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Having someone by your side makes for an unforgettable experience as a travel nurse. With the support of your Nurse Advocate, you can focus on pointing your career in the right direction with exciting opportunities that help you advance quickly. With their in-field experience, your advocate stays conscious and adaptable so you can have the time of your life as a healthcare professional.

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Travel Nurses Love FocusPoint

My favorite thing about travel life is embarking on new adventures, and thanks to my supportive colleagues at the Wynn Hospital, the journey felt like a chapter in a whirlwind adventure where kindness was the guiding compass. I love my recruiters so much because they turned the daunting job search into a delightful waltz, with each thoughtful step making me feel like the star of my own career show. My favorite part of working with FocusPoint is the unique blend of camaraderie and professionalism – it's like being part of a high-performing family where support and success go hand in hand.

From Onboarding to your actual assignment this Company will be there to guard and guide you. Shout Out to my Nurse Advocate, Kim. She sure deserves an award. She is sweet, accommodating, and professional. It's more than a workplace for me. She would get you the best work-friendly contract. She would check up on you when you're sick, assist and help out when you have concerns, holla at you to check on your well-being from time to time. She ensures I am correctly paid on time. This lady's patience is beyond amazing. I love the work-life balance here. I have had multiple assignments here and am proud to say FocusPoint is Amazing.

Hello! My name is Jessica, I have been a full-time travel nurse for 12 years. However working with FocusPoint Healthcare compared to other travel companies, is by far amazingly the best company. My recruiter’s experience and her expertise in the nursing field speak volumes when knowing exactly how and what is needed to have a successful contract. When unexpected events occurred; the quick responses, check-ins, and updates were always professional with helpful information. As I approach retiring as a travel nurse, I am now looking forward to more to come with FocusPoint Healthcare.

I recently jumped back into travel nursing after a year on as a staff nurse after my first travel contract, and I’m so glad I did! I had never been to Vegas before this contract and had NO idea how much LV has to offer! Nevada has been such a wonderful adventure so far and I’m loving every minute. I can’t get enough of these beautiful pink orange and purple sunsets! My Focus Point team has all been awesome so far :) incredibly supportive, responsive and helpful. Thank you for this opportunity to do what I love and explore a new city!! 

My favorite thing about travel life is going into assigned facilities, doing what needs to be done to the best of my abilities, and coming home. I avoid staff meetings, memos, and dreaded emails because I’m a traveler.

My recruiter was very aggressive in getting my excellent assignment. She was supportive and always there for me! I look forward to working with her and FocusPoint again!

I have worked the last year with FocusPoint for 7 months at Children’s Hospital Phoenix Arizona, had a great experience & wanted to do another Children’s Hospital so I joined FocusPoint again for a contract in Salt Lake City Utah Children’s Hospital. We are headed there now from Texas and exploring on the way.

This travel journey has been quite an amazing experience so far! I am loving only working 3 days a week, making good money, and exploring all that Las Vegas has to offer on my off days! We have met some amazing people along the way and would not trade this experience for anything!

My favorite part about travel life is the people I meet along the way and the new experiences. It’s an opportunity to never stop learning and growing. It wouldn’t be possible without the support of my Nurse Advocate, who has truly made me feel like family from the beginning. 

The recruitment process was made clear by having an actively engaged recruiter for me. That made it possible to meet the time target that was very important for me. All the requirements were communicated to me. Options were provided and this was helpful in the decision-making.

The recruiters are great. They truly work for their client nurses. The administration team is patient, honest, and works hard to ensure their clients' overall experience is professional, comfortable, and safe. I would definitely recommend this company. I already do...

The process to get an assignment wasn't a hassle, my recruiter is super responsive, and understanding and I feel like she has my back. My questions are always answered and issues are resolved promptly. That is huge in this industry!

Thank you!!

I can't say enough about my experience so far. They have made my transition from staff nurse to first-time travel nurse quick and easy. They have been extremely responsive and patient, taking extra care to explain things to a first-timer.

I have had a good experience not only in my assignment but in getting ahold of my recruiter and also I've had a few issues with my time clock and I have been able to get a hold of somebody very quickly and they resolve the issues immediately.

My recruiter, payroll representative & & account manager are all extremely helpful, communicative & friendly. They answer all of my questions & I completely trust them! Love FocusPoint.

My recruiter has been fantastic and very patient in trying to get me an assignment that works for me and my family. Everyone is so nice and answers questions without making you feel crazy for asking.

We are ICU nurses who spent a contract in Las Vegas with Focus Point. The perfect destination for great food, great concerts, and the hiking. So many national parks just a drive away. 

My recruiter is amazing always checks on me, I haven't had issues with my paystub, and there's clear communication throughout all parties of FocusPoint. 

The recruiter was reliable and accessible. He was understanding. FocusPoint was a company that said exactly what they said they would do. 

I have gotten the chance to meet new friends, see a fun city, and make good money all at the same time! Can’t beat it, thank you FocusPoint!

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10 Best Jobs That Allow You to Travel

These best travel jobs allow you to build a fulfilling career while traveling domestically or internationally.

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Satisfy your wanderlust with these travel jobs.

Getting a 9-to-5 job doesn't mean you have to put your dream of traveling the world on hold. Many professions nowadays not only provide financial stability but offer the exciting perk of frequent travel. Let's explore some of the best jobs that allow you to build a fulfilling career while satiating your wanderlust.

We've taken the top travel jobs from the U.S. News 100 Best Jobs rankings. These jobs are described by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as having a travel component.

10. Cartographer

Median salary: $71,890 Expected job growth by 2032: 5%

Cartographers collect data to create detailed geographic maps. They use advanced tools like geographic information systems, or GIS, for spatial analysis, ensuring accuracy in representing terrain, features and other information. Although cartographers spend much of their time in offices, specific jobs may require extensive travel to locations that are being mapped.

Learn more about cartographers .

