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Marjorie Taylor Greene Breaks House Rules to Wear MAGA Hat at State of the Union

Wearing a bright red MAGA hat on the floor of the U.S. House before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), as...

08.03.2024 40

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Adam Schiff Boxes Out Democratic Rivals to Secure Safe Senate Win

The epic Democratic Party civil war brewing over California’s open U.S. Senate seat has officially fizzled into a coronation. In Tuesday’s primary...

06.03.2024 10

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Super Tuesday Looks Like It Won't Be So Super for Nikki Haley

When all the votes are counted this Super Tuesday, it may be remembered in the 2024 election cycle for being steeped in delegates and short on drama....

06.03.2024 20

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Announces She Won’t Run for Re-Election

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) has decided not to run for re-election in 2024. In a video announcement posted to X on Tuesday afternoon, Sinema defended...

05.03.2024 4

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Elizabeth Warren’s GOP Challenger Has a History of Incredibly Blunt Anti-Trump Tweets

John Deaton, the Republican cryptocurrency booster who just launched a longshot 2024 challenge against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), has a resume...

02.03.2024 30

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Dem Touted Her Pro-Crypto Stance—Then Big Crypto Sent Her Campaign to the Moon

In the final days of a hard-fought Democratic primary for an open congressional seat in Texas, a wave of glowing TV ads began running in Dallas in...

01.03.2024 10

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Mitch McConnell to Step Down as Senate Republican Leader in November

Mitch McConnell will step aside as Senate Republican leader in November, ending a record-breaking run, the Associated Press first reported Wednesday....

28.02.2024 8

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Trump Gets His Dominant Win Over Nikki Haley in Michigan

The most populous state to vote so far in 2024—and one of the most pivotal for the general election—is set to hand Donald Trump his biggest...

28.02.2024 50

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This GOP Senate Hopeful’s Self-Made Story Has a Darker Side

As a leading Republican candidate for the highly competitive U.S. Senate race in Ohio, Bernie Moreno has leaned on his personal story as an immigrant...

20.02.2024 10

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MAGA Star Running for Office Raised Tons for Charity—and Then Sat on the Money for Years

At just 21 years old, C.J. Pearson boasts a lengthy record in the public arena. After going viral as a preteen for his self-taped takedown of Barack...

10.02.2024 40

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Kyrsten Sinema Loves to Fly Private—on the Taxpayer’s Dime

It’s hardly a secret that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) likes to fly private. It was just last April when it came out that Sinema’s campaign had...

29.01.2024 40

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Trump Wins NH Primary, But Not Quite the Victory He Wanted

CONCORD, New Hampshire—If Donald Trump ever had a chance of having his march to the Republican presidential nomination sidetracked, it was going to...

24.01.2024 4

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Joe Biden Wins NH Primary With No-Effort Write-In Campaign

Without his name on the ballot and without actually campaigning, President Joe Biden has won Tuesday’s Democratic primary contest in New Hampshire....

24.01.2024 10

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Top Trump Campaign Staffer Taunts Old Boss DeSantis

The night before Donald Trump issued a statement saying he was “very honored” that Ron DeSantis endorsed him upon dropping out of the 2024...

22.01.2024 5

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Vivek Ramaswamy Drops Out After He Flopped in Iowa

The most unexpected campaign of the 2024 Republican primary reached its expected conclusion on Monday. After a disappointing showing in Iowa’s...

16.01.2024 6

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Trump Is Headed for a Blowout Victory in Iowa

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa—Throughout the entire 2024 campaign, former President Donald Trump has seemed destined to win the Iowa caucuses. What wasn’t...

16.01.2024 10

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Vivek Ramaswamy Crosses Trump Just in Time for Iowa Caucus

URBANDALE, Iowa—Before talking to a crowd of Iowa retirees about dismantling the “deep state” for what was, by his estimate, his 390th stump...

15.01.2024 9

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North Carolina Guv Frontrunner Had Secret Meeting With Ginni Thomas After Jan. 6

Publicly, the Trump-loving lieutenant governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, has embraced the role of a zealous 2020 election denier. In April...

11.01.2024 30

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Chris Christie to End His Longshot Anti-Trump Campaign

Chris Christie may not end up being the next president—but he won’t end up as a spoiler, either. On Wednesday, the former New Jersey governor...

11.01.2024 3

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The Dems’ Anti-DeSantis Has a Plan for 2024—And Maybe 2028

There might not be another governor in America who has done more with less than Minnesota’s Tim Walz. With a one-seat Democratic majority in the...

26.12.2023 20

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Republicans Give Trump a Christmas Gift on Colorado Ruling

In today’s version of the congressional GOP, there are lawmakers who are zealous fans of Donald Trump, lawmakers who are ready to move on from the...

25.12.2023 30

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Anti-Trumpers Love Liz Cheney—And Pray She Won’t Run in 2024

Among Liz Cheney’s many admirers, there’s an anxious hope that the archconservative congresswoman turned anti-Trump crusader will play an outsized...

17.12.2023 4

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Katie Porter Touts Clean Campaign Cash. Her Record Isn’t So Spotless.

In her campaign for U.S. Senate in California, Rep. Katie Porter has worked intently to sell voters on the impression that she is a rare type of...

