GOP Rep. Jim Banks slams push to kick him off ballot

GOP Rep. Jim Banks slams push to kick him off ballot

GOP Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) ripped his would-be Democratic challenger Aaron “AJ” Calkins Thursday for attempting to keep Banks off the ballot over his decision to vote against certifying the 2020 election results, calling the gambit “absurd.” Calkins, who is in a three-way Democratic primary for the right to face Banks in November, filed the … Read more

Trump’s latest endorsement roils Georgia’s GOP

Trump’s latest endorsement roils Georgia’s GOP

Donald Trump roiled Georgia Republicans with an endorsement in a crowded House primary Wednesday as the former president molds the political landscape in an effort to defeat the state’s GOP governor. On its face, Trump’s “complete and total endorsement” of Vernon Jones in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District looked like another case of the former president … Read more

Women, candidates of color lead GOP charge to flip the House

Women, candidates of color lead GOP charge to flip the House

Broadly, there are more Republican women and Hispanics running for Congress than ever before, according to figures tracked by the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. So far, more than 253 women and 228 people of color have filed to run as Republicans across the House map, the committee says. In the most important seats, roughly … Read more

What To Make Of Polls That Show Americans Are Trending Toward The GOP

What To Make Of Polls That Show Americans Are Trending Toward The GOP

Are there really more Americans identifying as Republicans than Democrats now? For decades, more Americans have tended to identify as Democrats than as Republicans, even if the gap has sometimes been small. But in January, Gallup found that Republicans had taken the lead in party ID during the last three months of 2021: On average, … Read more

Senate GOP backlash smacks RNC after Cheney-Kinzinger censure

Senate GOP backlash smacks RNC after Cheney-Kinzinger censure

The RNC is supposed to be a unifying organization within the party. But its passage of a resolution censuring Cheney and Kinzinger for the “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse” is having the opposite effect — reopening divisions between the large pro-Trump wing of the party, the smaller anti-Trump wing and the … Read more

Teenager responds to attack from GOP governor’s campaign

Teenager responds to attack from GOP governor’s campaign

on Monday, 17-year-old high school student Ethan Lynne joined the show and spoke about getting on Twitter on Saturday by a campaign account for Virginia’s new Republican Governor . The now-deleted tweet showed a picture of Lynne with former Virginia Governor , pointing out Northam’s racial insensitivity in his younger days. “I was surprised. I … Read more

GOP cracks emerge, voter fraud suspected, awaiting court rulings

GOP cracks emerge, voter fraud suspected, awaiting court rulings

It’s Monday, Feb. 7, and mark this as the week the distance between the governor and the GOP-led Legislature widened. The examples include: The budget, in which the House and Senate rejected significant pieces of the governor’s budget proposal — such as the election-year $1 billion gas tax cut — and the Senate scaled back … Read more

Murkowski to Biden: Pick SCOTUS nominee who can get GOP votes

Murkowski to Biden: Pick SCOTUS nominee  who can get GOP votes

Murkowski is widely viewed as one of the most likely Republican senators to support Biden’s pick. She has backed 79 percent of Biden’s judicial nominees this Congress and voted last year to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Jackson is viewed as a frontrunner for the Supreme Court seat. … Read more

Lawyers for GOP lawmaker accused of lying to FBI plan to argue he was confused because of his age, report says

Lawyers for GOP lawmaker accused of lying to FBI plan to argue he was confused because of his age, report says

Jeff Fortenberry.US House of Representatives Attorneys for GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry says he was confused when questioned by the FBI. A federal grand jury in October indicted him on charges of lying to the FBI in connection with an investigation into potential campaign finance violations. His attorneys plan to call up an expert who can … Read more