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9. Public Relations Specialist

Median salary: $67,440 Expected job growth by 2032: 6%

Public relations specialists' main job is to generate positive publicity for their clients and help them maintain a good reputation. They can work in various industries, including corporate, government, nonprofit or agency settings. As a public relations specialist, you may travel often to engage with the media, attend events and build relationships with stakeholders.

Learn more about public relations specialists .

8. Construction Manager

Median salary: $101,480 Expected job growth by 2032: 5%

Construction managers oversee construction projects from start to finish, collaborating with architects, engineers and contractors to ensure projects adhere to budgets, timelines and quality standards. Since construction managers often manage several projects simultaneously, they may need to frequently travel among sites.

Learn more about construction managers .

7. Sports Coach

Median salary: $44,890 Expected job growth by 2032: 9%

Sports coaches help athletes develop to their full potential and reach maximum performance. The travel frequency for sports coaches, especially in major leagues like the NFL and NBA, is high. These coaches often accompany their teams to away games in different states, which means they spend lots of time on the road.

Learn more about sports coaches .

6. Flight Attendant

Median salary: $63,760 Expected job growth by 2032: 11%

Flight attendants travel wherever an aircraft goes, ensuring the safety and comfort of passengers. They also communicate with pilots regarding flight details and cabin conditions.

Flight attendants' travel frequency depends on factors such as their seniority and the airline's scheduling policies. Junior flight attendants often have less control over their schedules and may work more weekends and holidays.

Learn more about flight attendants .

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5. Sales Manager

Median salary: $130,600 Expected job growth by 2032: 4%

Sales managers are responsible for directing an organization’s sales team. Some of their duties may include setting sales goals, analyzing data, developing training programs for sales representative and addressing any changes necessary to meet customer needs. Depending on the company, sales managers may have to travel to national, regional or local offices and attend in-person customer meetings.

Learn more about sales managers .

4. Operations Research Analyst

Median salary: $85,720 Expected job growth by 2032: 23%

Operations research analysts use advanced techniques, such as data mining and mathematical modeling, to develop solutions that help organizations operate more efficiently. They help businesses solve a wide range of problems, including supply chain optimization, production planning and inventory management.

Although operations research analysts typically spend their time in offices, they may travel occasionally to meet with clients.

Learn more about operations research analysts .

3. Management Analyst

Median salary: $95,290 Expected job growth by 2032: 10%

Management analysts, also known as management consultants, are experts who specialize in helping companies improve efficiency and increase profits. How often management analysts travel depends on the company they work for and their current projects. However, those who pursue a career in management consulting can expect to travel quite frequently to meet with clients.

Learn more about management analysts .

2. Marketing Manager

Median salary: $140,040 Expected job growth by 2032: 7%

Marketing managers gauge the demand for a product and help develop a marketing strategy that fits. Depending on their company’s needs, marketing managers may travel throughout the country or worldwide to meet with clients and attend conferences.

Learn more about marketing managers .

Median salary: $113,990 Expected job growth by 2032: 23%

Actuaries assess and manage financial risks using mathematical and statistical models. They often work in industries such as insurance, finance and retirement planning, determining the likelihood of events and their financial impacts.

Travel frequency for actuaries varies depending on the employer and their specific job role, but some may travel occasionally to attend meetings or meet with clients.

Learn more about actuaries .

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No matter the type of travel you enjoy doing travel planning takes attention to detail mixed with a bit of the spirit of adventure. Every once in a while when the stars align you can take what you love to do and turn it into a living. It’s time to pack your go bag and explore the travel agency world .

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How To Become a Travel Agent

Just because someone has travel experience does not mean they can automatically become a travel agent. However, if you are interested in becoming a travel agent there are many programs you can take to help you become one, or even start your own business. Skills you will learn include how to organize travel arrangements, business ethics, customer service, itinerary planning and the ins and outs of travel insurance.

No matter your career goals, whether you want to focus on luxury travel or more of a local tour operation, the following programs and certifications, which can be done in person or remotely, can get you started on the right path.

• Departure Lounge: Learn how to navigate the hotel industry as an independent contractor as well as get tips on tour operating.
• Premier Cruise Lines: Many lines such as Virgin Voyages, Cunard or Ritz-Carlton Yachts provide training programs for travel agents to help them sell their products and services more efficiently.
• Get Certified: When your training and coursework are complete a certification helps distinguish you in the field with these designations. Some popular ones include the International Air Transport Association, Cruise Line International Association or Travel Industry Designator Service. Be sure to research which certification makes the most sense for you as it will imply different things for your business.

How Much Do Travel Agents Make?

The median pay for what travel agents get paid in the United States is estimated to be about $46,400 annually which is over $3,000 monthly. This may seem underwhelming, but this is an estimate by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics which means is only based on what full-time employees make and not self-employed people. In other words, you can make a lot more money as an independent travel advisor as opposed to working for a host agency. 

Travel agents make money by earning commissions on trips they book as well as charging fees such as booking or service fees. This is a great way to also set your own schedule and only choose the gigs you like. 

Final Take To GO: Love To Travel?

When it comes to starting as a travel agent, a good rule to follow is to try to sell and book trips you yourself would want to take. If you already love to travel this could be a natural next step in your career or a budding side business. 

A great way to sell yourself as a travel agent is to define your unique selling point. Essentially what is it about you that will make people want to book trips with you? It also helps to optimize your website, create high-quality content from trips you’ve booked or been on and leverage your social media platforms. Once you have your foundation firmly established, everything else is booking a day at the beach. 

• Full-time travel agents make roughly $46,400 a year which is over $3,000 a month. However, there is a chance to make more money than this estimate by starting your own travel agency and working for yourself. This way you can set your own schedule and don't have to worry about splitting your commissions.
• You don't need a specific degree to get started as a travel agent, but finding a training program and getting certified with varying destinations does help distinguish you as a trusted travel agent to your potential clients.
• Selling yourself as a travel agent, much like with any job or small business, starts with defining your unique selling point. Essentially what is it about you that will make people want to book trips with you? It also helps to optimize your website, create high-quality content from trips you've booked or been on and leverage your social media platforms.
• Get Certified: When your training and coursework are complete a certification helps distinguish you in the field with these designations. Some popular ones include the International Air Transport Association, Cruise Line International Association or Travel Industry Designator Service. Research which certification makes the most sense for you as it will imply different things for your business.

