Epstein Secrets

much time defending progressive advances—from Social Security and Medicare to voting rights and abortion rights—as they have trying to extend them. The Republican Party is living through the late-mannerist phase of that revolution, fuelled less by ideas than by resentments. The moderate EFTA00684467 Republican tr

sy. It was a difficult fantasy to relinquish. The spirit of national conciliation was more than the rhetorical pixie dust of Obama's 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention, in Boston, which had brought him to delirious national attention. It was also an elemental component of his self-conception, his sense that he was

ician Joan Perry by 20 points in a special election. Felicia Sonmez reports: "The race had been viewed by some as a test of women's standing within the Republican Party. Perry had won the endorsements of all 13 House Republican women and received nearly $1 million in support from an outside group created to boost f

zel of using the committee's trademark and logo without its permission." -- Sarah McBride, a transgender activist who made waves after speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, is now running for Delaware state Senate. Deanna Paul reports: "If she wins the 2020 race to succeed Sen. Harris McDowell, who is retiring

d chief executive of Acronym, a politically active nonprofit supporting Democrats." SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ: Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who left the Republican Party on July 4 to become an independent after concluding that Trump committed impeachable offenses, said Volker and Morrison didn't help the GOP's case

f Clinton had asked her to be her vice president, she would've said yes. Warren also explained why she didn't endorse a 2016 candidate until after the Democratic National Convention: "Endorsing Bernie Sanders, her ideological ally, would mean sacrificing her ability to influence Clinton, who was widely expected to win. So Warre

d me so. ... As we lie on the bed of nails Trump has made, it's often difficult to see how much the paradigm of acceptable conduct has shifted. For the Republican Party, it's now a question of whether we want to start cleaning up the mess or continue papering over the cracks." -- Trump's base probably will not be e

are not prohibited entry.- -- Castro qualified for the September Democratic debates after getting 2 percent in a CNN poll. -- Hotel assignments for the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee next summer could stretch as far as Chicago's O'Hare airport. From the Journal Sentinel: "Many of the delegates will be housed in hot