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A host of "The View" praised Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams for not conceding her election in 2018 as she defended her claim that she "won" her race against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

"So this is your second run against incumbent Brian Kemp for governor, and polls show a tight race, especially the poll this morning. When you lost in 2018, you didnt traditionally concede which I appreciated because you cited voter suppression. Are you confident that this will be a free and fair election, and not a repeat performance of what happened before?" co-host Sunny Hostin asked.

Abrams said she appreciated the framing of Hostin's question. "I have never denied that I lost. I dont live in the governors mansion. I would have noticed," she said.

"And there is this clip thats going around, and it shows me saying that we won, and what I was referring to was that we won in terms of communities that were long left out of the electoral process finally participating in '18 in outstanding numbers," she said.

GEORGE SOROS THROWS $1M BEHIND STACEY ABRAMS' SECOND GUBERNATORIAL RUN

Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, speaks during a campaign event in Reynolds, Georgia, US, on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Abrams will face Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the general election on November 8, 2022. (Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"But Im not delusional. Just so thats clear, but what we know was that the issues that we raised in 18, the fact that 214 precincts were shut down, that 53,000 people had their voter registrations held hostage, that 1.4 million people were purged, including half a million who simply had chosen not to vote, that we were able to tackle that because we raised the issues, because I refused to say that that was a good thing, we saw as a response, the state legislature the following year, in response to lawsuits that I filed and others, started to fix those problems," Abrams said, touting high election turnout in 2020 when President Biden won the state.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin thanked Abrams for "admitting" she outright did not win. "Thats such a rare thing," she said.

"I did it on the day I didnt win," Abrams said. "Im not the governor, said that. The other is the election wasnt fair to voters. Also said that. In this country, we have the responsibility to challenge broken systems I dont say things without evidence, and that I think is the distinction that is being lost in this attempt to conflate who I am and what I have done for the last four years with others."

In 2019, Abrams addressed a crowd at the annual convention of the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and said, "despite the final tally and the inauguration [of Gov. Brian Kemp] and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have a very affirmative statement to make: We won."

Stacey Abrams sat down with the hosts of "The View" on Wednesday. (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)

KEMP CAMP REACTS TO NYT REPORT SUGGESTING DEMOCRAT STACEY ABRAMS FLOUNDERING IN GEORGIA GOVERNORS RACE

"Concession needs to say something is right and true and proper," Abrams said at the time. "You can't trick me into saying it was right."

She told the New York Times in 2019 she stood by her claim of having "won" despite not being governor.

New York Times story from 2019 about Stacey Abrams. (Fox News Graphic)

"Now, I cannot say that everybody who tried to cast a ballot wouldve voted for me, but if you look at the totality of the information, it is sufficient to demonstrate that so many people were disenfranchised and disengaged by the very act of the person who won the election that I feel comfortable now saying, I won," she said. "My larger point is, look, I won because we transformed the electorate, we turned out people who had never voted, we outmatched every Democrat in Georgia history."

Abrams told Axios in February that she would "acknowledge the victor" in the 2022 gubernatorial election.

"I will always acknowledge the legal outcome of an election. I have never failed to do that," Abrams told Axios. She added that she doesn't want the American people to be in a place "where we cannot legitimately question" and criticize systems in order to improve them.

Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, speaks during a campaign event in Reynolds, Georgia, US, on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Abrams will face Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the general election on November 8, 2022. Photographer: Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Photographer: Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Vice President Harris on Monday said it was not by accident, but probably by design that the same sources who threaten abortion rights also work against voting rights and LGBTQ rights.

Harris made the remarks at a meeting she convened with civil rights and abortion rights activists. Attendees included Rev. Al Sharpton, Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson and Center for Reproductive Rights CEO Nancy Northup.

Certainly we know that with the Supreme Court having made the decision in Dobbs to take a constitutional right that had been recognized from the people of America, from the women of America has created a health care crisis in America, Harris said, referring to the June Supreme Court ruling striking down federal abortion protections.

