Campaigns · 116th Congress
RNC fact check: Questioning economic and tax claims
That would support a claim that Trump’s tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks boosted the growth by 1 percentage point above expectations in 2018 before weakening in 2019.
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Campaigns · 116th Congress
Matt Gaetz builds national profile, but says focus is on Trump election
[jwp-video n=”1″] “The woketopians will settle for Biden because they will make him an extra in a movie written, produced and directed by others,” Gaetz said. “It’s a horror film, really.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Trump needs a convention bounce
[jwp-video n=”1″] Operating with slim margins, little time The president was operating on very slim margins, with a low electoral ceiling and little room for error, before a global pandemic
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Stephanie Bice wins GOP runoff, will face Rep. Kendra Horn
[jwp-video n=”1″] Neese made late loan of $250,000 Bice led Neese in fundraising, with $1.5 million raised through Aug. 5 compared with Neese’s $1.2 million, which included a $450,000 loan.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Effort to pry Black voters from Democrats marks start of Republican convention
Recent polls have shown Owens in a close race in Utah’s 4th District against vulnerable freshman Democrat Ben McAdams, who has a more than 4-to-1 fundraising advantage.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Democrats say Pompeo’s speech to RNC is unethical, hypocritical, and possibly illegal
[jwp-video n=”1″] Pompeo is widely considered by Republicans a probable 2024 presidential candidate.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
RNC fact check: First night speakers spin
In fact, the Republican tax law largely benefitted the wealthy, while the Biden proposed tax increases would fall mainly on the top 1% of taxpayers. Sen.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Watch the key 2016 numbers as you watch the 2020 polls
[jwp-video n=”1″] How important are white voters to Trump? In a June 7, 2016, article for The Washington Post (“Will there be enough white voters to elect Donald Trump?”)
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Both parties featured this House battleground at their conventions
[jwp-video n=”1″] That both parties chose to spotlight the race for Pennsylvania’s 17th District in the Pittsburgh suburbs highlights the importance both Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Jeff Flake: Conservatives better off with Biden than Trump
[jwp-video n=”1″] House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has cited Djou’s 2010 special election victory and the subsequent GOP takeover of the House majority as a parallel for 2020.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
DNC fact check: Biden speech needs context on pandemic, tax cuts and Social Security
Most of the individual income tax provisions expire after 2025, which will then shift most of the tax benefits to the top 1%.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
A reality check on Joe Biden’s Democratic convention promises
Reality: Biden is referring to Trump’s executive memo, which orders the Treasury to not collect the 6.2 percent payroll tax from employees beginning Sept. 1 through the end of the year.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Showcasing GOP support isn’t just for the Democratic convention
[jwp-video n=”1″] Biden began his acceptance speech Thursday night with a pledge to work for all Americans.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Biden would largely discard Trump’s foreign policies on Day 1
Democrats, particularly the party’s left flank, also want to push for the reallocation of national security spending, including a $1 trillion initiative to modernize the nuclear arsenal.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
DNC fact check: Few false claims punctuated by Trump’s wrong tweet
But while the administration finalized such a rule in May 2016, and it was supposed to go into effect on Dec. 1, 2016, that didn’t happen.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Pelosi backs Kennedy over incumbent Markey
The news, first reported by the Boston Globe, comes as voters have already begun to cast ballots in advance of the state’s Sept. 1 congressional primaries.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Biden’s immigration plan: Cancel Trump orders, seek bill in Congress
“There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration, No. 1,” Biden told Black and Hispanic journalists during a press briefing in early August.
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Vulnerable Democrats zoom in and out of the party’s convention
[jwp-video n=”1″] Stevens is in a less tenuous position than some of the other 29 Democrats in districts that backed Trump four years ago, thanks to her strong fundraising, Republicans’ failure
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House Democrats’ agenda barely mentioned at convention as Pelosi forced to talk about Trump
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