11:29 AM 4/5/2019 - Trump dumps Pence, picks Haley - Oomph!
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11:29 AM 4/5/2019 - Trump dumps Pence, picks Haley - Oomph!
It looks like a very smart political move, tactically and technically; but will it change the big picture?
Trump picking Haley as VP would change strategy
<a href="http://DadevilleRecord.com" rel="nofollow">DadevilleRecord.com</a>-1 hour ago
While Pence did say he would serve out the remainder of his term until ... Trump tapped Haley to be his United States representative to the ...
Pence may be loyal to Trump, but top Republicans say he's no heir ...
Washington Examiner-Mar 10, 2019
But top Republicans say Pence is no heir apparent. The vice ... [Also read: Nikki Haley lays the foundation to seize Trump's mantle in 2024].
Why Nikki Haley should replace Mike Pence as Vice President for 2020
NOQ Report-Mar 11, 2019
Vice President Mike Pence is a likable politician, especially to evangelicals. That's the reason he was named as President Trump's running ...
Trump Should Dump Pence and Run With Nikki Haley
Daily Beast-Nov 13, 2018
Now that we are getting a fuller picture of the midterm elections—one that looks darker for the GOP than when polls first closed on Tuesday—it's ...
Will Trump Dump Pence for Nikki Haley?
Truthout-Dec 12, 2018
It looks as if The Trump Show will take some interesting turns in the new season, which begins Jan. 3. The teaser we saw on Tuesday was a ...
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International-Salon-Dec 12, 2018
International-Salon-Dec 12, 2018
Dump Trump? Dispense With Pence? Hail Haley?
Election Central (blog)-Jan 22, 2019
With all the Democrats and Republicans lining up to challenge Donald Trump in 2020, we may not have noticed all the subplots. For instance ...
Nikki Haley to Replace Mike Pence? Donald Trump Never Forgave ...
Newsweek-Nov 16, 2018
Outgoing ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley was reportedly floated as a possible running mate for President Donald Trump in his ...
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- John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in Georgia. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:jtures@lagrange.edu">jtures@lagrange.edu</a>. His Twitter account is JohnTures2.
Trump picking Haley as VP would change strategy
By JOHN TURES
News out of Washington, D.C., Mike Pence would not be on the ticket for the 2020 election stunned members of Congress, media personalities and pundits like myself. While Pence did say he would serve out the remainder of his term until January 2021, it was quite a blow to the conservative wing of the party. But such a move was seen by Republicans as improving President Donald Trump’s chances of winning reelection.
Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina legislator, became the first female governor of the Palmetto State in history. Trump tapped Haley to be his United States representative to the United Nations. The two clashed on policy regarding Russian hacking, American military intervention in Syria and immigration from Honduras, leading Haley to resign. While some thought Haley would challenge Trump in the primary, she endorsed the president and announced she would join the campaign. But nobody realized how she would be added to the ticket.
Not since Gerald Ford chose not to run with Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in 1976 in favor of Kansas Senator Robert Dole have we seen a sitting president choose not to run for reelection with his sitting second in command. While Ford-Dole came up short against Jimmy Carter, a snap Rasmussen Reports poll revealed Trump had now pulled into a statistical tie with Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams and ahead of Democratic candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris.
Publicly, Democrats announced such a move would not change their election strategy. But privately, several House of Representatives members expressed dismay with a woman on the ticket, Trump would do better with a demographic he had done poorly with in 2016.
By this time, you are probably frantically checking your cell phone for Google News or you’ve already flipped on Fox News or CNN for details.
RELAX.
It’s fake news, as I wrote this around April Fool’s Day. But there’s a point to this story — to catch your attention.
Americans who are gearing up to protect this country from hackers are going to be looking for such “fake news,” but they’re unlikely to find much from Putin’s slick operatives.
The Russian game has changed for 2020. Knowing news organizations and social media are now wiping such material off of their sites, our foreign adversaries are trying a new tactic. They’re trying to amplify existing, legitimate and yes, extreme content, which has some reality to the forefront of the election. Instead of making up news, the new Putin tactic is to get people to see a few obscure events as “the norm.” The result is to be the same as the spread of fake news, however. And it’s to present a distorted view of reality, so Americans will get mad at each other, point fingers at each other, get more divisive and tune out of politics or get madder online.
So what should we do? Recognize while there’s less fake news, sharing the most extreme stories out there is giving people a false impression of what’s really happening. Watch what you share. Post some positive, true stories about people cooperating, working together, helping each other, being kind, the kind of activities that make up 98 percent of the day. Show we’re more united than others think. Don’t let the Russians win by putting the times we disagree into an echo chamber to amplify the content. Support candidates that don’t play the division game for political gain. We’re called the United States for a reason.
John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in Georgia. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:jtures@lagrange.edu">jtures@lagrange.edu</a>. His Twitter account is @JohnTures2.
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Foreign policy rarely plays a major role in U.S. presidential elections. The United States has always been an insular nation. Particularly for people in the American heartland, the world’s troubles seem far away. The connectivity of the modern world and the globalization of terrorism have challenged that insularity, but even so, national elections seldom pivot on international affairs. 2020 could be different: Debates over American foreign policy and national security could sway enough undecided voters to tip the scales, and the political battle lines are already forming.
