If Zohran Mamdani, rather than Abigail Spanberger, had won the governorship of Virginia, what would be different? After Democrats lost Congress in 2022, an irritated Spanberger warned her then-colleagues that throwing around words such as “socialist” or “socialism” had been disastrous. “Because while people think it doesn’t matter,” she explained, many “good” Democrats running in competitive districts had […]
GAVIN NEWSOM: TROLLING DOESN’T STOP AT THE WATER’S EDGE. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) took his campaign for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination to Europe this week. That sort of thing has happened before. In the summer of 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama, who had not yet won the Democratic nomination, held a huge rally in Berlin, plus […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Jan. 22, 1776 Cambridge, Massachusetts Gen. George Washington is at […]