Two More Republicans Might Primary Trump In 2020
It’s not a good sign for Donald Trump’s reelection campaign that there is an appetite within the Republican Party to primary him.
It’s not a good sign for Donald Trump’s reelection campaign that there is an appetite within the Republican Party to primary him.
It’s comments like these that show how Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork for questioning the 2020 results.
The longer this administration slow-walks the release of Rober Mueller’s report, the more hollow Donald Trump’s celebrations look.
By Susan Cornwell and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Monday he will ask Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to look into the origins of the investigation of whether President Donald Trump‘s campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election. A…
A Wisconsin judge on Thursday blocked legislation passed by Republican lawmakers during a December lame-duck session intended to curb the powers of newly elected Democratic Governor Tony Evers, calling the measures unconstitutionally approved.
Instead of waging phony lawsuits, GOP Congressman Devin Nunes should find a new line of work – or, at the very least, find a safe space.Â
Until the GOP does the right thing and unanimously stands up to this president – the most unfit and corrupt in history – they deserve no credit.
The legislation introduced by Republicans on Tuesday is the clearest sign yet that even they are growing uncomfortable with Trump’s abuse of power.
Alabama Republican Roy Moore, whose unsuccessful 2017 campaign for the U.S. Senate was marred by allegations he sexually assaulted or pursued teenage girls while in his 30s, said on Friday that he may again run for the Senate.
A federal court jury in Central Islip, New York, found former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano guilty of bribery, honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue.
Rachel Maddow said Michael Cohen’s testimony leaves two potential outcomes for Donald Trump: impeachment or criminal charges.
The Republican candidate who initially appeared to have won that race, Mark Harris, said he would not make a second run for the seat. Dan McCready, the Democrat who ran against Harris, does plan to run again.
One of Donald Trump’s favorite members of Congress, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, may have just committed a crime by threatening Michael Cohen.
As these changes hit taxpayers for the first time in 2019, there are signs that the Trump-GOP tax law is only getting less popular.
No matter who the Democratic nominee is, it will be a challenge to keep track of all the lies Trump will tell during the campaign
While Republicans join Donald Trump in ginning up fear and phony crises to keep their base riled up, Democrats are governing responsibly.
Right now, at least three Republican in the Senate appear to be ready to block Donald Trump’s phony national emergency declaration.
As millions of Americans continue to feel the impact of the Trump-Republican tax scheme, it will become impossible to defend.
For two years, Republicans have calculated that it was a smart move to bury their heads in the sand and ignore the five-alarm fire in the White House.
If the report is detailed and damning enough, it could force Republicans to do what they have refused to do for the past two years: hold Trump accountable.
In those messages, Harris asked the county judge about “the guy whose absentee ballot project for Johnson could have put me in the US House this term, had I known, and he had been helping us.”
Sen. Susan Collins’ opposition is just the latest signal that Donald Trump’s fake and illegal emergency declaration is in trouble.
There is a long list of former high-level members of the intelligence community that believe the president could be a threat to national security.
In the Donald Trump era, Republicans in Congress have abdicated their responsibilities and refused to act as a co-equal branch of government.Â
If Republicans continue to hold this issue hostage as the body count grows then more of them will lose their jobs in 2020.
As was the case with Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, America cannot count on the courts to save us from the latest abuse of power by Trump.
Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s recent vote to restrict women’s rights has exposed Republican Sen. Susan Collins as a fraud.
Matthew Whitaker took a victory lap at Trump Hotel following his congressional testimony on Friday, but his celebration could be short-lived.Â
As Donald Trump sees his political fortunes collapsing ahead of 2020, he is already paving the way toward contesting the results.Â
One important element of the Trump-Republican tax scheme is that those who live in the bluest states will be harmed the most.
While El Paso constructed a border fence in 2008, it was among the country’s safest cities well before it was built, the mayor reminded Trump.
Trump’s border wall is not even part of the ongoing bipartisan negotiations to keep the government funded past the upcoming Feb. 15 deadline.
As Trump becomes more unhinged, Republicans in Congress are increasingly casting votes to take foreign policy out of his hands.
With Democrats now in control of the House, the GOP is grasping at straws to delay the roundhouse kick of oversight about to hit Donald Trump.
Following the disastrous Trump government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans have found one thing they can all agree on.
