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McConnell: Biden student loan forgiveness a ‘wildly unfair redistribution’ of wealth

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized President Biden’s decision to cancel $10,000 of student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 annually, calling it a “wildly unfair redistribution” of wealth in favor of higher-earning Americans. 

McConnell said in a statement on Twitter on Wednesday that the move is a “slap in the face” to those in the workforce who made sacrifices to pay off their debt, as well as those who made different career choices to avoid student debt. 

He said the median American with student loans has a much higher income than the median American overall, and experts who have studied loan forgiveness have found that its benefit mostly goes to higher-earning individuals. 

“President Biden’s inflation is crushing working families, and his answer is to give away even more government money to elites with higher salaries,” the GOP leader said. “Democrats are literally using working Americans’ money to try to buy themselves some enthusiasm from their political base.”

The Brookings Institution reported in October 2020 that the 40 percent of households with the highest incomes, more than $74,000 per year, owe almost 60 percent of outstanding student loan debt. The 40 percent of households with the lowest incomes hold just less than 20 percent of that debt. 

Biden’s plan will forgive up to $20,000 to Pell Grant recipients, those with the greatest financial need, and limit repayment of undergraduate loans to 5 percent of a borrower’s monthly income. The president also extended the pause on federal student loan repayment until Dec. 31, pushing back a deadline that was set to pass at the end of this month. 

Senior administration officials have said the president’s action will largely help people who came from working class families and make up the working class now. 

McConnell also said Biden’s decision will make inflation worse just weeks after congressional Democrats approved the Inflation Reduction Act, which Biden signed into law last week.

McConnell and other Republicans have been joined by former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in arguing that student debt forgiveness will make inflation worse.

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One in four Gen Z-ers plan to become social media influencers

With the rising popularity of social media came the fame and fortune of young social media influencers such as Addison Rae, Charli D’Amelio and James Charles. 

Now, new survey results from HigherVisibilty show one in four members of Gen Z want to emulate these celebrities, who make millions of dollars through brand sponsorships and advertisements but are also subject to intense public scrutiny on- and off-line. Sixteen percent of those surveyed said they would pay money to become an influencer.

A total of 1,000 individuals in the United States between the ages 16 and 25 completed the survey in July 2022. 

Results varied slightly by region. Just over 40 percent of respondents in the west said they want to become a social media influencer, compared with 33 percent in the midwest, 36 percent in the south and 39 percent in the northeast. 

Broken down further, data showed “41% of New York Gen Zs intend on becoming an influencer in the future, whilst 30% from [Los Angeles] also feel the same way.” 

According to authors, “just 7.13% of Gen Z responded that they would not want to be a social media Influencer.”

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Social media influencers can find audiences on a variety of platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. The rise of the industry was so strong that in 2020 creators launched the American Influencer Council. 

Some super famous celebrities can even make up to $1 million for posting a single sponsored image or video on Instagram. 

When queried, the majority of respondents guessed the average yearly income of an influencer was between $75,001 – $100,000, and many pointed to free products, earnings and meeting other influencers as the top perks of the profession. 

Over a quarter of individuals also said they regularly post on social media with the intent to gain followers, while 35 percent of men report caring about their follower account compared with 31 percent of women. 

Notably, the survey revealed more men, at 20 percent, than women, 13 percent, feel being an influencer is the only career option for them, and 49 percent of males said they consider the path a “good career choice.” Almost one in five Gen Z members said they would quit their job to become a social media influencer compared with over 12 percent who said they’d quit college to do so. 

A quarter of respondents also think there should be social media influencer training in high school. 

When it comes to parents’ responses, more 20 percent of individuals felt older generations didn’t understand social media influencing and only 8 percent reported their parents like them using social media. 

Survey results showed 26 percent of respondents said they trust influencer product reviews over product page reviews, underscoring the marketing power influencers hold. 

“It is safe to say that over the years, the line between ‘influencer’ and ‘celebrity’ has blurred. With influencer culture permeating the younger generations and becoming more prominent as time goes on, it is a movement unlikely to falter any time soon,” authors concluded. 

