Pennsylvania Republicans torched Democrat Governor Tom Wolf's veto of a high-profile bill that would have barred transgender biological male athletes from competing in women's sports.
3 House Republican, who voted for Trump’s impeachment. Amid the backlash, Senate Republicans largely made clear this week that they have no intention of convicting Trump. While Trump tries to exert influence, he’s undeniably diminished. Before he incited his supporters to stor...
Some Republicans who voted for acquittal based their vote largely on procedural grounds, not the merits of the case. Senate Minority LeaderMitch McConnell of Kentucky, for example, said Trump was responsible for the riotand suggested the former president could still face criminal charges. The verdi...
has drawn discontent among some Republican lawmakers, who are refusing to vote for the deal. Under Paul’s plan, the debt ceiling would be given a $500 billion increase to encourage Congress to take action on the nation’s debt sooner. Paul’s proposal also includes caps on both the sums ...
But Hinson, Granger, and their colleagues should also be mindful of the context: Republicans condemned the infrastructure bill in no uncertain terms, beforelaunching an offensive againstthe modest number of GOP lawmakers who dared to make it bipartisan by voting for it. ...
In this episode of theFiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, HuffPost polling editor Ariel Edwards-Levy joined Galen Druke and Perry Bacon Jr. to discuss the second impeachment of President Trump: why the House votes broke down the way they did, what the different camps are in the GOP and what wi...
Newhouse is one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President-elect Donald Trump in 2021 over the Capitol riot. He's one of two who still remain in Congress. Under Washington's primary system, the top two candidates with the most votes advance to the general election, even if...
The goal was to sway about 5% of Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016 to switch to Biden by having other Republicans deliver the message. We highlighted how dangerous a second Trump term would be, borrowing the John McCain line about putting “country over party.” This was not abou...
Chris Powell: Republicans Could Have Voted for Budget RepairsOf course the repairs to the state budget made this week byGovernor Malloy and the Democratic...Powell, Chris
aOf course, there was not much to separate an independent who voted for most or all of the Republicans in the general election from a voter who registered as a Republican at the last moment, which in Connecticut at that time was as late as noon on the last business day preceding the pri...