Voters are deserting mainstream parties because they stand for so little.
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In rear areas, tens of thousands of German troops were deserting.
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"Trump is deserting Syria and the Iranians are celebrating," Barak said.
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Yet the fed-up Mahorais are deserting their homeland in droves.
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But his salesman's touch was deserting him and the bid failed.
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Even before that day, Saunders knew her memory was deserting her.
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Republicans also face a generational challenge: Younger voters are deserting them.
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He is accused of deserting his station in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Bergdahl is accused of deserting his station in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Amruddin was accused of deserting his colleagues on the battle field.
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Deserting is irrevocable, Somali officials say, because Shabaab jails or executes defectors.
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Since deserting President Bashar al-Assad's army he mostly avoids venturing outdoors.
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The circus animals are deserting, wriggling through every available window and door.
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And that's the story of our politics this year: deserting the center.
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His memory, such an important element of his success, was deserting him.
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Dana Rohrabacher of California said that those deserting Trump were "cowards," and Rep.
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Bergdahl was captured by insurgents after deserting his outpost in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Englin learned that she faced five years in prison for deserting the factory.
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Disenchanted, he risked execution himself by deserting Nusra, and returning home to Afrin.
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Kabila's former Western allies are deserting him, just as they did Mobutu before him.
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He served three years in prison in the 1970s for deserting the Cuban Army.
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And corporate tax-dodging by deserting the U.S. isn't exactly a highly regarded behavior.
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Probably not close to deserting him: most Republican voters are still with Mr Trump.
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French President Emmanuel Macron addressed claims that the pullout was tantamount to deserting the Kurds.
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He was released in 2014, and ultimately didn't face prison time for deserting his post.
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The Democrats aren't deserting the working-class voter, but they aren't speaking to them either.
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But whether that requires deserting the "activist base" is an increasingly contested question in Democratic politics.
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But it wasn't that people are flocking to the Conservatives, but that they're deserting the opposition.
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Now he faces a warrant for his arrest there for deserting his military post and treason.
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But when advertisers started deserting the host, the network's usual strategy seemed to have stopped working.
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Anyone who's seen Shameless season 7 can tell you Ian is that guy who did the deserting.
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Deserting soldiers are just some of the 37,000 Kurds who have left Iraq for Europe since 2014.
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Critics have also blasted the US for deserting its Kurdish partners who have assisted in fighting ISIS.
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Bowe Bergdahl, above center, won't serve time in prison for deserting his base in Afghanistan in 2009.
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As capitalism stumbles, its politicians and their oligarchical backers are finding voters deserting their parties in droves.
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Among the Greens, nearly all did, with 88% of the party's 2015 voters deserting it in 2017.
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One soldier in his unit said that Bergdahl mailed his belongings back home to his parents before deserting.
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In January, four rogue policemen killed nine comrades and stole their weapons, before deserting to join the insurgents.
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He felt tremendous anxiety that he might be enacting racial insecurity, somehow "marrying out," deserting his authentic self.
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AMERICANS WERE treated to the novel sight of Donald Trump's Republican colleagues deserting him in droves this week.
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Yet many see farming as an unattractive, and are deserting it to find work in cities or abroad.
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Other children will refuse help, terrified of being arrested by Iraqi security forces or killed by IS for deserting.
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Accusations that Cruz cheated are a way to staunch any flow of voters deserting Trump for Cruz and Rubio.
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Analysts had been divided on the firm before this week, but now the bulls are deserting it in droves.
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But a common criticism among deserting voters was that it did not seem to know for what it stood.
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More and more subscribers are deserting pay TV bundles and switching to cheaper streaming services like Netflix and Amazon.
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Trump has faced rare criticism from senior figures in his Republican Party who accuse him of deserting U.S. allies.
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Scores of soldiers have been detained on accusations of conspiring against the leftist government of Nicolas Maduro or deserting.
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Across Europe, centre-left parties had gone the way of Pasok, with voters deserting them, often for the far-right.
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That forces the firms to pile on incentives to stop drivers from deserting, kicking profits even further down the road.
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But things get serious later when Kelly's mother is accused of deserting the US military to fight for Afghan citizens.
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Muhammad Jamal Khweis, 26, of Alexandria, Virginia, was held by Kurdish fighters after allegedly deserting from ISIS earlier this month.
