Donald Trump Gets ‘An F’ For Fractions In Coronavirus Testing Tweet
President Donald Trump was ridiculed and scorned in equal measures on Thursday over this tweet about testing for the coronavirus: For the 1/100th time, the reason we show so many Cases, compared to other countries that haven’t done nearly as well as we have, is that our TESTING is much bigger and better. We have tested
Biden’s Polling Lead Is Big — And Steady
The race between President Trump and Joe Biden is verging on a landslide. That’s not a word we use lightly. Over the past month, Biden’s lead over Trump has been both incredibly stable and unusually large. Amidst Trump’s unpopular handling of the protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd, Biden’s lead has hovered
The Trump Administration Is Set To Resume Executions In Two Weeks. There’s A Last-Ditch Effort To Stop It.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to execute Daniel Lewis Lee on July 13 by lethal injection. If it happens, it’ll be the first time in nearly two decades that the federal government has carried out an execution. Death row inmates and death penalty opponents have less than two weeks to convince a judge
Washington Post Editorial Board Spells Out A Stark Truth About The Coronavirus To Trump
“The reality is that the virus is not under control; it is in control,” the newspaper’s board wrote in its editorial Thursday that denounced Trump’s ongoing attempts to downplay the rapid resurgence of COVID-19 in states nationwide. The board called out Trump’s “magical thinking” on the pandemic. Trump bore responsibility “for encouraging governors to loosen the restrictions
Chris Hayes Explains Why Donald Trump’s America Is ‘Laughingstock’ Around The World
“Our cases are skyrocketing. Our government’s response is a failure. We are living in this tragedy, this national humiliation for all to see,” Hayes continued, noting how COVID-19 is again spiking at record levels across the country. Hayes explained how some of the nations that had been hardest hit by the global health crisis in
Ticked-Off Florida Seniors Turn On Trump In Scathing CNN Segment: ‘He Blew It’
While Trump defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton there in 2016, polls show him trailing the former vice president by an average of 7.1%, according to FiveThirtyEight (though it’s worth noting that Trump trailed Clinton by a similar margin in Florida in July 2016). Now, a new video from CNN shows why Trump might be
The Unemployment Rate Is Falling, But More People Are Losing Their Jobs Permanently
These days, reading the monthly jobs report can feel like opening a time capsule. According to the data for June, which was released today, the recovery from the COVID-19 recession was still chugging along as of the middle of last month, when the two surveys that form the backbone of the report were conducted. The
People Spent Thousands To Go On A Cruise With Glenn Beck. Now They Can’t Get Their Money Back.
Last June, Jeff and Jennifer Welliver heard about a cruise around the Mediterranean to be hosted by conservative radio host Glenn Beck and featuring other right-wing luminaries like Bill O’Reilly. Jeff, 68, a retired pharmacist, and Jennifer, 66, had never been on a cruise before. But they’re conservatives, and “this was Glenn Beck– and Bill
Voter Registrations Are Way, Way Down During The Pandemic
Graphics by Elena Mejia Lutz Poll after poll showed a high level of enthusiasm for voting in the general election in 2020, and in the beginning of the year, voter registration surged to match that excitement. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. New registrations have fallen off a cliff. The spring of a presidential election year
Don Lemon Names The New Trump Coronavirus Claim That ‘Really Takes The Cake’
President Donald Trump’s latest claim about the coronavirus “really takes the cake,” CNN’s Don Lemon said on Thursday. Trump, in a town hall earlier with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, repeated his false assertion that the United States is only experiencing record new cases of COVID-19 because of increased testing, Lemon pointed out. “So, we have more