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To the delight of many Democrats, he's stepped back into the fray that former presidents often try to avoid, campaigning for Democratic candidates ahead of the midterms and blasting the political culture of the Trump era. He attracted a large, adoring crowd this past week in Ohio and will be in Pennsylvania on Friday campaigning for Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.
Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Terrified of alienating the activist bases of their respective parties, Democrats and Republicans in Congress rarely even try to compromise anymore.
6, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, for the third day of his confirmatio... . FILE - In this Sept.
In a stormy week, President Donald Trump blustered and distorted reality, denying massive deaths from a hurricane that scientists believe to be one of the nation's deadliest and blowing out of proportion U.S. economic growth and his role in spurring it. He's insisting the federal response to Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico last September, was "incredibly successful," even though blackouts there remain common and several forms of federal aid have been slow to arrive compared with past disasters.
In a post-Labor Day briefing at the White House , a top Republican pollster told senior staff that the determining factor in the election wouldn't be the improving economy or the steady increase in job creation. It would be how voters feel about Trump.
The first peek at the politics of the next legislative session is gestating in San Antonio and points west, where an election on Tuesday will decide who'll be filling Democrat Carlos Uresti 's seat in the Texas Senate. It's one piece of the leadership puzzle that will fully take shape in January, when the Legislature convenes in Austin for its regular session.
Former President Barack Obama is campaigning again. While he spent most of his post-presidency outside of day-to-day politics, Obama is mapping out a final effort ahead of November's elections to help Democrats take back the House of Representatives and win seats in the Senate.
The House intelligence committee chairman says he plans to release the transcripts of dozens of private interviews conducted during its investigation into Russian election-meddling and would push the director of national intelligence to declassify others. "I think full transparency is in order here, so I expect to make those available from our committee to the American public here in the next few weeks," said Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., months after the GOP colleague who led the investigation said such a release could have a "chilling impact" on testimony in future inquiries.
A woman who accused Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual assault has broken her silence, days after the allegations were first revealed. Christine Blasey Ford first detailed the allegations in a letter to senator Diane Feinstein, alleging that Kavanaugh had attempted to sexually assault her at a gathering of teenagers in 1982, when she was 15 and he was 17. Feinstein revealed the existence of the letter during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing last week, but would not disclose its contents nor the name of its author, instead referring the letter to the FBI.
President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was thrust into turmoil Sunday after the woman accusing him of high school-era sexual misconduct told her story publicly for the first time. Democrats immediately called for a delay in a key committee vote set for this later week and a Republican on the closely divided panel said he's "not comfortable" voting on the nomination without first hearing from the accuser.
CNN's Ana Cabrera reads a redacted version of the letter Christine Blasey Ford wrote to Sen. Dianne Feinstein detailing an event in which she accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Kavanaugh denies these allegations.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) reacts to the news that a woman has come forward to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of committing sexual assault in the 1980s.
People will look back on this era in our history to see what was known about Donald Trump while Americans were deciding whether to choose him as president. Here's a running chronicle from James Fallows on the evidence available to voters as they make their choice, and of how Trump has broken the norms that applied to previous major-party candidates.
Greenwich Selectman Sandy Litvack and State Rep. candidate Laura Kostin applaud speakers at the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee Cookout and Campaign Rally at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Conn. Sunday, Sept.
While standing behind federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, some Republican Senators said Sunday that they were open to the idea of hearing from Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during a party when they were teenagers in the 1980's. Sen. Lindsey Graham , a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he "would gladly listen" to Ford, as some Democrats called for a Thursday vote of that panel on Kavanaugh's nomination to be delayed.
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Before the final primary results were in on Thursday, U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney's opponent in the 18th Congressional District, offered his reaction. "We already knew that whatever tonight's results brought in, Sean Maloney made clear that the people of the 18th Congressional District were his last priority."
California professor Christine Blasey says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland.
GOP to release over 70 interviews House interviews in Russia probe, which includes members of the Trump campaign, FBI agents, and various intelligence officials A top Republican pollster told the White House the determining factor in the election would be how voters feel about President Trump In a post-Labor Day briefing at the White House, a top Republican pollster told senior staff that the determining factor in the election wouldn't be the improving economy or the steady increase in job creation. It would be how voters feel about Trump.