Schumer Declines to Endorse in NYC Mayor's Race as AOC Backs Mamdani, Ex-Mayor Bloomberg Supports Cuomo
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he will not endorse a candidate in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, declining to take sides in the wide-open race to unseat current Mayor Eric Adams. Adams is running as an independent candidate after dropping out of the Democratic primary and leaving the party in April.
'I'm not going to make an endorsement,' Schumer
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USA Today
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- USA Today
'No Kings' protesters march across US: See photos
'No Kings' protesters march across US: See photos Show Caption Hide Caption 'No Kings' protest preparations underway across the US Cities are bracing for 'No Kings' Day protests at nearly 2,000 locations across the U.S. Organizers expect massive crowds. Thousands of protesters across the U.S. marched to condemn the Trump administration on Saturday, June 14, as part of a "national day of peaceful protest" known as the "No Kings" movement. Around 1,800 rallies from California to Florida are coinciding with President Donald Trump's DC parade and day-long festival commemorating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army on his 79th birthday. Indivisible cofounder and protest organizer Ezra Levin explained ahead of Saturday that the movement is about reclaiming U.S. patriotism from the Republican Party and to denounce what he called Trump's authoritarian actions. Florida marchers rallied near Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, while an impromptu rally sprang up at Philadelphia's LOVE Park, where the Declaration of Independence was signed. In Los Angeles, marchers persisted even after Trump brought in the National Guard and the Marines to diminish violence that spiraled over immigration enforcement raids. Though no official "No Kings" demonstration was organized in DC, attendees still protested outside the White House with some holding the movement's slogan on their signs. Other signs read "Due process is for everyone," "Immigrants make America great," and "Those who ban history want to repeat it." Protests in Minnesota were canceled after Gov. Tim Walz urged protestors not to march in light of targeted shootings against two Democratic lawmakers early Saturday. See photos of "No Kings" protests on Trump's birthday What is the 'No Kings' protest about The "No Kings" protests are meant to reclaim the American flag and U.S. patriotism from the Republican Party, as well as to condemn what organizers are calling Trump's recent "authoritarian" actions. Many protestors are raising signs and chanting slogans supporting the rights of undocumented immigrants and denouncing what critics are calling Trump's power grab. "Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Continental Army was formed to fight back against a king, and there is an opportunity right now for Americans to come out and say: 'No, wait, this isn't what America stands for. We didn't sign up for this guy to concentrate power in his own hands, to come after the pillars of political democracy," Indivisible cofounder and protest organizer Ezra Levin said.
Boston Globe
an hour ago
- Boston Globe
As Trump celebrates Army's founding, his critics take to the streets
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up But no celebration of history takes place in a political vacuum. And protesters in large cities and small towns from Seattle to Key West, Florida, showed up to demonstrate against how Trump is making use of the modern force. His decisions over the past week to federalize the National Guard and call Marines into the streets of Los Angeles, in support of his immigration roundups, have rekindled a debate about whether he is abusing the powers of the commander in chief. Advertisement So even before Trump presided over the parade, the country was divided by a split-screen show of force. Roughly 2,000 protests, under the slogan 'No Kings,' pushed back against what the crowds decried as authoritarian overreach. While big-city rallies attracted the attention and the cameras, smaller events were organized in rural areas, including three dozen in Indiana, a state Trump won last November by 19 points. Advertisement In Dallas, another stronghold of Trump's support, crowds of protesters stretched across a wide street for at least five blocks. The Houston protest looked more like a block party, with dances to Mexican music and cool-offs in a fountain. In Pittsburgh, on a clear day, there was a festival atmosphere, with some chanting 'Shut ICE down,' a reference to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In Waukesha, Wisconsin, about 1,500 people marched through the streets in an area where Trump had won with 59 percent of the vote. 'This is beyond my wildest dreams,' said Dawn Lawien, an organizer. And even in downtown Los Angeles, the National Guard members stationed on Broadway near the federal courthouse were not the target of the crowd's anger; Trump was. Protesters fist-bumped the troops and thanked them for their service. Elected leaders and law enforcement officials in California and across the country encouraged protesters to remain peaceful, and organizers of the No Kings demonstrations called on participants to focus on 'nonviolent action.' In Houston, some demonstrators handed out flowers to police officers who were securing the route of the protest. But Saturday opened with an ominous turn in Minnesota when a person pretending to be a police officer assassinated a Democratic state lawmaker and attempted to kill a second. Authorities subsequently asked people to refrain from attending 'No Kings' events in the state, reporting that materials referencing the gatherings were found in the vehicle of the suspect, who remained at large Saturday afternoon. Advertisement Back in Washington, organizers of the America250 events, for which this is the first big production, were selling a 'dedicated VIP experience' to large donors, and red MAGA hats to the president's supporters. It is also Trump's 79th birthday, though he has insisted the celebration is about the Army, not him. The streets will be filled, organizers say, with veterans of the Korea and Vietnam conflicts, along with those who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, two wars that Trump — and many Democrats — have declared were wastes of lives and money. Trump has defended the spending of as much as $45 million — including the cost of repairing Washington's streets from the damage expected from rolling 60-ton tanks down Constitution Avenue — as a small price to pay to stoke national pride and to remind the world of America's hard power. He told an interviewer on NBC last month that the price tag was 'peanuts compared to the value of doing it.' 