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1/1 Swipe or click to see more REUTERS/GEORGE FREY/FILE PHOTO A bump fire stock that attaches to a semi-automatic rifle to increase the firing rate is seen at Good Guys Gun Shop in Orem, Utah, in October 2017. Senate Democrats failed Tuesday to overcome Republican opposition to quick passage of legislation that would outlaw gun bump stocks, falling short in their bid to reverse last week’s Supreme Court ruling invalidating a Trump administration ban on devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly. WASHINGTON >> Senate Democrats failed Tuesday to overcome Republican opposition to quick passage of legislation that…
‘I love Milwaukee’ claims Trump in U-turn on comments at GOP meetingSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump has been attacked over his record of insulting Black America and Black-majority cities by Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, on Juneteenth — the federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War.“That’s why when we go to the polls on November 5, we’re going to vote for someone who respects Black communities,” he said in a…
The campaigns of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump shared messages commemorating Juneteenth on Wednesday.June 19 marks the day in 1865 when roughly 250,000 still-enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were told that the Civil War had ended and that they had been declared legally free, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.Although Juneteenth has been an official state holiday in Texas since 1980, it has been a federal holiday only since 2021. On June 16, 2021, Congress passed a bill making it a holiday, with Biden signing it into law on June…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been largely silent in public about the ongoing race to succeed him as the top Republican. But during Tuesday’s closed-door GOP lunch, McConnell gave an impassioned plea for preserving key elements of the leadership structure that are facing scrutiny from his potential successors. McConnell’s remarks, recounted by several senators who were in the room, show how the longtime leader is working to prevent drastic changes to how the GOP Conference operates. Some are embraced by a wide array of Republican senators. But these proposals, McConnell warns, could kneecap the Senate GOP leader in ways…
Former President Donald Trump’s chances of winning the 2024 election have suddenly decreased, one polling model shows.In November, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is set to face his Democratic rival, incumbent President Joe Biden, and so far, polls have shown that the results of the 2020 White House rematch will be tight—with the pair statistically tied or holding only marginal leads in a number of surveys.Still, as voters count down to polling day, interest remains in daily polling changes, which predict the pair’s fortunes in real time. On Tuesday, according to one such daily prediction model by The Economist, Trump…
Something unusual happened last week when former President Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill for the first time since the Jan. 6 riots. Despite getting some of his first face time in years with various Republican doubters, haters, and resisters to the Trump cause, Trump was congenial toward them. He actually overlooked negative things that people had said about him in the past, or feel in the present, to appear conciliatory. His id was kept in check. This has never happened before. What the hell is going on? Trump made visits to both House and Senate Republican gatherings last Thursday. (Neither…
Hung Cao is the Republican candidate in the Virginia Senate race. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images) Hung Cao, a Vietnamese immigrant and career U.S. Navy veteran, prevailed Tuesday in a five-candidate race to become the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat from Virginia. Endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Cao won with 67% of the vote and will take on Sen. Tim Kaine, the two-term Democratic incumbent, in November. “My message to Tim Kaine is: don’t go away mad, just go away. Thirty years getting rich on our dime is more than enough,” Cao told The Daily Signal.…
“If you think you gonna take a mugshot of my President Donald Trump and it’s gonna be ok, you gonna find out that after you take that mugshot, some bad (expletive)’s probably gonna happen to you,” Hanson said in the voicemail, among other threatening statements.The voicemail also said, “I’m warning you right now before you (expletive) up your life and get hurt real bad.”Credit: TNSCredit: TNSFive minutes later, Hanson again called the customer service line and left a voicemail for Willis.“I would be very afraid if I were you because you can’t be around people all the time that are…
A Biden Bingo card at the start of a Seniors for Biden-Harris kickoff event at the Biden-Harris midtown field office in Phoenix on June 13, 2024. (Photo by Grace Hand/Cronkite News) Art Winter celebrates winning in the Biden Bingo game at the Seniors for Biden-Harris kickoff event in Phoenix on June 13, 2024. (Photo by Grace Hand/Cronkite News) The bingo cards for the Biden Bingo event use terms such as “veterans,” “climate change” and “vote,” at the Seniors for Biden-Harris kickoff event in Phoenix on June 13, 2024. (Photo by Grace Hand/Cronkite News) PHOENIX – A cheer of “Bingo!” was…
Third-generation dirt farmer Sen. Jon Tester didn’t take kindly to having his reputation soiled by revelations he sports a red Prius in Washington, DC. Tester (D-Mont.), a vulnerable incumbent, bristled at a press release from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which quickly seized on the discovery it deemed a “bombshell.” “What a bunch of jackasses,” Tester shot back during a brief scrum with reporters, before rattling off some of the gas-guzzling vehicles that he owns back home. “I’ve got an ‘86 Chevy. I got a 2018 GMC. I got a 2018 Honda Ridgeline. I’ve got a Celica. I’ve got a…