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Greg Abbott Promises to Keep Using Migrants as Political Pawn at RNC
Texas’s border battle with the Biden administration is apparently not going to end anytime soon, at least according to its governor.Speaking at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, Governor Greg Abbott bragged about the contentious back-and-forth he had with federal border agents earlier this year. That spat ended with the Supreme Court siding in favor of the Biden administration. In a 5–4 decision, the high court ruled that Texas had overstepped its authority by placing razor wire along the Rio Grande section of the U.S.-Mexico border. It also gave the green light to the federal government to snip and move...
Watch: Republicans Bully Secret Service Head over Trump Shooting
Four Republican senators went ballistic as they chased Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle out of the Republican National Convention, demanding her resignation if she would not answer their questions about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Senators John Barrasso, Marsha Blackburn, James Lankford, and Kevin Cramer surrounded Cheatle in a suite at the convention Wednesday night. Blackburn posted a video of their furious encounter on X, which Fox News was able to caption. Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, said he was “very disappointed” after a dual congressional phone briefing earlier that day, during which Cheatle had failed to address all...
J.D. Vance’s RNC Speech Was a Total Bore. It May Have Been by Design.
Senator J.D. Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night thoroughly underwhelmed the viewing audience, including Donald Trump. The newly anointed vice presidential nominee reportedly bored the convention audience in Milwaukee, with his small fist pumps and stories about rural Appalachia failing to win over a friendly crowd. Trump even appeared to be dozing off at times. An extremely underwhelming speech by J.D. Vance! So boring, Trump fell asleep! pic.twitter.com/O20eqyEZGW— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) July 18, 2024The speech didn’t receive much praise outside of die-hard MAGA Republicans on social media, with the consensus being that it was dull and fell flat. But that may have been by design, according to one observer, as Trump never likes to be overshadowed or have too much attention taken away from him.And Trump may not have chosen Vance for his speaking skills but rather for his connections to right-wing Silicon Valley bigwigs like Peter Thiel and David Sacks. Watch the full speech below to see for yourself.
Top Democrats Warn Biden Could Drop Out Sooner Than People Think
On Thursday, Axios reported that top Democrats are convinced Biden will soon relent on calls for him to bow out of the 2024 presidential race. According to several unnamed Democrats, including Biden aides, “the rising pressure of party congressional leaders and close friends will persuade President Biden to decide to drop out of the presidential race, as soon as this weekend,” Axios reported.The report comes as calls for Biden to drop out have reached a fever pitch. On Wednesday, Representative Adam Schiff publicly urged him to step down, and reporting revealed that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority...
RNC Celebrates Trump’s Horrific Campaign Promise With Sinister Signs
Conservatives are all in on Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” promise—and they’ve even produced some disturbing merchandise to pair with it.Attendees at the Republican National Convention were seen Wednesday holding up and waving signs reading “Make America Strong Again” and “Mass Deportation Now.”Speaking to the conference on its third night, Texas Governor Greg Abbott reiterated his support for Trump, promising that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee would “arrest the criminal, illegal immigrants” and either “put them behind bars” or “send them back.” That launched the crowd into a fiery chant, with hundreds of attendees shouting, “Send them back.”My jaw is on...
Biden Finally Sees Writing on the Wall After Brutal Triple Leak
It’s not Joever til it’s Joever, but after nearly three weeks of mounting pleas from within his own party, President Joe Biden might actually be considering the calls to drop out of the presidential race.CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reported Wednesday that a senior Democratic adviser said Biden had grown “more receptive to these calls of concern.” Zeleny, quoting the source, said that Biden is “being receptive, not as defiant as he is publicly,” and said that the private conversations about his candidacy were continuing on Capitol Hill. While Biden has given no indication that he plans to leave the race, he has...
A “Unity” Convention? For Trans Americans, It’s Quite the Opposite
Night 1: Setting the ToneIf the first night of the RNC was meant to be a gentle warm-up, someone forgot to tell the speakers. Instead of easing into their message, they dove headfirst into the deep end of anti-trans rhetoric.Leading the charge was none other than Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who seemed determined to turn the Easter Bunny into a culture-war mascot. Greene bemoaned the coincidence of Transgender Day of Visibility falling on Easter Sunday in 2024, apparently unaware that calendars are not, in fact, a liberal conspiracy. “They promised normalcy and gave us Transgender Visibility Day on Easter Sunday,”...
MAGA Enters Racist Meltdown Mode Over J.D. Vance’s Wife
The past week has seen an outpouring of hate from the far right over the wife of Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance. The unremarkable fact that Vance is married to Usha Vance, a woman of Indian heritage, has become a fixation for white nationalists online. Following Monday’s announcement of Vance as Trump’s running mate, white nationalist “groyper” Nick Fuentes seemed to enter a meltdown on his broadcast, saying, “What kind of man marries somebody that isn’t a Christian? What kind of man marries somebody named Usha? Clearly, he doesn’t value his racial identity, his heritage. Clearly, he doesn’t value...
Republicans Celebrate Trump Policies by Elevating Racism at RNC
The Republican National Convention chose to elevate a clip of some eyebrow-raising frat boy behavior on Wednesday.The original viral clip, filmed in early May, emerged from a collision between a Palestine solidarity protest and a group of counterprotesters at the University of Mississippi. One fraternity brother, dressed in a blue shirt and cheered on by a crowd of white men, harassed a Black woman in the pro-Palestine group by dancing and screaming at her like a monkey.“Not all college students have gone woke,” the RNC announcer praised over a shot of the video. “They should be celebrated.”Maybe not a good...
