ELECTION/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I was never planning a vote prior to the 2020 Election on the wonderful HealthCare package that some very talented people are now developing for me & the Republican Party. It will be on full display during the Election as a much better & less expensive alternative to ObamaCare…” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
Category: Election
4/3/2019
ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [4-2-19] that former Vice President Joe Biden is ‘being taken care of pretty well by the socialists,’ suggesting that a recent wave of criticism of the potential 2020 presidential candidate is the product of attacks hatched by his own party’s left wing. Criticism of the former […]
4/2/2019
CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday [4-1-19] he was willing to wait until after the 2020 presidential election to get Congress to vote on a new healthcare plan, giving Republicans time to develop a proposal to replace Obamacare. Congressional Republicans have been unable thus far to draft a proposal to replace […]
4/2/2019
ELECTION/HEALTHCARE/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday [4-2-19] he told President Donald Trump the Senate would not be doing a comprehensive healthcare bill, even as Trump has sought to revive healthcare as an issue for the 2020 campaign. ‘I made it clear to him (Trump) we were not going to […]
4/2/2019
ELECTION/GOP/HEALTHCARE/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump backed off plans to introduce a Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act after Senator Mitch McConnell privately warned him that the Senate would not revisit health care in a comprehensive way before the November 2020 elections. Reversing himself in the face of Republican consternation, Mr. Trump said his […]
4/1/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the 2020 presidential election gets into full swing, President Donald Trump is focusing on one of his favorite topics: immigration. Over the past several days, the president has warned he’ll cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Central American nations where migrants come from, and he threatened to seal off the entire southern […]
4/1/2019
ELECTION/GOP/HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump signaled Monday [4-1-19] that congressional Republicans would wait until after the 2020 elections to vote on a GOP replacement for Obamacare — putting off a presumably savage legislative battle on a hot-button campaign issue until after his re-election bid…Trump claimed that the as-yet-unseen Republican proposal ‘will be truly […]
4/1/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jaden Rams used to be on fire for Donald Trump. Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, when he was 13, he put on a red MAGA hat and matching tie and yelled his support at a rally in his hometown, Grand Junction, Colo…Today he calls the presidential campaign and its aftermath ‘a […]
3/29/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On a former trading floor in an office tower in Rosslyn, Va., with sweeping views of the Potomac River, the Trump 2020 campaign is settling in. It has about 40 staff members and counting, reported $19.2 million in cash on hand in its last report and has spent $4.5 million on online […]
3/29/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/VIRGINIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is muscling into a blue state where Democrats are reeling: Virginia. With a tenuous grip on states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the president is looking for opportunities to expand his electoral playing field. He’s set his sights on Virginia, a state Democrats have dominated in the past decade, […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The 2020 presidential campaign is more likely to turn on rising health care costs, the dysfunction in the immigration system and the state of the economy than the poisoned legacy of the 2016 election. But the triumphalism of President Donald Trump and the building power struggle in Washington after Robert […]
3/27/2019
ELECTION/GOP/HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says the GOP is now the ‘party of health care.’ But Republicans have no real plan to deliver on that. Trump’s unexpected demand that Republicans take another crack at replacing Obamacare came on the heels of his Justice Department backing a lawsuit intended to gut the entire law. […]
3/27/2019
ELECTION/GOP/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Buoyed by word that the special counsel didn’t find collusion with Russia, President Donald Trump is voicing new interest in policymaking, including a fresh effort to repeal and replace ‘Obamacare.’ But Trump has few detailed policy proposals to back up his words, suggesting he’s as focused on highlighting issues that appeal to […]
3/27/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He eats almost every meal in the White House or at properties he owns. His presidential travel has been limited largely to red-state campaign rallies with adoring crowds, brief appearances surveying natural disasters, official travel overseas and a handful of forays to factories. His most consistent interactions with Americans are the steady […]
3/27/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It’s an emerging rallying cry on the left: Expand the Supreme Court and eliminate the Senate filibuster. Still seething over Republican obstruction during the Obama administration that peaked in 2016 with the blockade against the Supreme Court nominee Merrick B. Garland, liberal groups are encouraging Democrats running for president and the Senate […]
3/26/2019
ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s vague platitudes about “beautiful” and “very special” health care for everybody are not going to cut it in his 2020 re-election race — after he was left exposed on the most urgent issue in American politics. An ill-timed move by the Justice Department to back the invalidation […]
3/26/2019
ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “News that special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia has put President Donald Trump in his favorite position as he heads into his 2020 re-election campaign: the victim, fighting against an establishment that has tried to take him down…It’s unusual for a […]
3/26/2019
COURTS/ELECTION/GOP/REGULATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the 2020 presidential campaign already underway, one of President Donald Trump’s best opportunities to seal a solid first-term legacy lies in his deregulation agenda — a goal broadly embraced by most Republicans. His administration already has 514 deregulatory measures in process, addressing issues as diverse as federal student loans and climate […]
3/25/2019
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld says he’s leaning toward challenging President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary, and expects to make a decision in April. Weld gave the clearest sense of his intentions yet, and laid out a path to the GOP nomination during an appearance on the New Hampshire radio […]
3/25/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusion that Donald Trump did not collude with Russia to win the presidency in 2016 gives the president a powerful weapon to use against his Democratic opponents and a potential boost to what is shaping up to be a tough bid for re-election in 2020. Mueller’s […]
3/20/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In his latest attack on Democrats running against him in 2020, President Donald Trump is now defending the constitutional mechanism he once opposed, the very thing that got him elected in the first place. The Electoral College…In his latest attack on Democrats running against him in 2020, President Donald Trump is […]
3/14/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump mocked newly announced presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke on Thursday [3-14-19], saying the Texan moves his hands too much and that he might be ‘crazy.’ O’Rourke, a former congressman, announced his bid for president on Thursday with a video filmed in his hometown of El Paso. In it, O’Rourke […]
3/13/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is preparing an early focus on Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, states that were instrumental to his improbable 2016 victory but where his support has softened, two campaign advisers said. The decision to accelerate campaign organizing and eventually get the Republican president to make trips to the three […]
3/12/2019
ELECTION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday [3-11-19] warned that President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects could be in danger next year if he relies on his personality, rather than focus on policy to win another four years in the White House. Speaking at a lecture in Vero Beach, Fla., in some […]
3/8/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “They dragged their friends to see Bernie Sanders in Iowa. In South Carolina, their unrelenting selfie requests made Cory Booker late. And in New Hampshire, so many showed up at a church for an event with Kamala Harris that an overflow crowd had to stand outside in the snow…As the already large […]
3/7/2019
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Some Republicans facing tough 2020 elections are weighing a break with President Donald Trump on foreign policy or his border wall-driven national emergency declaration. David Perdue is going the other way…It’s a confident early stance from a Republican facing one of the toughest reelection races in the country next year — […]
3/7/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/SOCIALISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign strategy seems like it can be summed up in one word: ‘SOCIALISM!’ With Bernie Sanders, a self-described ‘democratic socialist,’ near the top of many of the early primary polls, and with several other candidates cribbing from his platform and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez increasingly driving the policy debate, […]
3/6/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 6, 2019 7:05 pm […]
3/6/2019
ELECTION/FLORIDA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump is in trouble in Florida, a state that’s crucial to his reelection hopes. Just 40 percent of Florida voters said they believed the president should be reelected, while 53 percent were opposed to a second term, according to a new Bendixen & Amandi International poll. Trump’s approval ratings were also […]
3/6/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Even as the 2020 race begins in earnest, President Donald Trump is already suggesting that Democrats cannot beat him fairly — raising the specter that if he loses next November, he will suggest that the election was not legitimate…Trump 2020 campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany echoed that sentiment in a statement […]
3/6/2019
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT:TRUMP PEOPLE “Bill Weld announced his presidential exploratory bid last month with a flourish, capturing headlines by calling Donald Trump ‘a schoolyard bully’ and dismissing Washington Republicans for exhibiting ‘all the symptoms of Stockholm syndrome.’ Then he went dark. Aside from a few television hits and public appearances, the former Massachusetts governor has […]
3/5/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Weirdo Tom Steyer doesn’t have the ‘guts’ or money to run for President. He’s all talk! https://t.co/klmVsCmeNE” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 5, 2019 11:53 pm […]
3/5/2019
ECONOMY/ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Inside the White House, President Donald Trump is in a rut. His administration faces a raft of investigations from House Democrats on everything from Russia to abuses of power. His summit with North Korea’s dictator went bust. His former personal attorney Michael Cohen trashed him spectacularly during a seven-hour hearing last week […]
3/5/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [3-5-19] mocked Hillary Clinton’s decision not to run for president in 2020, saying his former opponent would be ‘sorely missed’…Another potential run by Clinton, a former first lady, senator and secretary of State, loomed over the growing 2020 Democratic field. So far, more than a dozen […]