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The only known "cure" was to return home, and many tried to, only to be punished by death for deserting.
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Muhammad Jamal Khweis, 26, of Alexandria, Virginia, was held by Kurdish fighters after allegedly deserting from ISIS in early 2015.
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During the campaign, Trump called Bergdahl a "dirty, rotten traitor" and said he "should be shot" for deserting his post.
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But he said he never thought of deserting North Korea until 2000, when he made his way illegally to China.
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But it is not grounds to imagine many Republican senators deserting him in the impeachment trial that now looks inevitable.
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More and more subscribers are deserting pay TV bundles and switching to cheaper streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon.
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This has made it even harder to imagine them deserting Mr Trump in an impeachment trial than it already was.
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For Americans that are considering deserting their country, New Zealand developed an entire webpage to make leaving as easy as possible.
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Steven Beshear accused the President of deserting the working people who voted for him by picking a cabinet of millionaires and billionaires.
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So for future platoons, it makes people think twice about deserting, because the platoon is only as strong as the weakest link.
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Lian, who is on active duty with the U.S. Army, is also wanted for allegedly deserting the military, the Indianapolis Star reports.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump was "betraying" and "deserting an ally in a foolish attempt to appease a foreign strongman."Sen.
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They went by, fallen, dragging their packs, dragging their lives, deserting their homes, the years of their childhood, cringing like beaten dogs.
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The police force, which suffered heavy casualties on the front line of the fighting, also had a tough year, with thousands deserting.
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Local officials say they hope access to electricity will help keep young people from deserting rural areas for jobs in Cameroon's cities.
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Their reactions made Wednesday's revelations seem unlikely to shatter Trump's political base, which is almost certain to prevent GOP senators deserting him.
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The source said their motive for deserting had not been established yet but he suspected they had been involved in a Dec.
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Arthur feels terrible about his mom's sacrifice and the way the Atlanteans mistreated his mother, blaming her for deserting her underwater country.
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"The reason for deserting their posts, the police said, is a lack of ammunition despite frequently asking headquarters for supplies," Mr. Khadimzai said.
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On October 31st the 59-year-old senator swung back to Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, a mere 21 days after deserting it.
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The emissary—this emissary in particular, Menodorus Domitianus, this fucking guy I swear to God—started bribing units of my army into deserting.
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The military officials crucial to keeping Mr. Maduro in power largely resisted Mr. Guaidó's call for mass defections, with only about 150 deserting.
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It was also plague-ridden, expensive to fortify and the garrison in San Juan kept deserting because the Spanish kings rarely paid their troops.
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By Wednesday afternoon, most appeared to have made their calculation: deserting Trump now could only harm — and not help — their agendas or political fortunes.
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They are deserting their Jewish roots, but not because of political frustration or a lack of love for a country thousands of miles away.
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One of the four MEPs deserting the party is Annunziata Rees-Mogg, sister of high-profile cabinet minister and arch-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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Even some in Ms Park's own party are deserting her: over 20 Saenuri MPs have formed a coalition to press for its leaders to resign.
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Shareholders are clamoring for her to be replaced; talent is deserting in droves; and the press is tapping its collective foot, impatiently waiting for action.
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Now the company is up for sale, and with clients and staff deserting in droves, it is unclear whether anyone will want to buy it.
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FOR all the talk of banks deserting London as Britain's departure from the EU looms, relatively little attention has been paid to the derivatives market.
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Trump has also had rare criticism from senior figures in his own Republican Party who accuse him of deserting loyal U.S. allies in the Kurds.
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His decision to withdraw troops led to the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis, who believed the US was deserting its allies in the region.
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After the game, Fitzpatrick called out the team's owner, Woody Johnson, and General Manager Mike Maccagnan and Coach Todd Bowles, accusing them of deserting him.
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One of them, Ajith Pushpakumara, said he was tortured for deserting the military in Sri Lanka and could face the death penalty if he returns.
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The decision signals the Nordstrom family's commitment to its core retail business at a time when investors and lenders are deserting the industry in droves.
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Separately Brazil's government said in a statement it was processing asylum claims from five deserting Venezuelan soldiers it had picked up earlier in the week.
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Scores of soldiers have been detained on accusations of conspiring against Maduro or deserting, as they too sometimes struggle to eat three square meals a day.
