GOP scrambles to organize early and mail voting despite Trump’s attacks
In December, Donald Trump called for the end of mail-in voting in presidential elections. In February, he told Michigan voters that “mail-in voting is totally corrupt.” He later told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that “if you have mail-in balloting,
Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82
Joseph I. Lieberman, the doggedly independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in New York
How to become a multibillionaire nearly overnight, just like Trump
It is generally understood that the appeal of living in the United States — the American Dream itself — is that anyone can be a success. That opportunity is offered evenly and anyone could take advantage to become a success.
Chris Christie turns down No Labels presidential bid after discussions
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie (R) has decided against running as the No Labels candidate for president after spending time and money gaming out the prospects of a centrist third-party bid against President Biden and former president Donald Trump. The
NBC offered Ronna McDaniel a better contract to appear on MSNBC
MSNBC President Rashida Jones participated in recruiting former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel earlier this month and McDaniel was offered a more lucrative contributor contract after she agreed to appear on MSNBC and not just NBC News, according to
Republicans are more pessimistic about democracy than Democrats
There’s little question that Republican candidates on the ballot in November believe that immigration is the most useful issue for them to highlight. Fox News went from mentioning the border (or migrants or immigration) about 1,400 times in July to
Montana Supreme Court strikes down voting restrictions
Montana’s highest court on Wednesday struck down four laws that the state’s Republican-led legislature passed in 2021 to restrict voting. The Montana Supreme Court declared the laws unconstitutional, siding with a district court judge who ruled against them in 2022. The
Speaker Johnson’s only path to legislative salvation: House Democrats
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) faces a unique dilemma as he considers how to handle the proposed security package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Johnson doesn’t need to find a way to the normal majority in the House — currently 216
A day after bridge collapse, Republicans are blaming Dems, floating unfounded and sometimes racist theories
Following Tuesday’s deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, some Republican officials, candidates and right-wing pundits attempted to connect the tragedy to some of their most frequent political targets: diversity initiatives, illegal immigration, covid lockdowns and the
Amid U.S.-Israeli strains, Pentagon pushes for a new approach in Gaza
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged Israel on Tuesday to abandon plans for a major ground offensive against Hamas militants in southern Gaza, as the Biden administration attempts to curtail a spiraling humanitarian crisis at a moment of acute strain between
Amid U.S.-Israeli strains, Pentagon pushes for a new approach in Gaza
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged Israel on Tuesday to abandon plans for a major ground offensive against Hamas militants in southern Gaza, as the Biden administration attempts to curtail a spiraling humanitarian crisis at a moment of acute strain between
The House GOP thought it was moving past internal drama. Then more showed up.
House Republicans finally felt they were done going through the stages of grief. Over months of infighting, emotions ran the gamut from denial to depression while they watched the conference struggle with the aftermath of ousting the speaker of the
Congressman sued over tweet wrongly IDing man as Super Bowl parade gunman
Denton Loudermill Jr. was briefly detained in the chaos following a shooting that erupted at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade on Feb. 14. Within hours, a U.S. congressman had tweeted a photo of him in handcuffs and a
Democrat who ran heavily on abortion rights, IVF wins Alabama special election
Democrat Marilyn Lands on Tuesday decisively won an Alabama state House seat in a long-held Republican district, notching a special-election victory after centering her campaign on promoting access to abortion and in vitro fertilization. Lands’s win was the latest in a
Florida donors with state business fueled end of DeSantis presidential run
The biggest donors in Republican politics largely shunned Ron DeSantis after his presidential campaign began to falter last summer. So his allies turned to donors the Florida governor still held sway over because of his day job. A state coronavirus response