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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Kennedy on Tuesday joined the court's four other conservatives in giving Trump a huge legal victory by upholding the Republican president's travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries. On Wednesday, he joined his fellow conservative justices in a 5-4 ruling that dealt a major setback to organized labor by shutting off a key union revenue source. Sailing to Hell.

With all precincts reporting at 1 a.m. Wednesday, Rouda had 18,182 votes while Keirstead had 18,109, according to the county Registrar of Voters. There still are an unknown number of ballots mailed Tuesday that won’t arrive at the Registrar’s office for a couple of days plus paper ballots that were turned in at polling places Tuesday and need to be counted. commentary:  Harley Rouda acts as an idiot and thinks he will run his campaign as against Donald Trump, as such he is a loser in advance. The real problem is that in the primary held on June-5th, 2018 there were about 50,000 Republican voters as compared to about 41,000 Democratic voters. This should be an eye opener. Monkeying around Donald Trump is an idiocy. Wake up.

Charles Krauthammer, the famed conservative commentator, said Friday that he is dying from cancer and has weeks left to live. Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950, in New York City . [4] His father was from Ukraine and his mother from Belgium . His brother, Marcel, was four years older. The family spoke French in the home. When he was 5, the Krauthammers moved to Montreal . Through the school year they resided in Montreal but spent the summers in Long Beach, New York . [6] [7] Both parents were Orthodox Jews , and he and his brother were educated at a Hebrew school. He attended McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1970 with First Class Honours in both economics and political science . [8] At the time, McGill University was a hotbed of radical sentiment, something that Krauthammer says influenced his dislike of political extremism. "I became very acutely aware of the dangers, the hypocrisies, and sort of the extremism of the political extremes. And it clean

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Posted by u/geekteam6 12 hours ago Harley Rouda wins run-off spot against Rohrabacher! "Today 70% of voters in #CA48 rejected the failed hateful politics of @RepRohrabacher. We're ready for a new day in Orange County. Let's join together to #Flipthe48th" twitter.com/Harley... The problem for Roula the fact that more Republicans go for voting than Democrats for the 48Th Congressional district. There were much more voting for Republican candidates than for Democrat candidates. A real problem and challenge. Rouda should shift his campaign slightly towards the right without alienating his base and liberal democrats.

U.S. House, California District 48 General Election, 2018 Party Candidate      Republican Dana Rohrabacher   Incumbent      Democratic Harley Rouda Top-two primary [ hide ] U.S. House, California District 48 Top-Two Primary, 2018 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Republican   Dana Rohrabacher   Incumbent 30.3% 31,886      Democratic Hans Keirstead 17.2% 18,109      Democratic Michael Kotick 1.6% 1,671      Democratic Laura Oatman 1.4% 1,504      Democratic Rachel Payne 2.1% 2,215      Democratic Harley Rouda 17.3% 18,182      Democratic Deanie Schaarsmith 0.8% 895      Democratic Omar Siddiqui 4.9% 5,110      Democratic Tony Zarkades 0.8% 831      Republican Scott Baugh 16.1% 16,963      Republican John Gabbard 3.2% 3,381      Republican Paul Martin 1.6% 1,672      Republican Stelian Onufrei 0.4% 421      Republican Shastina Sandman 1.4% 1,519      Libertarian Brandon Reiser 0.5% 532      Nonpartisan Kevin Kensinger 0.4% 427 Total Votes   (415/415 precincts

Dianne Feinstein winning the primary with less than 44% of votes. [ hide ] U.S. Senate, California Top-Two Primary, 2018 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic   Dianne Feinstein   Incumbent 43.8% 1,688,898      Democratic   Kevin de León 11.3% 433,889      Republican James Bradley 8.8% 338,408      Republican Arun Bhumitra 5.3% 204,812      Republican Paul Taylor 5.1% 196,583      Other candidates 25.6% 989,185 Total Votes   (95.5% reporting (20,510 of 21,486 precincts)) 3,851,775 Source:   Politico   These election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available.