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I want to put this city on the map, and I don't think I can do that by just deserting it and starting over in Berlin.
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In his practice, Lewin talks with parents and reassures them that they are not deserting or punishing their child by letting him soothe himself to sleep.
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Bowe Bergdahl, who was facing life in prison for deserting his post in Afghanistan, received no prison time from a judge but will be dishonorably discharged.
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It was the first time lawmakers had overturned an Obama veto, with Democrats deserting him en masse to enact the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.
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Scores of others were deserting the nation's capital for tropical beaches or woodland cabins without internet access, the better to distract themselves from the swearing-in.
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Another defendant, identified as Mehdi K., who had served in the French military before deserting and traveling to Syria, was pressed to describe his future plans.
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Rebel conservative lawmaker Georges Fenech said voters were deserting their party, The Republicans, and it faced defeat in the April-May election unless it ditched Fillon.
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Now hiding in Kunduz district, fearing reprisals by the Taliban for deserting, the young man and his father told their harrowing story on condition of anonymity.
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Last month, a lawyer for Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier charged in military court with deserting his post in Afghanistan, appealed a decision allowing that case to proceed.
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At the time, they had hoped that by selling broader packages, they could ward off the problem of customers deserting traditional cable services in favor of streaming.
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Conventional wisdom says that rural voters began deserting the Democratic Party in 19923, when they were turned off by Barack Obama, a black man from a big city.
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EDINBURGH, May 12 (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group Chairman Norman Blackwell was forced to defend a branch closure programme on Thursday when angry investors accused management of deserting customers.
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Agnes said ending the quick divorce practice will not prevent a man from deserting his wife, sending her back to her parents, or even continuing to abuse her.
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Into this metropolis come Chike and Yemi, two soldiers deserting their posts in the Niger Delta after one too many orders to shoot civilians and burn down villages.
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These numbers have not been achieved by jobseekers deserting town: indeed, in recent years more 20- to 64-year-olds have moved to the area than have left.
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And even more concerning for Brexiteers is that ORB's findings show how social groups that were once more likely to back a Brexit are now deserting the cause.
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The Grizzlies encouraged his attack—ducking under screens, forcing a whole bunch of pull-up long twos, deserting him in the corners—and he punished them for it.
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As a seminarian during the war, John Paul helped save a Jewish girl; Benedict, after deserting the German Army, was briefly interned in a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Bucking the trend of deserting Saudi Arabia after the murder of Khashoggi, the Denver-based law and communications firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck carried on working for them.
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Bowe Bergdahl won't have to serve a prison sentence for deserting in 2009; President Trump embarks on a multi-country trip to Asia; local news cannot catch a break.
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In a sub-optimal climate for billionaire wealth expansion, the poor performance of hedge funds over the past year has caused an acceleration in client money deserting some managers.
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The second season looked at another epic case: The trial of the soldier Bowe Berghdal, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years after deserting his post.
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"Trump is deserting us," says Pedro Pereira, who abandoned his dairy farm near Lake Maracaibo in 2017 because of threats, extortion and chronic shortages of electricity and animal medicines.
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And the crime he committed, deserting his post in a tactical combat zone, is the second-worst a soldier can perpetrate—the worst being turning your weapon on your comrades.
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We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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Many young Syrian men are deserting like Nasser or dodging the draft altogether to avoid the experiences that have left conscripts physically and mentally scarred and with an uncertain future.
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The current President, Xi Jinping, had his education cut off at 15 and was later arrested for deserting his rural area and forced to dig ditches in a labor camp.
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He ran again in 20163 with a more staunchly progressive campaign focused on economic inequality, and his list of Valley supporters showed no sign of deserting him; even Thiel re-upped.
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The 12 women, together with their male manager, flew to Seoul, the South Korean capital, in April after deserting their North Korean government-run restaurant in the Chinese city of Ningbo.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Two political parties left Nepal's ruling coalition on Sunday, deserting the fractious alliance ahead of a vote of no-confidence that Prime Minister K.P. Oli looks likely to lose.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian army stepped up patrols on the border with Venezuela on Friday, a day after picking up five deserting Venezuelan soldiers amid rising tensions between the two countries.
