Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has ensured another Donald Trump judicial nominee will get a vote following the presidential election. Before the GOP majority adjourned the Senate on Monday for about a two-week election recess, following Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s rushed confirmation to the Supreme Court on Monday night, McConnell set up a Senate vote for James Knepp II, chosen by...
Trump leaves seniors out in the cold — literally
Several Trump supporters were taken to hospitals on Tuesday after hundreds of attendees at a campaign rally were left stranded in the cold due. The reason: a logistical failure by his campaign. Donald Trump’s campaign reportedly arranged buses to bring supporters from remote parking lots to the evening rally at Eppley Airfield. But after the event ended and Trump flew away, supporters were...
Trump campaign very upset media won’t report positive things about the pandemic
Hogan Gidley, the press secretary for the Trump campaign, complained Wednesday morning that the media coverage of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic is not positive enough. “I think the president is being pretty clear there that the coverage of this virus has been exorbitantly negative, even when there are breakthroughs and good news,” Gidley said during an appearance on CNN. Gidley made...
Texas sees massive voter turnout — and it could turn the state blue
Voter turnout in Texas continues to astound political analysts, with some parts of the state now surpassing their 2016 vote totals with a week to go before Election Day. The massive voter turnout — especially in heavily Democratic regions of the state — has put Texas in play for the first time in decades. NBC News rates the race a toss-up, and polls are showing Donald Trump with a narrow 1 point...
Here’s how Barrett could hurt LGBTQ rights now that she’s on the Supreme Court
On Monday, a week before Election Day, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who has a long record of anti-LGBTQ remarks and positions, to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52-48. Barrett’s confirmation creates a conservative majority on the Supreme Court as it prepares to hears arguments in a number of cases that are of monumental importance to the LGBTQ community...
Trump loses it as Biden closes in on Texas
On Monday, Donald Trump blasted “suppression polls” for suggesting he could lose the state of Texas on Election Day. At a rally in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, Trump said that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had personally called him up to assure him that presidential election polls showing Trump with only a narrow lead over former Vice President Joe Biden were wrong. “So he goes — And...
Trump evidently doesn’t want votes from the military to count
Donald Trump’s latest attack on voting could undermine the right of many active-duty military members to have their votes counted in the 2020 elections. On Tuesday, Trump again demanded that the election be decided on November 3, rather than waiting for all ballots to be received and counted. He falsely suggested that it is illegal to count any ballots received in the days following the...
Concerned ‘voters’ in GOP Senate ads are actually just actors
Two Republican super PACs are running ads for U.S. Senate races in Kansas, Maine, and Iowa that all feature the same actors expressing concern about issues in their supposed states. Democratic candidate Barbara Bollier, who is running against GOP Rep. Roger Marshall, and who is the target of the Kansas ads, tweeted out a video of the two pairs of actors on Sunday, blasting the PACs’ use of...
Obama rips Trump and the GOP for 4 years of failure
President Barack Obama held a rally on Tuesday for Joe Biden in Orlando, Florida, where he called out Donald Trump and congressional Republicans for some of their worst failures of the last four years. Trump’s White House “completely screw[ed] up” responding to COVID-19 Obama conceded that responding to a pandemic “would have been challenging for any president,” but...
White House literally praises Trump for ‘ending the COVID-19 pandemic’
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Tuesday released its list of Donald Trump’s first-term accomplishments, and leading the list is the bogus claim that Trump ended the COVID-19 pandemic. “From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the administration has taken decisive actions to engage scientists and health professionals in academia, industry and government to...