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The Senate Has Now Confirmed 50 Black Judges to Federal Bench Under Biden

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) celebrated the milestone of the Senate having confirmed 50 Black judges to the federal bench under President Biden.

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Collins Behind by Four Points in Maine Senate Race

Senator Susan Collins (R) is behind by four points in the Maine Senate race against her rival, Democratic Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon. According to a new poll released by Colby College, Gideon leads with 45 percent compared to Collins’s 41 percent. Six percent of voters remain undecided. A New York Times/Siena College poll released…

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Republican-Led Senate Passes Motion Committing to Peaceful Transition of Power

The Republican-controlled Senate passed a resolution on committing to a peaceful transition of power after the November presidential election, though the measure was introduced by a Democrat. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who is often considered the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, proposed the resolution following President Donald Trump comment’s refusing to commit to…

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Lindsey Graham Opponent Jaime Harrison Raises Another $1 Million in 24-Hour Period

Jaime Harrison has repeated his blockbuster fundraising success from Thursday by raising the same amount over the past 24 hours. He’s currently tied with Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina Senate race. Harrison, a Democrat, announced the initial numbers yesterday but had to provide an update on Friday because he’d pulled off the same fundraising…

McConnell accuses Democrats of obstruction

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McConnell Warns D.C. and Puerto Rico Statehood Will Create Four New Democratic Senators

Mitch McConnell has warned against admitting Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico as states because it would create new Senate seats for the Democrats and let them pack the courts. The Senate Majority Leader has railed against plans to grant D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood before but on Friday he made his concerns about their potential…

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Jaime Harrison Raises Over $1 Million in 24 Hours in Race Against Lindsey Graham

Jaime Harrison has raised more than $1 million over the past 24 hours in his bid to unseat Lindsey Graham. The Democrat’s fundraising will add to fears that Graham can be defeated. Harrison announced the number on Twitter on Thursday. He was once seen as a long-shot to beat the Republican senator but his fundraising…

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Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer Want Special Committee to “Ensure Election Security”

Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer want the Senate to create a special committee in advance of the November elections in order to guarantee their “security and legitimacy”. Schumer, a Democrat and Senate Minority Leader, joined the independent Vermont senator in writing a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “Nothing is more fundamental to our…

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Republican Campaign Chair: “There’s No Doubt” GOP Will Control the Senate

The director of Republicans’ Senate campaign has claimed his party will retain control of the chamber despite polls showing many key GOP members are vulnerable this November. Kevin McLaughlin is National Republican Senatorial Committee Executive Director. He told Politico on Wednesday that the GOP would keep the Senate this fall. “There’s no doubt that Republicans will control…

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Barack Obama Backs 118 Candidates in Huge Slate of Endorsements

Barack Obama has endorsed a huge number of candidates in upcoming elections across the country. The former president publicly backed 118 people in what’s been described as “the first wave of endorsements.” Obama backed candidates in 17 states running for federal, statewide and state legislative office, including some familiar faces and Democrats seeking to unseat…

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Republican Senate Candidate Kris Kobach: Coronavirus Numbers Are “Being Cooked” to Harm Trump’s Reelection

Kris Kobach has claimed Coronavirus numbers are being falsified in order to harm Donald Trump’s reelection chances. His comments come as the President shared false information about the disease. Kobach is a former Kansas secretary of state and he’s running for the Senate seat there in November. He spoke to the YouTube program National File…

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Republican Senator Pulls Ad Showing Jewish Democrat with Exaggerated Nose

A Republican senator has deleted a Facebook ad depicting his Democratic opponent with a large, digitally manipulated nose. The campaign claims it was an error. Georgia Senator David Perdue’s campaign has pulled the ad, which showed Democrat Jon Ossoff with House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is also Jewish. According to graphic design experts who…

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Vulnerable Republican Senator Susan Collins Refuses to Endorse Donald Trump