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As monkeypox spreads, we must not repeat the failures of COVID-19 and HIV

Monkeypox is a public health emergency in the United States, with some 15,400 cases recorded. The virus has rapidly become a globalized threat, with more than 43,000 cases reported across 95 countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak “a public health emergency of international concern,” its highest alert level.  

But as the alarm and case counts grow, it is increasingly clear that the U.S. and the global communities are repeating some of the hallmark failures of other global health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. From mounting stigma and misinformation, to botched testing and vaccine rollouts, to the widening inequities in care, the parallels between Monkeypox, COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS should cause officials to reevaluate and redirect their approach to this latest public health emergency. 

For example, many news reports refer to monkeypox as a sexually transmitted disease that only impacts the gay community. Both parts of this statement are false, yet the misinformation continues to reverberate in a disturbing echo of the discrimination against LGBTQ+ communities during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Monkeypox is spread through close contact including, but not limited to, sexual contact — and anyone can contract the infection regardless of sexual orientation. Cases have also been reported by women, infants and incarcerated people. However, evidence of discrimination is emerging. For example, some commercial lab technicians have reportedly refused to draw blood from people who might have monkeypox. 

Currently, in most states the monkeypox vaccine is allotted to “high-risk populations.” For example, New York City’s criteria includes men who have sex with men and who have had “multiple or anonymous sex partners.” Ongoing stigmatization of one’s personal and intimate sex life could deter people from seeking testing or care for monkeypox. The approximate 21 days of isolation after infection is difficult and demoralizing for anyone, but particularly for those who cannot share or discuss their diagnosis.  

Currently, 98 percent of monkeypox cases are being reported in men who have sex with men. There is a clear imperative for health officials to develop monkeypox messaging and outreach not just for the LGBTQ+ community, but with the LGBTQ+ community. The early failings of COVID-19 vaccination practices are also appearing. Online portals to schedule monkeypox vaccinations have crashed. We are leaving behind the 21 million people in the United States who lack access to the internet. Offline and multilingual options to secure tests, vaccines and care are essential for any public health outreach. 

We must also be vigilant and monitor inequities in access to vaccines, particularly around which communities receive them and whether there is a pattern to who receives the ACAM2000, a vaccine that is more available than JYNNEOS but is effective and has more side effects. 

The infrastructure of the public health response to monkeypox is inadequate. Monkeypox testing has been highly inconsistent and subject to huge regional variations, with delayed results and numerous bureaucratic hurdles for clinicians and patients. This is devastatingly similar to the early response to COVID-19 in the United States, in which our early testing failures led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths.

Furthermore, decades of disinvestment in primary care and public health have resulted in missed opportunities for reaching more at-risk individuals and creating pathways to care that are not specifically linked to particular groups. 

Lastly, one of the most appalling aspects of both HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 has been the global disparities in access to testing, vaccines and care. Monkeypox has spread in East and West Africa for several decades. When the infection started to reach white Europeans and Americans in larger numbers, global attention and mobilization of resources were suddenly given to the issue. News outlets and commentators must not contribute to stigma and xenophobia by painting monkeypox as an “African” disease. Even the name “monkeypox” is highly misleading and problematic. Monkeypox does not come from monkeys; the reservoir for it is in rodents. The WHO is rightfully working to rename the disease.  

COVID-19 vaccines and HIV/AIDS treatment went to high-income, largely white countries and communities first. Wealthy nations hoarded COVID-19 supplies and blocked the technology transfer that would have allowed low- and middle-income countries to produce their own tests, vaccines and treatments. Not providing access to these life-saving resources in low-income countries was largely an oversight, and today only one in five people in low-income countries have received COVID-19 vaccines, as opposed to three out of four people in high-income countries. Similarly, people living with HIV in London or New York had access to high-quality, affordable and life-saving HIV/AIDS medications decades earlier than their counterparts in Kampala or Mumbai. This resulted in tens of millions of deaths and a “lost generation” in many hardest-hit countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.  

