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Aug 16 2015
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Politico: Cruz Fires Up Nevada with Anti-Establishment Rhetoric
Four Republican presidential hopefuls gathered Saturday at a picturesque Northern Nevada ranch and pounded anti-establishment themes, but it was Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)96% who gave the most convincing performance at the first annual Basque Fry.
He didn’t say anything new, but the Texas senator’s fiery and forceful denunciation of Washington and political elites from the back of a flatbed
Breitbart NewsNov 27 2012
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Dick Durbin: Social Security Should Be Off The Fiscal Cliff Table
WASHINGTON -- Social Security does not contribute to the federal deficit and should not be a part of ongoing negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesday, in a speech billed as a "major address making the progressive case for a bipartisan fiscal cliff deal."
Durbin's line in the sand on Social Security reflects an increasingly
HuffPostApr 22 2019
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Buttigieg steals Beto's thunder
Pete Buttigieg’s fast-rising 2020 presidential campaign is cutting into Beto O’Rourke’s viral mojo.
O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who became a media phenomenon when he nearly toppled Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last year, has been eclipsed in recent weeks by Buttigieg, the upstart South Bend, Ind., mayor who has won headline after headline and changed national perceptions about his
The HillApr 22 2019
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Democrats Make Sure Trump Can’t Escape Mueller
Donald Trump returned from a long Easter weekend in Florida to a new political landscape, one where his administration is at last freed from Robert Mueller’s pursuit yet laid bare in all its dysfunction by the special counsel’s report.
Trump arrived Thursday to his Mar-a-Lago resort with the swagger of a conquering hero, after Mueller reiterated that he had found no evidence of a
BloombergJan 09 2020
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Standing down: How Trump decided that not striking back was his best option on Iran
America's top diplomat on Iran was only a few minutes into a speech on Tuesday afternoon when he was handed an urgent note.
Brian Hook, the special representative for Iran, was in Los Angeles to talk about US policy toward Iran. But by the time he stepped to the podium, he was already more than an hour late, having spent much of the day on a secure line speaking to US officials in
CNN DigitalMar 16 2015
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Fact-checker takes Obama to task for gun claims
President Obama is under fire from The Washington Post’s fact-checker over a series of recent far-fetched gun claims, including suggesting the country’s homicide rate is higher than that of other industrialized nations “by like a mile.”
The comments, made during a stop in South Carolina last week, earned the president three out of four "Pinocchios" -- the fact-checker's scale for
Fox News DigitalMar 15 2015
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President Obama jokes about Hillary Clinton’s email problems
President Obama poked fun at former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email scandal Saturday night, saying he is envious that she has a server in her house.
At the annual Gridiron dinner in Washington, Mr. Obama reminisced how much the technological landscape has changed since 2008, when he ran against Mrs. Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“Back then
Washington TimesJan 08 2020
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Is Iran's Missile Attack on US Bases the End of a Confrontation or Just the Beginning?
After days of speculation of how Iran would retaliate for the killing of General Qassam Soleimani, on Wednesday night the Islamic regime fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two US bases inside Iraq. Many are now looking to Washington's response and wondering if this is the end of the US-Iran confrontation or the prelude to an escalation.
Iran called the missile attack “
CBNAug 03 2013
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Obama pushes 'grand bargain' in weekly address
President Barack Obama reiterated his "grand bargain" proposal Saturday in his weekly address.
In a series of speeches outside of Washington, the president this week suggested Congress cut corporate tax rates – long a goal of Republicans – while simultaneously making investments in job creation programs, which Democrats and the president have been championing.
The president's
CNN DigitalDec 12 2015
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Carson threatens to leave Republican Party
Presidential hopeful Ben Carson threatened Friday to leave the Republican Party.
The retired neurosurgeon lashed out Friday morning at reports of a recent closed-door meeting of Republican establishment leaders focused on deep divisions within the GOP electorate, particularly the continued strength of billionaire businessman Donald Trump.
The Washington Post reported that the
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