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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1512"] (Dick Cheney announcing he will vote for Kamala Harris). [https://www.thenewappeal.com/caption] Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris to the shock of a certain type of center right commentator and glee of a subset of Democratic Party activist. This
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1524"] (Kamala Harris during her first televised interview as candidate). [https://www.thenewappeal.com/caption] When Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sat down with Dana Bash for the pair’s first televised interview Kamala Harris made it very clear, she will
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Just shy of two months ago Donald Trump and Joe Biden took to the debate stage and it spelled disaster for Joe Biden and eventually toppled his candidacy. Prior to that debate the conventional wisdom among commentators and political scientists was that debates really did not matter very much (outside
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Every election there is a lot of talk of election interference. Whether it is from Russia, China, Iran, or other foreign adversaries, or billionaires in the United States using their sway in distasteful ways. One oft discussed dynamic in the later category is tech oligarchs and when and how they
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The election is tightening. In 2020 a handful of states decided the closest election in recent memory. In 2016 the same. Now 2024 is set to be perhaps the closest of all of them and could come down to any number of combinations in the main seven swing states with
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1102"] (Brian Kemp gives his thoughts and prayers to the victims of yet another school shooting). [https://www.thenewappeal.com/caption] There was another school shooting in the United States. It will likely quickly fade out of the public eye as
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1670"] (Tim Pool delivering anti-Ukraine commentary on his show). [https://www.thenewappeal.com/caption] Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson, among others were all alleged to be, knowingly or otherwise, Russian propagandists in a recently unsealed federal indictment. The three
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It appears it is that time of election season again. Everyone is settling into the reality that a choice is upon them, do they vote, who to vote for, does it matter? I’ve always had a Mark Twain kind of take on that last question. To paraphrase the great
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The Return of the Obama’s Michelle Obama delivered perhaps the best speech of the campaign season and Barack Obama took to the stage to usher in hope and change. Lurking in the background is the inadequacy of their politics and how ultimately it helped deliver Donald Trump. Barack Obama
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Democrats gather in Chicago to officially nominate Kamala Harris and begin the 2024 campaign in gusto. Night one is behind us and looking back, there might be some signs of things to come hidden in the festivities. AOC is Going to be a Senator Someday AOC had a primetime speaking
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Joe Biden was the weakest candidate Democrats have never almost nominated. Long touted as the only answer to Trump until just days ago it felt inevitable that Joe Biden going up against that very same opponent was essentially walking into a meat grinder. Joe Biden did the smart thing and
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