We’re 76 days until the 2018 midterm elections and 804 days until the 2020 elections. President Trump seems to live by the mantra “go big or go home.” And, that’s what he’s angling to do in the midterm elections. White House aides announced on Tuesday that the president is set to undertake an ambitious travel…
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on Thursday evening became the latest senator to predict that President Trump will fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions after November’s midterm elections. Corker told Politico that he felt that “moves are being made” to bring about Sessions’s ouster from the Department of Justice. “It’s very apparent to me that the president…
Election handicapper Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted 10 House races toward Democrats on Thursday, including the election involving recently indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.). The handicapper moved Hunter’s race in California’s 50th Congressional District from a “safe Republican” seat to “leans Republican.” The Department of Justice alleged in an indictment Tuesday against Hunter and his wife,…
Mike Hill, a former state representative in Florida who is running for the Republican nomination for a House race in the state, wants to bring President Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star to Pensacola as local officials in California push to have it removed. “Pensacola, the first settlement in America, is also going to be…
Democrats in Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial and Senate races are holding double-digit leads over their Republican opponents, according to an NBC News/Marist poll released Thursday. Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.) holds a 14-point advantage among registered voters, leading his Republican challenger state Sen. Scott Wagner 54 to 40 percent. Six percent are undecided. Wolf is buoyed by a…
Michael Avenatti, the high-profile attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels and a possible 2020 presidential contender, attended the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) summer meeting in Chicago on Thursday. Avenatti, who recently spoke at a political event in Iowa and who has planned trips to other key primary states, was set to meet Thursday with…
ObamaCare is more popular than the GOP tax law, according to a new Fox News poll. The 2010 health-care law registered a 51 percent approval rating, compared with 40 percent for the 2017 Republican tax cuts, according to the survey released on Thursday. The poll, which surveyed 1,009 registered voters, also found that only 36…
The Senate rejected an effort by GOP Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) to attach a provision blocking federal funding for Planned Parenthood to a massive government spending bill. Senators voted 45-48 on Paul’s amendment, with 60 votes needed to add the provision into the spending bill. GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted…
Multiple former Obama administration officials on Thursday blasted news that a reported memo accusing top Obama officials of operating a media campaign aimed at undermining President Trump’s foreign policy efforts had circulated in the Trump White House last year. The New Yorker’s Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow reported Thursday that Trump advisers circulated a memo…
Melissa Bruzzano is a person filled with gentle strength, which underlies her activism. She has led marchers while chanting with a megaphone; hosted movies and discussion groups about Medicare for All; worked with other activists at the March for Medicare for All at the state capitol; helped with communications for local ACLU People Power actions to help protect immigrants at risk; worked as the first campaign manager for Anuja Rajendra’s Michigan Senate campaign; started and runs PAG, all while being a devoted mother and wife, an attorney, a songwriter, frontwoman (vocals and guitar) for the band Sweet Melissa, and a vocal coach.