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Rand Paul: Trump Won ‘Big Victory’ with Border Wall Deal

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called the border wall proposal hammered out by congressional negotiators a “big victory” for President Trump in an interview with Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily Wednesday morning. “I think in the end, Trump won a big victory here, because everybody else had folded,” he said in the interview with host and Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow. “At Christmastime, everybody else was folding, and just saying, ‘Oh the Democrats gained control of the House, this is the best that we’ll ever do.’ So he got $1.375 billion for…

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Extremism, Scandals Rip Apart Democrat Party: Radicalism, Racism, Anti-Semitism, Sexism, Socialism Threaten Left’s Return to Power

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It took them a little more than a month. Since Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi reclaimed the gavel for the first time in nearly a decade, the Democrat Party has been riding high. President Donald Trump lost the first round of the battle with Democrats over his planned border wall, ending the longest government shutdown in history a few weeks ago–with no wall funding, despite a promise not to make such a concession. Pelosi, gloating, signed the three-week continuing resolution with…

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Donald Trump Jr. Mocks Beto O’Rourke and Socialist Green New Deal in Texas

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Donald Trump Jr. surprised his father’s supporters at a rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday by taking the stage and mocking Beto O’Rourke and Democratic socialists in a fiery speech. “I’d have been more impressed if he had the guts to rally on the Juarez side, on the other side of the wall,” Trump Jr said, referring to the Mexico side of the border.”But he didn’t of course because we all know that walls wor, guys.” As the crowd chanted U-S-A! Trump Jr. joked that it would be dangerous to…

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Gov. Northam: ‘I Am Not Going Anywhere’ — Virginia Needs Someone with a Moral Compass

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Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) said he would not resign over the scandal over a racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page. Northam said, “While we have made a lot of progress in Virginia, slavery has ended, schools have been desegregated, we have ended the Jim Crow laws, easier access to voting, it is abundantly clear that we still have a lot of work to do, and I really think this week raised the level of awareness in the Commonwealth and in this…

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Meredith Watson May Seek Possible Criminal Prosecution of Fairfax

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Meredith Watson, the second woman to accuse Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D-VA) of sexual assault, is willing to testify at the impeachment hearings against him if they are conducted and may contact North Carolina authorities regarding possible criminal prosecution, her attorneys said Saturday evening. “In response to two credible claims of sexual assault, by women with no connection to one another, Lt. Governor Fairfax has claimed that the women lied about what he insists were consensual sexual encounters and has baselessly and callously attempted to discredit these women,” Debra Katz and Lisa Banks said…

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Exclusive — Kevin McCarthy: GOP Aims to Force House Vote on Born Alive Abortion Survivor Bill

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House Republicans have a plan to force a vote on the Born Alive Survivors Act, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News radio SiriusXM 125 listeners Saturday. Show host and Breitbart News Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle interviewed McCarthy:  McCarthy explained Republican House members’ effort to force a vote on the Born Alive Survivors Act. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is the sponsor of the bill that was introduced in December 2017. He said Democrats have a “radically, calloused position about life.” He pointed specifically to a new late-term abortion bill in…

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Poll: Majority of Black Virginians Say Northam Should Not Resign

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A majority of black Virginians believe embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D), who has been engulfed in a blackface controversy, should remain in office, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll that was released on Saturday evening. The poll, which was conducted Wednesday through Friday and has a margin of error +/- 4.5 percentage points (higher for subgroups), found that 58% of black Virginians think Northam should remain in office compared to 37% who want him to resign. Overall, Virginians—and white Virginians—were split—with 47% saying Northam should resign and 47% believing…

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Virginia Democrat Party Demands Justin Fairfax Resign

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The Democrat Party of Virginia called for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D-VA) to step down after two sexual assault allegations against him surfaced this week. “We believe that allegations of sexual assault must be taken with the utmost seriousness,” Virginia Democrat Party chair Susan Swecker said in the statement Saturday. “Given the credible nature of the sexual assault claims against Lieutenant Governor Fairfax, it has become clear he can no longer fulfill the duties and responsibilities of the post.” NEW: The Democratic Party of Virginia calls for the resignation of Lt. Gov.…

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Pelosi Insists VA Blackface, MeToo Scandals Won’t Hurt ‘National Democratic Brand’

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) insisted on Thursday that the blackface and alleged sexual assault controversies engulfing the top three Democrats in Virginia will not damage the “national Democratic brand.” In recent weeks, embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) admitted that he had put on blackface while he was a medical student, Attorney General Mark Herring (D) revealed that he also put on blackface while he was a college student at the University of Virginia. Meanwhile, a California professor accused Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax (D) of sexual assault, alleging that…

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Northam, Fairfax Vow Not to Resign

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Embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D), who is dealing with a blackface controversy, and Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax (D), who has been accused of sexual assault by two women, are vowing not to resign. Northam reportedly told his Cabinet on Friday that he has no plans to resign and on Saturday told the Washington Post that he is planning a “reconciliation tour” that he will use to, according to the outlet, “engage in conversations about race and healing.” “It’s obvious from what happened this week that we still have a…

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