Trump just said what Republicans have been trying not to say for years Posted by By pfolio May 29, 2020Posted inPoliticsNo Comments The president revealed his real concern about mail-in voting: He’s worried Republicans will lose more elections.
The Daily 202: Violent Minneapolis protests give Trump a chance to be the law-and-order candidate he ran as in 2016 Posted by By pfolio May 29, 2020Posted inPoliticsNo Comments Nixon won amid the turmoil of 1968, and this crisis could rebound to the president’s benefit.
Trump wants to win over black voters while his base wants him to be tough. His base is winning. Posted by By pfolio May 29, 2020Posted inPoliticsNo Comments Trump can't get black voters to see him as an ally when his base wants him to have an iron fist.
‘The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.’ ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts.’ Twice in 25 hours, Trump tweets conspicuous allusions to violence. Posted by By pfolio May 29, 2020Posted inPoliticsNo Comments Trump's dual tweets echo a long-running effort to raise the specter of advocating violence — while exploiting plausible deniability about it.
No, Twitter is not violating Trump’s freedom of speech Posted by By pfolio May 29, 2020Posted inPoliticsNo Comments Twitter is a private company that can regulate its content how it wishes
Louisville protesters decry police shooting that killed apartment resident Posted by By pfolio May 29, 2020Posted inPoliticsNo Comments City officials say police did not fire during the protest Thursday night and that the shots came from within the crowd.
Power Up: Trump wants masks to be a 2020 wedge issue. But Americans, including Republicans, support them. Posted by By pfolio May 29, 2020Posted inPoliticsNo Comments Many GOP lawmakers took a pro-mask stand this week.
With ‘shooting’ tweet, Trump inflames rather than soothes tensions amid Minneapolis unrest Posted by By pfolio May 29, 2020Posted inPoliticsNo Comments Trump also abdicated the traditional role of an American president abroad on Friday by announcing he was “terminating” U.S. membership in the World Health Organization.
CDC chief defends failure to spot early coronavirus spread in U.S. Posted by By pfolio May 29, 2020Posted inPoliticsNo Comments Robert R. Redfield says diagnostic testing would have made little difference, describing it like “looking for a needle in a haystack.”