Susan Collins has refused to formally endorse Donald Trump for president in 2020. She’s withheld her endorsement citing her own difficult reelection bid this November. The Republican senator for Maine is seen as vulnerable this cycle and her association with the President has hurt her. However, refusing to endorse Trump is a big move. Collins…

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Mitch McConnell May Tell Republicans to Distance Themselves from Trump

Mitch McConnell could advise Republicans to start distancing themselves from Donald Trump, according to a new report. The President’s recent poll numbers have given McConnell pause. A Reuters report suggested on Thursday that the Senate Majority Leader could is concerned that Trump could cost Republicans the Senate this November. “Trump’s falling poll numbers worry some…

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Former McCain Advisor Steve Schmidt: Republicans’ Senate Majority Is “Going Down with the SS Trump”

Steve Schmidt believes Republicans will lose control of the Senate if they continue to be Donald Trump’s “foot soldiers.” The former GOP strategist offered a grim assessment for the party. Schmidt was a senior advisor to Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. He’s become a strong critic of President Trump and told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle that…

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Trump Urges Ocasio-Cortez to Challenge Chuck Schumer for His Senate Seat in 2022

President Donald Trump attacked Senator Chuck Schumer on Friday and tried to goad Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez into challenging him. Schumer isn’t up for reelection until 2022. “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer was on a late night show using a false talking point over & over again. ‘We don’t have enough testing , he would repeat, when he…

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Senate Doesn’t Have the Capacity to Test All 100 Senators for Coronavirus

The Senate isn’t able to test every single senator for Coronavirus, the Capitol’s physician has said. The news comes just days before senators are due to return to Washington. Attending physician Dr. Brian Monahan said on a conference call that the Senate lacks the capacity to test senators quickly, though senators and staffers with symptoms…

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Former Presidential Contender Amy Klobuchar’s Husband Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Democrat from Minnesota, announced on Monday that her husband, law professor John Bessler, has contracted coronavirus. Bessler, 52, teaches law in Baltimore, Maryland. Klobuchar is not presently near her husband at this moment, but said in a statement she’s maintaining contact through digital means. “While I cannot see him and he is…

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Could The Senate Go Blue This Year? Poll Shows 4 GOP Lawmakers Are Underwater Versus Dem Rivals

Even if Democrats win the presidency this year, it would be hard for any Democratic president to get a lot done with policy, given the current make-up within Congress. While Democrats control the House of Representatives, currently Republicans have a majority in the Senate, with 53 senators in the “upper house” part of the GOP…

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Irate GOP Senator Is Fighting Trump Over ’Embarrassing’ Russia Documents

One of the U.S. Senate’s most powerful Republicans is fuming mad at President Donald Trump. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley , former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has declared war against Trump’s White House according to a new report in POLITICO. What’s riled up Grassley is the refusal by the Trump administration to turn over sensitive…

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Senate Showdown Coming On Trump’s Court Nominees

Senate Republicans are still mad about the way Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was treated by Democrats. Since then they have been confirming President Trump’s judicial nominees at a historically fast pace. And Democrats are not happy about it. As a result the Senate may be facing a bitter fight over the next few weeks…

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Grassley Wants a Senate Vote On Mueller Protection Bill

One of the most powerful people in Congress, GOP Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, now says that the Senate should have a floor vote on the so-called “Mueller Protection Bill.” The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman said on Thursday that having a vote on the bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from getting fired was…

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New Polls Show Democrats Have a Real Chance to Win the Senate

The headline caught my eye. It read: “Poll: Bredesen, Blackburn in dead heat in Tennessee senate race .” According to The Tennessean, “A survey conducted by East Tennessee State University on Friday shows that both Bredesen and Blackburn are earning support from 44 percent of likely voters.” This headline is much different from other headlines we’ve seen…

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Koch Brothers Launch Digital Ad Blitz For Heidi Heitkamp

Is it possible that Democrats may take back control of the U.S. Senate with the help of the Koch Brothers? As improbable as that sounds, it could actually happen. Americans for Prosperity, a member of the powerful Koch network supported by conservative billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, has launched a digital advertising campaign supporting…

