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Zach Montanaro | November 18, 2016
And you thought that the weirdness of 2016 was finally ending. At a concern in San Jose on Thursday, singer Kanye West reportedly stopped in the middle of his concert to talk to his audience about the goings-on in the country, including mentioning who he would have voted for. “I told you all I didn’t vote, right? But I didn’t tell you- I guess I told you. But if I would have voted, I would…
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Zach Montanaro | November 17, 2016
The former communications director for Hillary Clinton's campaign has a reason why Clinton lost to President-elect Donald Trump: “internalized misogyny.” On MSNBC, Chris Hayes stated he thought the Clinton campaign expected to underperform with some demographics and overperform with others, particularly white women. Exit polls, however, showed that Trump won the vote among white women. Clinton…
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Zach Montanaro | November 16, 2016
President-elect Trump quietly snuck away from the press Tuesday night to go to dinner at an exclusive steakhouse in New York with his family. Why is this news? If you had listened to NBC, this is something that seemingly puts the entire notion of freedom of the press in jeopardy. The headline of the article claimed that Trump was showing a “lack of transparency” with his actions, as well as…
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Zach Montanaro | November 15, 2016
China was a frequent target for then-candidate Donald Trump, who promised to label China a currency manipulator and bring trade cases against China. On Tuesday, however, China’s state-run media had nothing but good things to say about now president-elect Trump. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Trump spoke by phone on Monday, a conversation that pro-nationalist newspaper Global Times said was…
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Zach Montanaro | November 15, 2016
A restaurant in University Heights, Iowa allegedly charged supporters of president-elect Donald Trump more money to dine in than supporters of Hillary Clinton. As first reported by KGAN TV, the restaurant Stella reportedly had a sign on its door that said, “Yes this is discrimination, but you voted for it.” Eric Stelter, a potential patron, said he left a college football game with his wife…
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Zach Montanaro | November 14, 2016
Just when things looked like they might be calming down... On CNN Monday, Democratic strategist Symone Sanders responded to Donald Trump supporter and former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie referencing a man being dragged from his car and beaten up for supporting Trump by saying, “Oh my goodness, poor white people.” The comments came as Sanders, a former press secretary for Bernie Sanders, and…
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Zach Montanaro | November 14, 2016
The election might be over, but James O’Keefe is still finding ways to get into the news. On election day O’Keefe, of Project Veritas fame, walked up to Daily Beast reporter Olivia Nuzzi and introduced himself, and that’s where things got awkward. “Hi, I’m James O’Keefe,” he said as he shook Nuzzi’s hand. Nuzzi acknowledged him but looked away soon after. “So how do you feel right now? I…
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Zach Montanaro | November 14, 2016
CBS is under some fire for appearing to hold back a clip of president-elect Trump telling his supporters to stop attacking people, according to The Hill. Trump gave his first interview after winning the election to "60 Minutes," where interviewer Lesley Stahl told Trump about attacks on minorities that have allegedly been by Trump supporters. Trump replied, “I am so saddened to hear it and I…
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Zach Montanaro | November 11, 2016
If you haven’t heard already, Donald Trump is going to be the next President of the United State after his surprise win this week. That certainly hasn’t stopped people from suggesting that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, can still somehow usurp him. An online petition making the rounds is calling for the electors of the Electoral College to cast their electoral vote for Clinton, regardless of…
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Zach Montanaro | November 10, 2016
It seems some organizations are going right back to politics-as-usual. ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero released a statement regarding Trump’s election win, threatening the president-elect with the “full firepower of the ACLU at every step” if Trump tries to turn some of his campaign promises into policy. It hasn’t even been 48 hours since Trump was declared the winner of the…