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Biden Slams Trump for Withheld Aid, Ignores Obama Admin’s Ukraine Policy
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden slammed President Trump during Wednesday night’s debate for withholding aid to Ukraine despite the face that he was vice president when the Obama administration withheld lethal aid to the besieged country. Asked about the current impeachment effort against President Donald Trump, Biden criticized...
Deval Patrick Cancels Atlanta Event After Only Two People Show Up
Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick was forced to cancel a campaign event Wednesday night after only two people showed up. Patrick, who entered the primary field too late to qualify for the MSNBC debate in Atlanta, was scheduled to speak across town at a campaign event at Morehouse College, a historically black university. He...
NYT Editor Tells Staff Paper Will Not Openly Support Sanders or Warren
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet said he has warned junior staff that the paper will not openly back Sens. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) or Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) due to concerns about appearing too political. “They probably want a more political New York Times than I’m willing to give them,” Baquet told the...
Ron Johnson: Ukrainians Felt No Pressure From White House Over Withheld Aid
Republican senator Ron Johnson (Wis.) said Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made no mention during their September meeting in Kiev of feeling pressure from the White House to take action in return for military aid, contradicting his Democratic colleague Chris Murphy’s characterization of the meeting. In a Monday afternoon letter sent...
Joe Biden’s Former Ukraine Adviser at Center of House Impeachment Inquiry
A former State Department official who advised Joe Biden on Ukrainian affairs played a key role in raising concerns about President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate both the former VP and his son, Hunter. Amos Hochstein is a former State Department official who served as an adviser to Biden from 2011 to...
Campaign Struggling With Black Voters Touts Video of White Boomers Dancing to Panic! at the Disco
South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg is threatening to upend the 2020 Democratic primary after a recent CNN poll found him comfortably leading the field in Iowa at 25 percent. Buttigieg’s success has been driven in part by his popularity among rich white liberals with college degrees, as evidenced by his dominance in the “boat...
Schiff Mansplains Committee Rules to GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) repeatedly interrupted congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) during Friday’s impeachment hearing. Ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) yielded his time to allow Stefanik to ask former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch questions, but Schiff interrupted her before...
CNN Reporter: Trump Tweets Worse Than McCarthyism
CNN correspondent Dana Bash said President Donald Trump’s Friday tweets criticizing former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch were worse than McCarthyism, adding at least there was an ideological point to the latter. “I was just going to add to what [historian Tim Naftali] was saying,” Bash said. “You talked about...
Ocasio-Cortez: Impeachment Could Prevent a ‘Disastrous Outcome’ in 2020
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Wednesday said that impeaching President Donald Trump is necessary to prevent a “disastrous outcome” in 2020. Ocasio-Cortez said on CNN’s Situation Room that House Democrats need to move quickly, citing the “potential compromise of the 2020 elections,” that could lead to...
