The former New Jersey governor is in. I heard a commentator say that Christie’s “lane” to the GOP nomination “runs through Donald Trump.” Will Trump get the Rubio treatment? Whatever happens, it should be entertaining:...
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American historian Sean Wilentz on Marco Rubio’s “fake populism”
Distinguished Princeton historian Sean Wilentz was recently part of a group of historians (and others) that Joe Biden invited to the White House to discuss the fate of American democracy. Marco Rubio called the group “elitists” and “snobs” working against...
Marco Rubio will skip Biden’s State of the Union Address because he does not have time to get a COVID-19 test
Here is The Hill: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will skip President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday because of the COVID-19 testing requirement for attendees. “I don’t have time to go take a COVID test today,” Rubio said, according to a tweet from HuffPost reporter...
The anti-Critical Race Theory bills keep coming
Last week we took a close look at Josh Hawley’s “Love America Act.” Now we have the Protect Equality and Civics Education (PEACE) Act. The Senate sponsors are Republicans Marco Rubio, (FL), Kevin Cramer (ND), and Mike Braun (IN). Here...
Val Demings (D-Fla.) is planning a run against Marco Rubio
Demings was a House manager in Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial and was on Joe Biden’s vice-presidential shortlist. Political scientists Ashley Daniels and Pearl Dowe think Demings has a chance of taking Rubio’s Senate seat if she can mobilize Black...
Which U.S. Senate seats are most likely to flip in 2022?
According to CNN’s Simone Pathe they are: Pennsylvania: Pat Toomey (R) currently holds the seat. He is retiring. Georgia: Raphael Warnock (D) currently holds the seat. Wisconsin: Ron Johnson (R) currently holds the seat. North Carolina: Richard Burr (R) currently...
Trump endorses Rubio
My how things have changed:...
Why did the GOP Senators voted to acquit Trump? Here is a cheat sheet:
Over the weekend we posted the statements of most of the U.S. senators (all Republicans) who voted to acquit Donald Trump on Saturday. You can read that post here. It is a long post, so we created a cheat sheet:...
Trump evangelicals respond to his impeachment acquittal
If Mitch McConnell is right, the Democratic House managers proved that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The former president survived his impeachment trial because forty-three senators, all Republicans, voted to acquit. Several of these senators, including Ted Cruz,...
What did Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz say in 2016 about Trump and his potential for citing violence?
Watch Marco Rubio: Here is Ted Cruz after violent protests at a Trump rally in 2016: Both Rubio and Cruz are expected to vote for Donald Trump’s acquittal in his impeachment trial. In other words, they do not believe that...
Tony Perkins finds “cancel culture” in the Bible (and other Trump evangelical news, including Eric Metaxas’s book launch)
In the last several days we have seen the Republican Party get closer to the breaking point. Trumpism in the form of Marjorie Greene and her enablers is pitted in a war for control of the party against the likes...