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Top U.S. general in Afghanistan: 2016 'possibly worse than 2015' Deserting to the Taliban Death is not the only reason the Afghan army is losing troops: Desertion is rife within the ranks.
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What's more, the party coalitions were changing — working-class white voters were increasingly drawn to the party by Trump, while educated suburban voters who demographically resembled Ed Gillespie were deserting the party.
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Trump was able to get in some points, such as his promise to appoint a conservative Supreme Court judge who could bring back some conservatives who have been deserting the GOP candidate.
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With Wawrinka's range increasingly deserting him — he ended the match with 43 unforced errors against the Scot's 22 — Murray closed out proceedings in the fourth set with two further breaks of serve.
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The Tampa Bay Lightning always were able to pull themselves out of tailspins while playing deep into the playoffs the last two seasons, but the answers are deserting them in 383-17.
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They have multiple recommended habits: investing in a very nice notebook and pen, springing for a less precious utilitarian notebook, keeping the book nearby, returning to half-filled ones after deserting them.
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LONDON (Reuters) - After deserting commodities markets during last year's slide, some hedge funds are starting to move back in, betting a recent pick-up in energy prices could signal a turning point.
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That seems far-fetched, given how little appetite Republicans in the chamber have shown so far for deserting him, despite the flood of damaging revelations that have come forth in the impeachment inquiry.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump condemned a military judge's order on Friday to spare Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from prison after he pleaded guilty to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - More and more brands are deserting the Baselworld watch fair held every March, blaming high costs and insufficient returns, while high-end players seek refuge at the rival fair in Geneva.
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Pelosi added that Trump is deserting an ally while attempting to appease Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whom she calls an "authoritarian strongman," by turning "operational responsibility" in the region over to Ankara.
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UKIP, which under its most prominent former leader Nigel Farage helped secure Britain's exit from the European Union, was seen as increasingly irrelevant during the campaign, with many of its voters deserting the party.
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In one segment of her book, for example, she focuses on a man named "Sam" who was forced to run away with his new wife to Iran after deserting his military duties in Iraq.
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PACARAIMA, Brazil (Reuters) - Venezuelan military personnel are deserting to Colombia and Brazil in growing numbers, refusing to follow orders to repress protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, six of them told Reuters.
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However, the fact that so many publishers are deserting the Facebook native platform, as well as wondering about such things as Google AMP, indicates to me that Skimlinks might just be onto something big here.
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Omega maker Swatch is the most important exhibitor at Baselworld, which traces its history back to 1917, but more and more brands are deserting the fair held every March, blaming high costs and insufficient returns.
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While recent CNN polls have shown that there has been an erosion of enthusiasm for Trump among Republicans and independents who voted for him, there is no clear evidence that his base is deserting him.
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Frank Field, a sparky, veteran British Labour parliamentarian who backed Brexit, believes that the working-class base of his party is deserting it in favor of the right-wing, anti-European Union, UK Independence Party.
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From Italy to Poland to Britain and beyond, voters are deserting center-left parties, as leftist politicians struggle to remain relevant in a moment when politics is inflamed by anti-immigrant, anti-European Union anger.
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As in Smith's 2001 novel "Hotel World," in which a young woman who has just died struggles to maintain her connection to the living, Daniel finds his memory deserting him as his consciousness slips away.
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The man on the tape also tried to discourage supporters of ISIS, both in its primary territory in Iraq and Syria and overseas, from retreating or deserting the cause, threatening punishment from those who remain loyal.
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Among them is Ajith Pushpakumara, from Sri Lanka, who said he had fled to Hong Kong after being tortured for deserting the military and faces the possibility of execution if he returns to his native country.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela arrested 15 senior military officials around the time President Nicolas Maduro won re-election in a widely criticized vote, a rights group said, adding to scores already detained on accusations of conspiring or deserting.
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Trump's desire to avoid a similar fate seems to lie behind his own obsessive efforts to bolster his political "base" and to show Republican lawmakers they would face a terrible price in their districts from deserting him.
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The sport has been rocked by allegations of corruption and bribery, with fans and sponsors deserting track and field, but the Briton said the International Association of Athletics Federations was at the forefront of catching drug cheats.
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While the Shanghai FTZ, opened in September 2013, has long struggled to live up to its initial promise of free-flowing currency and easier international trade, more businesses are increasingly deserting the 28.78 square kilometre Waigaoqiao zone.
