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Her Schedule Is Empty for Months at a Time
“The government website of Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) highlights that she has ‘traveled over 28,000 miles across the Commonwealth since coming into office’ and ‘headlined numerous events across…
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Exchange of the Day
President Trump took questions from reporters at the White House with Attorney General Pam Bondi: TRUMP: Adam Schiff is one of the lowest forms of scum I’ve ever dealt with…
A Republic, but Can We Keep It?
Peggy Noonan: “Donald Trump’s supporters are feeling satisfaction after two astonishing achievements: He is the first president this century to establish order on the southern border, and he has secured…
U.S. Strikes Another Vessel in the Caribbean
“The U.S. military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Tren de Aragua gang for operating the vessel…
GOP Senators Uncomfortable Trump May Pay Himself
“Reports this week that President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him $230 million in compensation for wrongful prosecution is making Republican senators uncomfortable amid the 24-day government…
Social Security Recipients Get 2.8% Boost
Millions of Social Security recipients will see a 2.8 percent cost-of-living increase in their monthly checks next year, the Washington Post reports. Save to Favorites
Republicans’ Purple Problem
Charlie Cook: “Close association with Trump is not a handicap in red states and districts, for now at least. It is a benefit, keeping the band together. But outside red…
Rand Paul Warns Trump Over Foreign Intervention
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned President Trump over his foreign policy, saying that the president could see “all hell break loose” if he involves the US further in Venezuela or…
U.S. Inflation Picked Up to 3%
“Consumer prices rose 3.0% in September from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Friday, hotter than August’s increase of 2.9%,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Economists and policymakers are…
Americans See Trump’s Retribution for What It Is
A new Quinnipiac University poll finds voters believe by a 52% to 38% margin that President Trump was “using the U.S. Justice Department to file unjustified criminal charges against his…
Cracks Emerge in Democrats’ Unity on Shutdown
“Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock voted with Republicans on Thursday on the government shutdown, after previously rejecting every GOP measure to re-open the government or fund parts of it,”…
Lindsey Graham Pushes ‘Russia Week’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is pushing for “Russia week” on the Senate floor, where senators would take up a trio of bills targeting Moscow, including a long-stalled sanctions effort, Punchbowl…
Trump’s Run In with Protesters Still Haunts His Team
After protesters got within a few feet of President Trump at a D.C. restaurant last month, his team was so alarmed it had a tense talk with Secret Service officials…
Voters Now Trust Democrats More on the Economy
G. Elliot Morris: “New polls from Gallup and YouGov show Democrats pulling ahead of Republicans as the party voters trust more to handle the economy. And the raw polling data…
Trump Is Losing Hispanic Voters
President Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a new AP-NORC poll shows, “a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure…
Republicans Are Barreling Toward an Obamacare Cliff
“Republicans are barreling toward the upcoming Obamacare enrollment period without a unified plan to address the sticker shock that millions of Americans are likely to experience due to the expiration…
Bonus Quote of the Day
“It’s been a helluva week. I went from being a communist on Thursday to a Nazi by Monday.” — Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D), quoted by Drop Site….
Trump Says Private Donor Is Paying the Military
President Trump said a private donor has contributed $130 million to cover potential military pay shortfalls during the government shutdown, calling the contributor a “patriot” and “friend,” while declining to…
Quote of the Day
“The land is going to be next. I think we are going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK? We are going to kill them, you…
