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Dec 18 2019
News
Democrats set to take historic step of impeaching Trump
House Democrats are poised to take the historic step of impeaching President Trump on Wednesday, marking what will be the most partisan vote to remove a sitting president since the country's founding.
The highly divisive vote — packed into the very last week of the legislative year — is sure to exacerbate tensions in Washington and around the country heading into a crucial election year
The HillDec 18 2019
Opinion
A Country of Two Minority Parties
One reason our politics are so chaotic is that neither Democrats nor Republicans can seem to govern as a majority party. Here’s a theory for why our politics are so confusing these days: Neither party wants to be a majority party.
From an ideological perspective, majority parties are, by nature, weird. For instance, the long-dominant FDR coalition included a strange mix of blacks and
Jonah GoldbergNov 05 2014
News
Obama to address Democrats’ election losses in press conference
President Obama will face the music Wednesday at a White House press conference where he’ll address his party’s huge losses in the midterm elections.
A day after losing the Senate to Republicans, Mr. Obama will hold the news conference in the East Room of the White House, scheduled for 2:50 p.m.
The GOP also picked up more than a dozen House seats and several governorships,
Washington TimesAug 06 2019
News
‘Corn, soybeans and landmines’: Dems sweat early state blunders
With two sets of debates and six months of fundraising finished, a new stage is opening in the Democratic presidential primary: The summer slog.
For six weeks until the next debate, in mid-September, candidates will shift their focus more completely to the early primary states, grinding through a ritualistic run of picnics, forums, and party fundraisers: The Wing Ding, the Iowa State
PoliticoJul 18 2012
News
With or without tax return release, pressure on Romney ramps up from both sides
The political pressure on Mitt Romney to release more of his personal income tax returns is causing some divisions inside the GOP presidential candidates camp, according to a Republican strategist close to the campaign.
Although some advisers are arguing privately that Romney needs to release additional filings to curb the political fallout, others are resisting that suggestion,
Washington PostApr 18 2015
News
Rick Perry: Next president needs to have ‘deep experience as an executive’
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Friday that the next president of the United States needs to be someone with “deep experience as an executive,” naming several crises he had to deal with as the longest-serving governor in state history that nobody had explicitly prepared him for.
“I will suggest to you that the next president of the United States really needs to be someone who has deep
Washington TimesSep 13 2015
News
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says his message will win in Iowa, despite polls
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he is ready to “wreak havoc on Washington” by taking on special interests with his union-busting style, even as he has plummeted to the bottom of the GOP primary pack in Iowa, a key state in the Midwesterner’s path to the presidential nomination.
Mr. Walker, who in two months has fallen from 18 percent to 3 percent in Quinnipiac University polling among
Washington TimesSep 12 2015
News
Ben Carson: Add ‘all’ to ‘Black Lives Matter’
Retired neurosurgeon and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said Friday that the Black Lives Matter movement should add the word “all” to its name, calling for a broader examination of the factors that have kept the black community in what he called a “very dependent position” for decades.
Mr. Carson, speaking in Missouri after a closed-door roundtable on Ferguson, said he’s “
Washington TimesJan 09 2021
Fact Check
There’s no proof antifa stormed the Capitol. The rumor spread quickly anyway
In a violent scene like no other in American history, a sprawling crowd of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and halted congressional proceedings, wearing and waving Trump-branded paraphernalia and flags as they sought to overturn the election.
Lawmakers were evacuated as the rioters overwhelmed Capitol Police and bashed through the building’s doors and
PolitiFactOct 26 2014
News
Democrats and Republicans are confident of winning the Senate
Democrats and Republicans gazed Sunday into starkly different crystal balls ahead of midterm elections a little more than a week away, doubling down on their chances to retain or retake the upper chamber and backing their respective leaders as men of vision.
Republican candidates are polling slightly ahead of Democrats in top Senate races, raising GOP hopes of gaining six seats and full
Washington Times