Two national Democratic groups are suing Minnesota over the state’s “unfair” ballot laws that “systemically and arbitrarily disadvantage” DFL candidates.
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George Papadopoulos Officially Announces Run For Katie Hill’s Vacated House Seat
Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos announced Monday morning during “Fox & Friends” that he is officially running for Democrat Katie Hill’s former House seat.
Read MoreCommentary: Democrats’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Democrats must be grateful that the Thanksgiving recess will bring to an end their horrible week. It’s not nice to laugh at other people’s misfortunes but this week has featured a smorgasbord of schadenfreude for those otherwise bored and irritated by the politics of the moment. In fact, the rigged “Schiff Show” went so badly that observers have reason to doubt that the Democrats will actually pull the trigger on passing articles of impeachment. Here are a few highlights from Adam Mill’s blooper reel.
Read MoreBloomberg News Pledges Not To Investigate Democratic Presidential Candidates
Bloomberg News won’t conduct investigative reporting on any of the Democratic presidential candidates, the outlet’s editor-in-chief announced Sunday.
Read MoreCommentary: Dems Fret as Poll Shows Trump Competitive in Battleground States
by Jeffery Rendall An old saying goes that bad news travels fast. When the message reaches its destination, things change quickly. It’s amazing to witness how attitudes often switch on a dime. One moment a huge crowd of football fans is euphoric with joy and the next they’re dead…
Read More‘Popular Vote’ Movement Would Shift Power to Big Cities, Experts Warn
The Electoral College is under threat from states looking to enact legislation that ignores local voters in favor of national election results, experts said during a panel Thursday at The Heritage Foundation.
Responding to a wave of 15 states that have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact since the 2016 election, they argued that the Founders instituted the Electoral College to ensure stability and representation to all states.
Read MoreRepublican Jewish Coalition Releases Ad Bashing 2020 Democrats For Failure To Support Israel
The Republican Jewish Coalition released its first ad Monday accusing Democratic 2020 presidential candidates of being anti-Israel.
The ad targets Jewish voters, warning that the “radical left” has taken over the Democratic Party and aims to “undo decades of bipartisan support for America’s crucial ally.”
Read MoreIlhan Omar Endorses Bernie Sanders, Walz Backs Klobuchar
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) announced her endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 2020 presidential campaign ahead of Tuesday night’s Democratic debate, joining Attorney General Keith Ellison in skipping over hometown candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN).
Read MoreDemocrats Press Structural Changes to the Supreme Court
Democratic presidential hopefuls said structural changes to the Supreme Court should be considered at Tuesday night’s debate, but stopped short of endorsing measures that would add seats to the nation’s highest judicial tribunal.
Read MoreTrump Campaign Taking Minnesota ‘Very Seriously,’ Impeachment Activating New Volunteers and Donors
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is taking Minnesota “very seriously” and thinks that the impeachment inquiry has caused an uptick in volunteers and donors, a senior Trump campaign official said in a phone call with reporters Tuesday.
Read MoreCommentary: The Strategies of Targeting Trump
There is no logical Democratic explanation for impeaching Donald Trump. The various factions within the Democratic Party calling for impeachment are united only by their loathing of Donald Trump, the person, and his systematic repeal of the Obama progressive project.
Read MoreWarren Presidency Could Spell Ruin For Stock Market, Analysts Predict
Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidency could spell ruin for the stock market, analysts predict.
Read MoreTop Biden Donors Gather for Closed-Door Meetings After News Breaks That Biden Is Fourth for Funding
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s donors gathered for a retreat hours after the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate found himself in fourth place for campaign funding.
Read MoreBooker Campaign Asks for $1.7 Million in Donations by Sept 30 to Keep Him in the Race
Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker’s campaign published a memo Saturday asking readers to help raise $1.7 million in next 10 days to keep him in the race.
Read MoreCommentary: Is There Such a Thing as ‘Too Much Trump?’
by Victor Davis Hanson The new post-Mueller media narrative is “weariness” and “exhaustion” with President Trump’s tweets, his cul de sac Sharpie controversy, his ideas about buying Greenland, his unorthodox art-of-the-deal foreign policy that resulted in a plan to talk to Taliban leaders in the United States, and his…
Read MoreGOP Challenger Mark Sanford and Trump Take Jabs at Each Other
President Donald Trump went after GOP challenger Mark Sanford after he talked about all the things that have allegedly “gone by the wayside” since Trump took office.
Read MoreActivist Mogul Tom Steyer Qualifies for October Debate After Hitting 2 Percent in Nevada Poll
Tom Steyer, the billionaire activist, qualified Sunday for the Democratic party debate to be held in Ohio next month.
Read MoreSilicon Valley Becomes Punching Bag for Presidential Hopefuls
SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. presidential candidates have long come to Silicon Valley to raise money and, with a tech company campus as a backdrop, talk about innovation and the future.