I also want to mention that it is certainly, we think, not by accident, but probably by design that we are seeing from some of the same sources attacks on womens health rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights. And so we stand here in full acknowledgement of what has taken place in our country, Harris added.

Harris has taken on the role within the Biden administration of pushing back against threats to abortion rights since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June.

Her assertion that the Supreme Court caused a health care crisis in America comes just days after she made more pointed remarks about the highest court in the U.S.

Harris referred to the Supreme Court as an activist court during an interview on NBCs Meet the Press last week, adding that the courts decision to overturn Roe caused her great concern about the integrity of the Court overall.

The reproductive rights leaders who gathered on Monday echoed Harriss sentiments.

Tens of millions of women. trans men and nonbinary people cannot access the care they need in their communities. And those that are most affected are those who are already facing barriers to care: Black, Latinx, Indigenous communities, rural communities, immigrant communities, McGill Johnson from Planned Parenthood said at the meeting.

Melanie Campbell, CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, noted that courts had historically been places where Black women were able to achieve justice when laws failed them.

Unfortunately, we are in a perilous chapter in our nation where too many of our courts have been turned into instruments for partisan gain, all with the aim of reserving power for a select few, Campbell said. Today we find ourselves in this moment where the highest court in the land is stripping away our constitutional rights and freedoms.

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VP Kamala Harris spent about 90 minutes meeting with the leaders of civil rights and reproductive rights groups on Monday evening. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo

WELCOME HOME ALEX BURNS will return to POLITICO as associate editor for global politics and a columnist, Executive Editor Dafna Linzer and Editor-in-Chief Matt Kaminski announced this morning.

This expansive new role will be charged with helping chart the course for POLITICOs coverage of politics, policy and power as we become a more truly global newsroom, Dafna and Matt write. Alex will work with editors and reporters to develop themes, stories and projects that appeal broadly to our readers, and their political obsessions, in the United States and abroad

Hell build and oversee a team to help push these projects forward, and author one of them himself: A new column, published here and in Europe, for POLITICOs global audience that explores dynamics related to the future of politics, elections, climate, trade and technology, grounded in reporting, analysis and Alexs own perspective.

Alex will rejoin POLITICO after the midterms, following an eight-year run at the NYT and a blockbuster venture into book publishing earlier this year with This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and The Battle for Americas Future. Read the full memo Flashback to Alexs first front-page POLITICO byline on Nov. 6, 2008

We can't wait for Alex to get started and to feature his new column here in Playbook.

HARRIS PLEDGES MORE ACTION ON ABORTION RIGHTS Back in July, a coalition of civil rights and reproductive rights groups pushed President JOE BIDEN for continued leadership in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, requesting a POTUS meeting.

On Monday evening, they got their meeting with VP KAMALA HARRIS, who spent about 90 minutes with the groups leaders. Her message, attendees said, echoed the rising sentiment in Democratic circles that abortion rights stand to be a key motivating factor in the midterms and she said the Biden administration would continue raising the salience of the issue.

The Rev. AL SHARPTON, founder of the National Action Network, told Playbook that while Harris didnt go into specifics, she said there would be more action, and it would be a priority.

Harris made the case that the abortion issue had to be made relevant to all voters, and she touted a blueprint the administration has pushed for months: that the abortion decision was just the beginning of an attack on Americans privacy, with other rights now in the crosshairs.

One suggestion that caught Harris attention was the idea of using pop culture to help connect with voters. MONICA SIMPSON, executive director of SisterSong, told Harris that was one of the missing pieces and noted how P-Valley, the Starz series about a Delta strip club, featured an episode this summer depicting a young girls journey to receive care at Mississippis sole abortion clinic one loosely based on Jackson Womens Health Organization, which was at the center of Junes landmark Supreme Court decision.

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FOR YOUR RADAR Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.) is set to introduce a Senate bill today banning abortions nationally after the first months of pregnancy. Graham has previously introduced similar bills, but this years version which is likely to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, WaPos Caroline Kitchener reports, as opposed to the 20-week threshold in previous bills is sure to become a flashpoint. While Graham and Republicans plan to use the bill to rail against Democratic support for late-term abortions, Democrats are certain to seize on any GOP effort to impose a national ban.

