Joan McCarter
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Mark Kirk says worrying about police/community relations isn't in his job description
On Friday, Chicago police released the July 28 video of officers firing on a fleeing vehicle driven by Paul O'Neal, who was killed that day. That same day, embattled Republican Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk held a meeting of his law enforcement advisory... → Read More
Pew survey: Pulpit endorsements favor Hillary Clinton
Not a lot of pastors are preaching politics from the pulpit—at least, they're not making out-and-out endorsements. But those who are are more inclined to support Hillary Clinton, a new Pew survey finds. That doesn't mean they're not talking about the... → Read More
Trump wants a reward for using the teleprompter
Donald Trump sends email: Translation: "I successfully read words from the teleprompter. I didn't tell anyone to beat up the protesters. Send money." → Read More
Republican desperation deepens as Trump keeps on Trumpin'
The watchwords for Republicans in campaign 2016: "alarm," "landslide," "ugly," and "big trouble." And that’s just on the Senate side. For months, top GOP leaders had counseled their candidates to run their own races, separate themselves from the... → Read More
Chuck Grassley breaks recess silence with whiny Zika defense
It's been a pretty quiet few weeks for Sen. Chuck Grassley, what with the Senate being out of session and no reporters asking him every day about either Donald Trump or his Supreme Court nominee blockade (it's been 140 days, by the way, since Merrick... → Read More
Obamacare: Still not killing jobs
Dan Diamond, who follows healthcare policy and economics for Politico, has been keeping track of jobs reports for a long time. In early 2015, he wrote: March marks five years since the Affordable ... → Read More
Nevada Senate race remains tight
There's a squeaker brewing in Nevada, where Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto is vying to keep Harry Reid's Senate seat blue against Republican Rep. Joe Heck. The polls continue to show the two running neck-and-neck. In July, PPP had the race at one... → Read More
Trump campaign works better without Trump—and with a media assist
Donald Trump's campaign more or less reined him in over the weekend, with his contribution to the Sunday talk-fest restricted to a handful of tweets about "crooked" Hillary and the dishonest media. Trump himself was missing from the... → Read More
'I thank God for this program:' A grateful Louisianan who finally has health care
Since Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards won the election in Louisiana and accepted Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, a whopping 265,723 low-income Louisianians now have coverage. That number is made more remarkable by the fact that they've only been able... → Read More
Paul Ryan still can't come up with a reason to dump Trump
Donald Trump isn't just refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary, but has half a dozen former staffers actually working on Ryan's opponent's campaign. And Ryan still won't withdraw his support and can't provide an example of anything... → Read More
Clinton campaign ad asks 'What is Donald Trump's connection to Vladimir Putin?'
The Clinton campaign is reinforcing the comments made by former CIA chief Michael Morell in his endorsement of Clinton with a new web ad focusing on everything we know—and don't know—about Donald Trump's allegiance to Vladimir Putin. To reiterate... → Read More
Florida Gov. Rick Scott's war on Planned Parenthood opens the door for a Zika emergency
Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, and legislature have happily joined in on the War on Women and the war on Planned Parenthood, attempting to state funding to reproductive health clinics and diverting resources away from clinics that provide... → Read More
President Obama, feminist, shows how to be a father to daughters
This man is certainly spending his last months in office in style, both in an official and unofficial capacity. Here he is, writing in Glamour: "This is what a feminist looks like." He writes about "watching my daughters grow up into smart, funny,... → Read More
Missouri health officials demand Roy Blunt do his job on Zika prevention
The money the Obama administration has managed to cobble together to fight Zika is about to run out, while the Republican Congress yawns. One of the biggest yawners is Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee... → Read More
DSCC ups the pressure on Republican senators to answer for Trump
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has a good question for Republican senators running for re-election in the form of a video called "Why." The spot, which will be featured and promoted on YouTube, prominently presents President Obama,... → Read More
Hey, Richard Burr! How about some debates? What are you afraid of?
It's now been well over a month since Democrat Deborah Ross challenged incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Burr to four debates. That was back in June, and in the intervening time a federal appeals court has ordered the state of North Carolina to restore... → Read More
Was Melania Trump an undocumented worker (aka 'illegal alien')?
An old nude photo shoot, revived this weekend by the New York Post, has raised a lot of eyebrows, and not just for the amount of skin exposed. The model is the now-Mrs. Trump, and the existence of the photos—shot in 1995—reveals some gaps in Melania... → Read More
Trump campaign doubles down on Barack Obama's amazing time travel feats
Donald Trump's campaign (mis)manager, Paul Manafort, went on Good Morning America Thursday to do his increasingly thankless and futile job—which apparently involves subscribing to the idea of time travel. Reporter Sopan Deb highlights this exchange,... → Read More
Trump really doesn't care about sexual harassment, even if it happens to his kid
Donald Trump broke his boycott of The Washington Post Tuesday, just long enough for an interview with reporter Phillip Rucker—who tried his damnedest to get intelligible news out of the candidate. In once instance, he repeatedly tried to get the... → Read More
Ted Strickland enlists veterans to push Republican Rob Portman on Trump support
Ted Strickland is not going to let his opponent, Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, get away with sending his staff out to give this kind of mealy-mouthed deflection of Donald Trump. The junior senator's support of Trump—who continues to be the... → Read More