“The political environment is not only great for Donald Trump, but it’s really great for Republicans running for Senate, governor, House seats, all the way down,” said Henry Barbour, an influential Republican National Committee member who has sometimes criticized Trump in the past. Here are...
In Ohio and Missouri, they are trying to change the rules so that a majority alone is not enough for a voter referendum to succeed. Their highhandedness extends to such extraordinary actions as the Tennessee House’s expulsion of two Democratic lawmakers last month and the Montana House’s ...
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Obama had barely served two years in the Senate before opting to run for president in 2008. And he won. So Cruz, Paul and Rubio are in effect making the same case Obama did seven years ago: the time for my leadership and vision is now, and I can't lead from the Senate. 4. No ...
Ramaswamy has long considered running for governor, according to those with knowledge of his plans. After Trump appointed him to DOGE, Ramaswamy pulled himself out of consideration for the Senate seat that came open with Vance's election as vice president. But Ramaswamy later discussed the vac...
but he voted for that debt ceiling deal. So did Meuser, Scott and Rep. Jack Bergman of Michigan. The White House and the Senate are going to insist that House Republicans honor the deals passed into law. The question for the next speaker, then, becomes whether to follow McCarthy’s lea...
The Senate will have no more votes on Thursday, according to Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, and will return on Friday. Timing for a potential government-funding vote in the upper chamber is entirely fluid. As a result, the mood in the Senate, even among Republicans, isn't great. When asked...
Thune, who is also the Senate GOP Conference chairman, may be the first member of GOP leadership in either the Senate or the House to call on Trump to step aside in favor of running mate Mike Pence and withdraw from the presidential race, CBS News’ Nancy Cordes notes. Thune said in a...
Republican leaders have delayed votes on some of Evers' top appointees for months, allowing them to serve but leaving them vulnerable to removal. The Senate voted against confirming Brad Pfaff as agriculture secretary in 2019, angering Evers so much he decried the move as “politi...
When Donny boy insisted Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, who are legally in the United States, are eating dogs and cats, it should have ended then and there… When he chose JD Vance as his running mate, it should have ended then and there… ...