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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Former President Barack Obama said Saturday that November midterm elections would give Americans "a chance to restore some sanity in our politics," taking another swipe at his successor as he raises his profile campaigning for fellow Democrats to regain control of the House. "If we don't step up, things can get worse," the former president told the audience at the Anaheim Convention Center. "In two months, we have the chance to restore some sanity to our politics. Four of those districts are at least partly in Orange County, a formerly reliable GOP bastion that went for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Clinton trounced Trump by more than 4 million votes in California in 2016 and carried Orange County by 9 percentage points. In Orange County, Republicans held a 13-point edge in voter registration 10 years ago, but that has shrunk to 3 points, while independents, who tend to vote like Democrats in California, have climbed to 25 percent. Each of the seven candidates that Obama campaigned for on Saturday fit that description. California Republicans said Obama's appearance would have little impact and may even help their party. Says Pence, "The truth is, the American people in 2016 rejected the policy and direction of Barack Obama when they elected President Donald Trump." Fox released an excerpt on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Millions of Americans were startled by the revelation on Wednesday afternoon that there was someone working in the Trump White House capable of writing an entire editorial, reports indicate. In a nation already rocked by a series of bombshells since Labor Day, the news that an anonymous senior White House official had the command of the English language necessary to compose a seemingly coherent Op-Ed piece suitable for publication in a major newspaper was perhaps the most improbable development of all. Davis Logsdon, a professor of linguistics at the University of Minnesota, said that a team of language experts under his supervision has studied the Op-Ed word by word and is “in a state of disbelief” that someone currently working for Donald J. Trump could have written it. “There are complete sentences, there are well-structured paragraphs, there is subject-verb agreement,” he said. “This does not appear to be the work of any White House staffer we’re familiar with.” Stressing that he and his team of linguists are “not even close” to determining the author, Logsdon said that they were currently using the process of elimination to whittle down the list of possible scribes. “Based on the mastery of language that we see here, it’s not Sarah Huckabee Sanders, John Kelly, Stephen Miller, or Kellyanne Conway, and it’s definitely not Jared,” he said.

For many obsessed with politics, the upcoming midterm elections are perceived as a fight between good and evil that will determine the fate of the nation. On the other side, 19 percent strongly approve of the president and believe things would be worse if Hillary Clinton were living in the White House today. The rest have more mixed views. The final outcome may be determined by a group of voters that neither political team can begin to comprehend. Rather than see the 2016 election as a watershed event that changed the direction of the country, 26 percent of registered voters don't believe life in America would have been all that different if Clinton had won. Perhaps their ambivalence about who is president simply reflects confidence in the belief that culture and technology lead while politicians lag behind. Only about 11 percent of them trust the federal government to do the right thing most of the time. Whatever their top concern is, however, 53 percent don't have confidence in one major party or the other to address it. Much of the discord in the political process today stems from the inability of the politically obsessed to understand the majority of Americans who don't fit the dominant political narrative. With our partners at HarrisX, we will provide ongoing research and analysis with a particular focus on those who hold more nuanced views of the 21st-century political environment.

With his hero’s story and honored family, he was one of those few congressional freshmen who automatically attract attention. He also bucked the political trend, having been elected as a conservative Republican in 1982, a year when 26 of his fellow party members lost their House seats. It took a fellow Arizonan to teach the young hothead how to get things done for the people of his district so that he could succeed at his job, not just make speeches. Udall reached out to McCain, including him in events back in the state, giving him credit where credit wasn’t due, surrounding him with good will. And the student took it all in, coming to understand the value of compromise and of comradeship. When Udall was felled by Parkinson’s and couldn’t see or speak, John McCain would visit his mentor regularly, reading to him in the hopes that he could hear. A friendship struck between John McCain, the former POW, and John Kerry, the former anti-war protester, helped lead to America’s restoring relations with Vietnam, where U.S. involvement in the war ended up tearing apart our own country. The regularization of relations with Vietnam was an act of reconciliation at home as well as with the former enemy. For heaven’s sake, he was his party’s standard-bearer in 2008, the most partisan position there is. Being an American -- celebrating, serving, sacrificing for this country defined John McCain’s life.

Suffering from insomnia? A new study shows that one in seven Americans are so riled up about politics that they’re losing sleep over it, according to a survey conducted for Bankrate.com. The more education and money Americans have, the more they lie awake over political worries, the survey found. Those on the coasts care about politics the most. Research firm GfK Custom Research polled 1,000 Americans on behalf of Bankrate.com from June 29 to July 1 to figure out what’s keeping them up at night. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. Relationships were the biggest stressor at 41 percent, followed by money at 36 percent. Older millennials were the most likely to lose sleep in general. Want insight more often? Get Roll Call in your inbox Also Watch: To Combat California Fires, Some Lawmakers Calling for Additional Federal Aid spaceplay / pause qunload | stop ffullscreen ??volume mmute ??seek .

The NRA has praised violent video games for giving the American people a realistic standard of how many deadly weapons it’s acceptable for them to carry around in public. Games like ‘Call of Duty’, ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and ‘Doom’ are being given credit for displaying a realistic reality where an American can walk around with half a dozen or more deadly weapons without anyone really batting an eyelid. ‘As long as you’re white,’ NRA chief Wayne LaPierre added. Video gamers are often given enough room to carry at least six guns, a pack of grenades and some brass knuckles (just in case). ‘I remember when you had to drop your current gun to pick up a new one in video games and it used to make me so angry I had to go out and shoot something for real. Now though, everything is much more realistic,’ said one NRA supporter. The ‘Fallout’ franchise has been singled out for particular praise by the NRA for showing their idealised vision for the future.

cards. laws. “Given that Americans have been required to show I.D. to buy food for years, it’s amazing that people still try to get away with this,” Carol Foyler, a supermarket cashier in Fresno, California, said. in my other pants,’ or some B.S. Believe me, I’ve heard it all.” In Cleveland, Ohio, a man attempting to buy a loaf of bread, two yogurts, and a bottle of Fanta tried to use another consumer’s food I.D. “It’s not just people using other people’s food I.D.s to get groceries,” Harland Dorrinson, the store’s security chief, said. laws have served it well, they “need to go further” to prevent rampant abuses of the system. “Requiring people who want groceries to have a food I.D. is a good start, but there should also be background checks and a waiting period,” he said.

"And we're going to do it in Michigan." He is one of many Arab and Muslim candidates seeking office with left-wing talking points and populist energy. "The future of this party is working people," Ocasio-Cortez said of Democrats at the Detroit event on Saturday. I’m proud to endorse @AbdulElSayed for Governor of Michigan. We are actually on the opposite end of that Two Arab-American women who are Muslim are running for US Congress in separate districts in Michigan. On Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez appeared to back the two women at a rally in Dearborn to encourage Muslims to vote. I need you to knock those doors and send us all, so that 2018 isn't the year that we elect our first Muslim woman to Congress, it's that we get our first class of Muslim women to Congress." That's why people like Abdul and Rashida are resonating with people who are outside our community. If El-Sayed wins on 7 August, he would face one of three Republicans running in the opposite primaries, including the Trump-backed Michigan attorney general. "In fact, the Muslim candidates are the ones who are centring the constitution as the foundation of what they're running on, and dignity and respect for all people," Sarsour, who has been campaigning for Muslim candidates in Michigan, told MEE.

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