Sports desk: MLB’s ‘Apology’ to Georgia
Major League Baseball was “implicitly making amends to Atlanta with Tuesday’s All-Star Game after moving the 2021 game in protest of Georgia election reforms,” declares J.T. Young at The Wall Street Journal. Objections to Georgia’s “Election Integrity Act, a package of common-sense measures to improve the voting process,” included calling it “racist” and “Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” and so MLB “moved the All-Star Game to Denver.” Yet “criticisms of Georgia’s 2021 election law as racist and restrictive proved moot in the 2022 and 2024 election cycles.” Early voting “surged” in 2022, “hit a record high in 2024” and “the number of black Georgians casting ballots increased by 800,000” between 2020 and 2024. “By bringing the All-Star Game back to Georgia,” Major League Baseball was making “a baseball apology.”
Democrat: Our Party’s Nuts To ‘Welcome’ Zohran
Veteran Dem operative Joe Klein at Sanity