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Election ?16: Many voters know by now that Hillary Clinton made a speech to Goldman Sachs for which she was well paid. What they don?t know is the content of the speech. They should. It…
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“I’m answering the question the way I want to answer it,” Kasich said. “You want to answer it?”
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Giuliani explained that’s he’s a “political person” and would have to make speeches and join Trump's campaign if he endorsed the billionaire mogul, but that he's not ready to completely rule out working with him.
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In an interview with CR, the Texas Senator discussed the possibility of ending Obama’s executive amnesty programs.
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In an interview with CR the Senator recalled that, in the past, Americans responded “with musket shot.”
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Triumph discusses gender identity, micro aggressions and trigger warnings with young college voters as part of Triumph's Election Special 2016, now streaming...
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On Monday, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who has a magnificent gift for nearly always being wrong, penned a column suggesting that America’s current economic malaise results from too much capitalism. What’s needed to truly empower competition, writes Krugman, is government policy: without government, monopoly results, and thus corruption and stagnation.
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In a year of consequential primary voting, Republicans face the same question that Democrats do:
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According to reports, NJ Gov. Chris Christie is using threats to wrangle support for Donald Trump
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Bill O’Reilly in tonight’s Talking Points Memo laid out what he called “the big lie of the 2016 campaign.” That “lie” encompasses the millions of American vo...
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Trump continues to make weird pronouncements. This time it was in Buffalo today where he said that 9/11 was much worse than Pearl Harbor because the Japanese killed military members while al-Qaeda …
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The Library of Congress, saying a once common phrase had become offensive, announced it will no longer use “illegal aliens” as a bibliographical term.
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Donald Trump thinks it would be a shame if Cleveland burned down.
Now, he’s not saying it’s going to happen. Frankly, he would just hate if the Republican National Convention descended into violence and chaos. That he can guarantee you. But people are very upset, very angry, frankly, and if Trump doesn’t get his way – if he doesn’t receive the nomination -- there could be riots.
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My kids and I were singing along, loudly, to “Run the World (Girls)” by Beyonce, as you do, when my 3-year-old son asked, “Can we listen to ‘Run the World (Boys)’ next?” “That’s not a real song,” m…
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One line of defense against the Trump “rigged” charge is just to say that the rules are the rules. Jay Cost over at The Weekly Standard gets to a deeper point about why the rules make sense:
The Republican party does not belong to its presidential candidates in the way that Trump presumes. In important respects, it still belongs to the party regulars who attend these conventions. Starting in the 1970s, the party organization began sharing authority with voters to select the presidential nominee, but sovereignty was never handed over to the electorate lock, stock, and barrel. The delegates to the national convention, chosen mostly by these state and district conventions, have always retained a role—not only to act when the voters fail to reach a consensus, but to conduct regular party business.
This is hardly antidemocratic, by the way. Party organizations such as these are a vital, albeit overlooked part of our nation’s democratic machinery. The party regulars at the district, state, and national conventions do the quotidian work of holding the party together between elections: They establish its rules, arbitrate disputes, formulate platforms to present to the voters, and so on. It would be impossible to have a party without these sorts of people doing work the average voter doesn’t care about.
And these people are hardly the “establishment” in any meaningful sense of the word. Consider the process in Colorado. There was a hierarchy at play, no doubt—delegates at precinct caucuses voted for delegates to district and state conventions, who voted for delegates to the national convention. But the process was open to any registered Republican, and more than a thousand people served as delegates at the state convention. There were some big political players involved, naturally, but by and large they were just average people. The same goes for the state conventions in places like Wyoming and North Dakota. These meetings in Cheyenne and Bismarck are in no way beholden to, or the equivalent of, the power players working on K Street.
Trump might retort that Cleveland delegates should never be unbound from him, that they should be required to vote for him through the duration of the convention. But how would the party ever reach consensus in a scenario where no candidate won a majority and every delegate is bound forever? If the voters cannot agree among themselves, then somebody has to find the middle ground. The convention delegates, chosen through a fair and open process at the precinct, district, and state levels, are an obvious choice to complete this task. And this indeed will be their job in Cleveland.
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Today is Tax Day — that damnable scar on the American calendar.
Nothing good can come from Tax Day. But the marker does bring up an interesting question for one Donald J. Trump, organizational super-genius and businessman dynamo that he is: Where are his tax returns?
On February 25, 2016, at the GOP debate in Houston Trump said: “I will absolutely give my [tax] return, but I’m being audited now for two or three years, so I can’t do it until the audit is finished, obviously.”
Obviously.
Well, is the audit complete? If not, will Trump at least release previous years’ returns?
(The IRS has said that an audit is no impediment to public disclosure of a tax return; Trump’s lawyers may well be advising him to not release the returns for strategy purposes if he is being audited — but he is under no prohibition from releasing them.)
Shouldn’t Republican primary voters not have to wonder if there are any bombshells in a prospective nominee’s tax returns — especially with regards to someone with famously, ahem, opaque business practices — before everything is settled?
I filed my 1040. You filed your 1040. Your sister filed her 1040. Presumably Donald Trump filed his 1040.
The ball is in your court, Donald: Release your tax returns.
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Hypocrisy alert! Sure this Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales may have just barred his cities workers from visiting so called Anti-LGBT states such as Mississippi and North Carolina that recently
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State Democratic officials are facing mounting accusations they secretly coordinated with climate activists to investigate whether ExxonMobil hid the truth about global warming, as new documents show the collaboration went deeper than previously thought.
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Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES Look, I apologize for this headline. I have to report the news, and there just isn’t a more family-friendly way to report this one. These are just the facts. A Los Angeles artist named Ilma Gore painted a picture of Donald Trump in the buff that was, shall we say, unflattering to the size of his manhood. I feel | Read More »
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Having your national field director quit just before a bunch of primaries seems... sub-optimal.
