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Opinion: You know what Trump doesn't want? An AG who does the job.

Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate who sounded shocked by President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Matt Gaetz for attorney general must have...

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Opinion: Louisiana's push for Ten Commandments in schools isn't over

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry had a remarkably frivolous and flip response earlier this year to parents suing to stop his state's mandate that every...

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Opinion: If Trump's criminal cases must die, let his new AG kill them

Donald Trump didn't just win the presidency on Tuesday. He also prevailed against the U.S. Department of Justice's efforts to hold him accountable for...

10.11.2024 20

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Opinion: Your vote was safe this election. But disinformation persists.

The good news coming out of Tuesday's election is clear: No matter which presidential candidate you supported, our free and fair system of collecting...

07.11.2024 20

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Opinion: Nervous? Trump ends campaign doubling down on lawsuits, lies.

Presidential campaigns typically spend plenty of time strategizing and staging a closing message, the final bid for support and an ending appeal for...

05.11.2024 3

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Opinion: They're lying. Trump and RBG didn't agree on abortion.

I'll wager that most American voters, no matter who wins the presidency next week, will feel a measure of relief when the political ads on television...

01.11.2024 20

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Opinion: Harris disappointed voters on Gaza. Is Trump worth the risk?

Arab American activists are keenly aware of both their leverage and the dangers in deploying it. They demanded on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala...

31.10.2024 6

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Opinion: Election disinformation is rampant – and helping Trump

The videos have been viewed millions of times on X, that stinkhole of disinformation previously known as Twitter, and are still posted there despite...

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Opinion: Musk makes $1 million play to buy Trump's favor – your vote

Elon Musk has finally found his place in American politics as the overeager face of the closing argument for Donald Trump's presidential bid. Musk is...

23.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Trump keeps lying about 'Central Park Five.' So they sued.

Donald Trump’s notorious inability to acknowledge a mistake – even when everyone else can clearly see how wrong he is – will now probably cost...

22.10.2024 20

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Opinion: This election will be close. And Trump will lie about it.

Early voting is under way in several states and mail ballots are already arriving in others for America's latest too-close-to-call presidential...

20.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Trump's doing all he can to send Harris GOP voters she needs

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. — Pennsylvania, the center of the universe for the presidential election, is a statistical dead heat in polling right now...

17.10.2024 20

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Opinion: Trump's alarmist campaign is focused on the wrong voters

OAKS, Pa. — Donald Trump’s “town hall” rally in this Philadelphia suburb Monday night careened from worrisome to deeply weird, even for a...

15.10.2024 30

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Opinion: Republicans play political games as disasters ravage us

Let's start by acknowledging that almost any national event that dominates a news cycle during a presidential election now inevitably also becomes the...

13.10.2024 20

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Opinion: Can Trump win Michigan? Why Harris is 'in trouble' there.

The most likely path to the White House for Vice President Kamala Harris runs through the "blue wall" states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin....

09.10.2024 8

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Opinion: How 'Haley Voters for Harris' could help her win key states

The presidential election is 30 days away, and voters are starting to hear plenty of forceful sentiments from Republicans about Donald Trump. It's not...

06.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Why are Trump and Vance so annoyed by facts?

The most conspicuous fault line in 2024's very peculiar presidential election has to be the histrionics Donald Trump and JD Vance have shown us about...

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Opinion: Helene's damage tests election officials. Trump isn't helping.

With the scale of deadly devastation from Hurricane Helene now coming into focus, the easy path here would be to center attention on the infuriating...

02.10.2024 6

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Opinion: Does Harris want to end the filibuster? I asked her campaign.

The filibuster, a parliamentary practice in the U.S. Senate allowing members in the minority to block the will of the majority, has been around in one...

28.09.2024 30

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OPINION: Election officials are hard at work. So are election liars.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Top election officials from six swing states gathered here Thursday for an all-day briefing with journalists to discuss their...

22.09.2024 9

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OPINION: Dead people and noncitizens aren't voting. That's the truth.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The general election is still 46 days away, but some results are already in: Dead people are not casting ballots, and noncitizens...

20.09.2024 4

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Trump distances himself from Project 2025. Voters aren't buying it.

Donald Trump insisting that he has no connection to Project 2025 sounds like your angry old uncle showing up hungry for Thanksgiving dinner while...

15.09.2024 20

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Why did Trump promote a lie about Haitian immigrants? He was losing.

The presidential debate Tuesday had a hinge moment when Vice President Kamala Harris knocked former President Donald Trump completely off his game by...

12.09.2024 7

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Speaker Johnson is willing to shut down the government for Trump

Politicians returned to the Congress in Washington, D.C., this week from their August break, and House Speaker Mike Johnson was eager to get back to...

11.09.2024 20

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Right-wing hosts have been connected to Russian propaganda. Surprised?

Former President Donald Trump sat down in late May for an interview with Tim Pool, a right-wing "influencer," where they commiserated about the money...

06.09.2024 7

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Trump want us to forget he loves the Jan. 6 rioters. I asked why.

