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Two Democratic senators called for President Donald Trump's resignation over the weekend, citing the multiple accusations from women of sexual harassment and assault against him. In an interview with Vice after a campaign rally for Democratic Alabama Senate candidate Doug Jones, Booker said, "I just watched Sen. Al Franken do the honorable thing and resign from his office.
Alabama's high-stakes Senate election Tuesday perfectly encapsulates how the age of Donald Trump has turned political logic on its head: Republicans may lose by winning and Democrats can win by losing. Republican Roy Moore denies accusations of child molestation, but he's riding the President's endorsement.
The race to the finish for Alabama's special Senate election was a tale of two campaigns on Sunday, with Democratic candidate Doug Jones barnstorming the state while his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, largely stayed quiet. Jones capped a busy day with remarks at Progressive Union Missionary Baptist Church in Huntsville, saying he believed the women who have accused Moore of pursuing relationships when they were teens and he was in his 30s.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday that any woman who has 'felt violated or felt mistreated' should speak up and be heard - including those who have accused President Donald Trump of groping or touching them. Women who have "felt violated or felt mistreated in any way" should speak up and be heard - including those who have accused President Donald Trump of touching or groping them, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday.
Recognizing the threat of climate change, cutting fat from the budget and raising taxes - that's the threefold plan California's Gov. Jerry Brown says brought his state's economy back from the brink. In an interview with "60 Minutes," Brown talked about how legislating for climate change and increasing taxes on the wealthy helped take California from the ninth largest economy in the world to the sixth and turned more than $50 billion of debt into a budget surplus of over $7 billion.
The Doug Jones campaign is using U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby's, R-Ala., words against Roy Moore into digital advertisements after Alabama's senior senator gave an interview Sunday criticizing Moore. The Jones campaign cut two new digital ads hours after Shelby's appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," in which Shelby said he believed the women accusing Moore of sexual misconduct, couldn't vote for Moore and believed his party "could do better" than support Moore.
In this Nov. 30, 2017 file photo, former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally, in Dora, Ala. Most statewide Republican officeholders in Alabama say they're voting for Moore for U.S. Senate, but the state's senior U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby didn't vote for Moore.
Congress now has until Dec. 22 to strike another agreement to keep the government running, while the tax conference officially kicks off this week. President Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, speaks before a meeting with congressional leaders including House Speaker Paul Ryan, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in the Oval Office on Thursday.
A turf battle is being waged between House Republican policy makers and their purse-controlling colleagues over a perennial topic of fierce debate-storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Rep. John Shimkus, a high-ranking Energy and Commerce Committee member, is aiming for a vote within weeks on his legislation to force federal action on Yucca, the remote site identified in law as the country's permanent repository but never used in part because of steadfast opposition from most Nevada politicians.
The criticism came swiftly last week after Atlantic magazine published a writer's account saying that Sen. Al Franken "groped" her in 2009 by putting his hand on her waist during a photo op, "grabbing a handful of flesh" and squeezing at least twice. "And this is your definition of a grope? Come on! This accusation trivializes real predation and abuse.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and two of his Democratic colleagues have suggested that President Donald Trump should consider resigning, after a run of sexual harassment scandals that has driven out some members of Congress. Sen. Al Franken "felt it proper for him to resign," Sanders said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning, referring to the Democrat from Minnesota.
Cory Booker has called on President Donald Trump to resign, saying that Al Franken did 'the honorable thing' by stepping down from the senate. Booker, the Democrat senator from New Jersey, made the remarks on Saturday at an event in Montgomery, Alabama, where he is campaigning against Republican senate candidate Roy Moore.
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Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and the Degradation of the G.O.P. - In less than a year, the President, with help from the Alabama Senate candidate, has so damaged the Party that it may never recover. - When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, was explaining last week Alabama Sen. Shelby: 'I couldn't vote for Roy Moore' - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Washington Sen. Richard Shelby says he wants a Republican elected to the Senate on Tuesday to represent Alabama, but that he didn't vote for GOP candidate Roy Moore in the special election.
Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and the Degradation of the G.O.P. - In less than a year, the President, with help from the Alabama Senate candidate, has so damaged the Party that it may never recover. - When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, was explaining last week Alabama Sen. Shelby: 'I couldn't vote for Roy Moore' - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Washington Sen. Richard Shelby says he wants a Republican elected to the Senate on Tuesday to represent Alabama, but that he didn't vote for GOP candidate Roy Moore in the special election.
Congress has given themselves a little more breathing room to get through their 2017 to-do list, passing a continuing resolution Thursday on a spending bill that gives them two more weeks to get a final budget to the President's desk. Budget negotiations will continue behind the scenes, and although no resolution is expected this week, those involved want a clear outline for the final deal locked in before lawmakers go home for the weekend.
Alabama's race for U.S. Senate settled into church for worship on Sunday, with the minister at a historic black congregation calling the race a life-or-death matter for equal rights, conservatives standing by Republican Roy Moore and others feeling unsettled in the middle. Speaking at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, where four black girls died in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963, the Rev.
When Democrats asked for Al Franken's resignation the Minnesota Senator found support from unlikely people and now they are defending him as a victim of a puritanical witch hunt. Veuer's Maria Mercedes Galuppo (@mariamgaluppo) has more.
GOP split on Alabama judge's candidacy persists, however; state's senior senator, Republican Richard Shelby, says it 'deserves better' WASHINGTON-A top political adviser to U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore said Tuesday's special election in Alabama would serve as a referendum on President Donald Trump after the president repeated his support for the Republican candidate during a rally on Friday in Florida. "This is Donald Trump on trial in Alabama," said Dean Young, the top political adviser to Mr. Moore.