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While mainstream media are reporting some polls that suggest Trump is losing the support of women, the report by Open Secrets, part of the Center for Responsive Politics, shows the president has over 10,500 large-dollar contributions from women in suburbs, and has received $8,293,135 from them – the largest amount than any of the Democrat 2020 candidates.

ERIE, Pa. — Harold Klinzing, a 46-year-old roofer who loves his labor union, is the sort of voter Democratic presidential victories were once built upon. “I loved Bill Clinton,” Klinzing recalled fondly. “He was my favorite president. I loved him to death.” But after voting for Barack Obama in 2008, Klinzing, a lifelong Democrat, had soured on him by 2012 and sat out that election entirely.

President Trump has discussed dismissing the intelligence community’s inspector general, Michael Atkinson, because Atkinson reported a whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s interactions with Ukraine to Congress after concluding it was credible, according to four people familiar with the discussions. Trump first expressed his dismay about Atkinson around the time the whistleblower’s complaint became public in September.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Tuesday seemed inclined to allow the Trump administration to end a federal program that provides work and study permits to some 700,000 immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children. As hundreds of supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program rallied outside the court, justices were divided along ideological lines as they heard oral arguments in a case challenging President Trump’s move to cancel the Obama-era federal initiative and put the lives of those immigrants — known as Dr

WASHINGTON — In less than three months, Democrats begin voting for their presidential nominee in Iowa, and the sound you hear is panic — among some donors and party elites, at least, who are privately pushing for a savior to enter the race. Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and billionaire Michael Bloomberg are weighing jumping in at this late stage, hoping they can top a Democratic field that has been led by former vice president Joe Biden.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — White House adviser Stephen Miller sent e-mails that ‘‘promoted white nationalist literature and racist propaganda’’ to conservative news site Breitbart, the Southern Poverty Law Center said Tuesday after releasing excerpts. The nonprofit’s Hatewatch blog published portions of e-mails that Miller sent to Breitbart editors in 2015 and 2016, the majority from he was working for then-U.S. Sen.

A top career Defense Department official described to House impeachment investigators her dismay over the summer’s delay of U.S.

Top negotiators are set to meet Tuesday to try to break a stalemate over funding the government.  Congress has until Nov. 21 to prevent the second shutdown of the year after a 35-day partial closure that ended in February. They’re eyeing another stopgap bill to give appropriators more time, sources told The Hill on Monday, with a potential end date between Dec. 13 and Dec.

House Democrats released three new transcripts from closed-door depositions Monday as they charge toward the open hearing phase of their impeachment inquiry later this week. The release included the transcript of Laura Cooper, a top Defense Department official who oversees Ukraine.

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