Missouri lawmakers vote to renew Medicaid program held hostage by monthslong filibuster
Missouri’s GOP-led Legislature on Wednesday renewed a more than $4 billion Medicaid program that had been blocked for months by a Republican faction that used it as a bargaining tool. The bill which now heads to Gov. Mike Parson will renew a longstanding tax on hospitals and other medical providers. Money from the tax is used to draw down $2.9 billion in federal funding, which is then given back to providers to care for low-income residents on Medicaid health care. FILIBUSTER AGAINST $4B MISSOURI MEDICAID BILL ENDS Because the tax is crucial to the state’s budget, the Senate’s Freedom Caucus had been leveraging the bill to pressure Republican leaders to pass a bill kicking Planned Parenthood off the state’s Medicaid program, which the Legislature did last month. Later, the Freedom Caucus also demanded that the Legislature pass a measure to raise the threshold for amending the state constitution. Currently, amendments need support from 51% of voters stateswide. If approved by voters, the Republican proposal would make it so constitutional amendments also need support from 51% of voters in a majority of congressional districts. Senate Freedom Caucus members allowed a final Senate vote of approval on the Medicaid tax last week, even though the constitutional amendment change still has not passed the Legislature. The House took the hospital tax renewal up Wednesday, voting 136-16 to send the measure to Parson. Democratic House Minority Leader Crystal Quade on Wednesday told colleagues on the chamber floor that the tax is essential “to function as a government” and “provide the most basic services.” “This shouldn’t be used as a hostage in a terrorist negotiation,” Quade said. Republican Rep. Tony Lovasco argued that Missouri’s reliance on the tax, and on federal Medicaid funding, hurts the state. “The fact that we are yet again leaning on the federal government and their manufactured, printed money in order to get by in Missouri is just not a positive,” Lovasco said on the House floor. Parson is expected to sign the bill.
Fox News Politics: Hot Debate Summer
Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail. What’s happening? -GOP Reps call for special counsel over Biden’s stalled Israel aid -Biden calls Trump a ‘loser’ who ‘might have injected bleach’ – Opening statements begin in Dem senator’s corruption trial Former President Trump accepted President Biden’s offer to debate him on television in June and September. After Trump said he was in, Biden said in a post on X that he “received and accepted an invitation” from CNN for a debate on June 27 — which is far, far earlier in the election cycle than most presidential year showdowns. “Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place,” Biden wrote. Biden did have several requirements for the debates, including that they be held without a live audience, and with microphones that cut out when each candidate’s time expired. Trump told Fox News Digital that he will accept and “will be there.” The Republican added that he is “looking forward to being in beautiful Atlanta.” The proposal was initially outlined by the Biden-Harris campaign in a letter to the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates on Wednesday morning. It abandoned the decades-old tradition of three fall meetings organized by the debate commission. Trump afterward told Fox News Digital that he’d accept the timeline proposed by the incumbent Democrat. “Crooked Joe Biden is the worst debater I have ever faced — he can’t put two sentences together,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “Crooked is also the worst president in the history of the United States, by far.” Trump told Fox News Digital that “it is time for a debate to take place – even if it has to be held through the offices of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which are totally controlled by Democrats and who, as people remember, got caught cheating with me with debate sound levels.” TONE-DEAF: Blinken blasted for playing ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ during Ukraine visit …Read more ‘GOTAWAY’ EXPLOSION: Number of illegal immigrants escaping skyrockets under Biden …Read more ‘ACTION THROUGH INACTION’: GOP rep calls for Garland to appoint special counsel to investigate Biden’s stalled Israel aid …Read more ‘POWER OF THE PURSE’: Johnson answers Fox News Digital question about Jack Smith’s future …Read more ‘USE YOUR GOOD JUDGEMENT’: Opening statements begin in Sen. Menendez’ corruption trial …Read more WINNER, WINNER: 2020 presidential candidate’s spouse wins primary for David Trone’s Maryland House seat …Read more ‘LOSER’: Biden calls Trump a ‘loser,’ wonders if former president ‘injected bleach’ …Read more ‘HUGE PROBLEM’: Resurfaced interview comes back to haunt vulnerable Dem in state Trump won big in 2020 …Read more ‘BIGGEST LOSER’: Dem mocked for spending millions of own money on failed Senate bid …Read more DEBATE SNUB: RFK Jr. claims Biden, Trump ‘colluding’ to exclude him because they’re ‘afraid I would win’ …Read more ABOUT-FACE: RFK Jr. explains change on full-term abortion stance: ‘Basically killing a child’ …Read more BESMIRCH ENGINE: Google conference disrupted by anti-Israel protest: ‘Google Cloud rains blood’ …Read more ‘COMRADES’: Communist organizer spotted calling for ‘revolution’ during anti-Israel protest …Read more HEAVY WORRY: Justice Alito warns college students that ‘support for freedom of speech is declining’ …Read more ‘SAFETY’ CONCERNS: New Jersey Senate cancels hearing on bill to adopt antisemitism definition …Read more HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: IDF claims photos show Hamas combatants inside UN compound in Rafah …Read more ‘SELECTIVE PROSECUTION’: Pro-life activist sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison in ‘shocking’ outcome …Read more BORDER BACKLOG: Immigration judges ramp up pace closing deportation cases, but not enough …Read more ‘DISINFORMATION EXPERTS’: Ex-NYT journalist mocks blatant bias at newspaper in latest book …Read more BARELY AFLOAT: New York City Mayor Adams grilled by NBC host for ‘racist’ claim that migrants are ‘excellent swimmers’ …Read more Subscribe now to get Fox News Politics newsletter in your inbox. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.
Texans triumph in fight to get direct flights from San Antonio to Washington, D.C.
The push to get more nonstop flights to the nation’s capital pit Texans against Virginians, who were opposed to the expansion.
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New $305 million Austin State Hospital unveiled as Texas revamps psychiatric system
The facility has 240 single-person rooms, a basketball gym and outdoor courtyards. It’s part of a $2.5 billion overhaul of the mental health hospital system.
Whistleblower alleges mistakes in initial East Palestine disaster response
The Environmental Protection Agency disputed whistleblower claims of mistakes and “no confidence” in early data collected from the site where a Norfolk-Southern train hauling caustic materials derailed along the Pennsylvania-Ohio border last year. A person who said he helped craft the technology and interpret data from advanced radiological sensors on a high-tech EPA plane used to survey the damage and take hazmat readings told The Associated Press the aircraft was enlisted too late. In turn, the whistleblower told the outlet, it may have been unnecessary to burn off toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars in a controlled release. The EPA’s “ASPECT” single-engine turboprop based in Texas hosts what the agency calls a “suite of sensors and software” that provides vital data collection assistance in disaster areas. Those tools include an infrared line scanner, various spectrometers and a digital mapping camera, among other abilities. Robert Kroutil told the AP the plane didn’t fly over the site, near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, until a day after the controlled release of vinyl chloride. POLITICIANS REACT TO BIDEN VISITING EAST PALESTINE AFTER 1 YEAR: ‘TOO LITTLE TOO LATE’ “We could tell the data provided from the ASPECT plane’s two East Palestine flights on Feb. 7 was incomplete and irregular. We had no confidence in the data. We could not trust it,” said Kroutil, whose team considered the results of the flyover to be inconclusive, alleging chemical sensors were not active when the aircraft flew over now-polluted creeks in the area. In comments to NewsNation, Kroutil called the deployment “the most unusual … I’ve ever seen.” In a lengthy response to a Fox News Digital inquiry, the EPA pushed back on the allegations, saying whistleblower characterizations of the ASPECT plane’s response are “false,” adding weather conditions prevented the plane from prompt surveying of the location. “EPA Region 5 [in the Midwest] requested ASPECT to fly to East Palestine late in the day on February 5, 2023. As soon as the request was made, the aircraft was deployed the same day from its home base in Addison, Texas, to Pittsburgh. Due to low ceilings and icing conditions, the flight crew made the determination that the aircraft was unable to fly safely on February 6, 2023, the day of the controlled burn.” PENCE TORCHES ‘AWOL’ BIDEN: HE ‘DERAILED’ OHIO LONG BEFORE FAILURE TO ADDRESS TRAIN SPILL CRISIS When Mother Nature cooperated the following day, ASPECT flew two missions over the location, the agency said, adding that EPA staff was already on scene “establishing a robust air monitoring network … within the community.” The EPA told Fox News Digital readings from the ground on the first two days – before the plane flew over – depicted contaminants to be below detection levels with the exception of particulates. It said Kroutil, “the contractor mentioned,” was not part of the ASPECT flight crew in Ohio and that the agency does not comment on internal personnel matters relating to contractors. Since the disaster, the agency said it has collected 28,000 air samples and that, in the time since residents were allowed back to their homes, there have not been “sustained chemicals of concern found in the air.” The agency added it will continue to honor public records requests and be transparent in its response to the tragedy. Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s office said that when it comes to whistleblowers, anyone with time-sensitive and pertinent information has been asked repeatedly to come forward, including in the immediate aftermath of the Norfolk-Southern spill. “They failed to bring it forward,” a spokesman for DeWine said. “If there was a person who had knowledge at the time … they knew who was in charge and it was very clear who was on the ground,” he said, adding that Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and DeWine publicly made the same plea. ERIN BROCKOVICH REBUKES FEDERAL RESPONSE TO EAST PALESTINE DISASTER “We do understand there are experts who had other opinions [on the disaster response]. … Vance said no one brought [further information] forward,” the spokesman added. Requests seeking comment from Vance’s office went unanswered, but the senator notably called President Biden’s visit to East Palestine one year after the derailment “pure politics” and akin to a “political stunt.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Across the nearby Pennsylvania border, waterways, air and land were similarly affected by the disaster, including in the Beaver County district of State Sen. Elder Vogel, Jr. “It is very disheartening to hear that these alleged delays and botched response approaches took place – especially since those in East Palestine, Ohio, and areas in my district here in Pennsylvania have been dealing with the aftermath of this derailment for over a year now,” Vogel told Fox News Digital regarding the whistleblower’s account prior to EPA pushback. “Earlier intervention could have made a difference following the derailment and better assisted those responding to the incident.” Sen. Doug Mastriano, R–Pa., of Gettysburg, held at least two hearings in Beaver County in response to the disaster, including one in March where residents sounded off about how they are still feeling long-term effects. In April, Mastriano, Vogel and State Sen. Michele Brooks launched an effort to allow Pennsylvania-based victims of the disaster to claim an added tax deduction on any payouts from Norfolk-Southern. Fox News Digital further reached out to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, who was also a public fixture in the aftermath of the disaster, but did not receive a response by press time. Calls placed to officials in the city of East Palestine for comment also went unanswered. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
‘Caved to the far-left’: Entrenched red state GOP incumbent loses primary after PAC hammers him on key issue
FIRST ON FOX: A stalwart in the West Virginia Republican Party for decades lost his primary race on Tuesday night due in part to his support of a controversial bill that critics say would provide healthcare for illegal immigrants, according to a group that actively campaigned against him. West Virginia GOP State Sen. Craig Blair, the president of the state senate who has served as a state senator since 2013 and in the legislature for years before that, lost to his primary challenger Tom Willis on Tuesday night, WV Metro News reported. Stand For Us PAC, a group that has pledged to put at least $1 million into defeating incumbents who they deemed weak on illegal immigration, says Blair lost because of his support of subsidizing healthcare for illegal immigrants. “It’s simple: Craig Blair caved to the far-left on illegal immigration and turned his back on the people of West Virginia…and Stand for Us PAC held him accountable,” Katie Miller, Chair of Stand for Us PAC, said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday. ‘CHILD PREDATOR’: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH PAST SEX CONVICTION CAPTURED IN BORDER STATE “Over the last month, Stand for Us spent over $400,000 to defeat Blair, with the majority of our resources going to informing the Senate President’s constituents about how he led the charge to strengthen a federal program that uses taxpayer dollars to subsidize health care for illegal immigrants.” At the heart of the issue was Blair’s support for West Virginia Senate Bill 325 which critics say strengthens the federal 340B federal program which would ultimately mean subsidized healthcare for illegal immigrants. Similar legislation across the country has drawn ire from Republicans including in Virginia where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed the bill. Stand for Us PAC ran multiple ads hammering Blair on the issue arguing that Blair was “working against Trump’s America First agenda.” ‘ENOUGH’: CONTROVERSIAL ID PROGRAM FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TARGETED BY GOP SENATOR “It’s disappointing to me that a bill that passed the Senate with a