11.12.2023 10

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GOP Star Tim Sheehy Forgot to Mention the Family Money in His ‘Self-Made’ Success Story

As he introduces himself to Montana voters, top GOP U.S. Senate recruit Tim Sheehy has highlighted his experience “bootstrapping” the successful...

08.12.2023 8

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GOP’s 2024 Wannabes Have Their Most Brutal Cage Fight Yet

It might have taken three primary debates for Donald Trump’s challengers to start really loathing each other—but it took four for them to fully,...

07.12.2023 5

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Deposed Speaker Kevin McCarthy to Resign From Congress

Deposed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is calling it quits on his 15-year career in Congress. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed posted on...

06.12.2023 5

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The Squad Is Facing an ‘Existential Threat’ in 2024

Five years after a powerful House Democratic leader was toppled by an unknown Democratic socialist named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the organized...

04.12.2023 10

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Matt Gaetz Is Miraculously More Hated Than Ever in Congress

In this unsettled moment on Capitol Hill, truth is relative, chaos reigns, and virtually nothing is for certain. Except one thing: No member walking...

27.11.2023 20

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GOP Gifts Dems a 'Silver Bullet’ Issue in Trump Country

At least on paper, Democrats face a bleak outlook for the 2024 election in increasingly red Ohio. The party’s U.S. Senate majority relies on Sen....

15.11.2023 10

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‘You’re Pathetic’: Enraged McCarthy Reportedly Shoves GOP Colleague

Kevin McCarthy remains so seethingly angry at the eight Republicans who voted to oust him from the speakership that he apparently couldn’t resist...

14.11.2023 2

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GOP Candidates Showcase New Debate Strategy: Be Unhinged

With time running out to catch Donald Trump, the five leading candidates to challenge the former president for the GOP presidential nomination...

09.11.2023 2

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Tate Reeves Wins Re-Election With Bend Not Break Strategy in Mississippi

After one of the most competitive campaigns this deep red state has seen in decades, Gov. Tate Reeves (R) has won a second term as Mississippi’s...

08.11.2023 8

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Biden’s Primary Challenger Was Once a No-Chill Biden Fan Boy

About two years before he launched a campaign to unseat President Joe Biden, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) was anxious to win something else from his...

27.10.2023 5

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House GOP Chooses Its Next Sacrifice to Speaker Vote: Tom Emmer

House Republicans officially have their third Speaker candidate in as many weeks: on Tuesday, a majority of the GOP conference nominated Rep. Tom...

24.10.2023 7

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Jim Jordan Retreats as GOP Considers Short-Term Speaker

With Republicans sinking deeper into disarray, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has reportedly retreated—for now—after failing to win two votes to become...

19.10.2023 5

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Do GOP ‘Moderates’ Have the Stomach to Block Jim Jordan?

On Friday, after 55 House Republicans said they would refuse to vote for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on the House floor, his path to the speakership looked...

17.10.2023 6

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House GOP Finally Picks a Speaker—Now Comes the Hard Part

After nine days of chaos sparked by the sudden downfall of Kevin McCarthy, House Republicans have finally nominated a successor for the Speaker’s...

11.10.2023 4

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House GOP Realizes Ditching McCarthy Didn’t Solve Its Problems

Since the stunning downfall of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the House GOP’s future has only grown murkier, with the party’s warring...

11.10.2023 5

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Was Kevin McCarthy Actually Undone by Personal Grudges?

In the end, it may not have been the case against Kevin McCarthy’s performance—the gripes over his dealmaking with Democrats, the legislative...

05.10.2023 10

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House in Chaos: Kevin McCarthy Ousted From Speakership

Kevin McCarthy has made history: On Tuesday, he became the first person ever removed from the office of Speaker of the House by his colleagues. In a...

03.10.2023 2

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Kevin McCarthy's Speakership Is on Life Support

For the first time in modern U.S. history, a sitting Speaker of the House is set to be forcibly removed after a revolt from his own members. On...

03.10.2023 2

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Matt Gaetz Officially Tries to Remove Kevin McCarthy

After months of threats and chaotic infighting, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is finally facing a vote on whether he will continue to lead the House...

03.10.2023 2

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It’s Bad News That So Many in the GOP Are Pissed About Averting a Shutdown

With just hours to spare, House Republicans averted a catastrophe of their own making Saturday, passing a temporary extension of government funding...

01.10.2023 30

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GOP Candidates Attack Trump for Skipping Second Debate

Running out of time to make the 2024 GOP primary actually competitive, presidential candidates decided to take a new and novel strategy at the second...

28.09.2023 4

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The One Hill Harper Role That Michigan Voters Will Hate Most

Like any good Democratic politician running for office in the heartland of America’s automotive industry, Hill Harper has cast himself as an...

17.09.2023 2

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Republicans Worry About Kevin McCarthy’s ‘Self-Inflicted’ Impeachment Wound

When he announced the opening of an impeachment inquiry on President Joe Biden, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) carefully avoided suggesting that House...

14.09.2023 3

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Democrats Consider the Unthinkable: Missing Mitch McConnell

For decades, Democrats have hated, cursed, and battled Sen. Mitch McConnell, a man they viewed as one of the great villains of modern political...

07.09.2023 9

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