You may remember the October 28, 2015 Republican Debate held by CNBC.
Memory as in bad memory. The moderators were abysmal, but John Harwood stood out as the worst among them. National Review wrote at the time:
The emerging consensus from tonight’s CNBC debate is that the moderators were rude. John Harwood in particular distinguished...
We reported yesterday on Joe Scarborough’s statement that Republicans, conservatives and so-called right-wing bloggers had been contacting him to ask about Donald Trump’s “mental health.” Scarborough himself called Trump “unhinged.”
Joe took things a significant step farther on today’s Morning Joe, saying that Republicans have been contacting him, asking themselves “is Donald...
A little levity to kick off your evening — yesterday, the good folks of Bad Lip Reading released an abbreviated and hilarious rendition of Senator Cruz’s controversial RNC speech.
If you’re not familiar with Bad Lip Reading, they dub over clips of all kinds (not just political) with nonsensical garble.
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Welcome to our live coverage of the final night of this year’s Republican National Convention! Primetime speeches kick off at 7:10 EST.
Watch speakers live and see real time commentary from political media and LI authors. I’ll be updating throughout the evening as the situation warrants. Full speeches can be found beneath...
Wednesday night, Sen. Ted Cruz was booed off the Republican National Convention stage when attending delegates realized the good Senator had zero plans to endorse Donald Trump. Instead, he encouraged people to, “vote their conscience.”
There’s a lot to unpack here: RNC reaction, Trump reaction, Cruz’s reasons, and does any of this ...
This is now one of my top five favorite moments in convention speeches.
Senator Cruz was given a prime time slot in Wednesday’s Republican National Convention lineup.
Cruz didn’t encourage convention goers and watchers to vote Trump, rather to vote their conscience. When delegates realized he wasn’t going to explicitly endorse...
Welcome to our live coverage of the third night of this year’s Republican National Convention! Primetime speeches kick off at 7:30 EST.
Watch speakers live and see real time commentary from political media and LI authors. I’ll be updating throughout the evening as the situation warrants. Full speeches can be found beneath...
Where does Rachel Maddow’s feminist solidarity end? When a woman has the audacity to support a Republican . . . On MSNBC, commenting on tonight’s RNC, Maddow twice mocked speaker Natalie Gulbis, a professional golfer, for her current modest world ranking of about 500.
In doing so, Maddow ignored the fact that...
Welcome to our live coverage of the the second night of this year’s Republican National Convention! Primetime speeches kick off at 8:00 EST.
Watch speakers live and see real time commentary from political media and LI authors. I’ll be updating throughout the evening as the situation warrants.
John Heilemann came up with a strange way to defend Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and to attack Melania Trump, for the plagiarism in speeches each of them gave.
On today’s Morning Joe, Heilemann argued that Biden and Obama’s plagiarism wasn’t as bad, because they ripped off fellow liberals: Neil Kinnock and...
Welcome to our live coverage of the the first night of this year’s Republican National Convention! Primetime speeches kick off at 8:00 EST.
Watch speakers live and see real time commentary from political media and LI authors.
Chaos erupted on the Republican National Committee Floor Monday afternoon when a request for a roll call vote was denied by the party chair. The vote, which likely would’ve failed, would’ve unbound delegates, freeing them to vote their conscience.
But the vote never happened.
On the roll call vote’s first introduction,...
The GOP handed the anti-Trump movement a defeat when they stopped an attempt to unbind delegates, which would allow them to “vote for any candidate they like.”
In fact, the voice vote for Trump was loud “the presiding officer did not need to call for an official count.”
With all the money, all the resources, and all the graphic design talent at their disposal, the Trump campaign, in conjunction with the RNC’s joint fundraising committee, decided to roll with TP2016. T.P. Which, given how the 2016 cycle has gone, I suppose is par for the course.
Shortly after Trump...
It’s on Twitter so it must be true. Using his Twitter account, Trump confirmed his selection of Pence as his Vice Presidential candidate Friday morning:
I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate. News conference tomorrow at 11:00 A.M.
— Donald J. Trump...
Though the official announcement is not scheduled until tomorrow morning, Roll Call reports Donald Trump has selected Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate.
Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Donald Trump is planning to announce that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is his choice for his vice presidential running mate,...
Joe Scarborough couldn’t have been kinder as he slid the shiv into Mike Pence this morning. The opening segment of Morning Joe was devoted to the veepstakes, and Scarborough politely trashed Pence while making the case for Chris Christie.
Scarborough went out of his way to praise Pence as an “able leader” and...
