With midterm losses, Trump's climb to the presidency could be steeper than he'd like
2 years, 4 months ago

With midterm losses, Trump's climb to the presidency could be steeper than he'd like

NPR  

With midterm losses, Trump's climb to the presidency could be steeper than he'd like Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Andrew Harnik/AP Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, announced he is running again for president in 2024. Sponsor Message "America's comeback starts right now," Trump said, claiming, "Your country is being destroyed before your eyes." Trump's move shows a degree of vulnerability — an effort to freeze out the GOP presidential field and force Republican elected officials to get off the sidelines and endorse him. The foundation of Trump's 2016 candidacy and ensuing presidency was nativism — he campaigned on building a wall to keep Spanish-speaking immigrants out of the United States; in his early days in office, he banned people from some mostly Muslim countries from coming to the country; he inflamed racial tensions like when he said there were "very fine people" on both sides of a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va., where a counter-protester was killed; and he regularly exaggerated dangers to trigger anger and fear in many Americans.

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'Self-inflicted wounds': New data shows even MAGA's hardcore is souring on Trump's antics
2 weeks, 6 days ago

'Self-inflicted wounds': New data shows even MAGA's hardcore is souring on Trump's antics

Raw Story  

New polling reveals flashing red lights and "self-inflicted wounds" for President Donald Trump, with independents and even some of Trump's own supporters losing patience with the tariff chaos and tech billionaire Elon Musk's dismantling of the federal government, Aaron Blake wrote for The Washington Post. And it’s not just Democrats refusing to recognize Trump’s alternate reality; it’s also the political …

Time to Admit It: Trump Is a Great President. He’s Still Trying To Be a Good One.
2 months, 1 week ago

Time to Admit It: Trump Is a Great President. He’s Still Trying To Be a Good One.

Politico  

The most flamboyant rhetoric of Trump’s inaugural address — “Drill, baby, drill!”; retaking the Panama Canal; renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America; sending federal troops to the border — are all expressions of his genuine worldview. In that sense, Trump’s use of social media recalls Franklin D. Roosevelt’s mastery of radio, and John F. Kennedy’s and Ronald …

Trump reclaims power, advances agenda
2 months, 1 week ago

Trump reclaims power, advances agenda

China Daily  

People wait in the snow to attend a rally of US President-elect Donald Trump at Capital One Arena in Washington on Sunday ahead of his presidential inauguration. BLUE VIA GETTY IMAGES WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, would be sworn in as the …

Corporate America bowed to Trump before he was even in the White House
2 months, 1 week ago

Corporate America bowed to Trump before he was even in the White House

ABC  

It's just a jump to the left … and then a step to the right. The new president's views on everything from diversity and workplace inclusion to his opposition to policies on climate change not long ago would have sparked a backlash from many in corporate America. Trump live updates: Look back at the developments in Donald Trump's second term …

Trump’s deeds may not have the same bite as his plans
2 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s deeds may not have the same bite as his plans

Live Mint  

Donald Trump will take the oath today as the US president for his second term. Let’s revisit Trump’s last tenure as US president that started 20 January 2017 to gain some insights. He’s the first US president to have released a map even before assuming office. Donald Trump is also the first US president indicted in a sexual misconduct case …

MSNBC Host Explains Exactly Why Trump Is Stacking Second Term With ‘Political Losers’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

MSNBC Host Explains Exactly Why Trump Is Stacking Second Term With ‘Political Losers’

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin on Sunday said a “striking pattern” is emerging among Donald Trump’s picks for roles in the president-elect’s upcoming second term. “We’re seeing a whole lot of political losers, people defeated in elections in just about every way imaginable,” Mohyeldin noted. “It might seem odd for Trump to choose so many political losers,” said Mohyeldin. …

Trump and the Triumph of America’s New Elite
4 months, 1 week ago

Trump and the Triumph of America’s New Elite

Bloomberg  

A future historian looking back at the social and economic trends of the past decade might be struck by how thoroughly dysfunctional the most powerful nation of Earth has become. Despite extraordinary technological change and respectable economic growth, the well-being of most Americans has been declining. So while Donald Trump ’s election this fall was a surprise to many, the …

