Category: Politics

Four Years Later, Trump Still Portrays America as Under Siege

Right now, this race is a referendum on Mr. Trump and his leadership. For months, Joe Biden has kept a lower profile, allowing the president’s inability to stay away from controversy to drive the race.But given Mr. Trump’s low job-approval ratings, the president desperately needs this election to be a choice. He also needs voters

Trump’s convention speech make you feel crazy? Rachel Maddow’s fact-check will restore your sanity

I think it might be helpful if I just did like a real, real quick speed-read auctioneer fact-check, just on some of the top lines so we can clear those out of the way. This was more than an hour-long speech by the president. We think this is the second-longest acceptance speech ever given by

President Trump, Ivanka Trump, Dana White to Speak During R.N.C.’s Final Night

President Trump will finally take the stage on Thursday evening, as the final night of the Republican National Convention concludes with his acceptance speech.He is expected to reprise some of the themes of the past week: the need to maintain what his allies cast as an economy on the rebound, an alternative version of the

Is the Trump campaign running out of money?

Longtime readers of my work know that I am dubious about the efficacy of TV advertising in presidential elections. Tens of millions have already been spent on both sides, and we have what’s been a stable race for months (anywhere from a seven to 10-point national Biden lead). And remember the primary? Biden was outgunned

Mike Pence Shows Why Kamala Harris Will Wipe The Floor With Him

Pence gave a dull acceptance speech full of the usual sucking up to Trump and lies that define the VP as a speedbump for Kamala Harris. When he wasn’t talking about what an honest guy who keeps his word Trump is, Pence claimed that Democrats attacked America when they attacked Trump: Pence claims that Democrats

Republicans Insist Only Trump Can Stop This Chaos. But He’s in Charge Now.

“Burning down communities is not protest, it’s needless violence,” he said. “Violence that endangers lives. Violence that guts businesses, and shutters businesses, that serve the community. That’s wrong.”Even before the convention, Republicans sought to cast Mr. Biden as radically anti-law enforcement, falsely claiming that he wants to defund the police, a proposal Mr. Biden has

Night 3 of the RNC Looks Tame Compared to the DNC’s Blockbuster 3rd Night

There were a number of compelling politicians who spoke at the Democratic National Convention. The party worked hard on spacing out the speeches so that viewers would turn in every night. Night 3 of the DNC had some of the most anticipated addresses of the entire week. Not only did Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris close

Donald Trump Jr. Says You Have To Worship Trump To Be A Real American

Donald Trump Jr. complained about the number of celebrities at the Democratic convention and said that real Americans support the Trumps. Trump Jr. tweeted: Democrats mocking the RNC for showcasing real Americans rather than out of touch celebrities is a hell of a take… but not at all surprising. — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August

Daniel Cameron, Kentucky A.G., Speaks at the R.N.C.: Full Transcript

Attorney General Daniel Cameron of Kentucky has been under intense pressure in recent months to charge three police officers in the killing of Breonna Taylor, who was unarmed when the officers broke into her home without warning and shot her.But in his speech at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, his only mention of her

Registered Foreign Agent Pam Bondi Says Biden Is Corrupt

Chip SomodevillaFormer Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, a registered lobbyist for a foreign government that Donald Trump’s Justice Department has implicated in a corruption scandal, used her speech at the Republican convention on Tuesday to criticize former vice president Joe Biden for alleged self-dealing abroad.“I fought corruption and I know what it looks like, whether

Scott Walker Blames Joe Biden For Wisconsin Riots After Jacob Blake Shooting

Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tried to blame Joe Biden and Democrats for the unrest in Wisconsin after the Jacob Blake shooting. Walker said on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper:Silence is complicit. While the vice president, Republicans across the country spoke out against the travesty that happened in Minnesota with George Floyd as did

Former DHS Employee Miles Taylor Says Trump Wanted to “Maim” and “Pierce the Flesh” of Migrants

Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, says President Donald Trump would think up ways to “maim” and “pierce the flesh” of migrants in conversations about his proposed border wall along the United States-Mexico border. The president also suggested tearing families apart and gassing migrants altogether. “This was a

Highlights From the Republican National Convention: Night 1

“Democrats started their convention last week with Eva Longoria, a famous Hollywood actress who played a housewife on TV. Well, I’m actually a real housewife and a mom from Michigan with two wonderful kids in public school who happens to be the only — only the second woman in 164 years to run the Republican

Donald Trump Jr. Flops At GOP Convention With Laughably Bad Speech

Donald Trump Jr. poorly delivered a fantasy speech divorced from reality with glassy eyes that was so bad, it was funny. Don Jr. accused Democrats of trying to cut taxes for millionaires when his daddy passed the biggest tax cut for the rich and corporations in history: Donald Trump isn’t so much giving a speech,

Trump Keeps Promoting a Drug Order That No One Has Seen

Mr. Trump has embraced the issue of high drug prices since his 2016 campaign, promising that he will fight the powerful pharmaceutical industry to deliver relief to American consumers. But the administration has delivered little policy on drug prices. The courts overturned its effort to require drugmakers to publicize the list prices of medications. Other

