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Mar 04 2020
Analysis
How Biden Beat Expectations On Super Tuesday
Super Tuesday was very good to Joe Biden. Roughly one-third of Democrats nationwide cast their ballots for president in the first big primary election of the year, although not all of those ballots have yet been counted. Accordingly, we won’t be unfreezing our primary forecast until we have a clearer picture of the exact results. But we can confidently say that, whenever it bleeps and bloops
538 (ABC News)
Apr 20 2015
News
The Senate's 'nuclear' fallout
Sen. John McCain has an explanation for Obama administration appointees whose confirmation votes are languishing in the GOP-led Senate: It's payback for Democrats using the so-called nuclear option to push through scores of nominations in the previous Congress.
Politico
Mar 03 2020
News
U.S. national security agencies gather to combat potential election interference
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - National security professionals from across the U.S. government will meet on Tuesday in a Northern Virginia office building for an unprecedented monitoring effort to counter cyberattacks and foreign disinformation aimed at Super Tuesday presidential primaries.
Since U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election - allegations
Reuters
Jun 05 2015
Opinion
Rick Perry hits back at Hillary Clinton over voter ID
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday hit back at former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who criticized Mr. Perry and several other of her potential 2016 GOP rivals on Thursday over the issue of voting rights.
Washington Times
Nov 11 2018
News
Meet the Billionaire Who Just Dethroned Donald Trump as America's Richest Politician
President Trump is no longer America’s richest politician. Billionaire Democrat Jay Robert ‘J.B.’ Pritzker just spent a record $171.5 million of his own money to become the next governor of Illinois – and America’s wealthiest plutocrat.
The venture capitalist and Hyatt Hotel heir won 54% of the vote, defeating Republican incumbent Bruce Rauner – himself a private equity billionaire – by
Money.com
Jun 03 2019
News
Ruth Bader Ginsburg flips, supporting conservative stance in criminal sentencing decision
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the four liberal justices on the Supreme Court, sided with her conservative colleagues on Monday over a prisoner's supervisory release. She joined Justices Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh in the majority, deciding that a criminal defendant, in this case Jason Mont, can be sentenced for violating his supervised release, even if the
Townhall
Jun 03 2015
News
Congress turns away from post-9/11 law, retooling U.S. surveillance powers
Congress on Tuesday rejected some of the sweeping intelligence-gathering powers it granted national security officials after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with the Senate voting to end the government’s bulk collection of private telephone records and to reform other surveillance policies.
Washington Post
Jun 04 2020
Fact Check
Examining Biden’s Farm Bankruptcy Claim
Joe Biden claimed that farm bankruptcies increased last year “due largely to Trump’s unmitigated disaster of a tariff war.” International trade was a factor, but there were additional reasons that predate the trade war — such as years of relatively weak prices, declining incomes and rising farm debt, according to agricultural economists and government reports.
“The bankruptcy wave this
FactCheck.org
Mar 15 2016
News
Why Both The Democratic And Republican Races Are Probably Going To June
This has been an unpredictable primary season, but one thing is becoming increasingly clear: This race, on both sides, is going to go on for a while.
For Republicans, because of how the vote has been split up, no one will have the required delegates to be the nominee until — at the earliest — their very last nominating
NPR (Online News)
Mar 15 2016
News
Will Rubio and Kasich still be in the race after Super Tuesday 2?
It is not out of the question that Donald Trump could sweep all five states that vote on this second Super Tuesday: Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Illinois. But a split decision of some kind seems more likely. John Kasich is closing strong and considered the favorite to prevail in his home state.
Washington Post