JD Vance wades into the immigration thicket: From the Politics Desk

Welcome to the online mentation of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and investigation from the White House, Capitol Hill and the run trail.

Happy archetypal time of summer! In today’s edition, Jonathan Allen explores the challenges awaiting Vice President JD Vance arsenic helium lands successful Los Angeles. Plus, we dive into President Donald Trump’s penchant for a giving a two-week timetable connected large issues. And Dylan Ebs answers this week’s scholar question connected ranked prime voting.

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— Adam Wollner

The situation facing JD Vance arsenic helium enters the migration fray

Analysis by Jonathan Allen

Vice President JD Vance is wading into the migration thicket contiguous by traveling to Los Angeles, wherever Marines and National Guard forces person been deployed to supply backup for national agents executing raids.

For Vance, it’s tricky territory due to the fact that President Donald Trump keeps changing his caput — oregon astatine slightest his rhetoric — connected migration enforcement.

On 1 hand, Trump is anxious to fulfill a run committedness to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. The MAGA basal demands it. And Vance, who hopes to inherit the MAGA base, seldom strays acold from its orthodoxy.

But connected the different hand, Trump has wavered connected parts of his ain wide deportation plan. After Trump said that workers successful definite sectors — farming, hotels and restaurants — would not beryllium targeted successful raids, helium quickly reversed that policy.

Vance finds himself taking connected a much disposable relation conscionable arsenic the MAGA question is feeling the strain of a president torn betwixt ideology and popularity.

It’s thing caller for a vice president to onshore successful the mediate of a vexing issue. Kamala Harris had the borderline portfolio successful Joe Biden’s administration.

If Trump’s migration policies extremity up being a success, Vance volition nary uncertainty nett from it. But if they don’t, helium whitethorn suffer.

Read more: Appeals tribunal says Trump tin support power of California National Guard troops, by Dennis Romero

Two weeks’ notice: Trump’s deadline connected Iran is simply a acquainted one

By Megan Shannon and Dareh Gregorian

President Donald Trump’s two-week timeline to determine connected whether the U.S. volition onslaught Iran’s atomic sites is simply a acquainted one.

“Based connected the information that there’s a important accidental of negotiations that whitethorn oregon whitethorn not instrumentality spot with Iran successful the adjacent future, I volition marque my determination whether oregon not to spell wrong the adjacent 2 weeks,” helium said successful a connection issued done White House property caput Karoline Leavitt.

Since the opening of May, Trump has promised enactment connected questions oregon decisions successful “two weeks” astir 10 times — and helium utilized the aforesaid timeline repeatedly during his archetypal word successful office.

“We’re going to beryllium announcing something, I would accidental implicit the adjacent 2 oregon 3 weeks, that volition beryllium phenomenal successful presumption of taxation and processing our aviation infrastructure,” Trump said of taxation overhaul plans connected Feb. 9, 2017.

He released a one-page outline of the program 11 weeks later, according to a Bloomberg reappraisal that year.

He went connected to repeatedly mention the clip framework for impending actions connected wellness attraction and infrastructure that ne'er materialized during his archetypal 4 years successful office.

Trump’s usage of the timing prediction has accelerated successful caller weeks — and he’s utilized it connected items ranging from commercialized deals and tariffs to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Much of what he’s predicted hasn’t travel to pass, with questions he’s said he’d reply remaining unanswered.

Read much connected Trump’s predominant two-week timeline →

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✉️ Mailbag: How does ranked prime voting work?

Thanks to everyone who emailed us! This week’s question comes from Thomas Gysegem:

“Will determination beryllium ranked voting successful the New York City mayoral primary? Please explicate however ranked voting works.”

To reply that, we turned to our intern, Dylan Ebs, who conscionable enactment unneurotic a adjuvant explainer connected the process.

Ranked prime voting, which New York is utilizing for adjacent week’s mayoral superior election, is simply a strategy that lets voters fertile candidates successful bid of penchant alternatively than prime conscionable one. The fig of candidates voters tin fertile depends connected the circumstantial rules successful an area. In New York City, voters tin fertile up to 5 successful 1 race.

Voters don’t person to capable their ballots, though. A elector whose bosom is acceptable connected lone 1 campaigner tin prime conscionable one. But if that campaigner doesn’t get the astir votes, that elector won’t person a accidental successful aboriginal rounds of counting.

After the votes are tabulated, the last-place campaigner is eliminated. Ballots from voters who supported that campaigner past person the adjacent prime counted. If nary campaigner has deed 50%, past counting continues, eliminating different last-place campaigner and counting the next-ranked choices connected each those ballots successful the adjacent round.

The process continues until a campaigner reaches bulk enactment and wins.

That’s each From the Politics Desk for now. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Dylan Ebs.

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