Former President Barack Obama summed up what made the late John McCain an all-time American hero in a moving tribute after the Senator from Arizona passed away on Saturday.
If the GOP wants to be the party that refuses to hold Trump accountable for his crimes, that’s their decision. But Democrats can and must do better.
Given the enthusiasm of Democrats, actual voters turning out on Nov. 6 could trend bluer than a pool of registered voters.
Sen. Sherrod Brown urged midwestern voters to ditch the president’s destructive policies start voting in their own self-interest.
As Trump was classlessly remembering Aretha Franklin as a former employee, Barack and Michelle Obama released a beautiful statement reflecting on the impact that the Queen of Soul had on our world.
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Vermont Democrats made Christine Hallquist the first openly transgender person to win a major party nomination for statewide office in U.S. history as she clinched Tuesday’s primary election for governor. She defeated three other Democrats and will take on incumbent Governor Phil Scott, a Republican, in the Nov. 6 general…
By John Whitesides (Reuters) – A hotly contested race in Ohio for a U.S. House of Representatives seat that has gone Republican for more than 30 years remained too close to call on Wednesday, in an encouraging sign for Democrats heading into the Nov. 6 elections. Republican Troy Balderson led Democrat Danny O’Connor by about…
Former Vice President Joe Biden celebrated former President Barack Obama’s birthday on Saturday by giving the world a much-needed smile.
Former President Obama has officially announced his first wave of 81 endorsements of state, local, and down-ballot Democrats ahead of the midterm election.
Aftab Pureval, a Democrat seeking to unseat a Republican congressman in Ohio, knows the political risks in calling for gun restrictions – and taking on the powerful National Rifle Association, which has spent more than $115,000 supporting his opponent over the years.
Midwestern voters who decided to give Trump a chance and those who stayed home in 2016 appear to be coming together as this president’s worst nightmare.
Trump is trying to blame Obama for inventing the Russia scandal, and not telling him about it because he thought that Hillary Clinton would win.
Conservative columnist Max Boot who worked on the Republican campaigns of 2008 and 2012 wrote that he would take Obama back in a nanosecond over Trump.
There have been a lot of dark days for the U.S. since Trump took office. Monday was a particularly troubling one, and history will not soon forget it.
After Trump suggestively told Maxin Waters to “be careful,” it’s no surprise that she can’t even hold events without having her life threatened.
Democrats need to fight like Republicans and block a Supreme Court nomination that this president has no business making.
The media and politicians keep addressing the issue of Donald Trump as if it were a relationship problem between him and whoever he is insulting, intimidating, bullying, and lying about on that day. This is not only wrong, but it enables him to continue and misses the far more frightening point that there is no reasoning with Donald Trump, because he does not want the same things for our country as most of us on both sides of the aisle want.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a frequent critic of Republican President Donald Trump, intends to spend $80 million helping Democratic candidates in November’s U.S. congressional elections, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a frequent critic of Republican President Donald Trump, intends to spend $80 million helping Democratic candidates in November’s U.S. congressional elections, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
House Democrats have sent a letter demanding hearings in all relevant committees on Trump’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border.
U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday pressed Justice Department officials about whether some FBI agents may have leaked damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to Rudy Giuliani, now U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday pressed Justice Department officials about whether some FBI agents may have leaked damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to Rudy Giuliani, now an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, shortly before the 2016 election.an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, shortly before the 2016 election.
By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Voters in five states will select candidates on Tuesday for November’s midterm elections, with a Democratic battle in Virginia for the right to challenge one of the most endangered Republicans in Congress topping the slate of party primaries. South Carolina, Nevada, North Dakota and Maine also will choose candidates…
Not even Fox News could hide the blue wave building on the horizon as the November elections inch closer.
U.S. Democrats on Wednesday said the results of nominating contests in California and New Jersey put them in a stronger position to gain control of Congress in November and oppose Republican President Donald Trump.
Establishment-backed Democrats muscled past liberal challengers in key New Jersey congressional races on Tuesday, results showed, as voters in eight U.S. states, including crucial California, chose candidates for November’s midterm elections.
MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace, host of Deadline: White House, has had it with Donald Trump’s propaganda, and has reached a point of utter frustration, as a direct result of it, so much so that she refused to share with her viewers any more of the plethora of Tweets Trump spewed Friday morning regarding the Russian investigation….
Adam Schiff was given a commitment by at least one member of Trump’s cabinet that the controversial briefing will be bipartisan.Â
Democratic voters in Georgia nominated a candidate on Tuesday who could make history as the first African-American female governor in the United States.
