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The Independent
3 minutes ago
- The Independent
Trump critic turned ally Nancy Mace announces run for South Carolina governor
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) – a former critic of President Donald Trump who became one of his most outspoken defenders on Capitol Hill while also becoming one of the most virulent voices against transgender people – announced she would is running to be governor of South Carolina. Despite having a thin legislative record, Mace has largely built a name for herself for bombastic stunts such as pushing to ban Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, from using the women's restroom and voting to eject Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House. 'I don't answer to the establishment,' she said during her speech. 'I don't know those in the back room a single thing. I answer to the people.' Mace made her announcement at the Citadel, South Carolina's military college, where she became the first woman to graduate. That came after she had initially dropped out of high school following being raped as a teenager, an ordeal she has publicly recounted. During her announcement, Mace mentioned a series of hardline policies, mostly focusing on immigration and cutting the state's income tax to zero in five years. 'They are all here, and we will work with ICE better than ever to ensure that anyone who is here illegally gets deported immediately, we will work with ICE in every respect,' she said of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 'If we need housing price we have it, if we need to have boots on the ground to help ICE, we will do it everything in our power, and we will not let another sanctuary share it dictate who gets to stay here when they're here illegally.' Unsurprisingly, Mace also said that she would oppose what she called the 'gender cult,' citing how she called out Clemson University for having 15 gender options. 'I hold the line on women and kids, Insanity and education by vetoing any funding to any college that pushes gender ideology and refuses to define what a woman is,' Mace said. 'If a school erases women, it erases its right to your tax dollars.' But Mace faces a crowded primary. Fellow Rep. Ralph Norman, who endorsed Nikki Haley during the 2024 preisdential primary, is also running. Another opponent is state attorney general Al Wilson, whom Mace accused on the House floor of ignoring her report of sexual assault, though Wilson said that Mace's report never made it to his office. Mace first came to Washington after serving in South Carolina's state legislature. In 2014, she staged a primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at the peak of the Tea Party movement. She later worked on the 2016 Trump campaign in the Palmetto State. In 2020, she beat former Democratic congressman Joe Cunningham in South Carolina's 1st district. Initially, after the January 6 riot, Mace criticized Trump and said she held him responsible for the riot, though she voted against impeaching him. That led to Trump endorsing her Republican primary opponent Katie Arrington in 2022. In response, Mace posted a video of herself infront of Trump Tower in New York. Mace initially billed herself as a moderate Republican who was part of a 'Caucus of One,' telling The Independent in 2023 that she was ' pro-baby, pro-gun, pro-pot, pro-gay.' She initially worked on legislation to decriminalize cannabis and voted with Democrats to legalize protections for same-sex and interracial married couples. But after her primary win, she moved significantly to the right. After initially voting for McCarthy as speaker, when former congressman Matt Gaetz filed a motion to vacate, Mace joined Gaetz and six other Republicans to eject McCarthy alongside every Democrat present at the time. Given many of her opponents within the GOP, Mace would likely need to win the support of the president. While Trump has not made an endorsement in the race yet, her announcement ad features Trump praising her.
Daily Mail
4 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Trump knifed by fellow Republicans over recent firing as he plans revenge on 'rigged' jobs data
Donald Trump 's friend-turned-foe Chris Christie says the president is constantly looking for a scapegoat 'like a petulant child.' This, the former New Jersey governor claims, is why Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a non-flattering jobs report last week. Trump slammed McEntarfer, an appointee of President Joe Biden, in a Friday Truth Social post claiming she 'manipulated' figures to fit a political agenda and called for her ouster. It came after the BLS monthly jobs report for July came out and showed it yielding a below-expectations-number of just 73,000 jobs. Trump says it is 'fake' and went on a social media tirade against McEntarfer and the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for not bowing to his pressure to lower rates. 'When [Trump] gets news he doesn't like, he needs someone to blame because he won't take the responsibility himself,' Christie told CNN on Sunday. 'And this is the action of a petulant child. Like, you give me bad news, I fire the messenger.' Other Republicans and Trump allies are not happy that the president's ire was taken out on McEntarfer. Republican Sen. Cyndia Lummis of Wyoming said if the numbers are accurate and she was still fired: 'That's a problem.' 'These are turbulent times and we've created some of the turbulence, and so it should be expected that there would be some ups-and-downs associated with job market,' Lummis admitted to reporters on Capitol Hill. North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said Trump and those who decided to fire McEntarfer 'ought to grow up.' Trump-appointed BLS Commissioner William Beach said it's not the fault of the commissioner if jobs are initially reported incorrectly, and on X he called her firing 'groundless.' 'The commissioner doesn't do anything to collect the numbers. The commissioner doesn't see the numbers until Wednesday before they're published,' Beach told CNN on Sunday. 