Her 2018 Senate victory marked a rightward shift from Tennessee GOP senators who had come before her and ushered in a more conservative wave of candidates eager to align with former President Donald Trump. Trump threw his support behind Blackburn early in her...
“Senators give great advice and this is how the process works. It's not going to be tried out here, it's going to be discussed inside the offices,” he said. “How we rebuild our military, put the war fighters first, that's what Donald Trump — President Trump has asked me to do...
military assistance for Kyiv. After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Vance remarked, “I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another." And at the Munich Security Conference in February, Vance refused to join his fellow senators in meeting with Ukrainian ...
This chapter explores the attempts by Donald Trump and many Republicans to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. It first provides an overview of Trump’s rhetoric, lies, narcissism, and approval of violence. Second, it examines the legal and.
Allies of President Donald Trump have been quick to threaten primary challengers for Republican senators who don’t back Trump's Cabinet picks and legislative priorities.
Brennan Center,wrote in 2014.As Carol Anderson of Emory University writes in “One Person, No Vote,” during the Bush years and beyond, Republicans who were “respectable members of society leveled the charges [of voter fraud] — U.S. senators, attorneys with law degrees from the Ivy ...
The 142 total includes the winner of Iowa’s 2nd District, where two women are facing off in a very close race, and 18 female senators who were not up for reelection this year. One of them is Sen. Kamala Harris, who will ascend to the vice presidency on Jan. 20, but who wi...
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 investigati...
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 inves...
Mitt Romney, arguably the Republican senator most politically free to speak his opinions, given his red state's unique lack of support for the president and give that he isn't up for reelection until 2024, has offered the sharpest criticism of the president by any GOP senato...