By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar exited the White House race in the past 24 hours – moves that will likely help consolidate moderate Democratic support for former Vice President Joe Biden in his bid to prevent populist and progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders from capturing the Democratic presidential nomination. But centrist Mike Bloomberg isn’t ready to follow in their footsteps, saying on the […]
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Leslie Marshall: Biden’s big victory in SC primary strengthens his challenge to Sanders
By Leslie Marshall | Fox News Former Vice President Joe Biden’s big victory in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary Saturday gives strong backing to his efforts to position himself as the candidate best able to defeat democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for the party’s presidential nomination. Biden captured 48 percent of the vote, compared with just 20 percent […]
Billionaire Republican buys major Twitter stake, may oust CEO amid GOP concerns of bias, reports say
By Gregg Re | Fox News A billionaire Republican megadonor has purchased a “sizable” stake in Twitter and “plans to push” to oust CEO Jack Dorsey among other changes, according to new reports, raising the prospect of a shocking election-year shakeup of the social media platform that conservatives have long accused of overt left-wing political bias. Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. […]
Biden calls SC primary ‘real comeback’ as he sets sights on Super Tuesday
By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Former Vice President Joe Biden called his victory in Saturday night’s South Carolina Democratic primary “a real comeback” as he looks to carry momentum into the upcoming Super Tuesday primaries. Biden, who appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” seemed confident that the South Carolina win shows he can challenge his Democratic presidential primary rival Bernie Sanders and reclaim […]
Trump sets new travel restrictions over coronavirus, considering southern border shutdown
By Marisa Schultz | Fox News President Trump authorized new travel restrictions and warnings Saturday – and said he’s even looking at closing the southern border – in response to the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed the first American life, while assuring the nation at an all-hands-on-deck press conference there’s “no reason to panic.” Trump announced new strict travel “edicts” affecting […]
Chris Stirewalt: Why Super Tuesday looks like it will backfire on Democrats
By David Montanaro | Fox News The move by some states – including California and Texas – to move up their primaries to Super Tuesday appears that it’s going to backfire on the Democratic Party, Fox News digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt argued on the “I’ll Tell You What” podcast. Speaking alongside “The Daily Briefing” anchor Dana Perino, Stirewalt said that the party establishment appears […]
McCarthy predicts Democrats will lose House, says they have ‘surrendered to the socialists’
By Brooke Singman | Fox News NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy boldly predicted Friday that Democrats will lose the majority in the House of Representatives this cycle with Bernie Sanders at the top of their ticket, saying the party has “surrendered to the socialists.” In an interview with Fox News on the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside […]
Oil and gas industry predicts fracking ban would cost US 7.5 million jobs by 2022
By Sam Dorman | Fox News Prominent 2020 Democratic candidates have proposed fracking bans that could trigger a recession and leave millions of Americans without work, a trade association for the oil and gas industry said on Thursday. The American Petroleum Institute (API) predicted that a ban on fracking and new oil leases would reduce GDP by $7.1 trillion by 2030, cost the economy […]
Whistleblower says HHS sent workers to handle possible coronavirus patients without gear, training
By Gregg Re | Fox News The Department of Health and Human Services “improperly deployed” more than a dozen workers to two California military bases receiving Americans evacuated from coronavirus without giving them training or protective gear for handling the possibly high-risk patients, according to a new whistleblower complaint. The whistleblower alleged that HHS officials shot down her concerns and […]
Trump says Pelosi trying to create ‘panic’ with coronavirus comments
By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News President Trump accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday of trying to create a panic around the coronavirus outbreak after the California Democrat criticized the White House’s emergency planning as “inadequate.” Trump called Pelosi “incompetent” and accused her of using the virus for a political reason during a press conference where he sought to minimize fears […]
Cruz scorches Sotomayor over court critique, turns tables on her dissent
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday tore into Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for a widely noticed dissent in which she blasted her colleagues for lifting injunctions on controversial Trump administration policies. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the use of nationwide injunctions – which stop policies from taking effect – Cruz cast the blame on liberal […]
Democrats may try to eliminate Ocasio-Cortez’s House seat, paper says
By Edmund DeMarche | Fox News Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., would do well to prepare to see her House seat vanish after this year’s redistricting over to her targeting of “established Democrats” with funds from her Courage to Change PAC, according to a New York Post editorial. The editorial, which ran on Sunday, said the freshman representative has been in “hot water” with some […]