Politics
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Cory Booker Raises Enough Money to Continue White House Bid
Of all the candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for president, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey may be the best-educated. He has three solid debate performances under his belt with no real slip-ups. His past is relatively scandal-free, and sources say that Cory Booker’s drug dealer friend would kick Joe Biden’s thugged-out homeboy’s ass…
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Mississippi Police Shot a Bullet Into the Back of His Head. A City Attorney Is Arguing It Doesn’t Matter Since He’s Not a Citizen
Mississippi police should have never been at Ismael Lopez’s door. But in executing a warrant for a man wanted for domestic assault in July 2017, police went to the wrong address, arriving at Lopez’s home instead of the suspect’s. Lopez would not survive the encounter with police, who never announced themselves at the door. He…
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Donald Trump Warns There Will Be a Civil War If He Is Impeached
Donald Trump is shook. You can tell the “president” is shook because every time he is, he starts flailing on Twitter, tweeting out whatever nonsense he can think of to put up a brave front—but his words usually belie that enormous front and reveal that deep down inside, he is afraid of whatever may be…
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib Stands by Sale of ‘Impeach the MF’ T-Shirts
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is keeping the same energy she has always had. The Democratic congresswoman’s re-election campaign is selling t-shirts based on her most widely-known phrase: “Impeach the MF.” The new merch went on sale following the announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry into poor POTUS last week. Priced at $29 each, the tees…
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Biden Gets Impeachment, Castro Talks High Rents and Booker's Totally Spent: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 11
The Root 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings take a one-week snapshot of the campaign season and imagine, using just that week, which candidate running for president would be best for black America. Most weeks, we (me, Dr. Jason Johnson, politics editor of The Root; Marcus Ferrell, former African-American outreach director for Bernie Sanders for America…
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CNBC Survey Finds Wall Street Democrats Will Sit Things Out If Elizabeth Warren’s Their Nominee
It’s all about the Benjamins, baby—even for Wall Street bigwigs who call themselves Democrats and say they’ll sit out the election, or even wholesale back Donald Trump, if Elizabeth Warren, the big-banks-bashing senator from Massachusetts, is their party’s presidential nominee. That’s the finding of a recent informal survey by CNBC of private equity, hedge fund…
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‘I Will Be the Hero’: Giuliani Goes Off on the ‘Morons’ Giving Him the Side-Eye for His Role in Trump’s Impeachment Woes
Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s ever-vociferous mouthpiece, is apparently feeling most unappreciated for all he did on behalf of his boss to put him in danger of being impeached dig up dirt on one of his rivals for the Oval Office, and says history will prove him right, damnit! “Anything I did should be praised,” Giuliani…
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This Trump/Ukraine/Impeachment Story Is Doing Too Much, So We’re Gonna Update This Post as Shit Happens
Donald Trump’s apparent attempt to persuade a foreign government to sic the Ukrainian Sherlock Holmes on Joe Biden has created a maelstrom of constantly breaking news stories. Democrats are impeaching, Republicans are obstructing, the president is whining, whistles are blowing, reporters are reporting and I’m pretty sure I read something about a partridge in a…
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Lawmakers Get a Look at Trump Whistleblower Complaint— Ahead of Testimony From Guy Who Didn’t Wanna Give It Up
Lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committee got a look Wednesday evening at the Trump whistleblower complaint that’s caused all this conversation about impeaching the current occupant of the Oval Office. Whether lawmakers will release the contents of the complaint to the public is still up for debate, but the reluctance of the Trump…