MIAMI, FLORIDA — Former Mayor of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum secured the Democratic nomination in Florida’s hotly-contested gubernatorial primary, putting an end to a messy and expensive race.
“The job of the governor is to do what is best for everyone in the state of Florida, and I can’t wait to do that,” Gillum told supporters at a watch party Tuesday night. “This is not my moment, this is our moment […] We are in this place right now becaus...
Month: August 2018
Ron DeSantis wins Republican nomination for governor
MIAMI, FLORIDA — Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) the Republican nomination for governor in the Florida primary Tuesday night.
DeSantis received the “full endorsement” of President Donald Trump, who called him “strong on Borders” and “tough on Crime.”
Congressman Ron DeSantis, a top student at Yale and Harvard Law School, is running for Governor of the Great State of Florida. Ron is strong on Borders, tough on Crime &...
Maternal death rates are a key indicator of why the state of female health in the US is so terrible
No rich country has a rate of maternal death (and near-deaths) comparably high to the US. The blame has been placed largely on how the US treats pregnancy and related emergency issues, but new data on deaths across the US (pdf) released by the country’s Centers fo...
The iconic ‘thumbs down’ vote that summed up John McCain’s career
In the early hours of July 28, 2017, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) gave a dramatic thumbs down, voting against the "skinny repeal" of the Affordable Care Act. Hear from Senators who were there.
John McCain helped build a country that no longer exists
Arizona senator John McCain—scion of Navy brass, flyboy turned Vietnam war hero and tireless defender of American global leadership—died on Saturday (August 25) after a year of t...
After John McCain’s death, the White House flag is flying at full mast
The American flag atop the White House was flying on the top of its mast on Monday morning after the death of Arizona senator John McCain, putting the presidential residence at odds with many other federal buildings in the United States.
The senator died on Aug. 2...
President couldn’t issue meaningful McCain statement because The Media is too mean, says ex-adviser
Rather than issue the typical memorial statement that most human U.S. presidents have issued following the death of political opponents, current President Donald Trump instead apparently nixed a proposed message memorializing Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Instead, he tweeted a brief comment on Saturday evening that said basically nothing at all, raised the White House flags back from half-staff, and went back to whining about the media.
My deepest sympathies and res...
As Trump’s legal entanglements explode, Democrats on the campaign trail stay focused on issues
While America has been living in — and anesthetized to — this never-a-slow-news-day era for quite a while now, there was nevertheless something pulse-quickening about last week’s episodes of our reality-television presidency. Paced primarily by the ongoing legal sagas of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and longtime Trump consigliere Michael Cohen, the flow of the news cycle turned pyroclastic, with Twitter pundits proclaiming it to be a historic week for the T...
Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum brings it home ahead of Election Day
MIAMI, FLORIDA — Andrew Gillum’s campaign slogan, “Bring It Home,” took on a special meaning this weekend.
“Your son has come home,” his wife, R. Jai Gillum, told a crowd of supporters outside The Bethel Church in the Richmond Heights neighborhood of Miami, Florida Sunday evening, before Gillum, the current mayor of Tallahassee and a Democratic candidate for governor of Florida, took the stage.
She meant it, too. As Gillam spoke that night, days ahead of the statewide p...
Collins: McCain struggled with vote on ObamaCare repeal
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Sunday recounted the night last summer when ...