House to vote on 25th Amendment, Trump impeachment
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) speaks during a reconvening of a joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral
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Voters are ‘going to rise up one more time,’ Warnock predicts of Georgia Senate runoffs
This is a huge opportunity, but Ossoff and Warnock will also have to overcome both the state’s historically Republican tilt and the voter suppression that has been such a major feature of recent elections.
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GOP Senate majority besieged on multiple fronts
Josh Holmes, a top adviser to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said Republicans could win in more places than people expect. But, he added, “the low-water mark is potentially catastrophic.”
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Goldman Sachs: A Democratic sweep would mean faster economic recovery
In fact, “all else equal, such a blue wave would likely prompt us to upgrade our forecasts,” Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a Monday report.
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Democrats intent on making fight over Trump?s Supreme Court pick about threat to Obamacare
The ideological distance between Ginsburg and Barrett is the biggest gap since 1991, when Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights lawyer and historic first Black justice, was replaced by Clarence Thomas, a justice who has spent almost three decades at the far right end of the court.
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Senate Democrats warn GOP of plans to retaliate if McConnell advances Trump court pick
Senate Democrats, lacking votes to stop President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat, are weighing an array of tactics to battle back — ranging from bringing the chamber to a screeching halt this year to pushing legislation to expand the court if they win the majority in the fall.
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Joe Biden: Why the former vice president’s national lead matters
Let’s state it up front: winning the popular vote means nothing in and of itself. You only become president if you win the Electoral College.
That said, the national polling matters a lot. We have a ton of it, unlike in a number of swing states. It’s more accurate than the state polling on average. Most importantly, we have a fairly good idea of what Biden’s margin needs to be nationally in order to win in the Electoral College.
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Watching Biden accept his nomination at an Oklahoma drive-in
About 105 carloads of people came from all over the state and paid the $10 admission to commune with their fellow Democrats in a socially distanced setting.
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Opinion | Biden and Harris speeches show they are the perfect rebuke to ‘Make America Great Again’
It was a powerful event, drawing a sharp contrast between the multiracial, multiethnic, gender-inclusive Democratic Party and the Republican Party of grouchy old White men. The language is telling.
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Democratic National Convention Will Be Almost Entirely Virtual
Democrats will hold an almost entirely virtual presidential nominating convention Aug. 17-20 in Milwaukee using live broadcasts and online streaming,
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