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“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega. But as Democrats in the president’s home state
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Cu hopi dolor na nos curason, nos ta anuncia
fayecimento di:
Ellis Anthony Henriquez
*07-07-1953 - †15-05-2022
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada largely avoided the nasty and expensive personal the polls toward Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a tell-it-
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Cu inmenso tristeza na nos curason,nos ta participa
fayecimento di;
Sinforiano Alfonso Quandus
Mihor conoci como “Jaño”
* 22 Augustus 1945
† 5 Mei 2022
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
obituario/ u.s. news Diamars 17 mei 2022
Biden’s leadership of Democrats faces test in
next primaries
(AP) — In his telling, President Joe Biden’s
political philosophy is rooted in Pennsylvania,
where the son of Scranton grew up watching
families struggle to make ends meet.
choose a nominee on Tuesday for a critical U.S.
Senate seat, the moderate candidate long viewed
as an heir to the Biden wing of the party is at risk
of being trounced by a progressive once backed by
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
On the opposite coast, U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader
of Oregon, the first candidate Biden endorsed
this year, faces a spirited challenger from the left.
And across the U.S., Democrats are grappling with
questions about the party’s leadership, messaging
and identity.
While much of the attention during the opening
phase of the 2022 primary season has focused on The stakes of this year’s primaries, meanwhile,
former President Donald Trump ’s grip on the Re- are different for each party. While Democrats are
publican Party, the contests also serve as a refer- debating their ideological and policy future, Re-
endum on Biden’s leadership of the Democratic publicans are considering some candidates with a
Party. Few Democrats are openly criticizing the history of racist and anti-democratic behavior. In
president and most are aggressively pledging sup- Pennsylvania alone, the Trump-backed candidate
port of his agenda. But there’s clear unease with for governor worked to overturn the results of the
the party’s direction. 2020 election. A GOP candidate gaining ground
in the Senate primary once linked Islam to pedo-
In Oregon’s largely rural 5th Congressional Dis- philia.
trict, Jamie McLeod-Skinner said she would “work
my heart out” to support Biden’s agenda if she de- Still, Biden will be tested this week in primary
feated his preferred candidate on Tuesday. elections across five states: Idaho, Kentucky, North
Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania.
“We respect President Biden, but he simply got it
wrong in this case,” she said in an interview, offer- In Pennsylvania, a Biden loyalist and establishment
ing warm words for the president’s policies even as favorite, Rep. Conor Lamb, has struggled to find
she was less complimentary of the party. his footing in a crowded Senate primary that will
determine what kind of Democrat will represent
“Democrats have been very weak on our messag- the party this fall in one of its best Senate pickup
ing and establishing a sense of focus,” McLeod- opportunities.
Skinner said. “This is one of the things I’m hoping
to help out with.” Lamb, a fresh-faced former Marine prosecutor, be-
came a political celebrity in 2018 by winning a spe-
The White House is downplaying concerns about cial election in a working-class western Pennsylva-
Biden’s leadership and intra-party divisions. nia district long held by Republicans. Celebrated
as the kind of Democrat who can appeal to voters
The president’s advisers note that Democrats have in the middle, he enters primary day looking up in
like-it-is progressive.
attacks that have defined Republican primary elec-
tions across the country in recent weeks. And they
point to Biden’s successful endorsement of con- In one closing campaign ad, Fetterman casts him-
gressional candidate Shontel Brown, who defeated self as, “a different kind of Democrat, candidate,
a vocal Biden critic in Cleveland this month. campaign taking on every politician.” The 52-year-
old suffered a stroke just days ahead of the primary,
though his campaign said he was on his way to a
“full recovery.”
Still, in style — and substance, in some cases —
Fetterman is Biden’s opposite.
The 6-foot-8 former mayor has tattoos down his
arms, a clean-shaven head and a goatee. He curses
on social media and wears shorts practically every-
where, even in the winter.
“Semper bai cada palabra di Dios a resulta di ta berdad;
E t’un escudo pa esnan cu sconde serca djE” On the campaign trail, Fetterman is more likely to
Proverbio 30:5 criticize Democratic moderates like Sen. Joe Man-
chin of West Virginia than Biden. But in January,
Cu inmenso tristeza nos ta anuncia fayecimento di: Fetterman initially declined an invitation to appear
with the president in his Pittsburgh hometown.
And he’s consistently called on Senate Democrats
Luz Marina Gonzalez to to abolish the filibuster to adopt Democratic
*13-12-1958 †15-05-2022 priorities on gun violence, abortion and voting
rights, which is something Biden’s White House
Acto di despedida lo wordo anuncia despues. has largely resisted.