Challenges await US president-elect Trump in deeply divided nation
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Challenges await US president-elect Trump in deeply divided nation

China Daily  

Supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump react, after he won the 2024 US presidential election, in West Palm Beach, Florida, US, Nov 6, 2024. NEW YORK - US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States, facing significant challenges of "healing" a deeply divided nation. Trump was elected by a nation deeply divided …

Trump’s victory: ‘America has found its common sense – now we need to find ours’
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s victory: ‘America has found its common sense – now we need to find ours’

The Telegraph  

Donald Trump has won the 2024 US presidential election, securing a second term as president. “Time for the woke, delusional West to get a much-needed kick up the backside, including us,” Rohan L remarks. Likewise, another anonymous reader hopes the Trump win will see a “dying down of identity politics peddled by the Left”. They add: “Americans who aren’t indoctrinated …

"I do not see any light on the horizon for Trump": Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson on MAGA's retreat
7 months, 2 weeks ago

"I do not see any light on the horizon for Trump": Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson on MAGA's retreat

Salon  

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. Donald Trump and his campaign developed a strategy specifically to defeat President Biden in the 2024 Election. He also details the advantages that Kamala Harris possesses against Donald Trump — advantages that may be very difficult for the corrupt felon ex-president to counter. "Donald Trump had a period of time which were, …

Opinion: The force propping up Trump that we still don’t talk about
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: The force propping up Trump that we still don’t talk about

LA Times  

At the debate in Atlanta, former President Trump “won,” but he also intensified the MAGA moral mudslide. Democrats have been downright apoplectic at President Biden’s projecting confusion and weakness when the party needed clarity and resolve. Face to face with Trump, the president’s fatigue and bewilderment mirrors what so many of us feel in response to an intensifying moral MAGA …

Column: Trump’s campaign in 2016 was a populist revolt. In 2024, it’s a quest for retribution
1 year, 3 months ago

Column: Trump’s campaign in 2016 was a populist revolt. In 2024, it’s a quest for retribution

LA Times  

Former President Trump speaks at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit on Nov. 4 in Kissimmee, Fla. “I will appoint a real special ‘prosecutor’ to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the USA, Joe Biden, the entire Biden crime family, & all others involved with the destruction of our elections, borders, & country itself!” he …

Trump has 'far more to lose' as 'unforced gaffes' indicate mental decline: report
1 year, 5 months ago

Trump has 'far more to lose' as 'unforced gaffes' indicate mental decline: report

Raw Story  

Plans by the Republican Party to make President Joe Biden's age a central theme of the 2024 presidential campaign could be heading for a speedbump as presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump stumbles through speeches — raising questions about his mental decline. And it’s sad to see.” As the Times notes, Trump is just three years younger than President Biden, and …

Donald Trump's arraignment: Is this the end of the road for former US president?
1 year, 11 months ago

Donald Trump's arraignment: Is this the end of the road for former US president?

Firstpost  

Even by the standards of a uniquely gaudy, attention grabbing, tradition-smashing career, Donald Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan marked an unprecedented low Washington: Donald Trump always wanted to be king of New York but Tuesday perhaps the most controversial US president in history instead walked into a Big Apple courtroom as a criminal defendant. Even by the standards of a uniquely …

‘Behaving like a loser’: Jan 6 criminal referrals are just the beginning of Donald Trump’s problems
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Behaving like a loser’: Jan 6 criminal referrals are just the beginning of Donald Trump’s problems

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Nearly two years after the disgraced former president encouraged a mob of his supporters …

Wake up, MSM: Donald Trump's comeback is not funny
2 years, 4 months ago

Wake up, MSM: Donald Trump's comeback is not funny

Salon  

Serious, chronic illness is not funny. Both explicitly and through the use of stochastic terrorism, Donald Trump and his propagandists have incited violence against Black and brown people, liberals and progressives, LGBTQ people, Muslims, Jewish people and others deemed to be less than a "real American." In a post on his Truth Social site a few weeks earlier, Trump even …