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LAST CALL This is it: The 2022 midterm primary season ends tonight. (OK, except for you sticklers who remember that Louisianans will be voting in their states jungle primary on Nov. 8 while the rest of the country casts their general-election ballots.)

There are some intriguing House races and gubernatorial races on the ballot in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, but the main drama is the Republican race for the chance to face off against Sen. MAGGIE HASSAN (D-N.H.) in November.

The GOP primary saw a major shake-up less than two weeks ago, as our Steve Shepard and Ally Mutnick write in their curtain-raiser: On Sept. 1, a newly created super PAC, White Mountain PAC, began a two-week, nearly $5 million ad blitz for state Senate President CHUCK MORSE.

The source of the new groups funding wont be known until next month. But the pair reports that Republicans in the state and beyond have scrambled to elevate Morse, who is seen as a more mainstream candidate than DONBOLDUC, a far-right former Army general who has closely hugged DONALD TRUMP and held a substantial lead in several recent polls.

This is another race where Democrats have inserted themselves into the GOP primary to secure what they believe will be a more advantageous matchup: Senate Majority PAC launched a $3.2 million ad buy noting that MITCH McCONNELLs Washington establishment is going all-in for Chuck Morse, a message that could both tamp down conservative support in the primary but also resonate in favor of Hassan if Morse makes it to November.

If Bolduc holds on, New Hampshire could move to the edge of the Senate battlefield as GOP groups divert their dollars to more winnable races. But if Morse can eke out a win, Hassan stands to face the knock-down, drag-out battle that political forecasters have long anticipated in the Granite State, with control of the Senate hanging in the balance.

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INFLATION NATION This afternoon, Biden will hold his long-awaited White House event celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Aides say the event will have thousands of attendees: Cabinet Secretaries, Members of Congress, Governors, Mayors, climate and environmental leaders, healthcare activists, union workers, and other Americans.

Biden will say the bill delivers on promises that Washington has made to the American people for decades lowering costs for families and finally taking aggressive action to tackle the climate crisis, according to an advance copy of his remarks we obtained. And, with the midterms eight weeks away, he will knock Republicans for, among other things, blocking an effort to cap the price of insulin.

But the coverage of the event is certain to be colored by another event today: the 8:30 a.m. announcement of the August consumer price index aka, the new inflation numbers.

POLITICOs Victoria Guida previewed the announcement for us: Economists are expecting Tuesdays consumer price index data to show that prices actually fell (on aggregate) in August compared to July, though only to a level thats about 8 percent higher than last August. Still, that monthly decline, driven particularly by gas prices, would be a welcome sign that inflation is on a steady slope downward. Unfortunately, some other key parts of inflation are likely to remain stubbornly high, notably rent, so the descent could be very slow.

SURVEY SAYS The enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans continues to shrink. In new POLITICO/Morning Consult polling, 56% of Democratic registered voters say they are extremely or very enthusiastic about voting in November, compared to 57% of Republicans who say the same. Our last survey with this question, released Sept. 3, had Republicans with a 4-point advantage.

BIDENS TUESDAY:

9 a.m.: The president will receive the Presidents Daily Brief.

3 p.m.: Biden will host his South Lawn event celebrating the Inflation Reduction Act, with remarks from Biden and Harris, and first lady JILL BIDEN and second gentleman DOUG EMHOFF in attendance.

Press secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE will brief at 1:35 p.m.

HARRIS TUESDAY The VP will also take part in an armchair conversation at 10:10 a.m. at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institutes 2022 leadership conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

THE SENATE is in, with a recess from 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. for weekly conference meetings. The Judiciary Committee will hear from Twitter whistleblower PEITER MUDGE ZATKO at 10 a.m.

THE HOUSE will meet at 2 p.m. to take up a variety of legislation. Speaker NANCY PELOSI will swear in new Reps. MARY PELTOLA (D-Alaska), PAT RYAN (D-N.Y.) and JOE SEMPOLINSKI (R-N.Y.) at 6:50 p.m.

