With guest host Kimberly Adams.
This week, 20 Democratic presidential hopefuls took to the debate stage in Miami.
We analyzed the first night of debates with NPR political reporter Jessica Taylor and a panel of voters. Kate Nachazel, a senior at the University of Michigan, said she appreciated that the candidates didn’t talk so much about President Donald Trump. “I think it’s kind of a cheap shot at this point, just saying that we need to stop Trump,” she said. She thinks for people voting Democratic, that’s already established.
What have we learned about these candidates? Who rose to the top? And who sunk to the bottom?
Follow NPR’s live debate analysis here.
We also bring you up to speed on several end-of-term Supreme Court decisions. On Thursday, SCOTUS ruled that federal courts cannot review the issue of partisan gerrymandering and that the citizenship question will not appear on the 2020 Census — for now.
NPR’s Hansi Lo Wang and Nina Totenberg report:
The high court’s decision could have profound political consequences. The new population counts from the 2020 census will determine for the next 10 years how many seats each state gets in the U.S. House of Representatives and how many Electoral College votes each state gets in presidential elections beginning in 2024. They also help determine how some $900 billion a year in federal money is allocated across the country for roads, schools, hospitals, health care and more.
Census Bureau research has long shown that adding a citizenship question often leads people in households with immigrants — including those who are U.S. citizens — to simply not fill out the census form. That could result in an undercount that is not only substantial but uneven, according to Census Bureau experts, and it hits mainly in urban areas where immigrant groups live, while leaving rural, mainly white areas largely unaffected.
And we’re following the latest at the Southern border. A viral photo of a man and his daughter floating face down on the edge of the Rio Grande River captured the attention of Americans this week.
We spoke with Michel Marizco, senior editor of KJZZ’s Fronteras Desk, about the photo and the state of the Southern border. He pointed out that “as summer heats up, these deaths will continue.”
Also, 100 children were returned to a facility in Clint, Texas, whose conditions investigators called “substandard.” Acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner John Sanders resigned. And the Senate approved a $4.6 billion emergency humanitarian aid bill for the Southern border.
Plus, former special counsel Robert Mueller is set to testify before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees next month. What can we expect from his testimony?
We get to all this and more.
Text by Kathryn Fink.
GUESTS
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington correspondent, The New York Times; @sherylnyt
Edward Luce, Chief U.S. columnist and commentator, Financial Times; his latest book is “The Retreat of Western Liberalism”; @EdwardGLuce
Laura Barron-Lopez, National political reporter, Politico; @lbarronlopez
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