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John Kerry's comments on foreign leaders during 2004 election season resurface amid Trump-Ukraine controversy After former President Bill Clinton’s request for help from a foreign official resurfaced Monday, now it's John Kerry’s turn in the spotlight. On Tuesday’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host flashed back to a 2004 comment from Kerry, then a candidate for president, claiming foreign leaders told him how much they wanted him to oust then-President George W. Bush. “John Kerry has been talking to anyone who will listen about the president’s shocking behavior with Ukraine,” Carlson said on his show Tuesday night, before turning...

The Kerry campaign faces political headwinds that make electoral success difficult and yet by all accounts the campaign is doing little to correct itself. The United States is a nation in the midst of political realignment, and yet the Democratic National Convention that was held in Boston may be the culmination of perhaps the riskiest political maneuver--running an openly left-wing ticket. Most political theorists suggest that political competition causes the two parties to converge on the center. Bill Clinton's New Democrat themes and George Bush's compassionate conservatism are examples of this. On the other hand, Ronald Reagan's 1980 successful challenge...