Those who wrote the Second Amendment didn’t intend for the right to be absolute, Sen. Chris Murphy said on Saturday.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hit Trump for the spike in gas prices that are already taking a bite out of the wallets of every American before the summer holidays. Video: https://youtu.be/3AE17vbAvd0?t=8m55s Schumer said: Few things matter more to the average consumer than the price of a gallon of gasoline. When gas prices…
Like many union workers, Oberbroeckling voted twice for former Democratic President Barack Obama before backing Donald Trump and other Republicans in 2016.
Now he has buyer’s remorse.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who possibly has the most powerful fundraising influence in the Senate, is coming to Sen. Jon Tester’s aid following Trump’s attacks. Trump lashed out at Tester during a rally on Saturday, strongly implying that he could ruin the senator’s career. The attack was a reaction to Tester revealing allegations of misconduct…
With Arizona Sen. John McCain battling brain cancer, Republican congressmen tried earlier this month to concoct a way to keep his seat under their party’s control, should McCain decide to leave. It didn’t work though — Democrats put a stop to the GOP’s plan. The Republican effort consisted of attaching an emergency clause to a…
Enthusiasm (and a sense of urgency) on the left has been a huge help to the fundraising efforts of Democrats up for election this November. Numbers released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reveal that Democrats in both the Senate and the House are drastically outdoing Republicans in GOP-held districts and states where Trump was victorious…
DNC Chair Tom Perez schooled the media and the rest of the country on why they are already winning elections before the midterm has arrived.
North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, one of the most endangered Democrats in the U.S. Senate, knows a political gift when she sees one.
Sen. Bob Corker is refusing to campaign against the popular former Democratic governor, and current Senate candidate Phil Bredesen, who Corker said is leading the race by a real six points. Roll Call reported: Speaking at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, Corker said his instinct was that a Middle Tennessee State University…
Democrats have a $10.5 million fundraising advantage over Republicans in the 25 most competitive races for seats the U.S. House of Representatives ahead of the November elections, according to an analysis by Reuters.
Though Democrats so far find themselves in a good position heading into midterm elections, a new poll conducted by ABC News/Washington Post shows that the strength of the party’s lead is weakening. In January, Democrats led by 13 points among all adult voters, 12 points among registered voters, and 15 points among voters who were…
Birds On A Wire: Chuck Schumer Warns Donald Trump “Don’t.”
Even without today’s unglued remarks from the President of the United States, the obstruction case was already pretty strong
“If Donald Trump is thinking of using the FBI raid to fire Special Counsel Mueller or otherwise interfere with the chain of command in the Russia probe, we Democrats have one simple message for him: don’t.”
Trump sounded like a crazy person, as he babbled conspiracies and compared Special Counsel Robert Mueller to James Comey when asked if he will fire Mueller. Video of Trump: Listening to Trump babble and spout conspiracies, it is clear that Robert Mueller has broken Donald Trump. https://t.co/RLKvhXmFKY #MichaelCohen pic.twitter.com/BSdEoNqDCR — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April…
Republicans are worried because support for their tax cuts is weak, and Trump keeps taking away from their message by starting tariff wars. CNBC reported: Last month, Democrats captured a Pennsylvania House district that Trump won easily in 2016. So far, 38 House Republicans have declined to seek re-election in a year Democrats need to…
Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has been left terrified after a Democrat was elected to his state’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, prompting a meltdown on Twitter. Rebecca Dallet, a liberal judge, beat her conservative opponent, Michael Screnock, by a nearly 12-point margin. This is a significant victory, given that Democrats typically have a difficult…
Up and down ballots all across the country, from Virginia to Missouri to Wisconsin, Democrats are showing they have the momentum heading into this fall’s elections.
According to over a half dozen top GOP donors who spoke with The Hill, conservative funders are getting nervous about the momentum Democratic candidates have been experiencing in congressional races and suggested that they might have to give up on trying to win the House to focus on keeping the Senate. “Myself and many others…
Yet another legislator has joined the record-breaking number of Republican congressmen who say they won’t be running for re-election in 2018. The latest is Rep. Ryan Costello, who represents Pennsylvania’s 6th District. Costello’s decision comes after continued warnings of how vulnerable his seat is, and for weeks he was rumored to be eyeing the private…
The main U.S. coal miners’ union is set to endorse two Democrats running for Congress in West Virginia, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday – a boost for Democrats trying to win over a constituency that voted heavily for Republican Donald Trump in 2016.
An exit poll released by Public Policy Polling  (PPP) on Wednesday found that healthcare was the single most important issue for voters in Tuesday’s special election in Pennsylvania.  This is without question excellent news for Democrats getting ready for the critical midterm elections in November. According a press release issued by PPP: “Public Policy Polling…
“The president’s engagement in the race turned what was a deficit for the Republican candidate to what is essentially a tie,” the White House deputy press secretary said.
