Juan Williams: Kanye West and Herschel Walker are puppets for Trump
The rapper and the Senate candidate each, in their way, offer up a ridiculous caricature of Black conservatism. Fox News viewers tell me I’m a Black liberal. A lot of people who know me personally, tell me I’m a Black conservative, citing the fact that I work for Fox News, my church-going and my long marriage. I’ll give both sides this much: I am a Black Democrat with some conservative views. And I am always happy to defend the value of Black conservatism in American history. To my eyes as a civil rights historian, Booker T. Washing
Read MoreDemocrats quietly making 2024 contingency plans ahead of midterms
Democrats behind the scenes are already talking about and making contingency plans for 2024 in case President Biden decides not to seek a second term, moves expected to intensify immediately after Election Day. Nov. 8 won’t just decide what Congress looks like for the next two years. It will in many ways kick off the presidential campaign season and determine what that looks like for Democrats. If they do better than expected, Biden could make a strong case for running again and the likelihood that he’ll get a credible challenger shrinks. But if Democratic candidat
Read MoreDarkening economic outlook spells trouble for 2022 Democrats
President Biden and Democrats are facing serious political headwinds driven by high inflation, an erratic stock market and deepening recession fears as they attempt to defend their majorities in the House and Senate. The president banked on a massive economic rebound powering his party to another sweep of Congress two years ago when he launched his ambitious recovery plan, deploying trillions in dollars to support the recovering job market and struggling households. In late summer, after enduring the scourge of surging prices and a strained supply chain
Read MoreDana Bash, Kari Lake clash over 2020 election fraud claims
Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake sparred with CNN’s Dana Bash over unfounded claims of mass election fraud in 2020 during an interview on Sunday. “You called the 2020 election corrupt, stolen, rotten and rigged, and there was no evidence of any of that presented in a court of law or anywhere else that any of those things are true. So why do you keep saying that?” Bash asked Lake on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Well, there's plenty of evidence,” Lake responded. “We had 740,000 ballots with no chain of custody. Those ballots shouldn't have been counted.”
Read MoreOngoing US support to Ukraine could prompt Russian cyber escalation in midterms, experts warn
With Russia continuing to face setbacks in its war against Ukraine, experts warn Russian President Vladimir Putin may escalate his cyber operations in the November midterms as retaliation for U.S. involvement in the conflict. Recent cyberattacks against U.S. state government and
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