The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee emailed its supporters this morning, asking for donations to help fight back against Donald Trump.
The email — which came with the obligatory “You’re fired” subject line — opens with a question about why Trump has been so focused on the president’s birthplace.
“It’s simple,” explains Robby Mook, the DCCC Read More
Before President Obama released his long-form birth certificate and Donald Trump held court in New Hampshire, the big national news this morning was that the White House would shuffle C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta into the role of Defense Secretary and replace him with General David Petraeus.
In a statement this morning, Homeland Read More
Rudy Giuliani will return to Manchester, New Hampshire next month for a house party at the home of local macher Ovide Lamontagne.
The news was reported this morning by the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Last month, Giuliani spoke to the local G.O.P.’s Lincoln-Reagan Dinner, but aides were careful to characterize that visit as repaying Read More
President Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, emailed out this “sneak peek” video to supporters today, laying out the “strategic framework” for the president’s re-election campaign.
There are charts and maps and talk of expanding the electorate and making 2008 look “prehistoric.” It’s not the most thrilling presentation; at one point, Messina says: “This is the Read More
In 2004, former mayor Ed Koch committed an act of Democratic treason and endorsed George W. Bush in his re-election bid against John Kerry. In Koch’s estimation, Bush could be counted on to keep the country safe, and that pre-empted any concerns about their domestic policies.
In an email to his mailing list this afternoon, Read More
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour isn’t running for president, after all.
In a statement this afternoon, Barbour said he couldn’t offer the kind of committment it takes to successfully mount a campaign for the White House.
“A candidate for president today is embracing a ten-year commitment to an all-consuming effort, to the virtual exclusion of all Read More
In this week’s Observer, Azi and I looked at Donald Trump’s New York state political contributions, which favored Democrats over Republicans by a nearly two-to-one margin.
Not surprisingly, his New York City donations skew even more toward Democrats, and again, reflect a certain pragmatism more than any discernible political ideology.
Since the 1989 election Read More
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is reiterating his call for an environmental study of hydrofracking after an equipment failure at a Pennsylvania well sent thousands of gallons of chemically-treated water into the surrounding area, and caused the operator to suspend the practice while it investigates what went wrong.
“The events unfolding in Pennsylvania reaffirm Read More
From one of the more entertaining White House pool reports in recent memory, comes this dispatch about President Obama’s $35,800-per-plate ($5k to the campaign; the rest to the DNC) fundraiser in San Francisco this morning:
Mr. Obama was in the middle of his remarks when a woman in a white suit stood up and said, Read More
