Trump Blocks International Board From Conducting Oversight of Midterm Elections
This is the first time in over two decades that the US has rejected OSCE participation in a federal election.
For the first time in more than two decades, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will not conduct oversight of the upcoming midterm elections after the Trump administration effectively blocked them from doing so, raising yet more alarm over the administration's rapid erosion of free and fair elections in the U.S.
President Donald Trump has declined to invite the OSCE to witness the elections, which the group has done for every federal election since 2002.
The U.S. joins only Russia and Belarus in rejecting the OSCE's election monitoring.
Four weeks before the November 3 US midterm elections, Republicans trail Democrats by 9.6 points on the generic ballot in analyst Nate Silver's midterm forecast model.
Democrats led by 9.1 points in my September 25 article. They remain clear favourites to gain control of the Senate and overwhelming favourites in the House of Representatives.
If disruption caused by the Iran war continues until the midterm elections, with increased petrol prices and inflation, Republicans are likely to lose control of both the House and the Senate, perhaps with huge losses.
Democrats will block Trump's Supreme Court nominees if the Senate flips.
The Democratic Party will refuse to approve any of President Trump's Supreme Court nominations in the event it takes back control of the Senate, drawing perhaps the strongest line in the sand against the White House to date.
"The bottom line is: One of the reasons we want to do everything we can to take back the Senate is to not let Trump put such horrible justices " MAGA justices " on the Supreme Court and the lower courts," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told NBC News in a Monday report.
The rest of the ranks echoed the sentiment.
Titled "The Orange Plague," a gold-coated statue presents Donald Trump sitting on a smaller man's back.
A statue of US President Donald Trump was put on exhibit in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.
The 2.5-meter satirical statue, by Danish artist Jens Galschiot, is called "Orange Plague," and it shows the US leader naked, holding a long gold club and sitting on the shoulders of a smaller man.
The artist said it is coated with 23-karat gold. The statue is also known by the name "King of Injustice."
Next to the statue are cards explaining that the "King of Injustice" is "sitting on the back of a man" who is sinking under the burden.
"I would do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back," the card continues, with the artist blaming Trump for hindering attempts to confront climate change.
"I've never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign and, like, what issues are going to matter because it's all coming " you know " from D.C.," Paxton said during a small fundraising event last month, according to an audio recording obtained by POLITICO from a person in the room who does not support Paxton, and verified by another attendee. "I don't control message or what we're doing." read more
= I used to love watching all those shows. Jim and Tammy Faye, Ernest Angley, Jimmy Swaggart, Jack and Rexella Van Impe.
aka, How to Create an Atheist in One Easy Lesson ;)
- Rev. Ike and Louis Farrakhan
I wrote a college essay on Heroes (or the lack there of in the early 70's) about Ali.
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Watched the first moon landing on tv with Walter C., who also told me live about John, Bobby, and Martin being murdered in the streets, John a few miles from me.
And caucused for Jesse Jackson in Austin, voted for McGovern after he was all that was left after aforementioned rwing public executions.
I think he might Resign and relocate to Israel where his Magnificence is more appreciated... and where he won't be prosecuted for all the crimes he committed while in the WH.
And he would have left Peter Thiel's Plaything as President as a 'Goodbye' kick in the ass.
We almost deserve it.