McConnell announced his opposition to a Democratic plan that would make voting a federal holiday, and in doing so he took a shot at government workers.
With Democrats putting continued pressure on the GOP to be transparent, Donald Trump will find it almost impossible to bury Robert Mueller’s final report.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) suggested that there are only a few people who could have been directing Roger Stone, which turns attention to Trump and Jared Kushner.
The epic takedown occurred after Cruz blamed Democrats for the fact that members of the Coast Guard are struggling as the shutdown drags on.
Unlike the GOP, Democrats aren’t playing games. They are doing what spineless Republicans have failed to do for two years – hold Trump accountable.
The fact that Trump is prepping for a shutdown that could stretch into April is confirmation that he couldn’t care less about the damage he does.
In his desperate attempt to get out from under the legal avalanche about to pummel him, Trump may have stepped into yet another crime.
Russia and Putin have complete control not only over the president they helped install in 2016, but the Republican Party more broadly.
Vladimir Putin doesn’t just have a president in his back pocket. He has an entire U.S. political party working on his behalf.Â
Michael Steele says being soft on Russia is no longer just isolated to Donald Trump. It has become standard Republican Party policy.
In the GOP of old, there would be no room for a man like Steve King to utter even a syllable of the white supremacist trash he frequently spews.
Former Trump campaign advisor Sam Nunberg believes it’s inevitable that his ex-boss will face impeachment and possible conviction.
If Trump declares a national emergency as a way to take defense department funds to pay for the wall, he’ll face immediate legal backlash.
The political calculus is about to change for Republicans when nearly a million Americans are forced to go without paychecks.
To Trump, this is fun political theater. To hundreds of thousands of workers, it could mean not having enough money to feed their families.
Trump has been protected by Republicans for the past two years, giving him the false sense that he can get away with murder. Those days are over.
As Trump whines about Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s remarks, he reportedly had to apologize for using so much profanity during a meeting with top Democrats.
While Democrats were quick to get to work opening the U.S. government on Thursday, Trump continues to look like a petulant child.
It’s easy to dismiss Mitt Romney’s remarks as hollow rhetoric, but they could be indicative of a brewing revolt of Trump among members of his own party.
The following is an editorial by PoliticusUSA‘s co-publisher Sarah Jones. The day before a judge admonished Trump‘s former National Security Adviser for selling out his country, suggesting that Flynn committed treason, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone admitted to spreading lies on Alex Jones’ conspiracy oriented InfoWars. Stone made the admission during the settlement of…
Outgoing Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker on Friday signed a package of legislation aimed at weakening the powers of his newly elected Democratic successor, dismissing critics who said the move was a last-minute partisan power grab.
He said that Democrats can easily take back the White House with the right nominee and that he would be willing to support Trump’s opponent.
The fact that Trump directed Cohen to commit crimes is not debatable. Republicans can no longer spin their way away from it.Â
William Cohen, a Republican who served as Secretary of Defense, says the type of blind loyalty GOP lawmakers are displaying is threatening our democracy.
Sen. Paul has become one of Trump’s biggest defenders on Russia, turning a blind eye to what increasingly looks like criminal conduct.
Congress must follow legal precedent and impeach the president like they did when Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton were in the White House.Â
Democrats will be immediately putting an end to yet another Republican, wasteful, stupid, partisan, conspiracy-based “investigation” – this one the investigation into fired FBI Director James Comey.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin legislature passed a bill to weaken the powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, voting around dawn on Wednesday after debates that lasted through the night.
Protesters chanting “Shame!” disrupted a tree-lighting ceremony and a legislative session at the Wisconsin state capitol on Tuesday as Republican lawmakers moved toward a vote on bills to weaken the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general.
Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin were preparing on Tuesday to vote on a raft of bills that would weaken the powers of the state governor and attorney general, weeks before newly elected Democrats take those posts.
Ohio’s GOP governor had some of his toughest criticism of Trumpism yet, further signaling that he is positioning himself to run for president in 2020.
Instead of continuing to take the GOP’s Pelosi bait, Democrats should stick to the issues that got them elected in massive numbers earlier this month. Â
The more she speaks, the more clear it becomes: Cindy Hyde-Smith has no business being a United States senator – not even one from Mississippi.
Republicans might turn a blind eye to the womanizers and criminals that they knowingly support – from Donald Trump to Roy Moore – but Democrats never will.
