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Puerto Rico
Mitch McConnell Calls Representative Democracy for Puerto Rico and D.C. ‘Full Bore Socialism’
New York Magazine - Matt Stieb
On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tweeted a video of a recent interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, in which he claimed that …
Donald Trump
Donald Trump's Incredible Shrinking GOP
realclearpolitics.com - Juan Williams
OPINION: President Trump's rise has caused important demographic groups to flee the Republican Party.
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Joe Biden
Biden slams critics of working with GOP: 'Why don't you all go home then, man?'
CNN - By Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, CNN
(CNN) — Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday forcefully pushed back against criticism that he is naïve to think Democrats can work with Republicans in Congress after President Donald Trump leaves
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Senate Judiciary Committee
GOP mutters, gently, as Trump sidesteps Senate for top aides
Associated Press - By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's latest anointment of an acting head of a major federal agency has prompted muttering, but no more than that, from Republican senators whose job description includes
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Politics
Evan Siegfried Trump's biggest risk in 2020 isn't losing young people. It's losing their grandparents.
NBC News - Evan Siegfried
The president may still win the majority of seniors but, if he does so by a significantly smaller margin, that spells problems in swing states. The Trump era has seen seismic shifts away from the Republican
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U.S. Politics
GOP's chief 2020 House recruiter abruptly decides to quit after Democrats target her seat
Salon - Igor Derysh
The head of Republican recruitment for the 2020 congressional elections abruptly announced on Friday that she would not run for re-election. Rep. Susan Brooks of Indiana, the head of recruitment for the
Liberal View
Trump has an ‘invulnerable reality distortion field’ — that makes Republicans defend the indefensible: GOP strategist
rawstory.com - Bob Brigham
Republicans are put in a difficult position by President Donald Trump's refusal to accept reality, a top GOP strategist explained on MSNBC on …
Politics
Juan Williams: Trump's incredible shrinking GOP
thehill.com - Juan Williams, opinion contributor
So let’s take a look at the front page of newspapers after Democrats take the stage in Miami next week for two primary debates. For the first time in …
CNN
Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Murkowski joins Mitch McConnell's opposition to election security proposals, setting up clash with House - CNNPolitics
CNN
(CNN) — Senate GOP resistance is building over Democratic measures to bolster security around US elections, setting the stage for a partisan clash with the House over imposing tougher safeguards ahead
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California Politics
Republicans need to change their product. Californians aren’t buying it
Los Angeles Times - George Skelton
Politics is like private enterprise. You either sell your product or perish. California voters have not been buying Republican merchandise. So Democrats have monopolized the market. It’s not the fault
The New Yorker
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders the Future of the Republican Party?
The New Yorker - Paige Williams
Rare is the Trump Administration official who hasn’t burned out or been run out. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, who will leave her post at the end of the month, lasted longer
ThinkProgress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Six GOP senators with 82 years combined congressional experience to host hearing on term limits
ThinkProgress - Josh Israel
There special guest will be former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who quit just as he started his 15th year in congress. Under the direction of Sen. Ted Cruz …
Lara Trump
Trump: ‘If We Can Take Over the House, We Will Have Things Done Like Never Before’
theepochtimes.com - Zachary Stieber
President Donald Trump promised big accomplishments if Republicans take over the House of Representatives in 2020 and hold on to the presidency and …
Will Hurd
GOP Rep. Will Hurd Is Disinvited From a Tech Conference Because He's Pro-Life, and Dan Crenshaw Isn't Having It
redstate.com - Sister Toldjah
Apparently the Democratic war on pro-lifers now extends to events and conferences that have nothing whatsoever to do with the abortion …
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Joe Biden
