The first Republican primary debate descended into chaos on Wednesday night with the candidates shouting over one another in an effort to make their point as they squabbled on a range of issues from climate change to January 6th to foreign policy.
The stakes were high as the eight candidates searched for a breakout, viral moment that would set fire to their campaigns and give them some momentum to catch up with Trump, who leads by double digits in the
Special Agent Johnathan Buma, of the Los Angeles office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, holds a unique perspective on the origin of two interconnected political scandals. A former biochemist who was trained in Russian by the agency, Buma has spent fifteen years cultivating human sources in investigations of money laundering, public corruption, and foreign attempts to influence elections. In January, 2019, information from one of Buma’s sources set in motion the Bureau’s first inquiries into potential undisclosed lobbying and
The escalating political struggle over abortion is compounding the GOP’s challenges in the nation’s largest and most economically vibrant metropolitan areas.
The biggest counties in Ohio voted last week overwhelmingly against the ballot initiative pushed by Republicans and anti-abortion forces to raise the threshold for passing future amendments to the state constitution to 60 percent. That proposal, known as Issue 1, was meant to reduce the chances that voters would approve a separate initiative on the November ballot to overturn
Officially, abortion had nothing to do with the constitutional amendment that Ohio voters rejected today. The word appeared nowhere on the ballot, and no abortion laws will change as a result of the outcome.
Practically and politically, however, the defeat of the ballot initiative known as Issue 1 was all about abortion, giving reproductive-rights advocates the latest in a series of victories in the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Fearing the passage of an abortion-rights
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, released a new video on Monday attacking President Joe Biden and Democrats for numerous problems facing the country.
“Joe Biden and the Democrats seem hell-bent on destroying this country,” Barrasso said in a statement. “They created and ignored a crisis at the Southern Border and a crisis of high prices. They’re bowing to Communist China – not holding an adversary accountable. Joe Biden and Democrats are undermining America’s strength. Families
The latest New York Times poll produces just the misleading result it was designed to produce.
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And identifies its solution in activities that appeal to her politically.
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Democrats reworded a statute that would have created a registry of non-criminal discrimination, but Republicans claim the changes were cosmetic.
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new video loaded: Chris Christie Visits War Sites in Ukraine
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You feel the cruelty and you feel the inhumanity. And you look at this, and I don’t think there’s anyone in our country who would come here and see this and not feel as if these are the things
As Donald Trump arrives in Washington, D.C., to be arraigned on criminal charges arising from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he has already scored a significant political victory. The indictment—Trump’s third—was handed down on Tuesday, charging the former President with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, as well as conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the right to vote. Since then, much of the Republican leadership, some of Trump’s rivals in the G.O.P. primary, and
