Comment on Arizona's political geography: Maricopa County and everything else - The Washington Post

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A group of Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to investigate grocery store chains for price manipulation, writing in a letter sent Monday morning that he should use executive authority to take additional enforcement action to address rising food prices without the help of Congress. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The letter, shared exclusively with TIME, comes after a report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that major grocery chains took advantage of supply chain disruptions during the pandemic to hike up prices to increase their profits.

Benjamin Stark remembers precisely when he started having problems with his apartment. “That would be day one,” he said, referring to when he moved into the Felix apartment complex in southeast Denver in summer 2021. “I didn’t have (air conditioning) for about a month and a half. It was a heat wave.

Arizona’s first congressional district, entirely within Maricopa County, is one of the swing districts the Democrats are counting on to flip the House. Biden beat Trump there by one and a half points. And 2 years later the Republican incumbent, David Schweikert barely survived a challenge by an under-financed Democrat who was basically ignored by the DCCC— less than a point separated them. We think that Conor O’Callaghan is the Democrat who will finally defeat MAGA extremist David Schweikert in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District.

The pattern that politicians and media outlets escape any consequences for their actions must change if America is to survive.

Lawfare against a top presidential candidate has its consequences.