According to President Donald Trump’s storyline, Joe Biden and his allies want to ban or destroy many things that matter to Americans, like health care protections, the Second Amendment and churches. “The radical left is hell bent on destroying everything we love and cherish,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Sanford, Fla., Oct 12, […]
One day after the Trump administration rejected California’s request for federal assistance for several September wildfires, citing damage that wasn’t “severe” enough, the administration reversed course and approved the relief. “Just got off phone with @realDonaldTrump who has approved our Major Disaster Declaration request,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted early Friday afternoon. “Grateful for his quick […]
In court briefs and on Twitter, President Donald Trump and GOP allies have fought ballot drop boxes as part of a war against voting by mail. But when the California GOP installed its own drop boxes, he gave them the thumbs up. The Trump campaign and his allies have gone to court to try to […]
Iowa’s third and final U.S. Senate debate Thursday night was marred by technical difficulties for the first 20 minutes, as both Republican Sen. Joni Ernst and Democratic candidate Theresa Greenfield struggled to hear moderators and dealt with their microphones frequently cutting out. Once the problems were resolved, the candidates sparred on health care, racial justice, […]
President Donald Trump says he doesn’t know anything about a conspiracy theory that claims he’s on a mission to secretly fight a cabal of left-leaning, Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles. “I know nothing about QAnon,” Trump said during an NBC News town hall in Miami on Oct. 15. “I do know they are very much against pedophilia. […]
It was supposed to be the second presidential debate. Instead, President Donald Trump refused a virtual debate and followed Joe Biden’s lead of doing a town hall on network television. NBC host Savannah Guthrie started the Trump town hall by trying to nail down his last negative test for the coronavirus. He said he couldn’t […]
For weeks, conservatives have tried to attack Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by raising what they portray as sketchy business dealings by his son Hunter Biden. The line of attack — by Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Donald Trump Jr. and others — is that Hunter Biden made […]
Amendment 3 is a hot topic on Missouri’s ballot this year. If approved, the amendment would overturn the Clean Missouri amendment that was passed in 2018. At stake are drastic changes in the way the state draws political districts. Democratic House candidate Tracy Grundy ran a Facebook ad against the measure from Sept. 24-29. Grundy […]
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A graphic “voter guide” circulating on social media – like this one on Facebook and a similar version on Instagram – paints a stark picture of the policy differences between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, portraying the candidates as polar opposites on every issue from taxes to police funding and foreign […]
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Republicans have resurrected a two-year-old negative ad campaign focusing on Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s substitute teaching stint at a Saudi-funded Islamic school in Northern Virginia. Spanberger, a Democrat, taught English in 2002-03 at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria while she was awaiting exhaustive security clearances that would allow her to work as a postal inspector […]