Washington Examiner Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon said that socialism doesn’t work, arguing people try to make it sound “friendly” by adding “democratic” before it. “The truth is the word ‘democratic’ is like a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine of socialism go down,” Gurdon said on Fox News’s The Will Cain Show Wednesday. “The […]
Washington Examiner congressional reporter Lauren Green said Republicans will “rally” around Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, despite those within the party campaigning against him in the runoff election with four-term Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). “These Republicans are going to rally behind Ken Paxton because they don’t want someone like James Talarico […]
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) sent a letter to Trump administration officials on Wednesday, in which he raised concerns about how President Donald Trump’s planned triumphal arch would affect traffic flow into the nation’s capital. The design plans for the 250-foot arch to be located on Columbia Island at Memorial Circle, bordering the Virginia side of […]
Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) silently protested Colorado Democrats’ decision to censure him over his decision to commute the sentence of a prominent 2020 election denier by showing up to an internal party video call with his mouth taped. An image of the term-limited Democratic governor with black tape on his mouth was shared on social […]
A federal judge on Wednesday considered whether the Trump administration can move forward with a new Bureau of Prisons policy designed to phase out taxpayer-funded transgender drugs for federal inmates. During a hearing in Washington, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, repeatedly pressed the Justice Department over whether BOP’s […]
Washington Examiner healthcare reporter Gabrielle Etzel said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has pursued efforts and investigations aligned with the Make America Healthy Again movement, seeing him as a “warrior” for their cause in the U.S. Senate. “Members of the Make America Healthy Again movement really see Paxton as a warrior for their cause,” […]
Graham Platner holds a 9-percentage-point lead over Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in a hypothetical general election matchup for Maine’s Senate seat, according to new polling. The Pine Tree State Poll from the University of New Hampshire found that 51% of likely general election voters say they would support Platner “if the election were held today,” […]
Alyssa Farah Griffin, co-host of The View, says that President Donald Trump is “getting things done, we just don’t like what he’s getting done,” amid conversations surrounding Trump’s public appearance and overall fitness for office. The discussion references comments made by Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who has publicly raised concerns about presidential fitness across party lines. […]
Reality television personality and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said he is “cool with Crips and Bloods” and plans to meet with members of rival street gangs as he ramps up his outside campaign seeking to oust Karen Bass in next week’s city primary election. In an interview published Wednesday with Vanity Fair, Pratt […]
A biologically male transgender athlete, who is at the center of a Supreme Court case over West Virginia‘s law barring biological men from women’s sports, placed near the top of two events at the state’s recent high school track championship for girls, West Virginia’s attorney general said, contrary to past claims the athlete’s lawyers made […]