'By the time the commissioner sees the numbers, they're all prepared.' In a post on Sunday, Trump accused McEntarfer of intentionally over-reporting job growth before the 2024 presidential election. He claimed that McEntarfer overstated job growth by 818,000 for the year ending March 2024 and by 112,000 in August and September of last year. The president insists the more positive reporting was done intentionally to boost Vice President Kamala Harris' chances of winning in the 2024 election. It's standard procedure for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to issue revisions due to lags and complexities of gathering job numbers reports from more than 600,000 businesses. The adjustments are made to reflect more accurate figures once they are available. Former officials, including Beach, have stated revisions are routine and not an inherent indication of manipulation. 'These were records — No one can be that wrong?' Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday. 'We need accurate jobs numbers.' 'She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can't be manipulated for political purposes,' he continued. But Beach warned that Trump has 'undermined credibility' and that no one he appoints to lead BLS will be trusted. 'Suppose that they get a new commissioner and this person, male or female, are just the best people possible. And they do a bad number. Well, everybody's going to think, well, it's not as bad as it probably really is because they're going to suspect political influence,' Beach explained. U.S. hiring growth dropped dramatically last month and unemployment ticked up, the latest jobs report released on Friday showed. Non-farm payrolls added 73,000 in July, more than 25 percent lower than the 100,000 expected by analysts. The unemployment rate also ticked up to 4.2 percent. The report also sharply revised down the figures for May and June by a combined 258,000 jobs from the previously released figures. Following the revision June's total was left at just 14,000 and May's at 19,000 — effectively flat. Analysts say July's figure is also likely to be revised lower, possibly into negative territory. The latest figures suggest cracks are in fact starting to show up in the economy, despite a slew of previous better-than-expected economic data released recently. It comes after the Federal Reserve once again held rates steady at its July meeting on Wednesday. The weaker figures could incentivize the Fed to lower interest rates at its next meeting in September, something Trump has been pleading for during most of his second term. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has consistently declined to heed Trump's calls as he continues to monitor possible inflation from tariffs. 'Higher tariffs have begun to show through more clearly to prices of some goods, but their overall effects on economic activity and inflation remain to be seen,' Powell told reporters, noting that inflation could be short-lived or more persistent. According to her LinkedIn bio, McEntarfer previously served as an economist at the Census Bureau and at the Treasury Department, as well as working as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisors for a year during the Biden administration. Her bio statement is a dry statement filled with economics lingo. 'My research is focused on labor market dynamics and interactions between firms and workers in the economy and has been published in the Journal of Labor Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives,' she writes. 'I have spent over 20 years as a professional economist working on issues related to economic measurement and innovations in workforce data,' she states.
Telegraph
4 minutes ago
- Telegraph
Gaza student leaves France after ‘death to Jews' posts row
A student from Gaza in France on a scholarship has left the country after her anti-Semitic remarks on social media were branded 'unacceptable' by the government. Nour Attaalah, who arrived in France on July 11, called for the killing of Jews in posts made online in the past two years, it is claimed. In a statement by the foreign ministry Jean-Noel Barrot, the French foreign minister, 'stressed the unacceptable nature of the comments made by Ms Attaalah, a Gazan student, before she entered French territory'. The posts, which have since been deleted, led to a judicial investigation for condoning terrorism, and an inquiry to determine why they had not been detected in advance. The Sciences Po Lille school said Wednesday that her social media comments had been confirmed, without elaborating. Ossama Dahmane, the student's lawyer, said the 'alleged facts are largely based on shared tweets, taken out of context'. But the foreign ministry said: 'Given their seriousness, Ms Attaalah could not remain on French territory. She left France today to go to Qatar to continue her studies there.' Her lawyer said Ms Attaalah had chosen to 'pursue her studies in another country in a spirit of appeasement and to guarantee her security', even though 'she firmly denies the accusations made against her'. The young woman, who had received a student visa and a government scholarship as part of a programme for Gaza students, had been due to join Sciences Po Lille in the autumn. She arrived in France on July 11, according to a French diplomatic source. Last Friday, France said it would suspend a programme receiving Palestinians from Gaza until an investigation into how the student accused was allowed into the country was concluded. 'No evacuation of any kind will take place until we have drawn conclusions from this investigation,' Mr Barrot told Franceinfo radio. All Gazans who have entered France will undergo a second screening, he added. The foreign ministry would not say how many students have been affected, citing privacy reasons. But France has helped more than 500 people leave Gaza since the latest war between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel started, including wounded children, journalists, students and artists. The conflict, triggered by Hamas's October 7 2023 attack on Israel, has seen Israel retaliate with a deadly military campaign and an aid blockade in Gaza that some rights groups have qualified as 'genocide'. Following the suspension, Arthur Delaporte, spokesman for the opposition Socialist Party, said a blanket ban was inappropriate. 'France cannot suspend its policy of welcoming evacuated Gazans: our common humanity is at stake,' he said on X. Last Thursday, Lille's general prosecutor that a judicial probe has been opened against the student for allegedly trying to 'justify terrorism' and 'justify a crime against humanity'. The controversy erupted shortly after Emmanuel Macron, the French president, announced France would recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September. Last week, Sir Keir Starmer said the UK would do the same unless Israel takes 'substantive' steps, including agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza.
