The Green New Deal is a Democratic plan to reduce carbon emissions and grow the economy through clean, renewable energy solutions. On Tuesday night, Robert Vlaisavljevich, a Minnesota mayor, attacked the Green New Deal during an appearance at the Republican National Convention. “Joe Biden has allowed radicals like AOC to craft his environmental policies,” Vlaisavljevich said...
GOP cancels its own convention speaker after slamming ‘cancel culture’
For night one of the Republican National Convention, the GOP focused on the ostensible scourge of “cancel culture” — their term for any pushback on their racism, sexism, homophobia, or anti-semitism. For night two, though, they canceled one of their own speakers after she retweeted a lengthy anti-semitic Twitter thread. Mary Ann Mendoza was set to speak Tuesday night, presumably in...
House candidate gets slot at GOP convention after Fox News host insists on it
Kim Klacik, a Republican candidate in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, appeared as a featured speaker on Monday night at the Republican National Convention after Fox News host Laura Ingraham requested that she be given a speaking slot. Klacik is running for a seat in a district that includes half the city of Baltimore. It is currently represented by Democratic Rep. Kweisi Mfume...
Top Trump adviser says first night of GOP convention was ‘dark’ and ‘dim’
Donald Trump’s top trade adviser on Tuesday appeared to suggest that the first night of the Republican National Convention presented a depressing, dark message to the American people. In an MSNBC interview, Peter Navarro was asked why the first night of the GOP convention had made no acknowledgement of the nearly 180,000 million Americans who have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. Navarro...
Trump says he’ll nominate Homeland Security chief 9 months after illegal appointment
Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would officially nominate Chad Wolf to be secretary of Homeland Security. If Trump does so, he would be choosing a permanent head of the federal agency more than a year after the last Senate-approved leader stepped down. “I am pleased to inform the American Public that Acting Secretary Chad Wolf will be nominated to be the Secretary of Homeland...
GOP convention speaker says everyone is ‘welcome’ despite Trump attacks on LGBTQ rights
Sean Parnell, who is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District, told Democrats during the Republican National Convention on Monday that if they are unsatisfied with their party, they are welcome in the Republican Party. “It doesn’t matter what you look like, who you love, how you worship, your gender or your job. If you’re a...
White House: Melania’s anti-bullying campaign ‘really not about bullying per se’
A spokesperson for Melania Trump tried to claim that the first lady’s “Be Best” campaign isn’t actually about bullying, but rather about “online safety” — a blatant lie that is disproven by the White House’s own statements about the campaign. Stephanie Grisham gave her revised description of what the Be Best campaign is about during a Tuesday morning...
White House: Melania won’t plagiarize Michelle Obama’s convention speech this time
A spokesperson for Melania Trump assured Americans on Tuesday that the first lady’s address at the Republican National Convention will not be plagiarized. Four years ago, Trump plagiarized chunks of Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention address, as a side-by-side comparison of the two speeches shows. This year, said Stephanie Grisham, the former White House press...
Pompeo’s breaking his own ethics rule to give convention speech in Jerusalem
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to speak at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night, a move that not only breaks the tradition of keeping the nation’s top diplomat out of political matters, but also violates an ethics law Pompeo himself reminded State Department employees they must follow. No secretary of state has ever given an address at a party convention. And Pompeo is...
GOP convention ignores over 177,000 Americans who’ve died from coronavirus
The first night of the Republican National Convention all but ignored the more than 177,000 victims of raging coronavirus, and instead highlighted dangerous “treatments” for the virus that doctors say are dangerous, as well as featured testimonials from a dentist who is anything but an infectious disease expert. The lack of empathy to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who lost...