2016 Election

Speaking yesterday at a campaign rally in Iowa, Ted Cruz blasted the move to allow transgender military service and even hinted that he would reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell as president. From the Washington Post: The military will soon allow transgender soldiers to serve, noted Cruz. “How about having the military focusing on hunting down and killing the bad guys…instead …

Tomorrow’s Democratic presidential debate will be held in Las Vegas, therefore CNN logically invited famed bookmaker Jimmy Vaccaro to offer his odds on who will take the nomination in each party. Vaccaro says his money will be on Marco Rubio, although he currently places Rubio in a dead heat with Trump and Bush.

A fake presidential candidate with a hilarious campaign video has beaten Jeb Bush in New Hampshire straw poll. TIME reports: “Honest Gil” Fulbright’s presidential campaign is literally a joke, but that didn’t stop him from beating Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham in a New Hampshire straw poll over the weekend. Played by actor Frank Ridley, Fulbright is a mock-candidate who …

“The pledge of allegiance to our flag says we are one nation under God. Many courtrooms in the land on the wall it says ‘In God We Trust.’ Every coin in our pocket, every bill in our wallet says ‘In God We Trust.’ So if it’s in our founding documents, it’s in our pledges, in our courts and it’s on …

One day ahead of the first Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton is holding a strong lead in new polls out of South Carolina and Nevada. CNN reports: Clinton has the support of 50% of those who say they are likely to attend the Democratic caucus scheduled for February 20 in Nevada — which plays host to the first debate among the …

Over the weekend a Republican whistleblower earned national headlines with his declaration that the Benghazi investigation is meant to derail Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. This morning the GOP is attempting some damage control with yet another ad which calls Clinton a liar.

Hillary Clinton will be center stage, literally, at tomorrow’s Democratic debate. CNN reports: The position of the five candidates on the stage at the CNN Facebook Democratic Debate in Las Vegas is based on polls since Aug. 1 and was announced on CNN’s “State of the Union.” On either side of Clinton, the highest-polling candidate, are Bernie Sanders (to Clinton’s right) …

“There’s blood in the water as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders prepare for the first democratic debate of the 2016 race. Three no-name candidates will also be on stage taking cheap shots at the frontrunners. Odds are we can say goodbye to Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee and Martin O’Malley. Gosh, we hardly knew they existed. Clinton’s strongest play will be …

The Associated Press reports: Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad “Dream On” at campaign events. Attorneys for Tyler sent a second cease-and-desist letter to Trump’s campaign committee on Saturday. The letter says that Trump does “not have our client’s permission to use ‘Dream On'” or any of Tyler’s other …

Hillary Clinton today marked National Coming Out Day with the above tweet which includes a video of last week’s speech to the Human Rights Campaign.

At a Georgia press conference today Donald Trump was asked about the secret to his popularity. Trump: “Honestly, it’s my looks. I’m very handsome.”

Andrew Sullivan appeared last night on Real Time With Bill Maher where he declared Hillary Clinton to “unbelievably useless” and a “talent-free hack.” More from Mediaite: Sullivan argued as Clinton’s fiercest critic, and frequently drew disapproving jeers from Bill Maher’s audience. Sullivan tore into Clinton’s time at the State Department, identifying the “disastrous Libya invasion which repeated every mistake that …

A Colombian woman who says she backs Donald Trump’s plan to deport undocumented immigrants just HAPPENED to be in the front row of a Trump rally yesterday. Trump swears that it wasn’t a stunt that the woman was there and was invited up onto the stage. YEAH.

Teabagistan’s months-long civil war has smoldered quietly in recent weeks, but today Donald Trump stoked the embers in the series of tweeted attacks on Glenn Beck and Erick Erickson, the latter of whom famously disinvited Trump to a right-wing convention over Trump’s “blood coming out of her whatever” crack about Megyn Kelly. For his part, Erickson says that he hasn’t …

Move over Brian Brown, Donald Trump says that HE is the reason for for Kevin McCarthy’s unexpected withdrawal from the House Speaker race. Because of course. Business Insider reports: Trump, the Republican front-runner, said McCarthy made the right decision because he wasn’t tough enough. “Great, Kevin McCarthy drops out of SPEAKER race. We need a really smart and really tough …

At a hastily organized press conference, Rep. Kevin McCarthy today conceded that he has dropped out of the House Speaker race partially due to his accidentally telling the truth about the Benghazi investigation. In so many words, that is. Rachel Maddow will be tickled that McCarthy had one of his famous mouth-fumbling moments right off the bat. Watch below.

Murdoch’s tweet is not going over well. CNN reports: Murdoch’s use of the word “real” flabbergasted many online onlookers, some of whom concluded that the media mogul was questioning Obama’s race and identity. Obama, the first black president of the United States, has also been dogged by false accusations that he isn’t a U.S. citizen. What did Murdoch mean? “We …

Rep. Alan Grayson has filed a House ethics complaint against Republicans Kevin McCarthy and Trey Gowdy over the never-ending Benghazi investigation. Via The Hill: “The Benghazi Committee has been a political dog-and-pony show for its entire 17-month history,” Grayson said in a statement. “It has been clear even to casual observers that the purpose of the committee was never to …

Via Mediaite: Still reeling from his recent assertion that he would “not just stand there and let [the gunman] shoot me” if he had been present for last week’s Oregon shooting, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson moved on to a new controversial topic during an interview with SiriusXM Patriot host and frequent Fox News contributor David Webb on Wednesday. Asked …

An Iowa fan of Hillary Clinton named Kevin McCarthy isn’t very happy to be the target of tweets meant for the possible next Speaker of the House. The Clinton campaign picked up on that and today the other Kevin McCarthy stars in a new ad. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that this McCarthy is gay …