Debate disaster as Trump Senate pick freezes on hot-button issue: ‘I am … eh …’A Republican Senate candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump froze, then laughed, when a debate moderator asked her to define the “reasonable access” to abortion she says she supports. Republican nominee Michele Tafoya faced Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-MN) on Friday in a debate for Minnesota’s open U.S. Senate seat. It was the race’s only scheduled…Raw Story1d agoWhole story →GovernmentHealthminnesota senate debate
GOP gov nominee’s big drug price brag blown apart by her own voting pastIn recent election questionnaires in her bid for governor, House Speaker Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, said she voted to cap the price of insulin for Minnesotans — an example of how she says she has worked throughout her legislative career to make life in the state more affordable. But Demuth, alongside nearly every other Minnesota Republican, voted…Raw Story1d agoWhole story →Healthminnesota gubernatorial election
This GOP lie has Gavin Newsom stabbing his own party in the backIn three weeks, California voters will have their ballots tallied on Proposition 40 (and 41 and 42, which would negate 40) that will impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets — the wealth — of the state’s 200+ billionaires. The money will be used to make up for the massive almost-trillion-dollar cuts to Medicaid, called Medi-Cal in that state, that hits in…Raw Story2d agoWhole story →HealthEconomy