We cannot accept the status quo any longer. As high-income countries ramp up vaccine and treatment production, we must ensure that there is global equity and ethical responses. We are now repeating the mistakes of the past, but we have time to change course. Our response to the monkeypox outbreak will be successful and equitable if we heed the lessons from HIV/AIDS and COVID-19.  

Dr. Ranit Mishori is a senior medical adviser at Physicians for Human Rights and a professor of family medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

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Nearly 80 percent of parents say they became more interested in kids' education during virtual learning: study

Seventy-nine percent of parents say they became more interested in how their child was being educated during the pandemic, when the process went largely virtual, according to a new survey.

The survey, conducted by the Harris Poll on behalf of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, similarly found that 84 percent of parents agreed they learned more about how their child was educated during pandemic at-home education, and 78 percent said they became more involved in their child’s education because of what they saw.

“Things were moving along as usual, and then within a few weeks of being at home all day with their children, parents were able to see first-hand what their students were learning, or not learning,” the National Alliance wrote in its report.

“Some students were receiving only a few hours of remote-learning instruction per week,” the report continued. “Parents began to talk among themselves, sharing tips with each other.”

Seventy-one percent of parents worried about learning loss during the pandemic, and concerns heightened about safety and the overall wellbeing of students while they are learning, according to the survey. 

The survey also found that more parents appeared to switch their child’s category of school since the pandemic.

Seventeen percent said they switched their child’s school type since March 2020 — a span of roughly two years — compared to 15 percent who said they switched their child’s school type at any time prior to the pandemic. Three-quarters of parents who made a switch since the pandemic said they made the decision due to COVID-19–related factors.

“For many parents, this new interest and involvement may have made them highly motivated to make changes to their child’s education,” the report states.

More than 4 in 5 parents agreed that education has become a more important political issue to them than in the past. Eighty-two percent said they were willing to cross party lines to vote for a candidate aligned with their education views, the survey found.

The survey was conducted online and included interviews with 5,002 parents with school-aged children between May 19 and May 31. The data was weighted on demographic factors like race, region and household income.

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Here's what's inside Biden's historic student debt forgiveness plan

President Biden is directing the Education Department to forgive $10,000 in federal student loan debt for nearly all U.S. borrowers, an unprecedented decision that will impact millions of borrowers with immediate financial relief.  

The Biden administration formally announced its highly anticipated student debt forgiveness plan Wednesday, which will forgive $10,000 for every federal student loan borrower who earns less than $125,000 annually.  

The administration is also cancelling up to $20,000 for those student borrowers who received Pell Grants, applying the same income cap. 

“I’m keeping with my campaign promise, my administration is announcing a plan to give working and middle class families breathing room as they prepare to resume federal student loan payments in January 2023,” Biden said on social media.  

Here’s what the plan includes. 

$10,000 in debt forgiveness for all federal borrowers 

Federal borrowers who earn less than $125,000 and did not receive a Pell Grant will be eligible to have $10,000 of their student loan balances forgiven. This will likely eliminate the balances of at least 15 million borrowers. 

$20,000 debt reduction for Pell Grant recipients 

Millions of borrowers who received Pell Grants during college and meet the administration’s income requirements will see 20,000 removed from their balances. Data shows around 7 million students receive Pell Grants each year. 

Extends pandemic-related pause on student loan payments 

The administration is also extending the federal moratorium on student loan payments for a sixth and final time. Payments will resume in January 2023, concluding the pause which has spanned more than two years and two administrations. 

Overhauls income-driven repayment plans 

The Education Department is proposing a new rule that would reduce future monthly payments for lower- and middle-income borrowers from 10 percent to 5 percent of discretionary income.  

It would also raise the amount of income that’s considered nondiscretionary, therefore protected from repayment. The proposed rule is also tackling interest, so a borrower’s loan balance will not increase as long as they are making their required monthly payments. 

The new rule would forgive loan balances after 10 years of payments, instead of the current 20 years under many income-driven repayment plans for borrowers with original loan balances of $12,000 or less. 

If approved, the rule would apply to borrowers with undergraduate degree loans and graduate degree loans. 

Eases loan forgiveness under Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program 

The Department is proposing a rule that would allow more payments to qualify for PSLF, including partial, lump sum and late payments and allowing certain kinds of deferments and forbearances.  

