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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Republican and Democratic parties have distinct strengths within different subgroups of the U.S. population. However, Democrats have lost ground among some of their traditionally stronger support groups while gaining ground with others. This is based on analysis of Americans’ party preferences, which includes those who identify as Democratic or Republican and those who are independent but lean toward either party. Of particular note, * The Democratic Party's wide lead over Republicans in Black Americans’ party preferences has shrunk by nearly 20 points over the past three years. * Democrats' leads among Hispanic adults and adults aged...

Former President Donald Trump holds a nearly double-digit lead over President Joe Biden in a potential general election race in Texas as former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) trails Biden in a separate hypothetical match-up, per a poll. The Redfield Wilton Strategies poll, conducted for Newsweek and published on Wednesday, found that 44 percent of Texas voters would back Trump in a five-way race for the White House, placing him nine points above Biden, who sits at 35 percent. 📊 TEXAS GE: @RedfieldWilton Trump: 44% (+9) Biden: 35% RFK Jr: 6% Stein: 1% West: 1% — Biden: 32% (+2) Haley: 30%...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, lashed out at Republican leadership over the botched bipartisan border deal that Republicans are planning to shoot down Wednesday afternoon."The bill is flawed from top to bottom," Paul told Fox News Digital in an interview. "No conservatives in the Senate will vote for this. No conservatives in the House are going to vote for it. The House speaker says it's dead on arrival. It really shows incredibly bad strategy on Senate Republican leadership to bring this up at all." Paul made his comments after Sen. Ted...

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A member of the corporate media accidentally reported that His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline is so pronounced he’s probably adopted the strategy of hiding from the media. During a segment on doomed CNN’s doomed CNN This Morning, someone named Salena Mohsin, who identifies as Bloomberg’s senior Washington correspondent, was asked about President Roomba skipping what has become a traditional presidential interview prior to the Super Bowl. “[H]im saying no to something that he’s expected to do, a serious interview, he can really get his message out to an audience, just sitting, waiting for him, waiting for his message,...

A missing military helicopter was found in Southern California Wednesday morning, but a search and rescue operation continues for five missing Marines on board, the U.S. Marine Corps said. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter was "reported overdue" to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Tuesday night. The helicopter departed from Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas and was en route to Miramar, in the San Diego area. The sheriff's department said it received a call at 1:50 a.m. and sent its own helicopter to search, but the helicopter wasn't able to reach the area due to the atmospheric river storm...

A report to the UK Parliament by the Wildlife and Countryside Link claims that 'racist colonial legacies' influence the British countryside, creating barriers for ethnic minorities in accessing green spaces. The report advocates a 'rights-based approach' to accessing these spaces and links Britain's role in the colonial project to current environmental crises. The British countryside, often considered a serene escape and a symbol of national heritage, is under scrutiny. A recent report submitted to the UK Parliament by the Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of wildlife charities, asserts that these verdant landscapes bear the marks of 'racist colonial legacies'....

WND reported just days ago on a video that showed empty stores in France, where a climate agenda threatened the production processes for farmers, and they more or less staged a strike.And just recently, in Germany, farmers blocked highways in protest over costly and unnecessary agriculture policies.Now, however, there's a new campaign against farmers, in which the United Nations works with banks to debank the food producers, closing their accounts and not allowing them to operate their businesses.The report is from NewsAddicts, which explained officials from 12 U.S. states have sounded an alarm after finding out the "unelected globalist United...

The Department of Defense invites media to cover a pre-sentencing hearing in the case of United States v. Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, scheduled for April 15-19. The defendant entered a guilty plea in June of 2022. The proceedings will be conducted at the Expeditionary Legal Complex located in Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB) Cuba and will be transmitted to a closed-circuit television site at Ft. Meade, Md. For planning purposes, media desiring to travel to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB) Cuba will depart from Joint Base Andrews, Md. on the date listed below with a round-trip flight cost of $800. Flights...

A San Francisco Bay-area elementary school was trained by an organization called “Woke Kindergarten,” whose leader wants to see America and Israel destroyed as countries, according to posts on social media. According to the website, the head of the organization is “Akiea ‘Ki’ Gross (they/them)” who “is an abolitionist early educator, cultural organizer and creator currently innovating ways to resist, heal, liberate and create with their pedagogy, Woke Kindergarten.” “I believe the United States has no right to exist. I believe every settler colony who has committed genocide against native peoples, against Indigenous people, has no right to exist,” Gross...