Read MoreWarren Weekend Event Draws Thousands While Biden Draws Hundreds
2020 Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden both held campaign events this weekend, but numbers show Warren’s event attendance heavily outnumbered Biden’s.
Read MoreMichael Glassner Commentary: The Trump Rally Is A Phenomenon That’s Growing Based on Real Results
President Trump’s campaign rallies were an unprecedented political phenomenon in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Read MoreFormer GOP Rep. Joe Walsh Announces POTUS Primary Challenge Against Trump
Former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh announced Sunday morning a long-shot Republican primary challenge against President Donald Trump in 2020.
Read MoreSanders, Warren Among 2020 Candidates to Address Native Americans
For the first time in more than a decade, Native Americans have the opportunity to question presidential candidates on issues of importance to Indian Country.
Read MoreCommentary: Trump and His ‘New Tone’ of Action and Accomplishment
One of the great difficulties in perfecting technologies like radar and sonar revolves around the problem of distinguishing accurately between noise and the real McCoy. Is that an enemy bomber or missile out there, or is it just a flock of birds?
Read MoreVoter Suppression Worse Now Than in the 1960s, Stacey Abrams Says
Failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams suggested that voter suppression is more “insidious” today than it was in the 1960s, and she reiterated her claim that she “won” her 2018 election.
Read MoreAuthor Predicts ‘Radical Progressivism and Socialism’ Could Flip Minnesota to Trump
Justin Haskins, author of “Socialism Is Evil: The Moral Case Against Marx’s Radical Dream,” thinks there are a number of factors that could help President Donald Trump win Minnesota in 2020, but none are more significant than the Democratic Party’s embrace of socialism.
Read MoreKamala Harris Calls Immigration Sweeps a ‘Campaign of Terror’
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris suggested that a recent illegal immigration raid in Mississippi was part of the Trump administration’s “campaign of terror.”
Read MoreDems Continue Tying McConnell to Moscow During World’s Largest Hacker’s Conference
Democrats continued to link Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to the Kremlin during a hacker’s conference over the weekend.
Read MorePresidential Hopeful Joe Biden’s Verbal Gaffes Mounting
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is the leading Democratic presidential contender among two dozen candidates looking to take on President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, but Biden is proving to be unchallenged at committing verbal gaffes on the campaign trail.
Read MoreGroup Collects Record Amount of Signatures to Challenge Colorado ‘National Popular Vote Law’ at the Ballot Box
The group behind an effort to challenge Colorado’s new national popular vote law at the ballot box reached a major milestone this week when it submitted more than 227,000 signatures the Secretary of State’s office.
Read MoreKen Blackwell Commentary: President Trump’s Rally in Cincinnati Will Be the Perfect Tonic After the Democratic Debates
The Democrat presidential candidates spent two full nights bickering on the debate stage over how best to dismantle the Trump economy and usher in a new era of social upheaval. President Trump, however, will only need one night to dismantle their deceitful claims and outline his plans for keeping the current economic boom going.
Read MoreRepublican Kendall Qualls, ‘Poor, Black Kid from Harlem,’ Announces Run Against Dean Phillips
Republican Kendall Qualls, a former U.S. Army Captain and businessman from Medina, released his campaign announcement video Monday.
Read MoreLeft Primaries Rep. Richard Neal, the Democrat Who Refuses to Turn Over President Trump’s Taxes
by Whitney Tipton Alex Morse, the mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, announced plans to challenge House Ways & Means Chairman Richard Neal in 2020 Monday. Morse, 30, is being encouraged to run by progressive Democrats who are frustrated by Neal’s delay in obtaining Trump’s state tax returns under the law passed…
Read MoreFormer Obama Adviser Warns: Voters Are Not Aligned with 2020 Dems on Abortion
by Mary Margaret Olohan A faith adviser to former President Barack Obama warned that 2020 Democratic candidates campaigning for “abortion on demand” are underestimating American voters’ “more nuanced” views on abortion. Michael Wear, who served on both Obama’s presidential campaigns and in the White House as part of the…
Read MoreCommentary: When It Comes to Democrat Extremists, No One Tops Billionaire Tom Steyer
by Jeffery Rendall Just when you thought the Democrat presidential primary race couldn’t get any nuttier came last week’s news that uber-liberal billionaire Tom Steyer’s joined the two dozen or so already declared candidates. The Democrat contest was showing signs of settling into a dull lull after the initial…
Read MoreTom Steyer May Not Pass Up Presidential Run After All: Report
by Evie Fordham Billionaire Tom Steyer may not pass up a Democratic presidential run after all, according to a Politico report Monday. Steyer, who is behind the anti-Trump “Need to Impeach” campaign, appeared poised for a 2020 run in January but backed off. Now the 62-year-old may have changed his…
Read MoreRepublican Kris Kobach Expected to Announce Senate Run
by Evie Fordham Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is expected to announce a run for Senate on Monday after sending out a call to his supporters to gather in Leavenworth for an afternoon speech. He filed to run Monday morning, although his Federal Election Commission filing initially misspelled his…
