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Former Vice President MORE (I-Vt.) to make inroads with black voters. Sanders has been well aware of his need to attract support from African Americans, and he’s sought since entering the race to fix a problem that impaired him in 2016, when he ran a tougher than expected primary challenge against MORE. Clinton was greatly helped in her victory by black votes.

MORE should not testify on the findings of his probe into Russia's election interference, suggesting the move was an attempt by Democrats to renew scrutiny on the White House after the release of Mueller's long-awaited report. "After spending more than $35,000,000 over a two year period, interviewing 500 people, using 18 Trump Hating Angry Democrats & 49 FBI Agents - all culminating in a more than 400 page Report showing NO COLLUSION - why would the Democrats in Congress now need Robert Mueller to testify," Trump said in a pair of tweets. "Are they looking for a r

Center for Immigration Studies’ Matthew Sussis published a series of statements from Americans who have been replaced by foreign H-1B visa workers that were made during a conference call with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Sara Blackwell’s Protect U.S. Workers. Every year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are allowed to stay for up to six years.

“It is absolutely the case that we’ve seen escalatory action from the Iranians.

Tlaib was responding to, and agreeing with, anti-Israel activist Yousef Munayyer, who had criticized a New York Times headline that read: “Gaza Militants Fire 250 Rockets, and Israel Responds with Airstrikes.” (The Times evidently prefers to avoid the word “terrorists” when dealing with Palestinians who murder Israelis.) That was unacceptable to Munayyer, who complained that Israel had started the violence by shooting “unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza.” The “protesters” were attacking Israel’s border: “Some burned tires and threw rocks and incendiary devices, and some a

Biden kicked off his rally in Columbia, South Carolina with a string of warnings about racism and hatred rising under Trump’s presidency, in an effort to win support from African-Americans Democrats in the state. “Folks, last year, 24 states introduced or enacted at least 70 bills to curtail the right the vote. And guess what, mostly directed at ‘people of color,'” he said. “You see it. We have Jim Crow sneaking back in.

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump retweeted more than five dozen messages in an hour Wednesday morning, most seeking to cast doubt on the support of firefighters for Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden. Biden, who announced his candidacy last week, has focused on appealing to the Rust Belt workers who helped Trump win in Pennsylvania and the upper Midwest. The International Association of Firefighters endorsed him on Monday.

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Senator Lindsey Graham uttered a curse word on live TV during the testimony of Attorney General William Barr before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, leading to some tittering among those who watched. The Republican senator from South Carolina, who chairs the committee, was reading text excerpts from then-FBI agent Peter Strzok — a senior counterintelligence official who faced scrutiny for his anti-Trump comments — which were included in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report, when he dropped the F-bomb. “October the 19th, 2016: ‘Trump is a [expletive] id

Senator Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday said Attorney General William Barr should resign from office, calling him a “disgrace” for his handling of the release of the Mueller report. Warren called on Barr to step down on Twitter shortly after the attorney general wrapped up the first part of his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.