D'Amato, Former GOP Senator, Attends Biden Fundraiser in New York
Bloomberg - Jennifer Epstein
Joe Biden drew a former Republican senator and an ex-Trump cabinet official to a New York fundraiser on Monday, as he tries to make the case that …
Liberal View
Supreme Court rejects GOP appeal and lets ruling stand that struck down Virginia's GOP gerrymander
dailykos.com - Stephen Wolf for Daily Kos Elections
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 along atypical lines that Virginia Republicans lacked the ability to appeal a case that saw a lower court …
Democrats
Trump Is Trying To Hand Democrats The White House With New Plan To Repeal Obamacare
politicususa.com - Jason Easley
Trump won’t listen to Republicans and leave healthcare alone, which is why his new plan to repeal Obamacare could hand Democrats the White …
Liberal View
Republicans are freaking out that a key red state may finally be up for grabs in 2020
alternet.org - Martin Longman
California has 55 Electoral College votes. New York and Florida each have 29. Texas is in the middle with 38. In recent years, we’ve had a series of …
Gavin Newsom
OH, YEAH? CA Gov Blusters GOP Headed ‘Into The Waste Bin Of History’
dailywire.com - Hank Berrien
Posing as a tough guy, California democratic Governor Gavin Newsom blustered to Politico that national Republicans are destined for the “waste bin of …
MSNBC
Chris Stewart
Key GOP rep: It’d be ‘foolish’ to turn down info from foreign source
MSNBC - Steve Benen
Donald Trump jolted the political world last week when the president ignored the lessons of the Russia scandal and endorsed foreign intervention in …
Joe Biden
Biden: If You Don't Want to Work With Republicans, Start a 'Real, Physical Revolution'
splinternews.com - Sophie Weiner
At the Poor People’s Campaign’s presidential forum tonight, former Vice President Joe Biden took a shot at Sen. Bernie Sanders when he was asked …
Massachusetts Politics
Abortion foes, supporters pack hearing in Massachusetts
wcvb.com - Steve LeBlanc, Associated Press
Activists on both sides of the abortion divide clashed Monday on a bill in Massachusetts that would let women obtain an abortion after 24 weeks of …
Bill Maher
Bill Maher: Republicans Are Part of a 'Fascist Club'
newsbusters.org - Aiden Jackson
Bill Maher satisfied his starvation for the limelight on Friday night’s Real Time by fixating the audience on his obsessive disdain for President …
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Politics
Democrat who won GOP district in 2018 says she's in favor of impeachment investigation
CNN - By Kate Sullivan, CNN
Washington (CNN) — Rep. Katie Porter announced Monday that she is in favor of an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, becoming one of the first Democrats who won Republican districts
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Virginia General Assembly
Supreme Court blocks suit over racially gerrymandered districts in Virginia
NBC News - Pete Williams
"It's unfortunate that House Republicans wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and months of litigation," the state's AG said. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tossed out a lawsuit in Virginia
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Donald Trump
Four Years Ago Trump Was Seen as a Sideshow. Now He Is the Show.
The New York Times - By PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON — As he rode down that escalator in June 2015, it felt like a lark, a curiosity, just another staged television spectacle. At most, many assumed that Donald J. Trump’s candidacy would be a sure
Guardian USadded this to Comment is Free
Opinion (UK)
The historical argument for impeaching Trump
The Guardian - Heather Cox Richardson
The Republican-controlled Senate will almost certainly not vote to remove Trump from office no matter how convincing the evidence The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship
Matt Bevin
Least popular governor in America leading against Democratic challenger in new poll
washingtonexaminer.com - Zachary Halaschak
Kentucky’s Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, often labeled as America’s least popular governor, came out ahead of his Democratic challenger in a new …
Gavin Newsom
California governor says Republican Party is headed 'into the waste bin of history'
thehill.com - Owen Daugherty
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in an interview published Monday said the Republican Party is headed for the “waste bin of history.” In an interview …
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Health Care
President Trump claims to have a plan for health care ahead of his campaign launch
ABC News
Republican Party leaders have been reluctant to take on health care as a campaign issue since they failed to repeal and replace Obamacare in 2017.