Politics

Beto O'Rourke raises $6.1m in first 24 hours, smashing Bernie Sanders' record

Stunning sum is more than every other Democratic challenger who has disclosed their first-day totals The former Texas congressman, like Sanders and some of his other colleagues, has shunned Pac donations of any kind. Photograph: Kathy Willens/APDemocratic hopeful Beto O’Rourke raised an unprecedented $6.1m during the first 24 hours of his official run for the White House, his campaign announced on Monday.The stunning sum is more than rival Bernie Sanders and every other 2020 Democratic rival wh...
Tags: New York, Texas, News, Minnesota, Maryland, Congress, Colorado, California, Washington, Senate, White House, Iraq, India, US, Barack Obama, Syria

Republicans resurface Beto O’Rourke DUI mugshot in St Patrick's Day attack

GOP tweeted presidential candidate’s mugshot emblazoned with a green leprechaun’s hat and the words ‘please drink responsibly’In an attempt to celebrate St Patrick’s Day and attack a political rival, the Republican party tweeted a mugshot of the Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke emblazoned with a green leprechaun’s hat and the words “please drink responsibly”.O’Rourke, 46, is a former US representative from Texas who narrowly lost a US Senate race against the Republican Ted Cruz la...
Tags: Texas, Republicans, White House, US, US news, Gop, US politics, Ted Cruz, US Senate, Republican Party, St Patrick's Day, O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke, US elections 2020

Weirdo O’Rourke

Friends of the young Bill Clinton and Barack Obama spoke of the special glow of promise they had about them, even back in their early twenties. Angels sat on their shoulders. History gave them a wink and said, “Hey, good lookin’, I’ll be back to pick you up later.”Robert O’Rourke? Not so much. He was just a weirdo. That isn’t my word, it’s how his friends saw him. “You’re supposed to make friends with future secretaries of state, not weirdo musicians,” one O’Rourke pal, Adam Mortimer, told the N...
Tags: Texas, News, Senate, White House, Virginia, New York City, Elizabeth Warren, NFL, America, Barack Obama, Bloomberg, Normandy, Ted Cruz, New York Times, Bill Clinton, Dallas

Sasse Backs Trump’s Emergency Declaration Despite Executive-Overreach Concern

Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) on Thursday voted against a resolution condemning President Trump's national-emergency declaration despite his repeated insistence that the declaration usurped Congress's constitutional authority.In a statement explaining his decision to oppose the resolution, Sasse acknowledged that in its current form the National Emergencies Act of 1976 was "overly broad" and said that, while he would like to reform the law, Trump's emergency declaration does not viola...
Tags: Utah, Texas, News, Congress, Senate, White House, Ted Cruz, Nancy Pelosi, Mike Lee, Collins, Nea, Lindsey Graham, Trump, Rubio, Alexander, National Review

In the Woke War against Beto, Root for Beto

Earlier this morning, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke announced that he’s running for president, and there are two things I believe with equal intensity. First, I don’t want Beto to be president. He’s a culturally left economic progressive who may be the serious candidate closest to an actual open-borders position on immigration. Second, I don’t want to see the Democratic party become so radical — and so obsessed with matters of race and privilege — that even Beto is too “moderate” to win.So, in the woke...
Tags: Florida, News, Obama, Washington Post, Mexico, Senate, White House, America, Cnn, Gop, House, Ted Cruz, New York Times, Ohio, Philadelphia, Msnbc

GOP Senators Interrupt Trump’s Family Dinner To Change His Mind On Emergency

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ben Sasse (R-NE) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) busted in on President Donald Trump’s family dinner in his private residence Wednesday night to craft a last-minute out for Trump as a bicameral rebuke on his national emergency declaration becomes more and more likely. According to a Thursday Washington Post report, they pushed an 11th hour proposal to give senators a way to vote for the emergency declaration and also take a stand on what is being perceived as presidential ove...
Tags: News, Washington Post, Senate, White House, Cnn, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, Trump, Mike Pence, UT, Donald J Trump, Pence, United States Senate, Sen Mike Lee, Lindsey Graham R SC

Beto O'Rourke announces 2020 run for presidency

The Texas Democrat has drawn comparisons to Barack Obama for his charisma and hopeful messageBeto O’Rourke, the former congressman who narrowly lost to Ted Cruz in the 2018 Texas Senate race, has announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for president.Ending months of speculation over his plans, O’Rourke threw his hat into a crowded primary field vying for the party’s blessing to challenge Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading...
Tags: Texas, Barack Obama, US news, Democrats, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Texas Senate, Trump Administration, O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke, US elections 2020, messageBeto O'Rourke

