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Former President Barack Obama warned Democrats not to demonize their political opponents Wednesday even as President Joe Biden delivered a speech attacking “MAGA Republicans” and tying them to last week’s assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) used a Friday meeting with Detroit business leaders to focus on “civility” in state politics despite a 7.5 percent unemployment rate.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) defended Republican colleagues Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday over their objections to the Electoral College vote on January 6, saying they were exercising their “freedom” as Senators.

House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) told Axios on HBO Sunday, in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, that President Donald Trump is a racist who could make the U.S. “go the way of Germany in the 1930s.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is frequently at odds with President Donald Trump, but told reporters Monday during a visit to Washington, DC, that he wanted to maintain a connection with the president in spite of it all.

Now there is nothing stopping Trump from giving the State of the Union address elsewhere — like, say, an arena in a swing state.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Breitbart News on Wednesday evening that Democrats have taken civility to a “new low” during Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), whose calls last weekend for supporters to “harass” Trump administration officials in their private lives earned her the disavowal of several leading Democrats, claimed Thursday she was forced to cancel two planned events in the South due to threats from political opponents.

Nancy Pelosi criticized comments by Rep. Maxine Waters calling on the public to “harass” members of the Trump administration — but said the President was to blame for Waters’s rhetoric.

President Trump, so often maligned as thin-skinned and divisive, is teaching us how to talk to those with whom we disagree. We may, against the odds, begin to solve some of our problems.

Yet there is another, underlying reason that Trump’s voters back him through thick and thin, and it has to do with the Constitution, whose relevance the left and the media have only belatedly discovered.

Supporters of President Donald Trump disrupted a town hall held by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in the Inland Empire town of Ontario on Thursday evening, the San Bernardino Sun reports.

Dr. Ben Carson, still running for the Republican nomination for President even though his campaign admits he has no “well-defined” path, has called for fellow GOP candidates to meet before the upcoming debate March 3 in Detroit, Michigan.

It was a beautiful, moving speech, stuffed with quotes from Abraham Lincoln, loaded with lessons of reconciliations past, and laden with ideas for bridging the divide. And yet it bore no resemblance whatsoever to Obama’s own presidency, which has been one of the most divisive since the Civil War.