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California billionaire and liberal activist Tom Steyer will announce this week that he plans to enter the already crowded field of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a person close to him. The decision by Steyer, one of the biggest donors to Democratic politicians, was unexpected. He had traveled to Iowa earlier in the year to announce he would not run, but would instead focus on his large grass-roots campaign to impeach President Trump. But Steyer now appears to see an opening. The Democratic primary field remains unsettled. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance last month...

The unification of the leftist media, FOX News and Cruz supporters continues. (Until Trump is destroyed, of course.) It’s been really sad to see formerly respected conservative journalists lose all perspective of reality. And now they’re even siding with violent leftist protesters. Katie Pavlich, a devoted Ted Cruz supporter and member of the National Review 22, joined Ted Cruz on Monday and blamed Donald Trump for the violent, racist, vulgar protesters who disrupt his rallies, prevent him from exercising his Constitutional rights and attack his supporters. Katie also smeared Trump campaign manager Corey Lewindowski. She accused Corey of assaulting former...

Republicans have always specialized in running candidates that accept the most important premises of liberal governance and make themselves indistinguishable from their Democrat counterparts. They should patent their pale pastels, which blend in so effectively there is no discernable ink contrasting their talking points to Democrat policies. In 2012, Republicans concocted a brilliant electoral plan. In a race fought over healthcare, they managed to nominate the only human being in America who implemented Obamacare before President Obama did. Now that the Democrat front-runner is Hillary Clinton, the original god-mother of single-payer healthcare, Republicans are on the cusp of nominating the...