3/5/2019
ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘(Crooked) Hillary Clinton confirms she will not run in 2020, rules out a third bid for White House.’ Aw-shucks, does that mean I won’t get to run against her again? She will be sorely missed!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 5, 2019 5:18 pm […]
3/2/2019
ECONOMY/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: Since my election as President the Dow Jones is up 43% and the NASDAQ Composite almost 50%. Great news for your 401(k)…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 2, 2019 9:48 am […]
3/2/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @TeamTrump: Get your OFFICIAL campaign merchandise @ https://t.co/avCW7TGIn1 or, if you’re at @CPAC, check out our Official booth!” #Tea…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 2, 2019 9:22 am […]
3/1/2019
ELECTION/ISRAEL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Asked recently by CNN’s Jake Tapper whether the Trump administration had any reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to court the racist party Jewish Power amid his reelection bid—a divisive move that has earned the Israeli prime minister widespread condemnation in the United States—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: ‘We’re not about to […]
3/1/2019
ELECTION/GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A small group of Republican strategists opposed to President Trump, branding themselves Defending Democracy Together, quietly conducted polling and focus groups last fall to gauge whether the president was vulnerable to a primary challenge in 2020. Assembling a presentation for sympathetic political donors, they listed points of weakness for Mr. Trump […]
3/1/2019
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump wants to raise $1 billion for his reelection. But his top advisers worry that the super PAC at the center of that effort is hurting, lacking a high-wattage leader who can cajole millionaire and billionaire donors to fork over huge sums. Trump political aides, members of the president’s […]
2/25/2019
ELECTION/LATINOS/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Donald Trump tweeted, on January 20, that he had reached 50 percent approval among Hispanic-Americans, most fair-minded observers reacted with skepticism, if not outright disbelief. Trump was, after all, still the same man who announced his candidacy by accusing Mexico of sending ‘rapists’ across the border, the same man who […]
2/15/2019
ELECTION/GOP/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld said on Friday [2-15-19] that he is exploring a challenge to President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020…Weld’s most recent political bid was a 2016 run for vice president on the Libertarian ticket alongside former presidential candidate and New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. By jumping […]
2/23/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is far more ENERGY on the Right than there is on the Left. That’s why we just won the Senate and why we will win big in 2020. The Fake News just doesn’t want to report the facts. Border Security is a big factor. The under construction Wall will stop Gangs, […]
2/22/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With rain hammering outside, Zack Malitz stood in a warehouse space lit by strands of bistro lights and began to reveal the campaign strategy of Beto O’Rourke in exacting detail. Malitz, who was the field director of O’Rourke’s Senate campaign, is a tall 30-year-old with thick glasses and a haircut that over […]
2/22/2019
ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The 2020 election is 620 days away. Which, according to new state-by-state polling data from Gallup, is a very good thing for President Donald Trump. The data paints a simple but ominous picture for Trump: If the presidential election were held today, he would almost certainly lose. Here’s the key insight from […]
2/21/2019
ELECTION/ENDORSEMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is endorsing Sen. John Cornyn for re-election in 2020, saying the chamber’s No. 2 Republican ]has done an outstanding job for the people of Texas.’ The president tweeted Thursday [2-21-19] that Cornyn is ‘strong’ on the Second Amendment, the U.S.-Mexico border and crime, and ‘loves’ the military. Trump […]
2/21/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of the Democratic Party’s largest super PACs on Thursday [2-21-19] announced a $100 million campaign to reach about 2.5 million voters in four swing states — an early push by Democrats to challenge President Donald Trump in what will be a bruising and costly race for the White House in 2020. […]
2/21/2019
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday [2-21-19] he expects to make a springtime trip to New Hampshire as he weighs a 2020 challenge to Donald Trump — and accused the Republican National Committee of going to extraordinary lengths to shield the president from a potentially draining primary…During its annual winter meeting earlier […]
2/21/2019
ELECTION/ENDORSEMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. John Cornyn on Thursday [2-21-19] as the Texas Republican prepares for an uphill reelection battle following the state’s close and costly Senate election in November…Cornyn has begun preparing for the 2020 election earlier than other senators after the near-defeat of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in what […]
2/20/2019
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Republican National Committee brought in $15.5 million in January and ended the month with $28.6 million cash on hand as it prepared for President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, according to a new campaign finance disclosure. The committee spent more than $300 million during the midterm election cycle helping Republicans, […]
2/20/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Crazy Bernie has just entered the race. I wish him well!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 20, 2019 7:07 am […]
