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Democrat officials in Pennsylvania are “privately” speaking to the Biden campaign about potential margins of victory for the former vice president in the battleground state as counting remains underway, according to reports. According to Politico’s Josh Bresnahan, these Democrat officials have told the Biden campaign that they believe the presidential hopeful will win the state by anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000 votes after all the counting is completed: ====================================================================== John Bresnahan @BresPolitico Pennsylvania Democratic officials are privately telling Biden campaign officials that they believe final margin of victory for Biden in Pennsylvania will be 100K-200K votes when the counting is...

The White House is weighing a plan to dismiss Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council after he testified in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, preparing to position the move as part of a broader effort to shrink the foreign policy bureaucracy, two people familiar with the matter said. The White House intends to portray any house-cleaning as part of a downsizing of the NSC staff, not retaliation, according to the people. Some of the officials being targeted for removal from the NSC would be reassigned because they’re perceived as being disloyal to the president, three people familiar with the...

Hillary Clinton's longtime pastor plagiarized the writings of another minister in a new book scheduled to be released on Tuesday. "Strong for a Moment Like This: The Daily Devotions of Hillary Rodham Clinton," is based on emails the Rev. Bill Shillady, a United Methodist minister, wrote to Clinton from April 2015 through December of last year. Shillady and Clinton, a lifelong Methodist, formed a spiritual bond after meeting in New York in 2002. The pastor co-officiated at Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010, presided over Clinton's mother's memorial service and blessed her grandchildren. Clinton appears on the cover of "Strong for...

Hey, kids, let's all play "Guess the Party"! It's the media's favorite game when covering criminal activities by members of the Democratic Party. The local rag in Fayetteville, North Carolina could not bring itself to write the word "Democrat" in covering the remarkable behavior of a candidate for mayor in that city. Monica Vendituoli writes in the Fayetteville Observer: A candidate running for mayor of Fayetteville has been arrested twice in 55 days, accused of stealing and interfering with a water company's equipment.

FBI agents seized smashed computer hard drives from the home of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s information technology (IT) administrator, according to an individual who was interviewed by Bureau investigators in the case.

President Trump said Wednesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice may have committed a crime by asking for the names of who were mentioned on intercepted communications and that other Obama officials may also have been involved, The New York Times reported. “I think it’s going to be the biggest story,” Trump told the paper in an interview in the Oval Office. He declined requests for evidence for his allegations or the names of other Obama administration officials. “It’s such an important story for our country and the world. It is one of the big stories of our time,”...

Susan Rice, Barack Obama’s national security adviser and UN ambassador, reportedly requested on several occasions the “unmasking” of identities of private citizens linked to President Trump’s transition and campaign. The Washington Free Beacon reported today on Rice’s PBS interview last month where she denied having any knowledge of the intelligence community’s alleged incidental surveillance of Trump’s transition team. On Tuesday Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) called for criminal charges on former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice. https://youtu.be/UlkY0Nv2MG4

Today's Louisville Courier-Journal story on Jack Conway's brother -- a prosecutor being investigated "for possible drug use or trafficking," and illicitly tipped off by detectives -- isn't great for the Democratic candidate and top state law enforcement officer, though most of it doesn't bear directly on him. The end of the fairly complicated story, though, does; a detective says his brother's lawyer said he'd expressed interest in the case. (That, if you're keeping score, is thirdhand; Conway denies involvement.

ALBANY — Eight months after a federal investigation into a prostitution ring brought about the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the question still persists in some circles: Was the federal government out to get Mr. Spitzer? No evidence has surfaced to support such an assertion, and investigators have said that politics played no role in their pursuit of Mr. Spitzer. But that has not put to rest suspicions, expressed on left wing blogs, that Mr. Spitzer, a zealous pursuer of Wall Street wrongdoing who some thought could one day be president, had been singled out. Now, a congressional committee has...

While national Democrats are calling the Jack Abramoff lobbying imbroglio a "Republican scandal," top Vermont Democrat, Sen. Pat Leahy, is being labeled an "Abramoff Democrat" by home state critics. The Vermont Guardian has uncovered thousands of dollars in contributions to Leahy by lawfirms linked to Abramoff - though the senator's spokesman says that any suggestion of a relationship to the disgraced Republican is ridiculous. "It’s preposterous to even think that Jack Abramoff would do anything to support a progressive Democratic leader like Patrick Leahy," Ed Pagano, Leahy’s chief of staff, told the paper. However, the Guardian says it has discovered...

A Strategic Vision, LLC poll asked respondents if there was a revote, who would you vote for and Republican Dino Rossi was selected by 51%; Democrat Christine Gregoire was the choice of 43%; and 6% were undecided with a margin of error of ±3%. When asked who do they believe actually won the gubernatorial election, 53% said Republican Dino Rossi; 37% said Democrat Christine Gregoire; and 10% were undecided. "This poll is ominous for Christine Gregoire,” said David E. Johnson, CEO and Co-founder of Strategic Vision, LLC; "Even though she has been sworn in and is acting as Governor, a...

France disputes Iraq bribe claims Allegations that French officials were offered bribes by Saddam Hussein are unverified, France has said. An official US report said that the former Iraqi leader sought to influence world figures with "oil vouchers" in an attempt to get UN sanctions lifted. French businessmen and politicians were among the recipients, it said. The report, which found Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the US-led invasion, has fuelled the debate about justification for the war. The BBC's David Bamford says that on the face of it, the ISG's evidence about alleged bribery...