7 Things: U.S. Senate race tightens to less than 7 points, violence is expected over Roe v. Wade decision and more …

7. Defense Production Act to be used for baby formula

• The United States’ baby formula shortage continues to go on, and it may be months, at the earliest, before we see a return to normal at grocery stores. To address the issue,  President Joe Biden announced he was invoking the Defense Production Act and something called “operation Fly Formula” to address the shortage.

• The practical impact of this may be minimal as the issue at hand is not related to lack of necessary ingredients, but it directs those resources to baby formula manufacturers. and military air cargo ships will only do so much in moving the formula from countries with similar U.S. health and safety standards.

6. Most Americans support some limit on abortions

• U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (R-La.) highlighted the absurdity of the position of pro-choice politicians who are pushing for absolutely no limits on abortion. States like California are looking to expand abortion in light of the Roe v. Wade being struck down is becoming a real possibility. Johnson asked Dr. Yashica Robinson, board member of Physicians for Reproductive Health and the director of the Alabama Women’s Wellness Center, about limits on abortion, and she refused to answer the question. She did mention that limits on abortion were related to “white supremacy.”

• This question of when a limit on abortion becomes palatable for abortion advocates is a powerful question because it shows how far they are willing to go on the issue. A vast majority of Americans support reasonable restrictions on the matter, but fervernet pro-abortion activists have forced Democrat politicians into a position that none of them actually believe — that there should be no restriction.

5. Tuberville will vote against Ukraine aid

• U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) announced that he would not support the $40 billion in aid for Ukraine after voting no in a procedural vote earlier this week. The aid package passed the U.S. House of Representatives last week, with U.S. Representative Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) being the only Alabama congressman to vote against the package.

• Tuberville noted a “lack of accountability and oversight with this amount of funding.” He went on to add, “[W]e’re going from these amounts to $40 billion with no oversight into how that money will be spent and utilized. It also gives too much money at one time to the State Department for discretionary spending – again, with no oversight. Instead, I think we should take a step back and craft a targeted, strategic funding package that is smaller and more measured over a length of time.”

4. Education attacks come out in Alabama’s sole competitive congressional primary 

• A new attack ad has been released against congressional district 5 candidate Casey Wardynski by Madison County Commission chairman Dale Strong claiming that Wardynski has “failed” children. The attack continues, “As school superintendent, Wardynski defended Obama’s woke curriculum and opposed school choice while Huntsville City Schools superintendent. And while he now claims to oppose Critical Race Theory, Wardynski deployed a radical re-education program at Huntsville City Schools teaching white privilege and other CRT lies.” 

• Wardynski responded to the allegations through his campaign manager Chad Niblett, who stated, “Career politician Dale Strong knows that nobody has done more to fight federal intrusion in our schools than Casey Wardynski. Noticeably missing from BLM ally Dale Strong’s misleading ad is anything about how students actually performed under Superintendent Wardynski…Under Casey Wardynski’s leadership, graduation rates sored from 66% to 88%, Huntsville went from having zero Blue Ribbon Schools to having nine, scholarships went from $31 million to $55 million, and HCS became number one in the nation for cyber security education. Dr. Wardynski led this historic progress and fought Obama’s DOJ and DOE on their transgender agenda, all while Dale stayed quiet. It’s clear that when Dale talks about schools, kids are the last thing on his mind.”

3. Alabama seeing the highest gas prices ever

• AAA recorded that overnight, the national average price for a gallon of gas increased four cents, making the new national average $4.56 per gallon. This same time last year, the national average for a gallon of gas was $3.45.

• In Alabama, the price of a gallon of gas is now at the highest average on record at $4.28 per gallon. Only a month ago, the average price was $3.82 per gallon, and it was at $2.85 in May of 2021.

2. Liberals are about to get nuts

• New reports show that the Department of Homeland Security is preparing for acts of political violence throughout the country as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to officially overturn Roe v. Wade. A memo sent by DHS to public officials and lawmakers on May 13 stated that those who have already made threats over the leaked opinion indicating Roe v. Wade will be overturned “are likely to persist and may increase leading up to and following the issuing of the Court’s official ruling.”

• The memo also detailed the threats that had already been received, with some of them being threats to “burn down or storm” the U.S. Supreme Court. This only continues the violence already seen at some pro-life organizations and protests held outside of Supreme Court justice’s homes.

1. U.S. Senate race is far tighter than most thought it would be

• In less than one week, the U.S. Senate primary vote will be held in Alabama, and the latest polling from Emerson College Polling shows that candidate Katie Britt has continued to hold her first place position. Unexpectedly, all three candidates are separated by less than seven points.

• In the survey, Britt was at 32%, while candidate Mike Durant and U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) were very close at 26.4% and 25.1%, respectively. The poll was only conducted from May 15-16 and shows that 14% of people are still undecided. However, a majority of the undecided voters are more in favor of Britt, with 39.4%, while Brooks has 26.7% and Durant has 17.7%.