Democrats Hold Majority in Delaware State Senate In a special election for Delaware State Senate District 10, Democrat Stephanie Hansen beat Republican John Marino 58 percent to 40 percent – a decisive victory for Democrats. Republicans had voiced a slight hope they might win and thus secure a one-vote margin in the 21-seat Senate that was tied 10-10 going into the special election. Special elections typically have low turnouts – which favor Republicans. High profile Democrats came out in support of Hansen. Former Vice President Joe Biden and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley appeared at a rally and knocked on...

Father Of Killed Navy SEAL Wants Investigation, Refuses To Meet With Trump Bill Owens, the father of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens who was killed during the failed raid in Yemen last month, says that he refused to meet with Donald Trump when his son’s body was brought back to the United States because of how the president treated a Gold Star family during the presidential campaign. “I’m sorry, I don’t want to see him,’’ Owens told the Herald about refusing to see Donald Trump. “I told them I don’t want to meet the President.” “I told them I didn’t...

Chris Christie to Republicans: ‘Welcome to the Real World of Responsibility’ Chris Christie stopped by CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper today and scolded his fellow Republicans for canceling or avoiding holding town hall meetings with their constituents. “Welcome to the real world of responsibility,” said Christie. “I said to some folks the other night, that for the first time, I hear members of the House not complaining when people don’t know who they are.” Christie said he has hosted more than 160 town halls during his seven years as governor of New Jersey and explained the...

Poll: Obamacare Support At All Time High A new Pew Poll found that support for Obamacare is at an all-time high. As Republicans struggle to explain how they plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, an increasing number of Americans support Barack Obama’s health care law. The poll found that 54% of Americans approve of Obamacare while just 43% dont. Pew found that Democrats and independents support Obamacare, while Republicans are split over whether to scrap the law or just improve it. “The new survey finds that when those who disapprove of the law are asked about what should...

Marco Rubio Scared to Get Heckled at Town Halls Marco Rubio told CBS4-Miami’s Jim DeFede that he won’t participate in town hall meetings because political activists will crash them to create a media spectacle of people who “heckle and scream at me in front of cameras.” “They are not town halls anymore,” Senator Rubio said. “What these groups really want is for me to schedule a public forum, they then organize three, four, five, six hundred liberal activists in the two counties or wherever I am in the state.” Rubio told the station that activists are instructed to go...

Former CIA Director Says Trump’s Travel Ban Won’t Help Fight Terrorism Former CIA Director John Brennan said Sunday that Trump’s proposed order temporarily banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries isn’t going to help fight terrorism in “any significant way.” “I don’t think the travel ban is going to help in any significant way,” Brennan told CBS’ John Dickerson on “Face the Nation.” Instead Brennan points at terrorist recruitment activity online for what Trump should be more focused on. “What they need to do is to, again, take into account all the various means that terrorist groups use to...

Trump Rejects Report on Travel Ban Because Not What He ‘Asked For’ There’s another glitch in Trump’s Muslim-ban. The White House is dismissing a Department of Homeland Security intelligence report that disproves Trump’s claims that citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries pose an increased terror threat, according to a Wall Street Journal report. “The President asked for an intelligence assessment. This is not the intelligence assessment the President asked for,” an unnamed senior administration official is quoted in the Wall Street Journal. The DHS report came after Trump reportedly asked the department to help bolster his legal case for...

Everything You Need to Know About Trump’s First (not) State of the Union Address to Congress Trump is delivering his first (not) State of the Union Address to Congress. A president’s first joint address to Congress hasn’t been called that since John F. Kennedy. That was in 1961 and came only eight years after Dwight Eisenhower did the same thing. Because with just a month or two months in, a president doesn’t know the true state of the union The State of the Union is traditionally delivered in January or early February, soon after the new session of Congress...

Trump Chickens Out of White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will not be attending the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C. – an event that has been held every year since 1920. Trump, of course, made this announcement on Twitter, but seemed to leave out any attack on the mainstream media: I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2017 The event is a journalism scholarship benefit dinner that is...

Tom Perez is chosen as the new DNC Chair After two rounds of voting former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was voted in as the new chair of the Democratic Party. Perez won 235 votes, Keith Ellison received 200 votes. Congressman Keith Ellison has been named deputy chair of the Democratic Party. The vote caps a contentious battle within the Democratic Party between the establishment wing of the party and the progressive faction that is generally aligned with Bernie Sanders. The new DNC Chair has a lot of work ahead of him to rebuild the Democratic Party infrastructure after and...