Author: Stephanie Moffat

Donald Trump Approval Rating Just Dropped, Again Donald Trump has enjoyed the lowest approval ratings of any president since the beginning of modern polling. And while Trump gets the occasional bump into the 40s from a trip abroad or a hasty missile attack on Syria, Trump’s natural place seems to be in the 30’s. According to the new Gallup Daily Tracking poll, Donald Trump’s job approval rating has fallen to 37 percent. At the same time, 57 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing. Trump’s 37 percent approval rating is just 2 points away from his...

Congress Investigating If Kushner Was Vulnerable To Russian Influence Because Of Financial Trouble Congress Now Investigating Whether Russians Had Financial Leverage Over Kushner. According to a new report, Congress is now investigating whether Donald Trump’s son-in-law was vulnerable to Russian influence during the campaign because of financial stress he faced over an over-leveraged real estate investment. As ABC News reports, “The timing of Kushner’s December meeting with executives from VneshEconomBank, or VEB, at the suggestion of the Russian ambassador, has also raised concerns from government watchdog groups across the political spectrum.” Kushner, it has been widely reported, borrowed $1.3 billion...

Trump-Russia Investigation Looks At Paul Manafort and Jeff Sessions Connections Earlier today, we found out that the special counsel looking into the Trump associates’ connections to Russia was taking a deeper dive into Michael Flynn and his business associates. Now the Associated Press reported that the special counsel is also adding former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to that list. As a refresher, Manafort resigned from the campaign in August because of his past business dealings in Ukraine. And since then, Manafort has been at the center of the investigation because of his close ties to Russia and Russian-linked...

Paul Ryan Faces Sanders-Backed Challenger in 2018 Paul Ryan is about to get a serious contender from the left. A former campaign surrogate during Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is preparing to challenge Paul Ryan for his House seat, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Local labor activist Randy Bryce is looking to tie Ryan with Trump in hopes of riding what Democrats say could be a wave of victories for their party in the 2018 midterm elections. “They’re handcuffed together,” Bryce told The Wall Street Journal. “People are having buyer’s remorse and they’re seeing what’s going on. Trump made...

Alec Baldwin Helps Raise $5M for New Jersey Democrats All 120 seats of the New Jersey Legislature are up for election in November, along with the governor’s seat. Alec Baldwin, who has been mocking Trump all year on Saturday Night Live, helped raise $5.1 million at a fundraiser last night. According to the General Majority PAC, the fundraiser’s organizers, the amount of money raised is believed to be the most ever raised by either major party at one event in the state’s history. The total is nearly as much as the PAC spent in 2015, when all 80 seats...