Tag: Hillary Clinton

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Obama Press Conference Crushes Progressive Fantasies

 

The fever swamps of the left were eager for Obama’s final press conference of the year. Would the CIA’s leaks about Russian hacking force the President to disrupt the transition? The Electoral College meets Monday — could Obama give them all the intelligence? Would Obama refuse to relinquish power to that borscht-slurping Putin stooge tweeting at 4 a.m. from Trump Tower?

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Both as a candidate and as the president-elect, Donald Trump has been summarizing his economic policy in three words: Jobs, jobs, jobs. It could very well be that this focused message and the country’s belief that he would do much better delivering on this promise than Hillary Clinton is a major reason — perhaps the […]

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Richard Epstein responds to the controversy over Russia’s meddling in the presidential election, Donald Trump’s national security team, and the president-elect’s skepticism of the One China policy.

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Just about every Sunday morning talk show discussed fake news, but not a single example was cited (correct me if I missed some). I do wish to think that the DNC and Hillary camp are punking the media. But we all know the media is just doing the DNC’s PR dirty work, spewing negative propaganda […]

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According to journalist Ron Fournier in a recent tweet about the vote recount effort: “Raising doubts about legitimacy of election, even w/out overturning result, is part of Clinton’s plans to keep her options open for 2020” From the HotAir website: “He (Fournier) claims that people close to Hillary are open to the idea.” Okay, I know […]

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In the latest COMMENTARY podcast, the election you thought was over, well, isn’t. Hillary Clinton’s team announces its intention to join a recount in the upper Midwest, sending the nation hurtling back into its partisan corners and preventing Democrats from coming to terms with why they lost. Also, how the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro exposed the left’s nostalgia for revolutionary communism and, with it, an utter contempt for human rights.

Richard Epstein looks at the legal and policy controversies emanating from the office of the president-elect.

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. It’s Official: Trump Wins Michigan

 

red-statejpg-68578555fcca6182They’ve been counting ballots in the Wolverine State ever since election day and finally have a certified number:

In the closest race for president in Michigan’s history, Republican Donald Trump is hanging on to a 10,704 vote win over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The Michigan Secretary of State posted results Wednesday that were submitted by the state’s 83 county clerks on Tuesday after the votes were reviewed and certified by each county.

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So, the American electorate actually went ahead and voted to make Donald J. Trump the next president of the United States. Ever since Trump announced his candidacy and was (shockingly, to me) taken seriously by influential “conservative” media figures, I’d been hoping against hope that this result would not actually come to pass. Of course, […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Trump’s Picks

 

donald-trump-cabinet-list-of-appointmentsEarly last week, Michael Barone published a piece analyzing the election returns in which he focused on the manner in which “the double-negatives” — those who thought highly neither of Donald Trump nor of Hillary Clinton — broke at the very end decisively for the former. Here is the way he put it:

One reason polling may have been misleading, or at least misled many of us in the psephology racket, is that this is the first presidential election since random sample polling began in 1935 in which most voters had negative feelings toward both major party candidates.

Election analysts have had experience dealing with elections in which majorities have positive feelings about both nominees; that has usually been the case in contests which turn out to have been seriously contested. “Double positives,” people with positive feelings about both candidates, will usually split along partisan or perhaps ethnic lines, and ordinarily pretty evenly.

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At her first appearance since her post-election concession speech, Hillary Clinton said today, “But as I said last week: our campaign was never about one person or even one election,” Clinton said. “It was about the country we love and about building an America that is hopeful, inclusive, and bighearted.” Preview Open

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The American Midwest as imagined by Coastal Urban Democrats. The Huffington Post has climbed in off the ledge long enough to put together a piece that says maybe … just maybe… it was the Clinton’s loss was maybe not as much about “hate, misogyny, and racism!” and maybe a little more about the campaign’s “neglect” of the upper […]

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Trump: “If you like your light bulb you can keep your light bulb”

 

hillary-lyingI know we’re supposed to pretend that Trump’s victory isn’t just another example of Obama underestimating the JV team. As for the president’s impressive 53% approval rating, I can only ascribe it to the state he has left his party in.

It’s know it’s hard to believe that being called deplorable, racist, xenophobic, nativist, fascist and jingoistic might make one reticent around pollsters, but here you have it: Donald Trump is learning the nation’s most-guarded secrets while Hillary Clinton is learning to drive to drive a car (a lot of good it will do her in Saudi Arabia.) If we could harness the awesome power of Republican schadenfreude we wouldn’t have to worry about climate change.

Speaking of the climate, how much more complicated do you imagine it to be than polling? It turns out that as with the foreign policy establishment, the domestic policy establishment, the consultant class and the self-styled experts of all kinds, pollsters are engaged in just another form of chiropractic: a useless activity good only for making progressives feel good for a while. 

Victor Davis Hanson talks about the just concluded 2016 presidential election and its implications for the future.

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November 9, 2016 Yesterday, Election Day in America, I boycotted Facebook, the assumption being that the Hillary people, already insufferable in their giddy expectation of her inevitable coronation, would be even more so the day of her coronation. And though I was never a fan of Donald Trump and agreed with all critiques of his character flaws […]

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Richard Epstein shares his reaction on learning that Donald Trump will be the 45th president and provides recommendations for the new administration’s policy agenda.

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The big shocker of this election was the collapse of the ‘Blue Wall’ in the upper Midwest and Pennsylvania. For the first time in decades, a Democrat presidential candidate lost the reliably blue states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and the purplish state of Ohio. Not only did this cost Hillary Clinton the White House, […]

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Has there been any other case in the television era in which a losing candidate failed to give a concession speech on the night of the election (2000 excluded)? My scientific poll today of one person – my dental hygienist – found that she was outraged that Rodham did not speak to her supporters last night. […]

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During one of the presidential debates with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump promised to appoint a special prosecutor to look into possible violations of law by his opponent. Immediate howls of objection to Trump’s remarks could be heard from pundits on the Left and Right, essentially saying that this simply isn’t done and that America is […]

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