Some supporters of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders say they are seeing a repeat of the Democratic National Committee’s 2016 treatment of their candidate, according to a report.
These Sanders supporters claim the DNC leadership is giving preferential treatment to 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden, after the former vice president's surge in the polls, just as they did Hillary Clinton three years ago, the Washington Times reported.
The
supporters of Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, say they mistrust
polls showing Biden holding a commanding lead over the 23-candidate
Democratic field, and some say they may stage another revolt at the
party's 2020 national convention in Milwaukee, just as they did in
Philadelphia in 2016, if Biden gets the nomination.
Laurie
Cestnick, a Sanders supporter who founded Occupy DNC, told the
Washington Times they’re frustrated that the mainstream media doesn’t
cover many of their candidate's events.
“The mainstream media and the DNC are colluding against the American people," she said. "That’s what it feels like. It’s the same thing all over again."
“The
mainstream media and the DNC are colluding against the American people.
That’s what it feels like. It’s the same thing all over again." — Laurie Cestnick, Sanders supporter who founded Occupy DNC
After
the fracturing of the Sanders wing of the party in 2016, many
Democratic candidates, including Sanders, signed a unity pledge saying
they’ll support the eventual nominee. The DNC chairman has also adopted
new rules to make the process fairer, including denying superdelegates a
vote in the first ballot at the convention, the Times reported.
FILE: A construction worker watches a section of fencing be moved for a
privately-funded border fence on private land in Sunland Park, New
Mexico.
(AP)
Sunland
Park’s Mayor Javier Perea
A legal dispute unfolded this week between private contractors who have built a half-mile fence between a New Mexico city and Mexico, and the mayor of that city who is arguing that the fence didn’t get proper authorization.
“We
Build the Wall,” began construction of the border fence on private land
in Sunland Park, N.M., last Friday using money raised through
crowdfunding, the Dallas Morning News reported. The city shares a border with El Paso, Texas and Mexico.
The company had planned to finish construction by Friday, but Sunland
Park’s Mayor Javier Perea said Tuesday that the 18-foot fence surpasses
the city’s maximum height of 6 feet. On Wednesday, he issued a
cease-and-desist order.
Dustin Stockton, vice president and
co-founder of We Build the Wall, said the company was undeterred by
Perea and felt that the company was in compliance with city regulations.
“Sunland
Park sent out a building inspector out to inspect the site before we
started building,” Stockton said. “There was an inspector on site when
we did the first concrete pour, and each time along the way we were
given permission to continue to build while our application was
processed.”
Perea told KOAT 7
that the cease-and-desist has been turned over to a municipal court. We
Build the Wall said they will hold a rally Thursday in support of
finishing the project. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
While some Democrats are desperate to go all in with impeaching President Trump, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has just dealt House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a "pair of deuces," according to Fox News' Geraldo Rivera.
Rivera, speaking on "The Five" Wednesday, said Pelosi might be forced to convince those in her party to fold their impeachment hand in the wake of Special Counsel Mueller's rare public statements.
"If
this was cards, Mueller dealt Pelosi a pair of deuces," Rivera opined.
"She's holding a pair of deuces now, do you go forward with impeachment
with a pair of deuces?"
Rivera was reacting to Mueller's comment Wednesday his team did not have the “option” to charge Trump,
that there “was not sufficient evidence to charge a conspiracy” with
regard to whether members of the Trump campaign coordinated with the
Russian government during the 2016 presidential election
But Mueller also addressed the president's possible obstruction of justice which has lead to renewed interest in impeachment proceedings among Democrats.
“If
we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a
crime, we would have said that,” Mueller said Wednesday. “We did not
determine whether the president did commit a crime.”
On "The Five," co-host Greg Gutfeld was critical of Mueller for yet again fueling the belief that Trump may have committed a crime.
"If you're not going to resolve this you just can't throw that out there," Gutfeld said.
Gutfeld
also blamed the Democrats and the media for forcing Mueller to indulge
them and noted in the end they will be disappointed with the results.
"I
think the media and the Democrats forced his hand and he had to do
this. This is now the fourth bite of a rotten apple, right. The first
was the summary that came out, the media spit it out. Then the second
was the release, they spit it out. The third was having Barr come on,
they spit that out," Gutfeld said.
