Tucker Carlson has a type. He likes hardline nationalists who can cosplay anti-elitism while pretending they didn’t go to an Ivy, or have an heiress mother, or have the richest people in the country funding their campaign. He likes the kind of candidate who blends hateful nativism and a fear …
Read More »J.D. Vance Kissed Trump's Ass Just Enough to Make It to the Senate
Democrat Tim Ryan’s efforts to capture a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio ended in defeat on Tuesday night as Ryan lost to Republican J.D. Vance. To many Democrats, Ohio looked like a lost cause. To Ryan, it was the Democrats, not Ohio, who were lost. His party had a branding …
Read More »Trump Told Hannity He Might Announce Candidacy Tonight
In recent weeks, Donald Trump has been privately discussing with close advisers — including famous cable-news personalities — his idea for officially announcing his 2024 White House run the night before Election Day 2022, according to sources familiar with the situation and others briefed on it. Trump is speaking Monday …
Read More »The Revenge of Tim 'I Told You So' Ryan
LIMA, OH. — A typical Democrat wouldn’t be here. It’s the final stretch of his Senate race, and Tim Ryan is spending one of the campaign’s last Saturdays in Allen County, where Trump won by a mammoth 40 points two years ago. Most in his party believe the white working-class …
Read More »J.D. Vance Has a Burnt Monkey Testicle Problem
What kind of man profits from scalded monkey junk? On the campaign trail, Trump-endorsed Ohio Senate nominee J.D. Vance leans into the hardscrabble upbringing he wrote about in Hillbilly Elegy. He rails against universities and the abuses of Big Tech. He blasts Covid mandates, encouraging distrust, without evidence, of the …
Read More »Tim Ryan Echos Trump, Calls J.D. Vance an 'Ass-Kisser' in Heated Debate
Tim Ryan didn’t hold back during a debate against J.D. Vance in the Ohio Senate race. The congressman called his opponent an “ass-kisser” — a callback to when the former president said at a rally that Vance was “in love with me” and “kissing my ass.” “I’m from Ohio,” Ryan …
Read More »Trump and Republicans Are Already Trying to Cash in on the Mar-a-Lago Raid
The FBI‘s raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday enraged the former president and his backers throughout conservative media and the Republican Party. It also provided them with an opportunity to prod their supporters for cash. “MAR-A-LAGO was RAIDED,” Trump texted his supporters Tuesday morning, along with a link …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Pushed Trump to Endorse J.D. Vance With 'Disgusting' Sexual Innuendo
In the days before Donald Trump endorsed J.D. Vance in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary, the former president huddled with his son, Don Jr., and several staffers at Mar-a-Lago. On the phone was Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a major ally of Vance’s. After promising Trump that Vance was with him …
Read More »Republicans Are Panicking Over the Prospect of Biden Forgiving Student Debt
President Biden has been flirting with the idea of some kind of student debt relief for years. But yesterday, in a closed-doors meeting with Democrats, he gave some indication that real, widespread forgiveness is a real possibility. The Washington Post reports that this likely won’t take the form of a …
Read More »J.D. Vance Promises Voters That He Really Means It — This Time
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — It is just after noon on Friday at Mr. Gatti’s Pizza, and the campaign to elect J.D. Vance has realized they need to kill the Terminator. The problem is that, next to the big backdrop that says “J.D. VANCE” on it, there is a broken sliding door …
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