Read MoreCommentary: Tedious, Entitled, Ignoble and Mad – the Anti-Trump Circus Turns Four Years Old
by Victor Davis Hanson We are now in the fourth year of an anti-Trump mania, and about reaching the point of caricature. The Left should have learned something after the failed celebrity appeal to undermine the Electoral College, the initial articles of impeachment, the empty invocations of the Logan…
Read MoreThings Get Real for Joe Biden as CNN’s Post-Debate Poll Show His Lead Cratered to Single-Digits
by Andrew Follett Democratic presidential nominee front-runner Joe Biden’s lead over the crowded field dropped to five points in a CNN poll conducted after Wednesday and Thursday’s debates. Biden received the support of 22% of registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents in the CNN poll, conducted June 28 through June 30, down…
Read MoreCommentary: Crack-ups at the Crossroads of Intersectionality
by Victor Davis Hanson Progressives do not see the United States as an exceptional uniter of factions and tribes into a cohesive whole – each citizen subordinating his tribal, ethnic, and religious affinities to a shared Americanism, emblemized by our national motto e pluribus unum. Instead, they prefer e uno plures:…
Read MoreBiden: Congress Should Immediately Make ‘Dreamers’ Citizens
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, unveiling his immigration policy outline ahead of the first 2020 debates, is calling for Congress to grant citizenship immediately to more than 800,000 U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children. The former vice president and Democratic polling leader unveiled some…
Read MoreBeto O’Rourke Proposes ‘War Tax’ for Non-Military Households
by Evie Fordham Democratic 2020 hopeful Beto O’Rourke unveiled a policy plan Monday to improve health care for veterans, including a “war tax” on households without service members or veterans. The “war tax” would feed into what O’Rourke calls the Veterans Health Care Trust Fund for future wars, reported…
Read MoreFormer Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak Joins 2020 Presidential Race
by Matt Miller Former Rep. Joe Sestak announced his 2020 presidential bid Saturday on his campaign’s website, making him the 25th prominent Democrat to step into the race, NBC reported. Sestak, a former congressman and Navy admiral, said Saturday in the announcement that he wants “to be that president who serves…
Read MoreCommentary: The One-Two Punch to Knock Out Electoral Democracy
by Michael S. Kochin If you thought, or hoped, that the brave (or nobly self-interested) Democratic Governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak had thwarted the push for a National Popular Vote by vetoing the bill, think again. On June 12, 2019, Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown signed it into law for her state.…
Read MoreCommentary: Biden’s Climate Plan Requires a Savvy Response
by Edward Ring Front running 2020 presidential contender Joe Biden has just released his climate “plan,”claiming that with a $1.7 trillion federal investment, U.S. carbon emissions will reach zero within 30 years. You can say this for Biden – the canny old campaigner isn’t highlighting his climate plan as a cure-all…
Read MoreCommentary: Here’s How the 2020 Election Could Be Stolen
by Adam Mill Errant flashlight beams occasionally escape the basement window of the courthouse as off-book campaign workers carefully replace another seal on a box of completed ballots. At two minutes a ballot, the team will barely finish in time to slip away before the early shift opens the…
Read MoreJason Lewis Considering Another Run, Possibly for Senate
Former Rep. Jason Lewis confirmed this week that he’s considering another run for office, this time possibly against Sen. Tina Smith. Lewis told The Star Tribune that he won’t officially make a decision until early fall, but said “that’s plenty of time to run a vigorous campaign against a…
Read MoreWarren Challenges Sanders’ For Progressives’ Support
As a Michigan field organizer for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, Mike McDermott trained volunteers to knock on doors and call voters, helping the Vermont senator upset Hillary Clinton in a crucial Midwestern state. But as the 2020 campaign heats up, McDermott is all-in for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren,…
Read MoreFlorida Officials, Congressional Delegation Demand FBI Disclose Election-Hack Details
by John Haughey Russian hackers gained access to voter information files in Washington County, a sparsely populated Republican-dominated Panhandle county, where 77 percent of its 11,000 votes cast in the 2016 presidential election went to Donald Trump. The revelation was reported by The Washington Post Thursday night, citing two…
Read MorePresidential Hopeful Sen Liz Warren Pushes Bill Imposing Green New Deal Climate Goals on the U.S. Military
by Michael Bastach Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation to conscript the military into the fight against global warming, mandating non-combat bases meet the goals of the Green New Deal. “[C]onsistent with the objectives of the Green New Deal, the Pentagon should achieve net zero carbon emissions for…
Read MoreMontana Governor Steve Bullock Announces 2020 Presidential Run
by Evie Fordham Montana’s Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock announced Tuesday he is seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 and will kick off his campaign later in the day at his former high school in Helena, Montana. “I’m running for President and with your help, we will take…
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