The week when everything changed for Trump

Joe Biden Warns Trump Will “Try to Indirectly Steal the Election”

Joe Biden has warned that Donald Trump will try to steal the presidential election by alleging voter fraud and refusing to accept the validity of mail-in ballots. The former Vice President made the claim during a virtual fundraiser on Thursday, hosted by actor and Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Biden said the President would claim mail-in ballots were […]

‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ Didn’t Mean What Trump Hoped It Did

In unscripted moments before the camera, the president sometimes wanders from topic to topic without completing a train of thought, repeats himself or falls back on the same familiar phrases when questioned. He makes statements that defy common sense, like insisting that if there were not so many coronavirus tests conducted, there would not be […]

Trump Says It’s Too Dangerous For His Convention But Safe For Your Kids To Return To School

During the third day of Donald Trump’s second season of coronavirus press conferences, the president sent more mixed signals about the pandemic. The big news, as PoliticusUSA’s Jason Easley noted, is the fact that Trump canceled his doomed convention in Jacksonville, Florida. “I looked at my team and I said the timing for this event […]

That Extra $600 Weekly Unemployment Check Could Soon Become Less Generous

In a recent survey, prominent economists across the ideological spectrum were nearly unanimous in saying a lack of jobs, not a lack of willingness to work, is holding back the economy right now. Not a single economist in the survey argued for cutting off extra benefits entirely right now.The most prominent voices calling to cut […]

New Texas poll showing Biden winning also offers Democrats path to victory in Senate race

Air Force veteran MJ Hegar, the Democrats’ nominee in Texas’ Senate race this fall. The first poll out of Texas since Air Force veteran MJ Hegar won last week’s Democratic runoff finds Republican Sen. John Cornyn leading their matchup 47-38, but it nonetheless contains plenty of good news for Democrats, who are hoping to win […]

Trump Faces Backlash for Commemorating Civil Rights Icon Amid Racial Tensions

President Donald Trump tweeted a message commemorating Charles Evers, the older brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and a prominent figure in Mississippi politics. The message courted controversy immediately: The president has in recent weeks tweeted support for flying Confederate flags has continued to disparage the Black Lives Matter movement, and has faced […]

How Limbaugh, Hannity and Other Right-Wing Media Stars Are Amplifying Trump’s “Law and Order” Message

To his legions of listeners, Rush Limbaugh calls the demonstrators in Portland, Ore., “anarchists” who “hate Americans and America.” He recently made an ominous prediction: “I can see secession coming.”On Fox News, Sean Hannity describes the scene in Portland as “a literal disaster area — and, yeah, it looks like a war zone.”On Wednesday, Breitbart […]

U.S. Orders China to Close Houston Consulate, Citing Efforts to Steal Trade Secrets

WASHINGTON — The United States has abruptly ordered China to close its diplomatic consulate in Houston by Friday, accusing diplomats of aiding a nationwide pattern of economic espionage and attempted theft of scientific research, as part of a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s moves against China.China vowed to retaliate, calling the move illegal. Hours […]

U.S. Orders China to Close Houston Consulate Over Espionage and Theft

WASHINGTON — The United States has ordered China to close its diplomatic consulate in Houston by Friday, citing a nationwide pattern of espionage and attempted theft of scientific research by the Chinese military that is aided by diplomats.The order deals a major blow to the rapidly deteriorating relations between the two nations. China promptly vowed […]

Trump Pressured The British Government To Drum Up Business For His Scotland Golf Resort

A stunning report published Tuesday by The New York Times revealed that Donald Trump used the power of the presidency to pressure a foreign government into ginning up business for his golf resort in Scotland. According to the report, “The American ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that […]

Trump, in a Shift, Endorses Masks and Says Virus Will Get Worse

“Ultimately, our goal is not merely to manage the pandemic but to end it,” he added. “We want to get rid of it as soon as we can.”Mr. Trump’s decision to resume televised virus briefings came as the number of new cases soared far above what it was when he was last addressed the country […]

Democrats ask for FBI briefing on foreign disinformation efforts around Sen. Ron Johnson

None of this information is new. Johnson’s eagerness to solicit testimony from ex-Ukrainian official Andrii Telizhenko was the subject of public alarm and a previous intelligence community warning. Johnson has been dismissive of complaints about his reliance on known dodgy sources, though he was pressured into giving up on the idea of taking Telizhenko’s testimony […]

Joe Biden says four black women are on VP shortlist

Four black women are among Joe Biden’s shortlist of candidates for vice president, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said Monday. “I am not committed to naming any but the people I’ve named, and among them are four Black women,” Biden said on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut.” “That decision is underway right now.” Biden, 77, also promised […]

Rachel Maddow Praises Biden For Demonstrating How A Real Commander In Chief Stands Up To Russia

Rachel Maddow praised former Vice President Joe Biden’s tough stand against Russia on Monday, saying it’s a sign that if the former VP wins in November, the United States will again have a president who holds foreign adversaries accountable.“Dream of competent, uncompromised governance that stands up for our sovereignty against foreign countries that are trying […]

Trump Expands Federal Crackdown from Portland to Chicago

WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to deploy federal law enforcement to Chicago and threatened on Monday to send agents to other major cities — all controlled by Democrats.Governors and other officials reacted angrily to the president’s move, calling it an election-year ploy as they squared off over crime, civil liberties and local control that has […]