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New GOP Scheme To Stop Democratic Senators From Campaigning

Desperate times require desperate measures, and desperate Republicans in Congress are running scared. Because they know they have no legislative accomplishments to help them win elections in November and because the president they blindly support has historically low approval ratings, they have resorted to a last-ditch desperation move which they insanely think will help them…

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Bernie Sanders Has A New Plan To Revitalize Labor Unions

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is happy that the teacher strikes in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Arizona are being driven by teachers in grassroots movements that have forced unions to follow their lead. “If you’re noticing what’s going on, the teachers are ahead of their union officials. I’m very impressed by that,” Sanders said in…

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Blue Wave Hits Tennessee As Democrat Has 5 Point Lead In Senate Race

A Nashville newspaper has reported that there is a new poll in Tennessee showing former Democratic governor Phil Bredesen holding a lead over his likely U.S. Senate race opponent, Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn who is leading in all of the state’s Republican primary polls. Bredesen is not facing a Democratic primary challenger. Bredesen’s lead gives…

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British PM, European Parliament Call for Facebook Investigation

‘The Heat is On’ is a Glenn Frey song made famous by the 1980’s TV show ‘Miami Vice.’ Given all the news about how Facebook data was improperly used to manipulate hundreds of millions of people in elections, the song’s title is an apt description of the environment that the social media giant is currently…

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Terrified GOP Begging Bob Corker Not To Retire As Deep-Red Tennessee Could Go Blue

Trump cheerleader and frontrunner for the nomination, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, could lose the seat for Republicans and possibly hand the Senate majority back to the Democrats.

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Democrats Obliterate Rand Paul For Holding Government Hostage Over Phony Deficit Concerns

What’s obvious is that Republicans don’t truly care about the deficit – they never have. Instead, they use it as a political football to get some cable news coverage or boost their poll numbers in an election year.

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Chris Murphy Warns GOP They Are In For Rude Awakening If They Try Stopping Mueller

“They are all going to go down with the ship if they are seen as trying to protect against the truth coming out in this investigation.”

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After Cutting Taxes For The Wealthy, GOP Senate Delays Disaster Relief Bill

Republican senators will head home for a long holiday break proud of the tax relief they passed for their donors, while those still recovering from deadly natural disasters see no relief at all.

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Democrats Take 18-Point Lead In Midterm Matchup As Voters Are Eager To Punish GOP For Tax Scam

Democrats lead the GOP by a whopping 18 points among registered voters – the largest lead they’ve held in two decade’s worth of midterm election cycles.

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‘People Aren’t Stupid’: Bernie Sanders Shuts Down GOP Tax Scam In 15 Seconds

Sanders took a machete to the Republican tax scam on Monday, saying that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why it’s so unpopular.

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GOP Committing Political Suicide As Two-Thirds Of America Think Tax Proposal Is A Scam

The poll comes as GOP lawmakers have reportedly come to an agreement on a final plan they believe would have the votes to pass through Congress.

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GOP Schedules Emergency Meeting To Decide Whether Roy Moore Should Remain In Senate If He Wins

It’s going to take more than meetings and publicity stunts to remove the stain that men like Roy Moore and Donald Trump have put on the Republican Party.

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Early Exit Polls In Alabama Show High Democratic Turnout, Low Approval For Trump

Exit polls can be unreliable, but they show that Democrats have reason to be cautiously optimistic that they have a shot at winning a Senate seat in Alabama.

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Sellout Orrin Hatch Says Roy Moore’s Pedophilia Is No Big Deal Since It Happened So Long Ago

According to the Republican senator, alleged child molestation is A-okay so long as a sufficient number of years pass before you’re caught.

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Jaws Drop As Roy Moore Supporter Says She’d Support Him Even With Proof Of Child Molestation

It’s just the latest evidence that supporters of Donald Trump, Roy Moore and other high-profile Republicans will allow their candidates to get away with anything.