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Election Updates: Summer Lee fends off a centrist challenger, and Pennsylvania’s Senate race is set.

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Anjali Huynh

Representative Summer Lee said to an electric crowd in downtown Pittsburgh that her win “sent a message” that “this is the biggest our coalition has ever been” and rejected those who she said wanted the race to be a “referendum on just one issue.” “Our movement is expansive enough and big enough for each and every one of us, that each and every one of us can lay down our arms and cease fire so that we can have peace from Pittsburgh to Palestine,” she said.

The victories of Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat, and David McCormick, a Republican, in their uncontested races in Pennsylvania tonight officially kicked off a competitive general election Senate race in a battleground state this fall. The Senate Democratic campaign arm is already out with a digital ad hitting McCormick over claims about his past and on his stances on issues like abortion.

Chris Cameron

Senator Bob Casey celebrated his victory in an uncontested Democratic primary, setting up his battle in the fall against David McCormick, the Republican candidate. “I’m honored to once again be the Democratic nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania,” Casey said on social media. “There are 196 days until the general election, and we’re going to win.”

Representative Summer Lee’s victory in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District is both a success for the broader progressive movement — including those opposing the Israel-Gaza war — and a testament to her strength as an incumbent. One data point: After she lost mail-in votes by more than 20 points in her 2022 primary, she’s currently winning them by more than 10 points.

Polls have just closed in Pennsylvania, and The Associated Press has called the presidential primaries for President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump.

Veronica Lee, a 27-year-old in Pittsburgh wrote in “no confidence” in the Democratic presidential primary in Pennsylvania today, in protest of President Biden’s support for Israel. But Lee said she backed Representative Summer Lee in the Democratic House primary, because she’d voted “against funding and giving weapons to Israel” and had “delivered on a lot of the stuff that she ran on before.”

In Squirrel Hill, a Pittsburgh neighborhood in Representative Summer Lee’s district that has a large Jewish population, many lawn signs support Lee's primary challenger, Bhavini Patel. Esther Nathanson, a Jewish voter there, said she voted for Lee in 2022 but was now backing Patel. “I really appreciate her support of Israel, and I know that Summer Lee has not come forth when we expected her to,” she said.

Dave McCormick, a Republican running to face Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania in the general election, attacked Casey on social media for backing Representative Summer Lee, a progressive whose primary has centered on her criticism of Israel’s military actions in Gaza. McCormick included a clip of a Fox News interview in which he claimed Casey’s support for Israel, which he has often expressed, has been “very unclear.”

Neil Vigdor

In a newly released episode of the “SmartLess” podcast recorded last month with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Joe Biden pushed back against Donald Trump’s claims that world leaders hold him in higher stead. “All these heads of state, they’ll wait until they can get me alone and grab my arm and say, ‘You’ve got to win because,’ quote, ‘my democracy’s at stake,’” Biden said. “Their democracy.”

In a new podcast featuring Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, which the actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes hosted on March 28, the day of Biden’s fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall, the president blurted out that Donald Trump was unscrupulous. “He’s a huckster,” Biden said, interjecting as Obama said that Trump the businessman was a pariah in New York.

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After roughly 13 minutes, President Biden has wrapped up his speech on abortion here in Tampa, Fla. Biden doesn’t usually give long speeches but that was remarkably short, on an issue that is critical to his chances of re-election.

The defense in the Michigan fake electors case is trying to equate the actions of Donald Trump’s allies to the 1960 presidential election, when Democrats in Hawaii put forth a competing slate of electors for John F. Kennedy while he was trailing Richard M. Nixon. But there is a notable difference: Kennedy won Hawaii after a recount, which did not affect the election’s outcome.

Speaking at a campaign event in Tampa, Fla., President Biden is attacking Florida’s six-week abortion ban. Mr. Biden said that one person — former President Donald J. Trump — was “responsible for this nightmare,” a central message of the Biden campaign.

A lawyer for Kathy Berden, the R.N.C. member charged with acting as a fake elector for Donald Trump in 2020 in Michigan, argued in state court Tuesday that his client was unaware of the plot. He said the federal election case against Trump details how some bogus electors had been “tricked” into thinking their names would be used only if Trump prevailed in election lawsuits in battleground states.

I’m at a community college in Tampa, Fla., where President Biden plans to give a speech on abortion this afternoon. The timing of Biden’s visit is intentional. Florida is set to enact a six-week abortion ban in one week, and Democrats have been quick to call such restrictions “Trump abortion bans,” seeking to tie them to former President Donald J. Trump.

Democrats are recalling on social media that four years ago today, Donald J. Trump offered instantly debunked medical advice during a White House coronavirus briefing . “Are you better off now than you were four years ago... when the president of the United States, tasked with navigating the country through a deadly pandemic, suggested people could inject bleach to beat COVID?” Hillary Clinton wrote on X .

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In an interview on a conservative talk radio program last night, Donald J. Trump voiced support for Speaker Mike Johnson, who currently faces a challenge from hard-right Republicans. Pointing to House Republicans’ slim majority, Trump said that “it’s not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do,” adding that Johnson is “a very good man” who is “trying very hard.”

A judge in Michigan is listening to arguments in the state’s criminal case against several false electors for Donald J. Trump to determine if there is probable cause for it to go to trial. One of the defendants, Meshawn Maddock, who served as co-chair of the Michigan G.O.P. after the 2020 election, is charged with forgery, conspiracy and other offenses.

Donald Trump, in an interview with a conservative radio host last night, acknowledged that the independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could chip away at his support. “They say he hurts Biden, I think — I’m not sure that that’s true,” Trump said on “ Outside the Beltway With John Fredericks.” “I think he probably hurts both. But he might hurt Biden a little bit more, you don’t know.”

