Related: RS Politics 2020 Democratic Primary Leaderboard Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have canceled their campaign events in response to the coronavirus outbreak, but the 11th Democratic primary debate will take place as scheduled. Kind of. Though the debate will air at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 15th, the …
Read More »Russia Isn't Dividing Us — Our Leaders Are
The latest act in the comedy began Friday, just before voting opened in the Nevada Democratic caucus. The Washington Post ran a story — sourced, I’m not joking, to “people familiar with the matter” — explaining that Bernie Sanders had been briefed that “Russia is attempting to help his presidential …
Read More »Fully Armed Rally-Goers Enter Kentucky's Capitol Building With Zero Resistance
Armed gun owners rallied in Kentucky entering the state’s capitol building in Frankfort on Friday. The gathering was organized by the group We Are KY Gun Owners. They were spurred into action when Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam pushed for new gun control measures that led to threats of violence, culminating …
Read More »Senator Murkowski Will Vote No, Virtually Assuring No Witnesses at Impeachment Trial
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said she will vote no to hearing from witnesses during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which all but ensures that Republican senators will have enough votes to block witnesses. With Murkowski’s Friday announcement, which followed Tennesee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander’s Thursday announcement that he too would …
Read More »Bolton Says Trump Told Him Ukraine Aid Was Tied To Biden Investigation
President Trump told then-National Security Advisor John Bolton, in August 2019, that the hold his administration placed on the military aid to Ukraine should continue until Ukraine officials announced investigations into Trump’s political opponents, including former vice president Joe Biden and his son. This contradicts Trump’s public statements that he …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren Wants to Start Erasing Student Debt on Her First Day in the White House
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has already pledged that, if elected president, she would erase student-loan debt for the vast majority of the 45 million borrowers in America. On Tuesday, she went one step further, saying she would use executive authority to begin wiping out student debt on the …
Read More »GOP Congressman Refuses to Apologize on Fox News, But Says Sorry on Twitter. Is He Gaming Media Platforms?
Did Republican Congressman Doug Collins (R-Ga.) have an epiphany that led him to apologize on Twitter less than two hours after he passed on two opportunities to do so on Fox News, or was he playing two media platforms to avoid who saw which message he was conveying? On Wednesday …
Read More »Everything You Need to Know About the Iranian Strike at U.S. Targets in Iraq
The blowback has begun. The question is: Is it over? Delivering on promises to retaliate after the assassination of general Qasem Soleimani, Iran conducted missile strikes on at least two U.S. bases in Iraq, including the Al-Assad airbase. The strikes were touted by Iran as a “successful attack … in …
Read More »Inside the Cell Where a Sick 16-Year-Old Boy Died in Border Patrol Care
Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill when immigration agents put him in a small South Texas holding cell with another sick boy on the afternoon of May 19. A few hours earlier, a nurse practitioner at the Border Patrol’s dangerously overcrowded processing center in McAllen …
Read More »Andrew Yang: The 'Useful Idiots' Interview
Why not Andrew Yang? With almost no institutional support and the active disdain of much commercial press — the Schenectady, New York-born entrepreneur recently boycotted MSNBC in search of coverage “consistent with our polling” — Yang, according to poll averages, sits in sixth place in the 2020 Democratic race, earning …
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