Now in charge of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has the power to not only make Donald Trump's presidency a living nightmare, but end it all together. Schiff is largely responsible for overseeing the executive branch and releasing its findings to the ...read more
Marco Rubio was once viewed as a 'moderate' Republican -- a Latino star with the potential to bridge party divide. After he was battered, humiliated and beaten by Donald Trump, Rubio has since revealed his true colors. Having failed spectacularly to stand up to Donald Trump in ...read more
It is now official, the Democrats will take control of the House in the 2018 midterms, and the Republicans will hold the Senate. We reported earlier that Fox News had called the House it for the Democrats, but now MSNBC has officially called it too. Just minutes ago, MSNBC also ...read more
Two years ago, the day after the 2016 election was the first of many dark days that followed it. Today, with the midterm results hanging in the air like the pending results of a biopsy, I'm feeling both anxious and energized. Anxious, obviously, for the results to be announced at ...read more
Yesterday, NBC News ran a story that threatened to send fervent election-watchers into a downward spiral. Using data provided by TargetSmart, reporter Adam Edelman and the NBC News Data Analytics Lab said that Republicans were outpacing Democrats in early voting, which is now ...read more
For just a moment, try to ignore the fact that the following allegedly independent voters made colossal errors in judgment by voting for Donald Trump in the first place. Yes, they were successfully duped by a despot whose entire career, reaching back to the 1970s, has been all ...read more
Last night's primaries in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia garnered more attention for who lost rather than who won. In Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, the former Congressman and perennial Presidential candidate lost the nomination for governor this fall. Although his old ...read more
My personal rule for evaluating Donald Trump's presidency continues to be: Trump always makes things worse for Trump. No matter which way the president zigs or zags, every decision somehow worsens Trump's peril, be it legal or political or miscellaneous. It's kind of a miracle ...read more
Last year, Republicans in Virginia tried to walk a fine line between keeping their distance from Trump while trying to sound like him. The result was a brutal rout despite Virginia being one of the more heavily gerrymandered states in the country. Democratic gubernatorial ...read more
Lost in the news between Trump threatening World War III and Paul Ryan slinking away from Congress like the spineless coward he is was yet another brutal Republican loss in yet another special election: State Rep. Lori Berman (D) has handily defeated Tami Donnally (R) to replace ...read more
Republicans are legitimately starting to panic over the midterms. It's gotten so bad that the cracks are starting to show as the party is on the brink of writing off the House as a lost cause: Republicans are increasingly worried they will lose control of the House in the ...read more
Republicans are sad and bewildered at their ongoing failure to convince millions of Americans that the scant crumbs left over from the massive tax cuts they bestowed upon billionaires is actually a feast: More than three months after the passage of the GOP’s tax-cut law, new ...read more
The American Women's Party seeks to empower the millions of unregistered voters in this country by registering them and schooling them in how to combat voter suppression. Founded last fall by organizers Maya Contreras and Mia Brett, the group launched its second major initiative ...read more
I woke up this morning to the news that Democrat Conor Lamb is the presumptive winner in the PA-18 special election. For some reason, people think this means that there's going to be some kind of massive blue wave in November that will utterly annihilate the Republican Party up ...read more
Dean Heller, the Republican senator from Nevada, is desperate. He's unpopular, his party is unpopular, and his president is even more unpopular. And he's running for reelection in a state that Trump lost in a year that Democrats are angrier than the Tea Party could possibly ...read more
The NRA released another ominous ad over the weekend featuring Dana Loesch promising the enemies of her gun lobby paymasters that their time was "running out". Naturally, she was immediately raked over the coals for trying to sound like a mafia hitman. Still, this is far from ...read more
Among the many mysteries of the universe is the burning question of why the Republican Party is doubling down, almost daily, on the historic disaster unfolding in real time known as "The Trump Administration". Trump is clearly mentally ill. His staff is filled with imbeciles and ...read more
In November 2016, I felt pretty ashamed to be an American, but damn proud to be a Californian. The last year has only made me happier for my home state as we've led the Resistance and served as a role model for the rest of the country in how to eat progressive policies. This has ...read more
