Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday accused Republicans of using the death of 22-year-old Laken Riley to “score cheap political” points after she was invoked during President Biden’s State of the Union address. “I can tell you as a pastor who has done hundreds of eulogies, and presided over all kinds of funerals, there is […]
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Sparks fly during Third GOP debate
The five top challengers to Donald Trump’s bid to win the Republican presidential nomination took the stage in Miami last night, and with fewer candidates, the format gave each more time to talk — and to clash. There were more than a few raucous moments, with Vivek Ramaswamy calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “Nazi” […]
Zelenskyy to visit US as GOP opposition grows
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returns to the U.S. this week to extend his hand in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will be at the front of the line to grasp it. In recent weeks, the Kentucky Republican has been making a concerted public case for continued material and financial aid to Ukraine to […]
GOP House returns with plans to impeach Biden
Hard-line Republicans in the House are itching for fights over opening an impeachment inquiry into President Biden and extracting deep spending cuts even at the risk of a government shutdown. Their eagerness to fight isn’t just with Biden and Democrats, but also with Republicans in their conference worried about the political risks of an impeachment […]
Biden says US credit downgrade is GOP’s fault
The Biden administration has been making the case that the economy is slowly improving. Inflation has steadily inched back down toward 2021 levels, unemployment has hovered around 4% for over a year, and the Federal Reserve finally announced in July that it no longer expects a recession in the near future. Still, Fitch specifically cited […]
Schiff rakes in $8 million after GOP censure
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) raised more than $8.1 million for his Senate bid in a record second quarter fundraising haul. Schiff recently became one of the only members of Congress to be censured after House Republicans moved to condemn him for “misleading the American public and for conduct unbecoming of an elected Member of the […]
“Abolish the GOP” says View host
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin railed against guns on Thursday, saying Republicans can’t be trusted and calling Sen. Mitch McConnell a “filthy liar” while branding the GOP as the party of insurrectionists and massacres. As the hosts of the liberal gabfest raged about gun control measures, including red flag laws following a spate of deadly […]
Polls: Trump Massive Favorite For GOP In 2024
Former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) led the pack in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) straw poll for the 2024 GOP presidential nominee. Trump held a commanding lead, with 70 percent of those who responded to the survey saying they would vote for him in the Republican primary if it were […]
9 Senate Seats Most Likely To Flip In 2022
Democratic control of Congress will be on the line next year as Republicans look to claw their way back into power after a disappointing 2020 election that cost them the White House and their Senate majority. But despite the conventional wisdom that the party of a new president tends to lose ground in the midterms, […]
GOP Opposes Commission To Investigate Jan 6th Insurrection
For Kevin McCarthy, the race to move beyond Jan. 6 is personal. The House Republican leader not only has his eyes set on the Speakership after next year’s midterms, he was also the only lawmaker to speak directly to President Trump in the midst of the violent attack on the Capitol. Those seemingly unrelated facts […]
Poll: 64% Of Republicans Would Join New Trump Party
A majority of Republican voters said if former President Trump were to start a new political party they would likely join, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. Sixty-four percent of registered Republican voters in the Jan. 28-29 survey said they’d join a new political party led by the former president, including 32 percent who said they […]
GOP Leaders At Odds With Each Other
The gulf between the two top Republicans on Capitol Hill grew even wider this week after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took the unusual step of plunging into a pair of controversies that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is struggling to contain in the lower chamber. In the span of an hour, McConnell […]