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[Rick Plant]

Another election, and another HUGE win for Democrats.

As I always say, the only polls that matter are election results and the Democrats score another victory.

Democratic Party candidate Donna Deegan has just been elected mayor of Jacksonville Florida.

Prior to this, Jacksonville had Republican mayors for 26 out of the past 30 years.

Looks like even Florida is finally getting sick of DeSantis and the Republicans.


Florida Democrats flip the Jacksonville mayor’s office in a major upset

Jacksonville was the largest city in the country with a GOP mayor, and the Republican candidate Tuesday had the backing of Gov. Ron DeSantis.



Democrat Donna Deegan won the Jacksonville mayor’s race Tuesday night, a shocking upset that hands Florida Democrats a major shot of energy less than six months after they were trounced in the 2022 midterms and considered left for dead by the national party.

Deegan came into Election Day as the decided underdog against Republican Daniel Davis, who is the head of the city’s Chamber of Commerce and had a significant fundraising advantage. He was endorsed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, but that support was lukewarm. DeSantis did not do events with Davis or put his political muscle behind his candidacy.

With all of the city’s 186 precincts reporting, Deegan had a 52% to 48% advantage over Davis, who was vying to replace current Republican Mayor Lenny Curry, who was term-limited.

“Everyone said it could not be done in Jacksonville, Florida,” Deegan said, according to video of her victory speech. “We did it because we brought the people inside.”

The city of Jacksonville's official Twitter account sent a tweet congratulating Deegan on Tuesday night, writing, "We look forward to your leadership and vision as you help guide our City into the future."

In his concession speech, Davis called on everyone to "come together now and move our city forward," according to the site Florida Politics.

Deegan is a former TV anchor in the city with significant name recognition. After she left TV, she went on to found a nonprofit group that focuses on breast cancer research. She will be the city's first female mayor.

The win in Jacksonville, which was the most populous city in the country with a Republican mayor, is a huge morale boost for Florida Democrats, who have faced a series of stinging losses in recent years. Most recently, they were hammered up and down the ballot in a midterm election cycle in 2022, when DeSantis won re-election by nearly 20 percentage points. He also captured Duval County, which is composed mostly of the city of Jacksonville, by 12 percentage points.

“Just when people thought they had Jacksonville figured out, the voters have confounded expectations,” said Chris Hand, a veteran Jacksonville Democratic operative. "Donna Deegan’s win is historic, not just because of who she is but also because of how she won: by running a positive campaign and building a coalition of Democrats, No Party Affiliation Voters and even some Republicans.”

Duval County’s political trajectory has been a roller coaster in recent election cycles.

It was won in 2018 by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who lost the election to DeSantis as Republican voters moved from the city to heavily Republican-leaning commuter counties. Two years later, Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the county since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Last year, however, DeSantis and Republicans dominated in the county like they did the rest of the state. Duval was named one of seven bellwether counties as part of NBC News’ “County to County” project as a result of the swing nature of its politics.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrat-donna-deegan-flips-jacksonville-mayors-office-major-upset-rcna84791

[Rick Plant]

The wins keep coming for the Democrats as Pennsylvania State House candidate Heather Boyd defeated Republican Katie Ford.

The Democratic Party keeps majority control of the Pennsylvania state house in a major blow for Republicans. Boyd ran on the issues most important to Pennsylvanians like abortion rights and education funding. Republicans keep running on an extreme platform of banning books, defunding public schools, and forcing women to give birth which is why they keep losing election races.

And also, Independent candidate Yemi Mobolade has won the race for mayor of Colorado Springs over the Republican candidate in a landslide victory. Mobolade is a moderate who might as well be a Democrat. Colorado Springs had long been staunchly Republican. Not anymore! People are tired of right wing fascism and the radical extremists that hijacked the Republican party.   

This is a preview of the 2024 elections, as right wing extremists will keep pushing this anti freedom-pro fascist agenda that the overwhelming majority of Americans reject. We witnessed the same thing in Wisconsin last month, when Republicans lost in an 11 point landslide for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court election.         


