In an election year where the Senate map is objectively advantageous to Republicans, Texas and Florida have been seen as the two red states where a Republican seat could maybe flip if everything broke just right for Democrats. Then in December, a poll from Nebraska showed a steamfitter and industrial …
Read More »Elon Musk Shares Kamala Harris Deepfake
Billionaire Elon Musk shared a deepfake video of Vice President Kamala Harris manipulated to make it sound like she spoke about President Joe Biden’s “senility” and that she does not “know the first thing about running the country.” “I, Kamala Harris, am your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden …
Read More »Buttigieg Tells Fox Viewers that MAGA Is a Cult
Pete Buttigieg offered a dose of reality for viewers on Fox, pointing out the lies and “cult of personality” of Donald Trump. The Biden transportation secretary, when asked about President Joe Biden’s fitness for office, turned the question around and cast doubt on Trump’s fitness to serve. Fox News Sunday …
Read More »Republicans Shrug at Trump Saying His Supporters 'Won't Have to Vote Anymore'
Three prominent Republicans are unbothered that Donald Trump promised in four years, his supporters “won’t have to vote anymore” because “we’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.” On Sunday, Gov. Chris Sununu called the comments “a classic Trumpism,” while Sen. Tom Cotton said Trump was …
Read More »Schumer: Trump Probably Regrets Picking 'Weird' J.D. Vance
Donald Trump may be regretting his choice of running-mate and wondering “Why did I pick this guy?” according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Over the past few weeks since Trump announced his decision, the narrative that Sen. J.D. Vance is “weird” has gained traction, and Schumer speculated that may …
Read More »Trump Tells Christians They Won't Have to Vote in Future: 'We'll Have It Fixed'
Donald Trump, the former president who double downed on his ambitions of being a dictator, told a crowd gathered in West Palm Beach on Friday that if elected for a second term, they “won’t have to vote anymore.” At the Florida summit, hosted by conservative group Turning Point Action, Trump …
Read More »Clarissa Ward On The Incredible Challenge of Reporting On Gaza
C larissa Ward has reported from famine-stricken Somalia, flood-ravaged South Sudan, Afghanistan as it slipped back into the grip of the Taliban, Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, and from Ukraine, where last year she chronicled Russia’s ongoing invasion while pregnant with her third child. But nothing she has encountered in her two-decade …
Read More »Dems Go All-In on Blasting Trump and MAGA as 'Sick Freaks Who Everyone Hates'
Democrats insist they are learning from their mistakes — and are ready to attack the Donald Trump-led 2024 ticket full-bore, and hit below the belt if they feel like it. “Shaking off the stink of … ‘when they go low, we go high,’” is how one Democratic operative put it, …
Read More »J.D. Vance Will Be a More Extremist Christian VP Than Mike Pence
Just over eight years ago, Donald Trump announced Mike Pence as his running mate. The choice was seen as an olive branch to the insiders of the Republican Party who appreciated Pence as a classical conservative with rock solid right-wing policy views. Pence also represented a salvo for white evangelicals …
Read More »Crypto Giants Want to Buy Washington. They're Bankrolling Trump to Make It Happen
Just before the three-day Bitcoin 2024 conference got underway in Nashville this week, Tyler Winklevoss, the bitcoin billionaire who founded the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini with his twin brother Cameron, had harsh words for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. He was incensed that after years of tension between the Biden …
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