O'Rourke enters race with natural skills, eager support and some big challenges

Former congressman from El Paso enters a crowded Democratic field – can he solidify his platform and take it to a national level? * Follow the latest US politics newsBeto O’Rourke in El Paso, Texas, on 11 February 2019. Photograph: Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty ImagesLosing a federal election in your home state is not normally seen as a ticket to the White House. But then not everybody is capable of being defeated in the style of Beto O’Rourke.The former congressman from El Paso, the city on the US-Mexi...
Tags: Texas, News, Obamacare, Congress, Washington Post, Senate, White House, Elizabeth Warren, US, Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, Guardian, US Senate, Capitol Hill, Donald Trump, Oprah

Beto O’Rourke to Announce 2020 Presidential Bid

WASHINGTON — Beto O’Rourke will announce on Thursday that he is running for president in 2020, according to El Paso TV station KTSM-TV. O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who came close to defeating Ted Cruz in last year’s Senate race, confirmed his plans in a text message to the station. Speculation about his announcement has […]
Tags: Politics, Texas, Washington, Senate, Ted Cruz, O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke, KTSM, El Paso TV

The Emerging Democratic Minority

The biases of the media are so pervasive that there is little recognition of the steady disintegration of the Democrats, though it is occurring every day. Rational and intelligent members of the center-Left write to me every week with new concerns about where the Left is going. The Democratic National Committee’s decision not to allow Fox News to put on one of their candidates’ debates confirms the weakness of the party and of its leaders. The process of atomizing society into smaller and smalle...
Tags: New York, Texas, Rachel Maddow, News, California, Washington, White House, Elizabeth Warren, America, Joe Biden, Neil Kinnock, Ted Cruz, House Of Representatives, Jeb Bush, Ohio, Fox News

Trump Breaks Precedent As President With His 2020 Dem Challengers Punditry

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Kamala Harris had the best campaign roll-out. Amy Klobuchar’s snowy debut showed grit. Elizabeth Warren’s opening campaign video was a bit odd. Take it from an unlikely armchair pundit sizing up the 2020 Democratic field: President Donald Trump. In tweets, public remarks and private conversations, Trump is making clear he is closely following the campaign to challenge him on the ballot. Facing no serious primary opponent of his own — at least so far — Trump is esta...
Tags: Florida, Texas, News, Instagram, Congress, Mexico, White House, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, Ap, Gop, Ted Cruz, Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Pocahontas, Donald Trump

US lawmakers reach tentative deal to avoid government shutdown

US congressional negotiators said late on Monday they had reached a tentative deal on border security funding that would avert another partial government shutdown due to start on Saturday, but provided no details. "We reached an agreement in principle" on funding border security programs through Sept. 30, Republican Senator Richard Shelby told reporters. "Our staffs are going to be working feverishly to put all the particulars together,” Shelby said. He did not say whether President Donald Trump...
Tags: Texas, News, Washington, Senate, White House, US, House, Ted Cruz, House Of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Republican, Donald Trump, Trump, El Paso, Shelby, El Paso Texas

Trump Campaign Takes Sweeping Steps To Prevent 2020 Primary Challenge

WASHINGTON (AP) — Worried about a potential Republican primary challenge, President Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a state-by-state effort to prevent an intraparty fight that could spill over into the general-election campaign. The nascent initiative has been an intense focus in recent weeks and includes taking steps to change state party rules, crowd out potential rivals and quell any early signs of opposition that could embarrass the president. It is an acknowledgment that Trump, who ...
Tags: Texas, News, Washington, White House, Massachusetts, Ap, Gop, New Hampshire, Ted Cruz, Iowa, Jimmy Carter, Kansas, Ohio, Ron Paul, Republican Party, Cleveland

White House plans for emergency declaration to fund Trump's wall – live

The president has gone on the offensive on Twitter over his proposed barrier and has interviewed Ted Cruz’s wife for an administration jobSign up for the Guardian US morning briefing 2.14pm GMT Axios reports that legislation to outline a “Green New Deal” is set to be introduced in the next week. The bill sponsored by Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York would flesh out details of the plan which Axios describes as “a set of vague, but broad...
Tags: New York, Republicans, White House, Massachusetts, US, US news, Democrats, US politics, Ted Cruz, US Congress, Donald Trump, Trump, Heidi, Ed Markey, Twitter the White House, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

22 35 days and counting into the longest U.S. government shutdown ever finally is over

UPDATE, 9:05 p.m. Central Time, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019: Donald J. Trump has signed into a law a short-term funding bill that should get paychecks flowing again for the around 800,000 federal workers — including the 14,000 or so Internal Revenue Service employees who called in sick during the tax agency's partial closure — who were affected by the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. ***** Twenty-two Thirty-five days and counting (updated Jan. 25, 2019). We now are in the mid...
Tags: Texas, Taxes, Congress, Washington, Mexico, White House, House, Ted Cruz, National Mall, Capitol Hill, Wikimedia, Donald Trump, Sam, Irs, Trump, House Senate