Democrat Heather Boyd defeats Republican Katie Ford in Delco special election

With a crucial win in Pennsylvania’s 163rd state House district, Democrats retain control over the chamber.



Democrat Heather Boyd has defeated Republican Katie Ford in the pivotal special election for a Pennsylvania state House seat in Delaware County, giving Democrats a narrow majority over the chamber once more.

Boyd, 46, campaigned on a platform of addressing public education funding, protecting abortion rights, and tackling racial disparities in maternal health.

Her win ensures that the Pennsylvania GOP has no path to restricting abortion via an amendment to the state constitution.

“Oh my god amazing, I’m just super excited obviously,” Boyd told WHYY News. “I never feel super confident walking into a race. You never know. The voters have to do what the voters have to do. And I’m so thankful to them.”

Democrats flipped the house in November for the first time since 2010, granting first-term Gov. Josh Shapiro a legislative chamber to help carry out his vision.

Boyd is currently the chair of the Upper Darby Democratic Committee. She previously worked as a teacher, school board director, legislative aide, and district director for U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon.

Public education funding is at the top of Boyd’s agenda when she reaches Harrisburg. But tonight?

“Maybe some sleep and hugging all of my friends and all of these wonderful people,” she said.

https://whyy.org/articles/pennsylvania-election-2023-delco-special-house-race-163rd-district/



Yemi Mobolade's resounding win in mayoral runoff marks seismic shift in Colorado Springs



That sound you heard Tuesday night in Colorado Springs was a seismic shift in the political foundation under Colorado's second-largest city.

Yemi Mobolade, an unaffiliated, first-time candidate, didn't just beat veteran Republican politician Wayne Williams by double digits in the city's mayoral runoff — the Nigerian immigrant upended the board in a once reliably right-leaning city that has been moving toward the center by leaps and bounds in recent elections.

According to preliminary, unofficial results, Mobolade defeated Williams by about 15 percentage points, becoming the city's first elected Black mayor and the first Colorado Springs mayor who isn't a registered Republican in the more than four decades since the city began electing mayors directly in 1979.

"Yemi has tremendous crossover appeal," Republican consultant Daniel Cole told The Gazette on Tuesday night.

Cole, who ran an independent group that supported Williams in the first round but sat out the runoff, said internal polling predicted Mobolade's sweeping win.

"Polling showed him winning all the Democrats, the vast majority of unaffiliateds and a significant chunk of Republicans, too," he said.

Running as a business-friendly moderate in the nominally nonpartisan election, Mobolade appears to have energized voters from across the political spectrum, while Williams battled critics from all sides, including fellow Republicans.

None of that would have mattered, however, without the city electorate's leftward shift.

As recently as a decade ago, Colorado Springs and its surrounding El Paso County were known nationally as Republican strongholds, but as Colorado has turned more solidly blue, the city and county have moved in the same direction, albeit more slowly.

Last November, for instance, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis barely edged Republican nominee Heidi Ganahl within city limits and lost to by just 4 percentage points countywide, a far cry from the 20-point margins Republican statewide candidates used to rack up in the county.

That change in voter sentiment, as Colorado Springs begins to resemble other formerly Republican-leaning Front Range counties like Jefferson and Arapahoe, lay the groundwork for a candidacy like Mobolade's, but the dynamics surrounding Williams and his relationship with a divided local GOP helped seal his fate.

Williams acknowledged as much in his concession speech, delivered just minutes after initial vote totals posted.

"It's clear Colorado Springs is less conservative than it used to be," he told supporters. "When I was chairman here (of the El Paso county GOP) we had no Democratic state reps. Now, we have three. So there are significant changes that have taken place, and I congratulate Yemi on an excellent campaign."

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/yemi-mobolade-wins-colorado-springs-mayor/article_d8f786f7-1693-5ac0-8b6b-c001534fbf77.html

[Rick Plant]

House GOP to refer George Santos expulsion resolution to Ethics panel

The resolution was introduced by Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia earlier this week



WASHINGTON — House Republicans plan to vote Wednesday evening on a motion to refer a Democratic-sponsored resolution to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., to the Ethics Committee.

