AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT

Jun 22, 2022 View Original Article
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    24% Somewhat Conservative

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"It is the second time that Cisneros, a 29-year-old immigration attorney who once interned for Cuellar, has lost a challenge to her former boss, whose moderate record along Texas' heavily Hispanic southern border has aligned him at times with Republicans on issues including abortion and guns."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Biden visits clinic, celebrates COVID shots for kids under 5WASHINGTON (AP) --"
Positive
22% Conservative
"Nine days after Senate bargainers agreed to a framework proposal -- and 29 years after Congress last enacted major firearms curbs -- Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Co., told reporters that a final accord on the proposal's details had been reached and was in good shape."
Positive
18% Conservative
"President Joe Biden visited a vaccination clinic Tuesday to celebrate that virtually all Americans can now get a COVID-19 shot Tuesday after the authorization of vaccines for kids under 5 over the weekend."
Positive
16% Conservative
"Pressuring public servants into betraying their oaths was a fundamental part of the playbook, the committee's chairman, Mississippi Rep. Beie Thompson, said of Trump and his allies."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Pressuring public servants into betraying their oaths was a fundamental part of the playbook, the committee's chairman, Mississippi Rep. Beie Thompson, said of Trump and his allies."
Positive
2% Conservative
"The United States is now the first country in the world to offer safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old, Biden said at the White House."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar declared wier in Texas recountAUSTIN, Texas (AP) --"
Positive
0% Conservative
"And in Georgia, Democrats will settle several close races, including deciding which Democrat will challenge Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state who overcame a Trump-backed challenge last month."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"In its fourth hearing this month, the panel examined how Trump focused on a few swing states, directly urging officials to decertify President Joe Biden's victory or find additional votes for himself."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"In its fourth hearing this month, the panel examined how Trump focused on a few swing states, directly urging officials to decertify President Joe Biden's victory or find additional votes for himself."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"But Brooks' efforts weren't enough to keep him in Trump's favor."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"But Brooks' efforts weren't enough to keep him in Trump's favor."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"A handful of election officials in several key states stood between Donald Trump and the upending of American democracy, Chairman Beie Thompson said, praising them as heroes and the backbone of our democracy."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"A handful of election officials in several key states stood between Donald Trump and the upending of American democracy, Chairman Beie Thompson said, praising them as heroes and the backbone of our democracy."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Jan. 6 takeaways: Trump's state playbook; 'hateful' threatsWASHINGTON (AP) --"
Negative
-8% Liberal
"A recount in Texas affirmed Democrat U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar as the wier Tuesday of his primary race against progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros, who had trailed by fewer than 200 votes following a runoff in May."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Biden visited a vaccination clinic in Washington, where some of the first shots were given to young children in the last major age group ineligible for vaccines, hailing it as an important pandemic milestone that will support the country's recovery."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Moments later, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the chief Republican bargainer, said he, Murphy and the other two top Senate bargainers had reached agreement."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Moments later, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the chief Republican bargainer, said he, Murphy and the other two top Senate bargainers had reached agreement."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The former president rescinded his early Brooks endorsement back in March and then snubbed him a second time, endorsing his rival Katie Britt ahead of Tuesday's Republican runoff election for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Britt's former boss, retiring GOP Sen. Richard Shelby.Alabama is one of a handful of states holding contests Tuesday at the midpoint of a primary season that has been shaped by Trump's effort to influence the GOP."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"The former president rescinded his early Brooks endorsement back in March and then snubbed him a second time, endorsing his rival Katie Britt ahead of Tuesday's Republican runoff election for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Britt's former boss, retiring GOP Sen. Richard Shelby.Alabama is one of a handful of states holding contests Tuesday at the midpoint of a primary season that has been shaped by Trump's effort to influence the GOP."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"The former president rescinded his early Brooks endorsement back in March and then snubbed him a second time, endorsing his rival Katie Britt ahead of Tuesday's Republican runoff election for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Britt's former boss, retiring GOP Sen. Richard Shelby.Alabama is one of a handful of states holding contests Tuesday at the midpoint of a primary season that has been shaped by Trump's effort to influence the GOP."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"In Virginia, Republicans are choosing between Trump-aligned congressional candidates to take on some of the most vulnerable Democrats in the fall."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"And a handful of election officials in several key states stood between Donald Trump and the upending of American democracy.'THEY DID THEIR JOBS'"
