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Washington Post
3 hours ago
- Automotive
- Washington Post
Nancy Mace privately asks Trump aides to unfreeze Mercedes EV funds
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) privately asked the Trump administration on Tuesday to release funding for a Mercedes-Benz plant to convert to the production of electric vehicles, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post.
New York Times
a day ago
- Politics
- New York Times
Right-Wing Republicans in Congress Attack Mamdani With Islamophobic Comments
Representative Andy Ogles, a hard-right Tennessee Republican, on Thursday used Islamophobic language on social media to refer to Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, and said he should be deported. Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, implied that Mr. Mamdani was somehow tied to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which occurred when he was 9. That came after Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, reacted on Wednesday to Mr. Mamdani's apparent victory with an edited image of the Statue of Liberty clothed in a burqa. The responses to Mr. Mamdani's electoral triumph were the latest examples of how far-right Republicans in Congress have become overt in their use of bigoted language and ethnically offensive tropes, in both casual comments and official statements. Mr. Mamdani, a three-term New York State assemblyman who is all but certain to win the Democratic primary for mayor, was born in Uganda and has lived in New York City since 1998, when he was 7 years old. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2018 and, if elected, would become the city's first Muslim mayor. There is no credible evidence to suggest Mr. Mamdani is not, or shouldn't be, a U.S. citizen. But his shock win put him on the national radar, and some Republicans in Congress are now seeking to undermine him using a strategy similar to the racist one that Donald J. Trump employed against former President Barack Obama by questioning whether he was born in the United States. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Fox News
4 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
South Carolina AG mounts gubernatorial bid, advocates for abolishing state income tax, DOGE-ing government
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, an adopted son of U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., has announced a Palmetto State gubernatorial bid. "As your governor, we'll deliver meaningful relief to hard-working people. We're going to finally eliminate the state income tax," Wilson, who has served as the state's attorney general since 2011, said during a speech on Monday. "We're going to DOGE South Carolina government from top to bottom," he declared. "We will root out waste, fraud, and abuse, and we will expose it." U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who has said that she is considering running for governor, has previously accused Wilson of protecting pedophiles. "How does Alan Wilson explain his record of protecting kids vs. protecting p*dos? You either protect kids or you protect p*dos. You can't do both. Alan Wilson chose p*dophiles. Hold the line," Mace wrote in an April post on X. Robert Kittle, spokesperson for the state attorney general's office, called Mace's accusations "ridiculous," telling Fox News Digital in an email on Tuesday that as an assistant attorney general, Wilson previously "prosecuted, and put behind bars, people who sexually abused children." Wilson appeared to push back against Mace's attacks in a lengthy post on X in May. "I will not stand by and allow someone to lie about, not only me, but the dedicated men and women in my office who've been in the trenches protecting kids for years. A would-be candidate for Governor is attacking me, prosecutors, and our law enforcement partners who put their life on the line to protect children and catch predators. Enough is enough. Over the course of the last several weeks, this would-be candidate has peddled lies and mistruths for her own political ambitions and clicks on social media," he asserted. "Specifically, she has brought up a handful of cases from the last decade related to offenders that obtained illegal images of children. Let me be clear, our ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) division has worked to get these criminals before a judge and hold them accountable. Our objective is to indict, prosecute, and get them added to the Sex Offender Registry," he noted in part of the long post. "When the would-be candidate for Governor criticizes the Attorney General's Office, she's purposefully omitting the fact that judges give sentences, not prosecutors. When she criticizes the prosecutors, she's ignorant to the fact that often, our office is working in sync with a federal agencies that can get more time," Wilson declared. Mace fired back at the time, describing the post as "a very long-winded deflection full of excuses, half-truths and lies, as to why you can't seem to do your job effectively as South Carolina Attorney General." Current Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, is not eligible to seek another term in 2026 because the state constitution stipulates, "No person shall be elected Governor for more than two successive terms." McMaster, who became governor in 2017 after Gov. Nikki Haley, also a Republican, stepped down to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, won the state's 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial elections.
