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Trump’s Reelection Campaign Is Trying to Woo Latino Voters While Threatening to Purge America of Latinos
President Trump is nothing if not tone deaf. Somehow, Trump pulled favorable numbers with Hispanic voters in 2016, and now the president’s campaign to steal the White House in 2020 has its eyes set on pulling the Hispanic vote while simultaneously threatening to rid America of undocumented immigrants and locking children of those who cross…
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In One Day, Jaime Harrison, Lindsey Graham's Challenger, Raises Six Figure in Donations
He’s the son of a single mom and already has an endorsement from Luke Skywalker. (Fine, it’s actor Mark Hamill, who played Skywalker, who showed love—but if I said that Hamill endorsed him, would you even have known who he was?) He’s running a campaign under the hashtag #SendLindseyHome—as in President Trump’s favorite whipping boy,…
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Right-Wing Foundation Alleges AOC Campaign Paid Boyfriend Illegally
New York’s freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has raised plenty of eyebrows during her first few months in office. According to a right-leaning think-tank, her campaign’s finances may have raised legal concerns, too. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation alleges in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that Brand New Congress PAC paid her boyfriend, Riley Roberts,…
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Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris to Visit Early Primary States Later This Month
After announcing her decision to run for president in front of 20,000 of her closest friends in her hometown of Oakland, Calif., Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris will visit all four early primary states over the next month to meet voters and share her vision for the country. The former California attorney general will campaign in…
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Stacey Abrams’ Campaign Was the Hogwarts School for Black Girl Magic
There was an idea, hatched back in 2017, of bringing together a group of remarkable people to see if they could be something more; to see if they could work together when we needed them; to fight the battles we never could. … They were the Stacey Abrams campaign for governor of Georgia …. Forgive…
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Ben Carson: Donald Trump’s New Deal for Black America Begins With a Good Education
Donald Trump often says things that many people believe to be true but dare not say. He did it again recently by saying that nobody needs to tell African Americans in this country that the old New Deal from the Democratic Party isn’t working for them. Trump made the simple but accurate observation that in…
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Melania Trump Signed Up to Be a Rich Man’s Wife, Not First Lady
Last weekend, at the Tidal X 1015 concert in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nicki Minaj delivered a pointed critique that echoed a sentiment that quite a few share about Melania Trump. After reciting lyrics from “Win Again,” she said: “It’s O motherf—king K, ’cause Barack needed a Michelle, bitch, and Bill needed a motherf—king Hillary, bitch; you…
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For Colored Folk Who Have Considered Suicide When This Election Was Too Much
There is not a lot of joy this election season. Everyone knows that we probably won’t live to see another ridiculously upbeat campaign season like 2008, when it was literally “cool” to go out and vote for then-Sen. Barack Obama, but 2016 has been an emotional letdown nonetheless. The choice between Hillary Clinton, with her…
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Why Is It So Hard for Pundits to Admit That America's Racism Is What's Driving Trump's Campaign?
In terms of campaign strategy, the formula for Donald J. Trump’s presidential bid has been quite clear: Take the themes of racism and nativism once popularized by George Wallace, add contemporary references and essentially tell the electorate, “This is the remix. The jeeps pump this new remix.” From talks of a “big, beautiful wall” to…