A new NBC/SurveyMonkey poll finds 47% of respondents said their reaction to Donald Trump becoming the presumptive Republican nominee was fear. Just 26% said they were hopeful, while another 21% said they were angry and 16% were surprised.


A new NBC/SurveyMonkey poll finds 47% of respondents said their reaction to Donald Trump becoming the presumptive Republican nominee was fear. Just 26% said they were hopeful, while another 21% said they were angry and 16% were surprised.
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“Arizona Democrats voted late Wednesday to boot their embattled party chair, Robert E. Branscomb II, ending a brief tenure that was defined by infighting. Statewide officials had already redirected their…
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) warned that stock and bond markets and the value of the U.S. dollar will plunge if President Trump fires Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, CNBC reports….
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“Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has formally terminated $4 billion in federal funding for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, weeks after putting the bullet train project on notice,” CNBC reports. Save…
David French: “I know this will come as a shock to some folks, but one of the most remarkable thing about the Epstein affair is that quite a few Americans…
CNN: “House Freedom Caucus members argue their objections to – and eventual reversals on – Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts bill were just part of the process: they push…
President Trump completely made up a story about his uncle, who was a professor at MIT, and the Unabomber, who the president falsely claimed was his uncle’s student, CNN reports….
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who faces a tough GOP primary challenger in Ken Paxton (R), is pleading directly with President Trump for his endorsement, but the president has so far…
Gallup: “Americans’ average confidence in major U.S. institutions is unchanged since last year, with a near-record-low 28% of U.S. adults expressing ‘a great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence…
A report in JAMA Health Forum found the Medicaid cuts in the “big, beautiful bill” could lead to as many as 1,000 additional deaths and 100,000 more hospitalizations annually. Save to Favorites
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“One of the three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran struck by the United States last month was mostly destroyed, setting work there back significantly,” NBC News reports. “But the two…
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