The resolution was introduced on Tuesday by Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., and is privileged, which means Republican leaders must schedule a vote by Thursday.

Republicans will try to bypass a vote on the bill itself, however, by referring it to the House Committee on Ethics, which has been investigating Santos since early March.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., sent out a notice Wednesday telling lawmakers that they would vote on a motion to refer the resolution to the Ethics panel around 5 p.m.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. — who said last week that he would not back Santos' re-election bid — said Tuesday night that he preferred that approach rather than a floor vote to expel Santos from Congress.

Garcia called McCarthy's approach "a cop-out" at a press conference on Wednesday morning. "This is already in the Ethics Committee," Garcia said. "We want an actual vote on the expulsion."

Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., a former federal prosecutor, suggested that the Ethics Committee wouldn't take any action on the resolution, and instead defer to the Department of Justice, which last week charged Santos with a 13-count indictment.

"Prosecutors are going to ask the Ethics Committee to pause and let their prosecution go first," he said. "That’s what I did for 10 years, that is the nature of how these things work. And traditionally, the Ethics Committee will defer to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution and Kevin McCarthy knows that."

Goldman said this tactic is a way for Republicans avoiding accountability on the expulsion measure.

Santos' congressional office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Last week, Santos pleaded not guilty at a Long Island courthouse to the federal indictment unsealed by the Justice Department. Santos was charged with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives, according to the Justice Department. He’s due in court again June 30.

Santos, who had previously admitted that he lied about his background, has called the charges against him a “witch hunt“ and said that he won’t resign.

In March, the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation that it said would determine whether Santos “engaged in unlawful activity with respect to his 2022 congressional campaign; failed to properly disclose required information on statements filed with the House; violated federal conflict of interest laws in connection with his role in a firm providing fiduciary services; and/or engaged in sexual misconduct towards an individual seeking employment in his congressional office."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-gop-refer-george-santos-expulsion-ethics-panel-rcna84883

[Rick Plant]

President Biden @POTUS

Annual inflation has been nearly cut in half from its peak last year, wages rose last month, and grocery prices fell for the second month in a row.

My Administration is making continued progress lowering costs for families.



https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1658911515045502985



President Biden @POTUS

To have the best economy in the world, you've got to have the best infrastructure in the world.
 
That's why we're making historic investments to get America moving again – all while creating good jobs and using American materials.
 
And, folks, it’s about damn time.



https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1658600716397604868

[Rick Plant]

Right wing propagandists were pushing their usual disinformation saying "President Biden didn't have a plan" after Title 42 expired.

Of course, Biden had a plan, and it's working. Unlawful border crossings dropped more than 56% since President Biden’s plan went into effect. Once again, this data debunks the right wing manufactured "open border" lie.   

Now, Texas Governor Abbott is rallying other governors to “fight" border crossings going down.

Republicans don’t want the border to get better. They want chaos as usual so they can blame Biden for it. And these right wingers are trying to do that after Biden's plan cut unlawful border crossings by 56%.


Texas Gov. Abbott asks governors to fight Biden asylum rules
https://thehill.com/latino/4008326-texas-gov-abbott-asks-governors-to-fight-biden-asylum-rules/


DHS official: Border encounters continue to fall 56% since Title 42 ended



Since the lifting of the pandemic-era Title 42 immigration policy last week, the Department of Homeland Security has seen a steady decline in encounters at the Southwest border between migrants and Border Patrol agents, officials said Wednesday.

Blas Nuñez-Neto, DHS’ assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, told reporters there has been an average of about 4,400 encounters over the past four days — and fewer than 4,000 each of the last two days. That amounts to a 56%
drop.

U.S. officials have been stressing that the border is not open and urging migrants who want to enter the U.S. to apply for legal pathways, which have been expanded, using a mobile app. Officials have warned that those who attempt to go around the system will face severe consequences — swift deportation, a five-year ban if they have no legal basis to enter the U.S. and criminal prosecution if they attempt to cross the border again.

“This transition is the culmination of nearly two years of preparation and a whole-of-government approach to return to traditional Title 8 immigration processing,” Nuñez-Neto said.

