Month: September 2020

Patti Solis Doyle recalls walking into the green room at CNN’s D.C. bureau in a “happy, giddy mood.”  She believed that Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham “Patti Solis Doyle: We all believed Trump would lose — ‘including Corey Lewandowski’”

The Republican party appears to be employing a strategy wherein the public—and even lawmakers—will be too distracted to place much needed scrutiny on President-elect Donald “The GOP's Brilliant Plan to Distract from Critical Confirmation Hearings”

As Donald Trump prepares to take office, the U.S. press corps has offered the president-elect—whose relationship with the media is dicey at best—”a backgrounder on “Press Corps to President-Elect Trump: Rules Are Ours to Set—Not Yours”

Did President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, have a role in creating the widely panned “Muslim ban”? And would he help enforce “Pressure Builds for Sessions, Tillerson to Make Clear Their Stance on 'Muslim Ban'”

Putting the nation’s safety net programs at risk, the U.S. Senate confirmed Tom Price as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary early Friday morning. Price, “With Tom Price Confirmed, Clock Is Ticking for Critical Safety-Net Programs”

President Donald Trump on Monday rolled out “Muslim ban 2.0″—a new executive order blocking entry to the United States to people from six majority-Muslim countries, “"Still Unconstitutional": Critics Lambast Trump's Muslim Ban 2.0”

Republicans head into the holiday season with a daunting number hanging over their heads — 10.7 percent.  Democrats lead their Republican rivals by 10.7 percent on the “Dem lead in generic ballot polls worries GOP”

The chairman of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is vowing to “never” support Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) after President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances “Chairman of Senate GOP campaign arm: ‘We will never endorse’ Roy Moore”

Activists scaled the base of the Statue of Liberty on Tuesday to unfurl a massive banner reading “Refugees Welcome” across the observation deck. The 20-foot “Reclaiming Statue of Liberty's Message, Activists Drop 'Refugees Welcome' Banner”

In the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) damning analysis of the Republicans’ healthcare bill, resistance to the repeal and replacement of the Affordable “TrumpCare Resistance Heats Up With "Stakeouts" at Republican Lawmakers' Offices”