WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Most U.S. voters backing President Donald Trump "don't believe there is anything at stake" for the Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a private survey released by media on Tuesday. The poll, conducted for the Republican National Commi...
Brutal numbers show how tough it will be for Republicans to keep control of the House this NovemberEliza Relman
That same reasoning led Republicans like Mitch McConnell to back Trump’s bid for the White House. The “adults in the room” would keep him in line. They didn’t, and they couldn’t. Even with Trump headed out the door, the same cynicism explains why congressional Republicans jumped on ...
The Republican firewall in the House can survive even Donald Trump. Indeed, it was painstakingly designed to keep the House red even in the face of a Democratic landslide. The reason why? The oldest trick in the book — the gerrymander — which Republicans used in a thoroughly modern and ...
Washington— President-elect Donald Trump said Republicans will try to end the decades-long ritual of changing the clocks twice a year, saying the GOP will push to eliminate daylight saving time. "The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a ...
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, meanwhile, told CNN that Trump wanted to get rid of the FBI director because “he actually upheld the law. Donald Trump thinks that he is above the law.” But the reaction of Republicans to Wray’s resignation announcement showed the power of Trump...
That makes sense given the historical record, but to push back on that just a little — there are instances when the president’s party didn’t do that poorly. For instance, in 1990, when George H.W. Bush was president, Republicans lost eight seats in the House and one seat in the ...
Republicans had seized back the House in the 2022 midterm elections to put a brake on Biden’s term, largely through winning a flurry of those competitive seats in New York and California. Democrats managed to
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who will sit behind Trump’s left shoulder, has proven more than willing to accommodate the president’s whims. “There is no daylight between the House Republicans and Senate Republicans,” Johnson told CNN. “We all have exactly the same idea and mission and that...
The survey was designed to help Democratic leaders examine what went wrong during the midterms, in which the party ceded 13 seats to Republicans, sinking it further into the minority than Democrats had been in decades. Democrats hope that in 2016, demographics and the excitement of a potential...