Military families in america. Should we be shocked? yes, political boomerang. Why republicans should do research before going ahead with their attack on kamala harris. And katie harris said the zoo has come to town. It turns out the real circus just showed up on trump s transition team. I am ayman mohyeldin. Let s do it. Five time draft dodger donald trump loves to paint himself as a champion for veterans. Nobody has ever defended the veterans like i have defended the veterans. I took good care of our vets. We will take care of our veterans better than anybody. Trump s performative support for the military hit a new low this week when he went arlington national cemetery 213 fallen soldiers who died during the 2021 afghanistan withdrawal. As we now know, trump used his visit to get political, filming an ad in which he jabbed president biden with the headstones of fallen troops in the backdrop. We can never assume why trump does what he does, but we do know that it leads to disgraceful m
Summer. Maybe squeeze in one last cookout before the weather gets colder and everything starts to taste like pumpkin spice. But labor day weekend also marks the moment when most americans really start to pay attention to the presidential race. For the campaign, this is the moment when every little detail starts to matter. Vice president kamala harris and her running mate tim walz are coming off a twoday bus tour through southern georgia. The first democratic campaign in that part of the state since 1992. Just last night, the vice president sat down with her first major interview since becoming her party s nominee. She defended the record of the biden harris administration while taking her opponent to task. We have had in the former president someone who is really been pushing an agenda and environment that is about diminishing the character and the strength of who we are as americans. Really dividing our nation. I m very proud of the work we have done that has brought inflation down to
Week when i had a little bit of a bug. I really appreciate it. You are welcome and the best news, you ve gotten better, so you have a great labor day weekend. Thanks, chris. You know, labor day weekend, it s finally here. The next three days are the time when americans everywhere try to get the most out of their summer. Maybe squeeze in one last cookout for beach trip before the weather gets colder and everything starts to taste like pumpkin spice. But in an election year like this one, labor day weekend also marks the moment when most americans really start to pay attention to the presidential race and for the campaigns this is a moment when every detail starts to matter. Vice president kamala harris and her running mate tim walz are coming off a two day bus tour through southern georgia. The first democratic campaign in that part of the state since 1992. Last night the vice president sat down for her first major interview since becoming her party s nominee. She defended the record of
Resonating with republican voters who are possibly going to be leaving trump and going to biden . So when theres sort of these twotime trump voters who have decided theyre out on donald trump, it tends to be January 6th. Like, there was a Break Moment for a certain section of republican voters. I know we hear a lot about how and its true, look, most republican voters absolutely are tolerant of trumps behavior, defend his behavior, have continued to do from, you know, January 6th being a terrible day to, now, you know, supporting, saying that January 6th the people who attacked the capitol are hostages. But there are this subset of people, and i have to tell ya, they tend to be older republicans, because they are the republicans who came of age under ronald reagan, who, you know, still believe in a republican party based on limited government, free markets, american leadership in the world, and theyre the ones who, after January 6th, said, im done
The Atlantic
February 9, 2021
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One casualty of a moment in American life when politics seems to pervade everything is an inability by many prominent people to tease apart what is and is not a matter of politics.
The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, which gets under way today, offers several prime examples. As the refrain went during Trump’s first impeachment, in 2019 and early 2020, the impeachment process is political and not legal, even though it resembles a criminal trial. Yet in both the Democratic House managers’ case for prosecution and (more seriously) the defense brief from Trump’s attorneys, there is a confusion between matters that are appropriately legal or factual, and those that are political.