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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing |Ben Jacobs |Natalie Fertig |Jessica Piper
Republican and Democratic politicians are warning about rising violence targeting elected officials in the aftermath of a series of attacks, including the killing of a state official in Minnesota on Saturday. Within the last year, there have been multiple assassination attempts against President Donald Trump, an arson attack on Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence, and the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington — setting a new cycle of violence in the country.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Ally Mutnick |Ben Jacobs
A top aide to Glenn Youngkin's political operation has stepped down from his post leading the PAC, Spirit of Virginia, according to a person familiar with his departure and granted anonymity to describe internal matters. Matt Moran, a longtime Youngkin staffer, had become the center of a political firestorm in recent days after allegations emerged that John Reid, the presumptive GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, had maintained a social media account with pornographic images of naked men.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
welt.de | Ben Jacobs |Gregory Svirnovskiy
Donald Trump ist gerade zwei Monate im Amt, da fordern mehrere Politiker besondere Ehrungen: sein Konterfei in Mount Rushmore, auf dem 100-Dollar-Schein und auf einer neuen Banknote. Auch ein bekannter Flughafen soll umbenannt werden. In dieser Form gab es das noch nie in der Geschichte der USA.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
welt.de | Ben Jacobs |Gregory Svirnovskiy
Donald Trump ist gerade zwei Monate im Amt, da fordern mehrere Politiker besondere Ehrungen: sein Konterfei in Mount Rushmore, auf dem 100-Dollar-Schein und auf einer neuen Banknote. Auch ein bekannter Flughafen soll umbenannt werden. In dieser Form gab es das noch nie in der Geschichte der USA.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
politico.com | Ben Jacobs
The MAGA crowd has rallied behind Scott, but Trump himself has shied away from an endorsement. Instead, Trump has issued demands on Truth Social for candidates to allow him to make recess appointments to fill vacancies, to which the leadership candidates quickly responded with varying degrees of support. It’s a reminder that regardless of who wins, there will be some break with McConnell.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Ben Jacobs
‘It Will Be an Exercise in Dishonesty, But It Will be Disciplined.’Before Pete Buttigieg was playing JD Vance in debate prep, there was Danny O’Connor. A local elected official in Columbus, Ohio, O’Connor assumed the role of Vance in debate prep for then-Rep. Tim Ryan during their fierce 2022 Senate race. In an interview with POLITICO Magazine, O’Connor discussed what Minnesota Gov.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Ben Jacobs
Ben JacobsJuly 12, 2024 at 5:00 AM·4 min readFormer President Donald Trump’s latest controversy. The fate of Kevin McCarthy. George Santos. For nearly a decade, congressional Republicans have faced — and largely sought to dodge — uncomfortable media questions. So how did they feel when they saw congressional Democrats swarmed by reporters this week and having to face uncomfortable questions about President Joe Biden? “It’s fucking awesome,” said Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
politico.com | Ben Jacobs
Biden Plagiarized Him in the 1980s. He Wants the President to Take a Few More Notes. A Q&A with Neil Kinnock, who inadvertently tanked Biden’s first presidential run and sees some similarities between the British left and the U.S. left. Neil Kinnock, the former leader of the Labour Party in the U.K., played a vital role in driving far-left Trotskyite infiltrators out of the party in the 1980s.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Ben Jacobs
Kevin McCarthy is a history buff. References to America’s past litter his public remarks and the portraits of historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan that hung in his office on Capitol Hill frequently featured in his stump speeches. A riff where he discussed the reproduction of Washington Crossing the Delaware in his conference room was so often repeated that it became a punchline in McCarthy world.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Ben Jacobs
Few Republican politicians who have bucked Donald Trump have lived to tell the tale. Candidates who have expressed mere skepticism of the former president have faced fierce primary challenges. Of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2021, eight did not return to Congress in 2023. Perhaps nowhere have these harsh reprisals been clearer than in South Carolina,where former Republican Gov.
