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Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ex-NBC News host Chuck Todd laments Democratic Party a 'collection of people that don't like Trump'
Ex-NBC News host Chuck Todd lamented on Thursday that the Democratic Party was just a collection of people who disliked President Donald Trump when pressed on whether the Democrats were a left-of-center party. "I think this is the identity crisis that they have. I think it's just a collection of people that don't like Trump right now, right? And that's served them well in '20, but imagine trying to create a big tent that had AOC and John Kasich in it, right? You know? Or Liz Cheney and AOC. You sort of got to rip a hole in the middle, right, as you're trying to stretch that tent," Todd told disgraced former CBS News anchor Charlie Rose. Todd and Rose discussed Zohran Mamdani's New York City mayor primary win and more during the conversation. "It feels like they're way too poll-tested. It feels like that they're trying so hard to sort of keep their suburban voters, and that's been part of their problem. The growth in the Democratic electorate is in the suburbs, wealthy suburbs, and so the growth of the Republican electorate has been in the working-class exurbs and actually, even in working-class urban areas. And, I think that that's been their disconnect, is that their voters are in one place, their messaging is in another, but when they try to message to their suburban voters, they've sort of lost touch with their working-class roots," Todd continued. Democrats' Major Messaging Crisis: The Party Of Opposition Without Solutions Todd said both parties' coalitions were too big and added, "we would probably be a better democracy if we could have 4 major parties." Read On The Fox News App The ex-NBC "Meet the Press" moderator has been critical of the party in the wake of former Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Trump. He questioned whether the public was sold a "40-year bill of goods" with regard to former President Joe Biden's family-man image during a conversation with CNN host Jake Tapper on the "Chuck Toddcast." "You and I covered, for most of our professional lives, the story of Joe Biden was: This guy cared about his family so much he commuted home every night from Washington," Todd said. "You know what else you could say is, this man was so ambitious that after his family went through that tragedy, he commuted every day to work, like it's the same story. I sit here, I look at this, and I think, were we sold a 40-year bill of goods?" Democratic Party Scrambles To Fix Image As Members Acknowledge Party 'Lost Credibility' Todd said in March that Democratic leadership, specifically House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, were feeling "paralyzed" by the two different constituencies within the Democratic Party. "Jeffries and Schumer are acting paralyzed because they have two different constituencies. They have ones who are worried about a left-wing tea party, and they should be worried about that, because I do think this anger inside the base is real," Todd said. "Then you have others who are like, hey, I won, and Trump carried my state. So I've got to do this. So, I think that's why Jeffries and Schumer come across as paralyzed, because they're trying to placate a coalition party that doesn't know which direction to go to." Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture Todd suggested during his conversation with Rose that the Republicans might not have stuck with Trump as their nominee if Biden didn't run for re-election at article source: Ex-NBC News host Chuck Todd laments Democratic Party a 'collection of people that don't like Trump'
Fox News
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Ex-NBC News host Chuck Todd laments Democratic Party a 'collection of people that don't like Trump'
Ex-NBC News host Chuck Todd lamented on Thursday that the Democratic Party was just a collection of people who disliked President Donald Trump when pressed on whether the Democrats were a left-of-center party. "I think this is the identity crisis that they have. I think it's just a collection of people that don't like Trump right now, right? And that's served them well in '20, but imagine trying to create a big tent that had AOC and John Kasich in it, right? You know? Or Liz Cheney and AOC. You sort of got to rip a hole in the middle, right, as you're trying to stretch that tent," Todd told disgraced former CBS News anchor Charlie Rose. Todd and Rose discussed Zohran Mamdani's New York City mayor primary win and more during the conversation. "It feels like they're way too poll-tested. It feels like that they're trying so hard to sort of keep their suburban voters, and that's been part of their problem. The growth in the Democratic electorate is in the suburbs, wealthy suburbs, and so the growth of the Republican electorate has been in the working-class exurbs and actually, even