Tackles college accountability 

The department is proposing to reinstate and improve a rule to hold career programs accountable for leaving their graduates with unaffordable debt — like when DeVry University was found to have defrauded nearly 1,800 students after making widespread, substantial misrepresentations about its job placement rates. 

The Department also said it intends to act against colleges that have contributed to the student debt crisis, including publishing an annual watch list of the programs with the worse debt levels in the country. This is in addition to requesting institutional improvement plans from colleges concerning debt outcomes that outline how the college intends to bring down debt levels. 

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The Hill’s 12:30 Report: What we know about the student loan cancellation

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President Biden announced on Wednesday that his administration is canceling a chunk of student loan debt — as well as extending the payment pause for existing loans.

Biden tweeted the announcement

Specifically, what will be forgiven?: At least $10,000 for borrowers who make less than $125,000 a year. 

Plus: Biden is also forgiving $20,000 of debt for those that received a Pell grant   

Details of the payment pause: Payments can be paused until the end of the year. 

Keep in mind about the White House’s timing: The student loan pause would have expired on Aug. 31 unless Biden intervened. Biden just returned to the White House this morning from his vacation in Rehoboth Beach, Del.

JUST ANNOUNCED — BIDEN WILL DELIVER REMARKS AT 2:15 P.M. EDT: 
From the Roosevelt Room. Livestream

‘BIDEN STUDENT LOAN PLANS CAUGHT IN INFLATION DEBATE CROSSHAIRS’: 
Via The Hill’s Aris Folley 

‘MORE THAN $10B IN STUDENT LOANS FOR PUBLIC WORKERS CANCELED AHEAD OF BROADER BIDEN ANNOUNCEMENT’: 
“The Department of Education has announced that it has provided more than $10 billion in student debt relief for public workers 10 months into a new program. The relief covers more than 175,000 people…” What we know about the new program 

PHOTO OF BIDEN LEAVING THE BEACH AND RETURNING TO WASHINGTON, D.C.: 
From Reuters’ Nandita Bose 

It’s Wednesday. I’m Cate Martel with a quick recap of the morning and what’s coming up. Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Sign up here.

🗳 On the campaign trail 

Two House committee chairs entered the ring.:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) won his primary over House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday after redistricting forced the two to run against each other. 

Keep in mind: Both Nadler and Maloney have served in Congress since the early 1990s. This will end Maloney’s House career.  

Was Nadler’s win a surprise?: Not really. He had strong polling and endorsements from The New York Times and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). 

How this race recently became contentious 

Ron DeSantis’s battle opponent has been determined: 

Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) will face off against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in the fall after winning his primary on Tuesday night. 

Tidbit: Crist served as Florida’s *Republican* governor until 2011. 

DeSantis got an indirect shoutout in Crist’s victory speech: “Our fundamental freedoms are literally on the ballot, my friends. A woman’s right to choose: on the ballot. Democracy: on the ballot. Your rights as minorities are on this ballot … Make no mistake about it, because this guy wants to be president of the United States of America and everybody knows it. However, when we defeat him on Nov. 8, that show is over.” 

FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM TUESDAY’S PRIMARIES: 
1. “Democrats make safe choice to take on DeSantis.” 

2. “The Democratic establishment held its own.” 

3. “Special elections in New York give Democrats new hope.” 

4. “Maloney loss ushers end of political era in Manhattan.” 

5. “Particularly contentious primary season gives way to general election.” 

Context and details for each, from The Hill’s Max Greenwood 

‘DEMOCRAT RYAN WINS BELLWETHER SPECIAL ELECTION FOR NY HOUSE SEAT’: 
This special election has been watched closely because it’s a swing district and a predictor for midterm election outcomes. More on that race 

TIDBIT — THERE’S A SURGE IN WOMEN REGISTERING TO VOTE: 
“Several states where reproduction rights are at risk are seeing a surge in women registering to vote following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case, abolishing the constitutional right to abortion.” What we know

🍊 In Mar-a-Lago 

700 … pages … of … classified … documents: 

Via The Hill’s Rebecca Beitsch, “Former President Trump’s resistance to turning over what now appears to be a much larger tranche of documents than previously known could strengthen a potential case from the Justice Department against him and renews questions over whether the delay harmed national security.”  

