Republicans were at the forefront of the movement, though many Democrats agreed with the eight-year precedent set by Washington to guard against tyrannical rule. “Four terms or 16 years is the most dangerous threat to our freedom ever proposed,” Thomas Dewey, Roosevelt’s Republican opponent,...
More than a dozen sitting presidents have faced Congressional censure, but the official reprimands do not carry the weight of law.
Many Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson, were opposed to releasing the report even while Gaetz was a pending nominee. Some GOP senators at the time expressed interest in seeing the conclusions. Now that Gaetz has withdrawn, more GOP lawmakers have said the matter should be over and the...
In Maine and Nebraska, the rules are slightly different. They have aproportional representation systemin which the winner of each congressional district is awarded one electoral vote, and the winner of the statewide vote is awarded each state's remaining two electoral votes.Some Republicanswere hopin...
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But just 3% of Republicans were strongly in favor of moving or adding context to Confederate monuments and statues compared to 43% of Democrats who strongly back reform. There was a division along racial lines, too, with 45% of Blacks and 19% of whites strongly favoring reform. ...
Other Republicans have said that impeachment would be divisive. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, long a key ally of the president, has been critical of his behavior in inciting the riots but said impeachment “will do far more harm than good.” ...
What made Trump’s victory even more significant was that he had succeeded where past Republicans — presumably with wider appeal — had failed. Many conservative Republican activists and voters backed John McCain and Mitt Romney very reluctantly, after others in the party made the case th...
And the McCain camp accused Obama of playing the "race card" after he warned voters that the Republicans would try to lure them away using scare tactics: "You know. He doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky." Rick Davis, Sen. McCain...
Many MPs were not in the Chamber for the final reading, but they rushed in immediately after to vote on a bill to place a tax on dogs. The act received royal assent on March 29 and Queen Victoria set July 1 as the date for Confederation. ...