2/19/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is assembling a sprawling, corporate-style reelection campaign with 10 divisions reporting to a single senior adviser, campaign manager Brad Parscale — a top-down structure that represents everything Trump’s improvisational 2016 effort was not. The organization, described in interviews by a half-dozen Trump top political aides, prioritizes the campaign’s digital- […]
2/19/2019
ELECTION/GOP/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Maryland’s Republican governor, who’s viewed as a potential primary challenger to President Donald Trump in 2020, said the President’s poll numbers show he’s ‘pretty weak in the general election.’ Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan made the comments to CBS News in an interview set to air Wednesday [2-20-19] morning as the moderate Republican […]
2/19/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Sen. Bernie Sanders, who entered the growing field running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday [2-19-19], had ‘missed his time’ for a successful bid for the White House. Trump has repeatedly raised what he has been describing as the threat of socialism in U.S. politics, most […]
2/19/2019
ANDREW MCCABE/ELECTION/FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday [2-19-19] that he never called Andrew McCabe’s wife a ‘loser,’ attempting to rebut the account of the former FBI deputy director, who said the president used the term to describe his wife over her failed campaign for Virginia’s state Legislature…McCabe, who worked for the FBI for […]
2/19/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Bernie Sanders was mulling a 2020 campaign last year, he said he would likely pull the trigger if he thought he was the ‘best candidate’ to defeat President Donald Trump. Now that he’s officially in the race for the White House, a key element of his argument is that he is […]
2/19/2019
ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’….(The Witch Hunt) in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion in which the U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election (presidential)!’ Victor Davis Hanson And got caught! @FoxNews” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 19, 2019 7:21 am […]
2/18/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/ELIZABETH WARREN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “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 […]
2/15/2019
ELECTION/GOP/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “William F. Weld, the maverick former governor of Massachusetts, announced on Friday [2-15-19] that he would form an exploratory committee to challenge President Trump for the Republican Party’s 2020 nomination, presenting himself as a dissident voice in a political party that has abandoned its mainstream roots. Mr. Weld, 73, is the first […]
2/11/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/RALLY/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The showdown between Donald Trump and Beto O’Rourke Monday [2-11-19] night over the president’s border wall unfolded at competing rallies with thousands of people in venues barely a block apart. But the events practically took place in parallel universes: One with rowdy MAGA-gear wearing Trump backers chanting ‘USA, USA!’; the other serenaded […]
2/11/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/RALLY/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s confrontations with potential Democratic challengers in 2020 have mostly been limited to sniping on Twitter. But on Monday [2-11-19] night in El Paso, he will engage in his most direct conflict with a possible rival — former Representative Beto O’Rourke, a native of the city that shares a border with […]
2/11/2019
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump came to this bustling border city on Monday [2-11-19] to rally support for his wall with Mexico. But he was met by El Paso’s favorite son, Beto O’Rourke, who denounced Mr. Trump’s claim that walls reduce violent crime and led the city’s residents in his own boisterous show of opposition. […]
2/10/2019
ELECTION/ELIZABETH WARREN/NATIVE AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Senator Elizabeth Warren formally announced her 2020 presidential bid this weekend, President Trump responded with a familiar line of attack. He mocked Ms. Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, for her claims to Native American ancestry, again calling her by the slur ‘Pocahontas.’ Mr. Trump then appeared to refer to the […]
2/9/2019
BORDER/ELECTION/MEXICO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump prepares to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for a second time, he’s out to replicate the suspenseful buildup, make-or-break stakes and far-flung rendezvous of their first encounter. The reality star American president will soon learn if the sequel, on this matter and many others, can compete […]
2/9/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats in Congress yesterday were vicious and totally showed their cards for everyone to see. When the Republicans had the Majority they never acted with such hatred and scorn! The Dems are trying to win an election in 2020 that they know they cannot legitimately win!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 9, […]
2/8/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…It is all a GIANT AND ILLEGAL HOAX, developed long before the election itself, but used as an excuse by the Democrats as to why Crooked Hillary Clinton lost the Election! Someday the Fake News Media will turn honest & report that Donald J. Trump was actually a GREAT Candidate!” […]
2/7/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump showed in his State of the Union address Tuesday [2-5-19] night that he plans to run for re-election by attacking socialism – including going after figures popular with the fired-up Democratic base like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders. After Trump warned about ‘new calls to adopt socialism […]
2/7/2019
ABORTION/ELECTION/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump used an appearance at a high-profile religious gathering Thursday [2-7-19] to stress anti-abortion policies and appeal to conservative, Christian voters as the 2020 election campaign gets underway…That pledge, two days after Trump in his State of the Union address denounced late-term abortion, is part of his effort to re-energize […]