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Democrat Doug Jones Hits 50 Percent, Leads By Three Points In New Alabama Senate Poll

According to the Washington Post-Schar School survey, very few Alabamans remain undecided on the race, and likely voters choose Jones by a 50 to 47 margin.

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Trump-GOP Tax Scam Will Sack More Than 5 Million Senior Citizens With Higher Taxes

Not only would taxes go up on millions of senior citizens, but the same report also noted that they could see a drop in the benefits they receive from programs like Medicare.

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Republican Tax Scam On Life Support After Two GOP Senators Threaten To Vote No

If Republicans are struggling to even get a 12-vote majority in a committee vote, it doesn’t bode well for their chances of getting a 50-vote approval if the full Senate takes it up.

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Pair Of Women Who Worked At Alabama Mall Add Their Names To Growing List Of Roy Moore Accusers

The newspaper noted that a dozen people they spoke to remember Moore frequently “walking around alone, leaning on counters, spending enough time in the stores, especially on weekend nights.”

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Roy Moore’s Days Are Numbered As Sixth Woman Claims He ‘Grabbed’ Her Inappropriately

With no end in sight and no guarantee that more women won’t come forward over the final weeks of this hotly contested Senate race, Roy Moore may soon have no choice but to step aside.

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Rachel Maddow Dares GOP To Hold Senate Hearings ‘Tomorrow’ On Roy Moore Allegations

All the Republicans who are standing up against Moore today need to prepare for the still-probable scenario that he will win the election next month.

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Roy Moore In Free Fall As GOP Senator Endorses Democrat Doug Jones In Alabama Senate Race

Roy Moore’s days in politics are numbered, even if he does eke out a victory in Alabama.

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Chuck Schumer Tells Trump To Get Lost After POTUS Begs Him To Help Repeal Obamacare

Schumer told the president that Obamacare repeal is “off the table” and he should join other Republicans who are working with Democrats to improve the existing law.

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Roy Moore’s Corruption Exposed As He Failed To Disclose Up To $150,000 In Personal Income

The right-wing extremist could face tens of thousands of dollars in fines – or even criminal prosecution.

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Dem Senator Blasts GOP For Only Allowing 90 Seconds Of Debate On Health Care Bill

“I think we will have anywhere from – literally, by rule – 90 seconds to two minutes of debate on this legislation. Now that is an abomination, that is legislative malpractice.”

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John McCain Compares New Obamacare Repeal Effort To ‘Murder Or Train Robbery’

“[The process for the Cassidy-Graham bill] is better but it’s not what the Senate is supposed to be doing,” he said. “Is it better to be guilty of murder or train robbery?”

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Trump’s Twitter Rampage Backfires As Richard Blumenthal Doubles Down On Russia Investigation

Instead of taking Trump’s bait, Sen. Blumenthal is digging in his feet and doubling down on the increasingly serious investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

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Key Dem Promises Bipartisan ‘Firestorm’ If Trump Fires Bob Mueller For Looking At Tax Returns

“There’s a likelihood that there will be a confrontation. And if there’s a confrontation and if there’s a threat to fire Bob Mueller, there will be a firestorm of opposition on both sides of the aisle here in Congress.”

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GOP Sen. Jeff Flake Rips Into ‘Erratic’ Trump And Tells His Party To Stop Being In Denial

“We created him, and now we’re rationalizing him. When will it stop?” Republican Sen. Jeff Flake wrote in an op-ed published in Politico on Monday.

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GOP Plotting To Take Another Shot At Repealing Obamacare And Hurting Millions Of Americans

This week’s epic failure to pass any repeal and replace legislation won’t be the last effort by Donald Trump and Republicans to dismantle former President Obama’s signature achievement.

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John McCain Will Return To Help Pass Trumpcare After Receiving His Own World Class Treatment

Every American wished Sen. McCain well when the sad news of his cancer diagnosis broke last week. When he returns to Washington on Tuesday, he should vote to return the favor.

