During the final full month of Donald Trump’s first and potentially only term in the White House — as the coronavirus pandemic still raged and as the outgoing president worked to overturn an election that he clearly lost — he was also hosting a series of meetings and phone calls …
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Donald Trump loves music. It does not love him back. But neither fact has ever been more obvious than this week, when he made his DJ debut. Even by his standards, it was a bizarre instant-classic trainwreck. At his Monday town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, he quit taking questions …
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Earlier this week, America got a clear view of how little Donald Trump understands — or cares about — the mechanics and potentially devastating consequences of the economic agenda he’s running on. On Thursday, businessman Mark Cuban joined Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail in Wisconsin, and took …
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Vice President Kamala Harrissingle-handedly roasted hecklers during her campaign rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday. When addressing the fight for abortion rights and criticizing Republican candidate Donald Trump for his “hand-selection” of three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, Harris was interrupted by people in the …
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Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t in attendance at the traditional Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York on Thursday night, but she offered a video consolation to attendees instead. Harris enlisted actress Molly Shannon, who revived her beloved Saturday Night Live character, Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher. In …
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Donald Trump has long claimed no one has ever been more physically and mentally equipped to be president than him. In particular, Trump, who is now 78 years old, has bragged about his “stamina” — how he has it, and how his opponents don’t. In one example from just a …
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Donald Trump-backing Christian supremacists gathered en masse on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Yom Kippur on Oct. 12, to fast, atone, and receive messages about a holy revolution, national deliverance from LGBTQ “demons,” and “spiritual warfare” matched to a physical “ground game.” As one preacher put it: “You …
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Undecided Latino voters who participated in Donald Trump’s Univision town hall on Wednesday were left deeply unimpressed by the former president. Three participants in the event expressed their frustration over Trump’s failure to answer them directly or explain his policy proposals in interviews with Rolling Stone. Two of them indicated …
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You’re tooling around in eastern Pennsylvania, Lexington, Kentucky, or North Carolina and see what looks like one of those ubiquitous signs for a political candidate. You look closer: pro Harris or pro Trump? But wait, they’re voting for … RZA? Ghostface Killah? Method Man? “It really looks like a legit …
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With just weeks to go in this election, we are on the brink of another transfer of power, with a near 50/50 chance that Donald Trump will again be preparing to govern. Ominous signs right now suggest Trump’s plan for this transition is chaotic and risky, flouting rules established to …
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