A newly published research paper "COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines: Lessons Learned from the Registrational Trials and Global Vaccination Campaign" in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science debunks virtually everything that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and World Health Organization (WHO) maintained concerning the safety and effectiveness of these vaccines. The authors wrote "evaluation of the Pfizer trial data showed that their vaccine induced significant increases in serious adverse events (SAEs) in the vaccine group compared to the placebo group. These SAEs including death, cancer, cardiac events, and various autoimmune,...

Healey and Wolohojian met when they both worked at Hale & Dorr, and had been together for eight years when Healey began her first term as attorney general in 2015, ... Healey used the Charlestown home they shared as her campaign’s headquarters early in her first run for attorney general, ... They later separated, and Healey moved to the South End before she launched her run for governor. She now lives in Arlington with her current partner, Joanna Lydgate, an attorney and her former deputy in the attorney general’s office. Healey and Lydgate told the Globe last year that their...

For GOP lawmakers who view public education as a quasi-socialist project, the gaping hole in state budgets left by subsidizing private school tuition is a feature, not a bug. Bait-and-switch is an old retail tactic. You lure customers in with promises of a deep discount, only to inform them that the deal has a catch. The real price tag, it turns out, is quite a bit more. Though it took supporters of school vouchers a while to catch on, they’ve learned quickly that the trick works just as well in education policy as it does in retail sales. Pick a...

The world is entering “an age of chaos” with an impotent and divided Security Council being ignored on a host of critical issues such as the Israel-Hamas war, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented Wednesday. As the conflict in Gaza entering its fifth month, AFP reports Guterres warned that if the Israeli armed forces keep fighting back against Hamas terrorists and press on into the southern city of Rafah, it will “exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences.” “It is time for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages,” Guterres ordered during...

Antisemitic flyers showing a skunk emblazoned with the Israeli flag have been posted on the campus of Columbia University in New York, the New York Post reported. The flyers read: “Beware! Skunk on Campus. Brought to you in collaboration by Columbia University and the IDF." The Anti-Defamation League for New York and New Jersey wrote on X (formerly Twitter), "We are appalled to see a flier on@Columbia's campus comparing Israel and Israelis to skunks. This does nothing to further peace. It only villainizes Jewish and Israeli students on campus and fosters an increasingly hostile environment. The Columbia administration should call...

Concerns are mounting over Houthi threats to international internet traffic and the transmission of financial data, with Yemeni telecoms firms having sounded the alarm about the militant group’s plans to sabotage submarine cables in the Red Sea. Yemen’s General Telecommunications Company, which is linked to the UN-recognised government, yesterday (4 February) released a statement condemning the Houthis’ “threats to target international marine cables”. Approximately 17% of the world’s internet traffic is carried along fibre pipes in the Red Sea. On 24 December, a Houthi-linked Telegram channel posted a map showing the convergence of communications cables in the Red Sea, Mediterranean...

This really happened. Joe Biden decided to visit this Black kid’s home and eat Cookout with his family before election season officially starts to let Black people know he is still willing to use them for votes.

The owner of an Alabama radio station is stunned, and out a lot of money, after thieves made off with his 200-foot radio tower. The theft was discovered Friday when landscapers went to clean up the area. Brett Elmore, owner of WJLX in Jasper, then received an unexpected, and baffling, call. “He said, ‘Brett, we’re down here and the tower’s gone.’’

Republican strategist Karl Rove shut down speculation, often permeated on the far-right, that former first lady Michelle Obama will replace President Biden in the 2024 election, calling it “pure lunacy.” Rove was reacting to the idea that Michelle Obama, former President Obama’s wife and one of the most popular Democrats in the country, could replace Biden as the Democratic nominee in 2024. The theory has come up in previous elections cycles and was floated by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) last month. Rove in his remarks on Wednesday suggested it’s possible Biden will not end up being the Democratic nominee,...

Is it time for Nikki Haley to pack up her campaign baggage and get the heck home? Sure looks like it. Because out in Nevada, the primary results came out like this:Nikki Haley suffered an embarrassing loss in the Republican presidential primary in Nevada on Tuesday, receiving far fewer votes than the "none of these candidates" option, according to the Associated Press.With 86% of the votes counted, Haley received less than half (20,799, or 30.8%) of the 42,534 garnered by "none of these candidates."It was a contest that former President Donald Trump did not compete in and which the state...