(WASHINGTON) — Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Wednesday launched his 2024 presidential exploratory committee.
“I bear witness to what America can do for anyone, what she’s done for me. But we must rise up to the challenges of our time. This is a fight we must win. And that will take faith, faith in God,” Scott said in a new video.
“I will never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional. And that’s why I’m announcing my exploratory committee for president of the United States,” he went on.
The Republican would face former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and three others for the 2024 GOP nomination.
Scott has been exploring his bid for months, with frequent trips to Iowa on a listening tour called “Faith in America.” The launch of this committee comes the same week he had stops scheduled in Iowa, New Hampshire and his home state of South Carolina. An exploratory committee will allow the senator to raise money for a presidential campaign while he tests the waters in early-voting states.
“I’ve been doing a lot of thinking the past few months,” he wrote an email to supporters. “I’ve been thinking about my faith. I’ve been thinking about the future of our country. And I’ve been thinking about the Left’s plan to ruin America.”
Scott said the date of his exploratory committee rollout — April 12 — was significant in that it was the day which marked the beginning of the Civil War.
The launch video was filmed near Fort Sumter in South Carolina, he said, which was the place of the first clash between the North and South in the winter of 1860.
As the only Black Republican in the Senate, Scott said Democrats “weaponize race to divide us to hold on to their power.”
“Joe Biden and the radical left have chosen a culture of grievance over greatness. They’re promoting victimhood instead of personal responsibility, and they’re indoctrinating our children to believe we live in an evil country. And all too often when they get called out for their failures,” he said, adding, “And when I fought back against their liberal agenda, they called me a prop, a token, because I disrupt their narrative.”
During an interview with Fox & Friends, Scott side-stepped questions on how he plans on besting Trump in a hypothetical primary.
“If we focus on our uniqueness, we focus on our path to where we are, I believe we give the voters a choice so they can decide on how we move forward. As opposed to having a conversation on how to beat a Republican, I think we are better off having a conversation about beating Joe Biden,” he said.
(NEW YORK) — ABC News has reviewed 38 images that appear to depict classified U.S. intelligence documents that were among dozens apparently shared by one user of an online server on the chat website Discord on March 1 and March 2.
Discord is organized by servers; a Discord user can create their own server or can join another server. The server where the images were shared is dedicated to a YouTube creator with some 243,000 subscribers and which hosts comedic videos about philosophy, politics, and religion.
On April 7, shortly after the Discord server was publicly named in connection with the reported document leak, the area of the chat server where the images were being posted was deactivated. The server itself is still active; much of its activity now refers to the images shared there and the public interest in them.
Here is a timeline of significant developments:
February: The first of 107 images of possible documents are reportedly shared by one user of a YouTube creator’s Discord server, according to Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler.
· Feb. 24: A reference is made in the Discord server to leaked U.S. documents.
· March 1, 2: More images, including 38 reviewed by ABC News, appear in the YouTube creator’s Discord server.
· March 4: Ten of the images are re-shared in a separate Discord server devoted to the online game Minecraft
· April 5: Three images appear on 4chan; five appear in Telegram posts by a pro-Russian channel; one of those contains clear signs of manipulation to inflate Ukrainian and deflate Russian casualty figures.
· April 6: The New York Times reveals the existence of the alleged leaked documents.
· April 7: The Discord channel where possible documents were shared is publicly identified; later that day, the channel removes the images and begins to restrict access.
A review of publicly available content in the server where images of the alleged documents were posted points to pervasive racism, antisemitism and references to sexual violence. As in many niche online communities, this group appears to have a language of its own and it is difficult to discern sincere statements from ironic ones.
Each of the possible documents in the 38 images reviewed by ABC News shows creases suggesting they were folded twice. The images include detailed updates on the war in Ukraine as well as a Central Intelligence Agency briefing containing intelligence on U.S. allies, partners and adversaries.
