Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who helped lead a Congressional investigation into the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, called President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to imprison her and other members of the select House committee an “assault on the rule of law and the foundations…
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Trump Rocks the Free World, Stunning the American Establishment Again in Apparent Electoral College Win
By Glynn Wilson – LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Welcome to four more years of chaos, confusion and the fall of the American empire. Donald Trump defied the odds again and managed to convince an astounding number of people that in spite of his criminal conviction, his business and first term failures and smash-mouth rhetoric against…
Kamala Harris Delivers Closing Argument Against Trump
News Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Democrats have tried to frame Donald Trump as an aberration of the country’s democratic norms and political traditions for years. It worked for Joe Biden in 2020, when he argued that as president, Trump “eroded the soul of the nation.” It did not work for Hillary Clinton in…
Here’s a Little Secret for Donald Trump and Mike Johnson
The Democrats will retake control of the House in January – Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – There’s almost no way the Democrats can lose the House in 2024. At a race baiting rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Trump hinted at “a little secret” he had with House Speaker Mike Johnson, who…
Liz Cheney: Helping Kamala Harris Make the Closing Argument Against Trump
By Glynn Wilson – No matter how this election turns out, my retirement from political news and journalism is imminent. Social media has made news, journalism and facts irrelevant, even as Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are making the first big social media program Facebook irrelevant, by ignoring and downplaying news and politics. No matter that…
Election 2024 Update: Harris Leads in Pennsylvania, Trump Leads in Arizona, Michigan is Critical
By Glynn Wilson – With less than four weeks to go before the critical election on Nov. 5, anxiety is off the charts in the United States, especially in hurricane ravaged Florida and North Carolina where Hurricanes Helene and Milton are making it hard for people to even think about voting. Thousands of weary residents…
Vice Presidential Debate – JD Vance is a Smooth Liar, But Tim Walz Nailed Him on Who Won the 2020 Election and Jan. 6
By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – Minnesota Governor and Vice Presidential contender Tim Walz shamed Senator and Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance of Ohio Wednesday night in the only vice presidential debate of 2024 on CBS, when Vance had no answer for the most basic of questions: Did Trump lose the 2020 election?…
Five Weeks Until Election Day: What’s the State of the Race?
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – With only five weeks to go until the election on Nov. 5, the stakes could not be higher as the latest public opinion polls still show a close race for president. Although the latest compilation average of all the polls show that Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican…
A Majority of the American People Who Watched Say Kamala Harris Clearly Won the ABC Debate
Trump Says He Won’t Debate Harris Again. She Hauls in $47 Million in 24 Hours – By Nathaniel Rakich – ABC/538 On Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris met for their first, and potentially only, presidential debate, with each candidate hoping to gain a crucial advantage over the other in…
Kamala Harris Stood Up to Trump and Bested Him in the ABC Debate
By Glynn Wilson – From the first moment when Vice President Kamala Harris walked on stage in Philadelphia, approached Donald Trump and extended her hand to shake his in their first face-to-face meeting, to the last when she talked about the Biden administration’s work to fight climate change and create millions of high paying jobs,…
Election Deniers Secretly Pushed Rule That Would Make It Easier to Delay Certification of Georgia’s Election Results
Editor’s Note: In case you haven’t been paying attention, the critical 2024 election is just over two months away. There is good news for Democrats as surveys show a surge in voter enthusiasm since President Joe Biden dropped out and Vice President Kamala Harris took over the campaign, and polls already show her catching Trump…
Trump Indicted Again for Plotting to Overturn the 2020 Election
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In one more effort to save American democracy from Donald Trump and his conservative Supreme Court, special prosecutor Jack Smith filed another indictment against the former president in federal court on Tuesday, once again accused him of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.…
Kamala Harris’s Presidential Address Knocks Trump Out of the Park
By Glynn Wilson – Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president Thursday night in Chicago in a near perfect presidential address peppered with calls for national unity and a prosecutor’s arguments against electing former President Donald Trump as an “unserious man” whose return to the White House would have devastating consequences…
Tim Walz Accepts the Democratic Party’s Nomination for Vice President: Oprah Winfrey Wows the Crowd
By Glynn Wilson – The third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was mostly about telling the story of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the vice presidential nominee and keynote speaker, with the theme of American freedom. But it was not the laissez-faire economic free market capitalism of libertarians and conservative Republicans of old…
Michelle Obama Steals the Show on Night Two of the Democratic National Convention
By Glynn Wilson – Michelle Obama stole the show on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. She delivered a rousing call for Democrats to get behind the campaign of Kamala Harris and work harder than they’ve ever worked before, while also giving Republican candidate Donald Trump, the former president, the tongue…
President Joe Biden Urges the Country to Get Behind Kamala Harris, Defeat Trump and Save Democracy Again
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden finally took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and delivered an energetic address urging people to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to defeat the hateful selfishness of Donald Trump one more time, to save…
On the Eve of the Democratic Convention in Chicago, New Polls Show Harris Leading Trump in Key Swing States
By Glynn Wilson – As the Democrats begin arriving in Chicago for a national convention like no other, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, are arriving by way of a bus tour through Pennsylvania, a critical swing state with the potential to decide the presidential election in November. They…
A Sea Change Coming – CBS Interviews Biden: New Polls Show Harris Leading Big in Battleground States
By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – From on top of the mountain looking down at the world over the internet, it looks like a blue sea change is rolling across the country. Even Mother Nature on this blue planet appears to be cooperating somehow, if the weather around here is any indication. It’s…