As the 2024 race advances, Trump alienates key constituencies
If President Joe Biden is lucky, Donald Trump will keep alienating constituencies who might otherwise give the Republican ticket a second look.
Monday’s Campaign Round-Up, 5.6.24
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
Republicans shift their focus to home appliances (yes, again)
Last month, House Republicans shelved their misplaced focus on home appliances, energy conservation and efficiency standards. The plan has made a comeback.
Biden White House pushes back in response to Trump ‘Gestapo’ talk
Donald Trump’s weird whining about the White House resembling the "Gestapo" isn’t just factually wrong and morally offensive, it’s also deeply ironic.
Why it matters that Trump wants to see Jack Smith get ‘arrested’
What's more important than Donald Trump's latest whining about Jack Smith? The fact that the former president wants to see the special counsel arrested.
RNC troubles continue as party parts ways with its chief counsel
Two months ago, the RNC hired two lawyers to oversee the party’s election-year legal efforts. One has been indicted, and the other has been pushed out.
Tim Scott pushes a woeful solution to his Team Trump ‘problem’
Team Trump believes Tim Scott might not be hostile enough toward democracy. The Republican senator settled on the worst possible solution to the "problem."
House Democrat indicted by DOJ, undermining GOP talking points
As a Democratic member of Congress is indicted on corruption allegations, the idea of a "weaponized" Justice Department has been thoroughly discredited.
Trump responds to falling crime rates in a decidedly Trumpian way
Donald Trump doesn’t want to believe that crime rates went down, which is why he said all evidence reflecting reality must be dismissed as “fake."
Friday’s Campaign Round-Up, 5.3.24
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
DeSantis makes ‘cultivated’ lab-grown meats illegal in Florida
“Cultivated” lab-based meats have apparently become part of the GOP's culture war. Take Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' new ban on the products, for example.
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Why the Biden administration plan to reclassify marijuana matters
For decades, the United States’ “war on drugs” moved in one punitive direction. As the Biden administration’s dramatic moves help prove, it’s a new day.
In a second term, Trump intends to address ‘a bias against white’
As his team prepares to protect white people from discrimination, Donald Trump says he’s concerned about the “problem” related to the “bias against white.”
Unemployment rate remains below 4% for the 27th consecutive month
Though job growth cooled a bit in April, the jobless rate has now been below 4% for 27 consecutive months — a streak unseen in the U.S. since the 1960s.
Under conservative media pressure, Jim Jordan launches new probe
Conservative media told Jim Jordan to care about a conspiracy theory involving a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office. He’s complying.
Thursday’s Mini-Report, 5.2.24
Today’s edition of quick hits.
Arizona’s Democratic governor signs repeal of 1864 abortion ban
For reproductive rights advocates, the good news is a bill to repeal Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban passed. The bad news is, the larger fight isn't over.
As jobs soar under Biden, Trump claims ‘the job numbers are fake’
Donald Trump can’t decide whether to condemn Biden-era economic data or to take credit for it. So the Republican is trying to do both simultaneously.
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