Conservative lawyer George Conway said Tuesday that his recent tweets slamming President Donald Trump’s mental health were a way to let off steam and keep from arguing with his wife, senior presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, The Washington Post reported. “It’s so maddening to watch,” Conway told the paper. “The mendacity, the incompetence, it’s just maddening…… MORE
An 8-point jump in support for California Sen. Kamala Harris stands out in a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS that shows a field of four in double digits in the race for the Democratic nomination for president. Former Vice President Joe Biden (28%) and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (20%) continue to hold the top…… MORE
The Trump administration slammed “Medicare for All” in its annual economic review Tuesday, claiming that creating a new government-run health care program would be expensive, damage the economy and hurt Americans’ health. President Donald Trump and his top health officials have repeatedly blasted Medicare for All, which several Democratic presidential candidates and lawmakers are backing.…… MORE
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren has pitched a wide array of proposals that would make most Republicans shudder, but there is one area where she aligns with conservatives: the gas tax. While many in her party back raising the federal gas tax to pay for infrastructure renewal projects, the Massachusetts senator said during her…… MORE
There is now a bright, and important, marker in the reparations debate. In 1988, Jesse Jackson made reparations part of his campaign platform. In 2016, President Barack Obama dismissed reparations as politically impractical during an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose Atlantic article sparked renewed interest in reparations. Now, Elizabeth Warren, who is campaigning on big,…… MORE
On July 18, 2015, then-candidate Donald Trump said this about John McCain: “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” On March 19, 2019, President Donald Trump offered this assessment of the late war hero and senator: “I was never a fan of…… MORE
Hundreds of pages of search warrant documents for Michael Cohen released Tuesday give the public a new understanding of how special counsel Robert Mueller has tackled his broad mandate and provide fresh details of the investigation into President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer. The materials show that Cohen was an early target of Mueller’s…… MORE
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke campaigned during his 2012 congressional race on a platform that called for “significant” spending cuts and tax increases to balance the federal budget, along with possibly changing Social Security to address the United States’ “extravagant government” and “out of control” debt. A CNN KFile review of interviews, debates, newspaper articles…… MORE
Funny thing. Democrats, who keep losing elections where they get more votes, want to get rid of the Electoral College and Republicans, who keep winning elections where they get less votes, want to keep it. The Electoral College is certainly the weirdest part of American democracy; a confusing system with a troubled history and an…… MORE
The Trump administration is privately discussing how to respond should North Korea decide to conduct a satellite launch as talks between Washington and Pyongyang appear to be at another impasse, CNN has learned. Rhetoric between the two countries has become more heated and provocative in recent weeks following President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un’s…… MORE