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his Cancer Moonshot Initiative on Monday, Sept. 12, in Boston. | Scott Eisen/Getty Images

ALL POLITICS

BATTLE FOR THE SENATE Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER is investing $15 million of his own campaign cash across 11 Senate races to protect his majority, Burgess Everett reports this morning. $5 million will go to the DSCC, and the rest will be distributed among the races in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin ($1 million each), plus Colorado and Washington state ($500,000 each).

BIG INVESTIGATION The Fight Against an Age-Old Effort to Block Americans From Voting, by ProPublicas Aliyya Swaby and Annie Waldman: For all of the recent uproar over voting rights, little attention has been paid to one of the most sustained and brazen suppression campaigns in America: the effort to block help at the voting booth for people who struggle to read a group that amounts to about 48 million Americans Time and again, federal courts have struck down such restrictions as illegal and unconstitutional. Inevitably, states just create more.

FASCINATING DeSANTIS DISPATCH DeSantis full armor of God rhetoric reaches Republicans. But is he playing with fire? by the Miami Heralds Ana Ceballos: The Republican governor, a strategic politician who is up for reelection in November, is increasingly using biblical references in speeches that cater to those who see policy fights through a morality lens and flirting with those who embrace nationalist ideas that see the true identity of the nation as Christian. He and other Republicans on the campaign trail are blending elements of Christianity with being American and portraying their battle against their political opponents as one between good and evil.

MAR-A-LAGO FALLOUT

MASTER OF HIS FATE After the two sides each proposed two special master candidates last week, DOJ indicated Monday that it would accept the Trump teams suggestion of RAYMOND DEARIE, a former chief federal judge, to oversee the feds review of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. The move could help speed the process, but U.S. District Judge AILEEN CANNON will still have to sign off on Dearie and make decisions about plenty of other disagreements regarding the special masters work, timing and scope. How the judge rules on those outstanding issues could well determine whether Trumps fight with the Justice Department gets further entangled with appeals, write WaPos Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein.

THE WHITE HOUSE

IVE BEEN WORKING ON THE RAILROAD Biden got personally involved Monday with the push to avoid a massive railroad strike later this week, sending a message to the companies and unions, Bloombergs Jordan Fabian reports. The presidents effort signifies how seriously the White House is taking the possibility of a work stoppage, which could disrupt the US economy and hurt Democrats chances of keeping their congressional majorities.

A strike starting Friday doesnt actually seem likely to people close to the negotiations, Tanya Snyder reports: A last-minute deal or an extension of the negotiating period are more expected. But the prospect of a work stoppage is already having an impact. Multiple train routes and other services will be suspended starting today.

KNOWING RICHARD REVESZ Regulatory oversight nominee made a career studying regulation, by Roll Calls Benjamin Hulac: President Joe Bidens pick to lead the White Houses regulatory office possesses a background in environmental law, has written extensively on federal regulations and has drawn support from peers who served under Democratic and Republican administrations.

CONGRESS

WHETHER PERMITTING House progressives are ready to play hardball with Sen. JOE MANCHINs (D-W.Va.) energy permitting reform, after repeatedly getting rolled by the centrist swing vote, Sarah Ferris and Burgess Everett report. Theyre hoping to force Manchin into negotiations on the legislation, with the question of a shutdown threat looming. Still, [s]everal lawmakers and aides said they believe there is a path to an amended deal that can win over [RAL] GRIJALVA and other House Democrats while keeping Manchin on board. In part thats because the reform would aid clean energy as well as fossil fuels.

But Manchin wont be the first to the table. Sen. SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO (R-W.Va.) unveiled her own permitting bill Monday, nudging ahead of Manchin with 38 GOP co-sponsors, per Benjamin Hulac. States would be free to develop energy resources on federal lands within their borders, a series of Trump-era regulations would be set into law and a West Virginia pipeline would be approved in Capitos bill.

