Morning Wire - Tech Exec Stabbed & McCarthy’s Taiwan Meeting | Afternoon Update | 4.5.23

Episode Date: April 5, 2023

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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Wednesday, April 5th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. The creator of Cash App, a mobile payment service, was stabbed to death in San Francisco yesterday morning. According to police, 43-year-old tech mogul Bob Lee was attacked in the city's downtown Rincon Hill neighborhood around 2.30 a.m. on Tuesday, and no arrests have yet been made. Elon Musk took to Twitter to condemn San Francisco for its ongoing. spree of violent crime. He also asked San Fran's district attorney if the city was taking stronger action to incarcerate repeat offenders. Missouri officials are reporting that multiple people are dead or injured after a tornado swept through Bollinger County, 50 miles south of St. Louis early Wednesday morning.

Sergeant Clark Parrott of the Missouri State Highway Patrol added that damage is widespread and devastating. We knew it was going to be bad just based on what we saw at roadside, but just being aerial footage of it, it's just heartbreaking to try to absorb it, even though we see tornado damage, you know, it seems like every day. But this is, you know, I mean, when it hits your, area, it's just a little bit different. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met with the president of Taiwan today in Southern California, despite warnings from China, which called the meeting a provocation. And bipartisan group of lawmakers attended the meeting. The event was a show of support for the independent island and the first time the leader of Taiwan met with a

speaker on U.S. soil. Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate, Judge Janet Protizawicz, soundly defeated conservative-backed candidate Dan Kelly on Tuesday in a race that was crucial for the ideological balance of the court. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presta Jocamo has more. Protasewix earned about 55.5% of the vote to Kelly's 44.5%. Proto Saywicks racked up huge margins in urban areas like Milwaukee and Madison, while Kelly was unable to get the turnout he needed in more rural areas. The race, which was one of the most expensive court races in U.S. history, will likely have major impacts on policies in the Badger

State, including abortion, voter integrity measures, election maps, and guns. The state's voter ID law could even be in jeopardy as a result of Tuesday's election, as left-wing challenges could prevail in court. In Chicago, Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson was elected on Tuesday as the city's next mayor. He defeated moderate rival Paul Valles, a former Chicago Public Schools CEO. Johnson will succeed Lori Lightfoot, the first incumbent Chicago mayor, to lose re-election in decades. North Carolina State Representative Tricia Codham has switched political parties, joining the Republican Party and giving the GOP a veto-proof majority in the state legislature. Modern-day Democratic Party has become unrecognizable to me and to so many others throughout this

state and this country. The party wants to villainize anyone who has free thought, free judgment, has solutions. If you don't do exactly what the Democrats want you to do, they will try to bully you. They will try to cast you aside. Well, those your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to Dailywire.com and for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.