New estimates of what Trump took: “A letter released by the National Archives on Tuesday indicates that an initial batch of 15 boxes of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago in January included 100 classified documents totaling 700 pages.”  

Did the Trump team know the FBI wanted the docs?: “The letter from the National Archives indicates that Trump’s legal team was aware as early as April that the FBI was eager to obtain the documents so that they could do a damage assessment to determine whether there was any fallout related to their mishandling.” What we know 

Read the National Archives’ letter

🦠 Latest with COVID 

➤ THE COVID-19 NUMBERS 

Cases to date: 93.5 million 

Death toll: 1,035,758 

Current hospitalizations: 31,429 

Shots administered: 607 million 

Fully vaccinated: 67.4 percent of Americans 

CDC data here.

🐥Notable tweets 

This will never *not* make me squirm: 

WUSA9’s Reese Waters tweeted a video of a rat walking down the escalator of a D.C. metro stop. Watch the video from @saracplana 

CBS News’s Kathryn Watson astutely pointed out: “At least the rats around here have some manners. Not standing on the left side of the escalator.”  

⏱On tap 

The House and Senate are out. President Biden is in Washington, D.C. Vice President Harris has no public events scheduled.

• 10 a.m.: Biden left Rehoboth Beach, Del. 
• 10:55 a.m.: Biden arrived at the White House. 

 All times Eastern. 

📺What to watch 

• 2:15 p.m.: Biden delivers remarks from the Roosevelt Room.
• 3 p.m.: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds a press briefing. Livestream

🧇 🍑 In lighter news 

Today is National Waffle Day and National Peach Pie Day! 

I’ve given too much thought to this family’s family tree:

The Washington Post’s Cathy Free writes, “These identical twins married identical twins. Now they have sons.”  

If you’re wondering how planned it was: “[W[hen the two sets of siblings met in 2017 at — where else? — the annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, they all decided this could be their perfect match. The Deanes and the Salyerses spent a year dating, and when all four were sure they had found their match, they returned to the festival and got married right there, in matching outfits.”  

And now: “And if that weren’t enough, the two couples — who now live in a house they share in Bedford County, Va. — went back to the twins festival earlier this month, this time with their sons, born about five months apart.” 

Photos and the full story 

And because you made it this far, here’s a dog enjoying independent play. 

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Watch live: Biden makes statement on student loan forgiveness

President Biden is expected to announce an update on the status of federal student loans, which have been on pause since 2020.

Earlier on Wednesday, the president tweeted that his administration is forgiving up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 annually and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, marking the largest forgiveness of federal student loans per individual to date.

The White House will stream the event beginning at 2:15 p.m. ET.

Watch the live video above.

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Federal judge in Texas blocks Biden administration's emergency abortion guidance

A federal judge in Texas in a Tuesday night ruling blocked guidance issued by the Biden administration that requires doctors to provide abortions in emergency medical situations even if doing so would run afoul of state law.

In a 67-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Hendrix halted emergency abortion guidance that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued last month in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade.

The practical effect of the ruling was to halt HHS from enforcing its guidance in Texas, stopping short of a nationwide injunction. Hendrix also blocked the administration from applying its regulation against two co-plaintiffs in the case, a pair of antiabortion doctors’ associations.

The judge’s ruling dealt a blow to the administration, which had urged the court to find that a 1986 federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) superseded some restrictive state abortion laws passed in the wake of Roe’s demise.

EMTALA requires a hospital to provide stabilizing care to any patient that presents with an emergency medical condition. HHS says abortion qualifies as stabilizing care under the law.

The legal development comes as a patchwork of state abortion laws continues to emerge as a result of the Supreme Court’s toppling of Roe, which for nearly a half-century recognized a constitutional right to abortion up to the point of fetal viability, around 23 weeks.

