Will this summer’s Democratic Party national convention in Milwaukee be a slugfest? Might the eventual nominees for president and vice president be compromise choices that result from inconclusive primaries or from delegates having second thoughts about the leading candidates? Convention surprises are not without precedent in American political history. In fact, a century ago the…
Chris White Sen. Michael Bennet lit into the Democratic National Committee Christmas Eve for supposedly engaging in “pay-to-play politics” after the party posted a video excluding him and other third-tier candidates. The Democratic Colorado senator criticized the DNC for posting a video that included only candidates “who ponied up six figures.” The video includes former…
Mary Margaret Olohan The Republican National Committee heads into the 2020 election year with more than seven times as much cash on hand as the Democratic National Committee, the parties’ FEC filings show. FEC filings from both parties show the RNC has $63 million in cash on hand compared to the DNC’s $8.3 million, Bloomberg reported….
Guess who’s back, back again? Tulsi’s back, tell a friend. That’s right. After being excluded from the September debate for failing to meet the DNC’s dubious polling requirements, Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard will rejoin the Democratic primary debate stage in October. Gabbard had probably already qualified for the October debate after getting a fourth qualifying…
Gabbard has shot past the 130,000 donor threshold, and as of Aug. 11, she was sitting at 159,514 individual donors. But that only took care of one-half of the qualification criteria for the next two debates…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Mark Tapscott Chris Gowen, Imran Awan’s lawyer, is a long-time campaigner for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a member of an attorney team that brought a fraudulent lawsuit against energy giant Chevron. Pakistani-born Awan was arrested late Monday at Dulles Airport in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Citing an exclusive report by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s investigative group, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh voiced frustration that Democrats are sidestepping media attention due to potential improprieties. FBI agents recently seized smashed computer hard drives from the home of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s information technology (IT) administrator, according to sources….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Luke Rosiak Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose office equipment U.S. Capitol Police seized in a criminal investigation into congressional network security violations, admitted she violates official information security policy and blamed the House’s chief administrative officer for not stopping her. In a May 17 appropriations hearing on…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman Washington, D.C. lobbyist and attorney Jack Burkman is filing a lawsuit Wednesday to force the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to release information regarding the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. “The release of this crucial material will help bring peace to the victim’s family, and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The same hacker who released once-secret records from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reportedly provided unique voter research to Aaron Nevins, a Republican political operative, according to an in-depth Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal. Nevins, who was working in Florida at the time, reached out to “Guccifer…