unanimous, bipartisan vote would be so blatantly misconstrued and weaponized as it was,” Blair, who is the Lt. Governor of West Virginia, told Fox News Digital in a statement on Wednesday. “This bill has nothing, whatsoever, to do with subsidizing health care for illegal immigrants. If providing more affordable prescription drugs to West Virginians — especially our vulnerable senior citizens on a fixed income — is a ‘fireable offense,’ then I’ll proudly take that pink slip.” Miller explained in her press release the strategy that Stand For Us used to unseat Blair who held a plus 12 favorability rating and an 11 point lead over Willis in April. Miller also warned in a statement that Republican incumbents should be wary of their stance on illegal immigration in light of Blair’s surprise defeat. “Other Republicans should take notice, Miller said. “We only had a month from our first expenditure to Election Day and we were still able to oust a well-established Senate President by double-digits. That should make clear to Republicans across the country considering voting for legislation to strengthen the 340b program or allow non-citizen voting that they will not be safe no matter how powerful they are.” Miller continued, “Stand for Us isn’t going anywhere and the results of our efforts have only emboldened us to increase our initial investment so we can hold more so-called conservatives accountable for refusing to crack down on illegal immigration. Republicans are now on notice that they support 340b or non-citizen voting at their own political peril.”
Liz Cheney’s communications with star Jan 6 witness sought by House GOP investigators
House GOP investigators are seeking all communications between former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and people related to the now-defunct House select committee probing Jan. 6, including the panel’s former vice chair, ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the Committee on House Administration’s oversight subcommittee, wrote to Hutchinson on Wednesday asking for her exchanges with Cheney, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, ex-White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House deputy chief Anthony Ornato, and Secret Service agent Robert Engel, among others. Hutchinson, who published a memoir last year, was also asked for “all communications referencing or referring to potential publishing or book deals or related compensation.” DOJ WILL NOT TURN OVER BIDEN’S RECORDED INTERVIEW WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR TO CONGRESS The former Trump administration aide was a star witness for the Jan. 6 committee, set up by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. She had testified that former President Trump physically lunged at Engel, who was his driver, when the agent refused to drive him to the U.S. Capitol. Trump and others linked to the story have denied her claims. She and Cheney appear to have grown close since then. Hutchinson lauded Cheney in a September 2023 MSNBC interview: “Liz Cheney is the leader that we all need to aspire to be, and she is the leader that we need as a country to come together and find people to elect people like Liz Cheney.” Loudermilk’s subcommittee, which has been investigating the House Jan. 6 probe, accused the Democrat-led committee of having “failed to properly archive their records, including as many as 900 interview summaries or transcripts, over one terabyte of digital data, and over 100 deleted or encrypted documents.” HOUSE GOP THREATENS TO HOLD AG GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS OVER RECORDINGS OF BIDEN INTERVIEW IN HUR CASE “Therefore, the Subcommittee must now determine what documents were not properly archived, and assess what documents are necessary to accomplish a productive investigation. The Subcommittee has no choice but to repeat much of the work of the Select Committee to understand their investigative findings,” he wrote. The Georgia Republican acknowledged that Hutchinson had provided his committee with documentation that she had also given the Jan. 6 panel, but said she did not produce “all records, notes, or documents prepared by you for interviews with the Select Committee or the Department of Justice,” which Loudermilk asked for earlier this year. He also noted that some of the information she produced – including messages between herself and former Trump officials John Ratcliffe and Kash Patel – were not archived by the Jan. 6 committee. HOUSE GOP REPORT ALLEGES JAN 6 COMMITTEE ‘DELETED RECORDS AND HID EVIDENCE’ “As such, the Subcommittee is working to determine why the Select Committee did not archive these documents produced by or related to you. Given the extensive interviews, lengthy errata sheet, and ex parte conversations with Select Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, the failure to archive certain parts of your production is concerning,” Loudermilk wrote. Fox News Digital reached out to an attorney for Hutchinson and a representative for Cheney for comment. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the former Jan. 6 committee chair, defended his panel’s handling of documents. “This letter was not addressed to me, but I can tell you that Mr. Loudermilk’s previous correspondence to me has been riddled with significant factual errors,” Thompson said. “As I have said time and again, the Select Committee archived its official records in accordance with House rules. It seems Mr. Loudermilk is using this fishing expedition to distract from the fact that their release of security camera footage is completely failing to provide any evidence to support extreme MAGA Republican conspiracies about Jan. 6 – and is only bolstering the work we did in investigating the circumstances surrounding that terrible day.”
COVID origins: HHS suspends EcoHealth Alliance grants after finding taxpayer funds used in risky research
The Department of Health and Human Services implemented an immediate, government-wide suspension on all funds allocated to EcoHealth Alliance – a firm that used taxpayer funds to conduct gain of function research at the Wuhan lab before the COVID-19 pandemic began. HHS made the decision, citing evidence included in the House COVID Select Subcommittee’s staff-level report on the nonprofit. CLASSIFIED DOCS ‘CREDIBLY’ SUGGEST COVID ORIGINATED FROM WUHAN LAB LEAK, COVERED UP BY CCP: HOUSE REP According to HHS, EcoHealth willfully violated the terms of a multimillion-dollar National Institute of Health grant. A spokesperson for EcoHealth Alliance told Fox News Digital that it is “disappointed by HHS’ decision today and we will be contesting the proposed debarment.” “We disagree strongly with the decision and will present evidence to refute each of these allegations and to show that NIH’s continued support of EcoHealth Alliance is in the public interest,” the spokesperson told Fox News Digital. The House COVID subcommittee, reacting Wednesday, said those are “not the actions of an organization or an individual that should continue to receive taxpayer funds.” “EcoHealth Alliance and [EcoHealth President] Dr. Peter Daszak should never again receive a single penny from the U.S. taxpayer,” committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, said in a statement Wednesday. “EcoHealth facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China, without proper oversight, willingly violated multiple requirements of its multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health Grant and apparently made false statements to the NIH.” Wenstrup added that those actions are “wholly abhorrent, indefensible, and must be addressed with swift action.” “EcoHealth’s immediate funding suspension and future debarment is not only a victory for the U.S. taxpayer, but also for American national security and the safety of citizens worldwide,” Wenstrup said. Wenstrup’s committee, with support of Democratic lawmakers on the panel, had Daszak testify publicly earlier this month. Fox News Digital previously reported that EcoHealth Alliance received millions of dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). U.S. taxpayer funds flowed to Chinese entities conducting coronavirus research through EcoHealth Alliance. That money – at least $600,000 – was redirected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and went toward research to assess the transmission of bat coronaviruses to humans. The research included conducting RNA extractions and DNA sequencing on bat samples as well as biological experiments on pathogen spillover from bats to humans. US TAXPAYER FUNDS FLOWED TO CHINESE ENTITIES THAT CONDUCTED CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH BEFORE COVID PANDEMIC: GAO EcoHealth Alliance also received more than $200,000 that was redirected to Wuhan University and went toward disease surveillance research activities, including collection of biological samples from people in China with high levels of exposure to bats for Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct further screening. Former U.S. government officials, like former NIH Director Francis Collins, said the U.S. taxpayer money was not approved to conduct gain-of-function research, which is research that involves modifying a virus to make it more infectious among humans. ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE PRESIDENT TESTIFIES ON COVID ORIGINS, WUHAN LAB TAXPAYER-FUNDED RESEARCH The U.S. Energy Department and the FBI have determined that COVID-19 likely emerged from a lab leak in China. Meanwhile, Wenstrup says his committee’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and EcoHealth “is far from over.” “Dr. Daszak and his team are still required to produce all outstanding documents and answer the Select Subcommittee’s questions, specifically related to Dr. Daszak’s potential dishonesty under oath,” he said. “We will hold EcoHealth accountable for any waste, fraud, and abuse and are committed to uncovering any illegal activity, including lying to Congress, NIH, or the Inspector General.”