"Now he's got this presser. They're not going to be happy with this. Why do we keep indulging this?"
Fox News host Sean Hannity was in rare form on Wednesday evening's "Hannity," declaring "act one" over, in reaction to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's comments on the Russia investigation and also challenging Democrats to impeach President Trump.
"Without
a doubt the radical extreme democratic socialist party, they are
clamoring for impeachment more than ever before. Here is my message to
them tonight: Go for it, go for it. I want you to reach for the stars,"
Hannity said during his monologue.
"Without a doubt
the radical extreme democratic socialist party, they are clamoring for
impeachment more than ever before. Here is my message to them tonight:
Go for it." — Sean Hannity
"Stay right there and don't solve any more problems of the American people or serve the people who put you in Washington."
The
host, who was No. 1 in May's cable news ratings, warned Democrats that
impeachment was "political suicide" for those who can't "handle the
truth" of the recent Russia investigation developments or the 2016
election results.
"I'm going to enjoy watching you dig the hole deeper every day," Hannity said.
Hannity was reacting to Mueller's Wednesday news conference, where
the special counsel addressed his report, saying his team did not have
the “option” to charge Trump, that there “was not sufficient evidence to
charge a conspiracy” with regard to whether members of the Trump
campaign coordinated with the Russian government during the 2016
presidential election
But Mueller also addressed the president's possible obstruction of justice, which has lead to renewed interest in impeachment proceedings among Democrats.
Hannity blasted Mueller and criticized him for sparking an "impeachment fantasy."
"Mueller
has spent 25-plus million dollars investigating a hoax and now, for the
fourth time, we have a conclusion," Hannity said. "No coercion and no
conspiracy. Today he officially resigned from the office of special
counsel but not before showing the world, of course, what we already
know on this program, his partisan hackery true colors, if you will."
The
Fox News host was incensed that Mueller did not take questions from
reporters and listed the questions that he wants Mueller to answer,
swearing that Mueller "will be held accountable."
"I want Mueller
under oath. I want him held accountable. I want him answering those
questions," Hannity said. "It's now more important than ever."
California senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris assured town hall attendees on Tuesday night that the "odds-on favorite" under Medicare For All is that you will be able to keep your doctor.
Harris
was asked about her plans for healthcare reform during a televised town
hall in South Carolina. She responded by reiterating her belief that
access to healthcare should be a "right" and how she's been a proud
supporter of Medicare For All.
She then knocked the skeptics who
question whether they'd be able to keep their doctor under Medicare For
All, which she admitted was an "understandable point."
"Well 91%
of the doctors in the United States are in the Medicare system, so the
odds-on favorite is that you will be able to keep your doctor," Harris
said.
The senator's remarks resemble the assurances President
Obama gave while promoting the Affordable Care Act, where he told
Americans that "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,"
something Politifact declared as "Lie of the Year" in 2013.
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell later pressed Harris on which Medicare For All proposals would she sign as president.
"Mandatory Medicare for everyone," O'Donnell said.
"For everyone," Harris responded.
"So that does mean giving up their current private healthcare plans," O'Donnell followed.
"No,
but they would be entitled to receive and have basically supplemental
insurance, but under Medicare For All and my vision for Medicare For
All, we would expand the coverage of Medicare so it would include
dental, it would vision for our seniors, it would include hearing aids,
which are so expensive," Harris continued. "The goal is that everyone is
going to be in the same system."
Former Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy on Tuesday called out Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell over his "I may be another white guy" comment and called it an example of the sad state of politics.
Swalwell, a California lawmaker who launched his bid to become the president last month, has been struggling to get a footing in the crowded Democratic primary.
In
an interview on Monday with Vice News, Swalwell said, “A white guy who
doesn’t see other identities or understand other experiences should not
be president.”
“I do,” he said. “And where there would be gaps in
my knowledge or my experience, I will pass the mic to people who do have
that experience.”
Swalwell’s comments sit well with Gowdy who criticized them comment during an appearance on “The Story” with Martha MacCallum.
Former Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy lampooned Democratic
presidential candidate Eric Swalwell for admitting that him being “a
white guy” was a flaw in this election.