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When Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial picks up again this morning, prosecutors will ask the judge to hold Trump in contempt for attacking witnesses and jurors on social media and in other statements, arguing that those attacks violate a gag order. You can follow live coverage of the proceedings here .

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Scenes from the polls on Tuesday.

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Three takeaways from the primaries in Pennsylvania.

With the 2024 primary season entering the homestretch — and the presidential matchup already set — hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians cast their ballots on Tuesday in Senate and House contests as well as for president and local races.

President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, who had been heading toward a 2020 rematch for months before securing their parties’ nominations in March, scored overwhelming victories in their primaries, facing opponents who had long since dropped out of the race. But Nikki Haley, Mr. Trump’s former rival in the Republican primaries, still took more than 155,000 votes across the state. That exceeds the margin of 81,660 votes by which Mr. Biden won the state in the 2020 election .

In the past two weeks, Mr. Biden has had the campaign trail largely to himself while Mr. Trump sits in a Manhattan courtroom for a felony criminal trial related to a 2016 campaign sex scandal cover-up. Wednesday, however, is a day off from the proceedings.

Mr. Biden plans to deliver remarks today at a conference for North America’s Building Trades Unions, an umbrella labor group. Vice President Kamala Harris will be in New York today to record an interview with Drew Barrymore for her television talk show. Tomorrow, Mr. Biden will head to Syracuse, N.Y., for a White House event, while Mr. Trump will head back to court.

In Pennsylvania on Tuesday, a long-awaited Senate matchup was officially set, as David McCormick and Senator Bob Casey won their uncontested primaries.

And Representative Summer Lee, a progressive first-term Democrat, fended off a moderate challenger who had opposed her criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza. While Mr. Biden has faced protest votes in a number of states, Ms. Lee’s race was one of the first down-ballot tests of where Democrats stand on the war.

Here are three takeaways.

‘Scranton Joe’ Biden sails to victory. Trump meets resistance from Haley holdouts.

Mr. Biden, who grew up in Scranton, Pa., took 93 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary, scoring a yawning lead in a key battleground state. Representative Dean Phillips, who was on the ballot but dropped out of the race last month, got nearly 7 percent of the vote.

Mr. Trump also notched a decisive primary victory, but many Republican voters continued to express their discontent with the former president. At least 155,000 registered Republican voters cast ballots for Ms. Haley, who had been Mr. Trump’s chief rival in the primaries before dropping out of the race last month.

Ms. Haley, the former South Carolina governor, did not endorse Mr. Trump in exiting the race, and the Pennsylvania vote reflected his continuing difficulties in wooing her supporters and in fully winning over the Republican electorate. Ms. Haley won small but significant protest votes this month in G.O.P. primaries in Wisconsin , Rhode Island , Connecticut and New York , capturing at least 10 percent of the vote in each state.

Mr. Trump has shown little interest in winning Ms. Haley’s endorsement and has made few attempts to reach out to her supporters. It remains unclear whether his decision to bypass any reconciliation with Ms. Haley will matter as November approaches.

The results on Tuesday suggest that Mr. Biden is on surer footing with the Democratic base in Pennsylvania compared with other battleground states, like Michigan, where the president has faced significant numbers of protest votes focusing on his handling of the war in Gaza.

What to Make of the ‘Zombie Vote’ Against Donald Trump

Votes for dropout candidates, such as Nikki Haley, have been features of past election cycles, too.

The Haley vote suggests Mr. Trump may have some work to do to bring her voters back to his side in the fall.

A progressive Democrat fended off a challenge that focused on her criticism of Israel’s military campaign.

Ms. Lee, a first-term progressive Democrat who represents a Pittsburgh-area district, was an early critic of Israel’s war in Gaza, where about 34,000 people have died since the war began six months ago. Ms. Lee’s stances against Israel’s military campaign drew a primary challenge from Bhavini Patel, a moderate Democrat who opposed Ms. Lee’s approach on the war.

But Ms. Lee emerged victorious, suggesting that public sentiment on the war, particularly among Democrats, has shifted significantly against Israel in the six months since the war began.

Trump shut McCormick out of his first Senate run. Now they share the Republican ticket.

Mr. McCormick won an unopposed Republican primary for Senate in Pennsylvania, pitting him against Mr. Casey, the Democratic incumbent. While Mr. McCormick had no rivals this time around, his victory represents something of a redemption arc after his defeat in his first Senate primary run in the state in 2022.

He is positioned with the best chance yet for Republicans to unseat Mr. Casey, an 18-year incumbent who has previously sailed to re-election. He defeated his previous Republican opponent in 2018 by 13 points , and an analysis by the Cook Political Report rates the race as leaning toward the Democrats.

Mr. Trump helped sink Mr. McCormick’s first run when he backed a rival candidate, the celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz . In a race that hung on a knife’s edge, Mr. Trump’s backing of Dr. Oz, and his scorching attacks against Mr. McCormick, proved decisive — Dr. Oz eked out a win by fewer than a thousand votes.

Mr. McCormick has earned the endorsement of Mr. Trump for the coming battle against Mr. Casey, and they will share adjoining places at the top of Pennsylvania’s ballot in November.

Reported from Pittsburgh

Summer Lee, ‘Squad’ member, wins Democratic House primary in Pennsylvania.

Representative Summer Lee, a first-term progressive Democrat, won her primary contest in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, fending off a moderate challenger in a race that centered on her stance on the war in Gaza.

The primary, in Pennsylvania’s 12th District, presented one of this year’s first down-ballot tests of whether left-wing incumbents would be hurt by their opposition to Israel’s military campaign. After Ms. Lee for months faced scrutiny for voting against support for Israel, her victory was partly seen as a reflection of how public, and party , sentiment on the issue has appeared to shift in her favor.

The congresswoman was winning by an overwhelming margin with counting nearly complete late Tuesday, underlining the strength of her position as an incumbent this year after she out-raised her opponent with widespread backing from Democratic officials.