Some images of the possible documents include visible background features such as a hunting magazine, a knife, a tube of Gorilla Glue, and a strap for the company Bushnell, which makes optics and other hunting accessories.
How the alleged documents spread
According to Toler, 107 images were shared by one user in the Discord server, some appearing in February; Toler said he has seen over 50 of them. ABC News has not independently verified the existence of more than 38 images.
After they were shared in the YouTube creator’s Discord server on March 1 and 2, 10 images of possible documents were re-shared by another user on March 4 to a separate Discord server, dedicated to the online game Minecraft.
On April 5, three images appeared in posts on 4chan; the 4chan posts were made in the context of a debate about the war in Ukraine. Five images also appeared on April 5 on a pro-Russia Telegram channel; one of those showed signs of crude manipulation to inflate Ukrainian and deflate Russian casualty figures.
Origin of the alleged documents
The original source of the possible documents or the earliest date they were shared is still unknown. An archived Twitter post from a now-deleted account, which appears to belong to the user who shared the images to the Discord server on March 1 and 2, claims that the user “found some info from a now banned server and passed it on” to the YouTuber’s Discord server.
According to another post by the same account this unidentified server had a racist, offensive name and has since been deleted.
ABC News has reviewed one post, dated Feb. 24, in the YouTuber’s Discord server, referencing the images. This suggests that at least the existence of these possible documents was known to members of this server before the large tranche of images were posted on March 1 and 2.
Toler told ABC News that “hundreds” of images were reportedly posted in a separate Discord server with a racist, offensive name before being re-shared to the YouTuber’s Discord server, something ABC News has not independently verified.
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to delay a writer’s defamation and battery case that is scheduled to go on trial this month, arguing the “deluge” of media coverage of his recent indictment on 34 criminal charges makes fairness impossible.
The writer, E. Jean Carroll, sued Trump in November alleging he defamed her by calling her a liar when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room. She added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the statute of limitations.
Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll’s allegations.
The trial is scheduled to begin April 25 in Manhattan federal court but Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, asked the judge for a “cooling off” period in an overnight filing.
“President Trump can only receive a fair trial in a calmer media environment than the one created by the New York County District Attorney,” Tacopina wrote in a letter to the judge asking for a four-week delay.
If the trial goes forward as scheduled, “prospective jurors will have the criminal allegations top of mind,” Tacopina said.
There has been no immediate response from Carroll’s side.
Trump is not required to attend the trial. The judge has given Trump’s attorneys until next week to inform the court whether he will attend.
(WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that the U.S. will “turn over every rock” to find the source of the apparent leak of dozens of highly classified documents on the internet in his first public comments since the documents came to light.
More apparently leaked documents continued to emerge on Monday as The Washington Post reported on documents it says it obtained that appear to raise concerns that Ukraine’s upcoming spring offensive will only be moderately successful and that Egypt’s leader had secretly directed that his country provide Russia with thousands of rockets.
“We take this very seriously and we will continue to investigate and turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it,” Austin told reporters at a State Department press conference.
Austin told reporters that he was first informed of the apparent leak the morning on April 6 after some of the documents were posted on popular social media platforms. He said that since then he has been leading daily meetings with top officials to coordinate a response to the leak and directed “an urgent cross-department effort.”
Austin said he was limited in what he could say because of the ongoing Justice Department criminal investigation into the leak but he provided new details that investigators are focused on documents dated Feb. 28 and March 1.
“I don’t know if there are other documents that have been online before,” he said. “These are things that we will find out as we continue to investigate.”
“They were somewhere in the web and where exactly and who had access at that point, we don’t know, we simply don’t know at this point,” he acknowledged.
An ABC News review has found that the first of what appear to be highly classified U.S. military and U.S. intelligence documents were posted on the chat website Discord on March 2. But they did not reach a wider audience until last Wednesday when some of the documents related to the war in Ukraine were posted on social media platforms.