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Wireless carriers Verizon and AT&T said on Wednesday they would suspend digital ads on YouTube, joining a list of well-known British brands such as retailer Marks and Spencer Group Plc that are deserting Alphabet Inc's Google.
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Small Arab communities like the Druze, who prize their loyalty to the state and often vote for right-wing parties, show signs of deserting Mr. Netanyahu en masse, according to a new poll from the University of Maryland.
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"As we focus on our For The People agenda during the District Work Period, Democrats and Republicans alike are condemning President Trump for deserting our Kurdish allies in a foolish attempt to appease an authoritarian strongman," she wrote.
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Guaido: Army deserting Maduro On Tuesday, protesters made their way to the city's La Carlota military airbase, sparking confrontations between Guaido's military supporters and Maduro regime loyalists under a cloud of tear gas as gunshots rang through the air.
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In his new book, "Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus," he says younger evangelicals and Christians of color are deserting evangelical churches "in confusion and disgust" over leaders' hypocrisy and inattention to issues of social justice.
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Germany's two main parties were both hammered in an election for the European Parliament over the weekend, with voters under the age of 30 in particular largely deserting the conservative CDU and its Social Democratic coalition partners, the SPD.
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Looking back, perhaps that was the moment when normality returned to football, the miraculous powers of last season's heroes deserting them as they were deposed, with dead-eyed efficiency, by the A-list summer signing of a financial juggernaut.
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Germany's two main parties were both hammered in an election for the European Parliament over the weekend, with voters under the age of 30 in particular largely deserting the conservative CDU and its Social Democratic coalition partners, the SPD.
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The second season of Serial focuses on the events surrounding the trial of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was accused of deserting his military base in Afghanistan in 2009 and "misbehavior before the enemy," which carries a possible life sentence.
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He and his finance team had been sitting on what amounted to a stack of pledge cards from Bush supporters who wanted to give the former governor the chance to get through New Hampshire before deserting him for Mr. Rubio.
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However, studies, including one from Ridgway himself, indicate that many benefits were promised to soldiers mainly to recruit soldiers and keep them from deserting, and were only paid out grudgingly by politicians and a public with no particular allegiance to vets.
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A Reuters witness said people left the Diyarbakir's Sur district with suitcases, televisions and carpets on the back of pick-up trucks and handcarts, deserting an area damaged heavily in fighting since a curfew was declared there a month ago.
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Some lawmakers in the CDU and some SPD members are resisting compromise because they want to sharpen their parties' profiles - blurred by being in a 'grand coalition' - and win back voters who are deserting them for fringe parties or the Greens.
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Iran's political allies in Iraq will try to pressure those figures into deserting al-Abadi and collapsing an al-Sadr alliance if the formulation is not to Tehran's liking, said a Western diplomat who has been speaking to the sides involved.
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In some ways, the change reflects a larger trend: former strongholds of the left deserting the Socialist Party, whose leadership proved impotent over the last five years, for the economic protectionism and strong sense of identity of the National Front.
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Some doubtless will frown and curl the lip, accusing the Swedish Academy of deserting its high standards, dumbing down, succumbing to populism or making a bid to escape the charge of being elitist -- even though by any measure every prize is unavoidably.
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Iran&aposs political allies in Iraq will try to pressure those figures into deserting al-Abadi and collapsing an al-Sadr alliance if the formulation is not to Tehran&aposs liking, said a Western diplomat who has been speaking to the sides involved.
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After a few days with Ms. Rodel and her daughter, Mr. Snowden spent a night with Ajith Pushpakumara, 44, who said he fled to Hong Kong after being chained to a wall and tortured for deserting the army in his native Sri Lanka.
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Here's the thing about Healy that we learn in this episode: He's got a soft spot for women with mental illness, because his mother suffered from one when he was a child, ultimately deserting the family because she didn't have the necessary help.
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For a while, the generals at the Pentagon thought they were succeeding within the narrow confines of maneuver room that Mr. Trump gave them, obeying the president's order while not deserting Kurdish partners and undercutting gains against the Islamic State in northeastern Syria.
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The Obama administration badly needed a "win," and arranged for the release of the now infamous U.S. soldier, Robert Bowdrie "Bowe" Bergdahl, who had been captured after deserting his station and imprisoned by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network for almost five years.