Ms. Lee, who in 2022 was elected the first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania in Congress and later joined the group of left-leaning lawmakers known as the Squad, defeated Bhavini Patel, a city councilwoman in Edgewood, Pa. Ms. Patel ran as a more moderate Democrat and tried to paint Ms. Lee as dismissive of voters who oppose her approach to the conflict in Gaza. The seat is considered safely Democratic in the general election.

A former state representative, Ms. Lee, 36, narrowly won a primary fight in the district two years ago against a centrist opponent favored by the party’s establishment. Her victory was heralded by left-leaning organizations and leaders as a win for the progressive movement.

This year, Ms. Lee, now the incumbent, garnered support across the Democratic spectrum. Her endorsers included Pennsylvania’s senators, House Democratic leaders, labor unions and the Allegheny County Democratic Committee, which opposed her candidacy in 2022. Progressive groups spent large sums on her behalf, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, stumped for her in Pittsburgh on Sunday .

With more than 95 percent of the vote counted, she led Ms. Patel by more than 20 points. Ms. Lee played up that success as a testament that “our movement is growing” and denounced those who she said “wanted to make this a referendum on just one issue.”

“Our movement is expansive enough and big enough for each and every one of us, that each and every one of us can lay down our arms and cease fire so that we can have peace from Pittsburgh to Palestine,” she said.

In the fall, after Ms. Lee became one of the first Democrats to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, pro-Israel groups expressed interest in backing a challenger. But a serious opponent never materialized. AIPAC, the pro-Israel group that is supporting challenges to some left-wing candidates and that spent heavily against Ms. Lee in 2022, focused its attention elsewhere . Polls have shown that discontent with Israel’s military actions has been growing among Americans in recent months .

Still, Ms. Lee drew criticism in her district from some Jewish voters, who said in the days before the election that they were unhappy with her positions on Israel. Ms. Patel, 30, also tried to cast her opponent as insufficiently supportive of President Biden. Ms. Lee has pledged to rally her coalition to support Mr. Biden this fall in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state.

Ms. Lee and her allies seized on Ms. Patel’s support from Jeff Yass, a prominent Republican donor in Pennsylvania who gave significantly to a super PAC supporting moderate Democrats. The group ran ads on behalf of Ms. Patel, who disavowed Mr. Yass and his support.

Ms. Patel said in a statement on social media that “we did not get the result we wanted tonight, but this race was far from a loss.” “While our campaign may end tonight, our cause continues on,” she added.

During the primary, Ms. Lee often promoted her record in Congress, including having brought federal dollars to the district, and framed her candidacy around supporting a more diverse Democratic Party and fighting Trump-aligned Republicans. She vastly out-raised Ms. Patel. In the last fund-raising quarter, Ms. Lee collected more than three times as much money as Ms. Patel did.

Speaking to an energetic crowd in downtown Pittsburgh on Tuesday night, Ms. Lee also pledged to support her fellow Squad members facing challenges nationwide.

“We’re going to send a message to our Congress, and we’re going to send a message to our nation, that the direction that we want our country to go in — our coalition — is the coalition of now and the coalition of the future,” she said.

McCormick and Casey win their Senate primaries, setting up a November battle in Pennsylvania.

David McCormick won an unopposed Republican primary for Senate in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, securing the party’s nomination two years after former President Donald J. Trump torpedoed his first Senate run by backing his primary rival, the celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz .

Mr. McCormick will face Senator Bob Casey in the November election. Mr. Casey, the Democratic incumbent, also won his uncontested primary on Tuesday, The A.P. reported.

The Senate race in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, represents the best chance yet for Republicans to unseat Mr. Casey, an 18-year incumbent who has previously sailed to re-election — he defeated his Republican opponent in 2018 by 13 points .

“I’m honored to once again be the Democratic nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania,” Mr. Casey said on social media. “There are 196 days until the general election, and we’re going to win.”

Mr. McCormick, the former chief executive of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, is part of a roster of wealthy Republican Senate candidates recruited to run in 2024. He and his wife, Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration official, reported assets in 2022 worth $116 million to $290 million.

“Our movement is strong,” Mr. McCormick said on social media after his victory, adding, “I’m running to ensure the American Dream is alive for my kids and yours.”

Mr. Casey, the son of former Gov. Robert P. Casey , was catapulted onto the national political stage in 2006, when he defeated Rick Santorum, then one of the most powerful conservatives in the Senate , in a closely watched campaign.

Mr. Casey has moved considerably to the left during his Senate career. He once called for the overturning of the constitutional right to an abortion enshrined in Roe v. Wade. After the Supreme Court dismantled Roe in 2022, Mr. Casey supported bills aimed at ensuring access to abortion . Mr. Casey was also once an opponent of many gun control measures , but he re-evaluated his position after the mass shooting in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., less than 100 miles from the Pennsylvania border.

Mr. McCormick narrowly lost a chance to run against the Democrat John Fetterman for Pennsylvania’s other Senate seat in 2022, when he was defeated by Dr. Oz in the Republican primary by fewer than a thousand votes . Mr. McCormick and Dr. Oz had fought bitterly for the support of Mr. Trump in that primary, and Mr. McCormick had pointed to Dr. Oz’s Turkish American heritage and his Muslim faith as reasons not to back him.

But Dr. Oz ultimately won Mr. Trump’s endorsement. In Mr. McCormick’s telling, in a memoir published last year, the former president threw his support behind Dr. Oz after Mr. McCormick refused to back Mr. Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

For a race that hung on a knife’s edge, Mr. Trump’s intervention in the primary proved decisive. Mr. Trump unleashed a series of broadsides against Mr. McCormick , and rallied at Dr. Oz’s side even as many of Mr. Trump’s supporters were unenthusiastic about the former president’s favored candidate. The former president said that Mr. McCormick was “not MAGA,” and called him “the candidate of special interests and globalists and the Washington establishment.”

Mr. McCormick and allies attacked Dr. Oz as a “Hollywood liberal.” During a debate, he pointedly jabbed at Dr. Oz’s television past : “The problem, doctor, is there’s no miracle cure for flip-flopping, and Pennsylvanians are seeing right through your phoniness, and that’s what you’re dealing with and that’s why you’re not taking off in the polls.”

