White House Veto Threat Shelves Possible Tax Plan

UPDATE: That was quick. The two campaigns have apparently agreed to a date of June 27. Debate to be hosted by CNN. There's a reason I'm quoting the New York Times. See if you can guess! Via the Times: President Biden is willing to debate former President Donald J. Trump at least twice before the election, and as early as June — but his campaign is rejecting the nonpartisan organization that has managed presidential debates since 1988, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times. The letter by the Biden campaign lays out for the first time the president’s terms for giving Mr.

Nice to see Joe Scarborough ripping the New York Times over their crappy, misleading polls. "Wait, John Heilemann. There is more. People are calling saying this is a reaction to one poll. You go go back and look at the tape. We do this every time when this poll comes. It's always an outlier and the New York Times always gets 15 or 16 articles out of them that everybody rushes to because it says 'Earth ends at 5:00.'" "NPR has found some of these voters that said, you know, a voter for Biden before, but wait.

Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks won the Democratic primary for Maryland’s open Senate seat yesterday, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Via The Hill: Alsobrooks beat out fellow Democrat Rep. David Trone (Md.) in what had become a tumultuous race. Just days earlier, an Emerson College Polling/The Hill/DC News Now found the two in a dead heat. She will make history if she wins in November, becoming the first Black woman to represent the Old Line State in the Senate. Alsobrooks is set to face off against popular former Maryland Gov.

It’s absolutely gobsmacking that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, second in line to the presidency, made an all out assault on our rule of law Tuesday. But nothing gives you a better picture of where the Republican party is these days. In case you missed it, Super Duper Christian Speaker Mike Johnson, who is from Louisiana, had nothing more important to do than to go to New York and make a show of support to Donald Trump in his criminal trial about covering up his extramarital affairs with a porn star and Playboy model.

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Among Senate Republicans' top targets this cycle, Arizona initially looked promising. While Senate Democrats are defending seats in even tougher territory such as Ohio and Montana, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s retirement in Arizona left Democrats fighting to protect a seat no longer anchored by a Democratic incumbent. But election denier and MAGA diehard Kari Lake, the likely GOP nominee, is upending Senate Republicans' calculus in the state.