in working-class urban areas. And, I think that that's been their disconnect, is that their voters are in one place, their messaging is in another, but when they try to message to their suburban voters, they've sort of lost touch with their working-class roots," Todd continued. Todd said both parties' coalitions were too big and added, "we would probably be a better democracy if we could have 4 major parties." The ex-NBC "Meet the Press" moderator has been critical of the party in the wake of former Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Trump. He questioned whether the public was sold a "40-year bill of goods" with regard to former President Joe Biden's family-man image during a conversation with CNN host Jake Tapper on the "Chuck Toddcast." "You and I covered, for most of our professional lives, the story of Joe Biden was: This guy cared about his family so much he commuted home every night from Washington," Todd said. "You know what else you could say is, this man was so ambitious that after his family went through that tragedy, he commuted every day to work, like it's the same story. I sit here, I look at this, and I think, were we sold a 40-year bill of goods?" Todd said in March that Democratic leadership, specifically House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, were feeling "paralyzed" by the two different constituencies within the Democratic Party. "Jeffries and Schumer are acting paralyzed because they have two different constituencies. They have ones who are worried about a left-wing tea party, and they should be worried about that, because I do think this anger inside the base is real," Todd said. "Then you have others who are like, hey, I won, and Trump carried my state. So I've got to do this. So, I think that's why Jeffries and Schumer come across as paralyzed, because they're trying to placate a coalition party that doesn't know which direction to go to." Todd suggested during his conversation with Rose that the Republicans might not have stuck with Trump as their nominee if Biden didn't run for re-election at all.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Invesco Commercial Real Estate Finance Trust, Inc. ("INCREF") Provides $354.6M To Refinance Industrial Portfolio
DALLAS, June 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco Commercial Real Estate Finance Trust, Inc. ("INCREF"), a perpetual life real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on private credit secured by real estate, has provided $354.6 million in financing to Bridge Logistics Properties ("BLP"), a subsidiary of Bridge Investment Group (NYSE: BRDG), to refinance an industrial assets portfolio. The portfolio comprises 24 properties, spanning 2,454,761 square feet of industrial assets in California, Washington, Texas, New Jersey, New York, and Florida. "This financing aligns with INCREF's strategy of originating high-quality, income-generating loans secured by institutional quality assets in what we consider to be the most liquid markets around the US and Europe," said Yorick Starr, Managing Director for Invesco Real Estate. "We are deeply appreciative of our relationship borrowers, and Bridge Logistics Properties are exceptional investors and operators in these key logistics markets." "Each loan we have closed this year has been representative of our consistent focus on the highest quality segment of the floating rate real estate credit market. With this closing, the INCREF portfolio now totals 61 like kind loans representing over $3.6 billion of loan commitments across the US and Europe," said Charlie Rose, President and Lead Portfolio Manager of INCREF and Global Head of Credit for Invesco Real Estate. "As a sub-70% loan-to-value loan secured by a diversified portfolio of well-leased, cash-flowing infill industrial, this loan is complementary to our existing portfolio of moderate leverage loans made to the highest quality institutional sponsors in the industry." "This refinancing strengthens our ability to continue executing our logistics investment strategy across core U.S. markets," said Matt Berger, CFO at Bridge Logistics Properties. "We are proud to partner with Invesco in supporting long-term performance for this high-quality portfolio." About INCREFInvesco Commercial Real Estate Finance Trust, Inc. is private perpetual-life real estate investment trust that originates, acquires, and manages a portfolio of loans secured by commercial real estate (and similar investments) primarily located in North America. INCREF is managed by Invesco Advisers, Inc. (the "Adviser"), a subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. and the registered investment adviser for Invesco Real Estate, the real estate investment center of Invesco Ltd. This does not constitute an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any securities. An offering can only be made by the applicable offering memorandum. About Invesco Real EstateInvesco Real Estate is a global leader in the real estate