The documents seem to contain top-secret intelligence about the war in Ukraine and other parts of the world that is made available daily to hundreds of U.S. officials in the U.S. and overseas via classified computer servers that can only be accessed with a top-secret clearance.
The Washington Post reported that one of the leaked documents it says it obtained was a U.S. intelligence assessment that Ukraine would make only modest gains to retake occupied territory from Russia in its upcoming spring offensive as it challenges to raise troops, ammunition and equipment.
That apparent assessment is in line with a separate classified U.S. intelligence assessment by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) that was recently briefed to Congress, according to a U.S. official.
Austin downplayed the idea of a public disclosure of Ukraine’s challenges ahead of the offensive and said he had just spoken with Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov.
“He and the leadership remain focused on the task at hand, and I have every confidence that they will do what good leaders, great leaders do,” said Austin. “They will fight the enemy and not be driven by a specific plan. They have a great plan to start, but only President Zelenskyy and his leadership really know the full details of that plan.”
“They have much of the capability that they need to continue to be successful,” he added. “We trained an enormous number of troops, we provided a substantial number of platforms. And so, I think he feels that they’re in a pretty good position.”
The Washington Post also reported that it had obtained another document that indicated that Egypt’s President al Sisi had apparently directed officials to secretly provide thousands of rockets to Russia.
Egyptian state media dismissed the report as “rumors” and John Kirby, the National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications said “we’ve seen no indications that Egypt is providing lethal weaponry capabilities to Russia.” ABC News has not seen either of the documents cited by The Washington Post.
The flow of documents has led top American officials to reach out to counterparts as the leaked documents seem to show that U.S. intelligence was not only spying on Russia and other adversaries but on its allies and partners, including Ukraine.
“We have engaged with allies and partners at high levels over the past the past days, including to reassure them about our own commitment to safeguarding intelligence and, of course, our commitment to our security partnerships,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at the same news conference as Austin that followed their meeting with their counterparts from the Philippines.
“We are determined to assist Ukraine in the efforts that it’s making to regain the territory that’s been seized from it, and I reaffirmed that commitment today in speaking to Foreign Minister Kuleba,” Blinken said.
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday provided limited comments on the leak of what appear to be top secret intelligence documents from the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies
Austin, appearing at a press conference alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo, said he was first briefed on the apparent leaks on April 6.
Since then, Austin said he’s met with senior department leaders daily and referred the matter to the Department of Justice, which opened a criminal investigation.
“Now, I can’t say much more while the Justice Department’s investigation is ongoing. But we take this very seriously,” Austin said. “And we will continue to work closely with our outstanding allies and partners. And nothing will ever stop us from keeping America secure.”
The content of some of the documents appears to be U.S. intelligence about the war in Ukraine and in other parts of the world. And the disclosure has raised diplomatic issues as it appears that U.S. intelligence has been spying not only on its adversaries, but on allies and partners.
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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday made his first public comments on the leak of what appear to be top secret intelligence documents from the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies
Austin, appearing at a news conference alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo, said he was first briefed on the apparent leaks on April 6.
Since then, Austin said, he’s met with senior department leaders daily and referred the matter to the Justice Department, which has opened a criminal investigation.
“Now, I can’t say much more while the Justice Department’s investigation is ongoing. But we take this very seriously,” Austin said. “And we will continue to work closely with our outstanding allies and partners. And nothing will ever stop us from keeping America secure.”
The content of some of the documents appears to be U.S. intelligence about the war in Ukraine and in other parts of the world, including U.S. concerns that Ukraine’s expected spring counteroffensive will make only modest gains.
The disclosure has raised diplomatic issues as it appears that U.S. intelligence has been spying not only on its adversaries, but on allies and partners.
Austin was asked about damage caused by the leak and whether it amounted to an “intelligence failure” given some documents appear to have been posted online several months ago.
He responded that the leaked documents the Pentagon is aware of date from Feb. 28 and March 1. He said he doesn’t know if there were documents online before then.
