President has urged Congress to impose a deal on rail industry workers to avoid holiday-season stoppage
Good Morning, US politics live blog readers, the White House is a hive of activity, it’s early voting a go-go in Georgia and there’s a lively day in store on Capitol Hill, so stay with us for all the news as it happens.
Here’s what afoot:
Joe Biden has always championed labor unions in America, whether fashionable or not, but now that he’s president he’s staring at a holiday-season rail strike that he says threatens the economy – and he’s urged Congress to intervene and prevent it by imposing a deal some unions hate.
The US president is traveling to Michigan today to tour a semiconductor facility as he seeks to promote his agenda, especially in swing states, of boosting manufacturing in the US and his stewardship of the economy.
More than 400,000 voters have already cast their ballots since early voting began in the Georgia midterms run-off for the US Senate seat held since the 2020 election by Democrat Raphael Warnock. He’s neck-and-neck with Republican challenger Herschel Walker. The election’s next Tuesday.
Mike Lindell, he of foamy pillows and foaming-at-the-mouth promotion of the lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, is running to become the chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC).
Mitt Romney has compared Trump to a gargoyle.