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Following a tumultuous day in which Kevin McCarthy failed three times to muster up enough votes to lead the House of Representatives, one of the last members to leave the floor was the previous speaker, Nancy Pelosi. As she left the cloakroom with her husband Paul, she said that the day, a long…

Republicans were projected to gain control of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, returning them to the majority after four years by an ever-so-slim margin. MSNBC and CNN called the race first this afternoon, with the Associated Press and Fox News following soon after. With about nine races…

UPDATE, Wednesday: Mitch McConnell was overwhelmingly re-elected as the Republicans’ Senate leader, despite a challenge from Rick Scott. The vote of the GOP caucus was 37-10, according to press reports. PREVIOUSLY, Tuesday, 12:12 PM: With Republicans poised to control the U.S. House by an…

During a televised debate on Sunday night, Democratic candidate Marcus Flowers accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of being at least partially responsible for the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, citing as evidence Greene’s false and oft-repeated stance that the 2020 election was stolen from…

Former President Donald Trump, the de-facto leader of the Republican Party, today called for the ouster of his party’s most powerful elected official: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). “Mitch McConnell is not an Opposition Leader, he is a pawn for the Democrats to get whatever they want," Trump wrote in a…

Onetime Trump Administration Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is projected to win the Republican primary in the race to be Arkansas’ next governor, a position held by her father from 1996-2007. The Associated Press called the primary race in Sanders’ favor early this evening. Huckabee Sanders took over the White…

Prior to the 2016 election, Republicans urged White House officials to hold off on picking a successor to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia until after the presidential election. More than four years later and the GOP wavers on their stance as the scramble to fill the vacant seat left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg begins…

"In just moments, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, he will join us live," proudly announced Fox News' Sean Hannity at the top of his show as the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention kicked off. Actually was past the bottom of the hour before the former Celebrity Apprentice host…

The Republican version of a new pandemic economic stimulus package should arrive next week, reports indicate, as Senate GOP leaders and the White House claim to have reached agreement on what they will propose on Monday. The $600 federal unemployment benefit ends tomorrow, leaving the millions of unemployed people…

President Donald Trump attacked his favorite social media platform, criticizing Twitter for reducing the visibility of certain prominent Republicans in a practice referred to as “shadow banning.” “Twitter "SHADOW BANNING" prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at…

One day after receiving a GOP bootlicking of historic proportions to celebrate passage of the Republican tax overhaul, President Donald Trump attacked Dems for unanimously declining to vote for it. “The Massive Tax Cuts, with the Fake News Media is desperate to write badly about so as to please their Democrat bosses…

Donald Trump will remember this day. Hours after his former National Security Adviser pleaded guilty in the Russia probe and said he is cooperating with investigators, the GOP-controlled Senate passed its sweeping tax-reform bill. It’s the president’s first major legislative victory after more than 10 months in…