Tag: Elections

Trump praises Van Drew, rips impeachment in New Jersey campaign rally

Trump praises Van Drew, rips impeachment in New Jersey campaign rally

President Donald Trump speaks at an evening “Keep America Great Rally” at the Wildwood Convention Center on January 28, 2020 in Wildwood, New Jersey. Spencer Platt | Getty Images WILDWOOD, N.J. — President Donald Trump praised Rep. Jeff Van Drew, the newest Republican in Congress, as he denounced Democrats’ impeachment efforts during a raucous campaign […]

Dems use Republicans’ own words against them

Dems use Republicans’ own words against them

  Democratic impeachment managers pushing the Senate to take away President Donald Trump from workplace laid out a sprawling argument Thursday that he had abused his energy.   On their second day of opening statements, the seven House Democrats, led by Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., zeroed in on the primary of two articles of […]

Schumer says Dems won’t trade Bolton for Biden

Schumer says Dems won’t trade Bolton for Biden

He made lofty arguments about historic precedent, warning that if Trump will not be eliminated, future presidents will be happy to hunt overseas assist with elections. Trump was impeached over his efforts to strain Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to launch investigations into his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter, together […]

Demand Justice launches campaign against Susan Collins over Kavanaugh

Demand Justice launches campaign against Susan Collins over Kavanaugh

  Sen. Susan Collins continues dealing with backlash from Democrats for her 2018 vote to substantiate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, placing the Maine Republican on the defensive as she seeks a fifth time period.   The progressive group Demand Justice introduced Tuesday that it’ll deploy tons of of hundreds of on a […]

Chris Collins sentenced to 26 months for insider trading tip

Chris Collins sentenced to 26 months for insider trading tip

  A disgraced and extremely emotional former New York congressman Chris Collins was sentenced Friday to 26 months in jail for an unlawful inventory tip that he gave his son from the White House garden a couple of biopharmaceutical firm’s failed drug trial.   The sentence from Judge Vernon Broderick in U.S. District Court in […]

Warren says Sanders told her a woman couldn’t win the presidency

Warren says Sanders told her a woman couldn’t win the presidency

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said late Monday that Sen. Bernie Sanders had told her he didn’t think a woman could win the 2020 election — a statement the Sanders campaign had blasted as “a lie” earlier in the day. “Bernie and I met for more than two hours in December 2018 to discuss the 2020 election, […]

Joe Biden campaign chairman rallies Wall Street donors for fundraising push

Joe Biden campaign chairman rallies Wall Street donors for fundraising push

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Trump administration’s recent actions in Iraq at Current, Chelsea Piers in New York City. Ron Adar | Barcroft Media | Getty Images Joe Biden’s campaign chairman privately met with some of Wall Street’s top donors last week in an attempt to rally them […]

Cory Booker drops out of 2020 presidential race

Cory Booker drops out of 2020 presidential race

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., dropped out of the 2020 presidential race Monday, after failing to gain traction in national polls and failing to qualify for two Democratic debates. “Today I’m suspending my campaign for president in the same spirit with which it began,” Booker said in a video posted Monday morning. “It is my faith […]

Bernie Sanders doesn’t have any apps on his phone

Bernie Sanders doesn’t have any apps on his phone

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) holds up his mobile phone while while speaking August 16, 2015 in Clinton, Iowa. Getty Images When Bernie Sanders wants to read the news on his phone, he says he finds popular publications “in my own way.” That’s because the Democratic presidential contender has no apps to get him there […]

Supreme Court tosses ruling against Iran central bank in case over 1983 bombing

Supreme Court tosses ruling against Iran central bank in case over 1983 bombing

Edwin Marian Johnston hold up a photo of her son US Marine CPL Edward Johnston who died in the bombing of his Lebanon barracks in 1983 outside Federal Court September 7, 2007 in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out a decision by a federal appeals court in […]