Donald Trump is at his weakest political position in years
2 years, 4 months ago

Donald Trump is at his weakest political position in years

CNN  

CNN — Former President Donald Trump is giving it another go. Trump’s move comes at a time when his political brand is at its weakest point since his first presidential bid in 2015-2016. In CNN’s exit poll of 2022 midterm voters in Florida, more Republicans wanted DeSantis to run in 2024 than they did Trump. I noted last week that …

'Trump is a loser': Conservative pundit erupts after 'profoundly disappointing' midterm results
2 years, 4 months ago

'Trump is a loser': Conservative pundit erupts after 'profoundly disappointing' midterm results

Raw Story  

"It's time for Donald Trump to go." According to Cooke, Republican voters must respond to last night’s "profoundly disappointing midterm-election result by telling the Republican establishment to pound sand," adding that Trump has become the GOP "establishment" that he vowed to topple when he first ran for president. Trump's attacks on now-reelected Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were "classic establishment gate-keeping," …

Surge in Latino support for Trump helps him win Florida
4 years, 4 months ago

Surge in Latino support for Trump helps him win Florida

Al Jazeera  

A wave of support from Hispanic voters gave President Donald Trump a narrow victory in battleground state of Florida. A wave of support from Hispanic voters gave President Donald Trump a narrow victory in Florida on Tuesday night, boosting his chances of re-election. That swing denied Biden the votes he needed from South Florida to balance Trump’s strength in the …

After year of disruption, America set to choose a path ahead
4 years, 5 months ago

After year of disruption, America set to choose a path ahead

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A Trump victory would deepen the anti-establishment, inward-facing approach to the nation’s challenges that …

US elections 2020: One way Trump is doing better than expected
4 years, 5 months ago

US elections 2020: One way Trump is doing better than expected

Live Mint  

If President Donald Trump loses re-election in two weeks, as seems increasingly likely, one main reason will be the collapse of his support among older Whites without a college degree. Recriminations are sure to focus on that, but it will also be important not to overlook one of Trump’s surprising strengths: the rise in his support among young minority voters. …

Trump 2020 polls: White-collar revolt against the President is peaking
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump 2020 polls: White-collar revolt against the President is peaking

CNN  

CNN — From his open defiance of public health officials when holding rallies to his increasingly explicit embrace of White racial backlash, President Donald Trump has set a course for his reelection campaign that could produce the GOP’s largest deficit in the history of modern polling among well-educated White voters. In Navigator polling last week, he said, a solid majority …

Beating Trump: Undoing the great mistake of 2016
5 years, 5 months ago

Beating Trump: Undoing the great mistake of 2016

LA Times  

As the 2020 election approaches, the United States is deeply and bitterly polarized, shaken by acts of random and not-so-random violence, with wages still rising too slowly, income inequality continuing to increase and the American Dream feeling more and more out of reach for too many people. Flitting above this chaotic landscape — fomenting, provoking, preening, spewing, tweeting, blustering and …

Trump campaign: Four years ago he slid down an escalator and changed America forever – but it’ll take a lot more to win in 2020
5 years, 9 months ago

Trump campaign: Four years ago he slid down an escalator and changed America forever – but it’ll take a lot more to win in 2020

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Four years have somehow …

Bush boosting Republicans in places where Trump isn’t strong
6 years, 6 months ago

Bush boosting Republicans in places where Trump isn’t strong

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former President George W. Bush is quietly helping boost Republican candidates in places where President Donald Trump has struggled. Jeb Bush, who will also attend the Scott event, said in an email that his brother “is helping Senate candidates across the country.” These events are a focal part of Bush’s re-emergence in national politics ahead before the …

Trump pushes for American authoritarianism — with success
7 years, 2 months ago

Trump pushes for American authoritarianism — with success

Salon  

" His act is familiar to all by now: Donald Trump diverts public attention with clownish acts, outrageous statements and headline-making Tweets. Much worse than watergate Any honest assessment of the current political situation would find that Trump’s assault on democracy is graver than “Watergate.” That episode was a combination of illegal dirty tricks, obstruction of justice and lies directed …

Analysis: Trump vs. Clinton: Why are we still obsessed a year later?
7 years, 4 months ago

Analysis: Trump vs. Clinton: Why are we still obsessed a year later?

