Reporting on State Politics and Government
Reporting on State Politics and Government
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| Daily Digest for April 3, 2020
| | Posted at 6:45 a.m. by Cody Nelson |
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Good morning, it's Friday and your last Digest of the week is here. For daily updates an COVID-19 and other news, subscribe to the Minnesota Today podcast and morning newsletter. White voters aren't as powerful as they used to be. The APM Research Lab has a whole bunch of data explaining why: "On the whole, these changes amount to a weakening of White voter power in the states that will likely decide the 2020 presidential election and greater ascendancy for voters of color, especially for Latinos. This generally bodes well for the Democratic nominee, as Clinton garnered two-thirds of all Latino votes in 2016 (and Obama earned 7 in 10 Latino votes in 2012). Similarly, nearly 9 in 10 Black votes went to Clinton, with fewer than 1 in 10 Blacks choosing Trump."
Dems are pushing their national convention back a month, and there may be more changes coming. Via NPR : "Amid ongoing questions about when traditional presidential campaigning — and the travel and large crowds it entails — will be able to resume, the Democratic National Committee has delayed its nominating convention until the week of Aug. 17. It had been scheduled for the week of July 13. ... 'In our current climate of uncertainty, we believe the smartest approach is to take additional time to monitor how this situation unfolds so we can best position our party for a safe and successful convention,' Democratic National Convention Committee CEO Joe Solmonese said in a statement Thursday."
COVID-19 isn't stopping voting in Wisconsin, but it is extending the time frame. Via AP: "A federal judge on Thursday declined to postpone Wisconsin's presidential primary over the health threat from the new coronavirus, but he ordered that people be given an extra six days beyond Tuesday's election for absentee voting."
Turns out a national quarantine, if the president wanted one, might not be legal. Brian Naylor dove into the issue : "Polly J. Price, a professor of law and public health at Emory University, tells NPR: 'If you're talking about quarantine in terms of encouraging people to stay home or closing businesses — and that's what public health folks talk about as social distancing measures, really — I think from the White House that can be advisory only and that those are exclusively state powers.' She says though that the federal government does have other tools at its disposal to limit people from traveling between states, including controlling who can fly."
Will coronavirus make the political case for paid sick time? MPR News' Jon Collins reports on why some say it should: "As the country faces the threat of COVID-19, public health experts and advocates say the gaps in paid sick leave are a glaring weakness — especially where 'essential' workers like nursing home aides and grocery store workers are concerned." | |
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