by Jim Heath | Aug 28, 2020 | 2020, Conventions, Democrats, GOP, Headlines, Joe Biden, Trump
President Trump’s Thursday night convention speech making the case for his reelection was lower-rated than his challenger Joe Biden’s speech one week ago, according to overnight Nielsen ratings. About 21.6 million viewers watched coverage of Trump’s...
by Jim Heath | Aug 28, 2020 | 2020, Conventions, GOP, Headlines
Months of practice fiddling with Zoom’s virtual background feature primed the Internet for this moment. When first lady Melania Trump appeared at the last night of the RNC Thursday, she wore a Valentino dress in a lime green shade — a green screen green, of...
by Jim Heath | Aug 28, 2020 | 2020, Conventions, GOP, Headlines, Republicans, Trump
President Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for a second term on Thursday and painted a stark choice for voters this November: a second term for himself or voting for Joe Biden, a man who would ‘demolish’ the nation. Trump’s use...
by Jim Heath | Aug 26, 2020 | 2020, Conventions, GOP, Headlines
Vice President Mike Pence issued a stark warning about Joe Biden in his Republican convention speech tonight, saying the country ‘won’t be safe’ in Biden’s America. It was one of many rhetorical bombs Pence lobbed as Donald Trump’s...
by Jim Heath | Aug 26, 2020 | 2020, GOP, Headlines
State Rep. Nino Vitale, one of the most right-wing and controversial members of the Ohio legislature, is being referred to the Ohio Elections Commission for “apparent violations of campaign finance law,” Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced today. LaRose said his...
by Jim Heath | Aug 26, 2020 | 2020, Conventions, GOP, Headlines
A right-wing Republican congressional candidate from North Carolina will be a featured speaker at tonight’s GOP convention. Madison Cawthorn removed pictures earlier this month that he posted to Instagram from a 2017 vacation to the Eagle’s Nest, the Nazi...