Heartland Democrats are feeling left out — again
Midwest Democrats are warning that the party's coastal image — encapsulated by its new leadership roster — could haunt them politically as they seek to make inroads in America's heartland. House Democrats this week elected a new team of leaders to guide them through the next Congress and into the 2024 presidential election, with the top five — and a presumed No. 6 — all hailing from either the East Coast or California. Those optics are ringing alarms among the Democrats in the center of the country, who fear the party is only solidifying public perceptions tha
Read MoreJuan Williams: Show me Trump's taxes
As we wait to see what Democrats will do with former President Trump’s tax returns, let’s have a good laugh. Comedian Dave Chappelle recently told a story on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” about Trump being “an honest liar.” Chappelle’s joke starts with Hillary Clinton’s serious charge at a 2016 debate that Trump doesn’t pay taxes. Trump responds, “That makes me smart." Cue the laughs. But wait. The "SNL" monologue got better. Chappelle recalled that Trump taunted Clinton. As a rich man, Trump said he knows the “system is rigged
Read MoreLiz Cheney seizes on Trump's call to terminate Constitution
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Read MoreBetting markets heavily favor Warnock over Walker in Georgia runoff
Online betting markets are heavily favoring incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) over Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia’s Senate runoff with two days until the election. The Democrat’s chances of winning the runoff were at 89.5 percent to Walker’s 10.5 percent as of Sunday afternoon, according to the tracker Election Betting Odds, which culls odds from other popular betting markets. The site, run by conservatives John Stossel and Maxim Lott, notes Warnock’s lead has cli
Read MoreGOP seeks to play hardball on annual defense bill
Republicans are looking to play hardball with the annual defense authorization bill to combat what they are calling “woke” military policies, threatening to throw a wrench into efforts to pass the bill by the end of the year. The GOP lawmakers want to insert language into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to counter policies ranging from the military’s vaccine mandate to efforts to bring diversity and inclusion to the ranks — which they argue are weakening the military. But Democrat lawmakers see the GOP gambit as postu
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