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Apr 27 2020
News
As tensions mount over lockdowns, Trump courts both sides
President Trump is trying to signal support for his base, many of whom have grown frustrated with government-imposed restrictions, while not alienating the swing voters he’ll need in November. It’s led to divergent messages.
In a past life – that is, before COVID-19 – President Donald Trump was banking on a strong economy to usher him into a second term.
That calculation has
Christian Science MonitorNov 12 2019
News
As impeachment probe starts new phase, Trump promises another transcript
President Donald Trump on Tuesday dangled a new line of defense a day before Congress’ impeachment inquiry into his dealings with Ukraine goes public, promising to release details about another call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Trump over the weekend said he would likely release the transcript of that conversation on Tuesday, describing it to reporters as “very
ReutersOct 13 2020
Analysis
The Irony at the Heart of the Amy Coney Barrett Fight
Judge Amy Coney Barrett sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee today in a fuchsia dress and pearls, listening quietly as Republican senators depicted her as the ideal modern feminist. “How do you and your husband manage two, full-time professional careers and, at the same time, take care of your large family?” Senator John Cornyn of Texas wanted to know. “I’ll bet there are many young women
The AtlanticSep 11 2019
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Insurance figures give Democrats new line of attack against Trump
Health care is back in the 2020 spotlight after new government figures showed the number of uninsured Americans increased for the first time in nearly a decade.
Democratic presidential candidates pinned the blame on President Trump, arguing his attacks on ObamaCare and his administration’s policies helped drive up the uninsured rate, eroding the hard-fought expansion in coverage
The HillFeb 21 2013
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NRA ramps up campaign against proposed gun control measures
As Vice President Joe Biden heads to Connecticut on Thursday in a bid to generate support for sweeping gun control proposals, the National Rifle Association is trying to flex its political muscle by ramping up its campaign to oppose those initiatives.
CNN DigitalJun 18 2015
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Obama calls deaths in South Carolina church shooting 'senseless murders'
President Barack Obama called the nine deaths in the Charleston, South Carolina church shooting "senseless murders" Thursday, and suggested more gun control was needed in the wake of the incident.
"Any death of this sort is a tragedy. Any shooting involving multiple victims is a tragedy," said Obama, as Vice President Joe Biden stood alongside him. "There is something particularly
CNN DigitalJun 17 2020
Analysis
The End of Character Politics
Did Joe Biden overcome the reasons America rejected him as president before, or just outlast them?
One of Watergate’s less obvious but lasting effects was that a politician’s “character”—a capacious term that would eventually encompass all kinds of supposed virtues and flaws—became an object of increasingly obsessive scrutiny for the press and the public. This was a noticeable shift.
SlateNov 01 2019
News
How much sway do past Democratic nominees have? Unless you're Barack Obama, not much.
Once they won the Democratic presidential nomination. But do their endorsements matter now?
Unless your name is Barack Obama, not really.
A national USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll asked likely Democratic voters whom among the party's past presidential nominees would have the most influence on their vote today. Two-thirds named former president Obama, who moved out of the White House
USA TODAYMar 11 2015
News
GOP Senators Stand Behind Iran Letter Despite Flak
The 47 Republican senators who signed a letter to Iran’s leaders have taken a verbal battering in the last couple of days. They have been accused of undercutting the president. Vice President Joe Biden , who spent 36 years in the Senate, said the correspondence was “beneath the dignity of an institution I revere.” Iran’s leaders called it a “propaganda ploy.”
But as they have
Wall Street Journal (News)