Since Friday, thousands of migrants, including single adults and families, have been returned to Mexico and other countries, Nuñez-Neto said.

He added that the number of encounters with Venezuelan nationals is down 98% since last week to fewer than 50 a day over the past three days. Daily encounters with people from Mexico have fallen from 1,900 a day to 1,000, while encounters with Colombians have declined from 1,400 to around 500.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/immigration/2023/05/17/dhs-official--border-encounters-continue-to-fall-since-title-42-ended

[Rick Plant]

Rep. Jamaal Bowman calls out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for racist tropes after she claims to ‘feel threatened’ by him



NEW YORK — U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman Thursday accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of promoting racist tropes about Black men after she claimed to have felt “threatened” by his “physical mannerisms” during an argument on the steps of the Capitol.

Bowman, a Bronx Democrat who is Black, said Greene was spewing racist dog whistles when she claimed he should be monitored because she believes he acted “aggressively” during a verbal confrontation a day earlier.

“Black men continue to be characterized as aggressive and threatening when we are passionate and outspoken,” Bowman tweeted. “They’re not just using dog whistles, they’re using bullhorns.”

Greene earlier Thursday made no effort to hide her thoughts about Bowman, a former Bronx middle school principal.

"His physical mannerisms are aggressive,” Greene, who represents a deep-red rural Georgia district, said at an unrelated Capitol Hill press conference.“I think there’s a lot of concern about Jamaal Bowman. And I am concerned about it. I feel threatened by him.”

The two lawmakers were picking up where they left off the evening before with a war of words outside the Capitol.

The caught-on video confrontation started with Bowman and other progressive lawmakers heckling scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos, who escaped a possible expulsion vote when fellow Republicans referred his indictment to the ethics committee for a probe.

Bowman told Greene that the Republican Party needs to move away from right-wing radicalism.

“No more QAnon, no more MAGA, no more debt-ceiling nonsense,” he said.

© New York Daily News




'Nonsensical and dangerous': GOP strategist rips Marjorie Taylor Greene for racist tirade



Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spurred a fresh wave of outrage on Thursday by invoking racist tropes to portray fellow Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) as aggressive and threatening, and claimed that people referring to her as a white supremacist are being as offensive as using the N-word.

Speaking to CNN that evening, Republican strategist Rina Shah laid into Greene.

"I want to ask you, Rina, what you made of that," said anchor Sara Sidner. "You know, we know from reporting, from CNN and everyone else's reporting, that Greene repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2016 — sorry, 2018, 2019, before she was elected to Congress. And now she's making this accusation that just didn't seem credible."

"Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here for someone who's sitting in a member of Congress' post," said Shah. "It's almost shocking to me. I'm a two-time senior congressional staffer over a decade ago. But I'll tell you, this was fast how we got here. To see this kind of extremism and a sitting member of Congress weaponize their words on the regular. But what she thinks somebody else is doing, the tactics she employs are not just nonsensical, it's dangerous, because it's whataboutism and it's wrapped up in racism. She doesn't reflect the views of white conservative women in this country."

Further, Shah continued, "the more she continues this, we'll be able to see her real ambition."

"I think we see some of it," said Shah. "She does these events because she fundraises off of them. You don't see any of her colleagues, the ones that look like her, woman of the GOP, in the House chamber, rushing to her defense. Because what I saw in that incident was a heated discussion between two colleagues. Was it civil? I think it was. But what it indicated is that she and many others, also on the other side of the aisle — I'm not going to say it's in equal amounts or the same way — but I want to say that we do see this declining civility in the body of Congress. That is most dangerous for us because that indicates higher levels of — they're going to get less stuff done, and higher dissatisfaction with Congress."

Watch:

[Rick Plant]

Ron DeSantis just cost Florida a lot of jobs and revenue because of his fascist agenda. 


Disney cancels $1 billion development project in Orlando — costing Florida 2,000 jobs



The potential creation of over 2,000 jobs in the city of Orlando has been scrapped as Disney continues to feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, The New York Times reported.