LA Times  

Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was one of the most stunning upsets in modern political history, which has helped keep the campaign alive. One year later, much of the country continues to obsess over Trump vs. Clinton, as though still seated on the couch, eyes agoggle, watching the final decisive returns trickle in from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Part of …

Trump's Greatest Strength, Now His Biggest Weakness
7 years, 5 months ago

Trump's Greatest Strength, Now His Biggest Weakness

Huff Post  

Trump’s greatest strength ― his brash, attention-seeking rhetoric ― has now become his biggest weakness as it places undue focus on him and his government, while pushing the ruling party into increased division and gridlock. It’s also doubly not all that great though since: We’re still mass deporting and incarcerating, racism is totally acceptable to do in public and our …

Analysis: Trump’s war against elites and expertise
7 years, 8 months ago

Analysis: Trump’s war against elites and expertise

LA Times  

When President Trump campaigned this spring at the Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, one part of his predecessor’s approach got a special endorsement. President Wayne LaPierre teed off six weeks later on America’s greatest domestic threats, he cited not homegrown terrorists but what he termed “the three most dangerous voices in America: academic elites, political elites, and media elites.” …

Trump at the 100-day mark: Stable support but few achievements
7 years, 11 months ago

Trump at the 100-day mark: Stable support but few achievements

LA Times  

Trump’s first 100 days in office are almost up. A new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times “Daybreak” poll provides evidence of both the polarization and the stability of Trump’s support. A comparison of the two shows something of a paradox: Among Trump’s voters, approval of his job performance has solidified even as doubts about him have begun to creep in. One …

Donald Trump's victory put the final nail in the mainstream media's coffin
8 years, 4 months ago

Donald Trump's victory put the final nail in the mainstream media's coffin

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Ever since …

The Minefield: Donald Trump represents triumph of class over identity in politics
8 years, 4 months ago

The Minefield: Donald Trump represents triumph of class over identity in politics

ABC  

Donald Trump can no longer be dismissed as an aberration or a sideshow, a moral monster or a mere misogynist. Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, joined Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens to discuss the fallout from Mr Trump's victory. Scott Stephens: All of our conversations over the last year have been about the identity crisis in …

Understanding Trumpocalypse
8 years, 4 months ago

Understanding Trumpocalypse

The Hindu  

Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States. According to the exit polls, 58 per cent of whites and 21 per cent of non-whites voted for Mr. Trump, whereas 37 per cent of whites and 74 per cent of non-whites voted for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. In other words, blue-collared white men and women thronged to …

US election 2016: Donald Trump victory threatens a new world disorder
8 years, 4 months ago

US election 2016: Donald Trump victory threatens a new world disorder

Live Mint  

London/Washington: Brexit was the warm-up. Trump’s victory, he said, is “a big boost for populists all over the world.” US Treasuries, the yen and gold all rose by the most since Britain’s Brexit referendum, as investors fled to safety. Trump has said that if elected he would “be looking at” whether to recognize Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, and to …

Donald Trump elected 45th US President after bitter battle with Hillary Clinton
8 years, 4 months ago

Donald Trump elected 45th US President after bitter battle with Hillary Clinton

Live Mint  

Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the US on Wednesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy. The surprise outcome, defying late polls that showed Hillary Clinton with a modest but persistent edge, threatened convulsions throughout the country and the …

Donald Trump trashed the political playbook. Then he made his own rules
8 years, 4 months ago

