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Ad slams evangelical Trump supporters as power-hungry grifters.

A powerful new ad from The Lincoln Project targets evangelical Trump supporters, savaging popular religious right leaders as power-hungry grifters. Called “MAGA Church,” the ad highlights leading evangelical ministers and televangelists who continually tout their devotion to the decidedly un-Christian president…

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Buttigieg skewered Trump’s attack with only 12 words.

President Donald Trump, a twice-divorced adulterer who has told thousands of lies while in office, denigrated out Democrat Pete Buttigieg for “trying to pretend” he’s a Christian. But Buttigieg shot back with a devastating reply that skewered the President with only 12 words…

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Why Pete Buttigieg hasn’t caught on with younger voters.

With just a month away from the first votes in the Democratic presidential race, Pete Buttigieg is sitting pretty. He outraised many of his competitors (except for Bernie Sanders) in the fourth quarter, and he’s a frontrunner, if not the…

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Financial gap widens between contenders and pretenders.

Presidential candidates have begun to report their earnings for Quarter 4 (October-December) of 2019, which is considered a major indicator of how candidates will fare during the early primaries and caucuses, starting with Iowa’s on February 3rd, New Hampshire’s on February 11th…

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Buttigieg’s campaign raised nearly $25 million in 4th quarter.

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign announced a significant fundraising haul of $24.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2019.  The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor’s campaign said Wednesday that it had raised more than $76 million in 2019 from more than 733,000 individual donors…