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Carter, Biden and revisionist presidential history
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
January 10, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — For my entire career, it's seemed, theRepublican Partyhas run againstJimmy Carter. From my novice reporter days inTexasbeginning mi...
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Who’s VP-elect? Elon Musk or JD Vance?
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
November 21, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) —The speaker of the House, the man second in line to the presidency — Rep.Mike JohnsonofLouisiana— had to photobomb the much-shared s...
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The silence from former Trump heavyweights
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
September 13, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — If it’s strength they need, there’s strength in numbers. I’m referring to former officials who worked for Donald Trump, especially ...
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Kamala, let Trump beat Trump
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
September 9, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Whatever else Kamala Harris is doing to prep for her debate with Donald Trump on Tuesday, she’s already shown that she knows how to...
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Trump’s state of mind should be under debate
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
August 15, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s way past time to talk seriously about Trump Derangement Syndrome — his, not his critics’. For years it’s been clear to mental ...
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Is Vance a check on Trump’s Teflon superpower?
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
August 2, 2024
WASINGTON (TNS) — Nearly nine years, one presidential term and three campaigns later, Donald Trump’s rare honest words from early 2016 remain all too ...
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Step aside, Joe. It’s time
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
July 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — If Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee this fall against Donald Trump, my vote for him would be the easiest I’ve ever cast. And yet...
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