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"Fox & Friends Weekend" co-host Pete Hegseth joined "Outnumbered" Tuesday to discuss the subtle push from Democrats to persuade President Biden not to run for re-election. Hegseth said the "powers that be" in the Democratic Party realize Biden will not help the party's chances to win in 2024.

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PETE HEGSETH: I say every year that the Minnesota Vikings are going to be Super Bowl champs. I have to say that even though it's been over 50 years of futility. They have to at least until the midterms. This was headquarters, the New York Times, putting out an order that this guy ain't going to cut it in 2024. When you've got 50 Democratic strategists almost universally saying it can't be Joe, that is a reflection of the powers that be inside the Democratic establishment, saying if we want a shot at winning in 2024 - forget about 22, that's a foregone conclusion - it's not going to be Joe Biden.

The one hope Democrats might have is the Republican Party also didn't see Donald Trump coming in 2014. So doesn't mean the existing crop that's there would be their answer. But I think their instinct would be to go far left, which doesn't help them either.

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Democratic candidates running for Oregons three open seats in the U.S. House will get extra help from a special Red to Blue program run by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Oregon has just one solidly Republican congressional district and Democrats have an edge in all three of the targeted districts, which are the states new 6th District and the redrawn 4th and 5th districts.

However, as Democrats strategize how to hold onto control of the U.S. House, or at least minimize their losses, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committees selection of the three Oregon candidates for its Red to Blue program shows the state plays a central role. Only 25 Democratic congressional candidates have so far been selected.

This slate of Democratic candidates Val Hoyle, Jamie McLeod-Skinner, and Andrea Salinas are proven champions for Oregon families and will fight for a strong economy, good-paying jobs, affordable health care, and a womans right to choose, committee spokesperson Johanna Warshaw wrote in a press release. The DCCC looks forward to working alongside them to help ensure their victory this November.

Hoyle, labor commissioner and a former longtime state lawmaker, is running for Oregons 4th U.S. House seat and will face Republican Alek Skarlatos, a former Army National Guard soldier who became widely known after he helped thwart a terrorist attack on a European train in 2015.

Skarlatos also ran for Congress in 2020 and lost to U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio by around 25,000 votes. Democrats advantage grew in the new congressional lines that state lawmakers drew in 2021, and The Oregonian/OregonLive has described the 4th District as a safe Democratic seat. Still, Skarlatos is well-funded and well-known. He played himself in a movie based on the attempted terrorist attack and competed on the television show Dancing with the Stars. He is currently a senior fellow at the Freedom Foundation, which pays him to advocate for forestry management policies, according to its website.

The 6th District Democratic candidate, state Rep. Andrea Salinas, of Lake Oswego, is a former congressional staffer and state lobbyist who led House Democrats redistricting work last year. She won a closely watched primary in May in which outside groups, including at least one connected to a Bahamas-based cryptocurrency billionaire, spent more than $12 million to support political newcomer Carrick Flynn. If elected in November, Salinas would become the first Latina member of Congress from Oregon. According to The Oregonian/OregonLives analysis of the new district last year, it tilts in Democrats favor.

The most competitive new congressional district for Democrats is the 5th District, which is a virtual 50-50 tie in terms of how voters drawn into the district have sided in key Republican-Democratic match-ups since 2015, an analysis by The Oregonian/OregonLive shows.

In the 5th District, Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner defeated longtime U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader in the May primary and will now face Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who owns an anesthesiology business with her husband and is the former mayor of Happy Valley. Like Salinas, she would be the first Latina member of Congress from Oregon. McLeod-Skinner is an attorney whos worked as an emergency response coordinator and city planner.

National Republicans are also focused on Oregon and on Tuesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee selected Chavez-DeRemer as one of its Young Gun candidates, which the committee describes as a program to support candidates in competitive districts who have built a winning campaign infrastructure.

Our campaign won decisively in the primary because of our strong grassroots efforts, and we now head into the general election with tremendous momentum to bring commonsense solutions to D.C., " Chavez-DeRemer said in a press release.

-- Hillary Borrud; hborrud@oregonian.com; @HBorrud

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What do recent news reports suggest about the political future of progressive Democrats this year, given that President Joe Bidens polling numbers continue to slide downward?

The latest Biden job approval numbers at RealClearPolitics, which averages the results of eight polling organizations through June 9,show that 39.4 percent of Americans approve of his job performance, while 54.9 percent disapprove.

