Новости за 24.10.2020

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said that she didn’t support the vote of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, given that Americans were already voting, and the GOP previously said that there shouldn’t be a judge approved in an election year. It was the reason Sen. Mitch McConnell refused to hold a hearing on Judge Merrick Garland in […]

During a Miami, Florida rally, former President Barack Obama noted that President Donald Trump isn’t quite the “tough guy” he wants to pretend he is. Trump, who recently walked out of a “60 Minutes” interview because he was told the questions would be “tough” drew Obama’s ridicule saying if he can’t handle Lesley Stahl, how […]

Former President Barack Obama took the stage in Miami, Florida, for a drive-in rally where people could social distance safely. That didn’t stop Obama from bringing the heat against the president, however. Speaking to a honking crowd, Obama mocked Trump for the overwhelming ignorance and cruelty that has persisted throughout his four years in office. […]

On Saturday, The New York Times editorial board published an “obituary” for the Republican Party, concluding that it has jettisoned any principles or commitment to democracy in the Trump era. “A healthy political system needs robust, competing parties to give citizens a choice of ideological, governing and policy visions,” wrote the board. “Among other benefits, […]

Donald Trump’s attempts to cast doubt on the result of the 2020 presidential election — which appears to not be going his way — is causing headaches and grief in Utah where voters who have overwhelmingly voted by mail are now in a panic over whether their votes will be counted. According to a report […]

On Saturday, writing for The Week, Matthew Walther argued that Congressional Republicans’ recent behavior shows they have made peace with losing the election — that, indeed, they are looking forward to it, and have mapped out what they will do next as the party out of power. “Faced with the possibility of losing both the […]

An investigation into the latest accelerated spread of coronavirus in multiple states appears to be linked to President Donald Trump’s string of campaign rallies over the last several weeks. As coronavirus plagues states all across America, Trump continues to blatantly disregard how dangerous his campaign rallies are for his campaign staff, White House advisors and […]

Arizona senatorial candidate Mark Kelly is currently beating his Republican challenger Martha McSally by about 5 percentage points. So a right-wing media outlet decided to try and take Kelly down by posting a photo and lying about him dressing up as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during his school days at the Merchant Marine Academy. On […]

On Saturday, writing for MSNBC, conservative writer Charlie Sykes outlined how President Donald Trump threw the “forgotten” middle-class voters he promised to give a voice under the bus, and made the 2020 election all about himself instead. “Four years ago, President Donald Trump billed himself as the voice for the ‘forgotten man.’ In 2020, he […]

Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House. Donald Trump, […]

Legal experts are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump and her husband, White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner’s latest threat to file a lawsuit against the Lincoln Project over the political action committee’s billboards criticizing the White House’s handling of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In a letter released on Friday, Trump family […]

On Saturday, writing for The Washington Post, conservative columnist Max Boot examined how Republicans have devolved into the “party of pseudo-scandals” — and how President Donald Trump and his allies have enthusiastically taken the party to new lows. “The Republican Party, in cahoots with media partners such as Fox ‘News’ and Rush Limbaugh, has manufactured […]

According to a report from Forbes, Don Trump Jr. and his younger brother, Eric are using the waning days of the 2020 election to float trial balloons about their personal future political plans at a time when their father, Donald Trump, is on the verge of seeing his own brief political career coming to an […]

On CNN Saturday, Republican strategist Brian Robinson tried to claim Joe Biden’s pledge to “transition” from oil is a sign he will harm the energy industry — and was promptly swatted down by Democratic counterpart Maria Cardona. “A gaffe in politics is saying what you really think,” said Robinson. “He wants to have a liberal […]

African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs demanding the right to vote and protesting police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama The United States of America is widely known as “The Free World,” but sadly, voter suppression is still a major topic of contention and a contributing factor to the polarization […]

Right after voting in Florida on Saturday morning, Donald Trump hopped on Twitter to complain that the press is trying to scare the public by reporting about the frighteningly large jump in COVID-19 infections across the country, with the president mocking it as “CASES, CASES, CASES.” With medical authorities worrying that a massive wave of […]

On Saturday, Bloomberg Quint reported that there is a huge spike in sales of military gear as Americans fear widespread civil unrest in the wake of the election — no matter who wins. “‘Tactical apparel’ has become a lifestyle industry serving militarized law-enforcement agents and the freelance gunmen who emulate them,” reported Peter Robison, Rachel […]

In Thursday night’s debate, President Trump skirted Joe Biden’s observation that it’s Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican Senators — not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who are blocking the “go big” stimulus package that Trump recently decided to promote before the election. This article first appeared in Salon. Trump kept on blaming […]

While attacking Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris of California on Friday, President Donald Trump seemed hung up on the fact that if she were elected vice president, she would have the potential to become the country’s first woman president. Speaking at a campaign rally in Florida, Trump insisted that this can’t be allowed to happen, though […]

On Saturday, The Lincoln Project launched a new ad targeting Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), one of the most vulnerable Senate Republicans running for re-election. “People ask us if we’d do an attack ad against Cory Gardner,” said the narrator of the spot. “We were thinking about it. And then, he wrote the script for us.” […]

According to an analysis by CNN’s Harry Enten, at least five embattled Republican senators may be out of a job following the November 3rd election because they can’t escape the shadow of Donald Trump who will be sitting at the top of the ticket. Noting that Donald Trump is trailing in the national polls by […]

On Saturday, Politico examined why the efforts within President Donald Trump’s circle to push the FBI into launching an investigation of the Biden family — much like the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails that dominated media coverage of the 2016 presidential election — is not working. “The ingredients are all the same: a seized laptop, […]

Suburban women are on a mission to save America — and it may not stop at ousting Trump President Donald Trump continues to deny that he is a racist but his ties to the white supremacists and extremists that his presidential campaign refuses to sever ties with and denounce have raised more questions about his […]

With less than two weeks until the upcoming presidential election, the Republican Party is going to great lengths to justify their support of President Donald Trump being elected for a second term. But their latest attempt to boast about Trump’s “accomplishments” has fallen flat and Twitter users are taking advantage of the moment. On Friday, […]

On Saturday, The New York Times reported that President Donald Trump’s campaign is now relying on first daughter Ivanka Trump to win over some of the suburban women who have broadly rejected the president. “A remarkable 56 percent of white women said they held a very unfavorable view of the president in a New York […]