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Kamala Harris gains momentum after last week’s presidential debate | Cronin and Loevy
Sixty-seven million Americans watched an ABC-sponsored presidential campaign debate last week between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump spoke for about 43 minutes. Harris spoke for about 38 minutes. She was poised, confident and generally effective. He was dour, snarly and, as usual, given to too many windy exaggerations. She somehow…
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Harris hits a home run as Democrats ‘party it up’ in Chicago
What a turnaround story. Democrats meeting at their National Convention in Chicago showed President Joe Biden some love, yet they also showed him the “exit.” Democrats feared a divisive national convention with multiple presidential contenders and the possibility of rioting pro-Palestinian protesters in the streets of the Windy City. This didn’t happen. Humorist Will Rogers…
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Not the presidential election most Americans want | Cronin and Loevy
The two central questions going into Thursday night’s CNN-sponsored presidential campaign debate between Donald Trump and President Joe Biden were: Is Biden too old and not agile enough for the job? Is Trump too dangerous and too prone to lying? Biden flunked. He stumbled on statistics and was often inaudible. He was continually on the…
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10 memorable Colorado Springs political moments that were covered by The Gazette
Some of the city’s most significant and far-reaching political moments — like the 1971 founding of the national Libertarian Party in a Colorado Springs living room — only loomed large as the years passed and completely escaped coverage in the local paper when they happened. Other events — from the 1894 Cripple Creek miner’s strike…
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TRAIL MIX | Recalling Colorado’s connection to John Lewis’ ‘good trouble’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A week ago, marking one year since the day civil rights icon John Lewis died at age 80, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a friend and longtime colleague of the Georgia congressman, shared a memory on…
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TRAIL MIX | Recalling Colorado’s connection to John Lewis’ ‘good trouble’
A week ago, marking one year since the day civil rights icon John Lewis died at age 80, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a friend and longtime colleague of the Georgia congressman, shared a memory on social media. “His legacy of standing up and fighting for what he truly believed in will never be forgotten,” the…