Bidens approval numbers are at risk of going down as the daily average price of gasoline continues to rise (now above an average of $5 per gallon nationwide), not to mention the June 10 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that the May consumer price index (CPI) reflected a year-over-year increase of 8.6 percent, which exceeded most analysts expectations and wasup from 8.3 percent in April.

Perhaps even more important to progressives is the Biden administrations failure to enact their legislative priorities since they are the driving force behind Democrat policy initiatives, and passing progressive legislation into law is their raison dtre.

Progressives around the country are lamenting the failure of the Democrat-controlled federal government to deliver on issues important to them, as noted here by Democracy Now: Given that a majority Democratic Congress and sitting Democratic president have not delivered on campaign promises such as canceling student debt, protecting Roe v. Wade and passing Build Back Better, the party will be in jeopardy in the upcoming elections.

Will that depress the Democrat vote in November?

The presumption among many progressives would appear that delivering on these issues will somehow improve the election chances of congressional Democrats going into November. But is that really the case?

A recent Politico/Morning Consult poll conducted on June 45 shows that a plurality of voters are concerned with economic issues, including taxes, wages, jobs, unemployment, and spending, with no other issues coming close, as reported by Breitbart News (emphasis added).

Let us examine some other recent news reports and attempt to gain insight into the political future of progressive Democrats.

This has been a progressive Democrat slogan since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter-related street violence that ravaged predominantly Democrat-run cities after George Floyds death in May 2020.

Despite increasing damage to private and public property from the out-of-control riots at the time, Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) sponsored the BREATHE Act in July 2020, which would have slash[ed] federal funds to local police along with federal agencies, and spen[t] the money on social welfare, health care, education, and environmental programs.

With two years worth of defund the police sloganeering (see one list of Democrat supporters here), Democrats are associated with that issue in the publics conscience.

However, Just the News reported on June 10 that Democrat mayors and mayoral candidates now embracing comparatively pro-police and tough-on-crime policies and rhetoric, with the clear implication that the progressive Democrats defund the police campaign is a clear loser even in Democrat-run cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and Washington.

ARasmussen Reports national telephone poll and online survey shows that if the election were held today, 48% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican candidate, while 39% would vote for the Democrat.

Note that the political leanings of both parties are not broken down into factions; for example, GOP establishment versus America First, or moderate versus progressive Democrat.

However, what is particularly interesting about this poll is that 26 percent of black voters and 39 percent of other minorities would vote Republican in the hypothetical election. These are core constituencies of the Democratic Party that traditionally support progressive Democrats and their policies, and the numbers represent a historical shift in their preferences. Consider that in the last midterm election in 2018, Democrats captured 90 percent of black and 69 percent of Hispanic voters, as reported by Pew Research here.

Democrats were shocked when a leading progressive Democrat district attorney was overwhelmingly recalled by San Francisco voters on June 8. Chesa Boudin, the son of left-wing radicals Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, was elected in 2019 on a progressive platform.

According to NBC News: Boudin ran on a platform of ending mass incarceration, eliminating cash bail, creating a unit to review wrongful convictions and refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, as well as prosecuting ICE agents who violate so-called sanctuary city laws.

After three years of car break-ins, public defecation, viral smash-and-grab robberies at major retail stores, and drug-related street crimes, crime victims and their advocates led the recall, which apparently resonated with average San Franciscans.

Boudin is one of several progressive Democrat district attorneys who are demonstrably weak on crime and facing the voters this year, with a recall effort targeting Los Angeles DA George Gascon gaining steam after Boudins recall.

Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami (who preceded Boudin as San Franciscos DA)publicly warned Gascon on June 8: Youre next. The people of Los Angeles have had enough.

Bottom line: weak-on-crime policies of progressive Democrats are not popular even in Democrat-run cities.

All politics are local, as the old adage goes, and each political race is driven by personality and charisma, which sometimes trump ideology and the stance on issues. Here is a smattering of primary results that featured progressive Democrat candidates:

Primary elections are not indicators of who will win in November, as the Democrat primary choices were essentially between center-left Democrats and far-left progressives (there are no conservative Democrats). The contrast between the Democratic and Republican parties is particularly stark this election season, and the Generic Congressional Ballot leans heavily Republican at this point in time.

Will the progressive Democrats support for restrictions on the Second Amendment, multi-trillion dollar Build Back Better spending, abortion on demand, and (the fading) defund the police campaign overcome voters concerns about the economy, inflation, and federal spending?

