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STREET BEAT: ‘Can Donald Trump be elected president of the United States?’
Compiled by Arnold Adler outside the Bellflower Post Office. Sherry CostaBellflower“No way. He’s incompetent.” Maria CornejoBellflower“I don’t seriously think he could be.” Mario MelburneLong...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Trump could appoint four Scalias
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump upped the ante again on arguably the single biggest campaign issue that Trump and Hillary Clinton backers are the most anxious about. That’s who gets to...
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This year, ‘lesser of two evils’ tough to embrace
While the Democratic Party is famously diverse, the televised face of the party was notably black and female at the party’s recent national convention in Philadelphia. In speech after speech touting...
View ArticleNAJEE’S NOTES: Diagnose Trump proposal picks up steam
Rep. Karen Bass and Donald Trump are the reasons why the hashtag #DiagnoseTrump has been trending on social media. Amidst rumors that many top Republicans are frustrated with Trump due to his feud with...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: The myth about blacks and Democrats
The Republican Party never tires of pitching the line in a presidential election year that the Democrats take black votes for granted and do absolutely nothing in return for those votes. The line goes...
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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: This time the debates mean something
There’s been a fierce debate about presidential debates. The debate is whether they really do make or break a presidential candidate. It started it all over again in the run-up to the three scheduled...
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STREET BEAT: ‘What did you think of the presidential debate?’
Compiled by Debra Varnado outside Holman United Methodist Church in the West Adams District of Los Angeles. Patrice SimmonsGardena“I am a Jill Stein supporter. I was with Bernie. I did not ever...
View ArticleTrump labels LAX ‘third-world’ facility
LOS ANGELES — There was no immediate reaction Sept. 27 from officials at Los Angeles International Airport, which was derided by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as a “third-world”...
View ArticleHarris, Sanchez share views in race for U.S. Senate
LOS ANGELES — With the Nov. 8 election less than a month away, the two candidates competing to replace longtime U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer say they believe more transparency is needed in law enforcement...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Democrats could take back Congress
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has given Democrats something that seemed only the stuff of shop talk, wishful thinking and even fawn dreams a year ago. That is a real shot at taking...
View ArticleNAJEE’S NOTES: Debate watch is pro-Clinton crowd
Dump Trump! A packed house of South L.A. community residents were on hand Oct. 19 to watch the last debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The debate watch and ballot measure forum was held...
View ArticleMock election gives Lynwood students real-life civics lessons
LYNWOOD — Shouting campaign slogans and hoisting life-size cardboard replicas of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, more than 1,000 Lynwood High School students on Oct. 11...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Clinton doesn’t have to be Obama
The early voting returns show two unsurprising things. One is that black voters are turning out in smaller numbers in some areas than they did in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. The other is...
View ArticleKamala Harris wins U.S. Senate race; Trump beats Clinton
LOS ANGELES — On a day that saw Donald Trump elected the 45th president of the United States, California voters sent the second African-American woman to the U.S. Senate. State Attorney General Kamala...
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Election night block party brings South L.A. residents together
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — The sound was turned down on the huge television screen showing the 2016 presidential election returns just outside the Community Coalition’s headquarters. Instead, music blared...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: How President Trump will govern
(Editor’s note: The following was written by columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson last December.) There’s no shortage of chatter about Republican presidential contender Donald Trump campaigning. But almost...
View ArticleNAJEE’S NOTES: White women gave Trump the election
Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States. That is something I never dreamed I would ever write. Trump, in my mind, is a reality T.V. star and businessman. But in a couple of months he...
View ArticleTrump’s election stuns officials; young people protest
LOS ANGELES — Republican Donald Trump’s victory in the Nov. 8 presidential election left some local Hillary Clinton supporters stunned, but Democratic-leaning Southland elected officials tried to...
View ArticleKamala Harris wins Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat
LOS ANGELES — On a day that saw Donald Trump elected the 45th president of the United States, California voters sent the second African-American woman to the U.S. Senate. State Attorney General Kamala...
View ArticleKamala Harris wins Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat
LOS ANGELES — On a day that saw Donald Trump elected the 45th president of the United States, California voters sent the second African-American woman to the U.S. Senate. State Attorney General Kamala...
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