investment management business with $85 billion in real estate assets under management, 605 employees and 21 regional offices across the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific as of December 31, 2024. With over a 40-year history, Invesco Real Estate invests across the risk return spectrum, from core to opportunistic; in equity and debt; listed and direct; locally and globally. Invesco Real Estate is a business name of Invesco Advisers, Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. About Invesco is a global independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. Our distinctive investment teams deliver a comprehensive range of active, passive and alternative investment capabilities. With offices in more than 20 countries, Invesco managed $1.8 trillion in assets on behalf of clients worldwide as of March 31, 2025. For more information, visit About Bridge Logistics PropertiesBLP is a vertically integrated logistics real estate investment manager led by tenured, multi-disciplinary real estate professionals with experience navigating several economic environments over the past three decades. Its founding members and leadership team employ a disciplined investment strategy that is both cycle-tested and innovative. Founded in 2021, BLP is comprised of industrial real estate veterans with prior tenure at Brookfield, Prologis, IDI Logistics, Duke Realty, Hines and KTR Partners. BLP is a value-focused investment manager that is highly collaborative with its institutional capital partners. Leveraging its deep local relationships and its global operating experience, BLP uncovers and executes on investment opportunities in targeted coastal and gateway markets in the U.S. BLP executes its acquisition and development strategy in a vertically integrated regional structure across four offices located in New Jersey, Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles. Its steadfast focus on innovation and sustainable development promotes solutions that are both profitable and socially responsible. For more information, visit About Bridge Investment GroupBridge is a leading alternative investment manager, diversified across specialized asset classes, with approximately $49 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2025. Bridge combines its nationwide operating platform with dedicated teams of investment professionals focused on select U.S. verticals across real estate, credit, renewable energy and secondaries strategies. Contact: Matthew Chisum | 212-652-4368 | View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Invesco Commercial Real Estate Finance Trust, Inc.
New York Times
05-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Dave Pelz, Scientist Turned Golf Instructor, Is Dead at 85
Dave Pelz, who left his job as a scientist at NASA to study the short game of golf, a detour that would make him a celebrated guru of putts and wedge shots, died on March 23 at his home in Dripping Springs, Texas, near Austin. He was 85. David Pelly, Pelz's stepson and the chief executive of his company, Dave Pelz Golf, said the cause was prostate cancer. While most golfers focus more on how to drive long distances, Pelz concentrated on the short game — shots from within 100 yards, including putting and chipping and blasting out of bunkers with a wedge. In his early statistical research, he found that 80 percent of shots lost to par occur within that distance, and that putting makes up 43 percent of the game. 'Golfers think that their first two shots are the game,' he said on the PBS talk show 'Charlie Rose' in 2010. 'They drive almost every hole. They hit to the green almost every hole. But what they don't think about is that after you hit those first two shots, and you don't hit the green, there are two, three or four more shots.' Pelz, recognizable in his trademark broad-brimmed sun hat, became a major influence on the short game. He developed training aids and created clubs (he had about 20 patents); wrote instruction books; had his own Golf Channel show; opened schools for amateurs at golf resorts; and coached professional golfers. In his backyard, he built his version of a golf laboratory: He practiced putting, chipping and pitching on a mini-course of seven famous greens, like the one at the arduous 12th hole at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, home of the Masters tournament. The 12th is known for its fickle wind patterns and for a pond that guards the front of the green. 'The whole effort here,' he told The Wall Street Journal in 2012, 'is to produce every shot in golf that I care about, so that I can practice them.' Three weeks before Pelz's death, Patrick Reed, the 2018 Masters champion, practiced in that backyard lab. In a tribute posted on Pelz's website after the death, Reed wrote that over the course of 10 years, Pelz 'never doubted a theory or an idea I had, he taught me to test it. He never doubted my ability, he challenged it.' Pelz's many other clients included Phil Mickelson, Tom Kite and Vijay Singh. In 2004, after winning the first of his three Masters championships, Mickelson praised Pelz's wedge wisdom. Mickelson said after his victory that his practice time with Pelz had paid off with a pitching wedge shot on the 14th hole of the final round that led to a birdie and a tie with Ernie Els. (Mickelson went on to beat Els by a stroke with a birdie on the final hole.) 