“Again, we will continue to investigate in and try to determine the full scope of the activity,” Austin said. He added the U.S. will “turn over every rock until we find the source of this, and the extent of it.”
Blinken said the U.S. will work to reassure allies and partners “about our own commitment to safeguarding intelligence.”
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — In the days after a federal judge in Texas ruled to reverse the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the widely used abortion medication mifepristone, Democrats have erupted in outrage.
Republicans, who for years made abortion restrictions a centerpiece of their politics, have remained mostly mum on the issue that looks set for a Supreme Court showdown.
Some in the GOP have suggested they are now on the “wrong side” of abortion, which polling has shown can be a leading issue to motivate voters — against possible restrictions.
By contrast, leading conservatives last June swiftly celebrated the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade, praising the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision as putting the issue of abortion back in the hands of the people — in the states — and not having it determined by the court.
“The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs is courageous and correct. This is an historic victory for the Constitution and for the most vulnerable in our society,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement following the ruling in June. “Now the American people get their voice back.”
The Kentucky lawmaker has not yet remarked on last week’s decision.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi was the sole federal Republican lawmaker who directly lauded the ruling on Friday, calling it “a victory for pregnant mothers and their unborn children,” while Democrats — from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to a fleet of legislators in Congress — denounced it.
But triumphant GOP response to the Dobbs ruling, which was decided just months ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, came at a time when abortion appeared to be less politically fraught within the party.
In the months since, both exit polling after the 2022 midterms and a growing list of elections, in red and blue states alike, indicate that support for abortion access can sway voters.
Most recently, last week, liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by double digits, flipping the bench’s ideological balance ahead of a likely hearing on the state’s abortion restrictions.
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina argued on Monday on CNN that her party has to approach abortion differently if they want to shore up public support.
“This is an issue that Republicans have largely been on the wrong side of. We have over the last nine months not shown compassion towards women. And this is one of the issues that I’ve tried to lead on, as someone who is pro-life and just has some common sense,” Mace said.
“We’ve got some extreme views on this issue, but 90% of America is somewhere in the middle,” she said.
Her fellow South Carolinian, Sen. Lindsey Graham, said on “Fox News Sunday” that Republicans need to show up to the ballot box with “reasonable positions” on the issue.
“If we have our head in the sand, we’re gonna lose,” said Graham, who is backing a proposed 15-week ban on abortions nationwide.
Democrats quick to decry the anti-abortion ruling
On Friday, directly after U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, sent down his decision, Democrats and abortion advocates decried what they called a “single federal district judge in Texas'” ban of medication used in more than half of all abortions in the country, noting that “everything is on the table” including filing an emergency stay motion.
Democrats — whom Republicans have sought to paint as overly permissive of abortions in all cases — also called the decision “the next big step toward the national ban on abortion” that some conservatives have vowed to make law, condemning a “political, ideological” attack.
“This does not just affect women in Texas – if it stands, it would prevent women in every state from accessing the medication, regardless of whether abortion is legal in a state,” Biden said in a statement on Friday.
On CNN, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York slammed the Texas ruling as “an extreme abuse of power” and suggested the extraordinary step of ignoring the courts if the justices were to uphold Kacsmaryk’s decision, noting that the Trump administration turned the other cheek to some immigration decisions.
Mace lent some support to that idea, despite her ideological differences with Ocasio-Cortez.
“This is an FDA-approved drug. I support the usage of FDA-approved drugs. Even if we might disagree, it’s not up to us to decide as legislators or even as the court system whether or not this is the right drug to use or not,” Mace said on CNN. “So I agree with ignoring it at this point.”
Republican comments remained vague and sparse
Meanwhile GOP reaction from among the party’s top ranks has been muted.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is one of the few leaders who has spoken out on the decision.
“Life won again today,” he said in a statement, contending that the FDA acted “carelessly and with blatant disregard for human life” in initially approving the drug.
