Tag: Donald Trump
Implications for 2020 in Louisiana’s 2019 Election
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On Saturday, November 16, voters in Louisiana re-elected John Bel Edwards (D) as their Governor. This comes despite President Trump's vociferous support for...
Jeff Sessions Wants Back in the US Senate
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A seat in the US Senate, representing Alabama, will be up for grabs in 2020. The Democratic candidate will almost certainly be the...
Donald Trump and the “Chaos Trades”
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A theory about recent stock futures activity is spreading around the US that suggests a conspiracy involving President Donald Trump. It has become...
Corey Lewandowski Teasing a Senate Campaign
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Corey Lewandowski, who was the campaign manager for Donald Trump through 2015 and the first half of 2016, has said that he is...
Senator Romney (R – Utah) Increasingly at Odds with POTUS
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In recent weeks Mitt Romney, a rookie Senator (elected from Utah in 2018) but long a prominent Republican and in 2012 that party's...
Tariff Advocate Accused of Writing Fiction
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Peter Navarro, an economist with the titles "Assistant to the President" and "Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy" in the White House, has...
The Newly Normal Impeachment Process
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The impeachment of a US President was once a very rare event. A child born in 1870 might have lived to be a...
New Mexico Gets a Splashy Campaign Ad
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Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent, now a candidate for a US House seat from New Mexico's 3d district, has a television ad...
Foreign Policy Tweet War WIthin the GOP
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Rep. Liz Cheney (Wy) and Sen. Rand Paul (Ky), two very prominent Republicans with decided opinions about foreign policy, have been using their...
Secretary Pompeo May Run for Senate
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The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, may run for a seat in the Senate from his home state of Kansas next year....