“I’m calling it,” declared Commentary Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief John Podhoretz on the magazine’s Monday podcast. Podhoretz then went on to detail at some length, egged on by Commentary’s Washington columnist and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Matt Continetti, as to why North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum would be former President Donald Trump’s running mate. They received support for their choice from …
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Biden thought these voters were locked in. His cockiness could cost him big time
Recent polling shows President Joe Biden losing support from Black voters; Democrats appear genuinely shocked. Their confusion reflects a reprehensible and dated view of American minorities. New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, recently said at the Milken Institute Conference in California, “we have young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word computer …
Read More »Contentious primaries in 3 states set up crucial general election matchups in House, Senate – What to know
Voters in Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia head to the polls on Tuesday in some competitive and contentious Democrat and Republican primaries that in a couple of cases will tee up crucial general election showdowns that may decide the House and Senate majorities. The most high-profile of the May 14 primary contests is in Maryland, where Republicans are aiming to …
Read More »Biden repeats false claim that inflation was at 9% when he took office after being called out last week
President Biden repeated his false claim that inflation was at 9% when he first took office less than a week after being called out for making the same assertion. Speaking with Yahoo! Finance about his newly announced tariffs on China, Biden defended his handling of the economy while acknowledging the impact inflation has had on Americans. “Inflation has gone slightly …
Read More »Trump ahead of Biden in these key swing states: poll
Former President Trump has the edge in five of the six key battleground states where he was narrowly edged by President Biden four years ago, according to new polls. The surveys, released Monday by the New York Times, Siena College and the Philadelphia Inquirer, suggest that discontent over the economy and the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza, and a deterioration in …
Read More »All in the family: 5 Trump kin to represent Florida at Republican National Convention
While former first son Barron Trump made headlines after reports indicated he was making his first foray into the public spotlight as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, late on Friday he declined to serve as a delegate. But tallies showed five more Trump family members will be in Milwaukee to cast votes for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. …
Read More »Trump Veepstakes: The pros and cons of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of profiles of potential running mates for presidential candidate Donald Trump on the 2024 Republican Party ticket. A full-on horse race is underway for those hoping to stand alongside former President Donald Trump as his running mate on the stage at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer. Trump appears …
Read More »Tales from the trail: The blue states Trump eyes to turn red in November
Former President Donald Trump is headed back to the Jersey Shore. “We have a tremendous rally and hope you’re all going to be there. It’s in Wildwood, New Jersey. It’s going to be a big crowd,” the former president touted on the eve of his Saturday rally. Wildwood, at the southern tip of the Jersey Shore, is part of the …
Read More »Trump predicts he will be the first GOP candidate to flip this blue state in 36 years
It has been over three decades since a Republican carried New Jersey in a presidential election. One has to go back to then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, who carried the state in the 1988 election on his way to winning the White House. Since then, Democrats have won the state eight straight times in presidential elections. However, former President Donald …
Read More »Muslim, Arab American leaders dismiss Biden's pivot on Israel as 'too little, too late:' 'Irrevocably at odds'
The New York Times is putting a spotlight on the “broken relationship” between President Biden and Muslim leaders in America, even as he embraces a tougher stance against Israel in its war on Hamas. “Seven months into Israel’s war in Gaza, Muslim and Arab American leaders say their channels of communication with President Biden’s White House have largely broken down, …
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