JAN. 6 AND ITS AFTERMATH

THE INVESTIGATIONS Since Wednesday, federal investigators have sent roughly 40 subpoenas in a substantial escalation of their probe into Trump worlds actions around the 2020 election and Jan. 6, NYTs Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman, Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer scooped. BORIS EPSHTEYNs and MIKE ROMANs phones were seized under warrant. Other subpoena targets included DAN SCAVINO and BERNARD KERIK. The subpoenas largely focus on the scheme to propose slates of fake Trump electors, as well as the actions of the Save America PAC. They encompass a wide range of people around Mr. Trump, from low-level aides to his most senior advisers.

BILL STEPIEN and SEAN DOLLMAN are also among those subpoenaed, add CNNs Gabby Orr, Kristen Holmes, Sara Murray, Kaitlan Collins, Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz and Zachary Cohen, who peg the total at more than 30.

WILL RUSSELL was on the list too, per CBS Arden Farhi, Fin Gmez and Andres Triay.

WAR IN UKRAINE

THE VIEW FROM THE WEST The speed and overwhelming success of Ukraines recent counteroffensive have taken U.S. officials by surprise, Lara Seligman and Paul McLeary report. Kyiv informed top U.S. generals in advance of the plan to launch simultaneous attacks on two fronts, according to a Ukrainian official, but both governments were shocked by the success of the northern counteroffensive. Now the question is how far Ukrainian troops will be able to get into the Donbas and in the south.

Western intelligence officials think this moment could mark a turning point in the war, WaPos Shane Harris and Ellen Nakashima report. Everybodys watching now to see how Russia reacts and whether President VLADIMIR PUTIN will pull more troops into Ukraine from elsewhere.

But the U.S. is also warning Ukraines supporters not to get ahead of themselves: Victory would be a long way off, report the L.A. Times Tracy Wilkinson and Eli Stokols. U.S. officials said the back-and-forth trade of gains and retreats by Russians and Ukrainians was likely to continue Weapons supplies, weather, and the resolve in Moscow as well as in Washington and European capitals will determine how the rest of the war unfolds.

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TRUMP CARDS

RULE OF LAW WATCH Senate Judiciary Chair DICK DURBIN (D-Ill.) said Monday that his panel will investigate allegations that Trump DOJ figures pressured the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York to alter criminal investigations for partisan reasons, NYTs Benjamin Weiser reports. GEOFFREY BERMAN, who served in that U.S. attorney role from 2018 to 2020, makes the explosive claims in his new book, Holding the Line, that federal officials tried to intervene in cases involving MICHAEL COHEN, JOHN KERRY and GREG CRAIG.

POLICY CORNER

MONKEYPOX LATEST As monkeypox vaccine uptake stalls out, the administration is pivoting its strategy to try to get more at-risk queer men, especially Black and Hispanic men, to get the shot, Megan Messerly and Krista Mahr report. But the sudden drop in vaccination rates has local health departments and public health experts concerned the public may be moving on from the threat of monkeypox too soon, leaving unvaccinated people vulnerable and giving the virus an opening to circulate indefinitely.

To wit: In Charlotte, N.C., WaPos Fenit Nirappil documents the struggle to get Black men vaccinated, as the community most at risk retains plenty of skepticism around the government, safety and structural barriers.

MONUMENTAL NEWS Biden is likely to designate the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Colorado this month, in what would be the first national monument creation of his presidency, WaPos Maxine Joselow scooped. Sen. MICHAEL BENNET and other Colorado Dems have sought to protect the old military training ground and nearby landscapes through legislation, but they havent been able to get past Senate Republicans concerned about the restrictions that protecting the area would impose on mining and drilling.

WHAT DEB HAALAND IS UP TO The Interior Department announced Monday it will move to undo Trump administration moves that loosened offshore oil and gas safety regulations, WSJs Ted Mann reports. The updates to the well-control rule would increase the strength requirements for blowout preventers, the systems designed to cut and seal a well pipe in the event of a surge of high-pressure oil and gas, which could otherwise lead to a spill.