'We have the greatest missiles in the world,' he continued. 'We have the greatest submarines in the world. We have the greatest Army tanks in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. And we're going to celebrate it.' But to some of Trump's critics, it is conduct unbecoming a superpower. In the first Trump term, that view was shared by military leaders who dissuaded him from replicating the French show of force. They have since been ousted, replaced by true believers like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News pundit who is expected to stand alongside Trump in the reviewing stand. Advertisement Trump's political advisers are betting that half the country or more will enjoy watching the display of Army history — there will be World War I tanks and World War II equipment — and his 'America First' declarations. Parades are pure showmanship, and Trump is the master showman. Yet a military parade is also an unvarnished celebration of America's hard power, even if this one is dominated by huge equipment, like the M-1 Abrams tank, that seems antiquated in an age of drones and cyberweapons. And it comes at a moment the administration has been ridiculing as wasteful such efforts as global aid, battling HIV or backing basic research at universities that Trump has gone to war against. The parade's estimated cost will amount to about one-fifth of the annual budget of the Voice of America, which had millions of listeners around the world until Trump took it off the air this spring. The protests, which organizers deliberately kept outside Washington to avoid focusing more attention on the military celebration, have been planned for many weeks, as opposition to the administration's efforts to dismiss expert opinion, oust the 'deep state' and silence critics have mounted. Trump's decision to move 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines into Los Angeles asserted a role for the military at home, which was exactly what had given the Continental Congress pause about creating a colonial army at all. Now that same concern, 250 years later, is expected to give the weekend protests mass and weight. They have been further fueled by Trump's speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina last week, when he lumped peaceful protesters with 'troublemakers, agitators, insurrectionists,' and later said anyone protesting in Washington would be met with 'very big force.' Advertisement In the run-up to the parade, those differences broke out on Capitol Hill, when Hegseth defended the use of troops at home and suggested preparations were underway 'if there are other riots, in places where law enforcement officers are threatened,' so that 'we would have the capability to surge National Guard there.' Organizers of the protest marches range from the American Civil Liberties Union to abortion rights and gun violence groups, but also include the 'Hands Off!' protesters who argue Trump has threatened Social Security, Medicaid and education budgets. They they have folded together, though, under the 'No Kings' group, which has called for a 'day of defiance' Saturday. 'We want to create contrast,' said Leah Greenberg, co-founder of a group called Indivisible organize the protest in Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress met to create that first army force. 'Not conflict.'
Politico
an hour ago
- Politico
Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed
On Friday night, Sen. Amy Klobuchar was having dinner in her home state at an event with Melissa Hortman, the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives who served as a lawmaker for almost 20 years. Hours later, she was mourning the loss of a friend whom the Democratic senator had known for decades. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called Klobuchar at 5 a.m. Saturday to deliver the gut-wrenching news, Klobuchar told POLITICO in an interview. 'I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,' Klobuchar said. 'I was there when she was doorknocking in the beginning. … I was in county office and she was seeking the legislative office.' Hortman, 55, and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, home early Saturday, in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing. The same suspect is believed to have also shot and wounded state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife. Authorities are continuing to search for the suspect, 57-year-old Vance Boelter. In the early 2000s, Klobuchar recalled, Hortman was balancing not only serving as an elected official, but also leading a girl scout troop and teaching Sunday school at a local Catholic church. 'That ability to manage with two kids led her to do a really good job managing legislators,' Klobuchar said. When Hortman was first elected in 2004 to Minnesota's House of Representatives, Klobuchar was five years into her role as County Attorney of Hennepin County — both on the outskirts of Minneapolis. 'She was pretty no nonsense,' the senator said. 'But in a kind way, with a lot of humor.' Klobuchar mentioned one detail that particularly stood out to her: On her third day as speaker, Hortman turned off the mute button her predecessor used to prevent legislators from speaking — she didn't need it. 'She's like 'I don't need that. I can use the gavel,'' Klobuchar said. 'She was just such a skilled legislator at bringing people together.' Hortman's killing only adds on to the growing amount of political violence and harsh rhetoric encapsulating American politics. 'There have been more and more people in politics who just throw gas on the fire,' Klobuchar said of the increase in divisive politics. But these acts shouldn't dissuade people from seeking office, the senator said. 'We need more good people to run,' she said. 'I hope good people still run or our democracy won't stand.'
