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MNI POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS – US Daily Brief 17-01-22

Executive Summary:

  • Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) looks likely to continue his push for voters rights despite broad consensus among analysts that a vote to bypass the filibuster will fail.
  • Former president Donald Trump has given his firmest indication yet that he intends to run for president again in 2024 by staging a campaign style rally in Florence, Arizona.
  • Seven US senators are in Ukraine as part of a bipartisan delegation to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and reaffirm US support for Ukraine.
  • New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s (D-NY) announcement that the state is ‘turning the corner on the winter surge’ has engendered cautious optimism about the peak of the Covid-19 Omicron surge.
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