Political Talk will air Tuesdays and Thursdays on NBC Palm Springs leading up to the Nov. 2022 mid-term elections. Topics span propositions, races and candidates.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Former Los Angeles City Councilman Alex Padilla took the oath of office as the state’s newest U.S. senator Wednesday, becoming the first Latino to represent California in the Senate. Padilla resigned as California secretary of state on Monday and was formally appointed by the governor to fill the U.S. Senate seat […]
Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday publicly refused to read a question from Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky during the Senate impeachment trial that named the alleged Ukraine whistleblower. “The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted,” Roberts said after receiving the question card. Paul had expressed frustration with Republican leadership during the trial […]
Vermont senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced Tuesday he is running for president again in the 2020 race. Sanders told Vermont Public Radio he is running for office because President Donald Trump is an “embarrassment to our country” and because he wants to continue pushing progressive ideas into the mainstream. In a biting interview Tuesday, […]
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Sunday that those in power are trying to turn people against each other, which she says is “not our America.” Harris, a first-term U.S. senator who announced her candidacy last Monday, rallied supporters outside City Hall in Oakland, her hometown and where she served as a prosecutor before becoming […]
Sen. Rick Scott has co-sponsored a bill that would halt the pay of Congress during a government shutdown. “If other people aren’t getting paid—Coast Guard is not getting paid or other federal workers are not getting paid, we’re impacting our economy—why would congress-men and women and senators get paid?” Scott asked at a press conference […]
