By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 For years, Republicans have strained to recreate the political magic that was Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment. This was when Clinton in September 2016 decided to label as many as half of Donald Trump’s supporters racist, sexist, Islamophobic and/or xenophobic. She soon walked it back, but […]
Author Archives: Andy Lyman
Andy Lyman is an editor at nm.news.
He oversees teams reporting on state and local government. Andy served in newsrooms at KUNM, NM Political Report, SF Reporter and The Paper. before joining nm.news in 2023.
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
In a Latino-majority city, outrage over rally insult, but some still back Trump
By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Tairy Pagan,41, had no plans to vote next week, exhausted with politics and frustrated by the state of the economy. She changed her mind after a comedian’s racist joke about Puerto Rico at a Donald Trump rally. Now she’s voting for Vice President Kamala […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
In a Latino-majority city, outrage over rally insult, but some still back Trump
By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Tairy Pagan,41, had no plans to vote next week, exhausted with politics and frustrated by the state of the economy. She changed her mind after a comedian’s racist joke about Puerto Rico at a Donald Trump rally. Now she’s voting for Vice President Kamala […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
Trump recalls watching racial justice protesters flee D.C. There’s no evidence it happened.
By Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump has a new yarn to tell about 2020’s racial justice protests. For years, the former president has falsely claimed that he stopped protesters who were trying to pull down statues in D.C. by enacting or signing a new law that threatened anyone who vandalized a […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
Trump recalls watching racial justice protesters flee D.C. There’s no evidence it happened.
By Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump has a new yarn to tell about 2020’s racial justice protests. For years, the former president has falsely claimed that he stopped protesters who were trying to pull down statues in D.C. by enacting or signing a new law that threatened anyone who vandalized a […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
Bannon released from prison after serving sentence for contempt
By Spencer S. Hsu, Shayna Jacobs, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Stephen K. Bannon was released from prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with a House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The influential right-wing podcaster and […]
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Bannon released from prison after serving sentence for contempt
By Spencer S. Hsu, Shayna Jacobs, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Stephen K. Bannon was released from prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with a House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The influential right-wing podcaster and […]
Posted inCommentary, Opinion
Election 2024: What’s New This Time?
Submitted by Common Cause New Mexico Formerly Incarcerated People Can Now Vote This election is the first time that individuals leaving correctional facilities can register and vote, even if they are on probation and parole. The law that allowed people who had served their time for felony convictions to vote had been on the books […]
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Election 2024: What’s New This Time?
Submitted by Common Cause New Mexico Formerly Incarcerated People Can Now Vote This election is the first time that individuals leaving correctional facilities can register and vote, even if they are on probation and parole. The law that allowed people who had served their time for felony convictions to vote had been on the books […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
Autocracy and ‘enemy from within’ are thrust to center of campaign’s final days
By Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post · Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey · NATIONAL, ELECTIONS, POLITICS, MEDIA · Oct 29, 2024 – 9:29 AM Inside a third-floor conference room of the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris was grappling with how to hone her closing argument to voters. How could she warn of the […]