Charleston Shooting Makes Confederate Flag a GOP Issue
Despite a renewed call by President Obama, civil rights and religious leaders and scores of Democrats to remove the flag in the wake of the mass killings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, some Republican presidential candidates are.
The Iowa trip: Sanders campaign gains momentum
Democratic presidential candidate Sen.. Sanders, Vermonts junior senator and a self-described democratic socialist, launched his bid for president on the shore of Lake Champlain in Burlington in late May in front of thousands of supporters.. As.
Prominent Republican Calls for Removal of Confederate.
WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012, called for the immediate removal of the Confederate battle flag from outside the South Carolina Statehouse, scrambling the 2016 GOP presidential contenders into staking. The man charged with the crimes, Dylann Storm Roof, held the Confederate flag in a photograph on a website and displayed the flags of defeated white-supremacist governments in Africa on his Facebook page.
AP News in Brief at 7:58 pm EDT
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church opened its tall, wooden doors to the world Sunday, embracing strangers who walked in from the street or tuned in from home for the first worship service since a white gunman was accused.
Morning Feature ��� Killing Them Twice: Republicans Erase.
The murderer left no doubt that the massacre at Charlestons ���Mother Emanuel��� AME Church was an act of white supremacy, but GOP presidential candidates pretended it was anything else. (More).. ���Theres a sickness in our country, theres something terribly wrong, but it isnt going to be fixed by your government,��� the libertarian-leaning Kentucky Senator Rand Paul told a group of religious conservatives in Washington.. A crisis, after all, is a terrible thing to waste.
Dispute over trade highlights turmoil among House Democrats
WASHINGTON ��� Congress upheaval over trade has exposed turmoil within a House Democratic caucus thats grown smaller and more liberal in recent years as moderates have been ousted in successive election bloodlettings. Those who remain must. They.
GOP Leaders Pray For Steve Scalise White Supremacist.
���All I know is that Kenny liked him,��� Duke told The Washington Post Tuesday. ���He thought.. Prominent national Republicans such as Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (a potential 2016 presidential candidate) have made a serious effort to address issues of concern to African-American voters.. White Racist Donated $1,ooo To Scalise in 08 ��� A longtime adviser to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke donated money to House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)��.
For Ted Cruz, The Hard Part Comes Next
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz blew away another gathering of religious conservative leaders this week, preaching about threats to religious freedom to a receptive and hungry crowd. I will never, ever, ever shy away from standing up and defending the religious.
David Duke Threatens To Expose Other Politicians With White
Email. Posted: 01/02/2015 11:16 am EST Updated: 01/02/2015 11:59 am EST. Peter Wehner, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, said the news about Scalises 2002 speech is acidic for the Republican Party. But GOP leaders -- including.. House Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white supremacists in 2002.. I say expose them also, lets get rid of them and get some new blood that will actually listen to the people and not corporations or political donations.
House GOP Whip Steve Scalise addressed white.
Scalises allies anonymously told Robert Costa of the Washington Post that the congressman was poorly staffed at the time, and did not really know who he was talking to. Scalises camp is also saying that he had no idea that��.
Ron Pauls neo-Nazi ties, Romney alliance exposed.
And another of Pauls unpleasant alliances has come into the public spotlight - according to a report by the Washington Post, Paul has formed a strategic alliance with fellow GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. Indeed, while the current GOP candidates are constantly throwing verbal attacks at one another, Paul and Romney havent really said a bad thing about each other. Thats because theyve been friends since 2008. But its more than that. This alliance is by��.
Gun Group Whose Leader Was Linked To White.
Gun Owners of America -- a far-right gun group whose leader has been linked to white supremacists and has suggested that mass shootings are staged by the government -- will host Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to address the groups activists. GOA is headed. In 1996, Pratt was forced to leave Pat Buchanans presidential campaign after it came to light that he had spoken at a militia conference alongside leaders of the white supremacist movement.
Face the Nation Transcripts June 21, 2015: Brooks, Scott, Nunes
We will get latest from Charleston and talk to South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott, plus the head of the NAACP, Cornell William Brooks. We will also.. DICKERSON: Another element of that debate, quickly, the president said in the wake of this.
White supremacist donated to GOP presidential candidates
WASHINGTON ��� The leader of a white supremacist group cited by Charleston church murder suspect Dylann Roof made $65,000 in donations to Republicans, including several to Republican presidential candidates, The Guardian newspaper reported Sunday night.
White supremacist donated to GOP presidential candidates.
White supremacist donated to GOP presidential candidates. Washington Post WASHINGTON ��� The Guardian newspaper is reporting that the leader of a white supremacist group cited by Charleston church murder suspect��.
GOP House Leader Was Honored Guest Speaker At White.
