Eight years ago, on the morning of Wednesday, November 9, 2016, Josh Earnest, then-President Barack Obama’s White House Press ...

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The American republic of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe is not the republic ...

What happens now will entirely depend on how much tolerance each side will have as a result of who is elected. If either side turns the result of the election into violent actions, the country could ...