Vice President Kamala Harris is cozying up to the cryptocurrency industry in the final stretch of the presidential campaign, embracing an industry scorned by progressives and giving hope to moderates who want her administration to take a more business-friendly approach to the economy. Progressive policy makers largely celebrated the economic approach of President Joe Biden, … Read more
Washington state GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent told supporters at a recent event that the Proud Boys — the all-male, far-right, neo-fascist organization whose leaders were convicted for seditious conspiracy after trying to violently overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6, 2021 — are really just a bunch of hooligans who scare progressive Democrats. During … Read more
Ken Klippenstein, an independent journalist, was banned from X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday after he published a dossier on Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) via his newsletter and promoted the link on the social media site owned by Elon Musk. “Ken Klippenstein was temporarily suspended for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal … Read more
Former President Donald Trump has heaped praise on North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in his bid for the governor’s mansion. But when asked Thursday if he’d be dropping his support of Robinson in light of the candidate’s porn site scandal, Trump suddenly had nothing to say. “I don’t know the situation,” Trump said when … Read more
Billionaire Mark Cuban has shed more light on his reasons for distancing himself from former President Donald Trump. “I’m not a Trump fan at all,” he said on Wednesday’s episode of the “This Past Weekend” podcast. “Used to be, but then kind of grew out of it.” When Trump announced his bid for the White … Read more
Ex-North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) clocked Lt. Gov Mark Robinson, the state’s GOP gubernatorial nominee, as a “ticking time bomb” on Wednesday less than a week after reports linked the candidate to a number of disturbing comments on a porn website. McCrory, who served as the state’s governor from 2013 to 2017, was asked … Read more
Seth Meyers on Wednesday joked about former president and GOP nominee Donald Trump potentially becoming more introspective as the 2024 election nears. “I didn’t think it was possible but he seems to be engaging in some actual self-reflection,” said the “Late Night” host. Trump this week admitted — not for the first time — that … Read more
Chappell Roan took to TikTok to slam people who thought she was “playing both sides” of the political spectrum after she critiqued both political parties. In a TikTok posted Wednesday morning, the singer expanded on a Tuesday TikTok in which she defended her comment to The Guardian that she didn’t feel pressure to endorse a … Read more
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) on Wednesday unleashed a racist tirade against Haitian people. “Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters… but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP,” Higgins wrote in a now-deleted tweet on X (formerly … Read more
Andrew Ross Sorkin, the co-host of CNBC’s business show “Squawk Box,” on Wednesday revealed that his Wall Street sources have told him they are “scared of the chaos” that former President Donald Trump will potentially create for them and their companies if he returns to the White House. “They’re scared of waking up in the … Read more
