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2020 Road to the White House

President to Get Heavy-Duty Primary Challenger: Former Tea Party Congressman and Trump-Supporter Turned Never-Trumper

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President Donald Trump is now facing a heavy-duty, rough-and-tumble, loud-mouthed primary challenger. He’s a former Tea Party U.S. Congressman, a former Trump supporter, who “got woke” a year ago and transformed into a “Never-Trumper” morally opposed to the nation’s current president.

Joe Walsh “is expected to announce he is running for president as early as this weekend,” The New York Times reports. He has already “hired a senior political adviser” and “organized meetings with high-profile Trump antagonists in New York City.”

Politico reports Walsh will mount a primary challenge against President Trump. He calls Trump “absolutely unfit,” and says he thinks he can get enough funding to mount a considerable challenge.

“I think if there is an alternative out there,” Walsh says, “the money will follow.”

As a Congressman, Walsh was frequently in the news, often for ugly comments and he lasted only a year representing the people of Illinois’ 8th district. He became a conservative political  talk radio show host calling himself “the new voice of freedom.”

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In the lead up to the 2016 election Walsh made headlines when he posted this tweet:

He’s come a long way. Now calls Trump “a danger to this country,” and posts tweets like this:

Apparently, Trump’s all-too-cozy relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki Summit was the last straw for Walsh.

“He lost me for good in Helsinki, when he stood in front of the world and said, ‘I believe Putin and I don’t believe my fellow Americans,’”

A week ago Walsh penned an op-ed that ran in The New York Times, apologizing for his past support of Trump and for his past behavior – and making what he called “a strong case for President Trump to face a Republican primary challenger.”

Walsh has little chance of winning the nomination, much less the White House, but as NCRM reported Wednesday, history shows presidents who get serious primary challenges are usually weakened and lose re-election.

 

 

 

 

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2020 Road to the White House

Church Bells and Light Shows Across the Country Will Ring in Biden-Harris Administration

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New details were released Thursday by the Presidential Inauguration Committee (PIC) on behalf of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. In addition to the incoming president leading a memorial to honor American lives lost to COVID-19, light shows across the country will also take place.

The church-bell ringings and light shows across the country will take place on Jan. 19 at 5:30 p.m. ET. A D.C. ceremony, led by Biden, will feature lights around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — the first time lighting around the Reflecting Pool has memorialized American lives lost.

“PIC is inviting cities and towns around the country to join Washington, D.C., in illuminating buildings and ringing church bells at 5:30 p.m. ET [15 minutes after sunset] in a national moment of unity and remembrance,” the committee said. The inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris represents the beginning of a new national journey.”

The PIC statement continued, “However, in the midst of a pandemic — when so many Americans are grieving the loss of family, friends, and neighbors — it is important that we honor those who have died, reflect on what has been one of the more challenging periods in the nation’s history, and renew our commitment to coming together to end the pandemic and rebuild our nation.”

“President-elect Biden’s unwavering commitment to the safety of the American people is our North Star as we plan an inauguration that protects public health while honoring inaugural traditions and engaging Americans across the country. We are excited to share more information soon about the new and innovative ways all Americans can watch and participate in a historic inauguration that will unify our country,” said PIC Executive Director Maju Varghese.

“The pandemic is continuing to have a significant public health impact across the nation. Americans everywhere must do their part to slow the spread of the virus: wear masks, stay home, and limit gatherings. We are asking Americans to participate in inaugural events from home to protect themselves, their families, friends, and communities,” said PIC Chief Medical Advisor Dr. David Kessler.

The PIC will continue to announce further details about events and how Americans can participate as it becomes available in the coming weeks.

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2020 Road to the White House

President-Elect Biden: Trump’s Mishandling of the Transition is ‘Nothing Short’ of ‘Irresponsibility’

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President-elect Joe Biden made it clear Monday that his incoming administration will be operating from a disadvantage on day one if the Trump administration didn’t start cooperating immediately.

“From some agencies, our team received exemplary cooperation … from others, most notable, the Department of Defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department,” Biden said in remarks delivered after a briefing with his national security and foreign policy advisers.

“Right now, as our nation is in a period of transition, we need to make sure that nothing is lost in the hand-off between administrations,” Biden said. “My team needs a clear picture of our force posture around the world and our operations to deter our enemies.”

He then added, “We need full visibility into the budget planning underway at the Defense Department and other agencies in order to avoid any window of confusion or catch up that our adversaries may try to exploit.”

Biden then called out the current administration for their “irresponsibility” in protecting the nation.

“Right now, we just aren’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas,” he said. “It’s nothing short, in my view, of irresponsibility. Rebuilding the full set of our instruments of foreign policy and national security is a key challenge that the Vice President-elect Harris and I will face upon taking office, starting with our diplomacy.”

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2020 Road to the White House

Buttigieg on Ambassador James Hormel: ‘He Helped Pave the Way’

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Former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020 before running as a presidential candidate against his potential new boss, Biden.

If approved, Buttigieg would become the nation’s first out Senate-confirmed LGBTQ Cabinet secretary.

“This weekend I had the privilege of talking with Ambassador James Hormel, who broke a barrier as the first openly LGBTQ nominee sent to the Senate,” Buttigieg tweeted on Sunday. “Ultimately he was denied even a vote and served through a recess appointment—but helped pave the way for so many, including me.”

Two hours earlier, Buttigieg tweeted, “Black and brown neighborhoods have been disproportionately divided by highway projects or left isolated by the lack of adequate transit and transportation resources. In the Biden-Harris administration, we will make righting these wrongs an imperative.”

 

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