Republican lawmakers have faced backlash at town halls and other events in their districts in recent days. Feb 21 Hillary Cassel breaks her silence on her switch from Democrat to Republican Jim DeFede talks to Cassel, who breaks her silence about switching her political party affiliation from Demo...
He added: "My change inpartyaffiliation4(党籍)does not mean that I will be a party-line voter any more for the Democrats that I have been for the Republicans." President Barack Obama, a Democrat, is reported to have called Mr Specter after he was informed of the switch to tell him th...
Also, we present a novel methodology—an "event study"—to test partisan and partyless hypotheses. Our results show that, when Jeffords switched, the stock prices of Republican-supported energy firms dropped and prices for Democrat-supported firms rose, supporting the hypothesis that the majority ...
Johnson didn’t mention his party switch as he spoke for about an hour during a Texas Tribune panel event Friday morning in Austin. Johnson noted the nonpartisan nature of his office and said he wants to see a more conservative approach to how Dallas spends its money, arguing that it’s c...
Harris, a candidate who famously wanted to ban fracking when she ran for president four years ago, isn't just backtracking on her record and attempting to sound like a member of the opposite party. She wants to switch places with the GOP, branding ...
I tell ya what, Dave. You stop using “Democrat” as a hacky little elbow-jab, and I won’t start referring to your party as Repugnant. (Although, given GOP reactions to the freeing of Bowe Bergdahl, “Repugnant” certainly fits the bill.) ...
He flipped several states in the Great Lakes region from blue to red–Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin–in addition to carrying purple states like Ohio. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio all have robust Democrat Party organizations, but rank-and-file Democrats stopped taking marching orders...
"Liz Cheney has helped the radical Democrat party weaponize the national security state and law enforcement against MAGA and MAGA supporters, who are hard working and incredible people," Trump said at a rally in Casper, Wyo., in May. "The phony narrative that Liz Cheney is pushing has been...
“A lot of it is people, like myself, were kind of asleep at the switch and thinking this will correct itself but it just keeps gaining momentum,” Newcomb said. Political scientist David Adler, the president of the nonprofit Alturas Institute in Idaho Falls, said the party has shifted so...
Trump harder and longer than I did, as the campaign manager for Ted Cruz’s 2016 campaign for the Republican nomination. I know the maddening brilliance of Mr. Trump. I also know history doesn’t favor the president’s party in midterm elections. With the election of a Demo...