The 13 Most Important Republican Senate Primaries To Watch

The 13 Most Important Republican Senate Primaries To Watch

Republican David McCormick’s run for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania is one of many notable GOP primaries to watch this year. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc / Getty Images We’re almost six months from the 2022 midterm election, and Republicans have big dreams for their potential gains. President Biden’s approval rating is mired in the … Read more

All But One House Republican Who Voted To Impeach Trump Faces A Trump-Endorsed Challenger

All But One House Republican Who Voted To Impeach Trump Faces A Trump-Endorsed Challenger

With Texas’s primary on March 1, the 2022 primary election season has officially begun. For most incumbents, that means working to win renomination by appealing to their party’s supporters and fending off any serious primary challengers. But for a small group of House Republicans, their primary campaigns are complicated by their vote to impeach then-President … Read more

Putin’s Republican Sympathizers

Putin’s Republican Sympathizers

Arizona State Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff) speaks at a Save America Rally prior to former president Donald Trump speaking Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Florence, Ariz. The Arizona Senate voted Tuesday, March 1, 2022, to censure Republican Wendy Rogers, whose embrace of white nationalism and calls for violence drew bipartisan condemnation. (Ross D Franklin / … Read more

How P.J. O’Rourke Became Republican

How P.J. O’Rourke Became Republican

The other was his utter rage at seeing people pushed around: not only by cops but border guards, zoning boards, liquor-licensing commissions, soldiers, Trotskyite pickets, product-safety engineers, Keynesian economists, Unitarian theologians and anybody else who thought they were entitled to tell you what to do. O’Rourke offered his observations about everything from 18th-century mercantilism to … Read more

Biden quietly courts Republican support for SCOTUS nominee

Biden quietly courts Republican support for SCOTUS nominee

In interviews this week, Senate Democrats suggested that they would also like to see a broad bipartisan vote. While they stressed that winning over Republicans shouldn’t be the deciding factor for Biden, they argued that it would send a signal to the public that the high court isn’t as politicized as many perceive it to … Read more

Confidence Interval: Will Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Motivate Republican Voters More Than Democrats?

Confidence Interval: Will Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Motivate Republican Voters More Than Democrats?

It’s time for another episode of Confidence Interval, where we share a hot take we’ve been hearing … and then reveal how confident we really feel about the idea. This time, politics reporter Alex Samuels examines why President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee might motivate Republican voters more than Democrat voters in the upcoming midterms.

‘He’s Always Been a Chameleon’: The Mystery of Ohio’s Leading Republican Candidate

‘He’s Always Been a Chameleon’: The Mystery of Ohio’s Leading Republican Candidate

His first engagement was to a Democrat — a Democrat who would work as an advance consultant and associate on Obama’s campaign and in his White House. But now, at 30 years old, in the summer of 2008, Mandel got married — in Jerusalem to the former Ilana Shafran, also a Democrat. Shafran was the … Read more

Have Latinos Really Moved Toward The Republican Party?

Have Latinos Really Moved Toward The Republican Party?

In the 2020 election, the rightward shift among Latino voters raised eyebrows. Post-election surveys have disagreed about the exact split in the Latin vote, but it appears around 3 in 5 (or slightly more) voted for President Biden over then-President Donald Trump. Yet many of those same surveys as well as precinct-level analysis of the … Read more

Every Republican has to answer about Jan. 6, Kinzinger says

Republican on Jan. 6 committee: McCarthy warning is 'really bad politics'

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) speaks before a July 27, 2021, House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill. | Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP One of the two Republicans on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots said Sunday that every Republican will ultimately have to say whether they believe … Read more