Former President Donald Trump has largely remained silent on abortion in the months after the midterms but has maintained that pro-abortion restriction voters and candidates were to blame for the GOP losses in November — not him.
“It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in the MidTerms,” Trump wrote in a Jan. 1 social media post.
He wrote that it was “the ‘abortion issue,’ poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters.”
Another leading GOP lawmaker, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, didn’t outright praise the decision, instead commenting on the ruling by reacting to Ocasio-Cortez’s suggestion that the FDA ignore it.
“Democrats don’t care about undermining the rule of law or the consequences that will come from destroying the institutions that protect the Constitution,” Cruz wrote in a tweet.
ABC News’ Anne Flaherty, Molly Nagle and Allison Pecorin contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday sued Republican Rep. Jim Jordan for what he called an “unprecedentedly brazen and unconstitutional attack by members of Congress.”
The 50-page lawsuit alleges Jordan has launched a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” on Bragg amid the historic indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Trump, who has repeatedly denied the charges against him, was arraigned last week and pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in an alleged hush money “scheme” to influence the 2016 election.
Jordan, one of Trump’s biggest supporters on Capitol Hill, has led the charge against Bragg along with other GOP chairs of influential House committees. The chairmen last month demanded documents related to Bragg’s investigation of Trump and testimony from the district attorney himself.
Last week, Jordan subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz to give deposition related to his role in investigating Trump and Trump’s businesses. Pomerantz is a former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office who resigned last year over Bragg’s reluctance at the time to pursue the case against Trump.
Bragg’s lawsuit seeks to stop the enforcement of the subpoena, arguing “basic principles of federalism and common sense, as well as binding Supreme Court precedent, forbids Congress from demanding it.”
“Congress has no power to supervise state criminal prosecutions. Nor does Congress have the power to serve subpoenas for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to punish those investigated,” the lawsuit said. “Yet that is precisely what Chairman Jordan is trying to do.”
The lawsuit accused Jordan and the House Republicans of “participating in a campaign of intimidation, retaliation, and obstruction” and noted how Trump “has threatened New York officials with violent and racist vitriol.”
The tense back-and-forth between Bragg and Jordan continued Monday as House Republicans announced plans to hold a hearing on New York City crime in Bragg’s backyard.
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jordan, will hold a field hearing on April 17 in New York City to discuss “victims of violent crime in Manhattan.” There, lawmakers will examine what the committee called Bragg’s “pro-crime policies” that have led to a “dangerous community” for residents, according to a press release issued on Monday night.
A spokesperson for Bragg’s office quickly shot back: “Don’t be fooled, the House GOP is coming to the safest big city in America for a political stunt. This hearing won’t engage actual efforts to increase public safety, such as supporting national gun legislation and shutting down the iron pipeline.”
The spokesperson also said New York City had a murder rate “nearly three times lower” than that of Columbus, Ohio — Jordan’s home turf.
That data appeared to be pulled from Wirepoints, an Illinois- based nonprofit, which found New York City had 5.2 homicides per 100,000 people compared with Columbus’ 15.4 homicides per 100,000 residents using publicly available homicide data for 2022.
Violent crime decreased during the first three months of this year, with shootings falling by 23% and homicides falling by 12.7% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, the New York Police Department recently announced.
“If Chairman Jordan truly cared about public safety, he could take a short drive to Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Akron, or Toledo in his home state, instead of using taxpayer dollars to travel hundreds of miles out of his way,” the spokesperson for Bragg said.
Not long after, Jordan tweeted, “First, they indict a president for no crime. Then, they sue to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it.”
(FLORIDA) — Republican Rep. Webster Barnaby called transgender people “demons” and “mutants” in a hearing about a bill that would make it a crime to use a bathroom that doesn’t align with the gender assigned at birth.