2/7/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump suggested Thursday [2-7-19] morning that Republicans could benefit in upcoming elections from the leadership crisis threatening three top Democrats in Virginia…Trump’s remarks followed a number of revelations that have rocked the Virginia Democratic Party: Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s revelations on Wednesday that he, too, once wore blackface in […]
2/6/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who offered a rebuttal to his State of the Union address, wouldn’t win if she ran for the Senate or president in 2020. In an interview with regional reporters at the White House on Wednesday [2-6-19], the president pushed back against calls for Abrams […]
2/6/2019
AGRICULTURE/ELECTION/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s trade war is magnifying some of the toughest farm conditions since the crisis that bankrupted thousands of farmers in the 1980s — and threatening a constituency crucial to his reelection hopes. The president’s trade policies have sent U.S. agricultural exports plunging, exacerbating already difficult economic conditions facing farmers. […]
2/1/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fresh off his 2018 re-election in deep blue Maryland, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan says he is leaving the door open to challenging President Donald Trump in a Republican primary…Asked if he’s thinking about running, Hogan replied, ‘I would say I’m listening. I’m not sure how much thinking we’re doing, but I haven’t […]
2/5/2019
ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivers his second State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] night at a moment of major political peril. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted in the run-up to the speech shows a majority of voters, 52 percent, say they would definitely vote for someone other than Trump if the […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stacey Abrams, who nearly became both the first African-American and first woman to be governor of Georgia, will deliver the Democrats’ response to the State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19], test-driving the party’s 2020 challenge to President Donald Trump. After losing a Southern state that Trump won in 2016 by […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump told Americans in his State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] that illegal immigration was an urgent national crisis and he vowed to build a border wall as he sought funding for a project rejected by Democrats…Trump used part of his speech to offer a spirit of compromise, […]
2/1/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/ELIZABETH WARREN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On the day Sen. Cory Booker declared he was running in 2020, President Donald Trump said the New Jersey Democrat has ‘no chance’ of taking the White House. ‘I say no chance,’ Trump said of Booker’s shot at the presidency in an interview with CBS News ‘Face the Nation’ host Margaret […]
2/1/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE “Thank you to Senator Rob Portman and Senator Cory Gardner for the early and warm endorsement. We will ALL WIN in 2020 together!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 1, 2019 2:25 pm […]
1/31/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/ELIZABETH WARREN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [1-31-19] weighed in on the field of 2020 Democratic challengers, proclaiming that Sen. Kamala Harris had the best campaign rollout while continuing to needle Sen. Elizabeth Warren about her claimed Native American heritage. Harris formally announced her campaign last Sunday in a raucous rally in Oakland, […]
1/31/2019
ABORTION/DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/MIKE PENCE/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When New York expanded abortion rights last week for the first time in 49 years, Democrats across the state were exultant. Now, that jubilation has been met with an equal and opposite reaction. Anti-abortion advocates, from grass-roots activists all the way to the White House, are taking aim at New […]
1/30/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado is endorsing President Donald Trump, a reversal after he opposed Trump’s election in the final days of the 2016 race. Widely seen as the most vulnerable GOP incumbent in 2020, Gardner told a conservative publication in an article published Wednesday that he would back Trump […]
1/29/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the Iowa caucuses a year away, a new poll finds a majority of Americans would ‘definitely not vote’ to re-elect President Donald Trump, while most Democratic voters do not know who they want to nominate to challenge him. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 56 percent of Democratic voters and […]
1/29/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Bloomberg made his second visit to New Hampshire Tuesday [1-29-19], using the opportunity to step up his criticisms of President Donald Trump. But he didn’t stop there. Bloomberg also trashed fellow billionaire Howard Schultz for considering an independent presidential bid, and dismissed Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax as ‘probably unconstitutional’…The […]
1/29/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is not getting a lot of positive feedback since indicating on Sunday [1-27-19] that he was seriously considering a 2020 presidential run…Although most have not used profanity, many political figures and media pundits have echoed the heckler’s sentiments. Schultz’s fellow billionaire, Michael Bloomberg, warned him against running, […]
1/29/2019
ELECTION/GOP/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump likes to boast that he is the most popular Republican president among Republicans that has ever existed. ‘How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most […]
