After weeks of speculation and secrecy, house speaker nancy pelosy travelled to tian on t Tuesday. The decision is highly fraught because china claims control over tiwan,. views visits there from high profile leaders as support for tianese independence. But polosi received support for her trip from an unexpected quarter congressional republicans. In the first state wide referendum on abortion since roverss, weight was overturned in kansas.
Democrats are meddling in Republican primaries this year to an unusual degree, attempting to elevate extremist candidates who they think will be easy to defeat in midterms in the fall.
Nowhere has that strategy been more divisive than in the election for a House seat in Michigan.
Guest: Jonathan Weisman, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.
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