BEYOND THE BELTWAY

WHAT THEYRE WATCHING IN BROOKLYN In the wake of the NYTs blockbuster investigation into New Yorks Hasidic Jewish schools, Empire State politicians have responded in strikingly different ways. NYTs Eliza Shapiro, Brian Rosenthal and Nicholas Fandos break down the reactions: Democratic Reps. JERRY NADLER and HAKEEM JEFFRIES, congressional nominee DAN GOLDMAN and some top state legislators voiced serious concerns, with Jeffries calling for an investigation. But Gov. KATHY HOCHUL treaded carefully, calling it outside the purview of the governor. Her GOP opponent, Rep. LEE ZELDIN, criticized the story and sided with the schools.

Some prominent New York Dems declined to comment or didnt respond, including Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER, Sen. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND and DCCC Chair SEAN PATRICK MALONEY. Mayor ERIC ADAMS said he was not concerned about the story but confirmed that the city is investigating some schools.

Jen Psaki is starting at NBC.

Kyrsten Sinema registered for next years Boston Marathon, coming back from her broken foot this summer.

OUT AND ABOUT The White House News Photographers Association held its annual Eyes of History Awards Gala at the D.C. Ritz Carlton on Saturday night, hosted by Peter Alexander and Alison Starling. The gala recognized the associations top winners in visual journalism contests for the last three years and honored Joni Mazer Field, Carol Guzy and Bobby Williams with lifetime achievement awards. The association named AFPs Brendan Smialowski photographer of the year, CNNs McKenna Ewen video editor of the year and BBC News Anjelica Casas multimedia journalist of the year for 2022. SPOTTED:Anna Johnson, J. David Ake, Sally Buzbee, MaryAnne Golon, Pedro Ugarte, Imelda Flattery, Jackie Smith, Chris Shlemon, Jim Bourg, Kevin Lamarque and Win McNamee.

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK Marc Wheat is joining former VP Mike Pences issue advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom, as general counsel. He most recently was deputy assistant general counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Greg Jacob continues to advise Pence and his team.

TRANSITIONS Drew Griffin is joining Invariants government relations and comms team. He most recently was chief of staff to Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio). Democratic strategist Michael Starr Hopkins is joining Rep. Charlie Crists Florida gubernatorial campaign as senior adviser, per The Hills Hanna Trudo. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Chris Sharpsten is now EVP of defense programs at J.A. Green & Co. He previously was director of supply, production and distribution for Operation Warp Speed.

Tim McKone is joining Roberti Global as a senior adviser. He recently launched McK Strategies, and previously was EVP for federal relations at AT&T. Kellie Adesina is joining Kraft Heinz as director of federal government affairs. She most recently was director of government affairs at Bayer, and is a House Agriculture alum. Isabelle Rosini is joining Red Renegade as an account executive. She previously was on the FreedomWorks comms team.

WEDDING Alex Wirth, co-founder and CEO of Quorum, and Tracy Nelson, associate at Sullivan and Cromwell, got married Saturday in Santa Fe, N.M. Pic SPOTTED:Jonathan Marks, Andrea Basaraba, Jordan Rasmusson, John Brinkerhoff, Emily Hall, Ryan Thornton, Rachel Wolbers, Duncan Hosie, Libby Ediger, Elizabeth Stockton, Mat Goldstein and former Sen. Tim Wirth (D-Colo.), Alexs great-uncle.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD Wesley Wright, senior director at Locust Street Group, and Lauren Wright, executive director of the Conservative Climate Foundation, welcomed Winslow Kennedy Wright on Sept. 5. Pic

