A head-turning cartoon in the Raleigh News & Observer pictures President Biden Joe Biden Ex-Biden adviser says Birx told him she hoped election turned out 'a certain way' Cheney rips Arizona election audit: 'It is an effort to subvert democracy' News leaders deal with the post-Trump era MORE in the Oval Office with a big inbox marked “Voter Rights, Immigration and Broadband Expansion.” Next to it is a sign that says: “The Bucks Stops with Kamala.” One television network sent its anchor to cover Vice President Harris’s trip last week to Central America, The Economist wrote that she “ already looks like her party's prospective nominee .” Only a short while earlier, there was Washington buzz of an “invisible” vice president. Some Republicans and right-wing cable bloviators were in a tizzy because she hadn't visited the U.S.-Mexican border. ADVERTISEMENT Calm down folks, it's early. Any future political success for the California Democrat … [Read more...]
CNN’s Phillip on VP Harris: Her Foreign Trip Was ‘Cringeworthy’
CNN anchor Abby Phillip said Sunday on “Inside Politics” that Vice President Kamala Harris gave a “cringeworthy” performance during her first foreign trip. Phillip said, “Vice President Harris has been given a to-do list loaded with all but impossible tasks. Immigration tops that list and was the focus of her first foreign trip. But she drew criticism for telling migrants, do not come to the U.S. border, and for not yet visiting the actual U.S.-Mexico border.” In a highlight from Harris’ interview with NBC News, “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt said, “You haven’t been to the border.” Harris said, “And I haven’t been to Europe. I don’t understand the point that you’re making.” Phillip said, “It’s just a little cringeworthy, and I know that her allies in the White House and elsewhere are watching it and just kind of wondering what is going on? How poorly did this go for her in her first foray on the world stage?” White House correspondent for Politico, Laura Barrón-López, … [Read more...]
Bay Area lawmakers were quick to call police killing of George Floyd ‘murder’
2 WASHINGTON — Bay Area politicians are using no uncertain terms to describe the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, calling police actions “murder” even before charges were filed against a fired officer Friday. The direct word choice from prominent lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Kamala Harris, show a growing willingness on the part of Democrats to label police brutality as criminal. Pelosi called Floyd’s death “a crime” early this week, and in her remarks to reporters on Thursday said there was no doubt it was murder. “We did see a murder on TV, and it wasn’t self-defense,” the San Francisco Democrat said. Pelosi stopped short of calling for charges, but Harris did not, tweeting that the officers involved should be arrested. “Our country has a long history of slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, segregation, and discrimination,” the California Democrat wrote. “The injustices of the past live on in our institutions today. We … [Read more...]
COVID-19 deaths top 500,000 in the U.S.
10 The United States has lost more than 500,000 lives to COVID-19, just over a year after the pandemic claimed its first known victim in Santa Clara County. The painful milestone reached Monday underscores the coronavirus’s deadly persistence even as thousands are getting vaccinated and new infections worldwide have waned. The scale of death in the U.S. as the pandemic moves into its second year is on par with losing the entire population of a major city — half of the residents of San Jose, or more than everyone in Oakland. The death toll steadily rose throughout 2020 and spiked steeply after the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and through January. From the first confirmed fatality in Santa Clara County on Feb. 6, and the early days of the emergence of coronavirus infections, it took until the end of May before the country recorded its first 100,000 deaths. The pandemic has since swept across … [Read more...]
Central American women are fleeing domestic violence amid a pandemic, but few find refuge in U.S.
After four years of beatings, humiliation and sexual abuse, María de Jesús mustered the courage to leave the man who would punch her in the face for even changing her clothes to go outside, saying she could only look pretty for him. Then the death threats began. "You will never, ever be happy," her ex-boyfriend told her on the phone in December. "And when I find you, I will disappear you and your entire family." María de Jesús packed her bags and fled Guatemala City with her 11-year-old son on a cold night weeks later. She paid a smuggler and trekked north to the U.S.-Mexico border, where she hoped the Biden administration, promising a more humanitarian approach toward migrants, would welcome a domestic violence survivor like herself into the country. "The only solution was to be far away where I didn't feel scared every day," said Maria de Jesus, 39, who declined to give her last name out of security concerns. She is among scores of Central American women fleeing brutal … [Read more...]
VP Harris ‘advocating for lawlessness,’ Border Patrol union president says
close Video Kamala Harris 'advocating for lawlessness' at border: Brandon Judd National Border Patrol Council president comments on the vice president's management of the immigration crisis. The head of the Border Patrol union slammed Vice President Harris on Sunday morning for advocating for migrants and, in turn, "advocating for lawlessness " that has extended into other parts of the country. Just days after Harris concluded her trip to Latin America – her first foreign trip since taking office – she has faced persistent questions about her decision not to visit the U.S.-Mexico border. To date, neither President Biden nor Harris has visited the border. IMMIGRATION SURGE DRIVEN BY 'CRAZY BIDEN POLICIES': REP. JORDAN Speaking to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on " Sunday Morning Futures, " National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd said Harris "can’t go to the border – if she goes to the border, she’s going to be expected to … [Read more...]
