All posts in February 2020

Warren, too, hit Pence’s role hard, describing him as “actively disqualified” because of his HIV outbreak history. “This vice president has dealt with a public health emergency before, in Indiana,” she said. “And what was his approach? It was to put politics over science and let a serious virus expand in his state and cost…

This is an accurate transcript of a small portion of Trump’s press event. See if you can discover the true number of coronavirus cases in the United States from listening to what he told the public. Uh, as most of you know, uh, the … the level that we’ve had in our country is very…

Campaign Action Abraham first won his seat in 2014 by defeating incumbent GOP Rep. Vance McAllister, who had won an upset in a 2013 special election but had quickly found himself embroiled in scandal after he was caught on security camera tape passionately making out with a staffer who was not his wife. Under pressure…

Bloomberg isn’t expected to be the only candidate trying to break Sanders’ momentum. Sanders has been largely immune from serious attacks to this point, but that time seems to be over. Former Vice President Joe Biden is also signaling plans to challenge Sanders, and Warren may also sharpen her thus-far-mild criticisms of Sanders. That Sanders’ dedicated base…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nearly six in 10 Americans say that the U.S. representative in their congressional district deserves to be reelected, the highest level of such sentiment recorded by Gallup since 2012. While only 35% similarly say that most members of Congress deserve reelection (as opposed to their own member), that’s also a higher…

Campaign Action Hanabusa has a long history in Hawaii politics, though she lost two high-profile primaries during the last decade. Hanabusa gave up her House seat representing the 1st District, which includes just over 70% of Honolulu, in 2014 to challenge appointed Sen. Brian Schatz, a campaign she very narrowly lost. Fellow Democrat Mark Takai…

Trump already spent this week giving a middle finger to justice by looking down the list to find the most corrupt people in America and give them pardons—or at least the most corrupt people in America who also wrote him a minimum six-figure check. It was clear that Trump’s pardon-a-thon was just an extension of the absolute…

Absolutely brutal. But it wasn’t just Bloomberg on the receiving end of her sharp, piercing wit—it was pretty much everyone. Check out how she took out everyone’s healthcare plan in one fell swoop, leaving the rest of the field in one disjointed, noisy, muddled mess.  It was a master class in debating. Just the way…

Campaign Action That tight outcome suggests another very close contest in April. Last year, in a race for a Supreme Court seat held by a retiring liberal justice, conservative Brian Hagedorn slipped past progressive Lisa Neubauer by just 6,000 votes out of 1.2 million cast overall. It was a painful loss for the left, as…