Disney’s chief executive Bob Iger and the company's theme park and consumer products chairman Josh D’Amaro have pulled the plug on a nearly $1 billion office complex that was scheduled to be built in Orlando -- a project that would have brought over 2,000 jobs with high salaries.

"The project, known as the Lake Nona Town Center, was supposed to involve the relocation of more than 1,000 employees from Southern California, including most of a department known as Imagineering, which works with Disney’s movie studios to develop theme park attractions," The Times' report stated. "Most of the affected employees complained bitterly about having to move — some quit — but Disney largely held firm, partly because of a Florida tax credit that would have allowed the company to recoup as much as $570 million over 20 years for building and occupying the complex."

In an email to employees this Thursday, D’Amaro’s cited “changing business conditions” as the reason for the project's cancellation.

As The Times' points out, the company's ongoing feud with DeSantis "figured prominently" into the project's cancellation.

The feud between Disney and DeSantis began when the company spoke out against Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law which put restrictions on classroom discussions about sex and gender.

Florida legislators have since then targeted the company with a variety of measures that include ending its ability to self-govern its 25,000-acre resort as if it were a county, and by giving DeSantis control over government services at the resort.

Read the full report over at The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/business/disney-ron-desantis-florida.html



GOP Rep. Clay Higgins Manhandles Activist At Press Conference

Watch video in link: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gop-rep-clay-higgins-manhandles-092658071.html


GOP congressman accused of assaulting activist previously threatened demonstrators with violence



U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, a far-right wing Republican from Louisiana, is being highly-criticized after viral video appeared to show him physically pushing and removing a young man from a Washington, D.C, press conference hosted by far-right GOP members of Congress Loren Boebert and Paul Gosar. Higgins, who previously has threatened protestors, is now being accused of assault by the man, who could be heard in the clip saying, “you’re hurting me.”

The man Rep. Higgins removed, 25-year-old Jake Burdett, posted video of himself asking pointed questions to both Boebert and Gosar, interrupting the small gathering.

“I figured I’d ask them some tough questions,” Burdett told The Daily Beast. “Bird-dog them, whatever you want to call it."

“Rep. Gosar, can you talk about when you did that rally with the neo-Nazi, Nick Fuentes? Can you talk about when your family did a ad all endorsing your opponent?” Burdett says in the video. “Representative Boebert, can you talk about your divorce? Did it have anything to do with giving food poisoning to Shooter’s Bar and Grill?”

Seconds later, Congressman Higgins apparently grabs Burdett, and tells him, “No. You’re out. You’re out.”

As he grabs him, Burdett says, “Aren’t you a congressperson, touching me?” and then, “Get off me! You’re hurting me!”

The Daily Beast reports, “Burdett wasn’t injured in the incident, he told The Daily Beast. But he felt ‘scared, intimidated, powerless, defenseless.’ He couldn’t exactly push back, he added later in an interview. ‘Like, who do I think the cops are going to crack down on: me, or the congressperson?'”

Video taken by Kristy Fogle, which offers a clear view of Higgins grabbing and pushing Burdett has gone viral with over 9 million views.

In the background someone can be heard saying, “Get this on video, this is assault.”

Burdett seems to think so too. On social media he asked if any attorneys thought it was, and one called it, “assault, battery, and a potential civil rights violation.”

Burdett also posted videos he apparently recorded. On Twitter he says, “Rep Clay Higgins proceeded to assault/physically remove me from the press conference.”

So who is U.S. Congressman Clay Higgins?

Before he was a member of Congress, Higgins was a law enforcement officer, which might explain why he is defending his actions by accusing Burdett of appearing threatening and mentally unstable.

In a statement to KATC, Higgins said, “Activist was a 103M. Threatening. He was escorted out and turned over to Capitol Police. Textbook.”

One website defines 103M as “Disturbance by mental person.”

But Higgins is a U.S. Congressman, not a physician, not a mental health professional, not a law enforcement officer in Washington D.C., and it’s unclear why he would be authorized to diagnose or physically remove someone exercising their First Amendment rights.

