Новости за 26.07.2020

A Bloomberg News report outlined the case that President Donald Trump’s campaign “reboot” may have come too late, not just for his political career but to save Americans from the impact of the coronavirus. The latest polling for Trump shows him losing in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and things aren’t looking good for him in […]

Donald Trump lashed out at the Reagan Foundation on Sunday afternoon in response to a report late Saturday that his campaign has been warned against using the image of the late president as part of his re-election drive. “The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, which runs the 40th president’s library near Los Angeles, has […]

Polar bears could face extinction by the end of the century as a result of shrinking sea ice in the Arctic caused by climate change, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. This article first appeared in Salon. Though the study did not predict all polar bears would go extinct entirely […]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) faced backlash online on Sunday after he suggested restaurant servers are grifting government money instead of working during the coronavirus pandemic. Cruz made the remarks during an appearance on the CBS program Face the Nation. “I’ve spoken to small business owners all over the state of Texas who are trying to […]

In a look at Rust Belt voter attitudes about Donald Trump’s drive for re-election, one Ohio voter said the president seems capable when it comes to financial matters but couldn’t stop laughing when asked how the president is handling the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking with host Alex Witt, MSNBC’s Cori Coffin was asked about voters she […]

Neighbors of acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf came to his home to protest on Sunday after his agency clashed with demonstrators in Portland, Oregon. According to writer Julia Rosas, the group of neighbors assembled outside Wolf’s home because they oppose the use of force against protesters in Portland. One woman, who described herself as Wolf’s […]

Taking a look at polling in Texas that shows presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with a slight lead over Donald Trump, an MSNBC analyst claimed internal GOP polls show similar results which is very bad news for the president. Speaking with host Alex Witt, Texas Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Abby Livingston was asked about […]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday blasted waiters, waitresses and bus boys who he said don’t deserve an additional $600 per week for being unemployed during the coronavirus pandemic. In an interview on CBS, Cruz told host Margaret Brennan that restaurant owners are at a disadvantage because their staff doesn’t want to work while the […]

While the Cook Political Report still has Texas as a “lean red” state in its 2020 Electoral College Ratings, a Quinnipiac poll released last week showed former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump 45% to 44% among registered voters. And according to the Houston Chronicle, a decisive number of anti-Trump Republicans could be […]

Every day there is more data to prove the dangers of the coronavirus. Yet, bizarrely, the more proof we have of the damage of the pandemic; the more vicious and hysterical its deniers. It is hard not to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of uninformed, deluded ideas covidiots spew on a daily basis. We mourn […]

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow didn’t want to talk about the human toll of the coronavirus pandemic and attempted to move the conversation from the more than 1,000 Americans a day dying from COVID-19 to a new stimulus package that will include another $1200 check for taxpayers. […]

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (CA) on Sunday argued that Democrats who oppose racism are “against white people.” During an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Nunes railed at Democrats for supporting former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. “I think the question is, does Mueller know where Mueller is?” Nunes said, suggesting that the […]

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Sunday insisted that the surge in COVID-19 deaths is something that President Donald Trump “can’t control.” Meadows made the remarks during an interview on ABC’s This Week program after host George Stephanopoulos noted that over 1,000 Americans had died each day for five days in a row. […]

On CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Jake Tapper put one of Donald Trump’s top health advisers continually on the spot by pressing him on why the administration hasn’t done everything within its power to get COVID-19 testing up to speed as the health crisis continues unabated. Speaking with Admiral Brett Giroir, Tapper confronted the […]

Fox News host Chris Wallace reminded Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that Republicans had “rejected” President Donald Trump’s call for a payroll tax cut after the Trump administration official blamed Democrats. During an interview with Mnuchin on Fox News Sunday, Wallace noted that Trump had recently threatened to veto a COVID-19 stimulus bill “that did not […]

According to a report in the Washington Post, Republican officials are becoming resigned to losing the Senate because COVID-19 restrictions on public appearances are crippling the campaigns of some of their most embattled candidates hoping to hang onto their jobs. With an unpopular Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, Republican candidates are desperate […]

Trump campaign spokesperson Boris Epshteyn faced off against a C-SPAN caller who blamed President Donald Trump for the deaths of Americans. During an appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, a caller from Wisconson named John noted that a Wisconsin man may have been shot because of his support for Trump. “Now you’ve got people on your […]

According to a report from the Washington Post, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has been pleading for money from the Republican National Committee to help bolster the struggling campaigns of some of his colleagues in the House — only to be ignored. Following the “Blue wave” 2018 midterm election that resulted in the Republican […]

In his column for the Daily Beast, conservative and former Republican Matt Lewis explained that Donald Trump has been a complete disaster as a president and — had he been the least bit competent — things could have been way worse. With that in mind, and after listing off a series of Trump’s destructive actions […]

Los Angeles (AFP) – For Portland, social conflict and street clashes are nothing new. The Oregon city has a long history of pro-labor militancy coupled with an anti-fascist culture and defiance of authorities — but also, further back, a dark segregationist history. So Portland, despite its small black population, was not entirely a surprising venue […]

Washington (AFP) – The Federal Reserve meets next week amid mixed signals on the health of the US economy, with some sectors bouncing back from the coronavirus-caused downturn and others struggling. Retail and new home sales were among those showing growth over the last two months but the Labor Department said last week new claims […]

Seoul (AFP) – North Korea declared its first suspected coronavirus case on Sunday, becoming one of the last countries to do so as the number of people infected worldwide passed 16 million. The isolated, impoverished state had until now insisted it had not detected a single COVID-19 case — even as the pandemic swept the […]