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) and Roger Williams (R-Texas) Danielle Burr Cedric Richmond North Carolina A.G. Josh Stein Asya Evelyn of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) office Mark Mellman Jos Morales of Stacey Abrams Georgia gubernatorial campaign Potomac Strategy Groups Matt Mackowiak Robin Meszoly Vivian Schiller of the Aspen Institute Ryan Hambleton Walter Suskind CNNs Alli Gordon Amazons Suzanne Beall and Tina Pelkey POLITICOs Ari Hawkins, Kate Ling, Destiny Woosley, Robyn Brigham, Jeremy Dillon and Ben Leonard Bloombergs Laura Davison Kelsey Smith of Speaker Nancy Pelosis office NBCs Ginger Gibson and Casey Dolan former Reps. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) (6-0) and Lincoln Davis (D-Tenn.) Jerry Johnson of Brodeur Partners Jennifer Pflieger Herald Groups Jack Fencl Sierra DeCrosta Julia Pitcher Worcester

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NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Sports Accountability Project (ASAP) announced today that Rev. Al Sharpton, who has previously impressed upon the National Basketball Association (NBA) to work with greater urgency and transparency concerning the ongoing investigation into extensive reports of racism, sexism and abuse by Robert Sarver, sent a letter today to PayPal CEO Dan Shulman calling on the company to end its relationship with Mr. Sarver. As the NBA's investigation, now in its 10th month, has proceeded, PayPal announced a ground-breaking, international partnership with Mr. Sarver and entities under his ownership, including the Phoenix Suns, the Phoenix Mercury, and Real Club Deportivo Mallorca.

Rev. Sharpton's letter, which was published as a full-page ad in the AZ Central newspaper today, reads as follows:

Dear Mr. Schulman,

I am writing to demand that PayPal cease doing business with any entity owned or associated with Robert Sarver, including the Phoenix Suns, the Phoenix Mercury, and Real Club Deportivo Mallorca. Mr. Sarver's leadership has been riddled with credible allegations of racism, misogyny, and harboring a toxic work environment. As you may be aware, ESPN published a detailed investigative piece on these complaints last November, and Mr. Sarver is currently under investigation by the NBA.

In June 2020, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, Paypal was one of many companies to announce a significant investment in fighting institutional racism and advancing diversity and inclusion. In total, PayPal announced it would commit $535 million toward these causes. Yet, PayPal has continued to do business with Robert Sarver, who is a known perpetrator of racism and hate, and is now expanding its business relationship with Mr. Sarver internationally.

In light of these commitments, PayPal cannot simply ignore Mr. Sarver's transgressions. As someone who has dedicated my life to fighting injustice and speaking out against hate in all its forms, it is my duty and responsibility to call out such hypocrisy and to call on PayPal to uphold the values for which it proclaims to stand.

It is time for PayPal to put its money where its mouth is. Issuing a press release and writing a big check two years ago is not equivalent to doing the hard work that is required to achieve real change. I reiterate my call for PayPal to end its relationship with Robert Sarver and help hold him accountable for his egregious behavior.

Sincerely,

Rev. Al SharptonPresident and FounderNational Action Network

For more information, please visit:www.AmericanSportsAccountabilityProject.com or contact [emailprotected].

About the American Sports Accountability Project (ASAP)

The American Sports Accountability Project (ASAP) is a group of individual advocates, community-based organizations, civil rights leaders, and sports fans who are committed to bringing accountability to perpetrators of hate speech, abuse, and harassment within the leadership of the American sports industry. There is zero tolerance for abuse of any kind in today's society.ASAP demands action in response to misconduct and a future where our arenas, fields and stadiums can be free from racism, sexism, and bigotry.

Contact: [emailprotected]

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Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn find themselves at the center of increasing antisemitic violence. Just this week, two teenagers chased a frantic Hasidic man down a street.

Anti-Jewish assaults during the preceding months include six assailants beating a 21-year-old Orthodox man as he walked to synagogue on Shabbat in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. According to NYPD statistics, antisemitic crimes surged 400 percent last winter over the previous year, with Brooklyn serving as an epicenter of anti-Jewish hate.

Despite white people comprising the majority of nationwide hate crime offenders, assaults targeting Haredim are primarily perpetrated by racial minorities.

Commenting on this phenomenon, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a 2020 interview with Haaretz, we cant shy away from the facts that attacks against Jewish residents were committed by young people of color. Comporting with James acknowledgment are results from a 2021 study of more than 3,000 American adults, which found that antisemitic attitudes were higher among minority groups than white respondents.

