Category: Republican Party

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Two More Republicans Might Primary Trump In 2020

It’s not a good sign for Donald Trump’s reelection campaign that there is an appetite within the Republican Party to primary him.

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Trump Urges Republicans To Start Questioning The Results Of Elections They Lose

It’s comments like these that show how Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork for questioning the 2020 results.

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Release The Report: 84% Of Americans Want Trump To Stop Covering Up Mueller’s Findings

The longer this administration slow-walks the release of Rober Mueller’s report, the more hollow Donald Trump’s celebrations look.

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Republican Senate judiciary panel head wants special counsel to investigate Trump probe

By Susan Cornwell and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Monday he will ask Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to look into the origins of the investigation of whether President Donald Trump‘s campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election. A…

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Wisconsin judge blocks Republican attempt to curb Democratic governor’s powers

A Wisconsin judge on Thursday blocked legislation passed by Republican lawmakers during a December lame-duck session intended to curb the powers of newly elected Democratic Governor Tony Evers, calling the measures unconstitutionally approved.

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‘He Needs His Diapers Changed’: Chris Matthews Tears Devin Nunes To Shreds Over Twitter Lawsuit

Instead of waging phony lawsuits, GOP Congressman Devin Nunes should find a new line of work – or, at the very least, find a safe space.

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Top Conservative Commentator Destroys ‘Spineless’ GOP Senators Who Voted For Trump’s Emergency

Until the GOP does the right thing and unanimously stands up to this president – the most unfit and corrupt in history – they deserve no credit.

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GOP Senators Humiliate Trump With Legislation That Would Cripple His Emergency Powers

The legislation introduced by Republicans on Tuesday is the clearest sign yet that even they are growing uncomfortable with Trump’s abuse of power.

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GOP Roy Moore, undone by allegations he sexually assaulted or pursued teenage girls, considers new Senate run

Alabama Republican Roy Moore, whose unsuccessful 2017 campaign for the U.S. Senate was marred by allegations he sexually assaulted or pursued teenage girls while in his 30s, said on Friday that he may again run for the Senate.

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Ex-NY Republican official convicted in multimillion-dollar bribe case: prosecutors

A federal court jury in Central Islip, New York, found former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano guilty of bribery, honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue.

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Rachel Maddow: Michael Cohen’s Testimony Makes Impeachment Or Criminal Charges More Likely

Rachel Maddow said Michael Cohen’s testimony leaves two potential outcomes for Donald Trump: impeachment or criminal charges.

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North Carolina Republican political operative charged in election fraud scheme

The Republican candidate who initially appeared to have won that race, Mark Harris, said he would not make a second run for the seat. Dan McCready, the Democrat who ran against Harris, does plan to run again.

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Former RNC Chair Destroys Trump Ally Matt Gaetz: ‘I Can’t Even Refer To Him As A Congressman’

One of Donald Trump’s favorite members of Congress, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, may have just committed a crime by threatening Michael Cohen.

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11 Million Taxpayers Are About To Get Screwed Because Of Trump’s Tax Law

As these changes hit taxpayers for the first time in 2019, there are signs that the Trump-GOP tax law is only getting less popular.

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Bernie Sanders Proposes Attaching A Lie Detector To Trump During The 2020 Debates

No matter who the Democratic nominee is, it will be a challenge to keep track of all the lies Trump will tell during the campaign

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Wisconsin Governor Pulls National Guard Troops From The Border And Calls Trump’s Emergency Fake

While Republicans join Donald Trump in ginning up fear and phony crises to keep their base riled up, Democrats are governing responsibly.

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Trump’s Fake Emergency Headed For Defeat As Another GOP Senator Vows To Block It

Right now, at least three Republican in the Senate appear to be ready to block Donald Trump’s phony national emergency declaration.

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The Trump-GOP Tax Law Continues To Crater As Refunds Plummet By 17 Percent

As millions of Americans continue to feel the impact of the Trump-Republican tax scheme, it will become impossible to defend.

