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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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With Cantor Loss, Liberals Whistling Past the Graveyard
By Troy Senik
Thursday, June 12 2014
The Democratic Party may have finally landed on a campaign slogan for 2014: “Any port in a storm.” That’s the only explanation for the glee that some liberals have been expressing in reaction to the news that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated in the Republican primary for Virginia’s 7th district. They have to have something to bolster their spirits. Why the left would crow at Cantor’s demise is inexplicable apart from sheer partisan animus. Cantor won the district in 2012 with 58 percent of the vote — a commanding performance, yet the smallest margin…
 
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Should there be a full-scale investigation of the Alaska Senate race in which a candidate with virtually the same name as the incumbent was recruited into the race to induce voter confusion.