‘Squad’ member defends ‘river to the sea’ phrase interpreted as calling for ‘extermination’ of Jews
Embattled Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., a member of the far-left “Squad,” recently defended a phrase widely viewed as antisemitic that calls for the “extermination” of Jews. Bowman, who is facing a tough primary challenge in New York’s 16th Congressional District, made the controversial comments about the phrase “from the river to the sea” during a debate Monday night against his opponent, Westchester County Executive George Latimer. “I know some do, others don’t. I do not,” Bowman said when asked by a member of the debate audience whether he believed the phrase was considered hate speech. ANTI-ISRAEL, PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTS ‘CHEAPEN THE CONCEPT OF GENOCIDE,’ SAYS JEWISH HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR Latimer ripped Bowman’s response, saying, “I think it is hate speech because I think it’s clear that ‘from the river to the sea’ has meant specifically the eradication of the Jewish population from the land of Israel.” Bowman said earlier in the debate he does believe in Israel’s right to exist and supports a two-state solution, but his campaign has yet to respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment about his defense of the phrase that appears to run in contrast to his view. “‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free’ is a rallying cry for terrorist groups and their sympathizers,” according to the American Jewish Committee, a view echoed by other Jewish advocacy groups. DEM MOCKED AS ‘BIGGEST LOSER’ AFTER SPENDING MILLIONS ON FAILED SENATE BID: ‘PATHETIC’ The Anti-Defamation League, one such group, describes the phrase as an “antisemitic slogan commonly featured in anti-Israel campaigns and chanted at demonstrations.” Nathan Sales, a former counterterrorism official, told Fox News last year that when pro-Palestinian protesters chant “Palestine from the river to the sea,” they are really calling for the “extermination of the Jewish state.” “They think that Israel shouldn’t exist at all,” Sales told “Sunday Night in America.” “This is exterminationist rhetoric, and our First Amendment means that we have to tolerate this kind of speech, but the antidote for that kind of abhorrent speech is more speech. We need to expose what these Hamas sympathizers are really all about.” DEM NEWCOMER AIMS FOR HISTORY WITH PRIMARY WIN OVER WEALTHY CONTROVERSIAL CONGRESSMAN Bowman has been a staunch critic of Israel, especially since the start of its ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza. Earlier this month, he attended a fundraiser co-hosted by an Islamic leader who said he was “happy to see” the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians. Bowman didn’t seem to mind the presence of Nihad Awad, a controversial and antisemitic figure who serves as the national executive director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, at the May 1 fundraiser at a private residence in Fairfax, Virginia. Awad faced sharp scrutiny last year after expressing his pleasure with the Hamas attack that resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,200 Israelis, including women and babies, and claiming Israel “does not have a right to self-defense.” Little polling has been done on the race, but Latimer maintains a slight fundraising advantage over Bowman, who was first elected to Congress in 2020. The primary will be held Tuesday, June 25. The winner is expected to sail to victory in the November general election, considering election analysts rate the race as either “solid” or “safe” Democrat. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.