Karen Mueller, a lawyer who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Wisconsin, is running for state attorney general, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Thursday. This in itself isn’t too remarkable; election-denying Republicans are running for public office nationwide. What makes Mueller’s campaign …
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Donald Trump and his allies devised several harebrained schemes to enable the former president to stay in power after the 2020 election. The Washington Post on Thursday reported on a memo detailing yet another such scheme: sifting through National Security Agency data to try to prove foreign election interference. The …
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Both the state and city where I was born and raised tend to garner the most national spotlight whenever we elect presidents. Having chosen the winner of the last 14 elections, for better or worse, Ohio remains the bellwether, even as the areas that aren’t as urban deepen into what …
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Michelle Obama, her fellow co-chairs — Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Janelle Monae, Chris Paul, Faith Hill, Selena Gomez, Liza Koshy, Megan Rapinoe, Shonda Rhimes, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kerry Washington, and Rita Wilson — and the When We All Vote organization are on a mission to change the culture around voting …
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President Trump’s first rally since the coronavirus took hold in the U.S. provided an unsurprising disaster of a speech, but the sparse crowd in attendance after the campaign touted ticket requests of over a million was a stunning surprise that sent Trump allies scurrying for excuses. Trump’s embarrassing speech on …
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In an ideal world, the White House press secretary would be a fearless defender of the truth and a window into the actions of the United States’ most powerful office. In the real world, the best we can hope for is something akin to the president’s public advocate, communicating the …
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Update: Former Vice President Joe Biden committed at the March 15th Democratic debate that his running mate would be a woman. His campaign confirmed the news in a tweet: “My running mate will be a woman.” WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden is close to all but securing the …
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Everything about Michael Bloomberg’s candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nominee makes me furious, but one moment during last night’s debate, in particular, really set me off. In response to Elizabeth Warren’s story of pregnancy discrimination, the former New York City mayor said: “If she was a teacher in New York …
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There was panic on the streets of Des Moines, Iowa, as Democrats wondered: Could life ever be sane again? Even before the state bungled the results of its all important caucus vote, internecine beef within the Democratic party was beginning to boil. The night before the caucus clusterfuck, while the …
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The tweet seems harmless enough, on the surface. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s account slapped its logo atop aJohn Hickenlooper for Colorado ad and gave the presidential dropout a big thumbs up. Hickenlooper, the DSCC wrote, “is running against Cory Gardner — the most vulnerable Republican up in 2020! If …
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