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Mike Pompeo is visiting the UK and Denmark over the next couple of days. The state department say that while he is on the trip he will meet with prime minister Boris Johnson and foreign secretary Dominic Raab to discuss Covid-19, China, Hong Kong, and the US-UK free trade agreement negotiations. On the agenda from the UK side will be the extradition of Anne Sacoolas over the killing of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn.
One thing unlikely to come up, which will no doubt please Pompeo, is the growing interest in a whistleblower complaint from a state department employee about his conduct.
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My colleagues Lauren Gambino and Maanvi Singh have been looking at the state of play in Arizona ahead of November’s election – once a Republican bastion, it is in play this time around
The decade-long backlash to the so-called “show me your papers” immigration law, demographic change and population growth, are reshaping the state’s political landscape, turning one of the last conservative bastions of the south-west into a battleground.
With less than four months until the election, polls show Biden ahead of the president in a state Trump won in 2016 by fewer than four percentage points, a far narrower margin than past Republican nominees. In 2018, in November’s midterm elections, young Latino voters cast votes in record numbers, joining white moderates in the suburbs, to elect Kyrsten Sinema – the first Democrat to win a US senate seat in Arizona in decades.
Related: Once a Republican bastion, Arizona is now a battleground that could decide the election
Continue reading…Trump refuses to commit to accepting election resultWhite House bids to stop billions in track-and-trace fundsSign up to our First Thing newsletter 12.27pm BSTMike Pompeo is visiting the UK and Denmark over the next couple of days. The state department say that while he is on the trip he will meet with prime minister Boris Johnson and foreign secretary Dominic Raab to discuss Covid-19, China, Hong Kong, and the US-UK free trade agreement negotiations. On the agenda from the UK side will be the extradition of Anne Sacoolas over the killing of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn.One thing unlikely to come up, which will no doubt please Pompeo, is the growing interest in a whistleblower complaint from a state department employee about his conduct. 12.15pm BSTMy colleagues Lauren Gambino and Maanvi Singh have been looking at the state of play in Arizona ahead of November’s election – once a Republican bastion, it is in play this time aroundThe decade-long backlash to the so-called “show me your papers” immigration law, demographic change and population growth, are reshaping the state’s political landscape, turning one of the last conservative bastions of the south-west into a battleground. With less than four months until the election, polls show Biden ahead of the president in a state Trump won in 2016 by fewer than four percentage points, a far narrower margin than past Republican nominees. In 2018, in November’s midterm elections, young Latino voters cast votes in record numbers, joining white moderates in the suburbs, to elect Kyrsten Sinema – the first Democrat to win a US senate seat in Arizona in decades. Related: Once a Republican bastion, Arizona is now a battleground that could decide the election Continue reading…