Kamala Harris makes the perfect choice with Tim Walz

August 7, 2024August 7, 2024 Donald Trump, News, Opinion

Choosing a running mate is the first and most important test of any presidential candidate. And Kamala Harris aced it.

In a sense, Harris could do no wrong, because she had such an outstanding bench to choose from, including several governors. Any one of them would bring more executive or legislative experience to the table than JD Vance (R-Ohio), who never ran for office before being elected to the Senate in 2022 and has nothing to show for his time spent there.&nb...

Walz goes on attack against Trump-Vance: ‘Weird as hell’

August 6, 2024August 7, 2024 Donald Trump, News

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in his first appearance as Vice President Harris’s running mate, came out swinging against former President Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio).

“I just have to say it. You know it. You feel it. These guys are creepy and, yes, just weird as hell. That's what you see,” Walz said to raucous applause from the rally crowd in Philadelphia, using the viral new framing of the Trump campaign as "weird."

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‘Say it to my face’ says Kamala Harris as she again challenges Donald Trump to debate – as it happened

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024 Democrats, Donald Trump, News, Republicans, US news, US politics

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Kamala Harris’s campaign has announced a $50m advertising blitz ahead of the Democratic national convention next month with a television ad that portrays the presumptive Democratic nominee as “fearless”.
The 60-second ad will be the first in a series of paid media efforts ahead of the convention, which begins 19 August in Chicago.
We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by, but to get ahead. Where every senior can retire with dignity. But Donald Trump wants to take our country backward. To give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and end the Affordable Care Act. But we are not going back.
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Abortion, drug prices at play for Trump-Biden debate

June 27, 2024June 27, 2024 Donald Trump, health care, medicaid, Medicare, News

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Mike Johnson plans Republican mega-bill ready to push through if Trump wins

May 30, 2024 Donald Trump, House of Representatives, News, Republicans, US Congress, US news, US politics

House speaker plans far-reaching bill including tax cuts and border security to make Trump ‘the most consequential president’
Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, is planning a sweeping ideological legislative drive that aims to make Donald Trump “the most consequential president of the modern era” if the Republicans win power in November.
A far-reaching bill containing a range of policy priorities at once – including tax cuts worth trillions, border security and rolling back Obamacare – is being prepared to avoid the mistakes the GOP believed happened early in Trump’s first term, when Johnson says the party wasted time because its victory over Hillary Clinton took it by surprise.
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What’s the matter with libertarianism?

May 29, 2024May 29, 2024 Donald Trump, News, Opinion

When I first came to Washington to work for the Heritage Foundation, there were a few think tanks that made the nerd in me stand a little bit in awe. First, of course, was Heritage, but the second was the Cato Institute.

Heritage was conservative and Cato libertarian, but both seem roughly on the same side. They differed as to how far things should go, but they were both always in opposition to the left. Conservatives wanted constitutionally limited government; liber...

Trump pushes anti-immigrant rhetoric as he tries to woo Black and Hispanic voters in Bronx campaign rally – live

May 24, 2024 Donald Trump, News, US news, World news

Chants of ‘build the wall’ heard as thousands attend Trump rally; ex-president responds to Haley endorsement, saying ‘she’s going to be on our team’
Trump visits Bronx in play for Hispanic and Black voters
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Speaking to Fox News during yesterday’s south Bronx rally, Donald Trump remained confident that he can win his home state, which happens to also be a historically and fiercely Democratic one.
“I love the people … They’re entrepreneurial and they’re going to save New York … We’re gonna win New York. And if we win New York, the election’s over. We take over the country,.
In the month leading up to that first debate, the Biden-Harris campaign will zero in on Trump’s dangerous campaign promises and unhinged rhetoric. We will make sure that the voters who will decide this election are reminded of the chaos and harm Trump caused as president – and why they booted him out four years ago.
Trump and his lagging campaign will be left to explain to voters why he embraces political violence, brags about abortion bans, threatens to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Social Security and Medicare, and puts greedy corporations and himself over American workers again and again.
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Trump waffles on possible birth control ban

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 Donald Trump, health care, News, reproductive-rights

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After Trump’s destruction, how much of the GOP will there be left to save?

May 20, 2024May 20, 2024 Donald Trump, News, Opinion, republican-party

There is a silver lining to Donald Trump bulldozing a major political party — Americans get a chance to see inside the wreckage of the old GOP.

Evangelicals claiming to uphold family values were long ago exposed as their principles fell away to allow them to justify support for a candidate known to talk of grabbing women and consorting with pornographic actresses.

But now Trump’s demolition of the GOP is nearly complete with news that he has put an end ...

‘Donald Trump is a symptom, not the cause’: Tim Kaine’s journey to healing

April 14, 2024 Democrats, Donald Trump, News, Republicans, US Congress, US news, US politics, US Senate, World news

Hillary Clinton’s running mate experienced defeat by Trump. His new book documents his attempt to understand America
Jack Kemp. Joe Lieberman. John Edwards. Sarah Palin. Paul Ryan. All ran for vice-president of the United States and fell short. All had to confront the question: what next? The same fate befell Tim Kaine, whose turn as running mate to Hillary Clinton in 2016 ended in a catastrophic defeat by Donald Trump and Mike Pence. The US has not recovered, as polarisation, rancou...