Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski criticized President Donald Trump’s megabill just moments after delivering the key vote to pass the legislation in the Senate.
The president’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in the Senate 51 to 50 on Tuesday, with Vice President J.D. Vance breaking the tie.
Murkowski was one of the Republican holdouts who voted “yes” on the legislation after GOP Senate leaders scrambled to make a series of changes to the bill to ease her concerns over its impact on health care and food assistance cuts in her state.
The Alaska lawmaker called the vote “agonizing” but told reporters who swarmed around her after she cast it for the legislation that the work was far from over.
Yes, Whitfield County is a deeply conservative, strongly Republican stronghold that is firmly aligned with the MAGA movement.
It is a core part of Georgia's 14th Congressional District, one of the most Republican-leaning areas in the United States, and consistently returns massive margins for conservative candidates.
大俠2047
18/05/2026 06:49
Whitfield County 人口算多
2022年成萬人出來共和黨初選
1. 市民失去熱情
2. 市民對2個MAGA 洲長侯選人失望 , 日日廣告抹黑
市民 對2個MAGA 參議員 侯選人不熟
3. 特朗普沒有親身來GA
4. 貿易戰, 關稅 影響了生活, 油價高企, 日日出街見到油價高
怨特朗普, 以不投票 作內心的反抗
大俠2047
18/05/2026 06:55
Whitfield County 在2022年,是排第25 既COUNTY 投票人數
159個COUNTY , 排第25
大俠2047
18/05/2026 07:00
Whitfield County GA 是特朗普MAGA 的地盤
提早投票率 2022年 得返6成唔夠
我預測, 各地的MAGA 2022年初選都會少
獨立選民趁MAGA 減少, 沖出來投票反抗
大俠2047
18/05/2026 07:02
所以RICK JACKSON 同 BURT JONES
MIKE COLLINS , BUDDY CARTER 老貓燒蘇
整體MAGA , 2個侯選人 我估 45-55% 加埋
分左票後
DEREK DOOLEY 參議員可以直接50% PLUS
brad raffensperger 洲長參選 40% PLUS
大俠2047
18/05/2026 07:07
MAGA = 34%
美國優先> MAGA = 21.9%, 你當一半是MAGA
34+ 11% = 45%= MAGA
45%, 有一半, 無法原諒 brad raffensperger
大俠2047
18/05/2026 07:09
無法原談 brad raffensperger 的共和黨人, 大概20%
但請問20% 點計出來?
這是我工作, 興趣, 計出來
大俠2047
18/05/2026 07:10
Brad Raffensperger became famous by defying Trump. Now he wants Georgia Republicans to forget that
CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) — Being as well known as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger would be a dream for many ambitious politicians.
“I think most people by now know who I am,” the Republican candidate for governor joked Tuesday as someone put up signs with his name before a speech in the Atlanta suburb of Chamblee.
But that fame may wound Raffensperger in next Tuesday’s primary because it stems from opposing Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential victory in 2020. He was one of a few Georgia leaders who earned Trump’s scorn by rejecting his falsehoods, and even though Raffensperger won reelection in 2022, many Republicans still view him as a traitor.
Now the 70-year-old is spending millions of his own money trying to reintroduce himself as t
Keisha Lance Bottoms’ lead is making some Georgia Democrats uneasy
Georgia Democrats are worried their front-runner will fumble a “once in a generation” chance to win the governor’s mansion this year.
Keisha Lance Bottoms has what should be an enviable résumé: former judge, city council member, mayor of Atlanta and senior White House adviser. She’s dominating public polling in the primary, bolstered by high name recognition in the Atlanta metro area.
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But a third of the Democratic electorate remains undecided, and her most high-profile endorsement is from former President Joe Biden, who left office deeply unpopular among Americans.
The wariness from Georgia Democrats stems from a simmering concern about Bottoms’ ability to win a general election, conversations with more than a half-dozen strategists and officials revealed. They warn that the crown jewel of Bottoms’ work experience — leading the state’s biggest city — will be a major drag to her campaign. Her tenure was marked by turmoil as Atlanta, like other major cities at the time, grappled with the onset of the pandemic, social unrest and spikes in crime.
Now, they worry, Bottoms could upend their best opportunity to flip the governorship for the first time in two decades.
“Keisha, because she’s so strongly identified with the city of Atlanta, obviously faces a very high hurdle,” said Howard Franklin, a Georgia-based Democratic strategist who is backing one of Bottoms’ competitors, former state Sen. Jason Esteves, and whose firm has performed contract work for his campaign. “I don’t think there’s anybody who’s paying attention to this race who thinks that Republicans are anything less than prepared to criticize and to pile on to the criticism of the four years that she was in office.”
The Democrats interviewed, some of whom were granted anonymity to speak openly about the primary, fear her record will be easily caricatured by Republicans in the general election, leaving her vulnerable to attacks on issues like public safety.
大俠2047
18/05/2026 07:59
“The Republicans will eat her for lunch. The Republicans are begging us to nominate her,” said one longtime Democratic strategist unaffiliated in the race. “If she’s at the top of the ticket, the whole ticket loses. If she’s not … we can sweep it. The stakes are that high.”
TaNisha Cameron, a spokesperson for Bottoms’ campaign, dismissed the concerns as political hand-wringing and said the Democrat is focused on “standing up to Donald Trump’s candidate for governor.”
“Political insiders have underestimated Keisha Lance Bottoms her entire career, and she has constantly proven them wrong by winning elections and beating their hand-picked candidates. Keisha is leading in the polls in both the primary and general election because voters like her vision for Georgia’s future and her record of delivering for the people of Atlanta,” Cameron said in a statement, going on to highlight how Bottoms attracted nine Fortune 500 companies to Atlanta while in office and left the city with a $180 million budget surplus.
Central to Bottoms’ pitch to voters is a pledge to expand Medicaid in Georgia and guarantee universal pre-K statewide. In mid-May, just a few weeks after the Supreme Court significantly limited the power of the Voting Rights Act, Bottoms released a comprehensive plan to protect access to the ballot in Georgia.
This could be the Democratic Party’s last shot in a generation to grasp all the levers of political power in Georgia. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is set to redraw the state’s congressional and state legislative districts ahead of 2028. And as President Donald Trump revives personal grievances about the 2020 election, the leading GOP gubernatorial candidates are vocal election deniers who continue to sow doubt about Georgia’s voting systems in a state that will be central to the 2028 presidential race.