Transgender people and allies were at the public hearing on Monday to share their stories in opposition to the bill when Barnaby made his comments: “I’m looking at society today and it’s like I’m watching an X-Men movie … it’s like we have mutants living among us on planet Earth,” Barnaby said.
He later went on, “I’m not afraid to address the dysphoria or the dysfunction. The Lord rebuke you, Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps will come and parade before us. That’s right – I called you demons and imps who come and parade before us and pretend that you are part of this world.”
Later in the hearing, he apologized for his comments.
“I would like to apologize to the trans community for referring to you as demons,” he said.
Transgender people have long expressed concerns about the harm of anti-transgender sentiment and the influence it could have on the violence and discrimination disproportionately faced by the community.
“Today, parents and children, many of whom traveled hours to share their stories, had to listen to GOP State Representative Barnaby slander the transgender community from the dais,” a statement from local LGBTQ group Equality Florida read. “And Republican leadership in the room refused to put a stop to it.”
It continued, “This hideous bigotry has always been at the root of the wave of anti-LGBTQ hysteria sweeping our state.”
Advocates say transgender people have historically and falsely been categorized as violent or dangerous, which perpetuates anti-transgender sentiment and discrimination.
Transgender people are more than four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violence, according to a study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.
In his comments, Barnaby expressed his lack of understanding about gender dysphoria and language around gender: “To all the folks that are in the audience that consider themselves gender dysphoria, cis – I don’t know what all that means. I really don’t know what all that means.”
The state has seen several bills this year that restrict the LGBTQ community, as well as implementing several other restrictive laws or policies. Several bills currently being considered by the legislature restrict education, programming or curriculum relating to sexual orientation or gender identity in K-12 schools and colleges, as well as limit access to transgender health care for people under 18.
Several state laws and policies already restrict these issues, but several bills aim to expand restrictions.
One bill, SB 254, would allow the state to alter a parent’s custody rights if gender-affirming youth health care is considered for their child.
The group also called on House Speaker Paul Rommel to denounce Barnaby’s words.
Several other lawmakers appeared to express support for the transgender people who spoke at the hearing or distance themselves from Barnaby’s statements.
“I see you, hear you, understand and love you and — definitely still a little bit thrown off from the last comments here and I just really wanna let you all know that that that there are many here that understand and support you,” said Democrat Rep. Kristen Aston Arrington.
Republican Rep. Chase Tramont, who voted in favor of the bill, also spoke against Barnaby’s words.
“I’m also a Christian man and I just want to say to some of the folks in here who share their testimony … You’re not an evil being. I believe that you’re fearfully and wonderfully made. I want you to live your life well,” Tramont said.
(WASHINGTON) — The Democratic National Committee announced on Tuesday that its 2024 convention will be held in Chicago.
The convention will take place Aug. 19 through 22 at the United Center and the McCormick Place Convention Center, with between 5,000 and 7,000 delegates and alternates expected to attend, a source familiar said in confirmation of what was first reported in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Chicago had been in competition with Atlanta and New York City for the large political event.
The choice comes a week after Democratic victories in the Midwest, including an outsized win for the left flank of the party with the Windy City’s election of progressive Brandon Johnson last Tuesday.
“The DNC is returning to the Midwest, a critical Democratic stronghold: Illinois along with Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota — part of the ‘blue wall’ — were crucial to the 2020 victory of President Biden and Vice President Harris and to Democrats’ success in the 2022 midterm elections,” the DNC wrote in a statement.
The choice also comes in the wake of a large loss for Midwest progressives for the coming election cycle, with South Carolina unseating Iowa as the first state in the nation to vote on a Democratic nominee for president.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday reaffirmed his commitment to the Midwest.
“Chicago is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention,” said Biden. “Democrats will gather to showcase our historic progress including building an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not from the top down. From repairing our roads and bridges, to unleashing a manufacturing boom, and creating over 12.5 million new good-paying jobs, we’ve already delivered so much for hard working Americans – now it’s time to finish the job.”
