All posts tagged "Presidency"

Unless Democrats want to see eight years of J.D. Vance in the White House, they'll need to "pick a lane and stay in it like grandma white-knuckling her way" down the highway, writes MSNBC politics reporter Alexander Nazaryan in a new opinion piece.

In other words, Democrats need to get over their identity crisis and come up with a platform that's more thoughtful and relatable than "MAGA."

Democrats lost the presidency, Nazaryan writes, "because normal people had no idea where they stood on any of the things that normal people care about. Instinctively, Americans understood that the Democrats no longer knew who they were. Democrats were awkward, seemingly unable to say if they were the party of billionaire donors or middle-class normies."...

Now that Donald Trump has been found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud by a New York jury, his orange armor has been pierced, his political impunity damaged.

But how much?

Trump will appeal the jury’s decision, but if it’s upheld, it could cost the former president his freedom — and support. Sentencing is July 11, four days before the Republican Convention begins in Milwaukee, Wis. Penalties range from fines to supervised probation to home detention to prison....

Donald Trump said at a rally on Saturday that the four years of his presidency were the "greatest" years of citizens' lives. That caused some pushback from legal experts and political onlookers.

"For four years, I was your president and you had the greatest four years that you've ever had," Trump said on stage after promising those at his New Hampshire event that he would never "betray" them.

The video was posted on social media, where it was picked up by legal scholar Norman Ornstein, who wrote, "400,000 corpses after you killed them unnecessarily with your Covid malpractice would like a word." Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu also chimed in, saying, "Unforgivable."...

Northfield (United States) (AFP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he aims at "restoring pride" in rural America, pitching his reelection bid to a constituency which voted overwhelmingly for his rival Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020. "My plan is about investing in rural America. It's about something else as well. It's about restoring pride... to rural communities that have been left behind for far too long," he said during a visit to a farm in Minnesota. The Midwestern state also happens to be home to Dean Phillips, a congressman little known on the national stage who has just throw......

A national security expert who served in the Trump administration on Wednesday issued a “chilling forecast” over the potential threats to American democracy a second presidency under his former boss would pose.

Miles Taylor said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut with Joy Reid” that the “good guys” who kept Trump in check in the former president’s first term would be unlikely to help much in a second term.

Taylor, who also served in the George W. Bush administration, authored a newly released book titled “Blowback” that articulates his concerns. In 2018 he wrote anonymous NYT op-ed published under the headline “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”...

Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy owns “valuable investments in many companies” that embrace the socially conscious practices that he has slammed in a book and his campaign, the New York Times reported today.

Ramaswamy, a 37-year-old tech entrepreneur, has been making headlines attempting to run to the right of Trump on the culture war and many other issues, as Raw Story reported.

But the Times report cited financial disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission — first revealed today by Raw Story — to show that his anti-woke rhetoric isn’t backed up with his investments....