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Here are the top stories from the week of July 22 - July 26.</span></span></td>
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<span style="font-size:20px;">President Joe Biden (D) ends 2024 campaign; endorses VP Harris</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8bde6c57-7fff-27d8-b0ae-0b88c8b3e950">On July 21, President Joe Biden (D) withdrew from the 2024 presidential election. </span>Later that afternoon, Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris (D) for the nomination. A few hours later, Harris formally declared her candidacy.<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8bde6c57-7fff-27d8-b0ae-0b88c8b3e950">You can view Biden’s full statement, along with statements from other noteworthy elected officials from both parties on our page </span><a href="[link removed]">here</a>.<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8bde6c57-7fff-27d8-b0ae-0b88c8b3e950">In a special edition of </span>On The Ballot, our podcast, host Frank Festa and staff writer Ellen Morrissey discussed what happens next with the formal particulars of how the Democratic Party will arrive at a nomination of a candidate. To listen to that podcast, click <a href="[link removed]">here</a>.</span></td>
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<span style="font-size:20px;">Signatures submitted for measure that would raise Oklahoma's minimum wage</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">The campaign Raise The Wage Oklahoma submitted roughly 180,000 signatures on July 15 to the secretary of state for State Question 832. If approved, the ballot initiative would gradually increase the state's minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 as follows:</span></span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$9 per hour in 2025,</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$10.50 per hour in 2026,</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$12 per hour in 2027,</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$13.50 per hour in 2028, and</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$15 per hour in 2029.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">Starting in 2030, the minimum wage would be adjusted annually based on changes in inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">Oklahoma is one of 20 states that use the federal minimum wage rate of $7.25, which was established in 2009. The other 30 states set minimum wages higher than the federal wage.</span></span></td>
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The number of contested state legislative primaries–where more than one candidate is running for the nomination–fell in 2022 and 2024 after it implemented the new system. Read the full story in the July 24 edition of the Daily Brew.</span></span></td>
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<span style="font-size:20px;">President Joe Biden (D) ends 2024 campaign; endorses VP Harris</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8bde6c57-7fff-27d8-b0ae-0b88c8b3e950">On July 21, President Joe Biden (D) withdrew from the 2024 presidential election. </span>Later that afternoon, Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris (D) for the nomination. A few hours later, Harris formally declared her candidacy.<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8bde6c57-7fff-27d8-b0ae-0b88c8b3e950">You can view Biden’s full statement, along with statements from other noteworthy elected officials from both parties on our page </span><a href="[link removed]">here</a>.<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8bde6c57-7fff-27d8-b0ae-0b88c8b3e950">In a special edition of </span>On The Ballot, our podcast, host Frank Festa and staff writer Ellen Morrissey discussed what happens next with the formal particulars of how the Democratic Party will arrive at a nomination of a candidate. To listen to that podcast, click <a href="[link removed]">here</a>.</span></td>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">The campaign Raise The Wage Oklahoma submitted roughly 180,000 signatures on July 15 to the secretary of state for State Question 832. If approved, the ballot initiative would gradually increase the state's minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 as follows:</span></span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$9 per hour in 2025,</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$10.50 per hour in 2026,</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$12 per hour in 2027,</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$13.50 per hour in 2028, and</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">$15 per hour in 2029.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">Starting in 2030, the minimum wage would be adjusted annually based on changes in inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="paint-area paint-area--text" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px;">Oklahoma is one of 20 states that use the federal minimum wage rate of $7.25, which was established in 2009. The other 30 states set minimum wages higher than the federal wage.</span></span></td>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-719500ab-7fff-f39b-24b8-516272c21e21">This year's report on trifecta vulnerability found that 11 state government trifectas could break up, and nine new ones could form in the November elections. Of the 11 vulnerable trifectas, seven are Democratic and four are Republican. </span>Our report looks at what is required for each individual component of a state government trifecta to change party control. For more on our methodology, click <a href="[link removed]">here</a>. </span></td>
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