For a month before the attack on the Capitol, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were locked in a running battle. Trump was adamant that Pence had the power to stop the certification of the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6. Pence was just as adamant that he did not. In the […]
A bipartisan group of 20 senators has outlined a gun legislation proposal in hopes of making mass shootings less likely in the United States, following the May 24 deadly elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. To pass the Senate, a bill needs at least 60 senators to support it. The bipartisan support of 20 senators […]
As they campaign to win election in November, Republicans are blaming Democrats for record-high gas prices, and Democrats are shifting the blame to oil companies. Florida Republican Marco Rubio used a 39-second video ad that attacked the most prominent roadblock to his re-election, Democratic Rep. Val Demings. It featured news clips about high prices at […]
Former President Donald Trump has made the “stolen” 2020 election the centerpiece of his post-White House political life. Virtually every statement he sends out invokes the false theme. The polling shows it has been effective, not just with the crowd that stormed the Capitol on his behalf on Jan. 6, 2021, but with members of […]
If former President Donald Trump believed he won the 2020 election, it wasn’t because his hand-picked team told him he had. They told him precisely the opposite. Trump repeatedly rejected advice and blunt assessments about his loss, according to numerous accounts shared during June 13 testimony before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, […]
Former Attorney General William Barr denigrated evidence of voter fraud presented in the documentary “2000 Mules” as “singularly unimpressive” during his interview with House committee investigators looking into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The film from right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza tried to make the case that massive fraud took place in the 2020 presidential election. […]
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Democratic and Republican senators may find rare consensus on gun legislation by supporting the expansion of red flag laws. These laws allow courts to temporarily take away a gun from someone who shows signs of a threat. In Texas, more than 250 conservatives who identify as gun enthusiasts wrote a letter to Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, […]
Since the tragedy in Uvalde, there have been other incidents of gun violence across the country in which a gunman shot multiple people. Among those incidents: Four people were killed in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, medical center on June 1. One person was killed and seven were injured at an Oklahoma Memorial Day festival on May 29. Three people were killed and […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson didn’t just ignore the first primetime House hearing dedicated to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He spent the show rehashing many of the same falsehoods about the attack he has promoted for months. As other major TV networks carried the June 9 hearing live, Fox News […]
Members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol had said they would document a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, with President Donald Trump sitting in the very center. During its first primetime hearing, the committee’s presentation emphasized that Trump — contrary to every public statement he made, […]
The opening night of public hearings held by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection focused on election misinformation perpetuated by President Donald Trump. Among the hearing’s highlights: New evidence showed that President Donald Trump’s advisers told him directly that he had lost the election. Trump still promoted falsehoods that the election […]