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Politics ntm-a_cstc-a / Flickr Published: August 31, 2024 4:00 pm Very little legislation has made it through the historically unproductive 118th Congress but there are still officials in both parties willing to reach across the aisle. According to research by the Lugar Center and McCourt School of Public Policy, there was a slight uptick in bipartisanship in 2023. However, partisanship is still at historically high levels. This article examines the Senate Republicans with the strongest bipartisan records. Why This Matters leecannon / Flickr American voters will determine not just the presidency, but who controls Congress in November. One party may…
A progressive veterans group went after “disgusting” Donald Trump this past week following the GOP nominee’s controversial stop at Arlington National Cemetery that included campaign staffers’ altercation with cemetery officials.“Now, maybe the greatest insult of all, turning a military cemetery visit into a political stunt with cameras in tow,” said a narrator in a scathing ad from political action committee VoteVets.The ad arrives after an Arlington official, during Trump’s visit to the cemetery at the invitation of some family members of military service members killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack, was allegedly “pushed” aside by campaign staffers after informing…
Members of the Colorado Republican Party central committee voted by an overwhelming margin on Saturday to keep Dave Williams as the state GOP’s chairman — contradicting an equally lopsided vote a week earlier to fire Williams at a meeting called by the former state lawmaker’s opponents within the party.Neither outcome was a surprise, since only a handful of Williams’ supporters attended the meeting last Saturday at a church in Brighton, while a similar small number of Williams’ critics showed up to vote at this weekend’s gathering at a church in Castle Rock.The two meetings were virtual mirror images of one…
CNN — The 2024 presidential race is set to enter a critical new juncture, with Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump set to debate and the first swing state ballots hitting mailboxes shortly after the Labor Day holiday weekend. As the calendar turns to September, both campaigns are narrowing their focus on key battleground states — with Harris eyeing an expanded map and Trump digging in across the Upper Midwest states that delivered him the presidency in 2016 and ousted him from office in 2020. It all comes as voting is set to begin this week. The first ballots…
Kamala Harris has accused Donald Trump of thinking only of “service to himself” after the former president’s campaign filmed at a military cemetery.Mr Trump has already hit back with videos from relatives of fallen soldiers he honoured in a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday, the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal. The row began when he visited Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, which is considered hallowed ground and where political activities are forbidden by law.But Mr Trump’s campaign posted a TikTok video with footage from the cemetery, drawing criticism from some veterans and soldiers’ relatives.”Let me be clear: the former…
HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) – Michigan’s Republican nominee for U.S. senate is visiting the U.P. Mike Rogers held a campaign event in Houghton Saturday at Mine Shaft and Rock House.He plans to address energy prices and cost of living prices on things like gas and groceries. Rogers says he wants to make America energy independent again, and he plans to bring down gas prices and put money into the economy. He says he’ll have rural U.P. residents’ backs.“For the farmers who are struggling here, we will have your back,” Rogers said. “For the police officers who are under siege, people thinking…
Vice President Kamala Harris was recently excoriated by Gold Star family members who accused the Democratic presidential candidate of politicizing an incident at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.The messages were posted on former President Trump’s Instagram account. Eight videos, each featuring different parents of service members killed by ISIS-K terrorists amid the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on Aug. 26, 2021, were published in total.The videos were released in the wake of a statement published by Harris on Saturday, where the vice president criticized Trump for taking photographs at a wreath-laying ceremony event on Monday. The Army said this week that…
The faction of the Colorado Republican Party supporting embattled state chair Dave Williams gathered at a church in Castle Rock on Saturday to reaffirm him as the legitimate head of the state GOP. The meeting was a direct rebuke to a gathering of Williams’ opponents last Saturday in Brighton, in which they voted to oust him.In a call to action urging Republican Central Committee members to attend the Aug. 31 meeting, Williams wrote, “This past Saturday we witnessed an attempted coup of our legally elected grassroots leadership. Are you willing to let a fringe minority faction of the Uniparty be your…
CNN — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday sharply criticized Donald Trump over the incident Monday during the former president’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery, saying that he “is unable to comprehend anything other than service to himself.” Veterans, service members and their families “should be honored, never disparaged, and treated with nothing less than our highest respect and gratitude,” Harris wrote in a lengthy post on social media. She continued: “It is my belief that someone who cannot meet this simple, sacred duty should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States of America.” Trump has faced…
Vice President Kamala Harris slammed former President Trump after an incident involving his staff and a cemetery official this week, prompting a critical response from Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance.On Thursday, an Army spokesperson said an Arlington National Cemetery official was “abruptly pushed aside” while interacting with Trump’s staff during a wreath-laying ceremony event Monday. The ceremony honored service members killed by ISIS-K terrorists Aug. 26, 2021, during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.The U.S. Army said in a statement the employee was making sure that Trump’s team was “made aware of federal laws, Army regulations and DoD policies, which…