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52%
A new Monmouth poll finds that 52% of Americans say they’ve contracted the coronavirus, including 57% of Republicans and 38% of Democrats.
“As a mom and former college athlete, I know how important women’s sports are. They teach our girls to be winners. But the Biden Democrats want to force our daughters to compete against men in the pool and on the court.”
— Ohio Senate candidate Jane Timken (R) invoked swimmer Lia Thomas in a new campaign ad criticizing rules allowing transgender women being allowed to compete in women’s sports, The Hill reports.
$32 billion
President Biden will propose more than $32 billion in new spending to fight crime, putting a price tag on his State of the Union call to fund — not defund — the police, Axios reports.
“The invaders do not even mourn their own casualties. This is something I do not understand. Some 15,000 have been killed in one month… Vladimir Putin is throwing Russian soldiers like logs into a train’s furnace. And, they are not even burying them…Their corpses are left in the streets. In several cities, small cities, our soldiers say it’s impossible to breathe because of the…stench of rotting flesh.”
— Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with The Economist.
9 in 10
A new AP-NORC poll finds “close to half of Americans say they are very concerned that Russia would directly target the U.S. with nuclear weapons, and an additional 3 in 10 are somewhat concerned about that.” “Roughly 9 in 10 Americans are at least somewhat concerned that Putin might use a nuclear weapon against Ukraine, including about 6 in 10 who are very concerned.”
44
Politico reports that “spats between governors and state legislators have brought map-making to a standstill in the final four states still without new congressional lines for the 2022 elections.” “With filing deadlines looming, 44 House seats are still outstanding in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Missouri and, most importantly, Florida, which has 28 districts all by itself.”