Politico reports that while Trump's advisers are telling him everything is going just great as Rome burns, Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan not only smell the smoke, but they can see the flames already creeping up the side of the building: Among GOP leaders, ...read more
Fox News, AM Hate Radio and right wing hate sites reached a dangerous new level of propaganda this week when they simply pretended Tuesday's brutal electoral losses for the GOPÂ mostly didn't happen: Fox News host Sean Hannity was flogged on the internet Tuesday night for ...read more
There are many ways to look at what happened in the special election for a Georgia house seat on Tuesday night. Republican Karen Handel beat her Democrat opponent Jon Ossof in the traditionally red district for the seat vacated by current Health and Human Services Secretary Tom ...read more
A lot of liberals are heartbroken that Jon Ossoff lost the race for Georgia's 6th congressional district. Conservatives are crowing about the win and the left is understandably wringing its hands. But allow me to give you a little perspective about what happened last night and ...read more
It had to happen eventually. For the last six years, the congressional Republicans have filibustered and obstructed every economic policy the Obama administration has initiated. In spite of the opposition, these policies have helped to yank the nation out of the worst recession ...read more
In a nation where voting is the cornerstone of our form of government, how pathetic is it that the following cliche actually makes sense: America can put a man on the Moon, but we can't hold an election without prohibitively long lines and politically-motivated plots to ...read more
Those of you who've been following The Daily Banter and, in particular, the podcast I co-host with Chez Pazienza, are probably familiar with the name Dan Bidondi. He's the hairless, semi-literate stooge from the ranks of Alex Jones' InfoWars.com conspiracy theory empire whose ...read more
With victories in key U.S. Senate races in Iowa, West Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky, the Republicans seized control of the upper chamber of Congress for the first time since 2006. Republicans Joni Ernst in Iowa, Thom Tillis in North Carolina, and Tom Cotton in Arkansas ...read more
Republican Tom Cotton has defeated Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) with 56 percent of the vote. This is one of the big pickups for the GOP in the closely watched race to control the U.S. Senate. Elsewhere, Charlie Crist's fortunes rest with voters in Southern Florida where he could pick ...read more
One of the U.S. Senate races that everyone thought would be a nail-biter was called almost immediately by NBC News. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defeated challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes following a hotly contested race that culminated with a lawsuit by Grimes ...read more
It's times like this when it's really difficult to not become even more cynical about the intellect of the American voter. In my nearly 30 years covering politics, I've seen very few elections that are quite this incomprehensible and, sadly, I don't think it'll be the last. ...read more
With only a few days to go in the 2014 midterm election cycle, Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic challenger facing Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), has sued McConnell over an obviously misleading mailer allegedly originating from the Kentucky Republican Party and ...read more
There are a few things we know about the current status of Meet the Press. As Chez Pazienza pointed out, the way NBC News forced David Gregory out of his job was horrendously bad form. Like or dislike Gregory's style, there's no justifying the way he was tossed out. ...read more
If you're a Republican, you're probably over-confident in your party's chances in the forthcoming midterms. Of course you are. The common wisdom online and on cable news is that the Democrats are headed toward another 2010-style shellacking due to President Obama's ...read more
And we have a winner -- or loser, depending on how you look at it. A New Mexico Republican candidate for Senate, Allen Weh, released the following ad today, becoming the first video blast of the 2014 campaign to exploit last week's beheading of American journalist James ...read more
On the heels of House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) decision to file a lawsuit against President Obama for Presidenting While Black, the President announced this afternoon that he will take any and all executive actions he can in order to fix our immigration system. In a ...read more
Anyone who tells you the GOP is a lock for holding onto the House of Representatives while taking back the Senate in the midterms doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. Why? Because it's April. The election isn't for another seven months. That's a huge block of time, ...read more