“I do not make this decision lightly, but I believe it is necessary,” said the senator, who is not running for reelection in 2022. “By what he did and by what he did not do, President Trump violated his oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitu...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) —Oregonstate senators with at least 10 absences during a record-setting Republican walkout are supposed to be disqualified from running for reelection, but several on Thursday filed candidacy papers with election authorities. Following GOP walkouts in...
Wisconsin's other senator, Sen. Ron Johnson, told a crowd gathered at a GOP watch party: "We know we have at least 52 senators, and we'd like to build that majority. That's a big win. I become chairman of the permanent subcommittee for investigations an...
Senators are not up for reelection until 2023. Democrats have been particularly concerned about abortion legislation. Ayala made supporting a woman’s right to an abortion a key issue in her campaign, noting that the Senate has one Democratic member who has said he personally opposes abortion. ...
In the current political climate, it's hard for a Republican official to be safely conservative enough, said Abramowitz. “You look at Sen. Lankford, there aren’t many Republican senators as conservative as him.” ___ Associated Press writers Andrew DeMillo in Little Rock, Arkansas; J...
“You guys better show up and do your fricken job!!” Chong said in a now-deleted post, tagging both Vance and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who was nominated to be Trump’s secretary of State. The two senators were not present at Monday night’s votes, where Sen. Chuck Schumer ...
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no Democratic senators are running for reelection in states won by former President Donald Trump in 2020, while Republicans are defending two seats in states won by President Biden: the open seat in Pennsylvania and Sen. Ron Johnson’s seat in Wisconsin. (To make matters worse for Republicans...
And a Secret Service counter sniper told the committee that they also saw local law enforcement running toward the building where the shooter was located with their guns drawn, but that it “did not cross [his] mind” to alert Trump’s protective detail to get him off the stage. ...
Graham, who is up for reelection in November, says whether he would move to fill a Supreme Court vacancy this year would depend on the opinions of GOP colleagues. “We’ve got to see where the market is, what other senators think,” he said. Graham said he’d be “willing” t...