Новости за 05.08.2020

PORTLAND, Ore. — Through most of July, Black Lives Matter speakers would take to the steps of the Multnomah County Justice Center and talk about their movement to people — sometimes numbering in the thousands — who gathered in a nearby street and park.They often appeared to be second to the main act that would […]

Martina Navratilova has joined more than 300 athletes in a letter expressing support to an Idaho law that bans transgender female student athletes from competing in women’s and girls sports.Navratilova, one of the most successful tennis players of all time, was one of 309 signatures in a letter expressing opposition to the inclusion of transgender […]

The United States will continue supporting Venezuela’s National Assembly President Juan Guaidó as the country’s rightful leader, despite Nicolás Maduro’s efforts to orchestrate a “fraudulent” election, a top U.S. diplomat said during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.“Juan Guaidó occupies the office of the interim president because it was vacant as a result of the May […]

Kansas Treasurer Jake LaTurner defeated embattled Republican Rep. Steve Watkins in the GOP primary Tuesday, three weeks after the freshman congressman was charged with voter fraud.LaTurner has 49% of the vote with more than 50% of precincts reporting in the Kansas 2nd Congressional District. Watkins has 31%, while former Kansas Secretary of Administration Dennis Taylor […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Ignoring pleas from Republican leaders, Missouri voters approved a plan Tuesday to expand Medicaid coverage to more than 230,000 low-income people in the state.Missouri voted to expand its Medicaid program, as 53% of voters supported the measure. Missouri now joins 37 other states that have already expanded the federally subsidized health […]

DETROIT — Peter Meijer, the grandson of the founder of the Meijer supermarket chain, appeared headed toward victory in a West Michigan Republican congressional race, while other U.S. House primaries late Tuesday hung in the balance.The eventual winners in key Democratic and GOP primaries will help determine the makeup of Michigan’s congressional delegation. Among the […]

President Donald Trump suggested in a convoluted interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan on Monday that South Korea had published fake death numbers in a possible effort to make its response to the coronavirus pandemic appear better than his own. “Well, look at South Korea for example,” Swan said. “Fifty-one million,  population. Three hundred deaths. It’s like, it’s […]

It’s showing up in the obituaries. People in the throes of agony from losing someone close to them are writing things like, “Instead of flowers, donate to a Democrat,” or “Instead of flowers, tell everyone to vote against Trump and the GOP this fall.” It’s become a national trend. But not everyone is mourning. Billionaire Rupert […]

There are questions as to whether Kanye West is running a “spoiler” bid for president to help re-elect his friend, Donald Trump, according to a new report by The New York Times. “At least four people who have been active in Republican politics are linked to Kanye West’s attempt to get on the presidential ballot […]

President Donald Trump has already had a tough week. It started Monday evening when HBO aired a widely-panned interview with Axios correspondent Jonathan Swan. Monday morning, Trump appeared entirely unfamiliar with Yosemite National Park. And then Trump had another one of his lie-filled presidential briefings. All the fodder circulating resulted in the hashtag for “Trump […]

There are questions as to whether Kanye West is running a “spoiler” bid for president to help re-elect his friend, Donald Trump, according to a new report by The New York Times. “At least four people who have been active in Republican politics are linked to Kanye West’s attempt to get on the presidential ballot […]

Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is the projected loser of the state’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Kobach, a longtime crusader against immigration, headed up President Donald Trump’s so-called “voter fraud commission” before it was disbanded after failing to identify any widespread instances of fraud. Kobach unsuccessfully […]

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow returned from vacation to host the Tuesday evening edition of her MSNBC show. Maddow noted, “in 91 days we all get to decide if the guy who’s currently in charge of how we’re responding to this epidemic should stay in the job for four more years or if Democratic candidate Joe […]

On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Republicans are exploring the possibility of President Donald Trump giving his presidential re-nomination speech from the South Lawn of the White House. “The decision to stage the most high-profile political event of Trump’s reelection campaign at the national seat of presidential power would be just the latest break […]

On Tuesday, The New York Times editorial board tore into Congress for going on vacation while crucial unemployment benefits and stimulus lapsed for millions of Americans. “Preventing this widespread suffering should be the top priority for lawmakers,” wrote the board. “Instead, the Republican-led Senate dragged its feet for months on another aid package. The Democratic-led […]

The former chief strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign blasted President Donald Trump during a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC’s “All In.” Stuart Stevens, a member of The Lincoln Project, is author of the new book It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. Host Chris Hayes played a clip of […]

On CNN Tuesday, anchor Anderson Cooper slammed President Donald Trump after his Axios interview in which he said of coronavirus deaths, “It is what it is.” “For a man who seems to have strength and power, have you heard someone as allegedly powerful and strong as he claims to be — have you ever heard […]

In an interview with CBS4 Miami’s Jim DeFede, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) admitted that Florida Republicans, led by his predecessor, deliberately crippled the state’s unemployment system so that fewer out-of-work people would apply for benefits. “Do you believe that the system was in part put together the way it was to discourage people from being […]

Originally published by The 19th It is no secret to the campaigns of Joe Biden and Donald Trump that the road to the White House runs through places like Michigan’s Macomb County. It is a swing county in one of a trio of recently reliably Democratic states — Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin — that shocked Hillary […]

On Wednesday, according to NBC News, election law expert and Stanford University professor Nate Persily warned that America needs to create a plan for streamlining and safeguarding the mail-in voting system within two weeks — or it could spell disaster for the November election. “I think we have two weeks to make the critical decisions […]

Originally published by The 19th Control of the U.S. Senate hinges on the outcomes of a handful of races in November, including several where Republican women are trying to fend off increasingly competitive challengers that include some Democratic women. Republicans currently hold 23 of the 35 Senate seats up in 2020, and Democrats hold 12. […]

Senate Republicans’ shameful priorities are on full display as the nation continues to grapple with an unprecedented health and economic crisis. Mitch McConnell and the GOP refuse to take up the HEROES Act, passed by the House in early May to help Americans survive the pandemic and fortify the upcoming election. Senate Republicans don’t want […]

On Tuesday, writing for The Washington Post‘s “The Debrief,” Anne Gearan broke down how President Donald Trump is trying to deflect from his disastrous inability to contain coronavirus by spreading false narratives about what’s happening in other countries. “In recent days, Trump has increasingly pointed to the experiences of other countries in an attempt to […]

Americans who are old enough to remember the Cold War find it ironic that President Donald Trump has such a favorable view of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump’s relationship with Putin is the focus of an op-ed that Jim Sciutto, CNN’s chief national security correspondent, wrote for its website — and according to Sciutto, their relationship […]

President Donald Trump has tried to downplay his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the late billionaire wealth manager accused of a giant child sex-trafficking operation, saying “I’m not a fan of his,” and that he was never a member of Trump’s elite Mar-a-Lago country club in South Florida. But according to the Miami Herald, an upcoming […]