Negative
-22% Liberal
"It lacks the far more potent proposals that President Joe Biden supports and Democrats have pushed for years without success, derailed by GOP opposition."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"This time Cisneros got even closer than in 2020, when she lost by 4 percentage points behind national support from the party's progressive leaders, including Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"This time Cisneros got even closer than in 2020, when she lost by 4 percentage points behind national support from the party's progressive leaders, including Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol focused on Trump's efforts to undo Joe Biden's victory in a most local way -- by leaning on officials in key battleground states to reject ballots outright or to submit alternative electors for the final tally in Congress."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol focused on Trump's efforts to undo Joe Biden's victory in a most local way -- by leaning on officials in key battleground states to reject ballots outright or to submit alternative electors for the final tally in Congress."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"It was part of a larger scheme that also involved dozens of lawsuits, pressure on Department of Justice officials and, eventually, lobbying Vice President Mike Pence to reject Biden's win at the congressional electoral count on Jan. 6."
Positive
8% Conservative
"It was part of a larger scheme that also involved dozens of lawsuits, pressure on Department of Justice officials and, eventually, lobbying Vice President Mike Pence to reject Biden's win at the congressional electoral count on Jan. 6."
Positive
8% Conservative
"The House 1/6 committee heard chilling, tearful testimony Tuesday that Donald Trump's relentless pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election provoked widespread threats to the backbone of our democracy -- election workers and local officials who fended off the defeated president's demands despite personal risks."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"A House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection is turning to former President Donald Trump's pressure campaign on state and local officials to overturn his 2020 election loss."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Addressing parents, Biden said, I encourage you to talk to the doctor after you make a plan to get your child vaccinated.Biden also delivered a thinly veiled criticism of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who blocked his health department from ordering and delivering pediatric vaccines in his state, a move the White House said delayed the availability of shots for kids under 5."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Addressing parents, Biden said, I encourage you to talk to the doctor after you make a plan to get your child vaccinated.Biden also delivered a thinly veiled criticism of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who blocked his health department from ordering and delivering pediatric vaccines in his state, a move the White House said delayed the availability of shots for kids under 5."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Addressing parents, Biden said, I encourage you to talk to the doctor after you make a plan to get your child vaccinated.Biden also delivered a thinly veiled criticism of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who blocked his health department from ordering and delivering pediatric vaccines in his state, a move the White House said delayed the availability of shots for kids under 5."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"1/6 panel: Local 'heroes' rebuffed Trump, then faced threatsWASHINGTON (AP) --"
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Yet if enacted, the election-year agreement would spotlight a modest but telling shift in the politics of an issue that has defied compromise since Bill Clinton was president."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"The panel is keeping to a tight narrative as it makes its case to the American public that Trump's efforts to overturn his defeat directly led to the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, when hundreds of his supporters broke into the Capitol and interrupted the certification of Biden's victory."
Positive
2% Conservative
"The panel is keeping to a tight narrative as it makes its case to the American public that Trump's efforts to overturn his defeat directly led to the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, when hundreds of his supporters broke into the Capitol and interrupted the certification of Biden's victory."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks has run his race for Senate embracing former President Donald Trump's election lies."
Negative
-74% Liberal
"Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks has run his race for Senate embracing former President Donald Trump's election lies."
Negative
-74% Liberal

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38% : It is the second time that Cisneros, a 29-year-old immigration attorney who once interned for Cuellar, has lost a challenge to her former boss, whose moderate record along Texas' heavily Hispanic southern border has aligned him at times with Republicans on issues including abortion and guns.

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