Fox News
4 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
'Not our role': Lawmakers cautious over Middle East peace, not ready for regime change
Lawmakers are anxious that the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran may not hold, but many are not ready to call for regime change in the Islamic Republic. President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a truce, but as the evening carried into the wee hours of Tuesday morning, whether that peace would last came into question. Israel had reportedly geared up for a retaliatory bombing run against Iran, and Trump accused both of breaking the newborn truce. On Tuesday morning, the president put out a sharp reprimand against both countries. "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f--- they're doing," he told reporters. On Capitol Hill, in the immediate wake of the ceasefire announcement, lawmakers were already looking at the deal skeptically but had confidence that the president's negotiating power would ensure the fragile truce was not shattered. "I remain hopeful," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital. "I trust the president. He's been right on everything, and he's the only president that's been able to bring Iran and Israel to the table in this manner. So I'm going to hope and pray that this works, and if it doesn't, then we know Trump will act decisively." Trump's announcement came on the heels of a weekend strikes with bunker-busting bombs that the White House says obliterated Iran's nuclear program. Many lawmakers stood firm last week that the entire point of supporting Israel in their bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic was to ensure that Iran could not make or obtain an atomic weapon. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital that it was the groundwork Trump laid in his first term with the Abraham Accords and his recent visit to Saudi Arabia that could help solidify a lasting ceasefire between the two sides. "All you can do is just trust that because of the events that have happened, I mean, Iran … their conventional weapons have been decimated, their platforms have been decimated," he said. "Their nuclear program has been obliterated. So they're at the table because of that." Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., told Fox News Digital that Iran has "typically never done what they said they would do." However, he believed that with the pressure from both the U.S. and Israel, and because Trump was willing to use force — which he described as the president showing he "means business" — things could be different. "I think they're going to come to the table now, and they're in a very weak position, so it's different, but their track record is very bad," he said. "You can't count on what they say. So this goes back to the Reagan 'trust but verify.' Anything we negotiate with them has to be verifiable, and certainly that's how the administration is going to approach it." However, even with a ceasefire, the Iranian regime remains unchanged. A shared sentiment among many lawmakers, however, was that if regime change were to take place in Tehran, it would have to be up to the Iranian people, not the U.S. government. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, who is pushing for his war powers resolution to get a vote in the upper chamber, warned, "Do we really want to get in another regime-change war? "We changed Iran's regime in 1953 by leading a coup against their prime minister," Kaine said. "And that's one of the reasons why the U.S.-Iran relationship is so bad 70 years later. Do we really want to do that again?" Indeed, the U.S.-backed toppling of then-Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh opened the door for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to take control of Iran. However, by 1979, the Islamic Revolution took place and removed Pahlavi from power and saw the birth of the current regime. Rep. Jack Bergman, a retired Marine general, laid out his position against regime change in more succinct terms. "It's not our role." Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., lauded the president's action over the weekend and said he believed the strikes had put negotiations on a path that could lead to a "generational shift" regarding the future peace and stability of the Middle East and Western World. Still, he noted that "regime changes can break one or two ways, but it would be hard to do worse than what is there today." "I'm cautiously optimistic, but we're not there yet," he continued. Not every lawmaker shared the same feelings, however. Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital that he believed the U.S. should take a stronger posture when it comes to regime change in Iran. "I'm a Navy SEAL commander who spent time there, and buried a lot of my friends," he said. "While the attack was brilliant, and it was deceptive, and it made a statement, etcetera, etcetera, I don't think Iran will bend. I think it's going to take regime change."
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Attorney General Alan Wilson enters race for South Carolina governor
COLUMBIA, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — South Carolina's top lawman says he wants to become the state's next chief executive. Attorney General Alan Wilson entered the race for governor on Monday evening, announcing his candidacy at a rally in Lexington County. 'Together we will reach our full potential and capitalize on the opportunities in front of us,' he told supporters gathered at Hudson's Smokehouse. Surrounded by family, the four-term AG was already making big promises if he is elected come November 2026, telling the crowd he will be one to finally eliminate the state's income tax. Wilson is not the only well-known Republican who is interested in the job. Josh Kimbrell, a state senator from Spartanburg County, already announced his candidacy this month. Under a hot summer sun, South Carolina's governor says energy law will keep air conditioners humming Congresswoman Nancy Mace, Congressman Ralph Norman, and Lt. Gov. Pamella Evette have all said they're weighing a run. 'We're gonna look in the short time ahead, and you know, I'm going to let everybody know when the right time it is to talk about something like that,' Evette told Queen City News in February. Either way, Wilson told his backers he is ready for a competitive race. The primary is set for June 2026. 'It won't be easy, but I never shy away from a fight. So, everybody, it's time to get to work.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