Top Democratic lawmakers request FBI briefing on ‘ongoing’ foreign campaign targeting 2020 elections

House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff In a publicly released letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation director Chris Wray, four top-ranking Democratic lawmakers are requesting the department provide the House and Senate a “classified defensive briefing” relating to an “ongoing” foreign disinformation campaign intended to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. “We are gravely […]

Russian elites given access to experimental coronavirus vaccine: report

A group of Russian tycoons, business executives and government officials were given early access to an experimental coronavirus vaccine, according to a report. They were given shots developed by the state-run Gamaleya Institute in Moscow as early as April, which last week completed phase 1 trial on military personnel, Bloomberg News reported. Gamaleya, backed by […]

As Trump Ignores Virus Crisis, Republicans Start to Break Ranks

President Trump’s failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak and his refusal to promote clear public-health guidelines have left many senior Republicans despairing that he will ever play a constructive role in addressing the crisis, with some concluding they must work around Mr. Trump and ignore or even contradict his pronouncements.In recent days, some of the […]

Trump won’t say whether he’ll accept 2020 election results

President Trump on Sunday declined to say whether he will accept the results of the 2020 election, adding that he will “have to see.” The president also claimed without evidence that “mail-in voting is going to rig the election,” during an interview aired on “Fox News Sunday.” In response, Fox News host Chris Wallace asked: […]

Trump’s Fox News Sunday Interview Was An Epic Disaster Thanks To Chris Wallace

Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace fact-checked Trump, pushed back, and caused a presidential implosion on national television by not accepting the lies. The part of the interview that will be getting attention for days was Wallace’s exchange with Trump about the cognitive test that the President took:WALLACE: But I’ve got to tell you, if I […]

How Joe Biden’s Strategy Could Help Him Win Wisconsin

ADAMS, Wis. — Nate Zimdars, a Democratic candidate for the Wisconsin State Assembly, arrived at the V.F.W. lodge here after marching in the local Independence Day parade, ready to meet voters at an annual outdoor chicken cookout called the “Chic Nic.” Although the event was hosted by the local Republican Party, Mr. Zimdars was far […]

Trump Heads To The Golf Course With Lindsey Graham Without Even Mentioning John Lewis

More than 10 hours after the death of civil rights icon John Lewis was reported, Donald Trump and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham headed to the golf course without even uttering a single word of condolence. “John Lewis is dead,” Andrew Feinberg noted on Twitter. “President Donald Trump has not said a word about it, […]

Trump plays the outsider incumbent in fan-made video on Twitter

President Trump may be the incumbent — but he’s still portraying himself as the ultimate outsider as he runs for reelection. A two-minute, fan-made video clip that Trump posted to his Twitter feed Saturday revolves around quotes from his 2017 inaugural address, including his vow to start “transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it […]

Trump Weighs In on the Death of John Lewis, One of His Most Vocal Critics

WASHINGTON — The Republican governor of Georgia said that the country will “never be the same” without Representative John Lewis, who died Friday at age 80. The Democratic speaker of the house called Mr. Lewis “a titan of the civil rights movement.” The House minority leader said that Mr. Lewis “never stopped working to improve […]

National Museum of African American History apologizes for chart listing attributes of ‘whiteness’ after criticism from Donald Trump Jr and the conservative media

The National Museum Of African American History & Culture on January 11, 2020 in Washington, DC.Jared Siskin/Getty ImagesThe National Museum for African American History and Culture removed a chart listing “whiteness” attributes after receiving criticism from Donald Trump Jr and conservative media.The chart listed “hard work,” “respecting authority,” and “objective, rational linear thinking” as some […]

Praise for John Lewis Pours in From Nation’s Political Elite

“We have lost a legendary leader, civil rights icon and change agent extraordinaire,” tweeted Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, who is Black. Mr. Lewis, he added, had “altered the course of history and left America a much better place.”“Congressman John Lewis was an American hero — a […]

Trump sours on online learning that his administration evangelized

In events and media appearances over the past several weeks, the White House and administration officials have repeatedly insisted that the nation’s schools and colleges must physically reopen classes — and that online instruction, fully or partially, isn’t an appropriate alternative. They’ve threatened to use federal funding as a lever to prod schools into physically […]

Powerful House chair Eliot Engel defeated by progressive newcomer Jamaal Bowman in stunning upset

WASHINGTON – Rep. Eliot Engel, a powerful House committee chair who served decades in Congress, was defeated by a political newcomer in a stunning upset showing the power of the progressive wing of the Democratic party, according to the Associated Press. More than three weeks after polls closed in the the New York primary, Jamaal Bowman was officially declared the winner Friday […]

Nonpartisan Cook Political Report Shifts Rating of 20 House Races to Democrats

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has shifted its rating of 20 House races toward Democrats, saying President Donald Trump’s “abysmal polling since the pandemic began is seriously jeopardizing down-ballot GOP fortunes.” “We may be approaching the point at which dozens of House Republicans will need to decide whether to cut the president loose and run […]

Fox News Cuts Off Trump’s White House Rally And Pummels Him With A Fact Check

Donald Trump held yet another taxpayer-funded campaign rally at the White House on Thursday, this time using pickup trucks and cranes to represent Obama-era regulations that have been eliminated since he took office in 2017. Trump characterized the previous administration’s policies as a disaster for the economy, which was such a blatant lie that even […]