Opinion · 117th Congress
Partisan voters claim, ‘We wuz robbed.’ No, they weren’t
But 62 percent of Democrats opted for the Russia explanation for Hillary Clinton’s loss, while 21 percent said Trump won fairly. So it comes down to this.
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But 62 percent of Democrats opted for the Russia explanation for Hillary Clinton’s loss, while 21 percent said Trump won fairly. So it comes down to this.
Four years ago, not enough of us believed Trump could actually beat Hillary Clinton.
In 2016, with Trump at the top of the ticket, Hillary Clinton won the longtime GOP strongholds of Cobb and Gwinnett counties in suburban Atlanta, where old farms have been plowed over for subdivisions
A surprising thing happened, though, after Nixon resigned in 1974, one step ahead of the impeachment posse.
Just ask Hillary Clinton, who saw her 2008 hopes dashed there when Barack Obama won decisively.
Apparently, it does not apply to Donald Trump Jr., who waxed enthusiastic about a meeting to get Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton, but who escaped being charged because he didn’t realize it was something
Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, showed a group of conservative high school students who was boss when he repeated and nervously chuckled at their chant of “lock her up,” referring to Hillary
Bush’s presidential campaigns, has long argued that congressional Republicans should challenge “the president when he is out of step with the country and hold him accountable for his words and actions
Republican Ed Gillespie lost to Democrat Ralph Northam 45 percent to 54 percent; Trump lost to Hillary Clinton 44 percent to 50 percent.
Democrats since then are not immune: See Bill Clinton’s support of sentencing guidelines that led to mass incarceration, and the “superpredator” quote that came back to haunt Hillary Clinton and
Step back: No one, regardless of political party, should be comfortable with the idea that a campaign would even entertain the idea of accepting help from a foreign adversary attempting to influence
the United States by validating his fantasy that millions of folks impersonating other folks, many of them noncitizens, showed up at the polls, skewing the results and tossing the popular vote win to Hillary
It’s not the first time Pelosi has found herself out of step with the demands of the party base.
Now that the buses have returned from the White House victory-lap rally and House Republicans have headed home for what undoubtedly will be ticker-tape parades, it is time to step back from the partisan
There were times during the campaign when Trump’s tweets seemed to step on stories, thereby changing the subject from a Hillary Clinton scandal to something outrageous.
When you enter the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, you step into an elevator going down, and through its glass walls, the years flash by, with history moving backward, to the
Hillary Clinton’s party, if it is to have the political future not available to their vanquished candidate, must confront a legion of errors that led to their losses.
. … The first step in getting voters to like you is to demonstrate that you like them.”
She has apologized for the latter, a step beyond her husband’s spotty statements of justification.
This week, President Barack Obama was stumping for Hillary Clinton in Greensboro and Tim Kaine spoke at Davidson College.