Politico got a letter on Monday. By Wednesday night, it had a new headline. On Oct. 16, the outlet reported that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles helped set up then-press secretary Katie Zacharia’s Fox News interview with Sean Hannity. The headline said it plainly: “Susie Wiles helped set up Fox interview ahead of press secretary’s exit.” That headline
The pollster confessed before anyone in the newsroom caught on. On Tuesday night, Wedgewood Polls, a young firm whose numbers had made their way into The New York Times’ poll tracker and onto the pages of Newsweek, admitted it had invented them. The firm said it had “no history, formal credentials, or real data behind the vast majority of our
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Picture the kid. Twenty-two, maybe twenty-three. Political science degree, some debt, one good suit bought on sale. He’s been refreshing USAJobs at midnight. He wants to be in the building where the country gets run, even if all he does is collate binders for a deputy assistant secretary nobody’s heard of. Now picture a United States senator telling him, more
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James Carville has spent 40 years telling Democrats how to win. This week he told them what kind of winning he can’t stand. It isn’t losing. It’s winning small. “I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats win by five,” Carville told Bill Kristol on The Bulwark’s “Bulwark on Sunday” podcast, posted Oct. 18. “Because
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The president did it gently. In Washington, that’s sometimes the hardest way to hear it. On the South Lawn Friday, President Trump told reporters he’d pulled his new press secretary aside just before walking out. His message to her: “You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to… I think you should reconsider.” Then, almost to himself: “Maybe
Abdul El-Sayed has a sister. She has been talking about their family for years. He says he’s never listened. That was the gist of a tense exchange this week between the Michigan Democrat, now running for the U.S. Senate, and NBC’s Tom Llamas. Llamas asked about posts from El-Sayed’s sister, Eman Abdelhadi, first surfaced by the Washington Free Beacon. In
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Most of us know what year we were born. It’s the first fact we ever own. Ilhan Omar’s office, it turns out, had to fix hers. And it fixed it after she got to Congress. For years the record was plain. Her birthdate was listed as October 4, 1981 in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, on Wikipedia, and by major
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On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, if he could “set the record straight” on claims that his family had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. “No,” he said. Welker gave him room to be sure. “No, you don’t have any ties, and your family doesn’t?” “No,” El-Sayed repeated. Then
Continue ReadingIn time of ancient gods, warlords and kings, a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle. The power. The passion. The danger. Her courage will change the world.
Democrat Rep. Jared Huffman (CA) accused the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) of politically weaponizing religion by “rebuking” Democrats who support abortion, and the congressman suggested that these Catholic churches should
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