Other candidates attacked both Mr. McCormick and Dr. Oz as out-of-state carpetbaggers. Dr. Oz had lived most of his adult life in New York and New Jersey and had only recently changed his voting address to his in-laws’ home in the Philadelphia suburbs. Even in his second run for Senate, Mr. McCormick has split his time between the campaign trail and a $16 million mansion in Westport, Conn.

With Mr. McCormick running unopposed in the Republican primary on Tuesday, Mr. Trump has endorsed him for the impending battle against Mr. Casey.

Democrats have already begun recycling attacks that Mr. Trump wielded against Mr. McCormick, as well other lines of attack concerning his wealth, his residency in Connecticut and his misleading claims made in an effort to portray himself as a rural Pennsylvanian of humble origins .

George Santos decides not to run for Congress again, after all.

In the litany of lies and half-truths told by George Santos in a fanciful journey in which he was first elected to and then expelled from Congress, the one he told about his nascent campaign for a different House seat on Long Island was not exactly a lie.

It just wasn’t true for very long.

Less than seven weeks after announcing he would try to return to the House of Representatives, Mr. Santos, the fabulist ex-congressman from New York who is facing federal charges, said on Tuesday that he would end his latest congressional bid.

In a turn perhaps befitting of Mr. Santos, whose loose association with the truth has been extensively documented , he offered two distinct reasons for his exit from the race.

In a social media post, Mr. Santos said he was worried that he and Representative Nick LaLota, the Republican he was running to unseat, might split conservative votes. “I don’t want to split the ticket and be responsible for handing the House to Dems,” he wrote.

Mr. Santos, who has made questionable claims of Jewish ancestry and invented ties to the Holocaust, said he was particularly concerned given “the rise of antisemitism in our country.”

George Santos Lost His Job. Here Are the Lies, Charges and Questions Left.

George Santos, who was expelled from Congress, has told so many stories they can be hard to keep straight. We cataloged them, including major questions about his personal finances and his campaign fund-raising and spending.

Minutes after Mr. Santos’s post, the talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw shared a clip of an interview conducted earlier in the day in which Mr. Santos stated more pragmatic reasoning.

“There’s no way for you to be successful with an independent campaign,” said Mr. Santos, no stranger to shifting explanations. (A spokesman said the interview would air in full next month on “Dr. Phil Primetime.”)

Mr. Santos’s decision abruptly ends a long-shot bid to return to Washington; it was never even clear if he intended to mount a serious challenge.

The former congressman lost all standing among local political leaders and most voters, who associate him more with his bold prevarications about his career than with any particular political views.

And Mr. Santos, who has been accused of defrauding donors, was expected to face difficulties raising campaign funds. According to campaign finance reports, the former congressman — who faces charges tied to falsifying campaign finance reports — did not raise any money in the initial sprint after he announced his campaign.

Mr. LaLota, an incumbent running in a right-leaning district, never took the threat of Mr. Santos’s campaign seriously.

Shortly after Mr. Santos said he was ending his bid, Mr. LaLota replied on social media, “Chat GPT translation: He’s taking a plea deal.”

Mr. Santos last year became the sixth member of the House to be expelled in that body’s history. His removal, which came in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, came after a House Ethics Committee report found “substantial evidence” that Mr. Santos had broken federal laws, depicting his time in politics as a grift he had used to get richer.

Mr. Santos is currently facing 23 federal felony charges that include money laundering, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors have accused him of swindling donors, filing false campaign finance documents and collecting unemployment checks while he in fact had a job.

The House Ethics report also found that he had spent campaign funds on Botox, designer goods and a website known for explicit content.

After his expulsion last year, Mr. Santos bitterly vowed he would never come back. Months later, he had gone back on his word, traveling to the Capitol for the State of the Union address and then announcing his intention to return to the House.

Mr. Santos’s criminal trial is scheduled for September. In his social media post, he did not rule out a return to the political arena, saying his decision was limited to “THIS YEAR!”

“It’s only goodbye for now,” Mr. Santos wrote. “I’ll be back.”

Nicholas Nehamas and Patricia Mazzei

Nicholas Nehamas reported from Tampa, Fla., and Patricia Mazzei from Miami

Biden campaigns on abortion rights in Florida, tying state ban to Trump.

Biden says trump is responsible for ‘nightmare’ state abortion laws, president biden tied a six-week abortion ban that will soon take place in florida to former president donald j. trump and republican efforts to ban abortion nationwide..

Let’s be real clear. There’s one person responsible for this nightmare. And he’s acknowledged and he brags about it: Donald Trump. [crowd boos] Now he’s worried the voters will hold him accountable for saying he’s responsible for getting Roe v. Wade overturned. Donald Trump is worried voters are going to hold him accountable for the cruelty and chaos he created. Folks, the bad news for Trump is we are going to hold him accountable. Don’t think he’s making a deal right now with MAGA extremists to ban nationwide abortion in every single state, because he’s making it. In fact, the MAGA majority in the House of Representatives has introduced three separate bans to ban choice nationwide. It’ll be all of us who restore those rights for women in America. [crowd cheers] And when you do that, we’ll teach Donald Trump and extreme MAGA Republicans a valuable lesson. Don’t mess with the women of America.

President Biden on Tuesday strongly condemned a six-week abortion ban that will soon take effect in Florida, saying it would force women to endure “unbearable pain and cruelty” and blaming former President Donald J. Trump for their suffering.

“Let’s be clear. There’s one person responsible for this nightmare,” Mr. Biden said in a speech to roughly 200 supporters at a community college gymnasium in Tampa. “And he’s acknowledged it and he brags about it: Donald Trump.”

The Biden campaign has made abortion a top issue, as polling shows it is one of the few subjects in which voters place more trust in Mr. Biden than Mr. Trump. Democrats have sought to tie Mr. Trump to laws like the one in Florida, labeling them “Trump abortion bans” and arguing that the former president would seek to curtail reproductive rights if he regains the White House.