Democrat Conor Lamb was declared the winner of the special congressional race in Pennsylvania’s 18th District on Wednesday, and given that the region supported Trump by a 20-point margin, Republicans are starting to realize that they have good reason to be nervous about midterm elections. GOP Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania bluntly admitted this during…
In an ominous sign for Trump’s Republicans eight months before national midterm elections, moderate Democrat Conor Lamb led conservative Republican Rick Saccone by a fraction of a percentage point in the race for the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The final result may not be available until Friday.
State figures show that more than 1 million Democrats cast votes in primary races across the state on Tuesday, almost twice as many as in 2014, the last time primaries were held for a midterm election.
Yet another sign that a Democratic blue wave is coming manifested on Tuesday after voters of the party in Texas went out in droves to cast their ballots for the primary elections. Roughly 1.5 million Democrats had voted by Wednesday morning, a dramatic increase from the one million who voted in the previous primary. Whereas…
New Jersey legislators on Thursday said they plan to introduce bills to bar state pension funds from investing in gun manufacturers.
After Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and three organizations on Friday, Trump and his surrogates have been scrambling to spin the situation in their favor. Hogan Gidley, a spokesman for the White House, continued this effort during a Saturday appearance on Fox & Friends. Gidley insisted that Democrats and the media have…
Thanks to the chaos Trump continues to unleash with everything he does, five former federal prosecutors have decided to seek House seats — and they’re running as Democrats. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Chris Hunter resigned from the job he’d held at the Justice Department for over a decade in December, prompted by…
Republican Kevin Nicholson is trying to unseat Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in 2018, but he’s failed to get the endorsements most candidates have the most ease getting — those of their own parents. According to CNN, Donna and Michael Nicholson donated $2,700 to Baldwin’s campaign, the maximum FEC rules legally allow them to contribute until…
Trump cheerleader and frontrunner for the nomination, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, could lose the seat for Republicans and possibly hand the Senate majority back to the Democrats.
White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told reporters on Monday that the Trump administration looks “forward to releasing” the Democratic rebuttal to the Republican memo accusing the FBI and Justice Department of running a corrupt investigation on Russia — but only after Democrats “clean it up.” “I think the reality is that the White…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi continues to be a powerful fundraising figure for the Democratic Party. According to POLITICO, Pelosi raised nearly $50 million during 2017. Out of the $49.5 million total, $47.6 million went to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Pelosi raised these funds by holding 204 events in 43 cities. This is nearly…
A week ago, Trump declassified the Republican-written memo accusing the FBI and Justice Department of being biased against the president and abusing their power in the investigation looking into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to manipulate the 2016 election. On Friday, he opted to block the release of a memo by Democrats refuting every…
DNC Chair Tom Perez took back patriotism for the rest of the country and revealed the un-Americanness of Trump’s immigrant rhetoric during an interview on MSNBC. Video: This is why the immigration issue is a big winner for Democrats. Republicans are delusional if they believe that this ends well for them. https://t.co/cqYy2CFMMk #p2 #ctl #dreamers…
After Trump declassified the Republican-written memo meant to discredit the FBI’s Russia investigation on Friday, Democrats quickly moved to get their own memo out to the public. On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee voted in favor of making the Democratic rebuttal public. Unfortunately, Trump probably won’t agree to declassify it because it won’t serve his…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons will be making a bipartisan attempt to reach a budget deal with a new immigration bill before the government is forced to shut down on Friday. From the sounds of it though, the chances of Trump being in favor of…
The massively hyped memo written by GOP congressman Devin Nunes has backfired in several ways, and on Saturday, the campaign of Andrew Janz, the Democratic candidate running against Nunes for his seat in the California House, revealed another way it blew up in the Republican’s face. According to Heather Greven, Janz’ campaign manager, the controversy…
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker spoke to CNN on Friday about the urgent need for Congress to implement more checks and balances to keep President Trump under control and keep him from abusing his power. Speaking to Anderson Cooper, Booker said, “We see this president who has, in my opinion, very authoritarian tendencies that…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are asking Twitter and Facebook to look into Russian-linked bot accounts that pushed the #ReleaseTheMemo trend started by Republicans. The memo referred to in the hashtag was written by Republican staffers and purportedly contains evidence showing that the Department of Justice and the FBI have conducted a corrupt…
Negotiating with Trump is a waste of time. Not only does he lack a firm grasp of the issues, but he often just agrees with the last person he spoke to.
Senate Republicans aren’t likely to win over enough Democrats to pass their cynical spending bill.
