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When Vice President Mike Pence led the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote tally on January 6, former President Donald Trump stated that he wanted Mike Pence to reverse the 2020 election.
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Although the presidential election in 2024 is still three years away, Republicans have already begun jockeying for positions in the primary.
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Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) announced Monday that he is introducing legislation to repeal permanent most favored nation trade status, a designation that guarantees equal trading opportunity among a nation’s trade partners. In an appearance on Fox & Friends, Cotton criticized China’s status as a most favored nation, and said he would introduce legislation this …
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President Trump on Wednesday released his updated list of potential Supreme Court nominees and called on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to follow suit. “Should there be another vacancy on the Supreme Court during my presidency, my nominee will come from the names I have shared with the American public,” Trump said in announcing the list. …
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Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) took aim at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s record on the Chinese Communist Party in his speech at the virtual Republican National Convention on Thursday. “Joe Biden aided and abetted China’s rise for 50 years with terrible trade deals that closed our factories and laid off our workers,” Cotton said. …
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A number of media outlets have distorted Senator Tom Cotton’s (R., Ark.) recent comments about the American founding to make it seem as if he believes the institution of slavery was “necessary” in a general sense. The controversy began after Cotton introduced a bill that would ban federal funding to schools that incorporate the New …
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Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) is proposing legislation that would set conditions for big tech companies to receive Section 230 immunity, Axios reported on Wednesday. The proposal comes less than a day after Google threatened to demonetize the right-wing political news website The Federalist unless the site removed its comments section. The legislation would require tech …
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Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday accused the New York Times of lying about the substance of Senator Tom Cotton’s controversial op-ed for which the paper later apologized after an outcry from readers and Times journalists. During a floor speech, McConnell mocked the Times for bowing to criticism of the paper’s decision to publish Cotton’s opinion op-ed, titled “Send in the Troops,” which …
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The editor of the New York Times opinion pages resigned following a staff revolt over the publishing of Senator Tom Cotton’s (R., Ark.) op-ed calling for President Trump to use the military to put down riots in the nation’s major cities. A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher, said in a Sunday note to staff that James …
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A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, told colleagues in a virtual town hall Friday that an op-ed written by Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) was “contemptuous” in tone and “should not have been published.” The comments come after Sulzberger wrote an email to his staff Thursday morning defending the publishing of …