Democrats are second-guessing the decision to put Pennsylvania Senate nominee John Fetterman on the debate stage after a stumbling performance that put the spotlight on his condition after a stroke while playing to Republican Mehmet Oz’s strengths. 🧵 1/ thehill.com/homenews/campa…
The state lieutenant governor’s auditory processing problems resulting from the stroke proved to be a major part of the debate just two weeks before Election Day. Fetterman had a number of awkward pauses and stumbles that are sure to be seized upon by the GOP. 2/👉
A Democratic strategist spoke to The Hill about the issues Fetterman may face due to his health problems that came to light during the debate. 3/👉
.@libradunn was thrown into the spotlight in the weeks following the January 6 Attack on the Capitol. He told @CheyannaMarie97 he was there for one reason: to hear the truth.🧵⬇️
The Capitol Police officer’s testimony before Congress detailed the horrors he faced on Jan. 6, 2021, from facing down the mob’s deluge of racial hatred to wondering if he’d make it home alive that night.
“I wasn’t a big follower of politics,” Dunn said. “I didn’t know what the certification of an election was and all that stuff when I first started. As I got older and went along in making this my career, I started learning more.”
As the U.S. marks one year since pulling out of Afghanistan, Afghan women detail the perilous conditions they endure under Taliban rule with little help from Western countries, @Sarakshi reports. 🧵⬇️trib.al/ZtX9cJA
One woman told The Hill she was in hiding due to her previous work with the U.S. government.
“The Taliban came to my father and told him they knew his daughter was working with U.S. ‘spies’. [They] don’t like women working with U.S. projects,” Fatima said. 2/➡️
Women in Afghanistan feel abandoned by Western countries as the Taliban has stripped away their rights to education, walk freely or go to work. 3/➡️
House Republicans are not only forecast to win control of the lower chamber in November’s midterm elections, they’re also poised to bring with them a roster of new Trump loyalists. @emilybrooksnews and @RealMikeLillis report.🧵⬇️ thehill.com/homenews/house…
A number of Trump loyalists have bumped off more moderate Republicans in the summer primaries — a list that grew longer this week with conservative victories in Florida and New York — while a number of other centrists are stepping into retirement. 2/ ➡️
The combination foreshadows a power shift in the House GOP that has the potential to complicate any bipartisan compromise with President Biden, while creating headaches for Republican leaders who will face pressure to demonstrate their governing chops in a new majority. 3/ ➡️
The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history. @TheHill's new series - DRIED UP - kicks off with a piece on Lakes Mead and Powell, which are at the epicenter of the biggest Western drought in history, @BudrykZack reports. 🧵 thehill.com/policy/energy-…
Nowhere is the Southwest’s worst drought since the year 800 more evident than Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the pair of artificial Colorado River reservoirs whose plunging levels threaten major water and power sources for tens of millions of people. 2/
Lake Mead is projected to get down to 22 percent of its full capacity by year’s end, while Lake Powell is expected to drop to 27 percent, according to estimations from the federal Bureau of Reclamation. Both now sit at record lows. 3/
The Department of Defense announced that U.S. forces had carried out a "successful" counterterrorism mission last night in northwest Syria. thehill.com/policy/defense…
The operation targeted Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who died at the start of the operation by blowing up himself and members of his family with a bomb.
Biden called al-Qurayshi’s move “an act of desperate cowardice.”