Rewriting history can be challenging, especially for something as notorious as the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It requires the...

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Kamala Harris shouldn't need Tim Walz at her CNN interview

Vice President Kamala Harris has faced a barrage of questions in the more than five weeks since she became a presidential candidate about when she...

29.08.2024 50

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GOP leaders claim 'they' tried to kill Trump. You'll never guess who.

Being the running mate on Donald Trump's presidential ticket has always required a certain flexibility with truth and accuracy. But U.S. Sen. JD...

29.08.2024 30

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Do you fear a migrant crime wave? If not, here are some Trump lies.

Donald Trump launched his political career in June 2015 with a brazen and bogus appeal to American fear, based on a distortion that immigrants to this...

26.08.2024 40

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Trump is really hoping you believe his lies about crime in America

Former President Donald Trump, in his weeklong attempt to counterprogram the Democratic National Convention, visited Michigan on Tuesday to accuse...

22.08.2024 50

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Vance doesn't believe in polls? Nobody tell him Trump lives by them.

PHILADELPHIA — JD Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio chosen as a running mate five weeks ago by former President Donald Trump, came to this...

20.08.2024 20

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Will Trump supporters stall election results? They're already trying.

Donald Trump, to the chagrin of many campaign advisers, just cannot stop lying about how the 2020 presidential election was "rigged" in favor of Joe...

19.08.2024 20

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Panicked Trump is back on X. It's over for Truth Social.

Investors holding stock in Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. can't say they weren't warned that this would happen. Donald Trump, the former...

14.08.2024 9

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Do you forget about RFK Jr.? Republicans should worry.

This summer has been especially turbulent for a presidential election. So you may have lost track of one of the candidates with no chance of winning...

12.08.2024 20

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Trump can't handle Harris – or Walz. Vance's speech makes that clear.

PHILADELPHIA — This so very odd race for the presidency, with November's election just 13 weeks away, finally settled all its players into place...

07.08.2024 20

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Will Trump debate Harris? His supporters want to see it.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Should former President Donald Trump debate Vice President Kamala Harris, now that she's the presumptive Democratic nominee for...

02.08.2024 20

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Trump can't handle campaign trail. Racist comments at NABJ show it.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Donald Trump thrives on attention like plants feed off sunlight. So consider how disconcerting it must have been for our former...

01.08.2024 20

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Gov. Shapiro helps praise Harris campaign as VP candidate choice nears

AMBLER, Pa. — It's tricky business, angling to be the running mate on a presidential ticket when the entire electorate is a single person making the...

30.07.2024 7

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Trump hates answering questions – so he's avoiding them

Former President Donald Trump has spoken at nearly 80 campaign rallies and political events since he declared his bid for a second term on Nov. 15,...

28.07.2024 40

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Harris raised game-changing money. But she still has a serious problem.

Using money as a gauge for political viability, Vice President Kamala Harris clearly enjoyed a successful first few days as the Democratic Party's...

25.07.2024 10

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15 weeks from Election Day, it's a whole new game. Can Harris win?

A whole new election for president launched Sunday, and America's two major political parties immediately zeroed in on fresh priorities. The Democrats...

23.07.2024 40

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Musk and Trump deserve each other. Both demand constant attention.

Imagine a man, rich and famous but always presenting as emotionally empty, needing more and more, so thirsty for attention that he spouts outrageous...

22.07.2024 5

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Biden is the past for Democrats. It's time for him step aside.

No American political party ever needed a reset more than the Democrats right now. The drumbeat for President Joe Biden to step aside just keeps...

20.07.2024 30

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Watch for these lies during Trump's RNC acceptance speech

Let's begin with a prediction: The Republican National Convention is under way in Milwaukee and former President Donald Trump is likely to tell many...

18.07.2024 40

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Judge's case dismissal hands Trump another way to dodge law and order

It would be easy to get angry at this point about how law and order is alleged to apply to everyone in America, but former President Donald Trump...

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MAGA's response to shooting shows we're heading to something ugly

Violence begets violence, the old saying goes, and America is likely to suffer more of it unless we shift course in how we talk and act about our...

15.07.2024 20

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Trump's lie about 'after birth' abortions shows his insecurity

Former President Donald Trump has a problem. An incendiary lie is typically his first solution to any dilemma. His messaging on abortion shows us...

14.07.2024 10

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Will Democrats give Biden the same pass Republicans have given Trump?

The dueling campaign emails that landed in my inbox back to back Monday afternoon captured the whipsaw essence of this ridiculous race. "Joe Biden is...

10.07.2024 30

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Biden needed a game changer. His ABC interview wasn't it.

President Joe Biden, facing a sink-or-swim predicament for his campaign and presidency, could only bob along Friday on the waves of controversy that...

06.07.2024 70

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Can Biden's campaign fix this? They're running out of time.

Joe Biden has maybe a week to save his political life. He might have even less. That's high stakes and a short timeline for an 81-year-old one-term...

05.07.2024 20

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