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Apr 16 2019
News
Pete Buttigieg, Barack Obama, and the psychology of liberalism
There was a word missing from the speech Pete Buttigieg gave in South Bend, Indiana, announcing his presidential campaign. It’s a word you heard twice in Bernie Sanders’s and Beto O’Rourke’s announcement speeches, nine times in Cory Booker’s, 21 times in Kirsten Gillibrand’s, 23 times in Kamala Harris’s, and 25 times in Elizabeth Warren’s.
That word? “Fight.”
Instead, Buttigieg
Vox
Apr 15 2019
News
Bernie in the Fox's den: Sanders takes anti-Trump pitch straight to 'state TV'
The Democratic frontrunner will speak at a Fox News town hall. He says it’s necessary to speak to Trump voters. Others disagree
Bernie Sanders will finish a four-day tour of Trump Country on Monday, with a town hall on the president’s favorite network: Fox News.
It is an unexpected partnership, between a self-described democratic socialist and a media outlet that dedicates
The Guardian
Sep 30 2014
News
Rise of ISIS takes center stage in NC Senate race, as Republican Tillis eyes game change
Republican leaders had ticketed Thom Tillis as their best hope to unseat incumbent North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan -- but a month before voters go to the polls Tillis still is trailing, and his campaign is cranking up its attacks on Hagan's Senate record by questioning her national security credentials in light of the growing Islamic State threat.
Tillis, the state House speaker, is
Fox News Digital
Sep 28 2014
News
Ted Cruz: Democrats Are An 'Extreme, Radical Party'
In front of a highly supportive crowd at the Values Voter Summit, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accused Democrats on Friday of being an “extreme, radical party” intent on taking away the rights of Americans.
“These are dangerous, radical times,” Cruz said at the conservative conference, where he received multiple standing ovations during a 30-minute speech that touched on everything from gun
HuffPost
Jun 19 2019
News
Trump’s Campaign Kickoff Claims
At a rally in Orlando on June 18, President Donald Trump officially launched his reelection campaign. Trump boasted that under his leadership, the country is “thriving, prospering and booming,” and he asked voters for four more years to “keep America great.”
“Nobody’s done what we have done in two and a half years,” he said. However, we found his speech was filled with many familiar
FactCheck.org
Jun 19 2019
News
2 winners and 4 losers from Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign launch speech
Winners from Trump’s 2020 kickoff rally: Mitch McConnell, William Barr. Losers: Fake news and any sense of perspective.
President Donald Trump is, officially, off and running in pursuit of a second term in the White House.
Trump’s campaign kickoff rally in Orlando, Florida, featured a lot of talk about freedom, a lot of talk about Hillary Clinton, and hardline immigration
Vox
Apr 12 2019
News
Mitch McConnell tells 2020 Republicans to run 'independent' of Trump
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators running for re-election next year should not couple their messaging to President Trump but rather run “independent” campaigns built around how they’ve helped their states.
The Kentucky Republican, who is himself up for reelection, said senators’ races are big enough that they can escape the gravity of the presidential race and
Washington Times
Apr 11 2019
Opinion
OPINION: California Has Become America’s Cannibal State
The state’s tax collectors are the most obsessive bureaucrats in the nation.
For over six years, California has had a top marginal income-tax rate of 13.3 percent, the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a state of 40 million people now pay nearly half of the total annual state income tax.
The state legislature sold that confiscatory tax rate on the idea that it
Victor Hanson
Mar 13 2024
Headline Roundup
Biden, Trump Secure Party Nominations, Setting Up 2020 Rematch
A rematch of the 2020 presidential election is set between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Details: Following primary wins on Tuesday, Biden is projected to secure the Democratic Party nomination, and Trump is projected to secure the Republican nomination. Both candidates reached the threshold for delegates needed for the nomination.
Democratic Primary:
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Washington Examiner
Sep 08 2014
News
The most revealing quote about Obama’s political instincts
President Obama said this weekend that fears of damaging his party’s chances of holding the Senate were not behind his decision to abandon plans to use executive action to grant temporary amnesty to large numbers of illegal immigrants. Instead, the president told NBC News’ re-launched Sunday chat show, that he waited for a different political reason. Obama said he pulled back because voters
Fox News Digital