Donald Trump trashed the political playbook. Then he made his own rules

LA Times  

Supporters cheer for their candidate at a Donald Trump rally in Tampa, Fla. Trump was able to flip several states that had voted twice for President Obama, including Florida. Trump won by crashing through Hillary Clinton’s so-called blue wall, states that Democrats had won in each of the last six presidential campaigns and flipping states that President Obama carried twice. …

How Donald Trump could win – and why
8 years, 7 months ago

How Donald Trump could win – and why

Al Jazeera  

Old electoral alliances are cracking up, and the new have yet to clearly form. Reprising Lyndon Johnson’s famous anti-Barry Goldwater ad from 1964, Hillary Clinton seems to believe that Trump’s awfulness is enough to pave the way to power. Even though his projected popular vote is not that far behind Clinton’s, the geographical distribution of his vote means that the …

How Donald Trump could win – and why
8 years, 7 months ago

How Donald Trump could win – and why

Al Jazeera  

Old electoral alliances are cracking up, and the new have yet to clearly form. Reprising Lyndon Johnson’s famous anti-Barry Goldwater ad from 1964, Hillary Clinton seems to believe that Trump’s awfulness is enough to pave the way to power. Even though his projected popular vote is not that far behind Clinton’s, the geographical distribution of his vote means that the …

Donald Trump presidential candidature: Trumping the odds
8 years, 8 months ago

Donald Trump presidential candidature: Trumping the odds

The Hindu  

>Donald Trump is the Republican Party nominee for the November presidential election. It has also caused a ripple of consternation among his detractors within the Grand Old Party and his Democratic opponents, many among who are possibly still in a state of disbelief that the real estate mogul trounced as many as 16 rivals and scored resounding primaries victories in …

I Predicted That Donald Trump Would Win and Why I Was Right
8 years, 10 months ago

I Predicted That Donald Trump Would Win and Why I Was Right

The Quint  

Just about six months back, Donald Trump was hardly taken as a serious contender for the American presidency. Many a time while visiting UN headquarters, I had strolled outside the premises of Trump Tower and a strong sense of intuition informed that it’s not just Trump – rather it’s a Trump phenomenon setting the course for America in the “interesting …

Republican donors’ anti-Trump efforts ramp up, with an eye toward Florida
9 years, 1 month ago

Republican donors’ anti-Trump efforts ramp up, with an eye toward Florida

LA Times  

As voters in a large swath of the nation were delivering victories to Donald Trump in seven states this week, some of the wealthiest GOP donors gathered on a conference call with one goal: to stop the businessman from becoming the standard-bearer for the Republican Party. It’s inconceivable to people that everybody doesn’t see him that way.” Donors, she said, …

Donald Trump is blowing up conservatism
9 years, 1 month ago

Donald Trump is blowing up conservatism

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Timothy Stanley, a conservative, is a historian and columnist for Britain’s Daily Telegraph. Story highlights Timothy Stanley says time is running out for conservatives to come up with a strategy to defeat a man at odds with their philosophy He says Rubio is starting to look like the only real alternative, even though he's lost primaries CNN — …

AP Conversation: Bush sees conservatism at stake in ’16
9 years, 2 months ago

AP Conversation: Bush sees conservatism at stake in ’16

Associated Press  

CORALVILLE, Iowa — Jeb Bush says he misjudged the intensity of anger among Republican voters before his White House campaign and believes the country in 2016 is “dramatically different” than in past elections. Not just in talk shows and think-tanks and wherever conservatism is talked about in all sorts of different ways, but in governing.” Bush’s vow to champion conservative …

Of Trump’s gaffes & Republican agony
9 years, 3 months ago

Of Trump’s gaffes & Republican agony

Deccan Chronicle  

American presidential election campaigns are extravaganzas in which rhetoric reigns over reality while candidates survey their kitty before deciding whether they should throw in the towel. More than Mr Trump’s own personality, the adulation Republican voters seem to have for him is an expression of the American state of mind and feelings. President Barack Obama’s assurances to his countrymen and …

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