By any rational measure of who won the debate tonight it was Kamala Harris. It is of course unknown at this point if she will get a “bump” in the polls that derives from Trump’s display of rank insanity on the public stage.
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We do not take seriously that it was completely legal for a boy’s father to go to a gun store and spend $1,500 on an AR-15 and give it to the boy for Christmas, apparently without a thought about what the boy might do with the weapon of war.
We have a monster in our midst. We are trying to bar that monster from the White House as we did in 2020, but even if we succeed, he will not be gone, not in person, nor in the excretory politics he has encouraged among the citizenry.
New indictments spell out the elaborate measures Russia has taken to establish propaganda channels to interfere with this year's elections. Luckily this year the indictments came before the voting, not after.
There are too many guns. There is too much access to these guns by young men with a fight to pick against the world and a nearby school for a place to start the fight. There is way, way too much apathy about it.
Trump never understood John McCain’s heroism because he didn’t understand its source: the oath McCain took to support and defend the Constitution.
Every time you think Trump can’t go any lower with his lies and outrages and moral degradation, he comes up with a new low. This time he has chosen to denigrate and dishonor soldiers who served their country, some of them sacrificing their lives.
The most important territory Ukraine now occupies is inside the head of Vladimir Putin. It’s driving him crazy that Ukraine has successfully invaded his country, a disaster that hasn’t happened since World War II.
The story of Trump's visit to and abuse of Arlington National Cemetery is still alive three days later. Is there a way that Donald Trump can dig this grave for his campaign any deeper?
Trump has called fallen soldiers suckers and losers, and has mocked others captured in war, so one would expect nothing less than him giving a thumbs up to the grave of a fallen soldier.
Jack Smith's refiling of Trump's Indictment for attempting to interfere with and overthrow the 2020 election is a timely reminder of who and what the Republican Party's current candidate really is.
Donald Trump, with his history of disdain and dishonor for American soldiers who died in service to their country, should not be allowed on the soil of Arlington Cemetery or any other National Cemetery around the country where soldiers are buried.
Not even Trump's Supreme Court can save him this time, because the jury box is filled with the American people, and they have the biggest cannon of them all in their arsenal: their votes.
The Harris-Walz campaign already knows that they will have to win in battleground states by record numbers if they are going to win this election and be inaugurated next January 20. That’s the work ahead of us.
Donald Trump continues to promise defendants and those convicted of crimes on January 6th 2021 including those who committed violent acts against police officers.
Political journalists are going to have to get used to something entirely new with the DNC: honest love and joy rather than canned political artificiality.