Jul 30, 2020 | Elections, Salon.com
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The U.S economy contracted at a staggering annual rate of 32.9 percent between April and June, according to Thursday’s announcement by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). It was by far the most severe decline since the government began keeping quarterly gross domestic product data in 1947, and more than three times worse than the previous record decline of 10 percent in 1958....
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May 7, 2020 | Elections, Salon.com
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Fox News host Martha MacCallum told one of her colleagues at the right-leaning network Wednesday that the sexual assault allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden have driven “a stake into the heart” of the #MeToo movement.
“I think it starts to neutralize that issue as you head into this election, especially since you have a lot of people that say, ‘I believe Tara Reade, but I support Joe Biden, anyway,'” MacCallum told host Bill Hemmer on his eponymous show....
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May 7, 2020 | Elections, Salon.com
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Thursday told NPR that the sexual assault allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden were “not clear cut.”
“It certainly seems as though something has happened. I’m not sure,” Ocasio-Cortez told NPR’s “Morning Edition” of the accusation by Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for Joe Biden who accused the former vice president of sexually assaulting her in 1993....
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Apr 15, 2020 | Elections, Salon.com
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Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday night accused Barack Obama of being obsessed with him at the same time as he relitigated a controversy from the former president’s 2008 campaign.
“He can’t get Fox News out of his head,” the Fox News host said in a segment about Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden, his former vice president....
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Apr 15, 2020 | Elections, Salon.com
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president Wednesday.
“We’re all in this together now,” Warren said in the Twitter announcement. “And now, it’s up to all of us to help make Joe Biden the next president of the United States — let’s get to work.”...
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Apr 14, 2020 | Elections, Salon.com
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Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich. — who rose to prominence last year after quitting the Republican Party in opposition to President Donald Trump — revealed that he was “closely” weighing a third-party bid for the presidency.
“Americans who believe in limited government deserve another option,” Amash tweeted Monday....
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Apr 13, 2020 | Elections, Salon.com
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Monday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign for the White House.
“We need you in the White House. I will do all that I can to see that that happens, Joe,” Sanders told the former vice president during a livestream broadcast on Biden’s website. ...
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Apr 10, 2020 | Elections, Salon.com
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President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign released a misleading ad Thursday that attempts to portray former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, as cozy with China. The ad was promptly criticized by an advocacy group as dangerous for suggesting that a former governor of Washington, who is Asian American, has a dual loyalty to the foreign power. ...
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Apr 3, 2020 | Elections, Republicans, Salon.com
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Donald Trump’s re-election campaign sent a letter to Jeff Sessions Tuesday accusing him of attempting to “confuse” the president’s supporters into believing that he supports his former attorney general’s Senate campaign in Alabama.
“The Trump campaign has learned that your U.S. Senate campaign is circulating mailers like the one I have enclosed, in which you misleadingly promote your connections to and ‘support’ of President Trump,” Michael Glassner, chief operating officer of Trump’s campaign, wrote in the letter obtained by The New York Times....
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Mar 31, 2020 | Elections, Salon.com
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When Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., first announced that he would run for House speaker in 2015 (after the departure of John Boehner), the party’s far-right Freedom Caucus opposed him on the grounds that he was too moderate. His primary offense: Opposing the 2013 government shutdown, which was orchestrated by House Republicans in a futile attempt to thwart the implementation of the Affordable Care Act....
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