Sen. Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin Graham Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal Wall Street spent .9B on campaigns, lobbying in 2020 election: study Biden aide: Ability to collect daily intel in Afghanistan 'will diminish' MORE (R-S.C.) on Sunday pushed back on former President Trump Donald Trump Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal GOP believes Democrats handing them winning 2022 campaign Former GOP operative installed as NSA top lawyer resigns MORE 's support for removing all troops from Afghanistan, writing on Twitter that he “could not disagree more with former President Trump regarding his support for President Biden Joe Biden Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal Obama, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley team up to urge communities of color to get coronavirus vaccine Biden to hold second meeting with bipartisan lawmakers on infrastructure MORE ’s withdrawal of all forces from Afghanistan against sound military advice.” Earlier on Sunday, Trump released a statement criticizing Biden’s goal for all troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, but he did say that “getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do." "I planned to withdraw on May 1st, and we should keep as close to that schedule as possible,” Trump wrote. ADVERTISEMENT In a series of tweets on Sunday evening, Graham, who previously denounced Biden’s plan to pull all troops out of Afghanistan, wrote, “With all due respect to former President Trump, there is nothing ‘wonderful’ or ‘positive’ about allowing safe havens and sanctuary for terrorists to reemerge in Afghanistan or see Afghanistan be drawn back into another civil war.” With all due respect to former President Trump, there is nothing ‘wonderful’ or ‘positive’ about allowing safe ...
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Polls suggest House Democrats will buck midterm curse and add to their ranks
Conventional wisdom in Washington is that the party in control of the White House usually loses any number of congressional seats in the midterms. In 1994, President Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones calls on Breyer to retire Modern biomedical breakthroughs require a federal ethics commission Biden must compel China and Russia to act on climate MORE saw his House majority collapse with the Democrats losing 54 seats and the speaker’s gavel, something that had held true since the Truman Administration. After wresting control back from the GOP in 2006 during the final two years of the George W. Bush Administration, Democrats faced a similar blood bath during the 2010 midterms losing 63 seats in what President Barack Obama aptly described as a “shellacking.” With one of the slimmest majorities for any new president in modern history, President Joe Biden Joe Biden Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal Obama, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley team up to urge communities of color to get coronavirus vaccine Biden to hold second meeting with bipartisan lawmakers on infrastructure MORE is already banking on the popularity of his legislation and executive actions to buoy Democratic prospects heading into the elections. Polling from last month following the passage of the American Rescue Plan indicated that 63 percent of Americans, including 58 percent of independents, supported the $1.9 trillion package passed with just Democratic votes. Similarly, according to a new poll out from The New York Times , Biden’s new infrastructure proposal, the American Jobs Act, “garners support from two in three Americans, and from seven in ten independent voters.” Interestingly enough, the plan has the support of more than 30 percent of registered Republican voters according to the same poll. In addition to the broad level of support behind the ...
Trump knocks Biden timetable for Afghanistan withdrawal
Former President Trump Donald Trump Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal GOP believes Democrats handing them winning 2022 campaign Former GOP operative installed as NSA top lawyer resigns MORE called on President Biden Joe Biden Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal Obama, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley team up to urge communities of color to get coronavirus vaccine Biden to hold second meeting with bipartisan lawmakers on infrastructure MORE on Sunday to have U.S. troops leave Afghanistan before his planned date of Sept. 11, declaring in a statement that the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks should remain a day of mourning. In a statement, the former president wrote that the U.S. "can and should get out earlier" from Afghanistan and that Sept. 11 "should remain a day of reflection and remembrance honoring those great souls we lost." "Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do. I planned to withdraw on May 1st, and we should keep as close to that schedule as possible," said the former president. ADVERTISEMENT His statement comes in response to the president's declaration this week that the U.S. would withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, upholding a commitment to end America's longest war while at the same time breaking a previously agreed-upon deadline set by the Trump administration wherein the U.S. would have pulled out by May 1. “I believed that our presence in Afghanistan should be focused on the reason we went in the first place: to ensure Afghanistan would not be used as a base from which to attack our homeland again. We did that. We accomplished that objective,” Biden said during an address Wednesday. “I've concluded that it's time to end America's longest war. It's time for American troops to come home.” The plan was criticized by some former ...
Madrid: Democrats aren’t our healers or our saviors
I admit it. Last week’s Democratic victory speeches choked me up. Several times. A historic political step for women of color with a splash of unity talk made for a perfect cocktail. I joined the echoes of cheers worldwide at President Donald Trump’s defeat, albeit by a small margin. President-elect Joe Biden called for a season to heal. These were words that soothed in comparison to Trump’s usual jabber jaw hate. But before we heal, we need a serious detox. Our country begins its descent from four belligerent years of irresponsible national management. The aftermath competes with the worst of frat parties — racist behinds exposed in the daylight, and stinky chunks of disinformation spewed everywhere. The extreme orange-spray-tan dude who poured bottom shelf vodka into mouths at the party is missing. He won’t stick around to help the cleanup efforts either. Everyone’s exhausted, parched and dizzy. Hungover is an understatement. Under these conditions, the Democratic-elects sound like a tall glass of water. But history tells us that they aren’t the absolute oasis we seek. No one party is here to save us. Now that the election elation has faded, the season of healing rhetoric feels like hype. The Democratic Party will not deliver the transformational healing we all deserve. The true power of healing lives among us, but so does the poison. Exit polls reveal an uncomfortable but not surprising close repeat of 2016. Young people of color, Black women, and those identified by one media outlet as “something else,” saved this election. In Colorado, there was a whopping 70% youth voter turnout. TikTok that! And of course, white people showed up for Trump again. As reported by the New York Times, 61% of white men and 55% of white women showed up for Trump this year. That’s more than half of all white women — you all stress me out. Latinos and Hispanic Republicans who aligned with Trump also grew this election. That last fact is the painful one. Here’s ...
Parade of 2024 GOP hopefuls court House conservatives
The road to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination appears to have a new stop along the way: an influential group of House conservatives. Sen. Tom Cotton Tom Bryant Cotton Hillicon Valley: Biden administration sanctions Russia for SolarWinds hack, election interference The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Tax March - CDC in limbo on J&J vax verdict; Rep. Brady retiring Republican lawmakers reintroduce bill to ban TikTok on federal devices MORE (R-Ark.) has addressed the Republican Study Committee (RSC) about the surge of migrants at the border. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Chris Christie Energy secretary: 'We don't want to use past definitions of infrastructure' Christie: Biden lying about Georgia voting bill Experts take pro-vaccine message to right-wing skeptics MORE (R) told the conservative group last week they need to get tougher on President Biden Joe Biden Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal Obama, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley team up to urge communities of color to get coronavirus vaccine Biden to hold second meeting with bipartisan lawmakers on infrastructure MORE and that former President Trump Donald Trump Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal GOP believes Democrats handing them winning 2022 campaign Former GOP operative installed as NSA top lawyer resigns MORE was to blame for losing the White House and Senate. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Mike Pompeo Pompeo violated ethics rules, State Dept. watchdog finds Why the US needs to clear the way for international justice Tim Scott to participate in GOP event in Iowa MORE will join the RSC this week at a news conference on Iran. And Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard Pence GOP believes Democrats handing them winning 2022 campaign Secret Facebook ...
