The United States crossed a brutal threshold on Tuesday: 100,000 Americans have now officially lost their lives to COVID-19. That’s likely an undercount of the true number, but it’s the number we have right now, and it’s a staggering toll in just a matter of months. It’s also news that comes the day after Memorial Day—a month…
This past Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was a lying sack of crap. “They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years but what if that’s no longer true? We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game…
While Kentucky’s senior senator, Republican Mitch McConnell, is drawing red lines over more assistance to the states trying to stay afloat in the coronavirus crisis, the governor, Democrat Andy Beshear, is making sure the state’s unemployed get all the assistance possible. That’s led to a third of Kentucky’s workforce filing for unemployment, the largest share of…
As congressional Republicans face fundraising woes, money is pouring into the coffers of Democratic candidates in some key Senate races. In fact, Democrats considerably out-raised their Republican counterparts in Maine, Arizona, Colorado, South Carolina, Kansas, and—wait for it—Kentucky! And we’re not talking chump change here. In all those states, Democratic fundraising eclipsed Republicans fundraising by varying degrees of millions,…