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MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Democrats needed to make replacement theory racism an issue in the midterms. Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “It’s an incredible opportunity for Democrats because I haven’t seen any of these candidates on the Republican side have to face questions about where they stand on the leaked Supreme Court opinion. If it leads to statewide bans on abortion that exclude the exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother, you’re at about an 80% issue for Democrats. When you talk about whether or not we should have faith in free and...

Republican primary voters showed up in droves to take part in Tuesday’s contests, a good early sign for GOP hopes to regain the House and Senate this fall. As of midday Wednesday, Republican voters made up 54.9% of the turnout in Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania, according to data compiled by JMC Analytics & Polling.

Three vulnerable Virginia Democrat incumbents are gearing up for likely difficult general election battles in November as they raise millions before their Republican opponents have been decided. Democrat Reps. Elaine Luria, Abigail Spanberger, and Jennifer Wexton have all raised big campaign war chests to prepare for the November general election.

Comedian and HBO late-night host Bill Maher said Democrats have moved so far to the left by departing from basic common sense they will get their “ass kicked” in the mid-term this coming November. During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Maher observed Americans have a hunger for common sense and blasted the left for becoming “goofier” over the past decade by endorsing riots, pouring trillions of dollars into the pandemic economy, and saying men can get pregnant.

A record 4.5 million Americans voluntarily left their jobs in November, pushing the quits rate to 3%, matching the high from September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Workers particularly quit jobs in the hospitality industry as well as health care. The number of job leavers in transportation, warehousing and utilities also increased.Including layoffs and discharges, the number of total separations was 6.3 million.

Americans slowed their spending by more than expected in November, suggesting that the fastest inflation in decades and shortages have become a drag on the economy and that many Americans got their holiday shopping early this year. Retail sales rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.3 percent in November from October, a significant slowdown from the 1.8 percent jump in the prior month, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Economists had expected sales to grow by 0.8 percent.

2021 has become the second-highest year for firearm sales after the record set in 2020 In November of 2021, there were about 1.51 million firearm sales conducted through the National Instant background Check System (NICS) and 2.69 million NICS checks. November of 2021 was the third-highest November for gun sales and total NICS background checks since NICS was started in 1998.There were about .758 million checks for handguns, .629 million checks for long guns, almost 55 thousand checks for “other” which might be handguns, long guns, or simple firearms, and often applies to receivers which have not yet been assembled...

Millions of people living in the Midwestern region of the U.S. received their first blizzard warnings of the season on Thursday, NBC News reported. Parts of northeastern South Dakota and western Minnesota were issued blizzard warnings on Thursday. Both areas are part of “Blizzard Alley,” according to NBC News. November blizzards are a rarity; the last time there was a blizzard warning in November was in 2016 in South Dakota, NBC News noted.

Bruce Springsteen was arrested for DWI and reckless driving in his home state, it was revealed Wednesday — days after he appeared in a much-criticized Super Bowl commercial for Jeep. Springsteen was charged with DWI, reckless driving and consuming alcohol in a closed area, and was cooperative throughout his arrest, the spokesperson said. According to TMZ, which first reported the arrest, Springsteen has a court date in the coming weeks and has no known prior busts for DWI. News of the bust broke just days after Springsteen appeared in and narrated a Super Bowl spot for Jeep, in which...

The U.S. economy added 245,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.7 percent, according to data released Friday. Economists surveyed by Econoday had forecast 500,000 jobs and a decline in the unemployment rate to 6.8 percent, one-tenth of a percent October’s 6.9 percent.

A record 3 million new coronavirus cases have already been reported across the US during November — but millions of Americans still defied health warnings against air travel to catch flights over the weekend. Even though there is still a week left, November has already seen more new cases than any other month — with the 3 million new cases tallied equaling around a quarter of the almost 12.25 million cases so far in the US, CNN noted.

Another massive Trump 2020 car caravan in Southern, California is about to start. https://twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/1322980724983492608   

We have seen cancellations of cruises time and again over the last six-month period. So who can say for sure that we will be cruising again in November? It’s a difficult question that requires many people, institutions, and companies to come together and make a uniform decision on the future of cruising from the U.S. So let’s have a look at who is involved, and what their standpoints are. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the institution that is ultimately responsible for protecting the American public’s health and safety. The CDC, therefore, has a big say in the...

During a press conference on Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) reacted to the Centers for Disease Control telling states to be ready to distribute a coronavirus vaccine by November by remarking, “How convenient. It’s going to be an Election Day miracle drug.” Cuomo also announced that the New York State Department of Health will undertake a review of “all the protocol and research by the FDA and whatever federal authorities say it’s safe and effective” before they recommend that New Yorkers take the vaccine.

How much longer until there’s a safe, effective vaccine? Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and an expert in infectious diseases for the last four decades, said this weekend: “The way the pace of the enrollment is going on and the level of the infections that are going on in the United States, it is likely that we’ll get an answer by the end of the year.”

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In,” former Attorney General Eric Holder urged viewers to “wake up” as it pertained to President Donald Trump’s threat to “our democracy.” According to Holder, Trump’s threat to American democracy involves interacting with Russia, gerrymandering, the U.S. Postal Service and the “purging of voters.”

Over the past two months, Congress has approved some $2.4 trillion to combat the coronavirus crisis and the resulting financial fallout. Billions to bail out industries. Billions to rescue small businesses. Billions to boost unemployment assistance. That historical amount alone is larger than the economies, or gross domestic products (GDPs), of all but six other nations. The nation’s debt now stands at $25 trillion as spending concerns have naturally taken a back seat to the recovery effort. As most of the country begins a slow return to normalcy, some Republicans, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have begun to sound the...

Covid-19 cases in France can be dated back to as early as November 16, nearly 10 weeks before the country’s first confirmed cases of the disease were thought to have occurred, according to a French hospital. The November case was identified by the hospital’s medical imaging department after carrying out a retrospective study on about 2,500 chest scans performed between November 1 and April 30. [snip] In France, some cases were already in circulation in November, said Michel Schmitt, chief doctor of the medical imaging department at Albert Schweitzer Hospital in the town of Colmar in Alsace, near the border...

Many have been worried that the November election will be compromised should shutdowns, lockdowns, and social distancing continue, as people won't be able to vote in person. Some have suggested voting by mail or via the internet, but these ideas seem terrible to other, smarter people. But democracy seems to have been saved at the last moment as Chick-fil-A has been contracted to run all the polling places this November with the company's efficient drive-thru system. By some estimates, everyone in the country could vote within about a half-hour with the lightning-fast process of Chick-fil-A voting. Best of all, Chick-fil-A...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said he is hopeful that U.S. citizens will be able to head to the polls in November as they would in any other past election, but with the uncertainty of how the Wuhan coronavirus could “rebound,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said he couldn’t “guarantee it.” The answer came after CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Fauci whether people would be able to “physically” vote. “I hope so, Jake,” he responded. “I can’t guarantee it. I believe that if we have a good, measured way of rolling into this, steps towards normality, that...