As Alex Ward pointed out in Vox, President Donald Trump is likely to sell a story of foreign policy successes to voters in the upcoming campaign: that he defeated the Islamic State; stopped North Korean nuclear and missile testing; repaired U.S. relations with Israel; pushed back on Iran, Venezuela and Russia; fixed some trade problems; increased U.S. military spending; compelled some additional defense spending in Europe; and made progress on an Afghanistan peace process. How will Democrats respond? “We have to run on a proactive message of our own,” a campaign staffer to one Democratic presidential candidate told Ward, “instead of spending all of our time attacking Trump.” ...
As Alex Ward pointed out in Vox, President Donald Trump is likely to sell a story of foreign policy successes to voters in the upcoming campaign: that he defeated the Islamic State; stopped North Korean nuclear and missile testing; repaired U.S. relations with Israel; pushed back on Iran, Venezuela and Russia; fixed some trade problems; increased U.S. military spending; compelled some additional defense spending in Europe; and made progress on an Afghanistan peace process. How will Democrats respond? “We have to run on a proactive message of our own,” a campaign staffer to one Democratic presidential candidate told Ward, “instead of spending all of our time attacking Trump.” ...
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“Ukraine’s elections declared ‘rigged’ by country that knows president’s name years in advance,” by Halya Coynash, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 29 (<a href="http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id" rel="nofollow">http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id</a> =1553784539):
… A monitoring report by the media watchdog Detector Media has found a high focus on Ukraine in over half of Russia’s TV talk shows, with most pushing the idea that the imminent presidential elections will be rigged.
… DM journalist Yaroslav Zubchenko was able to report that Ukraine was discussed in 60 percent of three Russian mainstream talk shows between January 14 and March 17, 2019. Three messages were most often pushed:
the claim that Ukraine was being controlled by the West (68 percent of the shows);
the idea that ‘Nazism’ is thriving in Ukraine (64 percent);
the Ukrainian elections will be rigged (55 percent). He heard calls to refuse to recognize the election results, although these results, unlike in Russia, remain entirely uncertain.
There were other favorites, including stories about Ukraine’s supposedly repressive regime and restrictions on freedom of speech.
The monitoring found that the presenters and guests on such talk shows do everything to denigrate Ukraine’s authorities, …mention of the Ukrainian government and leaders prompts talk of Russophobia, Nazis, claims that Ukraine’s leaders want war, that they are corrupt, that they’re stupid or traitors…
There are regularly calls to invade Ukraine, to retake what is purportedly “primordially Russian” land and/or to “de-Nazify Kyiv.”
Such messages are also used to push the idea that the occupied territory in Donbas will never come under Ukrainian government control again, and, indeed, the report suggests that the talk shows do everything to get people on occupied territory to hate Ukraine.…
In monitoring earlier in March, Zubchenko detailed some of the rhetoric used on Russian talk shows to discredit the Ukrainian elections. There were claims they would be rigged, that votes would be bought, that the U.S. State Department would “appoint the Ukrainian president” and that if something went wrong, the current President Petro Poroshenko would simply “set Donbas alight.” …
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Democratic presidential contender and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke enters the room during a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa, on Thursday. (Justin Wan/AP)
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic White House hopeful Beto O’Rouke said Thursday that some of President Trump’s inflammatory remarks on immigration are reminiscent of language used in Nazi Germany.
Speaking at a town hall meeting at a college here in a heavily conservative enclave in the far western corner of Iowa, O’Rourke criticized “the rhetoric of a president who not only describes immigrants as ‘rapists’ and ‘criminals’ but as ‘animals’ and ‘an infestation.’”
“Now, I might expect someone to describe another human being as ‘an infestation’ in the Third Reich. I would not expect it in the United States of America,” the former congressman from Texas added, drawing an enthusiastic response from a crowd of about 150 people, including dozens of young people.
In his presidential announcement speech in 2015, Trump famously referred to some Mexicans crossing the U.S. border as “rapists” and as “bringing crime.”
At a White House event last year, Trump described immigrants as “animals,” later clarifying that he was referring to members of the MS-13 gang, most of whose members are from Central America.
Trump also went on Twitter last year to decry what he termed an “infestation” of certain parts of the United States by MS-13. And he later tweeted that Democrats “want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13.”
Speaking to reporters here after the event, O’Rourke doubled down on his comparison of Trump’s rhetoric to Nazi Germany when asked if it was consistent with his call to elevate the dialogue in the campaign.
“If we don’t call out racism, certainly at the highest levels of power, in this position of trust that the president enjoys, then we are going to continue to get its consequences,” O’Rourke said. “Silence is complicity in what this administration is doing, so let’s call it out. Let’s also define a better future for this country, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do in this campaign.”
In his remarks to reporters, O’Rourke also criticized the Trump administration's policy of family separations at the southern border and its travel ban aimed at several majority-Muslim countries, as well as Trump’s comments following a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
In the aftermath of a deadly clash between attendees and protesters, Trump said that there were “some very fine people” on both sides.
“You draw your own conclusions, but this is not something that I expected to hear the president of the United States of America ever say,” O’Rourke said.
On the campaign trail, O’Rourke rarely criticizes Trump by name, but he frequently criticizes his immigration policies and the language he uses to talk about the issue.
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9:23 AM 4/5/2019 - Putin's Empire of Tyrants and Failing States
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Has the US Lost Its Military Supremacy Over Russia?
CounterPunch-Apr 4, 2019
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