Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, where he officially accepted the vice presidential nomination in front of a raucous audience in Chicago’s United Center. “It is the honor of my life to accept your nomination as vice president of the United States,” …
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Former President Donald Trump once said he would date his daughter, but that isn’t stopping conservatives from criticizing Democratic politicians for having what appear to be pretty normal, loving relationships with their families. On Monday and Tuesday, conservatives took issue with a video clip from Monday’s Democratic National Convention of …
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Days after Donald Trump shared AI-generated images of Taylor Swift and her fans supporting him, the former president is claiming he doesn’t know “anything about” the images. When Fox Business asked him whether he was worried that Swift would sue him, Trump responded: “I don’t know anything about them other …
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Ruwa Romman, who is a Palestinian American and the first Muslim woman to serve in the Georgia House of Representatives, had hoped to give a speech on Palestine at the Democratic National Convention. “I was incredibly honored to be considered,” she told Rolling Stone on Thursday. But on Wednesday night, …
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Rumors have been swirling for the last several days that Beyoncé will stop by the Democratic National Convention — but no one seems to know if it will actually happen. Hours before Vice President Kamala Harris is set to accept the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night, Rolling Stone has learned …
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Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster in a new memoir describes the way Russian President Vladimir Putin influenced former President Donald Trump during his time in office. McMaster, who was national security adviser to Trump from 2017 to 2018, writes that Putin took advantage of Trump’s ego. The memoir, At War …
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Fact checking columns have been around for some time but gained new popularity with the rise of Donald Trump as a way for news outlets to appear adversarial toward a politician whose rhetoric is consistently, thoroughly detached from reality, without doing the legwork. Nine years after he first started running …
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It’s not just prominent party loyalists taking center stage at this year’s Democratic National Convention. Republican defectors who have publicly disavowed former President Donald Trump are also taking the stage in Chicago. On Tuesday, former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham — the third spokesperson tasked with heading the press …
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He’s little-known and rarely-seen, but conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon is keeping Donald Trump‘s campaign afloat. He has donated $125 million this election cycle to Trump’s primary Super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc. Here’s how important those dollars are: It’s roughly half of what MAGA Inc. has raised — and …
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The Democratic National Convention continued on Tuesday with another slate of speakers advocating for Vice President Kamala Harris. They weren’t all Democrats. The DNC‘s second day also featured the delegation roll call, in which delegates representing American states and territories announced their selection for president. It was way more exciting …
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