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Adam Schiff Tells GOP Colleagues To Stand Up To Trump Or Get Out Of Congress

For two years, Republicans have calculated that it was a smart move to bury their heads in the sand and ignore the five-alarm fire in the White House.

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Robert Mueller’s Final Report Could Jump-Start Trump’s Impeachment

If the report is detailed and damning enough, it could force Republicans to do what they have refused to do for the past two years: hold Trump accountable.

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Republican Mark Harris denies knowledge of ‘massive election fraud’ scheme

In those messages, Harris asked the county judge about “the guy whose absentee ballot project for Johnson could have put me in the US House this term, had I known, and he had been helping us.”

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Susan Collins Will Join Democrats In Blocking Trump’s Fake National Emergency

Sen. Susan Collins’ opposition is just the latest signal that Donald Trump’s fake and illegal emergency declaration is in trouble.

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Rachel Maddow Says America Should Be Terrified That Trump Is A Russian Agent

There is a long list of former high-level members of the intelligence community that believe the president could be a threat to national security.

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‘What’s The Point Of Congress?’: Katy Tur Rips GOP For Turning Blind Eye To Trump’s Power Grab

In the Donald Trump era, Republicans in Congress have abdicated their responsibilities and refused to act as a co-equal branch of government.

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Parkland Dad Warns GOP They’ll Lose Senate For Ignoring Real National Emergency Of Gun Violence

If Republicans continue to hold this issue hostage as the body count grows then more of them will lose their jobs in 2020.

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‘Unbelievable Abdication’: Rick Wilson Shames His Party For Not Stopping Trump’s Fake Emergency

As was the case with Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, America cannot count on the courts to save us from the latest abuse of power by Trump.

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Ari Melber Destroys The Myth That Susan Collins Is A Pro-Choice Moderate

Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s recent vote to restrict women’s rights has exposed Republican Sen. Susan Collins as a fraud.

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Matthew Whitaker Could Be Busted By Democrats For Lying In His Congressional Testimony

Matthew Whitaker took a victory lap at Trump Hotel following his congressional testimony on Friday, but his celebration could be short-lived.

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Trump Is Paving The Way To Contesting The Results Of The 2020 Presidential Election

As Donald Trump sees his political fortunes collapsing ahead of 2020, he is already paving the way toward contesting the results.

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Millions Of Americans Won’t Get Refund Checks This Year Because Of The Trump-GOP Tax Scam

One important element of the Trump-Republican tax scheme is that those who live in the bluest states will be harmed the most.

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El Paso’s Republican Mayor Debunks Trump’s Border Wall Lie In Less Than A Minute

While El Paso constructed a border fence in 2008, it was among the country’s safest cities well before it was built, the mayor reminded Trump.

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Ted Lieu Tells Trump That His Dreams Of A Border Wall Are Dead

Trump’s border wall is not even part of the ongoing bipartisan negotiations to keep the government funded past the upcoming Feb. 15 deadline.

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Senate Republicans Are Finally Realizing That Trump Is Unfit To Be Commander-In-Chief

As Trump becomes more unhinged, Republicans in Congress are increasingly casting votes to take foreign policy out of his hands.

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Rachel Maddow Exposes GOP Scheme To Keep Valuable Documents From Getting To Mueller

With Democrats now in control of the House, the GOP is grasping at straws to delay the roundhouse kick of oversight about to hit Donald Trump.

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Democrats And Republicans Finally Agree: The Best Way To Govern Is To Ignore Trump

Following the disastrous Trump government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans have found one thing they can all agree on.

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Mitch McConnell Just Attacked The Same Federal Workers He Held Hostage During The Shutdown

McConnell announced his opposition to a Democratic plan that would make voting a federal holiday, and in doing so he took a shot at government workers.

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‘I Demand It’: Maxine Waters Refuses To Let Trump And Republicans Bury The Mueller Report

With Democrats putting continued pressure on the GOP to be transparent, Donald Trump will find it almost impossible to bury Robert Mueller’s final report.