Throughout his brief remarks, Mr. Biden signaled his intention to make the election a referendum on Mr. Trump’s first term as much as his own.

“Now in America today in 2024, women have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had — because of Donald Trump,” he said.

While the president campaigned on Mr. Trump’s home turf, Mr. Trump had spent the day in a Manhattan courtroom , where prosecutors laid out what they called the “Trump Tower conspiracy” — an effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to conceal negative or unflattering stories, including a porn star’s claim of a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, during the 2016 campaign. Mr. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide a payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels. Mr. Trump has denied the claim of a sexual encounter, and has pleaded not guilty to the charges in the case.

Mr. Biden has said little about the criminal charges Mr. Trump faces. But his campaign aides believe the contrast between Mr. Trump sitting at the defendant’s table and Mr. Biden campaigning will resonate with voters.

His speech in Florida was an attempt to sharpen his national message on a crucial issue for his re-election campaign even in a state that he may not win. Although Florida has voted reliably for Republicans in recent elections, Mr. Biden’s team has expressed optimism that the state could be in play this year. They point to the fact that in November, Floridians will vote on a ballot initiative that would guarantee access to abortion “before viability,” or at about 24 weeks, and overturn the six-week ban.

While the vote could motivate liberal and independent voters to come to the polls, Mr. Biden would have to invest heavily in Florida to defeat Mr. Trump, which his campaign has not yet done.

“The idea that Donald Trump has the state in the bag could not be further from the truth,” said Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director. “He owns not only the state of abortion rights across the country, but he owns the restriction that we’re seeing play out in Florida. And so yes, that means there’s an opportunity for us.”

Nationally, Democrats have been energized after an Arizona court upheld a near-total abortion ban in that state, arguing that it illustrates the stakes of electing Republicans. They have said that Mr. Trump is responsible for the restrictions in Florida, Arizona and other states that have imposed bans since Supreme Court justices appointed by the former president helped overturn Roe v. Wade. “Trump did this” has become a frequent messaging slogan from the Biden campaign.

“It’s going to absolutely turn people out,” said Whitney Fox, a Democrat seeking to flip a Republican-held congressional seat in the Tampa area.

Mr. Trump has criticized the bans in Florida and Arizona but also said that decisions about the legality of abortion should be left up to the states. He has said that he no longer supports a national abortion ban, reversing his previous position, and he has blamed Republican losses in recent elections on stringent anti-abortion positions.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the six-week abortion ban last year as he courted right-wing voters in his failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination. The Florida Supreme Court upheld the ban this month. It goes into effect on May 1, one week after Mr. Biden’s speech in Tampa. Speaking in Naples, Fla., just before the president took the stage, Mr. DeSantis said that “Floridians are not buying what Joe Biden is selling and in November, we’re going to play an instrumental role in sending him back to Delaware where he belongs.”

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democratic former congresswoman from Miami seeking to challenge Senator Rick Scott, a Republican, said the Biden campaign should not give up on the nation’s third-largest state.

“Florida is a purple state,” Ms. Mucarsel-Powell said. “It’s an independent state.”

Competing in Florida will be difficult for Democrats, even with abortion as a motivating factor. Mr. Biden seemed to acknowledge that when he addressed Ms. Mucarsel-Powell in the audience, joking that he would “campaign for you or against you, whatever would help the most.”

Mr. Trump handily carried the state in 2020. Mr. DeSantis won overwhelmingly in his re-election bid two years later. And the number of Republican voters in the state has skyrocketed since Mr. Trump entered politics, overtaking the number of Democrats.

The state is also extremely expensive to advertise in. Although the Biden campaign has a significant financial advantage over Mr. Trump’s operation, it has not spent heavily in Florida compared with the major battlegrounds. Campaign aides have been vague about how much they plan to spend in the state.

“The president is traveling there,” Mr. Tyler said when asked how much the campaign would invest in Florida. “We’ve got staff on the ground. You’ve seen our paid investments begin to pop up in the state of Florida. It is one of the pathways that we have to 270 electoral votes, and we’re going to take it very, very seriously.”

Democrats nationwide have had unexpected success protecting abortion rights at the ballot box since the demise of Roe, including in red states such as Kentucky, Kansas and Ohio.

But unlike many other states, Florida requires more than 60 percent support for amendments to pass. To reach that high threshold, supporters of the constitutional amendment need to appeal to a broad coalition of voters, including independents and Republicans.

“The focus right now cannot be on how this impacts electoral turnout,” said Lauren Brenzel, director of the Yes on 4, the main group supporting the amendment. “The focus is going to be on how this policy significantly harms and puts these women at risk.”

Alex Andrade, a Republican state representative who voted for the six-week ban, said Democrats were fooling themselves if they thought abortion was going to “fix things for them” after losing Florida in 2016 and 2020 and seeing Mr. DeSantis flip traditional Democratic strongholds like Miami-Dade County.

“Their political apparatus is clueless,” Mr. Andrade said.

Florida voters have approved liberal-leaning ballot questions in recent elections while also electing Republican politicians. But those successful initiatives — for medical marijuana, restoring felons’ voting rights and raising the minimum wage — have not faced the sort of organized opposition campaign that detractors of the abortion measure are expected to mount.

Mr. Trump, a Florida resident, has not said how he will vote on the abortion referendum.

Although Mr. Biden spoke on Tuesday under a banner that read “Restore Roe,” he offered few specifics about how he would accomplish that, beyond asking voters to deliver him a Democratic Congress.

An 81-year-old practicing Catholic, Mr. Biden can sometimes seem uncomfortable talking about abortion in detail, and often relies on surrogates to do so. His speech on Tuesday lasted roughly 13 minutes, a surprisingly rapid address given the importance of abortion to his re-election.

In Tampa, he was introduced by Kaitlyn Joshua, a Louisiana woman who said she was denied medical care in that state when she experienced a miscarriage. Mr. Biden’s campaign has featured the stories of several such women in its ads and events, and he brought up the criminal penalties that medical professionals could face in Florida.

