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Duckworth emerging as a contender to be Biden’s running mate By Sean Sullivan Washington Post July 6, 2020 As Joe Biden pushes ahead with his search for a running mate, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) has quietly emerged as a serious contender, according to three people with knowledge of the selection process, one of several developing dynamics as the search enters its final weeks. Duckworth is a Purple Heart recipient and veteran of the Iraq War, the only finalist with military combat experience — and as a woman of Thai and Chinese descent, one of several candidates of color…
Donald Trump’s shrinking electoral map By Gabby Orr, Marc Caputo POLITICO July 6, 2020 Donald Trump’s campaign once spoke of expanding his electoral map into blue-leaning territory like Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and New Hampshire. Now, winning at least a handful of those states has become a matter of survival. States that top campaign officials had said they had the luxury of pursuing are no longer considered add-ons to the president’s electoral vote tally but backstops to keep him afloat, according to multiple people close to or involved with his reelection operation. Continue Reading…..
Trump Is Running Out of Time By Michael Reagan Newsmax July 6, 2020 There’s a stark choice facing America in the November election. Citizens can vote for jobs and reelect Donald Trump. Or, they can vote for mobs and elect Joe Biden. It’s not any more complicated than that. Confusingly, it appears that Donald Trump — of all people — has forgotten that fact. Continue Reading…..
Colin Kaepernick Calls July 4th ‘Celebration Of White Supremacy’ By Cathy Burke Newsmax July 6, 2020 Football player and racial justice activist Colin Kaepernick issued a fiery denouncement of Independence Day, calling it a “celebration of white supremacy.” In a fierce rebuke, Kaepernick tweeted his condemnation along with a video of actor James Earl Jones reciting Frederick Douglass’s July 5, 1852, speech “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” “Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries, & are expected to join your commemoration of “independence,” while you enslaved our ancestors,”…
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NBA, union approve list of social justice messages for jerseys during restarted 2020 season: report By Ryan Gaydos Fox News July 5, 2020 The NBA and the players union reportedly agreed to a list of social justice messages the athletes can wear on their jerseys during the league’s restart in Florida later this month. The Undefeated reported Friday the list of names include: Black Lives Matter; Say Their Names; Vote; I Can’t Breathe; Justice; Peace; Equality; Freedom; Enough; Power to the People; Justice Now; Say Her Name; S���� Se Puede (Yes We Can); Liberation; See Us; Hear Us;…
Protesters burn American flag outside White House after Trump’s July Fourth address By Brooke Seipel TheHill July 5, 2020 Far-left protesters burned an American flag near the White House on Saturday and chanted, “America was never great” moments after President Trump finished delivering a speech at the “Salute to America” Independence Day celebration. Video shows the flag being burned in Black Lives Matter Plaza, just outside the White House. Activists can be heard chanting, “One, two, three, four, slavery, genocide and war. Five, six, seven, eight, America was never great.” “Refuse Fascism” Protesters Outside White House For #FlagBurningChallenge…
Trump doubles down on divisive messaging in speech to honor Independence Day By Jeremy Diamond and Jason Hoffman CNN July 5, 2020 (CNN)President Donald Trump delivered another deeply divisive speech to mark Independence Day on Saturday, comparing the US’s fight against Nazis and terrorists to his efforts to defeat “the radical left” in the US and accusing social justice protesters of trying to destroy America. “American heroes defeated the Nazis, dethroned the fascists, toppled the communists, saved American values, upheld American principles and chased down the terrorists to the very ends of the earth,” Trump said. “We are…
Washington Post July 5, 2020 GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, PA. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical. “Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely…
Justice Kavanaugh denies emergency request from Illinois GOP groups seeking to hold large rallies By Caitlin McFall Fox News July 5, 2020 Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday denied an emergency appeal submitted by GOP lawmakers from Illinois that had argued against the governor’s restrictions on meeting in groups larger than 10 amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Illinois Republican Party filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in mid-June after Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker permitted religious groups and protestors to convene in large gatherings. Political gatherings and rallies remain banned in the state due to the…