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Adam Schiff Hints That Trump and Kushner Were Directing Roger Stone

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) suggested that there are only a few people who could have been directing Roger Stone, which turns attention to Trump and Jared Kushner.

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Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet Humiliates Ted Cruz To His Face On The Senate Floor

The epic takedown occurred after Cruz blamed Democrats for the fact that members of the Coast Guard are struggling as the shutdown drags on.

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‘The Days Of Mob Rule Are Over’: Rep. Eric Swalwell Tells Trump He’s Going Down

Unlike the GOP, Democrats aren’t playing games. They are doing what spineless Republicans have failed to do for two years – hold Trump accountable.

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White House Admits Trump Could Drag The Government Shutdown Into April

The fact that Trump is prepping for a shutdown that could stretch into April is confirmation that he couldn’t care less about the damage he does.

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Trump Just Stepped Into Another Crime By Using Fox News To Bully Witnesses

In his desperate attempt to get out from under the legal avalanche about to pummel him, Trump may have stepped into yet another crime.

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Ari Melber Exposes Mitt Romney As Just Another Trump-Appeasing Russia Stooge

Russia and Putin have complete control not only over the president they helped install in 2016, but the Republican Party more broadly.

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Rachel Maddow Blasts Senate Republicans For Selling Out America To Russia

Vladimir Putin doesn’t just have a president in his back pocket. He has an entire U.S. political party working on his behalf.

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Former RNC Chairman Shreds GOP For Openly Endorsing Trump’s Treason

Michael Steele says being soft on Russia is no longer just isolated to Donald Trump. It has become standard Republican Party policy.

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Mitt Romney Calls On White Supremacist GOP Lawmaker Steve King To Resign

In the GOP of old, there would be no room for a man like Steve King to utter even a syllable of the white supremacist trash he frequently spews.

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Former Trump Advisor Thinks It’s A Done Deal That POTUS Will Face Impeachment And Conviction

Former Trump campaign advisor Sam Nunberg believes it’s inevitable that his ex-boss will face impeachment and possible conviction.

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Key Dem Tells Trump He’ll See Him In Court If He Steals From The Military To Pay For A Wall

If Trump declares a national emergency as a way to take defense department funds to pay for the wall, he’ll face immediate legal backlash.

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The GOP Is Getting Ready To Bolt On Trump As 800,000 Workers Brace For No Paychecks

The political calculus is about to change for Republicans when nearly a million Americans are forced to go without paychecks.

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Trump’s Response To Workers Feeling The Pain Of His Shutdown: ‘I Don’t Care’

To Trump, this is fun political theater. To hundreds of thousands of workers, it could mean not having enough money to feed their families.

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Former RNC Chairman Tells Trump To Wake Up Because His GOP Wall Of Protection Is Crumbling

Trump has been protected by Republicans for the past two years, giving him the false sense that he can get away with murder. Those days are over.

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Trump Had To Apologize To Nancy Pelosi For Cursing So Much During Shutdown Meeting

As Trump whines about Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s remarks, he reportedly had to apologize for using so much profanity during a meeting with top Democrats.

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Nancy Pelosi Shows Trump What Governing Looks Like With Plan To Reopen The Government

While Democrats were quick to get to work opening the U.S. government on Thursday, Trump continues to look like a petulant child.

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Mitt Romney Tells Other Republicans To Step Up And Primary Trump In 2020

It’s easy to dismiss Mitt Romney’s remarks as hollow rhetoric, but they could be indicative of a brewing revolt of Trump among members of his own party.

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It’s Time To Publicly Shame Trump And The Russia Scandal Liars

The following is an editorial by PoliticusUSA‘s co-publisher Sarah Jones. The day before a judge admonished Trump‘s former National Security Adviser for selling out his country, suggesting that Flynn committed treason, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone admitted to spreading lies on Alex Jones’ conspiracy oriented InfoWars. Stone made the admission during the settlement of…

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Loser Scott Walker signs Republican bills curbing Democrats’ power

Outgoing Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker on Friday signed a package of legislation aimed at weakening the powers of his newly elected Democratic successor, dismissing critics who said the move was a last-minute partisan power grab.