Elliott Broidy Files New Lawsuit Alleging Vast Qatari Conspiracy

Disgraced GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy filed a new lawsuit against his alleged Qatari-backed tormentors in D.C. federal court today, one month after a Manhattan federal judge dismissed a similar complaint. Broidy is suing GOP operative Nicolas Muzin, businessman Joey Allaham, and Mercury Public Affairs media strategist Gregory Howard, alleging that the trio – along with lobbying firm Stonington Strategies – took millions of dollars from the Qatari government to extort and defame him after ha...
Tags: News, White House, Los Angeles, Qatar, Gop, United States, Ted Cruz, Manhattan, Qatar Investment Authority, Trump, Howard, Robert Mueller, Jamal Benomar, Gregory Howard, Russia Probe, Stonington Strategies

Kirsten Gillibrand Announces She's Running For President

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Tuesday night that she will enter the 2020 race for president.“I’m filing an exploratory committee for President of the United States, tonight,” she said in an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “As a young mom I’m going to fight for other people’s kids as hard as I would fight for my own,” she said.She spoke about her desire to improve healthcare and public schools and taking on “systems of power” that too often leads to inequality. “I know I ha...
Tags: Fashion, Music, New York, Congress, Stephen Colbert, California, Senate, Barack Obama, United States, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Kirsten Gillibrand, Ucla, Dartmouth College, State, Don

2018 Golden Dukes Winners Announced!

TPM is pleased to announce the winners of the 12th Annual Golden Dukes Awards, which honor the public figures who managed the most corruption, made the craziest comments, and carried out the most craven deeds, all in the spirit of former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, the father of the modern political scandal. Our fantastic and witty judges — Jason Linkins, Susie Bright, Erin Ryan, Krang Nelson and Simon Maloy — sifted through all 35 nominees in 7 categories to choose the winners. You can cli...
Tags: Google, Hbo, News, Instagram, Mississippi, Supreme Court, Congress, Washington, White House, Virginia, Russia, Alabama, America, San Francisco, Fox, Gop

2020: Year of the Democrats? Maybe Not

Obama in the Rose Garden with Crying Joe Biden U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- If Democrats are optimistic as 2019 begins, it is understandable. Their victory on Nov. 6, adding 40 seats and taking control of the House of Representatives, was impressive. And with the party's total vote far exceeding the GOP total, in places it became a rout. In the six New England states, Republicans no longer hold a single House seat. Susan Collins of Maine is the last GOP senator. In California, Democrats took the ...
Tags: Usa, Texas, Guns, Obama, Republicans, California, Senate, Massachusetts, Israel, Elizabeth Warren, America, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Democrats, Gop, Maine

O’Rourke’s liberal credentials questioned as he eyes 2020

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — During this year’s Texas Senate race, some home-state Democrats grumbled that Beto O’Rourke wasn’t softening his liberal positions enough to finish a near-upset of Ted Cruz. Now, as the outgoing congressman mulls a 2020 White House run, a small but vocal segment of activists is suggesting he’s not liberal enough, arguing […]
Tags: News, White House, Ap, Nation, Ted Cruz, Austin Texas, Texas Senate, O'Rourke, Beto O Rourke

After rejection of contentious proposed amendments, FIRST STEP Act passed by Senate by vote of 87 to 12!!!!

In this post back in August I wondered "Could enhanced FIRST STEP Act get more than 90 votes in the Senate if even brought up for a vote?".  Well, it seems I was off by three votes, as tonight the the US Senate voted 87 to 12 to enact the FIRST STEP Act.  With a vote in the House scheduled for later this week, this bill should be on Prez Trump's  desk before the end of this week and law before Prez Trump heads down to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays.  This USA Today article, headlined "Senate passes...
Tags: Utah, New York, Law, Congress, Senate, America, Barack Obama, Arkansas, House, Ted Cruz, Aclu, Mitch McConnell, US Senate, Louisiana, Usa Today, Naacp

UAE Peace Forum is Just the Tip of the Iceberg of Some American Muslim Ulema Undermining Their Followers

Ed. Note: We understand that this is a matter of current public debate, MM welcomes opeds of differing points of view. Please use this form. On December 5th, 2018 the government of the United Arab Emirates sponsored the “Annual Conference of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies” in Abu Dhabi. The forum began in 2014 as a means of countering the effects of the Arab Spring, in which young people living under tyrannical regimes around the Arab world clamored for a life of democracy, fr...
Tags: Politics, UK, Isis, Texas, Op-ed, Iraq, Israel, Religion, Uncategorized, Barack Obama, World, Fbi, West, United States, Egypt, South Africa