A damning September 2020 Buzzfeed News article reveals Congressman Higgins had ties to the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that just months later would go on to play a role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Oath Keepers founder and leader, Stewart Rhodes, in November of 2022 was convicted of seditious conspiracy, along with eight other members of that group.

“Facebook removed two posts from a Republican member of Congress representing Louisiana,” Buzzfeed News reported in 2020, referring to Higgins, “in which he threatened demonstrators against police violence, suggesting he would shoot and ‘drop any 10 of you where you stand’ if they took to the street armed.”

“If this shows up, we’ll consider the armed presence a real threat,” Higgins wrote on his personal, verified “Captain Clay Higgins” Facebook page, Buzzfeed reported, noting his post included “a picture of an armed Black militia group that has protested the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.”

“We don’t care what color you are. We don’t care if you’re left or right. If you show up like this, if We recognize threat… you won’t walk away.”

In that Facebook post Higgins also wrote, “I wouldn’t even spill my beer. … We are SWAT. Nothing personal. We just eliminate the threat. … That’s not a challenge, fellas. It’s a promise.”

“You’re the ones threatening, if you show yourselves, aggressively natured and armed in my presence,” he also wrote. “We don’t want to see your worthless *ss nor do we want to make your Mothers cry.”

Buzzfeed states that “Higgins did not explicitly threaten to shoot protesters, but seemed to make reference to it in his post by writing ‘1,450 fps’ – a reference to the speed of some ammo measured by feet per second.”

This screenshot appears to be the post Facebook deleted.

It was curious for Higgins to threaten violence against the protesters, essentially for being armed, because Louisiana is an open-carry state. In fact, Higgins is so devoted to the Second Amendment, in 2021 he declared his opposition to all gun control laws because murder is in the Bible, while appearing to suggest it is in man’s nature to kill, and that America is a Christian nation.

Meanwhile, Buzzfeed also reported, “On July 29, 2017, Higgins appeared at a DC event organized by Oath Keepers, a group that claims to have tens of thousands of members and has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a radical anti-government group.”

“Higgins is a former law enforcement officer and was a member of a SWAT team. He resigned from the Opelousas Police Department in 2007 after an internal investigation accused him of using unnecessary force on a suspect (he has since denied that was the reason for his resignation),” Buzzfeed adds.

Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Bureau’s Counterintelligence Division, Pete Strzok, on Wednesday responded to video of Higgins by saying, “Same guy who quit being a patrol officer before he could be disciplined for using unnecessary force on a subject (‘striking a subject in handcuffs’) and then lying about it.”

Up until recently, Higgins was possibly best known, while in Congress, for shooting a selfie political video inside the Auschwitz gas chamber.

As NCRM previously reported, Higgins last year was one of 33 Republicans sponsoring a federal, vigilante “Don’t Say Gay” bill. He was one of 28 House Republicans who refused to vote for the bipartisan Respect for Child Survivors Act, which would aid victims of child sex abuse and their families.

This year he became one of 26 Republicans on the House Oversight Committee who refused to sign a simple, two-sentence statement denouncing white supremacy.

Just last month Congressman Higgins voiced opposition to the separation of church and state, while attacking liberal Americans and, seemingly the LGBTQ community along with one of the cornerstones of American democracy.

“Over time,” Higgins tweeted, “American communities will build beautiful, church owned public-access libraries. I’m going to help these churches get funding. We will change the whole public library paradigm. The libraries regular Americans recall are gone. They’ve become liberal grooming centers.”

And one month before that, in March, Congressman Higgins promoted the idea of using the power of the federal government to assist and support someone who was under investigation and later charged with 34 felonies.

“It is pretty clearly a wrongful persecution of a free American citizen who happens to be the former president of the United States,” Rep. Higgins told The Daily Beast, referring to Donald Trump. “Because of those circumstances, I think it’s appropriate for Congress to inquire into what drove that decision-making process for [Manhattan DA Alvin] Bragg.”

A Change.org petition with over 1000 signatures is asking for Congressman Higgins to be charged with assault.

https://www.rawstory.com/clay-higgins/