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Conservative George Will Plans To Vote For The Democratic Nominee In 2020

He said that Democrats can easily take back the White House with the right nominee and that he would be willing to support Trump’s opponent.

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Maxine Waters Tells Republicans To Man Up And Admit That Trump’s A Criminal

The fact that Trump directed Cohen to commit crimes is not debatable. Republicans can no longer spin their way away from it.

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Former GOP Secretary Of Defense Trashes Republicans For Letting Trump Undo Democracy

William Cohen, a Republican who served as Secretary of Defense, says the type of blind loyalty GOP lawmakers are displaying is threatening our democracy.

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Democratic Congresswoman Obliterates Spineless Rand Paul For Defending Trump’s Russia Treason

Sen. Paul has become one of Trump’s biggest defenders on Russia, turning a blind eye to what increasingly looks like criminal conduct.

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‘Donald Trump Is A Criminal’: Former Prosecutor Tells Congress Impeachment Is The Only Option

Congress must follow legal precedent and impeach the president like they did when Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton were in the White House.

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Democrats Slam The Door On Trump Cover-Up And Vow To End Comey Investigation “Nonsense”

Democrats will be immediately putting an end to yet another Republican, wasteful, stupid, partisan, conspiracy-based “investigation” – this one the investigation into fired FBI Director James Comey.

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Wisconsin Republicans pass bill to curb incoming Democrats’ power

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin legislature passed a bill to weaken the powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, voting around dawn on Wednesday after debates that lasted through the night.

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Calls of ‘shame’ as Wisconsin Republicans aim to curb incoming Democrats’ power

Protesters chanting “Shame!” disrupted a tree-lighting ceremony and a legislative session at the Wisconsin state capitol on Tuesday as Republican lawmakers moved toward a vote on bills to weaken the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general.

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Wisconsin Republicans to vote on curbing newly elected Democrats’ power

Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin were preparing on Tuesday to vote on a raft of bills that would weaken the powers of the state governor and attorney general, weeks before newly elected Democrats take those posts.

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‘Sick To My Stomach’: GOP Gov. John Kasich Slams His Party For Standing By The Unraveling Trump

Ohio’s GOP governor had some of his toughest criticism of Trumpism yet, further signaling that he is positioning himself to run for president in 2020.

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Joy Reid Tells Democrats To Stop Taking The GOP’s Bait On Nancy Pelosi

Instead of continuing to take the GOP’s Pelosi bait, Democrats should stick to the issues that got them elected in massive numbers earlier this month.

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GOP Senator Admits She Wants To Make It Hard For Liberals To Vote In The Mississippi Runoff

The more she speaks, the more clear it becomes: Cindy Hyde-Smith has no business being a United States senator – not even one from Mississippi.

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Opinion: Bye Bye, Michael Avenatti: The GOP May Welcome Abusers, But Democrats Don’t

Republicans might turn a blind eye to the womanizers and criminals that they knowingly support – from Donald Trump to Roy Moore – but Democrats never will.

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Trump’s Matthew Whitaker Con Isn’t Fooling Anyone

Prior to leaving for Paris, Mr. Trump had an impromptu press interaction and declared he did not know his newly placed Acting Attorney General, Matthew Whitaker, who is now overseeing the Mueller probe. However, this claim by Mr. Trump refutes the very clear record that he does in fact, know Mr. Whitaker. As Eric Tucker…

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Katy Tur Leaves Georgia Republican Stuttering After Fact Check On Voter Suppression

When Tur pointed out that Georgia voter suppression has disproportionally impacted African American voters, the Brian Kemp supporter couldn’t defend it.

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Trump’s Closing Argument For The Midterm Is Not Only Racist, But False And Misleading

As my colleague, Leo Vidal here at PoliticusUSA makes clear regarding Mr. Trump using the most blatant of racist ads to use as his closing argument for the mid-term elections by pinning it up on top of his Twitter feed: “It remains to be seen whether this will serve him — and his party —…

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U.S. Senator Manchin’s social media accounts hacked: statement

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin was notified his social media accounts had been hacked, his office said on Thursday, amid U.S. government warnings of attempts to interfere in next week’s congressional elections.