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In the event, one effect of that—traditional Labour voters deserting their party—proved far more important than another—a surge in tactical voting among those opposed to Brexit, for whom this election represented the last chance to overturn the referendum outcome.
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Empathy involves seeing American protesters as more than just "spoiled, privileged kids," to considering that the deserter Jack Todd might have been more courageous by heading to Canada than Tim O'Brien, who came close to deserting but ultimately deployed reluctantly to South Vietnam.
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Nor would Thomas Jefferson's pardon of those convicted under the Alien and Sedition Acts, nor Lincoln's tearful grants to deserting soldiers after the president met their parents and family members, nor John F. Kennedy's clemency toward first-time drug offenders serving too-long sentences.
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Trump ordered the pullback after a phone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, prompting rare criticism from senior figures in his own Republican Party who accuse him of deserting loyal U.S. allies - the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) led by Kurdish YPG militia.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty on Monday to deserting his duties in Afghanistan in June 2009 and endangering the lives of fellow troops, a step toward resolving the politically charged case that could send him to prison for life.
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Bowe Bergdahl Following her appointment as national security adviser, Rice created some waves in a 2014 interview where she appeared to offer pity for accused Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl, who had just been released to the US. Bergdahl was accused of deserting his unit in 2009.
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Amos Yadlin, a former general in the Israeli air force and later Israeli military attache to Washington, said that by deserting its Kurdish partners who have assisted in fighting ISIS, Trump was damaging the reputation of the United States and the trust regional states had in it.
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The three-year-old party - contesting its first local elections - has not reaped as much rewards from voters deserting the ruling African National Congress as the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), and is in a distant third place in the elections with about 8 percent of the vote countrywide.
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His calculation that a challenge for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party could be beaten back by adopting a tough line on the immigration that has dominated German politics since 2015, has misfired, with voters deserting the CSU for the Free Voters and the more pro-immigration Greens.
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The league is deserting the sixth-biggest television market in the United States, one of the nation's most pleasant climates and a city much on the upswing, for head-throbbing heat in a much smaller TV market in a city where there are fewer foreclosures than there used to be.
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Meanwhile, "Free State of Jones," which we both like, revisits the Civil War from the point of view of a poor white Southerner (Matthew McConaughey) who, after deserting the army, experiences a life-altering shift in consciousness and fights the Confederacy side by side with other poor whites, free blacks, men and women.
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The downside for deserting the fight against climate change, in rising sea levels and ravaged weather patterns, may be decades in the future; the loss of US influence to China yielded by exiting the TPP is intangible right now to American voters; if NAFTA falls apart the economic consequences may not be felt immediately.
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When I spoke about delegate math with Josh Putnam, a University of Georgia lecturer and expert on nominating rules who runs the Frontloading HQ website, he brought up the concept of "zombie candidates" — people who are technically still in the race but are effectively done, with their previous supporters deserting them for more viable options.
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Sanders, though, differs from those other candidates in one important way: He has a devoted base of loyal followers who show no signs of deserting him, many of whom want to see Sanders take the fight to a rival they view as the embodiment of the Democratic establishment by focusing on one of the party's signature legacy programs, Social Security.
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A recent tweet reflects Sanders' concerned millennials are deserting his "revolution" and supporting third party candidates, especially former New Mexico Governor Gary JohnsonGary Earl JohnsonScaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump Progressive Democrats' turnout plans simply don't add up Trump's GOP challenger: 'I may be reduced' to debating Alec Baldwin MORE, Libertarian nominee for president, who at times has polled more than a fifth of voters 18-to-34 years old.
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In the educated suburbs where Mr. Trump's party is already on defense — and struggling to dissuade moderate women from deserting it altogether — the prospect of an election-year abortion debate is far more unsettling to Republicans, and could fire up already-energized liberals while cleaving centrist women from the G.O.P. By midday Tuesday, multiple Democratic congressional candidates, in areas like northern New Jersey and the outer suburbs of Chicago, had attacked their Republican opponents for their views on abortion.
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As Hannah Arendt famously put it, when this happens, nothing can be believed anymore: One could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE took aim at former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE on Saturday, lambasting the Democratic presidential front-runner as a "reclamation project" and accusing him of deserting the U.S. military, law enforcement and health care.
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