Campaigns & Elections

60 Minutes Segment On Declining Navy Sinks A Decade Of Fact-Checks
Sunday’s edition of CBS’s 60 Minutes sounded the alarm on China’s rapid naval expansion and included premier PLAN expert Toshi Yoshihara warning that China is outbuilding several Western nations combined and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday declaring his top priority is cutting down the Navy’s excessive maintenance delays that limit the Navy’s ability to keep up. The…

Joy Reid's Latest DeSantis Controversy: He 'Is Short'
MSNBC’s Joy Reid has discovered another scandal plaguing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday’s edition of The ReidOut. Not only does DeSantis eat pudding with his fingers, he is also short. Meanwhile, the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson stuck to the classic DeSantis fake scandals as he falsely accused DeSantis of trying to ban books about Rosa Parks and Hank Aaron.

The View Spews Misinformation About MTG’s District Being Gerrymandered
Election misinformation has been a specialty for ABC’s The View; for instance, last year they defended election denialism of the 2016 results from Democrats. On Thursday, they were back at it with attacks on Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and her district with dangerous lies about it being “gerrymandered.” They also insisted voters were not having their voices…

The View Demands Dems Accept Kamala as VP, Can't List Accomplishments
The cackling coven of ABC’s The View was so scared of their chances in 2024 that they spent part of their Monday episode trashing their fellow Democrats who were concerned about Kamala Harris remaining vice president. Of course, they tried to browbeat the opposition by calling them racist. But when pressed to list Harris’s accomplishments as VP, former Vice President Mike Pence became…

MSNBC Vocab: Ron DeSantis Is a 'MAGA Extremist Bully' and a 'Richard'
On Jonathan Capehart's Sunday Show on MSNBC, Florida-based Democrat consultant Fernand Amandi repeatedly calls Ron DeSantis a "MAGA. Extremist. Bully." As in four times. He also called him a "fascist," and a "bit of a Richard" (dick).

'Take Him Down!' Morning Joe Mad at GOP For Not Hitting Trump Harder
Morning Joe expresses frustration with Republicans for not going after Donald Trump harder in the context of the 2024 GOP primary. Eugene Robinson best summed up the panel's mood: "If you're going to not have Donald Trump as your nominee, you'd better take him down! You better go after him."

Morning Joe: Trump Trying To 'Blackmail' GOP Into Nominating Him
On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire says that Donald Trump is attempting to "blackmail" Republicans into nominating him by refusing to say that he will support the nominee if it is not him, thus fracturing the party and assuring defeat.

MSNBC: Haley 'Uses Her Brown Skin' to 'Launder' White Supremacy
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's The Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC, liberal columnist Wahajat Ali -- who writes for both MSNBC.com and The Daily Beast -- demonstrated that MSNBC is still the place for crude, racially incendiary vitriol as he accused GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley of being a "Manchurian candidate" for "white supremacists."

TWITTER FILES: Senator Angus King Pressured Twitter to Target Rival
The latest drop of Twitter Files shows that a United States senator's campaign director and a State Department official pressured the company to target their enemies.
Government Orders Election Betting SHUT DOWN
What will happen in the future? Is there a way to know? There is, maybe. One technique that predicts the future better than any other is prediction markets. The stock market is one. It lets people bet on prospects of companies. The market often predicts wrong, but a rising stock price is a better forecaster of company success than 100 executives or 10,000 politicians. Falling stocks are good…

UPDATE: Don Lemon: Nikki Haley 'Isn't in Her Prime' - Well Past It!
In a pathetic attempt to push back on Nikki Haley's call for candidates over 75 to be tested for mental competency, Don Lemon says that Nikki Haley, who is 51, isn't in her prime, since according to Google, women are in their prime in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.

GOP Primary Balloon: Scarborough Pumps Up Sununu, Deflates DeSantis
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough pumps up New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu as a potential Republican presidential primary contender, and takes shots at Ron DeSantis, saying, that DeSantis' campaign "is going to end very badly . . . It's going to start as high as a Chinese balloon over Montana, and by the time it gets to South Carolina, they're going to be looking for wreckage."

Hammering Haley: CNN, MSNBC Bemoan She Refused to Smear U.S. as Racist
With former U.N. Ambassador and former Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) holding her presidential campaign kickoff Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina, CNN and MSNBC began the assault against GOP candidates as they seek to take out those seeking to challenge Donald Trump. For Haley, CNN and MSNBC trashed her for saying “America is not a racist country” and instead arguing “nothing could be…

Colbert Condemns Haley For Saying America Isn't Racist
CBS’s Stephen Colbert is ready for the 2024 GOP Primary and to use his show to help President Biden win re-election. On Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show, he did not appreciate former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s announcement video where she claimed in a video that the American founding is not racist. During the same monologue, he resurrected the false charge that Florida Gov.…