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Native Americans Fight Back With Lawsuit Over GOP Plot To Rig The Vote In North Dakota

Republicans in North Dakota know Democrats cannot win in the state if the large population of Native Americans isn’t allowed to vote.

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State of Play: With congressional election near, Republicans’ talk turns Trumpian

By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker last week learned the same lesson many other Republicans have during this congressional election year: One way or the other, it is hard to escape Donald Trump. Cruz and Walker both ran against Trump for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination,…

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Steyer accuses No. 2 House Republican McCarthy of anti-Semitism

Democratic donor Tom Steyer on Sunday denounced as anti-Semitic a now-deleted tweet from Kevin McCarthy, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, that said Steyer and two other wealthy donors were trying to buy the November congressional elections.

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Special Report: How Republicans are using immigration to scare voters to the polls

As they try to hang on to control of Congress, Republican candidates are following the lead of President Donald Trump and turning to rhetoric about immigrants as a tactic to motivate voters. The scope of that strategy emerges in a nationwide Reuters examination of ad buys, candidates’ social media posts and polling, as well as dozens of interviews with candidates, voters and campaign strategists.

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NRA Puppet Trump Calls For More Guns After Mass Shooting Attack At Pittsburgh Synagogue

On Saturday, after yet another act of American gun violence, the president is already signaling that he will once again put money over lives.

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Voters In Majority Hispanic Kansas City Instructed To Go To The Wrong Polling Site

Democratic-leaning voters in a majority Hispanic Kansas City are receiving notices in the mail listing the wrong polling place.

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Avenatti Hits Back After GOP Accuses Him Of Kavanaugh Smears: ‘Start The Investigation Tonight’

It’s no surprise that Republicans, led by chairman Chuck Grassley, are attempting to embark on yet another sham investigation.

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Republican ex-N.Y. state Senate leader gets prison in federal corruption case

Former New York State Senate majority leader Dean Skelos was sentenced on Wednesday to four years and three months in prison on federal corruption charges, including soliciting bribes and defrauding the public.

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Rachel Maddow Calls Out GOP Congressman For Tricking Democrats Into Voting On The Wrong Day

All across the country, Republicans are trying to fight the coming blue wave by keeping as many Democratic-leaning voters as possible from voting.

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Republicans fear Democratic ‘blue wave’ spreading to once-safe districts

But the real reason they were there was basic: Donald Trump. They don’t like the president, and they were not about to vote for anyone, like Brat, who supports him.

“More than the policy, it’s the animosity he is fostering within the country,” Sneed said of Trump.

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Rachel Maddow Exposes Another GOP Plot In Texas To Suppress Democratic Voters

All across the country, from Texas to Georgia to North Dakota, Republicans aren’t waging a war of ideas. They’re waging a war on voting rights.

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Secret GOP Document Shows Even Republicans Think Trump Is To Blame For The Looming Blue Wave

Donald Trump can spin all he wants, but he is alone in his belief that the Nov. 6 elections will have no connection to him.

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Special Report: The Trump trap – Republicans duck president in key House races

Leonard Lance is a Republican congressman seeking re-election in a Republican district. But he has little to say about the Republican president.

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GOP Gov. John Kasich Tears Into Trump’s ‘Bankrupt’ Response To Saudi Murder Of Jamal Khashoggi

The Ohio governor blasted the president for putting the sale of American weapons ahead of the murder of a journalist that was a legal U.S. resident.

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Trump Is Already Making Excuses For Why Republicans Will Lose The House In November

What’s clear is that Trump knows his party is in for a rude awakening in November, particularly in House races, and he’s trying to get out from under it.

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Republican-led government and tax cuts create highest deficit in six years

The U.S. government closed the 2018 fiscal year $779 billion in the red, its highest deficit in six years, as Republican-led tax cuts pinched revenues and expenses rose on a growing national debt, according to data released on Monday by the Treasury Department.

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