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4 weeks ago

Trump's 'political whirlwind' may force 'overreach' that will doom presidency: CNN analyst

Donald Trump's return to the White House will most likely set off a "political whirlwind" in Washington, D.C. — especially if he can place his preferred choices in top administration positions, a CNN analyst wrote Monday. "One big unknown is whether Republican senators are again prepared to challenge Trump’s judgment after it quickly became clear that Gaetz wouldn’t have enough …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Two-Party Doom Loop’: New Poll Shows Independent Dan Osborn In Striking Distance In Nebraska

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn is in striking distance of unseating two-term Republican senator Deb Fischer in ruby-red Nebraska according to several recent polls, forcing the GOP to spend millions of dollars in a race that could upend the battle for the Senate. “That’s what the two-party doom loop means — we’re so far apart and politics …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Inside Kamala Harris’ bumpy ride from near political doom to a rebound that has Democrats hopeful

LA Times

Vice President Kamala Harris looked peeved and exhausted from the weight of expectations as she stood at a hotel meeting room three years ago, flags and a foggy Mexico City skyline behind her. “As a result, I don’t think the voters always get to see Kamala being Kamala.” Behind the scenes, Harris liked to curse and make sarcastic jokes. “When …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Doom and gloom was the ultimate goal — and now it is working: Trump wins with voter apathy

Salon

At this point in election season, the political press starts making forays into the wilds of so-called Real America to try to find out what the voters are thinking. Back in 2020, just before the election, the New York Times sent a couple of reporters there to take the temperature of voters in the Badger State that former president Donald …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Why post-McCarthy dread and doom is afflicting the GOP's 'Biden 18'

Raw Story

The Republican House members most targeted by Democrats for defeat in 2024 have been thrown into a state of anxiety by the historic removal Tuesday of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. We can’t afford to play these games.” Rep. Juan Ciscomani, who won by just 1.5 percent in 2022, blasted McCarthy’s removal as “pointless, unproductive and harmful to the agenda we …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Inside The Hunter Biden Doom Loop

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Rep. James Comer does not like it when people suggest his big, wholly unproven allegation against President Joe Biden ― that the president received a $5 million bribe ― is just Rudy Giuliani’s leftovers, slightly warmed up in the microwave. Back in May, when Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on Comer’s committee, suggested Comer …

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1 year, 11 months ago

ROSS CLARK challenges the hysteria that surrounds climate change debates and argues they risk harm

Daily Mail

Fear is very easy to spread. Yet if you report on every extreme event and throw in the term ‘climate change’, you will very rapidly plant the idea that the world is in some freakish transformation. In his 2006 climate change film An Inconvenient Truth, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore asserted that the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro would be gone …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Experts: Trump Org's $1.6 million tax crime fine 'spells doom' for the company

Raw Story

The Trump Organization was ordered by a Manhattan State Supreme Court judge on Friday to pay $1.6 million, the maximum fine allowed under the law, after it was convicted on felony tax fraud and other charges. Trump Organization lawyer Susan Necheles said in court on Friday that the company plans to appeal the conviction and that "the D.A., as usual, …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Ethnic Conflict, Economic Doom: Sri Lanka’s Horrors Set To Grow Bigger?

The Quint

The unceremonious and unprecedentedly violent exit of Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa could not have come at a worse time, which is already reeling under the twin weight of an economic crisis and the political instability caused by it. The irony at the end of the day is that no one is talking about these two complications, focusing instead …

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3 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 cases rise as states ease restrictions; CDC director warns of "impending doom"