'It landed right where I wanted it, checked up and ended up a foot away for a tap-in,' Mickelson said after the round. 'Those hours of work and having that proper direction, I ultimately knew or did not ever lack belief that I would ultimately win.'' David Todd Pelz was born on Oct. 8, 1939, in Indianapolis. His father, Edward, was a traveling salesman for the National Biscuit Company (the family also lived in Lexington, Ky., and Willoughby, Ohio); his mother, Lilias (Stone) Pelz, oversaw the home and also painted. Both parents were golfers, and they began teaching Dave the game when he was 6. He played through high school and received a golf scholarship to Indiana University, where he majored in physics and also studied mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. But all along, he was more interested in playing golf. While competing in the Big Ten Conference, he met an obstacle: Jack Nicklaus, then a student at the Ohio State University, who beat Pelz in all 22 of their meetings. In 'Putt Like the Pros' (1989, with Nick Mastroni), Pelz wrote that he was frustrated at losing serially to Nicklaus — who would win a record 18 major tournaments as a professional — but that Nicklaus was the 'catalyst for my early motivation to learn all I could about the science of putting.' He concluded that Nicklaus's greatest virtue as a golfer was that he putted better than anyone else. Pelz did not complete his Russian-language course — it conflicted with his golf schedule — and did not graduate. But Indiana University would award him a bachelor's degree in 2011 based on the books he had gone on to write. Recognizing that he was not likely to succeed on the PGA Tour, Pelz went to work in 1961 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., a suburb of Washington. In his nearly 15 years there — during which he also played in amateur golf tournaments — he studied planetary atmospheres and rose to the position of senior scientist, with oversight of satellite programs that sent probes to Venus and Mars. He left the space agency in 1975. He had come to realize, he told The Los Angeles Times in 2007, that 'I'm a golf nut who loves physics, rather than a physicist who loves golf.' By then, Pelz had created a device that taught him how to hit his putts on the sweet spot of the club, and, with a partner, developed a putter called the Teacher, which two dozen members of the PGA Tour began to use. It was eventually outlawed by the United States Golf Association for being an illegal playing aid. 'I think it's the greatest thing ever invented to help the game of golf,' Bert Yancey, one of those golfers, told The Kalamazoo Gazette in 1975. The club had two prongs that extended from the face of its blade, enabling the golfer to frame its sweet spot. Pelz's passion for improving the mechanics of golfers' short games led him to create dozens of training devices designed to improve putting aim and alignment, measure the break and speed of balls on greens, and reduce the fear of three-foot putts. He made wedges — a club for short, high chip shots — that let golfers hit the ball with a higher loft. His many books include 'Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible' (1999) and 'Dave Pelz's Putting Bible' (2000), both written with James A. Frank, and 'Dave Pelz's Golf Without Fear: How to Play the 10 Most Feared Shots in Golf With Confidence' (2010), written with his son, Eddie, and Dave Allen. Pelz opened his first school for the short game in 1985 in Abilene, Texas. It now offers three-day courses at 18 resorts in the United States, Europe and the United Arab Emirates. The schools were run for many years by his second wife, JoAnn (Pelly) Pelz, who became the chief executive of Dave Pelz Golf. Pelz started his long run on Golf Channel in 1995 as the creator and star of 'The Dave Pelz Scoring Game Show.' In addition to his stepson, his wife survives him, as do two daughters, LauraKay McLoughlin and Katherine Pelz; his son, Eddie, from his first marriage, to Helen Kay Haydon, which ended in divorce; a stepdaughter, Elizabeth Mueller; nine grandchildren; and his sister, Sherry Hurley. Recalling his decision to preach the short game, he told Charlie Rose that the world didn't need 'another player trying to be a great player.' But he added: 'What the world needs was honest-to-God research in golf that had never been done — measure things that had never been measured, which I had learned to do at NASA — maybe I could help the average golfer play better. And maybe the world needs to play golf better to enjoy it more.'
