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Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign appeared on Thursday to respond to the latest explosive reports regarding a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden by claiming that if President Donald Trump attacks Biden’s family at the debate, then he is “amplifying Russian misinformation.” The statement from Biden Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield comes hours after new explosive reports outlined more messages that purportedly came from the laptop and after an alleged former business associate, a pro-Democrat Navy veteran, came forward and said that Hunter Biden asked his father to “sign-off” on deals. “If we see tonight from Donald Trump these attacks on Vice President Biden’s family, I think we need to be very, very clear that what he’s doing here is amplifying Russian misinformation,” Bedingfield said, according to Wall Street Journal reporter Ken Thomas. Biden campaign's @KBeds on debate: "If we see tonight from Donald Trump these attacks on Vice Preside...

After largely staying quiet about her political views in the wake of her saying that deadly, destructive hurricanes were “mother nature’s wrath” due to climate change, actress Jennifer Lawrence has jumped into the fray again to air her grievances about President Trump. Speaking on the “Absolutely Not” podcast, the “Hunger Games” star said she changed her original Republican “politics based on the things I learned.” “My first time voting, I voted for John McCain. I was a little Republican,” Lawrence said. Lawrence appreciated “the fiscal benefits of the Republican policies” at the time she first voted while recognizing that the “social issues weren’t in line with my views.” “When Donald Trump got elected, that just changed everything,” she said, as reported by USA Today. “This is an impeached president who’s broken many laws and has refused to condemn white supremacy, and it feels like there has been a line drawn in the sand. I don’t want to support a president who supports white su...

With the GOP in serious danger of losing control of the Senate, every contested seat counts, and if the GOP picks up a seat from a Democratic incumbent that would mean the Democrats would have to pick up two extra seats to gain an advantage. Thus, the suddenly neck-and-neck race in Minnesota, where GOP senatorial candidate Jason Lewis has surged from an 11-point deficit to incumbent Democrat Tina Smith to a tiny one-point differential, has a chance to cement the GOP’s control of the Senate if Lewis can triumph. KSTP/SURVEYUSA: Tina Smith 43%; Jason Lewis 42%; 12% undecided; 3% people other. Confidence Interval +/- 5%. Smith had 11-point lead in September and 7-point lead earlier this month. pic.twitter.com/mX91q0MI6X — Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) October 21, 2020 John Hinderaker of Powerline notes: As everyone knows, control over the Senate is teetering on a knife’s edge. If the Democrats take control (perhaps needing a seat or two to spare), they will abolish the filibuster, pa...

On Thursday, the judge overseeing the case against four former Minneapolis police officers charged with killing George Floyd dismissed a third-degree murder charge against lead officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin will now face charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, both of which carry much heavier penalties than the third-degree charge. KARE Minneapolis reports that all four defendants in the Floyd case — Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas Lane, and J. Alexander Kueng — petitioned for the judge to dismiss their charges, but the judge in the matter ruled against all but one of the petitions — the petition to drop the third-degree murder charge leveled against Chauvin. The other three officers are still charged with “aiding and abetting” a second-degree murder. Thursday morning’s decision is expected to be the first in a flurry of decisions outlining how Chauvin’s and the other officers’ trials will proceed. All four officers moved not just to have their charges dropped but...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who masterminded the boycott plan, was left to hold a planned press conference, announcing the boycott, at 10 am — an hour after Republicans had finished voting. “Democrats will not lend a single ounce of legitimacy to this sham vote in the judiciary,” Schumer said at his hastily pulled together presser on the Capitol steps. “The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process I have ever witnessed in the Senate, and her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the Senate for the Supreme Court and our entire country for generations to come,” Schumer, who has been working to roadblock Barrett’s nomination for the last week, added. “The Senate Republican majority is conducting the most rushed, the most partisan, and the least legitimate nomination to the Supreme Court in our nation’s history.” “This hearing was anything but fair,” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) added. “Republicans broke committee rules, but i...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to subpoena the testimonies of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after all 10 Democrats boycotted the panel’s hearing to advance the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. Republican members want the two CEOs to testify about their handling of a recent series of articles by the New York Post, America’s fourth-largest newspaper, concerning former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s business dealings. Both social media sites suppressed the stories. Zuckerberg and Dorsey are already set to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee next week. The Judiciary Committee voted to compel the CEOs to testify about their “suppression and/or censorship” of the Post articles, one that alleged Hunter Biden introduced his father to a top executive at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company where he worked. Joe Biden repeatedly refused to answer questions about the matter, but finally broke...

National polls on the presidential race are mostly pointless. They may show trends in popularity, but in the end, it’s the individual states that matter. Consider this: In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton beat President Donald Trump in the popular vote by 2,868,518 votes. But she lost in the Electoral College, the only vote that counts, by a huge margin: 304-227. So all eyes will be on a batch of key battleground states come Election Night. And some new polls are now showing that Joe Biden’s once-hefty lead in several of those states is dissipating. A University of Northern Florida-Public Opinion Research Lab poll released on Wednesday puts Biden’s lead over Trump at just one point, 48% to 47%. “While some polls have shown Biden with a big lead in Florida and other key states, we made an effort to capture hard-to-reach voters and our results suggest that it might be a long night on November 3rd,” said Dr. Michael Binder, faculty director and associate professor of po...