Republicans

NBC News reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson took a dig at Obamacare during an event in Pennsylvania on Monday, telling a crowd there will be “massive” health care changes in America if Donald Trump wins the election. “Health care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda. When I say we’re going to have a very aggressive first …

“So, remember when JD Vance pointed out that the Haitians were eating animals in Springfield, Ohio? So that’s based on reports to that effect. Now it may not be true. It may be exaggerated. It may be insane. It may be whatever. “But here’s what it accomplished. It brought attention to Springfield, which is overwhelmed with traffic accidents, including a …

The Meidas Touch reports: Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “temporary hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis recruited former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy to join him at a rally targeting the Amendment 4 abortion rights initiative. DeSantis attacked the doctors supporting Amendment 4 Tuesday, saying they should be sued or lose their medical license if they aren’t treating patients. “If they are in a situation where a mother has …

The Texas Tribune reports: Mary Howard-Elley fervently believes illegal immigration in the U.S. is a critical problem that only former President Donald Trump can solve. She says the continuation of his border wall and promised mass deportations will make the country safer. She agrees with Trump’s unfounded claims that Democrats are opening the borders to allow noncitizens to vote, fearing …

CNN reports: A federal judge on Tuesday tossed out a Republican lawsuit that sought to segregate overseas ballots in Pennsylvania for additional vetting. US District Judge Chris Cooper said that the challengers to Pennsylvania’s policies for overseas ballots filed by GOP members of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation and an outside group came too late and that it was too close …

The Delaware Valley Journal reports: Ryan Herlinger, a spokesperson for Delaware County said, “On Monday, October 28, 2024, an incident occurred at the Voter Service Center located at the Government Center Building in Media, PA, resulting in the arrest and removal of a woman who, according to multiple eyewitnesses, was disruptive, belligerent, and attempting to influence voters waiting in line. …

“This Puerto Rican has something to say about the island that I love, where my family is from. Puerto Rico is trash? We are Americans, Donald Trump. Americans. We voluntarily serve disproportionally high in the military, while you have bone spurs. “And we vote. We vote, Donald Trump. Trash? And by the way, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny, Luis …

Mediaite reports: NewsNation host Dan Abrams clashed with House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Monday over whether he would ask former President Donald Trump to concede if he loses the 2024 election. During an interview, Abrams asked bluntly, “If Trump loses, will you tell him to concede?” Jordan replied, “Well, he’s not gonna lose, and if he loses, …

The Washington Post reports: The attack ad in Virginia’s most competitive congressional race starts off like something out of a sitcom. An actor resembling Derrick Anderson, a Republican looking to flip Virginia’s battleground 7th District, comes home to greet life-size cardboard cutouts of a woman and three young girls. The stand-in Anderson eats dinner with the pictures, plays board games …

SCOTUSblog reports: The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania came to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to block a ruling by Pennsylvania’s highest court requiring election boards to count provisional ballots submitted by voters whose mail-in ballots had been deemed invalid. The RNC and the Pennsylvania Republicans argue that the state supreme court had …

CNN reports: Arizona Republican Senate nominee Kari Lake on Monday repeatedly refused to answer whether she lost the 2022 gubernatorial race to Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs. “Why are we looking backward? I’m looking forward,” Lake said during an interview on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” when asked if she lost the 2022 governor’s race. Pressed again by Collins, Lake …

The Huffington Post reports: The archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, called Monday for former President Donald Trump to personally apologize for a series of racist remarks made by a comedian at his campaign rally in New York City. “I enjoy a good joke,” the archbishop, Roberto O. González Nieves, wrote in a letter posted to Facebook. “However, humor has …

The Independent reports: CNN has said it will no longer feature appearances from writer Ryan Girdusky, after he made a comment amid a chaotic and bad tempered panel discussion appearing to say he hoped that a Muslim journalist got blown up in a bomb attack. The incident began during a panel on Monday, when Girdusky and fellow panelist Mehdi Hasan …

“I’ve heard about the joke. I haven’t actually seen the joke that you mentioned. But I think that it’s telling that Kamala Harris’s closing message is essentially that all of Donald Trump’s voters are Nazis. And you should get really pissed off about a comedian telling a joke. “That is not the message of a winning campaign. And most importantly, …

“It would behoove him to hire a few great comics to just tour with him, and just write one-liners about all these different fuckin’ people. If he could remember them. I know he likes to go off his own head, but if he could remember a few Hinchcliffe bangers. If he hires Hinchcliffe to take him on the road! You …

Michigan Live reports: An Ypsilanti-area youth pastor is accused of forcing a girl to perform oral sex on him and using a social media app to arrange payment for photographs of children, according to police. Zachary Joseph Radcliff, 29, allegedly used Snapchat to arrange meetups with children where he would pay them for videos and photographs, Sgt. Gilberto Oliveria with …

Axios reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) expects he’ll get help from a “fully supportive” former President Trump in a potential speaker race in the next three months. Johnson needs a speedy Trump endorsement to kneecap any challengers if the GOP holds the House. “I have a very close working relationship with President Trump and consider him now a close …

“Dems are more offended at a comedian making a bad joke about Puerto Rico than Walz giving tax dollars to a corporation using migrant children to clean slaughter houses or Kamala loosing [sic] over 300,000 migrant children.” – Florida GOP US Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, whose given name is Anna Mayerhofer. While serving in the Air Force, Luna reportedly made …

“Kamala Harris is the least qualified candidate to ever run for any political office in American history. She makes her boss look competent. She’s a fake. I’m not here to invalidate her. She’s a fake, a fraud. She’s a pretender. Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country. They will. This election has to be more than a victory …