How The IRS Was Gutted

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy. In the summer of 2008, William Pfeil made a startling discovery: Hundreds of foreign companies that operated in the U.S. weren’t paying U.S. taxes, and his employer, the Internal Revenue Service, had no idea. Under U.S. law, companies that do business in the Gulf of Me...
Tags: Florida, Texas, News, Greece, Obama, Republicans, Congress, Washington, Kentucky, Senate, White House, Indiana, Pennsylvania, House, Ted Cruz, House Of Representatives

Senator Ted Cruz supports FIRST STEP Act with revisions, Prez Trump tweets for a "VOTE," and the bill's prospects brighten

The US stock market probably can lay claim to being the most volatile and unpredictable metric since last months election, but the ups and downs surrounding the possible enactment of the FIRST STEP Act during the lame duck Congress have certainly been knocking me for a loop.  As of yesterday evening, as reflected in this post, I was ready to put a folk in reform efforts and conclude they were done for now.  But a new day brings all sorts of new developments: (1) Senator Ted Cruz issued this pres...
Tags: Law, Congress, Senate, White House, US, Gop, South Dakota, Alaska, Ted Cruz, Iowa, Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell, Kansas City, Donald Trump, Cruz, Mitch

Yet one more round-up of news and notes as debate over the FIRST STEP Act rages on

I sincerely wish Senate Leader Mitch McConnell would schedule a vote on the FIRST STEP Act so that I would not have to keep blogging round-ups of stories and commentary surrounding the prospects of the FIRST STEP Act. But since I have seen lots of notable developments and discussion even since I did this post this morning, here goes: From Fox News, "Charlie Kirk: The First Step Act prison reform bill deserves a Senate vote" From The Hill, "Fox issues statement in support of criminal justice ...
Tags: Law, Washington Post, Senate, White House, Ted Cruz, New York Times, Mitch McConnell, Trump, McConnell, Don Meredith, Douglas A Berman, Charlie Kirk, Hill Fox, Omaha World Herald Midlands Voices, Week America

Ted Cruz Denies Trent Reznor's Story: "NINE INCH NAILS Is Not My Taste"

Sure, Ted. Next thing you'll tell us, you're not the Zodiac killer either. The post Ted Cruz Denies Trent Reznor's Story: "NINE INCH NAILS Is Not My Taste" appeared first on Metal Injection.
Tags: Music, Politics, Ted Cruz, Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor Told Senator Ted Cruz To "Fuck Off" For Asking For Guest List To NINE INCH NAILS Show

Who knew Ted Cruz was a Nine Inch Nails fan? The post Trent Reznor Told Senator Ted Cruz To "Fuck Off" For Asking For Guest List To NINE INCH NAILS Show appeared first on Metal Injection.
Tags: Music, Politics, Ted Cruz, Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails

CNN On What House Democrats Can Do About Guns

CNN: Deutch said implementing universal background checks, a “gun violence restraining order,” which allows law enforcement to ask a judge to temporarily take guns away from people who are deemed a threat, and banning so-called “bump stocks,” are at the top of his list, along with other school safety and mental health initiatives. With Democrats in control of the House, they can also hold hearings on gun violence, which they tried to pressure Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte, the Repub...
Tags: Florida, Politics, New York, Texas, Oregon, Virginia, America, Reagan, Cnn, Military, House, Ted Cruz, Gun Control, Clemson, Puerto Rico, Trump

Acosta accosted by Trump, but he’s no martyr

Well, that happened. And happened and kept happening. Last week was a doozie even by today’s speed-of-Trump news cycles. The midterms have come and gone and the President claimed victory despite losing the House of Representatives. CNN’s Jim Acosta got his White House press credentials pulled after once again failing to understand the difference been journalism and commentary. An hour later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally walked the plank while 85-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg took a tumb...
Tags: Utah, Rachel Maddow, Supreme Court, Putin, Obama, California, Opinion, Mexico, Senate, White House, Massachusetts, Russia, Time, America, Sport, Cnn

Close Texas loss may not dim O’Rourke’s political star

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Beto O’Rourke didn’t sound like someone giving a farewell speech after losing a Senate race in deep-red Texas by less than 3 points. If anything, the Democrat’s concession to Republican Ted Cruz was a signal that voters could be hearing a lot more from him. The El Paso congressman shattered […]
Tags: Texas, News, Senate, Ted Cruz, El Paso, Nation & World Politics, EL PASO Texas AP, O'Rourke, Beto O Rourke