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What the Media Won’t Tell You About JD Vance

Here’s the latest video from legendary YouTuber, ReallyGraceful. ### TRANSCRIPT Hey, Internet Friends! Today, we’re talking about JD Vance, author, politician, venture capitalist, Millennial – and President Trump’s pick for Vice President in the 2024 Race. We deserve the real facts, the information the mainstream media won’t relay. So, who is JD Vance and why […]

GOP faces internal battle over raising age for Social Security

Republicans are battling among themselves over whether to push reforms to reduce Social Security spending, with some conservatives rallying around the idea of raising the retirement age. Republicans pushing reforms to Social Security argue that raising the retirement age would not cut benefits and would be phased in slowly so as not to affect people… […]

Kevin McCarthy Is Impeaching Biden Because He Can’t Afford Not to

This content comes from the latest installment of our weekly Breaking the Vote newsletter out of VICE News’ D.C. bureau, tracking the ongoing efforts to undermine the democratic process in America. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. The real stakes of impeachment Republicans are going to impeach Joe Biden, no […]

Romney retirement sets off Utah GOP scramble

Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) decision to not seek reelection is setting off a scramble among Utah Republicans to fill his seat in 2024.  A moderate Republican and an outspoken critic of former President Trump, Romney announced on Wednesday that he’ll retire when his first term in the upper chamber ends in 2025, calling for a “new generation… […]

Exclusive — Trent Staggs Calls Out Mitt Romney for Colluding with the ‘McConnell-Schumer Cabal’

U.S. Senate candidate and Riverton, Utah, Mayor Trent Staggs called out Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) for colluding with the “McConnell-Schumer cabal” during an appearance on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday. Source Views: 0

Trump steps up war with Senate GOP

President Trump is stepping up his war with Senate Republicans by calling for primary challenges next year against GOP incumbents who do not support investigating President Biden’s family finances.   Many Senate Republicans have made clear they don’t want Trump to win their party’s nomination for president and they’re leery about rallying to his defense […]

Joe Biden’s Deputies Boast of Getting Migrants into the U.S.

President Joe Biden’s deputies are congratulating themselves for delivering foreign migrants into Americans’ workplaces, communities, and society without approval from Congress or debate with the worried voters. “We’re increasing and improving legal migration,” Tyler Moran, a White House official, told the Washington Post. “We have put in place a number of policies creating legal pathways to migrate […]

Utah County Censures Mitt Romney for Trump Impeachment Vote

Weber County GOP censured Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) Saturday during its convention for the senator’s vote to impeach former President Donald Trump earlier this year. The resolution to censure Romney was passed 116-97 by the members from the Weber County GOP, according to County Party Secretary Jill Koford. “The Weber County Republican Convention censures Mitt Romney […]

NYT’s Friedman: ‘God Bless’ Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney ‘Standing Up for Our Democracy’

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said Monday night on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) are “standing up for our democracy” by opposing the notion former President Donald Trump didn’t lose the 2020 presidential election. Friedman said, “When people ask me how I feel, I give an answer […]

Two impeachment trials, two escape hatches for Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial centered on a phone call Americans never heard with the leader of a country very far away. The trial went on for two weeks of he-said-she-said. There was a mountain of evidence to pore over but not one drop of blood to see. Trump’s second impeachment trial […]

Seven Senate Republicans Vote to Convict Donald Trump, Two Flip Previous Vote

Seven Senate Republicans voted to convict former President Donald Trump, even though he was ultimately acquitted in his second impeachment trial. Trump was charged with inciting an insurrection on January 6, after a mob of his supporters stormed Capitol Hill as Congress began certifying the 2020 presidential election vote. The Senate vote failed 57-43, failing […]

Romney: Disingenuous for Republicans to Criticize Democrats After Big Spending Under Trump

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Tuesday on the “Utah Politics” podcast that it is disingenuous for Republicans to criticize Democrats for spending trillions of dollars on another coronavirus relief package after the GOP did not express deficit concerns under former President Donald Trump. Romney said, “There’s no question that if you begin doing things which break precedent or break […]

Democrats Push Three Amnesty Plans

President Joe Biden’s wish list amnesty bill is comatose on arrival, but Democrats are pushing ahead with three alternative amnesty strategies. Those alternatives are making progress because a handful of GOP Senators may approve Biden’s nominees, and some are talking up partial amnesties, according to a January 23 report in the Wall Street Journal: “There’s […]

Mitt Romney Slams Josh Hawley over Planned Electoral College Objection

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, lashed out at Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) over his plans to object to during the Electoral College certification process on Capitol Hill on January 6. Romney, speaking to CNN, said Hawley’s objection would continue to spread the “false rumor that somehow the election was stolen.” […]

Trump Downplays Impact of Massive Hacking, Questions Russia Involvement

A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration US President Donald Trump in his first comments about a widespread data breach across the US government downplayed the seriousness and impact of the cyber espionage campaign, and questioned whether […]

Joe Biden Passes Up Symone Sanders for Obama Alum Jen Psaki as Press Secretary

Joe Biden announced that Obama administration alumna Jen Psaki would be his press secretary, bypassing his devoted campaign spokesperson and surrogate, Symone Sanders. Sanders would be “Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson for the Vice President,” the campaign said in an announcement. Sanders stood by Biden’s side through thick and thin, including the dark days after […]

Survey: 72 Percent of GOP Voters Want Trump’s Economic Nationalism to Lead Republican Party

The overwhelming majority of Republican voters want President Trump or his policies, centered on economic nationalism, to continue leading the GOP, a new survey finds. The post-election survey, conducted by Echelon Insights, found that 39 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters want Trump to stay the leader of the GOP. Another 33 percent said Trump’s […]

Joe Biden Claims ‘No Basis’ for Hunter Biden Accusations; Cites Romney, Clapper, Brennan

Former Vice President Joe Biden told a Wisconsin reporter Tuesday evening that there is “no basis” for the accusation that his son, Hunter Biden, profited from foreign business partners by selling access to his father during his tenure in office. Adrienne Pedersen of Milwaukee ABC affiliate WISN 12 News’ interviewed Biden, who was at his home […]

WATCH: Keith Olbermann Says Trump Should Face the Death Penalty for Each Coronavirus Death

Former sports broadcaster Keith Olbermann left ESPN so he could say all the things he didn’t feel he could say at ESPN, and he is certainly saying all of those things. On Tuesday, during an unhinged rant about President Trump and his response to the coronavirus, Olbermann said that the president should be given the […]

Alan Dershowitz Sues CNN for Defamation over Impeachment Coverage

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz is suing CNN for $300 million for misreporting the substance of his defense of President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial earlier this year. Dershowitz, who filed suit Wednesday in a federal court in Florida, alleges that CNN and its various commentators “doctored the tape” of his […]