President Donald Trump floated $5,000 “dividend” checks to each adult American citizen if Republicans win the midterm elections, but CNN’s Audie Cornish poured cold water on his pledge.The 80-year-old president promised the payouts Wednesday night at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, sayi…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will have another difficult war to win if Democrats take back the House in November, according to a new report. Democrats are plotting a “blitz” of public inquiries and might even try to impeach him, Politico reported Thursday. “Hegseth and crew better buckle up and la…
Jimmy Kimmel says the Trump administration’s pressure campaign has claimed another casualty.A planned Thursday interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will now air only on YouTube instead of ABC, according to The Daily Beast.The move echoes last year’s clash, when Trump-appoi…
A Wisconsin Republican running for Congress just publicly trashed his own party’s gubernatorial nominee for skipping a national GOP convention in Texas, exposing fresh cracks in the state party as it heads into a tense midterm cycle.Tiffany, who’s running for Wisconsin governor, is staying home from…
Irish folklore has an old notion — one that can be interpreted as fun or profound — that certain weird or inexplicable circumstances are often “found along the fairy path.” More importantly, the phrase is entirely neutral; Irish lore teaches that one isn’t guaranteed to find a good-natured fairy wav…
Attorney General Todd Blanche offered a full-blown political screed at the Dallas GOP convention on Wednesday night — punctuating his speech with a threat of continued legal crackdowns.Throughout his speech, Blanche defended some of the Trump administration’s most controversial moves, like its depor…
A political analyst warned that Democrats face a greater likelihood of a “juicy” scenario after Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) appeared at the GOP convention.Fetterman appeared in a video played at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday and praised a bipartisan effort to boost the steel indus…
The Trump administration’s Justice Department Civil Rights Division caught Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson off guard with a letter announcing she was under investigation for breaking federal voting laws.Henderson, a conservative Republican, took to social media in response to the letter to say, “‘As …
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) will give up his seat as the leader of the House Judiciary Committee after eight years with the gavel.According to a Wednesday report by Politico, Jordan said on the sidelines of the GOP midterm convention that he doesn’t plan to seek a waiver of the GOP’s three-term limit for…
President Donald Trump’s speech didn’t get live coverage on CNN Wednesday night.The network abruptly cut away as the president continued to ramble from topic to topic, then turned to its analysts to cover the event on its own terms.During the speech, Trump made a number of wild claims to the audienc…