As former President Donald Trump narrows his list of potential running mates, Democrats are expanding their focus to 16 politicians who could emerge with a golden ticket. The Democratic Senate Majority PAC offered up 11 names for donors to pick from as their favorite to debate Vice President Kamala Harris in the fall. “Take our […]
MAGA conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says liberals want to see Trump die in jail.
When former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley ended her presidential bid in early March, Donald Trump and his allies emphatically told her supporters and "those" Romney-esque Republicans to take a hike. Those supporters listened, as Pennsylvania proved yet again this week, when more than 16% of Republican voters in the state's closed primary cast a ballot for Haley and against Trump. The Washington Post's Aaron Blake assembled a list of states with Republican-only primaries so far and highlighted the...
Michael Lind has written a provocative commentary, partly in response to John Judis and Ruy Texeira’s recent book, “Where Have All the Democrats Gone?” Lind would have us believe that the Democratic Party will do better in November than its naysayers suggest. Contrary to what Texiera-Judis maintain, namely that the Democrats have lost their traditional working-class base and may no longer be flourishing among racial minorities, the Dems supposedly have the wind at their back. The only reliable...
Dems in Trump Districts Outraising Republicans in Biden Districts (First column, 12th story, link) Related stories:Will Kennedy play spoiler at state level? New polling says maybe
Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert said that the legal challenge against Donald Trump would disappear if the former president decided to "just quit" his run for a second term in the White House.Boebert's comments on Monday, posted to X, formerly Twitter, came after the beginning of Trump's hush-money trial in Manhattan Criminal Court, where the former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush payment involving adult-film star Stormy Daniels during...
Advisors to Trump said if he assumes office Wall Street will face less regulation. During his term Trump unwound many post-financial crisis regulations. The former president will likely target ESG investing and EV mandates
Perhaps the most striking thing about Monday’s opening of former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial was the juxtaposition between the extraordinary and the humdrum, with the judge and jury going through all the usual motions that I have seen hundreds of times – but doing them with a former president in the dock for the first time ever. Tuesday morning, however, will be something I have never seen before in my three decades of criminal law practice. After court comes into session at 9:30...
We’re being worn down by a politics of persistent comfort.I wrote last week about comfort and discomfort, and the pleasure that follows hardship. But I didn’t quite finish the thought, so here it is: Our dismal, empty, destructive political theater is the result of too much ease and affluence. We’re doing things that people do when life has been too easy.When do Americans lose patience for the endless march of idiocy, and what happens when they do? Americans seem to forget how much political...
Joe Biden's position in this election is already weakened by the fact that Hispanic, black, and young voters are abandoning him. Poll after poll has shown it, and frankly, it poses a major problem for Biden because if Trump siphons off enough support from these groups, Biden doesn't stand a chance in November—at least, not in a fair election. If these groups cease to be reliably Democratic votes, it spells real trouble for the future of the party.
A woman whose son works for a House Democrat told the court that it would not affect her ability to serve as a juror on the Trump hush money case and be fair and impartial.
In a desperate attempt to distract from his escalating legal woes, Donald Trump has resurrected a month-old beef with Jimmy Kimmel over a joke the late-night host made at his expense during the Oscars broadcast. In a pathetic Truth Social rant, Trump accused Kimmel of suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and having a "horrendous performance" while hosting the Academy Awards. — Read the rest