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President Joe Biden expressed optimism Friday about Democrat chances in the midterm elections, despite polls showing support shifting toward Republicans. “I feel really good about our chances,” he told reporters, speaking briefly about the upcoming elections before boarding Air Force One. Biden expressed confidence about the midterms after leaving a campaign event in California Friday evening for a trip to Chicago for another event.

The White House’s newest economic catchphrase to blunt the force of a potential recession in 2023 is to tell the American people that it is not “inevitable.” On Sunday, members of President Joe Biden’s team told the establishment media four separate times that inflation is not inevitable, despite polling and data that suggest a probability of recession.

Donald Trump raised several eyebrows with a double negative in a recent statement—which read as him taking aim at those supporting his ongoing election fraud claims. The statement from the former president, shared via email on Saturday, read: "Anybody that doesn't think there wasn't massive election fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election is either very stupid or very corrupt." Trump's comments were met with sarcastic tweets from several of his detractors, who were keen to point out the double negative read as him taking aim at those who supported his repeated fraud claims. NEW! President Donald J. Trump: "Anybody that...

Full title.......................'I leaked nothing to nobody': Obama national security adviser Susan Rice angrily denies she unmasked Trump-related names 'for political purposes'.................. Obama national security adviser Susan Rice was accused Tuesday of asking U.S. agencies dozens of times to 'unmask' Trumpworld names from raw intelligence reports It's not unusual for a high-ranking national security official to ask for the names of people 'incidentally' surveilled, in order to understand a report's context But some names, including Rice's successor Mike Flynn, were subsequently leaked to the press – which constitutes a felony Rice forcefully denied everything during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC Congressman...

Where is the border between Islam and Islamism? The media says that the two are different as night and day; Islam is a religion of peace, and the Islamists have stolen the name. Others believe that Islamism represents the traditional, pure Islam, true to the Koran.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is rarely mentioned as a top choice for the vice presidential slot, says he hasn't ruled out accepting an offer if it comes from the eventual Republican nominee for president...

Ignore straight-ticket voting rumors, clerk says Voting straight party and also for individual candidate, will cancel vote on electronic ballot, DeBeauvoir says. -- A widely circulated Internet message telling people to vote straight party and to vote again for their choice for president needs to be ignored, Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said. Their vote for president won't count if they do that in Travis County, she said Wednesday. "We've been hearing about the rumor for the last three weeks, and it's all over the nation," DeBeauvoir said. The message tells people that if they vote a straight-party ticket for...