“The chief executive of the United States, the commander in chief has racist ideas about America and this country, and the American people, all 320 million of us, better figure out what the do about it.”
Democrats will be gaining a bit more influence in Congress with two new senators set to be sworn in Wednesday. Tina Smith, who previously served as the state’s lieutenant governor, will be taking over Al Franken’s role as senator of Minnesota. Franken submitted his letter of resignation Tuesday weeks after vowing to step down from the…
One Democratic representative called Trump a “child who hates science class.”
“Here is my promise to you: I may be leaving the Senate, but I’m not giving up my voice,” the popular Democratic senator said.
In what should be viewed as a tactical move with a potential eye on 2020, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo trashed the Republican tax cut for the rich as a tax on blue states.
“Trump’s very much in line here with what you’d expect to see from a president whose party takes a shellacking in a midterm election.”
Democrats lead the GOP by a whopping 18 points among registered voters – the largest lead they’ve held in two decade’s worth of midterm election cycles.
Shelly Simonds, a Democrat in Virginia, unseated Republican delegate David Yancey in the state House after winning the election for the 94th district by a single vote. The announcement came on Tuesday after a recount of votes originally cast last month. Simonds’ victory means that the Virginia House of Delegates is now tied between Republicans…
Sen. Patrick Leahy, who publicly called for Franken’s resignation, has privately told the Minnesota senator that he regrets having done so.
There is no longer any excuse for members of Congress – especially the Democrats – to curb their opposition to this president and his dangerous agenda.
On Tuesday night, alleged pedophile Judge Roy Moore became the first Republican in 25 years to lose a senatorial race to a Democrat in the state of Alabama, and it appears this result might be too shocking for Moore to accept. Despite most major news outlets declaring Democrat Doug Jones the winner well before midnight,…
The stunning victory comes after weeks of women coming forward with credible allegations that Moore made unwanted sexual advances on them, some when they were just teenagers.
In a race as close as the special election in Alabama between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones, it is voter suppression maneuvers like this that could make all the difference.Â
Exit polls can be unreliable, but they show that Democrats have reason to be cautiously optimistic that they have a shot at winning a Senate seat in Alabama.
The Democratic Women’s Working Group, an association comprised of the women Democrats serving in the House of Representatives, sent a letter to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Monday demanding that it launch an investigation into sexual assault allegations made against President Trump. Fifty-six women lawmakers signed the request. The group asked that…
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee passed away unexpectedly early Tuesday morning. According to the city’s former Mayor Willie Brown, the cause of death was cardiac arrest. “It is with profound sadness and terrible grief that I confirm that Mayor Edwin M. Lee passed away on Tuesday, December 12 at 1:11 a.m. at Zuckerberg San Francisco…
On Monday, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand told CNN that, given the long list of sexual assault and harassment allegations against him, President Trump should resign. Shocking no one, Trump responded early Tuesday morning by attacking Gillibrand on Twitter with an off-the-wall tweet that many are interpreting to have sexual undertones. “President Trump has committed…
Yuba City in California has elected the first Sikh woman mayor in United States history. Preet Didbal was sworn in on Tuesday.Â
At least six female senators have asked Minnesota Senator Al Franken to step down.
A new Quinnipiac University Poll suggests that a Democratic wave is building in 2018, as voters overwhelmingly want Democrats in control of Congress.
According to the Washington Post-Schar School survey, very few Alabamans remain undecided on the race, and likely voters choose Jones by a 50 to 47 margin.
Democrats have stepped up to the plate and are trying to put billions of dollars toward a crisis that deserves more than just lip service.Â
This particular feud between Trump and LaVar Ball is clearly a stunt by both men to get attention and stroke their own egos. But with Trump, it’s just the latest in his long history of attacking minorities.
Dozens of votes that could decide control of the Virginia House of Delegates may be left uncounted because the postal service didn’t deliver them on time.
As gun violence continues to rear its ugly head all across this country, the American people want to see real change, not more extremist, guns-everywhere rhetoric from the NRA.
The new revelation may seem like a bombshell, but the idea reportedly didn’t gain traction anywhere other than Brazile’s head.
During an interview on CNN, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) agreed with Donna Brazile that the Clinton campaign did rig the Democratic nomination by controlling the DNC.
Republican Ed Gillespie was losing in the polls to Democrat Ralph Northam as he walked the wire avoiding the toxicity of Trump but trying to court Trump voters.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) exposed Trump for trying to cut anti-terrorism program funding after the President blamed Schumer for the New York terror attack.
Trump will likely continue his attacks on the Democratic congresswoman for revealing his insensitive remarks to a fallen soldier’s widow, but it his Republican Party that is in shambles.
