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As President Donald Trump's policies and rhetoric have put him increasingly at odds with the national Republican party, a leading progressive organization is kicking off a new grassroots campaign to link vulnerable GOP House members to Trump's troubled brand. Organizing for Action, the group spawned by former President Barack Obama's national campaigns, is beginning the program by focusing on 34 seats in GOP-held congressional districts around the country where Trump received less than 50% of the vote last November.
President Donald Trump on Thursday brushed off Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to expel hundreds of U.S. diplomatic employees from Russia, instead thanking Putin and insisting it would save the U.S. significant cash. In remarks to reporters at his golf course in central New Jersey, Trump dismissed Putin's move, saying he "greatly' appreciated Putin's help cutting down the payroll at the U.S. State Department.
Sen. Jeff Flake has been all over the airwaves this month promoting his new book , Conscience of a Conservative , in which he laments that "Never has a party so quickly or easily abandoned its core principles as my party did in the course of the 2016 campaign." In the process Flake has predictably drawn heavy fire from Trumpworld , and perhaps less intuitively from certain quarters on the left.
President Donald Trump and President Barack Obama may seem like political polar opposites, but their rhetoric has far more in common than you would think, according to a new analysis of their speeches . Two University of Minnesota professors took Trump's "more substantial speeches," defined for the analysis as 500 words or longer, and compared them with a database of presidential speeches that were gathered based on the same guidelines.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Aug. 8. The more I reflect on the concept of recognizing one's privilege while interacting in society, the more I realize that some world "leaders," in particular, are relatively poor at this. I will single out the 45th president of the United States as being extremely guilty of acknowledging his privilege.
This undated file image provided by NASA shows the agency's outline for a journey to Mars. Following in the footsteps of Barack Obama, who threw his weight late in his presidency behind the idea of a landing on Mars, the Trump administration has gone on record supporting a manned trip to the red planet.
North Korea and the United States traded e... . U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives at a military base in Subang, Malaysia, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.
" A top White House aide and a Fox News host lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday for saying people think Congress hasn't done anything this year partly because President Donald Trump is inexperienced and had "excessive expectations" about how quickly lawmakers could act. The back and forth was an unusually negative public exchange between Republicans that came less than two weeks after the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Obama health care law was rejected by the Senate.
While the Democrats are pushing some narrative of Russian interference in American elections to ease the pain of their surprising loss of the anointed Hillary Rodham Clinton, a top Democrat is blatantly butting in um, advising another country on its upcoming election, according to the New York Times. The former president, who has largely stayed out of American politics, said there had been "too much incitement" in the election in his father's home country.
U.S. job openings jumped to a record high in June, outpacing hiring, the latest indication that companies are having trouble finding qualified workers.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday a stronger law enforcement response is needed to combat the opioid crisis, speaking at his New Jersey golf club and flanked by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price and acting Director of National Drug Control Policy Richard Baum. "It's a problem the likes of which we have never seen.
Gov. Roy Cooper's administration wants the state's pending Medicaid overhaul to integrate physical and mental health treatment more quickly and expand coverage to more of the working poor in North Carolina, according to its plan unveiled Tuesday. The Department of Health and Human Services released a report explaining how it wants the Medicaid program to look when a 2015 state law directing the reorganization takes effect, possibly in July 2019.
President Donald Trump would like to interrupt his vacation to deliver the following message: Don't call this a vacation. The president has decamped from Washington to his private golf club in central New Jersey.
Donald Trump's formula for winning reelection is the same as his formula for winning at everything else: Capitilize on a valuable inheritance, and keep a segment of the public indoctrinated into your cult of personality. More precisely, the president needs to maintain the growing economy he inherited from his predecessor, and retain the admiration of enough Republican and non-college-educated white voters to hold the rust-belt swing states.
Leaderless and loud, the Resistance has become the motive power of the Democratic Party. Presidential hopefuls already strive to anticipate its wishes.
Trump and his minions have ramped up the attack, but the "voter fraud" myth goes back to the GOP's attack on ACORN Donald Trump's war on voting rights, like much of his behavior, is rooted in revenge. After the November election, Trump tweeted that he lost the popular vote because 3 million to 5 million "illegals" fraudulently voted for Hillary Clinton.
ACLU of Nebraska has filed an open records request with Attorney General Doug Peterson to determine whether there were communications with the Trump administration prior to a joint statement from 10 state attorneys general urging the president to end DACA protections for young immigrants.
Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump's overall approval rating stands at its lowest point in CNN polling, while three-quarters of Americans say they can't trust most of what they hear from the White House. Overall, 38% say they approve of Trump's handling of the presidency, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS , with 56% saying they disapprove.