Moore denies sexual misconduct, but GOP fears election risk

His party suddenly and bitingly divided, Alabama Republican Roy Moore emphatically rejected increasing pressure to abandon his Senate bid on Friday as fears grew among GOP leaders that a once-safe Senate seat was in jeopardy just a month before a special election. Moore, an outspoken Christian conservative and former state Supreme Court judge, attacked a Washington Post report that he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl and pursued three other teenagers decades earlier as "completely false and misleading."

Sexual misconduct accusations transform Alabama Senate race

Yet in the span of a tumultuous afternoon, a low-profile special election became a Republican nightmare that threatens a once-safe Senate seat - and offers a new window into ugly divisions that continue to plague the GOP in the age of President Donald Trump. Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, a 70-year-old former state Supreme Court justice, defiantly denied allegations of decades-old sexual misconduct with minors published Thursday in a Washington Post story.

Is Hillary Just the “Fall Guy” for the Intel Agencies and their Moneybags Bosses?

For nearly a year, Hillary Clinton failed to admit that her campaign and the Democratic National Committee had provided funding for the notorious dossier that alleged Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Then, two weeks ago, the Washington Post published a blockbuster article that proved that Clinton had been misleading the public about her Campaign's role in producing the report.

New Virginia governor: Win sends message against hatred

Seizing his party's first major Trump-era victory, Democrat Ralph Northam beat back a charge from Republican Ed Gillespie in the race for Virginia governor, a bruising election that tested the power of President Donald Trump's fiery nationalism against the energy of the Trump resistance. "I think what this message was yesterday that Virginia sent not only to this country, but to this world, is that the divisiveness, the hatred, the bigotry, the politics that is tearing this country apart, that's not the United States of America that people love," Northam said Wednesday at a news conference at Virginia's Capitol.

This man gets mistaken for Steve Bannon – and they even move in the same circles

Keith Heard, a DC lobbyist and president of Key Impact Strategies, is often mistaken for Steve Bannon. Keith Heard, former chief of staff for Sen. Thad Cochran, is a lobbyist and president of Key Impact Strategies.

A year after his surprise election, 65 percent say Trumpa s achieved little

A year after his surprise election victory, President Donald Trump is underperforming expectations and lagging behind his predecessors, with the lowest job approval of any postwar president at this point in office, broad distrust across a range of issues and majority belief that he's not delivering on his campaign promises. Yet for all his shortcomings, Trump runs a dead heat with Hillary Clinton among 2016 voters in a hypothetical rematch in this ABC News/Washington Post poll, underscoring Clinton's own enduring unpopularity.

Brazile says she considered replacing Clinton with Biden

Former Interim chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile apparently thought about replacing Hillary Clinton with former Vice-President Joe Biden as the party's 2016 Presidential nominee. For more on the story here is Zachary Devita.

Welcome to the D.C. suburbs, where the GOP tax plan could really hurt

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Congressman Jamie Raskin at a rally with hundreds of people against the proposed GOP tax plan at Luxmanor Elementary School in Rockville, Md., on Saturday. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi visited Rep. Jamie B. Raskin's Maryland congressional district Saturday morning, ground zero for affluent homeowners who could take a financial hit under the House Republicans' tax plan.

Bozell & Graham Column: The Fusion of Reporting and ‘Oppo’

On October 24, The Washington Post reported that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee hired the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. The firm then retained former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, who assembled a dubious dossier from his Russian contacts.

Kevin McCarthy hits out at claims GOP isn’t forthcoming about tax…

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy called criticisms that Republicans haven't been forthcoming with their tax reform plans a "Democratic talking point" that isn't true. McCarthy said Sunday on Fox News Republicans have been talking about what they want in a tax reform plan, including doubling the standard deduction and lowering the corporate tax rate to near 20 percent, for years.

Most Americans say divisions under Trump as bad as during Vietnam, poll shows

President Donald Trump speaks during an event to declare the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, in Washington. Seven in 10 Americans say the nation's political divisions are at least as big as during the Vietnam War, according to a new poll, which also finds nearly 6 in 10 saying Donald Trump's presidency is making the U.S. political system more dysfunctional.

Report: Judge OK’s fast-tracked citizenship applications for foreign-born soldiers

U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis makes a statement at the White House on a possible military response to the recent North Korea missile launch, on September 3, 2017 in Washington, D.C. A federal judge said in an order this week that the U.S. military can't block 2,000 U.S. Army Reserve soldiers who were born overseas from obtaining fast-tracked applications for citizenship, according to The Washington Post. U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle of Washington argued that a new policy developed by the Pentagon could threaten to delay the applications and could possibly lead to the deportation of these soldiers, the report said.

The Fusion GPS paternity test

If success has a thousand fathers and failure has none, then who's the daddy of the Fusion GPS story now rocking the Democratic Media Complex? Lest you condemn me as a "science denier," let's stipulate there must be at least two parents, or maybe even three. According to the Washington Post, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee gave birth to the salacious "Trump Dossier," compiled by the Washington-based research firm of Fusion GPS and a former British spy.

Report: DNC and Clinton Campaign Funded the Trump/Russia ‘Steele Dossier’

The Washington Post reported that a law firm representing the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign retained research firm Fusion GPS to investigate Trump. The Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign partially funded the investigation that produced the controversial " Steele Dossier ," according to a 24 October 2017 report by the Washington Post citing "people familiar with the matter."

Trump an ‘utterly untruthful’ president who’s ‘debasing’ the US, Corker says

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NYT’s Stolberg Hails McCain’s ‘New Voice’ Vs. Trump, But Was ‘Cantankerous’ Vs. Obama

New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg filed a flattering story on Sen. John McCain, " In Twilight of Career, McCain Becomes an Unfettered Voice Against Trumpism ." The text box of Saturday's story was even more syrupy: "After a cancer diagnosis, an even more vocal defender of national ideals."