A recent Nelson Research poll may be a harbinger: Republican Christine Drazan is just slightly ahead of progressive Democrat Tina Kotek in the governors race in deep blue Oregon. Republicans have not won an Oregon gubernatorial race in 40 years. That poll likely shocked the Democratic National Committee and the House Progressive Caucus (all Democrats).

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HALLOWELL Daniel Shagoury of Hallowell won the Democratic primary nomination for House District 55,according to unofficial results reported by municipal clerks on Tuesday night.

Results showed that Shagoury received 522 votes while his opponent, Patrick Wynne, also of Hallowell, received 406.

Shagoury will go on to face Republican Phillip Wiseman, of Hallowell, in the general election in November. The district represents Hallowell, Manchester and West Gardiner.

Shagoury spent 19 years working for the Maine Legislature, with the last seven at the House Democratic Office. During his campaign, he cited this experience as an advantage that would allow him to get to work right away. In addition to nearly two decades with the Maine Legislature, Shagoury also served on the former Maine School Administrative District 16 board of directors for nine years.

Shagoury said in an interview Tuesday night that while he might be returning to familiar territory, its going to be a new adventure.

Even though I am familiar with the grounds there, its going to be different to be one of the elected (officials) instead of just a staff person, he said. Its going to be neat.

Shagoury said he was thrilled with news of his victory, adding that he worked very hard amid his campaign, and that his opponent worked very hard as well.

I havent really absorbed all of it yet, he said. Im just humbled by all the support that people showed me.

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LINCOLN The Democratic candidate for Nebraskas 1st Congressional District spent most of her life as a rock-ribbed Republican.

State Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks grew up in a very conservative Republican household in Lincoln. She joined the GOP herself because of the partys traditional focus on the economy and fiscal responsibility.

She even co-chaired the Lancaster County Republican Party for a couple of years in the late 1980s.

But Pansing Brooks found herself increasingly out of place as social issues became more prominent in GOP politics. Newer party positions clashed with her post on the Planned Parenthood board, her support for abortion rights and her defense of a nephew who came out as gay in 1989.

She hung on for several years but ended up switching parties in 2008.

Today, at 63, she is a Democrat with a record of working across the aisle and a determination to find common ground. Friends say she leads with passion, honesty, hard work and kindness qualities that helped her get more than 60 bills passed during her eight years in the Nebraska Legislature.

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To me, its not about party, she said. Its about doing the right thing. I vote for people. I vote for concerns. I dont look at some sort of agenda from this party or that party.

But being a Democrat puts Pansing Brooks at a disadvantage in seeking to represent the Republican-leaning 1st District. Republicans account for 46% of registered voters in the district, with Democrats at 29% and nonpartisan voters at 23%, according to the Secretary of States Office.

The district encompasses all or part of 12 counties in eastern Nebraska, including Lancaster and Sarpy Counties. Lincoln is the largest city; the district also includes Bellevue, Offutt Air Force Base, La Vista, most of Papillion, Fremont, Columbus and Norfolk.

The seat became vacant March 31 when U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry stepped down after being convicted of three felonies, including two counts of lying to federal agents and one of concealing illegal campaign contributions.

Pansing Brooks will face off with Sen. Mike Flood of Norfolk, the Republican candidate, twice in the next six months.

The winner of a special election set for June 28 will fill out the remaining months of Fortenberrys term. Early voting is already underway in the race.

The two will meet again in the November general election, which will decide who represents the district for the next two years.

Pansing Brooks said she decided to get into the race after redistricting in 2021 narrowed the Republican dominance of the district and opened a potential path for victory. She believes she can reach people no matter their party registration.

People in Nebraska do not live in a partisan prism, she said. Most people have the same concerns. They care about their families, their health, their job, their ability to put food on the table. Thats what people care about, not the parties.

Sen. John McCollister of Omaha, a Republican who endorsed Pansing Brooks, said he has faith in her ability to connect with voters. He said she demonstrated that skill in the Legislature, forging common cause with Republican colleagues on specific issues despite other differences.

She is such a warm person, he said. Nobodys a stranger with Patty Pansing Brooks.

Former Sen. Kathy Campbell of Lincoln worked with Pansing Brooks in 2006, when the two led a $250 million school bond issue campaign. The bond issue passed with 63% support after Pansing Brooks helped lay the groundwork by bringing together a variety of community leaders, including local tax watchdogs.

That campaign, plus Pansing Brooks work on numerous other community efforts, has made her very well thought of in Lincoln, Campbell said.

Shes just very passionate about the causes she supports and extremely hardworking, she said. She has a very caring, compassionate attitude.

