Immigration and economics loom large on the campaign trail and in the minds of voters, but America’s foreign entanglements could well decide the election. The Democratic Party is desperately trying to keep debate about the conduct of Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon contained to an intramural row over policy, …
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Members of the Central Park Five have filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump alleging the former president repeatedly made “false and defamatory statements” about the men, “negligently, knowing they were false, and/or with reckless disregard for their truth or falsity.” According to a civil complaint filed on Monday the five …
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Donald Trump returned to western Pennsylvania on Saturday, where he held a rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe as the race heats up with 17 days until Election Day. Trump last returned to the area for a rally in Butler earlier this month, the site where an assassination …
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In July, María Teresa Kumar, president of Voto Latino, began noticing something urgent about older and undecided Hispanic voters in her group’s internal polling, and also in the data from focus groups they had conducted in a handful of swing states since January. Kumar and her colleagues at Voto Latino …
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In his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump debuted the turducken of dog whistles: the claim that Harris would funnel taxpayer money to surgeries for transgender immigrants in prison. Since then, Republicans have put $60 million over two weeks into airing anti-trans ads heaped atop their public speaking …
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House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t want to hear about Arnold Palmer‘s johnson. The Republican bristled when confronted about Donald Trump‘s recent rally comments where he told a story about Palmer’s “unbelievable” penis size. During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper asked for Johnson’s reaction to …
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Donald Trump is not backing down from his fascistic remarks about “the enemy from within,” comments he has made repeatedly in recent weeks. Instead he’s naming Democratic Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff as part of said “enemy from within.” In earlier comments made on Oct. 13, the former president …
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Gov. Josh Shapiro has serious concerns about billionaire Elon Musk‘s million-dollar giveaway to registered voters, which one expert says is “clearly illegal.” Musk has vowed to give away one million dollars each day to a randomly selected battleground state signer of his conservative-leaning petition encouraging registered Republicans to vote. He …
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Donald Trump is spending part of his Sunday afternoon behind the counter at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s. The former president, who has frequently said he loves the chain’s food, donned an apron to work the fry machine and hand food to customers at the drive-thru. It’s an attempt to bring attention …
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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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