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Quote:The Republican Party chairman in Georgia's 11th Congressional District said that the shooting at a congressional baseball practice near Washington, D.C., will result in a GOP win in the state's special House election, The Washington Post reported. Brad Carver, the GOP chairman, said the shooting will drive moderates and independents to vote for Republican Karen Handel, the Post reported. “I’ll tell you what: I think the shooting is going to win this election for us,” Carver told the Post Saturday. “Because moderates and independents in this district are tired of left-wing extremism. I get that there’s extremists on both sides, but we are not seeing them.”
Georgia GOP district chairman: Shooting will win us the special election | TheHill
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Quote:Former Vice President Joe Biden tops a list of prospective Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential race in a new survey. Seventy four percent of Democrats in the Morning Consult/POLITICO poll out Monday view Biden favorably. Progressive Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass), with a favorable rating from 51 percent of Democrats, follows Biden in second place. "I have no intention of running for president but I'm a great respecter of fate,” Biden told NPR last week. "I don't have any plans to do it, but I'm not promising I wouldn't do it,” he continued.
Biden tops list of potential 2020 Democrats in new poll | TheHill
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Quote:Hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman made the mistake of heckling Joe Biden as Biden discussed his late son at a recent dinner. And the way Biden responded shows his personality is still fiery as ever. The former vice president was speaking at a private dinner during last month's SALT conference in Las Vegas. At one point, former presidential candidate Jeb Bush, also in attendance, asked Biden why he didn't run in the 2016 election, according to a Fox Business account published Friday. Biden reportedly responded by talking about his late son Beau Biden, who died in 2015 from brain cancer, and the room fell silent, according to the account. Biden then stopped himself. "I’m sorry … I've said enough," he said.
That's when Ackman intervened with an apparent attempt at a joke:
"Why? That’s never stopped you before," he said.
Biden didn't take kindly to Ackman's jab. From Fox Business:
Quote:The formal, and understated dinner conversation suddenly turned tense, according to three people who were present and confirmed both the substance and the wording of Biden’s responses.
Biden, these people say, turned to someone seated near him, and asked, "who is this a--hole?," a reference to Ackman.
Then he turned directly to Ackman and stated: "look, I don't know who you are, wisea--, but never disrespect the memory of my dead son!” these people say.
Ackman attempted what was described as an apology, to which Biden said, "just shut the hell up."
A spokesman for Ackman downplayed the interaction, but didn't refute Biden's language.
Bill Ackman heckled Joe Biden, and it didn't end well for Ackman - Business Insider
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Quote:Shares of Innate Immunotherapeutics tanked 92 percent to less than 5 Australian cents on Tuesday after the pharmaceutical company reported that a midstage trial for a drug to treat multiple sclerosis had failed. Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., a member of a subcommittee overseeing health policy, is its biggest shareholder and suffered a paper loss of $16.7 million (A$22 million). The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating Collins' role as an Innate investor and his impact in attracting investors, according to the Buffalo News. Investigators reportedly received complaints about whether Collins engaged in insider trading due to his influence in pharmaceutical legislation.
GOP Rep. Chris Collins loses $17 million after pharma stock tanks 92%
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Quote:A data analytics contractor employed by the Republican National Committee (RNC) left databases containing information on nearly 200 million potential voters exposed to the internet without security, allowing anyone who knew where to look to download it without a password. "We take full responsibility for this situation," said the contractor, Deep Root Analytics, in a statement. The databases were part of 25 terabytes of files contained in an Amazon cloud account that could be browsed without logging in. The account was discovered by researcher Chris Vickery of the security firm UpGuard. The files have since been secured.
Data on 198M voters exposed by GOP contractor | TheHill
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