“It’s criminalizing reproductive health care before women even know whether they’re pregnant,” Mr. Biden said. “I mean, this is bizarre.”

Pennsylvania is holding its primaries. Here’s what we’re watching.

Pennsylvanians are heading to the polls on Tuesday, with a handful of House primary races in the spotlight.

The contest getting the most attention is the Democratic primary in the Pittsburgh-based 12th District, where Representative Summer Lee, who has been outspoken in support of a cease-fire in Gaza, is facing Bhavini Patel, who has attacked Ms. Lee as anti-Israel and outside the political mainstream.

Ms. Lee, a first-term representative who is part of the progressive “Squad” and narrowly won her primary in 2022 over a more centrist candidate, was one of the first members of Congress to criticize Israel’s actions in Gaza and call for an immediate cease-fire. That angered some Jewish voters in her district, though national pro-Israel groups like AIPAC have not gotten involved in her race, as they have in others. Ms. Patel has been vastly outraised in the contest, and the once-expected ideological battle over Israel has fizzled in much of the district.

On the other side of the aisle and the state — in the First District, in the suburbs north of Philadelphia — Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, one of the most moderate Republicans in the House, is facing a primary challenge from an anti-abortion activist, Mark Houck.

Mr. Fitzpatrick is one of a small number of Republicans representing districts that Joseph R. Biden Jr. carried in 2020. He won his last two general elections with relative ease. But if Republican voters nominate Mr. Houck — who was acquitted last year of charges that involved assaulting a Planned Parenthood volunteer outside an abortion clinic — it could make the district more competitive for Democrats, given the political potency of abortion .

Two other primaries may also set up competitive general-election contests.

In the Seventh District, three Republicans are vying to face Representative Susan Wild, a Democrat who won by just two points in 2022. And in the 10th District, six Democrats are running to face Representative Scott Perry, a Republican who was closely involved with Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The presidential and Senate races are also on the ballot, but are not competitive. Mr. Biden and former President Donald J. Trump clinched their respective nominations last month, and Senator Bob Casey and his Republican challenger, David McCormick, are running unopposed in their primaries.

The polls are open until 8 p.m. Eastern time.

Reporting from Raleigh, N.C.

Planned Parenthood aims to spend $10 million to give Democrats a boost in North Carolina.

Aiming to bring the national fight over abortion access to a key battleground state, a political arm of Planned Parenthood will spend $10 million on organizing efforts in North Carolina this year, its largest-ever investment in a single state.

The money will pay for digital advertisements, new field offices and a canvassing operation concentrated in a handful of swing counties. The leaders of the group, Planned Parenthood Votes South Atlantic, say it plans to knock on more than one million doors through the end of 2024 to talk to voters about preserving abortion access.

Even though abortion is not explicitly on the ballot in North Carolina, Democrats are banking on the issue to animate the state’s competitive race for governor and, they hope, to galvanize voters to boost President Biden in the process . A Democratic candidate hasn’t won the state since 2008, and Mr. Biden lost it to former President Donald J. Trump in 2020 by just over a percentage point.

North Carolina is also the last state in the Deep South where abortion is still legal after six weeks of pregnancy, a fact Democrats have sought to highlight in underscoring the stakes for voters. The Republican nominee for governor, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, has endorsed a ban on all abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected — one he said he would push to pass if elected.

“As we head into November, all eyes are on North Carolina because abortion access across the entire region will be determined by the results of this election,” said Emily Thompson, the deputy director of Planned Parenthood Votes South Atlantic and spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Votes, the group’s national super PAC. “Our success is absolutely critical this year to protect abortion access and defend the bodily autonomy of every North Carolinian.”

Democrats and their allies are hopeful that Mr. Robinson’s incendiary past comments about abortion, combined with the grass-roots energy around the issue that has benefited the party in recent elections, can help propel both Mr. Biden and Josh Stein, North Carolina’s attorney general and the Democratic nominee for governor. Planned Parenthood’s political investment will also focus on 16 state House and Senate races, where Democrats need to win just one additional seat to break the G.O.P.’s supermajority.

Mr. Robinson has called abortion “murder” and said that when a woman becomes pregnant, her body no longer belongs to her. In 2012, he said on Facebook that he paid for his wife to have an abortion when she became pregnant while they were dating. He later called their decision to end the pregnancy a mistake.

In a statement, Mike Lonergan, a spokesman for Mr. Robinson, called Planned Parenthood’s organizing efforts part of the “same old playbook” that President Biden and Democrats have used to campaign on abortion, calling their stances “extreme and out of step with our state’s values.”

“Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is pro-life because of the painful and difficult experience he and his wife had, and his faith,” Mr. Lonergan said. “He’s said that as governor he would sign a heartbeat bill with exceptions for rape, incest and when the life of the mother is in danger.” He added that Mr. Robinson “also wants to turn North Carolina into a destination state for life by doing more to support women that choose life, like improving our foster-care and adoption systems, and preserving access to I.V.F.”

Planned Parenthood’s community organizers have said that they will focus specifically on reaching suburban white women in the early months of their canvassing, arguing that they are among the most persuadable voters on the issue. The group has also hired organizers who will focus specifically on mobilizing young, Black and Latino voters. The first phase of its organizing began in earnest on Saturday, with a daylong training near downtown Raleigh that taught canvassers how to communicate to voters, in less-than-20-minute conversations, the ways that North Carolina’s politics are part of the regional battle for reproductive rights.

Other groups, pointing to the governor’s race and thin State House margins, have shifted their focus entirely to abortion messaging ahead of November’s elections. Janice Robinson, the North Carolina director for Red, Wine and Blue, a nonpartisan group that mobilizes women in the suburbs, said her group had identified abortion access as a top issue. She said her organization hoped to recruit at least 5,000 more new members in the state this year, powered in large part by a message focused on protecting abortion access.

“I feel North Carolina is at the forefront of that fight,” she said. “So we are prepared to fight with everything in us to stop what’s happening in North Carolina and we will not give up.”

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