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Rachel Maddow Explains The Terrifying Maneuver Trump Could Use To Kill The Russia Investigation

The MSNBC host warned that Trump could replace Jeff Sessions without needing confirmation if he made the appointment while the Senate is on vacation.

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Paul Ryan Throws Trump-Like Tantrum Over The CBO’s New Score Of GOP Health Plan

The Speaker said more Americans will be without insurance because it’s what they want, not because the GOP health care plan is bad.

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John McCain Diagnosed With Brain Cancer After Doctors Discover Aggressive Tumor

According to CNN, the cancer is the same kind the late Sen. Ted Kennedy had.

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Desperate GOP Calls Emergency Meeting To Revive Trumpcare And Kick Millions Off Insurance

The president and his GOP allies in Congress just can’t accept the fact that America isn’t buying what they’re selling.

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Trump’s Approval Rating On Health Care Tumbles Into The 20s As Trumpcare Dies In The Senate

The American people rate Trump’s performance on health care worse than any other issue facing the country.

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New Version Of Trumpcare On Its Deathbed As Key GOP Governor Slams The Revised Legislation

If Sandoval is against the revised legislation, it’s likely that Sen. Dean Heller will also oppose it, which could spell the end of Trumpcare once and for all.

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GOP Senator Slams Trump’s Twitter Tantrums, Says His Presidency Has Been ‘Disappointing’

If there is an upside for Toomey, it’s that Trump’s constant social media outbursts are distracting from the disastrous piece of legislation he’s trying to push through the Senate.

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Joy Reid Smacks GOP With The Ultimate Reality Check On New ‘Repeal And Delay’ Plan

On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it without a replacement plan.

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Bernie Sanders Says ‘Barbaric’ Trumpcare Will Lead To Thousands Of American Deaths

The Vermont senator said, “Many thousands of our fellow Americans every single year will die, and many more will suffer and become much sicker than they should” because of Trumpcare.

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Nobody Is Safe Under Trumpcare As Millions Of Americans Will Lose Employer-Based Coverage

The legislation won’t just hurt millions of Americans who are covered under Medicaid or through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges.

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Trump’s Mental Death Spiral Continues As He Blames Obama For GOP Sabotage Of The ACA

The president is desperately trying to distract from his massively unpopular health care plan, but the American people likely won’t buy it. The president and Republicans now own health care.

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Trump Officially Commits Political Suicide With Tweet Praising Heartless GOP Health Plan

According to a recent poll, the GOP health care legislation is “the least popular major bill in decades.”

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Trumpcare Is On Its Deathbed As More GOP Senators Voice Opposition To Repeal Vote

With a slim margin for error and Republicans already backing away, Trumpcare may be on its deathbed before a single vote is cast in the U.S. Senate.

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Bernie Sanders Storms Senate Floor To Rip Trumpcare To Shreds: GOP ‘Should Be Embarrassed’

“We have not had one hearing, not one open discussion. And I should think that every Republican should be embarrassed by this, and I know that many of them are embarrassed by it.”

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Trumpcare Is About To Go Up In Flames Because Of One Anti-Abortion Provision

Republicans may be forced to remove a portion of their legislation that would essentially doom the bill – again.

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Key Senate Republican Says Obamacare Will Be History By The End Of July

Republicans say they are just two months away from getting enough votes to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.

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Trump Spent Just Five Minutes In Major Meeting About Stopping A Nuclear War With North Korea

Trump wanted to remind everybody in the room that he was, in fact, still president, before ditching the meeting and letting the “grown ups” deal with the national security crisis.

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Opinion: Sick Of Russians, John McCain Says Rand Paul “Now Working For Vladimir Putin”

“You are achieving the objectives of Vladimir Putin…trying to dismember this small country. If they object, they are now carrying out the desires and ambitions of Vladimir Putin.”

