OP-ED | The Trump Factor: Will It Affect the GOP Gubernatorial Race?

Over the past 10 presidential elections , Republican candidates have won more votes in Connecticut than Democrats in just three elections: the victories for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush . Since that time, Republican candidates have garnered fewer votes than every Democratic candidate, mustering just 40 percent of the votes in Connecticut, on average.

White House’s John Kelly fails English and history with his views on immigrants

Domenico Maceri says contrary to the opinions of US President Donald Trump and his chief of staff, America's decline will begin when newcomers stop flocking to the country "They don't speak English a They don't integrate well." This is how John Kelly , Donald Trump's chief of staff, described his reasons for the need to block Mexican immigrants from coming into the United States.

Immigration laws should be focused on violent criminals

This is the undocumented immigrant our nation should welcome: the Lawrence, Kansas, chemist whom immigration officials attempted to deport this year, much to the dismay of his family, neighbors and even strangers who came to know the story of Syed Jamal. This immigrant's presence should be questioned: a man who was deported multiple times and who kept re-entering the country.

Trump has hurled us into a constitutional crisis

To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: On Sunday, via Twitter, Trump demanded that the Justice Department concoct a transparently political investigation, with the aim of smearing veteran professionals at Justice and the FBI and also throwing mud at the previous administration.

The GOP’s fear factor

To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: When President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he could not have foreseen today's Republican Party.  A bill authored by Sen. Rand Paul that would require the federal government to balance the budget each year was soundly defeated last week in the Senate.

Democrats must keep their eyes on November prizes

The hum of obsessive and counterproductive worry is rising: President Trump's approval has crept up from abysmal to merely awful! Candidates from the party's progressive wing have won some House primaries! Republicans have not, in every single case, chosen candidates who are unelectable! The Russia investigation is a year old, and still nobody has been frog-marched out of the West Wing in chains! And Trump is still president! Get a grip, people. Try to focus.

On the media, the FBI and other ‘animals’

Anyone expecting President Donald Trump supporters to soften up on their allegiance to the president heading into the November midterm elections is sadly mistaken. This past week, Democrats, the FBI and the liberal elite media gave Team Trump strong reasons to remain solidly behind the Republican commander-in-chief and his "drain the swamp" cause.