Trump Claims Democrats Are Stealing The Election In GOP Convention Meltdown

Trump couldn’t keep it together for five minutes while accepting the Republican nomination as he claimed that Democrats are stealing the election. Trump said: Because we caught them doing some really bad things in 2016. Let’s see what happens. We caught them doing some really bad things. We have to be careful because trying it

Not the Convention, or the Election, North Carolina Republicans Hoped For

“They say most people get more conservative as you age, but I’ve gotten more liberal,” said Cindy Strom, an educational consultant who lives in the Charlotte suburb of Mooresville after moving from Chicago four years ago.In a sense, Ms. Strom is like other recent transplants who are helping to transform the state’s political dynamics by

Pretending Trump makes America ‘great again’ apparently takes more than 70 GOP convention speakers

Included on the agenda are several GOP politicians, Trump advisers, and apologists such as the president’s infamously corrupt personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani; Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who has yet to charge the officers who shot emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor in her own home; and Kim Klacik, who is trying to unseat the Democrat elected to fill the

Barack Obama did not spend $65K on prostitutes, code-named ‘pizza’ and ‘hotdogs’

The claim: Barack Obama spent $65,000 on pizza and hot dogs, which are code names for child prostitutionThe claim about former President Barack Obama has roots in “pizzagate,” a debunked QAnon-esque conspiracy theory spawned during Hillary Clinton’s second presidential campaign. It  alleges that Clinton ran a child sex trafficking ring in the basement of Comet Ping Pong, a

57% Of Republicans Say Trump Killing Over 170,000 Americans Is Acceptable

A new poll found that 57% of Republicans are perfectly fine with Trump’s pandemic mismanagement killing over 170,000 Americans. CBS News reported, “For most Republicans, America is a nation where the economy is still fairly good, where the effort to handle the coronavirus is going at least somewhat well and the president is doing a

Twitter immediately noticed a hidden message in Warren’s DNC video, but it’s not the only one

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) acronym spelled out went viral on Twitter, and at a glance, is the easiest Easter egg to notice. The Dream Big, Fight Hard (DBFH) acronym also got some attention, especially from Warren voters. With the number you can use to text support for Joe Biden (30330) behind it. A United

Democrats have a plan to disrupt Trump’s convention and cripple his message: report

Donald Trump Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 Alex Wong/Getty Images With the virtual Democratic National Convention in the rear-view mirror and the nomination handed to former Vice President Joe Biden, Democratic strategists plan to do

Republicans are still helping Trump destroy America

There was an unexpected, but fairly important, revelation this past week that very few media outlets made a big deal out of – and as one straight-talking Vice President once said, this revelation was “a big f*cking deal.” For the sad, pathetic souls that spend an inordinate amount of time closely following politics, the release

Voting starts earlier than you might realize. It has Trump battling the clock in some battleground states

WASHINGTON — Mail-voting for the presidential election is just weeks away in several key states, elevating the importance of next week’s Republican National Convention for President Donald Trump to change the race’s trajectory before the first votes are cast.As polls continue to show Trump trailing Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the incumbent president is battling the clock in battleground states

Plane with comatose Russian dissident leaves for Germany

OMSK, Russia — A plane carrying a Russian dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning left for a German hospital Saturday following much wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s condition and treatment. The plane could be seen taking off from an airport in the Siberian city of Omsk just after 8 a.m. local time.

Democrats Raised a Massive Amount of Money the Last Four Days

Conventions are meant to do many things for a party. They showcase the up and coming political talent. They attempt to sway voters who are undecided. They allow the party to pitch a unified message. But most importantly, conventions raise money. And these funds are used to boost candidates up and down the ticket. So

They Got Hollywood Screenwriters to Paint a Picture of America That Wasn’t Real

Democrats finished their National Convention Tuesday night. The event received praise from all corners of the media, both Liberal and Conservative. Even Fox anchors like Laura Ingraham had to admit that Joe Biden gave an excellent closing speech. That does not mean, however, that Republicans weren’t going to attack the event. GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel

Biden Speaks Once More, With Feeling

“You know me.” It’s one of Joseph R. Biden’s most-used lines, a folksy introduction, a deflection and a defense.Fact-check: It’s true. Mr. Biden has been around long enough to be on his third presidential run in four decades. Long enough to have had a dubious role in the 1991 Senate sexual harassment testimony of Anita

Joe Biden delivers the speech of his lifetime, at exactly the right time

Anyone who had been listening to Trump or Trump’s cadre of Republican trolls had to be watching in expectation that Biden would fumble and fuddle his way through the evening. After all, to listen to Trump, Biden can barely get through a sentence. Those people were very, very disappointed tonight. Everyone else was carried away

Michael Bloomberg tells America to ‘fire’ Trump in convention speech

Michael Bloomberg accused President Trump of cozying up to white supremacists in a speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention on Thursday night where he asked voters to fire the commander in chief. “Four years ago I came before this very convention and said, ‘New Yorkers know a con when we see one,’” the former