Bombshell Report Reveals Trump Shooter’s Chilling Search History
The gunman who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday reportedly had President Biden and the Democratic National Convention in his search history, in addition to Trump. The FBI released new details about Thomas Matthew Crooks Wednesday to members of Congress, revealing that in addition to pictures of Biden and Trump, the 20-year-old also searched for FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and a member of the British royal family. The New York Times reported these details, citing anonymous sources. What still isn’t known is Crooks’s motive. While he told fellow users of a...
Democrats’ Defeatism Is a Form of Climate Denial
We hear it everywhere in Democratic circles: an acceptance of defeat. “We’ve all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency,” a senior House Democrat told Axios a few days ago.It would be shocking if it weren’t already obvious that they have given up. Even President Joe Biden himself suggested he’d be happy with the election results knowing that he “did his best,” perhaps a commendable sentiment for a Little League player but one that fails spectacularly to meet the current political moment. It seems the attempt on Trump’s life last weekend gave Democrats the excuse they needed both to stop...
J.D. Vance Really Is the Key to Understanding the American Right
Trying to make sense of J.D. Vance’s sexual politics is, frankly, exhausting. The junior Republican senator from Ohio and newly minted vice presidential candidate has ventured loads of seemingly purposefully retrograde takes on how to preserve what he calls the traditional American family; as Vance has said, “it’s OK to troll when you make and speak fundamental truths.” So does he really want to ban porn to correct “America’s low fertility” rates? Does Vance really want to “END ABORTION” without exceptions? Who knows? What matters is that underneath it all, Vance has one consistent view: If you don’t procreate, you...
Donald Trump’s Got a Bad New Presidential Inspiration
There is a Republican cult of William McKinley, and Donald Trump has joined it. In a new interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, the forty-fifth president can’t stop talking about the twenty-fifth president. Trump “keeps circling back to William McKinley,” write Nancy Cook, Joshua Green, and Mario Parker, “who he says raised enough revenue through tariffs during his turn-of-the-20th-century presidency to avoid instituting a federal income tax yet never got the appropriate credit.” For the past quarter-century, though, Republicans have been giving McKinley too much credit.Before the turn of the current century McKinley was routinely derided as a weak president who let...
Why Some Americans Really Do Want an Authoritarian in Charge
The prospect that the nation might knowingly put back in power a man who cozies up to authoritarian leaders, tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election, and promises to be a dictator himself (if only, he says, for a day) has not only alarmed but baffled Democrats. How could voters in the United States, a country that styles itself as a paragon of democracy, let this happen? Relentless recitations of Donald Trump’s promises and threats—including a pledge to exact retribution against his enemies—do not appear to be eroding Trump’s popular support. The fact that Trump is...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Rage at a Reporter Signals MAGA’s Dark Future
Surprise, surprise: The Republican convention is turning into a festival of media bashing. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene did something that deserves special attention: After fielding a question about J.D. Vance that displeased her, Greene erupted, repeatedly dressing down the reporter in strikingly vicious terms. Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake, meanwhile, used her convention speech to similarly smear the press. All this is a bad omen: If Donald Trump wins the election, the assault on the press is going to shift into authoritarian overdrive. We talked to Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz, who explains why a Trump crackdown on the press could get alarmingly far. Listen to this episode here.
Bernie Sanders Gives Brutal Description of Biden in Damning Interview
Senator Bernie Sanders basically admitted that President Biden is declining, but said he will support him anyway. In an interview with The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner, the Vermont senior senator confessed Biden “sometimes [gets] confused about names.” “You’re right—sometimes he doesn’t put three sentences together. It is true,” Sanders told Chotiner, before adding a big caveat. “But the reality of the moment is, in my view, he is the best candidate the Democrats have for a variety of reasons, and trying, in an unprecedented way, to take him off the ticket would do a lot more harm than good,” Sanders...
J.D. Vance Is Now Shilling Trump Businesses, Because of Course
While speaking at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, J.D. Vance appeared to be shilling Trump businesses. “President Trump obviously is one of the most successful real estate executives in the history of our country,” said Trump’s recently crowned running mate. “Of course, the Trump name became synonymous with luxury and beauty in the real estate world.”Fact-check for Vance: Trump’s companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at least six times. Trump’s businesses, especially his real estate ventures, have ended with billions of dollars lost and literally blown up in smoke. Take Trump Plaza as just one example, which...
Jack Smith Targets Judge Cannon’s Blatantly Pro-Trump Ruling
Judge Aileen Cannon may have dismissed Donald Trump’s classified documents case, but that doesn’t mean the fight is over.Special counsel Jack Smith’s office filed Wednesday to appeal the decision. That will take the case back to court—but this time, away from Cannon’s hands and to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which has repeatedly shut down Cannon’s previous ridiculous moves. But the future of the case may still be up in the air.Cannon made no mention of the case’s merit in her decision to strike it down, but instead pointed at Smith’s assignment to the case as her reason for...
Megadonors Are Plotting How Best to Change Biden’s Mind
President Joe Biden is hearing calls to withdraw from the presidential race from a new source: major Democratic Party donors. The New York Times reports that several of the richest contributors to Democrats around the country are trying to use their money to leverage support against Biden staying in the race. “If you don’t publicly call for Biden to step aside, you are not getting a dime from me,” said Tom Strickler, the founder of Hollywood talent agency WME, to New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich’s team last Thursday. Strickler said he had been planning to financially support seven of the...
How Merrick Garland Can Outsmart Judge Cannon and Put Trump on Trial
When District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against Donald Trump earlier this week, she closed one legal door for the prosecution (pending appeal, anyway). But in doing so, the Trump-picked judge opened a new door that would allow much of the case to be tried before the election: The Justice Department and special counsel Jack Smith could indict the former president in the District of Columbia instead, on the obstruction of justice charges alone.Before Trump was indicted in Florida, there was a debate on whether he could be charged for all of the alleged crimes in...
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