the state is underwater in the poll, with 40 percent of voters viewing him unfavorably compared to 38 percent who approve of his job performance as senator. Rosen, meanwhile, enjoys a 20 percent favorability rating compared to 15 percent who view her unfavorably.

Heller benefits from name recognition, however. Just 8 percent of Nevada voters say they hadn’t heard of Dean Heller, compared to 34 percent who said they hadn’t heard of Rosen.

A one-term senator who won reelection by just 1 point in 2012, Heller’s seat is viewed as an important target for Democrats seeking to retake the Senate in November. Democrats need a net gain of two seats to flip the upper chamber — a difficult prospect with so many Democratic senators on the ballot in red states.

The Nevada Independent/Mellman Group survey contacted 600 likely Nevada voters between April 12-19 and has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

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Invisible primary has already begun for Dems

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The invisible primary has begun for Democrats plotting a presidential path in 2020. 

Would-be candidates are hitting the trail, sharpening their positions, seeking the right political “lane” and holding private conversations with donors about their prospects. 

Invisible primaries typically start after the midterm elections, but Democrats thinking about the 2020 race appear to be getting a head start. 

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The battle to become the Democratic nominee is shaping up for an early start, and political observers say it’s anyone’s to win.

“We live in a world where presidential campaigns are four-year cycles, and many potential candidates don’t have the luxury to delay conversations with potentials donors, validators, [Democratic National Committee] members and operatives until after the midterms,” said Adam Parkhomenko, a Democratic strategist who co-founded Ready for Hillary, the super PAC that helped push Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE into the 2016 race. 

Parkhomenko said campaign operatives are already having conversations on behalf of their candidates, whether or not they are sanctioned. 

Donor phone lines, meanwhile, are already lighting up, and earlier than ever. 

“I think lots of folks are anxious to test the waters and put out feelers about what a race might look like and if they’ll get the support they’ll need,” said one Democratic donor. “Typically those conversations don’t really happen until after the midterm, but I think it’s a different time. The election cycle never ended.”

Candidates can be a bit coy about their intentions in 2018, suggested one top Democratic fundraiser about the conversations. 

The fundraiser spoke of unofficial conversations with a number of potential 2020 candidates. 

“Nothing official, but lots of wink winks,” the fundraiser said.

Eric Jotkoff, a Democratic strategist who worked on the Obama and Clinton campaigns, said today’s invisible primary is national in scope and focused far beyond the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire. 

Instead of camping out in those states, candidates are working on digital content and trying to reach a coast-to-coast audience to build their brands.

“Rather than just aiming for a TV hit on [Manchester television station] WMUR or coverage in the Des Moines Register, the process these days is much more national,” Jotkoff said. “Now presidential hopefuls work on digital content they hope goes viral and try to get mentions on ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ in addition to eating fried food at the Iowa State Fair or stopping by the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester.” 

To date, would-be candidates such as Sens. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names MORE (D-Mass.), Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.) and Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisRand Paul introduces bill to end no-knock warrants The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook McEnany says Juneteenth is a very ‘meaningful’ day to Trump MORE (D-Calif.) have been out on the stump for 2018 candidates in must-win states including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, a state that went for Trump two years ago that had not supported a Republican since 1984. 

Sen. Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerRand Paul introduces bill to end no-knock warrants Black lawmakers unveil bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk MORE (D-N.J.) has also campaigned alongside 2018 candidates and drew headlines when he appeared with Democrat Doug Jones as he fought and won a special election for a Senate seat in Alabama earlier this year.

Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten GillibrandWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Warren, Pressley introduce bill to make it a crime for police officers to deny medical care to people in custody Senate Dems press DOJ over coronavirus safety precautions in juvenile detention centers MORE (D-N.Y.) has also been trying to carve out a name for herself by playing a leading role in sexual harassment issues.  

Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook MORE — who is considering another bid for the White House — released the book “Promise Me, Dad” and has been crisscrossing the country to talk about Democratic values and the way forward. 

On Tuesday, during a speech at an event put on by his own foundation and the Brookings Institution, Biden — speaking about the future of the middle class — gave a possible preview of what his message might be on the trail. 

“I love Bernie, but I’m not Bernie Sanders,” Biden said. “I don’t think 500 billionaires are the reason we’re in trouble. The folks at the top aren’t bad guys. But this gap is yawning, and it’s having the effect of pulling us apart. You see the politics of it.”

Some dark-horse candidates also have been making the rounds. 

Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu spent time this spring doing interviews on TV to promote his new book, “In the Shadows of Statues.” 

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti also has been putting out feelers to donors. 

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In the donor world, fundraisers are already talking about potential paths to victory. 

If Sanders runs, and Warren and Biden don’t, Sanders will be off to a flying start because of his established network, said a fundraiser who spoke to The Hill. 

“Just a numbers game,” the fundraiser said, adding that if Warren and Biden run, “then there’s a path for others to break through.”