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Could Trump Win? Yes, and Some Dems Are Quietly Saying They Know Why

Kamala Harris currently retains a very slight edge over Donald Trump in this election. But Trump could still very well win, and when Democrats...

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Fake “Autoworkers for Trump” Are Exposed, Wrecking a Bigger Trump Lie

09.10.2024 4

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Trump’s Midnight Rants Face Rude Awakening: Stunning New Jobs Report

As the clock crept toward midnight on Thursday evening, Donald Trump unleashed two all-caps social media missives that neatly captured the...

04.10.2024 10

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J.D. Vance Accidentally Reveals the Darkest Truth About Trump of All

In the biggest exchange of the vice-presidential debate, J.D. Vance left little doubt: Had he been Donald Trump’s vice president on January 6, 2021,...

02.10.2024 30

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J.D. Vance’s Stunning 2020 Admission About Trump Exposes Big MAGA Scam

J.D. Vance has a long history of telling the truth about Donald Trump, which is proving awfully inconvenient now that Vance’s chief public role as...

27.09.2024 4

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Trump’s Hateful New Rants at Rally Are Harshly Debunked by Town Leader

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A GOP Gov’s Harsh Takedown of Trump and Vance Exposes MAGA’s Ugly Core

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has written a remarkable piece in The New York Times taking Donald Trump and J.D. Vance to task for their demagoguery about...

21.09.2024 50

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Trump’s Ugly Rants About Haitians Suddenly Take On a More Sinister Hue

In a shocking new development—OK, it was entirely predictable—the mayor of Springfield, Ohio has now confirmed that the widely reported threat by...

13.09.2024 3

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Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism

If Donald Trump wins in November and launches a full-blown authoritarian presidency next year—as he has promised to do in his own words—what...

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Trump’s Awful Arlington Scandal Takes Its Most Disturbing Turn Yet

In recent days, Donald Trump has offered a highly distorted account of the confrontation at Arlington National Cemetery over his aides’ use of the...

10.09.2024 4

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Stunning News of Trump Sentencing Delay Sends Message: MAGA Rage Works

MAGA bullying pays off. That’s what we may have just learned, now that the judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money case in Manhattan announced Friday...

07.09.2024 30

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Finally: Top Journo Erupts at Media for Ignoring Trump’s Mental State

For many months, media critics and liberal Democrats have insisted that Donald Trump’s mental unfitness for the presidency is—or should be treated...

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Trump’s Angry New Rant Over Arlington Scandal Should Wake Up Dems

At a rally in Michigan on Thursday, Donald Trump unleashed an extended rant about the confrontation this week between his campaign staff and Arlington...

30.08.2024 3

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Trump’s Ugly, Shameless New Offer to RFK Jr. Hands Dems a Big Weapon

Because Donald Trump always—of course—places the national interest before his own narrow political needs, he is now prepared to name Robert F....

28.08.2024 50

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Kamala’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Points the Way to a Post-MAGA America

Kamala Harris just showed us the promise of a post-MAGA future. Now it’s up to the voters to decide to take us there. In her rousing convention...

23.08.2024 4

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Biden’s Emotional Speech Hints at a Bigger Takedown of Trump to Come

President Biden’s heartfelt speech at his party’s nominating convention on Monday was a remarkable coda to a tempestuous summer for he and his...

20.08.2024 4

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Brutal New Poll for J.D. Vance Reveals a Big Trump-MAGA Weakness

No vice presidential running mate in recent memory has been scrutinized in quite the way that J.D. Vance has. Because he presents himself as an...

17.08.2024 30

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Trump’s Weird “Nuclear” Moment With Elon Musk Gives Kamala an Opening

Kamala Harris has adopted a future-vs.-past frame against Donald Trump, presiding over enthusiastic rally chants of “we’re not going back.” Is...

14.08.2024 8

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Surprise Poll Reveals a Key Trump Weakness Against Kamala Harris

It’s one of the biggest unknowns about Kamala Harris’s presidential candidacy: Will she successfully reconstitute the Democratic coalition amid...

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Trump’s Angry New Attack on “Dumb” Kamala Gets Wrecked by Leaked Data

At a rally in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Donald Trump rolled out a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris that showcased his well-known fondness...

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Kamala Harris’s Harsh New Trump Takedown Cleverly Flips Script on GOP

As Republicans scramble to attack the youthful, energetic Vice President Kamala Harris, after spending months hammering President Biden’s age and...

23.07.2024 10

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Trump’s Ugly New Post-Shooting Rant Instantly Wrecks His “Unity” Pivot

In the wake of the horrific attempt to shoot Donald Trump, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Axios reported Monday that advisers close to the former...

16.07.2024 10

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Shocker Poll Suggests Trump’s Lying May Be Huge Weakness for Him

A new Marist poll takes the novel step of asking registered voters which is more off-putting in an occupant of the Oval Office: dishonesty or...

12.07.2024 7

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MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”

Mark Robinson, the extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence in a bizarre and extended rant he...

05.07.2024 8

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What Joe Biden Really Owes the Country Right Now

In the wake of President Biden’s undeniably disastrous debate performance, it’s being widely suggested both that Biden should step aside as the...