Pansing Brooks credits that attitude and her approach to politics and community involvement in large part to her family.

Her father, Tom Pansing, was a World War II veteran and attorney who served on the Lincoln City Council and was acting mayor. Her mother, Lu Pansing, was elected to the Lincoln school board. Both were heavily involved with the community, and dinner discussions often focused on national and local issues.

I grew up discussing issues, often heatedly, she said. It really led me to care so much about the country and about the Constitution and about the freedoms for which so many people have fought in the past.

Pansing Brooks fell into a dark place when her father died of lung cancer at age 55. She was 14. She said she struggled with doubts about whether she would live to graduate from high school, make it through college or marry. But she did all three and went on to get a law degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Eventually, she came to appreciate all the people in her life.

I think part of it is I dont know if Ill see the person the next day, having had my dad go at such an early age, she said. I really feel like we have to spend more time being kinder to one another and being willing to embrace one another and find the common ground.

Two years after getting her law degree, Pansing Brooks and her husband, Loel Brooks, started their own law firm. He focused on telecommunications, she did business and real estate law.

She also got involved in the community. Over the years, she has been active with a long list of organizations and efforts, including the PTOs at her childrens schools, the Lincoln Community Foundation, Bryan Medical Center and Lincoln-Lancaster Commission on the Status of Women. In many, she held leadership positions.

After the LPS bond issue, she co-chaired a $6 million fundraising drive to build Union Plaza, Lincolns first urban park, and a $9.6 million campaign to renovate Centennial Mall, which stretches between the State Capitol and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

Pansing Brooks said she and her husband really feel its necessary to give back because of the good fortune we have of living in this community and the work that others have done.

In 2014, she said running for the Legislature was an extension of that community involvement. She won election handily that year and was unopposed for reelection in 2018. She is term-limited out after this year.

Over the past eight years, she has worked on juvenile justice reform, expanding childrens rights to legal counsel, getting childrens court records sealed once they complete their sentences and keeping a closer eye on the use of solitary confinement for juveniles. Along with GOP colleagues, she worked to strengthen state laws on human trafficking, while extending protection to trafficking victims.

She created and led a task force that highlighted the problems at Whiteclay, a tiny village on the South Dakota border that sold more than 3.5 million cans of beer annually to residents of the dry Pine Ridge Reservation.

Other legislation created breast cancer awareness license plates, protected workers from retaliation for discussing wages, codified dyslexia as a learning disability and required schools to offer evidence-based reading support, and established Indigenous Peoples Day as a state holiday.

She fought unsuccessfully to protect Nebraskans from job discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, citing the effects that the lack of protection has had on people like her son, Taylor Brooks, who is gay.

In 2015, she ruffled a lot of rural feathers with comments about farm income and property taxes. She made the comments after learning of a federal report that showed Nebraska farms earned an average $112,966 per year between 2009 and 2013, after taxes and other expenses.

They just dont want to pay the taxes, it seems to me, Pansing Brooks said, while serving on a work group looking at property taxes and school funding.

Since then, she said, she has learned a lot more about agricultural issues and has changed her views. She said those changes have been reflected in her votes.

Nebraska has 49 state senators in the Legislature. Scroll through to find your state senator and others.

State Sen. Julie Slama

District: 1

From: Sterling

Party: Republican

State Sen. Robert Clements

District: 2

From: Elmwood

Party: Republican

State Sen. Carol Blood

District: 3

From: Bellevue

Party: Democratic

State Sen. Robert Hilkemann

District: 4

From: Omaha

Party: Republican

State Sen. Mike McDonnell

District: 5

From: Omaha

Party: Democratic

State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh

District: 6

From: Omaha

Party: Democratic

State Sen. Tony Vargas

District: 7

From: Omaha

Party: Democratic

State Sen. Megan Hunt

District: 8

From: Omaha

Party: Democratic

State Sen. John Cavanaugh

District: 9

From: Omaha

Party: Democratic

State Sen. Wendy DeBoer

District: 10

From: Bennington

Party: Democratic

State Sen. Terrell McKinney

District: 11

From: Omaha

Party: Democratic

State Sen. Steve Lathrop

District: 12

From: Omaha

Party: Democratic

State Sen. Justin Wayne

District: 13

From: Omaha

Party: Democratic

State Sen. John Arch

District: 14

From: La Vista

Party: Republican

State Sen. Lynne Walz

District: 15

From: Fremont

Party: Democratic

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