“Well, Eric’s
clearly riding a wave. I think he’s all the way up to zero in the
polling,” Gowdy said, referring to the recent Morning Consult poll that
shows the Democrat is supported by less than one percent of the surveyed
voters.
“I noticed throughout his political history he ran
against two women that I know of, so if he is concerned there aren’t
enough voices in Congress or in the city council he was on, he didn’t
have any qualms about running against two qualified women back then.
This is what I know and, luckily, what most of our fellow citizens
know,” he continued.
“I noticed throughout his
political history he ran against two women that I know of, so if he is
concerned there aren’t enough voices in Congress or in the city council
he was on, he didn’t have any qualms about running against two qualified
women back then." — Trey Gowdy
Gowdy
added that it’s “a sad reflection” that Swalwell thinks he can win
support by apologizing for things he has no control over.
“Logic,
objective truth, passion, empathy, no racial or gender strictures. If
you are a good person, I want you governing me regardless of any other
immutable characteristic,” he said.
“I think it is a sad
reflection on our politics if people are actually apologizing for things
over which they have absolutely no control at all and I think most of
my fellow citizens reject that and see this as just Eric pandering,
trying to climb all the way up to one percent in the polling.”
“I
think it is a sad reflection on our politics if people are actually
apologizing for things over which they have absolutely no control at all
and I think most of my fellow citizens reject that and see this as just
Eric pandering, trying to climb all the way up to one percent in the
polling.” — Trey Gowdy
This isn’t the
first time Swalwell tried to pander to the far-left of the party. From
the onset of his campaign, he promised to pick a woman as his running
mate because he’s a “white man” who knows “where I can't speak to
someone else's experience.”
Earlier
this month, Swalwell was also ridiculed after stumbling over his
knowledge of the Constitution in a bid to score political points and
complaining that the Constitution doesn’t mention “woman”. Many pointed
out that “Man” is also not mentioned in the Constitution.
The "'Deep State' is in full panic mode" after President Trump authorized Attorney General Barr to declassify information relating to the origins of the Russia probe last week, this according to Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Hannity
sent out yet another warning to those involved with the Russia
investigation and assured the American people that they will "see the
truth" for themselves.
Tonight the 'Deep State' is in full panic mode — Sean Hannity
The Fox News host also addressed former FBI director James Comey who wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post Tuesday critical of the investigation.
Comey wrote in The Washington Post on Tuesday, "There
was no corruption. There was no treason. There was no attempted coup.
Those are lies, and dumb lies at that. There were just good people
trying to figure out what was true, under unprecedented circumstances."
Hannity
continued to warn Comey and other Obama-era intelligence officials such
as former DNI James Clapper and former CIA director John Brennan who
have been vocal against Trump authorizing declassification information
in the Russia probe.
"And I warned you before, you do have the
right to remain silent. You should have taken my advice from the get-go.
Sadly, I think that your rage for President Trump and intense love of
the spotlight is really overcoming every bit of common sense that you
might have," Hannity warned.
"They are even digging bigger holes every single time they open their mouths," Hannity said.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex, called out Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, over a now-deleted tweet that suggested having a merit-based immigration system would disadvantage Latino migrants.
Earlier this month, President Trump unveiled his plans for immigration
reform, including the installation of a merit-based system that grants
migrants entry into the United States based on their trade, skill
level, and education.
On Tuesday night, Omar slammed Trump's proposal in a tweet that has since been deleted from her Twitter page.
A
"merit based" immigration policy is fueled by racism towards the Latinx
community," Omar wrote. "Our immigration policies shouldn't be based on
discrimination, fear, or bigotry. We should welcome immigrants to our
country and offer a simple way to citizenship."
That sparked a ton of blowback from critics.
Sen.
Cruz also weighed in and called out the Democratic Party for
apparently believing that "Hispanic immigrants can’t qualify for
skills-based legal immigration."
"As the son of a Cuban immigrant
whose Dad came to get a math degree & become a computer programmer,
I’m troubled that Dems seem to believe Hispanic immigrants can’t qualify
for skills-based legal immigration," Cruz tweeted. "Bringing in more
scientists, engineers & doctors is good for US jobs."
Rep. Omar's office did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