A Black-Jewish partnership once rooted in shared grievance found itself floundering after Israels victory in its war of defense against Arab neighbors during the Six-Day War. Organizations including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), whose noble advocacy on behalf of civil rights involved freedom rides and sit-ins, began expressing undercurrents of antisemitism by defending the Palestinian cause and condemning the Zionist Jewish terrorists.

A similar paradigm shift emerged in the shadow of Israels May 2021 war with Hamas and the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, when nationwide protests culminated in a slew of antisemitic attacks. Yet, unlike decades past, narratives surrounding inequality are now popularized through the ideological framework of intersectionality. Its permeation in academic, political, and social media circles renders todays era of antisemitic hostilities far more toxic than previous versions, with organizations like the official Black Lives Matter movement finding common cause with pro-Palestinian extremists and terrorists.

The 1960s-70s saw prominent minority voices, including civil rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, and Bayard Rustin, vocalizing support for the Jewish people.

In his book, Zionism and the Black Church, founder and CEO of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI), Dumisani Washington, recounts Kings implicit understanding that the Arab-Israeli conflict could not be reduced to colorism.

In 1975, responding to the growth of antisemitism within Black communities, Randolph and Rustin organized the Black Americans to Support Israel Committee (BASIC). That same year, BASIC placed an ad in The New York Times, signed by over 100 Black leaders, condemning the anti-Jewish blacklist and reaffirming the rights of Israel to exist as a sovereign state.

Yet soon after, mainstream leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton helped anti-Zionism gain a US political foothold. Their hate-mongering involved Jackson remarking that he had an evil feeling when visiting Israel, and referred to Jews as Hymies during a 1984 Washington Post interview. Sharptons eulogy for 7-year-old Gavin Cato following the 1991 Crown Heights riots denounced the neighborhoods apartheid ambulance service, and invoked the diamond merchant libel to describe Jews. Still, Jackson garnered almost seven million votes during his 1988 presidential run, with Sharpton reportedly making over 60 visits to the White House during President Barack Obamas time in office. Despite comparing Jews to termites and blaming them for the evils of racism and slavery, noted antisemite Louis Farrakhans list of admirers consists of former Womens March co-chair Tamika Mallory and celebrities like Nick Cannon.

For their part, organizations like the Jewish Council for Public Affairs backed Sharptons 2020 Virtual March on Washington, and encouraged followers to engage with groups promoting racial justice even if led by those with whom we may disagree. As for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the watchdog group has recently stepped up efforts to address left-wing antisemitism. While offering financial rewards for information on those responsible for the Brooklyn attacks, the organization remains restrained in its rhetoric on the racial makeup of those assaulting Orthodox Jews.

Those who fail to condemn leaders espousing Jew hatred also lend cover to antisemitic criminals, and leave those who are visibly Jewish exposed and vulnerable to attack. Rather than ingratiating themselves with unsavory characters, the Jewish establishment must support minority groups who believe in the IBSIs goals, and must speak the truth about the minority groups committing attacks on Jews. Refusing to speak the truth about their racial background harms all communities.

Following his 2019 article, titled The Moral Case for Israel Annexing the West Bank-and Beyond, Jamaican-born professor of philosophy Jason Hill was censured by DePaul University colleagues and revealed in a Fox News interview that he needs security while walking around the Chicago campus. The ideological debate framing the smear campaign against Hill mirrors the progressive commentary contributing to the rise of antisemitism within Black communities. The gravitational shift from Rustin to Sharpton and Randolph to Farrakhan did not occur in a vacuum. Rather, societys collective commitment to advancing intersectional myths coupled with the Jewish establishments fear of alienating a segment of the Black population is placing Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in the crosshairs of a misguided political pedagogy.

Irit Tratt is a writer who resides in New York. Her work has appeared in The American Spectator, The Jerusalem Post, JNS, and Israel Hayom.

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Addressing the Rise of Minority Attacks Against Orthodox Jews - Algemeiner