28.06.2024 7

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Trump’s Shameless, Corrupt Wooing of Plutocrats Is Suddenly Backfiring

Donald Trump is sometimes euphemistically described as “transactional” when in fact the correct word is “corrupt.” Nowhere is this truer than...

26.06.2024 6

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Trump Just Revealed How He’ll Attack Biden at Debate—and It’s Vile

You can’t say you weren’t warned: At the upcoming presidential debate on June 27, Donald Trump plans to highlight a handful of horrific...

22.06.2024 50

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Fox News’s Ugly Eruption Over Biden Immigration Move Has a Hidden Tell

Fox News is already erupting over the news that President Biden is granting legal protections to half a million undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens....

19.06.2024 10

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Top GOPer Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Biggest Lie About Jack Smith

Don’t look now, but Donald Trump’s criminality is slowly morphing into a serious wedge issue against the Republican Party—and Democrats,...

14.06.2024 80

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MAGA’s Shocking New Lie About Hunter Biden Verdict Is Deeply Revealing

A jury in Delaware found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of three felony counts related to his lies on a federal firearms application, capping an end...

12.06.2024 4

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Trump’s Bizarre Moments With Dr. Phil and Hannity Should Alarm Us All

During just this week, two of Donald Trump’s friendliest interviewers handed him big prime-time opportunities to unequivocally renounce any...

08.06.2024 100

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Mike Johnson’s Insane New Defense of Trump Shows Deep MAGA Desperation

Last month, Mike Johnson suffered from a rare outbreak of candor, consistency, and principle. Asked if he was prepared to defund the office of Special...

05.06.2024 6

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Trump’s Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility

One of the most bizarre things about the Donald Trump era has been the persistence of his aura of invincibility. Trump, who never reads books but...

31.05.2024 20

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Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn

On Sunday, Donald Trump posted video of a man raging and cursing uncontrollably at MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough outside what appears to be an airport in...

28.05.2024 100

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Awful New Info About Trump and “Reich” Video Shows Deep MAGA Sickness

After Donald Trump’s feed on Truth Social shared a video that heralds the coming of a “unified Reich” if he wins the White House, his campaign...

23.05.2024 90

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MAGA Rage at Trump’s Trial Just Got Darker and More Dangerous

17.05.2024 70

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Trump’s Sleazy $1 Billion Shakedown of Oil Execs Gives Dems an Opening

11.05.2024 90

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Top New York Times Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump

Let’s state this right at the outset: The New York Times has produced a remarkable run of indispensable journalism about Donald Trump’s...

07.05.2024 50

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Mike Johnson’s Ugly New Lie About Campus Protests Hands Dems a Weapon

This week, Mike Johnson floated a wild-eyed theory about the pro-Palestinian protests that have been rocking college campuses. The House speaker...

04.05.2024 60

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Trump Is Now Raging at His Own Lawyer—and Wrecking a Big MAGA Fantasy

Because Donald Trump must always be seen as wielding absolute mastery over his hapless, flailing opponents, he and his propagandists want you to...

01.05.2024 60

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Shocker From Top Conservative Judge: Trump Likely To Skate Completely

“I’m profoundly disturbed about the apparent direction of the court,” J. Michael Luttig told me. “I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will...

27.04.2024 30

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Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court—With an Urgent Warning About Trump

If the Supreme Court takes its time in handing down a ruling on Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity for insurrection-related crimes, voters...

23.04.2024 10

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Mike Johnson’s Shockingly Pro-Ukraine Speech Really Sticks It to MAGA

It was a remarkable moment: After introducing a package of bills that includes military aid to Ukraine, Mike Johnson flatly told reporters on...

19.04.2024 20

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Trump’s Weird Moment With Mike Johnson Reveals a Deeper GOP Sickness

Looking back, it’s clear that one of the more fateful moments in the evolution of today’s Republican Party came when Kevin McCarthy made his...

13.04.2024 10

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Steve Bannon Accidentally Wrecks One of Trump’s Worst Lies About Biden

Steve Bannon no doubt thought he was being deviously clever. Speaking with The New York Times this week, he elaborated on a sophisticated plan that...

11.04.2024 20

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Trump Is Accidentally Exposing Aileen Cannon’s Shady Pro-MAGA Game

When Judge Aileen Cannon handed down her latest ruling in the prosecution of Donald Trump for stealing classified documents, many legal observers...

06.04.2024 60

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Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Rants in Michigan Should Be Covered as a Scandal

Donald Trump has invented a new criminological category he describes as “Migrant Crime,” and in Michigan on Tuesday, he seized on the horrible...

03.04.2024 7

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MAGA’s Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse

One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy...

30.03.2024 80

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RFK Jr.’s Running Mate Is Young and Very Rich. That Worries Dems.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to announce that he’s chosen a running mate for his third-party presidential run: Nicole Shanahan, a 38-year-old...

26.03.2024 10

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Trump’s Rage-Rant About Dems “Killing” Social Security Is a Big Tell

For too long, Donald Trump has enjoyed the presumption among media and political elites that he’s fundamentally different from the Republican Party...

22.03.2024 10

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