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Republican Senator Torn To Shreds At Town Hall Over His Support For Betsy DeVos

Republicans are learning that they can’t defend the indefensible.

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A Goldman Sachs ‘Foreclosure King’ Is Officially Running Trump’s Treasury Department

Wall Street executive Steve Mnuchin was officially sworn in as treasury secretary on Monday.

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Man Who Shut Down The Government Over Obamacare Now Whining About Democratic Obstruction

Cruz spoke for 21 hours on the Senate floor in 2013, all so he could take health insurance away from millions of Americans.

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Elizabeth Warren Storms The Senate To Take On Spineless Republicans: ‘Where Are You?’

“President Trump may be willing to ignore the Consitution and the laws of the United States of America … but the American people are not.”

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Schumer Sends GOP Its Own 2009 Letter Promising Tough Standards For Presidential Nominees

These standards are particularly important given the fact that many of Trump’s picks haven’t provided the proper ethics disclosures.

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Republicans Fuming As Rand Paul Votes Against Obamacare Repeal Legislation

“I won’t vote for a terrible budget just to repeal Obamacare,” Paul said on the Senate floor.

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Democrat Tammy Duckworth Picks Up Critical Senate Seat In Illinois

This is the first U.S. Senate seat picked up by Democrats on the evening.

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Conservatives Already Plotting To Block Clinton’s SCOTUS Picks, Let Court ‘Die Out’

Not even an overwhelming victory by Hillary Clinton is likely to convince Republicans that they should do their job.

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Unraveling GOP Throws Millions At Senate Races To Avoid Looming Down-Ballot Disaster

The last-minute move is the latest indication that Republicans haven’t just given up on Trump, who is limping toward defeat, but they’re also panicking that the Senate is slipping away.

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New Forecast Gives Democrats A 60 Percent Chance of Winning Back The Senate

Since Hillary Clinton is heavily favored in her contest against Donald Trump, Democrats would only need 50 seats to control the chamber.

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Donald Trump Is Likely To Bring Republican Senate Candidates Down With Him

Donald Trump hasn’t just been a gift for Hillary Clinton – he’s been a godsend for Democratic Senate candidates across the country.

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Kay Hagan goes on NC First Tour While Desperate Thom Tillis Talks to An Empty Chair

While Kay Hagan spent Tuesday on a NC First tour meeting with diverse groups of voters across the state, a desperate Thom Tillis talked to a chair.

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Joni Ernst Says She’s Independent Then Recites Tea Party Talking Points on Every Issue

During a debate with her Democratic opponent, Bruce Braley, Joni Ernst told the audience she is an independent leader, then recited Tea Party talking points on everything from “personhood” amendments to privatization of Social Security.

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Republicans Can’t Run Away From Their Allegiances and Policies Unless We Let Them

Mitch McConnell is a man on the run from a disastrous week for the Republican Party.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren And The New Economic Populism

Will Senator Elizabeth Warren’s political economic populist movement change US economics and politics now and in the future?

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Stand up to the Cowardly Republicans who let Fear of The Tea Party Trump Equality

Well, if Republicans can’t stand up to the Tea Party, it means it’s up to we the people to stand up to them and say no, be it by phoning, emailing, using social media, signing this petition.

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Ezra Klein Presents The Do Less Than the Do-Nothing Congress

Ezra Klein, filling in for Rachel Maddow, gave the GOP no respite as he labeled this Congress the “do less than the do-nothing Congress” of 1947

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A Mushroom Cloud of Obstruction: Why Republicans Are Blocking START

Republicans will not address the START treaty because it is a top foreign policy priority of the Obama Administration. Unfortunately, without a means of accounting for every last nuclear device in the Russian arsenal, it is a very real possibility that a rogue nation or terror group can acquire and detonate a nuclear device in an American city. For humanity, that would be a disaster of epic proportion, but for Republicans, it will be a reason to blame the Obama Administration for allowing an attack on America. Perhaps that is their real goal; a mushroom cloud over a major American city.