Hendrix, a Trump-appointed judge in Lubbock, Texas, ruled that HHS’ guidance exceeded the authority that Congress granted to the agency EMTALA.

“That Guidance goes well beyond EMTALA’s text, which protects both mothers and unborn children, is silent as to abortion, and preempts state law only when the two directly conflict,” Hendrix wrote.

Attorneys with the Department of Justice who are representing the Biden administration in the case did not immediately respond when asked for comment, nor did counsel for the Texas attorney general’s office or the other plaintiffs.

The decision by the Texas-based judge comes ahead of a ruling in a similar case in which the Biden administration sued the state of Idaho, arguing that EMTALA preempts the state’s strict abortion ban. A ruling in that case, United States v. State of Idaho, is expected by Wednesday.

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North Carolina mayor under investigation after livestreaming teardown of Confederate monument

A mayor of a North Carolina town is under investigation by federal authorities after livestreaming the teardown of a Confederate monument. 

In a Facebook Live video posted on Sunday, Enfield, N.C., Mayor Mondale Robinson livestreamed the teardown of a Confederate monument that had stood in the town for over 90 years, instructing a volunteer driving a tractor to push the main piece of the monument to the ground. 

“Yessir,” Robinson yelled during the live stream. “Death to the Confederacy around here! Not in my town, not on my watch.” 

Earlier this month, the town’s board of commissioners voted 4-1 in favor of removing the 10-foot monument from the town’s Randolph Park area, The Washington Post reported. 

But Robinson, who was elected as Enfield’s mayor earlier this year, may have violated a state law that outlined initial procedures for monument removal. 

North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday that it has received requests from Enfield Police Department Chief James Ayers and its District Attorney Andrew Murray to launch an investigation into the property damage at the park where the monument had stood. 

SBI spokesperson also said that the district attorney’s office will determine whether criminal charges are appropriate in the case after completing its investigation. 

The Hill has reached out to Ayers for comment and more information. 

The monument was built in 1928 to honor service members who fought and died in the Civil War and World War I and honored service members who fought in other wars such as World War II, the Korean War and the Persian Gulf War, according to CBS affiliate WNCN.

In a statement to The Hill, Robinson said he has no regrets about the removal of the statue, saying that he did it in the best interest of his town, which has a mostly Black population, and added that he doesn’t understand the reasoning to the NCSBI’s investigation into the matter. 

Robinson also mentioned that he has received racist emails and messages about the removal of the 94-year-old Confederate statue. 

“That is about slavery and that’s all it is,” Robinson told The Hill. “So for me, it’s a no-brainer why the statute had to fall,  It’s a no-brainer why I have no regrets. It’s a no-brainer.”

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Cheney independent presidential run would hurt Biden more than Trump: poll

If Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who lost her House primary last week, decides to embark on a presidential run in 2024 as an independent, she could end up hurting President Biden’s chances of reelection more than Trump’s, according to a new Yahoo News/You Gov poll. 

After Cheney lost her reelection bid for the House to Trump-backed GOP candidate Harriet Hageman, she said she has political ambitions that go past Congress. 

“That’s a decision that I’m going to make in the coming months, and I’m not going to make any announcements here this morning. But it is something that I am thinking about, and I’ll make a decision in the coming months,” Cheney said after her loss, when asked about a potential White House bid.

She later told Politico that she is “not at all focused” on specifics of a 2024 run, keeping open the possibility she could run as an independent. 

The poll found that in a standoff between Trump and Biden without Cheney, Biden would lead Trump by 4 points among registered voters. 

However, if it is a race among Trump, Biden and Cheney, with Cheney running as an independent, the poll found she would end up pulling more votes away from Biden.

In a three-way matchup in the poll, Trump jumped to the lead, beating Biden by more than 8 points. 

Cheney could also, of course, challenge Trump as a Republican and seek to damage him in a primary to the extent that he cannot survive a general election.

Cheney, the top Republican on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, is Trump’s most vocal GOP critic on Capitol Hill.

She has said numerous times Trump is unfit for office, while he has painted Cheney as a “RINO,” an acronym meaning Republican in name only, saying she has turned her back on her party. 

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