内容摘要：WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest

Walz, a former schoolteacher who went on to serve in Congress and then became his state’s governor, keynoted the South Carolina gathering in Columbia, traditionally a showcase for national-level Democrats and White House hopefuls. Speaking to convention delegates for more than half an hour, Walz used colorful language and spoke plainly as he lobbed criticism at President Donald Trump and called on his fellow Democrats to have the courage to stand up to the “bully” in the White House.“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner,” Walz said, to applause from the crowd. “When it’s a bully like Donald Trump, you bully the s—- out of him. ... This is a ... cruel man.”

It was Walz’s third set of large-scale remarks in less than 24 hours for Walz, who, along withspoke Friday night at, as well as an after-party fish fry hosted by Rep. Jim Clyburn.

The events offered an opportunity for both Walz and Moore to test out their messages in front of hundreds of Democrats in the state that has long held the first-in-the-South Democratic presidential primary and, last year, led off the party’s nominating calendar entirely. State party chair Christale Spain has said that she will renew the argument to keep the state’s No. 1 position in the next cycle, but national party organizationsyet, and party officials in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada are also vying to go first.

“Donald Trump is the existential threat that we knew was coming,” Walz told the crowd Saturday morning, acknowledging that, for Democrats, “it is going to be a challenging few years here.”

As he did on Friday night, Walz praised his fellow Democrats for having the “courage” to keep fighting in a largely Republican state, where Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in about two decades and only hold one congressional seat — Clyburn’s.Still, “they’re going to miss things,” Belk said.

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that led to recall of nearly 5,800 pounds frozen beef shepherd’s pie in 2022.There are also two notorious examples from 2017: “extraneous golf ball materials” that triggered a