CNN anchor Abby Phillip checked former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado (R) on Friday for dismissing Donald Trump’s false claims about the response to Hurricane Helene by President Joe Biden’s ...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper heard enough from a Republican guest trying to defend former President Donald Trump on Wednesday’s AC360. Former California Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado (R) baselessly ...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday called out a Donald Trump surrogate’s defense of the former president’s increasingly authoritarian rhetoric. Former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado (R) tried to ...

Abby Phillip clashed with a Republican guest, who refused to acknowledge that former President Donald Trump is lying about the government’s response to Hurricane Helene. Having moved on from lying ...

Anderson Cooper had heard enough. The CNN anchor used some off-color language to dismiss ever-more-strained defenses Donald Trump's fascist campaign rhetoric. Republican former Lt. Gov. of California ...

Mayor Gavin Newsom knows how to play the campaign game. After his opponent in the race for lieutenant governor — Abel Maldonado — issued a statement attacking Newsom for his financial ties to the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Abel Maldonado was a Lieutenant Governor with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Convention as a State Representative for California. The ...

When Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado began his rounds at the dining hall of the Veterans Home of California at Yountville, most residents were still sipping their first cups of morning coffee. Hoping for face ...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate on Thursday confirmed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's pick for California lieutenant governor, as lawmakers cast the vote as a test of whether a Legislature that has fallen ...

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