Republicans can hardly claim they are not the party of white people, and in fact, it was Republican Senator Lindsey Graham who told the Washington Post that ���Were not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.. It is the same rhetoric from the likes of 2012 Republican presidential primary candidate Rick Santorum bemoaning the Obama Administration ���giving away other peoples (white) money to blaah people,��� or Willard Romney��.
White Supremacist Stampede - The Daily Beast
Add to the growing list of candidates considering a bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 Americas most famous white-power advocate: David Duke. A former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, member of the��.
NY Times Stolberg, MSNBCs Matthews cited Tony Perkins.
. in values, rather than election results. Neither noted Perkins reported ties to both the white-supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke... Several media outlets parroted Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bushs economic message after he claimed his administration would oversee 4 percent economic growth and the creation of up to 19 million new jobs. But economists argue that his goals are��.
Jeb Bush Joins Other GOPers in Downplaying Racism That.
Before he opened fire in a historic black church in Charleston, killing nine people, Dylann Roof, the alleged shooter, was photographed wearing flags of former racist regimes in Africa that became white supremacist symbols. When he committed. Yet when Jeb Bush addressed an audience of evangelicals on Friday morning, he became the latest Republican presidential candidate to say he had no idea whether racism motivated this horrific attack. I dont know what��.
Meet the Press Transcript - June 21, 2015
And joining me for insight and analysis this Sunday morning are the New York Timess David Brooks, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Helene Cooper of the New York Times, and Jerry Seib of the Wall Street Journal. Welcome to... A gun, when I.
Romney Condemns Confederate Flag, GOP Candidates.
After the tragic murder of nine parishioners at a historical black church in Charleston, South Carolina, many have demanded the Confederate flag ��� long regarded by many as a symbol of racial segregation ���.. That flag, frankly, is divisive, and it shouldnt be shown. Current Republican presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush also waded into the conversation on Twitter Saturday afternoon, releasing a statement about the removal of the flag.
Is New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez the Next Sarah Palin.
Karl Rove singled her out in Times list of last years 100 most influential people as a reform-minded conservative Republican. The Washington Post put her at the top of a list of likely 2016 vice presidential candidates;��.
My Prediction: Bernie Sanders Will Win the White House.
By contrast, every current Republican Presidential candidate, except Rand Paul, says that GWB made the right decision ���based on what was known then��� (referring to the selective release by Bushs Administration of faked evidence. Of course, the 2016 Presidential campaign wont be about only the catastrophe in Iraq and George W. Bushs having created it; theres a President who followed after him, and he has continued GWBs other catastrophe, the Wall Street��.
Obama in first presidential podcast: US not cured of racism
If I thought to myself that when I was in college that Id be in a garage a couple miles away from where I was living, doing an interview as president, with a comedian. its not possible to imagine, he said. But he said he did the interview.
Mourning shooting victims, Charleston anguishes over freshness of death
The site featured white supremacist writings and photos, apparently of Roof. Goff was standing in for. Among those at the service, which lasted more than two hours, were South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, Charleston Mayor.
Morning Plum: Koch brothers pose tough conservative litmus test to 2016 GOP.
A key organization in the Koch brothers political network has a tough new litmus test question for all the 2016 GOP hopefuls: If the Supreme Court guts Obamacare subsidies for millions of people in three dozen states, how firm a stand are you willing.
Rockers vs. candidates: 11 times campaign songs went off-key
Washington (CNN) The feud this week between Real Estate mogul Donald Trump and singer Neil Young is not the first time musicians and presidential candidates have had creative differences. Its a tale as old as politics -- time and time again.
Working Women Could Spell Doom For Republican Chances Of Retaking The.
A June 19th piece in The Washington Post, written by Danielle Paquette, discusses a major problem for the Republican Party in the 2016 presidential race. The party does not appeal to working women. Paquette interviewed a number of Republican.
Prison Revolt
Several Republican Presidential candidates���Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, and Ted Cruz���have been embraced by Right on Crime, a campaign to promote ���successful, conservative solutions��� to the punitive excesses of American law and order. In February.
Why Republicans were quick to cite religion ��� but not racism ��� on Charleston
With some of this information clear or widely reported, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday morning described the attack as a crime of hate and an assault on religious liberty. By Friday, he added that he did think it was racist.
Jeb Bush and Marco Rubios backyard battle royal
Just five days after Bush made his campaign for president official, Rubio headlined the local GOPs Lincoln Day Dinner fundraiser Saturday. Its indicative of the awkward predicament South Floridas two White House hopefuls find themselves in, and one.
House GOP Whip Spoke at White Supremacist Convention.
A firestorm was quickly unfolding around the House majority whip tonight as the Washington Post confirmed that the third-ranking Republican spoke at a white supremacist convention in 2002.A blog in Rep. Steve Scalises. But the media loves old Al and the folks with a ���D��� behind their names once offered him up as a potential presidential candidate, gave him a TV gig, and invite him to sit at the side of the current president on numerous occasions. The media never��.