1/28/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Howard Schultz’s advisers have a message for the former Starbucks chief‘s critics: Schultz could be the fail-safe plan in the event Democrats nominate a far-left candidate in 2020. In the 24 hours since Schultz announced that he is considering running for president as an independent, he’s been besieged by Democrats fearful that […]
1/28/2019
ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s political team has concluded that shutting down the government hasn’t damaged his 2020 prospects — if anything, they’re convinced it’s bolstered his standing in key electoral battlegrounds. Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale commissioned a survey taken during the final days of the shutdown that was conducted by respected GOP […]
1/28/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “• The longest government shutdown in history inflicted severe political damage on President Trump, dragging down his poll numbers and stirring concern about his ability to navigate a divided government. He now appears without a plan for mounting a strong campaign in 2020. • With the shutdown over for now, Congress will […]
1/26/2019
CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s defeat in his border-wall standoff with Congress has clouded his already perilous path to a second term in 2020, undercutting Mr. Trump’s cherished image as a forceful leader and deft negotiator, and emboldening alike his Democratic challengers and Republican dissenters who hope to block his re-election. The longest […]
1/26/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to the Republican National Committee, (the RNC), who voted UNANIMOUSLY yesterday to support me in the upcoming 2020 Election. Considering that we have done more than any Administration in the first two years, this should be easy. More great things now in the works!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 26, 2019 […]
1/26/2019
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’I like the fact that the President is making the case (Border Security & Crime) to the American people. Now we know where Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer & the Democrats stand, which is no Border Security. Will be big 2020 issue.’ Matt Schlapp, Chair, ACU. Bigger than anyone knows!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/25/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/FLORIDA/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The nation’s biggest swing state looks even more like Trump Country heading into 2020. Newly released Florida voter data suggest President Donald Trump will begin his reelection campaign as the favorite in a state that offers a windfall of 29 electoral votes. The driving force: white voters who broke Republican and […]
1/24/2019
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Party officials are delivering an unmistakable message as the 2020 campaign season begins: The GOP is the party of Trump. The Republican National Committee is poised to express its ‘undivided support for President Donald J. Trump and his effective Presidency’ as the committee’s members conclude their annual winter meeting here […]
1/18/2019
ELECTION/GOP/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than two months after suffering devastating losses up and down the ballot in the midterm election, the leader of Pennsylvania’s Republican Party huddled privately with President Trump’s re-election campaign Thursday [1-17-19] to deliver his plan to stop the bleeding in 2020. The meeting, the first of its kind since the GOP […]
1/16/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/JOBS/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats, pressing ahead on one of their more ambitious agenda items, introduced a bill Wednesday [1-16-19] to more than double the federal minimum wage. The legislation, which would phase in a $15 hourly minimum over a period of six years, enunciates a policy difference with Republicans ahead of the 2020 presidential […]
1/16/2019
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday [1-16-19] that he could turn the ongoing government shutdown into a political issue in next year’s presidential election, labeling ‘Radical Democrats’ as a ‘party of open borders and crime.’ Trump’s White House is in the midst of stalled efforts to reopen portions of the federal government that […]
1/16/2019
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is becoming more and more obvious that the Radical Democrats are a Party of open borders and crime. They want nothing to do with the major Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border. #2020!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 16, 2019 7:49 am […]
1/16/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum — two of the Democratic Party’s breakout candidates of 2018, despite losing their elections for governor of Georgia and Florida, respectively — are looking to parlay their near success into the defeat of Donald Trump in 2020. The pair of young, progressive African-American pols amassed so much […]
1/15/2019
ELECTION/LATINOS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It may be Donald Trump’s nightmare: a Latino is trying to take his job. Some may consider Julián Castro, who announced his 2020 presidential bid before a cheering crowd Saturday, a long shot. They could not be more wrong. Julián Castro is a hugely important candidate in the Trump era. For Mexican-Americans […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “California Sen. Kamala Harris called the shutdown of the federal government a ‘crisis of the President’s own making’ in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday [1-9-19]. Harris, who published a new memoir this week ahead of likely 2020 presidential run, demurred on whether she will challenge President Donald Trump for […]
1/3/2018
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Shutdown is only because of the 2020 Presidential Election. The Democrats know they can’t win based on all of the achievements of ‘Trump,’ so they are going all out on the desperately needed Wall and Border Security – and Presidential Harassment. For them, strictly politics!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2019 […]