Prior to leaving for Paris, Mr. Trump had an impromptu press interaction and declared he did not know his newly placed Acting Attorney General, Matthew Whitaker, who is now overseeing the Mueller probe. However, this claim by Mr. Trump refutes the very clear record that he does in fact, know Mr. Whitaker. As Eric Tucker…
When Tur pointed out that Georgia voter suppression has disproportionally impacted African American voters, the Brian Kemp supporter couldn’t defend it.
As my colleague, Leo Vidal here at PoliticusUSA makes clear regarding Mr. Trump using the most blatant of racist ads to use as his closing argument for the mid-term elections by pinning it up on top of his Twitter feed: “It remains to be seen whether this will serve him — and his party —…
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin was notified his social media accounts had been hacked, his office said on Thursday, amid U.S. government warnings of attempts to interfere in next week’s congressional elections.
Republicans in North Dakota know Democrats cannot win in the state if the large population of Native Americans isn’t allowed to vote.Â
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker last week learned the same lesson many other Republicans have during this congressional election year: One way or the other, it is hard to escape Donald Trump. Cruz and Walker both ran against Trump for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination,…
Democratic donor Tom Steyer on Sunday denounced as anti-Semitic a now-deleted tweet from Kevin McCarthy, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, that said Steyer and two other wealthy donors were trying to buy the November congressional elections.
As they try to hang on to control of Congress, Republican candidates are following the lead of President Donald Trump and turning to rhetoric about immigrants as a tactic to motivate voters. The scope of that strategy emerges in a nationwide Reuters examination of ad buys, candidates’ social media posts and polling, as well as dozens of interviews with candidates, voters and campaign strategists.
On Saturday, after yet another act of American gun violence, the president is already signaling that he will once again put money over lives.Â
Democratic-leaning voters in a majority Hispanic Kansas City are receiving notices in the mail listing the wrong polling place.
It’s no surprise that Republicans, led by chairman Chuck Grassley, are attempting to embark on yet another sham investigation.
Former New York State Senate majority leader Dean Skelos was sentenced on Wednesday to four years and three months in prison on federal corruption charges, including soliciting bribes and defrauding the public.
All across the country, Republicans are trying to fight the coming blue wave by keeping as many Democratic-leaning voters as possible from voting.
But the real reason they were there was basic: Donald Trump. They don’t like the president, and they were not about to vote for anyone, like Brat, who supports him.
“More than the policy, it’s the animosity he is fostering within the country,†Sneed said of Trump.
All across the country, from Texas to Georgia to North Dakota, Republicans aren’t waging a war of ideas. They’re waging a war on voting rights.
Donald Trump can spin all he wants, but he is alone in his belief that the Nov. 6 elections will have no connection to him.
Leonard Lance is a Republican congressman seeking re-election in a Republican district. But he has little to say about the Republican president.
The Ohio governor blasted the president for putting the sale of American weapons ahead of the murder of a journalist that was a legal U.S. resident.
What’s clear is that Trump knows his party is in for a rude awakening in November, particularly in House races, and he’s trying to get out from under it.
The U.S. government closed the 2018 fiscal year $779 billion in the red, its highest deficit in six years, as Republican-led tax cuts pinched revenues and expenses rose on a growing national debt, according to data released on Monday by the Treasury Department.
In a close contest, GOP suppression efforts in North Dakota could choke off enough Native American voters to steal them a pivotal U.S. Senate seat.Â
Not only is the arena Trump picked not the biggest in the state, as he promised, but it’s not even the largest in the neighborhood.
Thirty-six states are holding gubernatorial elections in 2018, and the results of these contests could have far-reaching consequences.
At a rally on Wednesday, the president whined that he can no longer just spew the same sexist garbage that he might have in the past.
Female opposition to the Republican push to confirm Kavanaugh shot up by double digits since last month, from 42 percent to 55 percent.
It’s easy to be proven innocent when you conduct an investigation that ignores all evidence that could prove any wrongdoing.
Ahead of Saturday’s confirmation vote, Brett Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez shredded U.S. Senators for turning a blind on a sexual assault.
Going forward, the American people would be better served by ignoring this fraud – at least until she’s thrown out in 2020.
Sen. Coons seems to be making yet another appeal to the same part of Flake that convinced him to have a change of heart last week.Â
It is up to the remaining undecided GOP women in the Senate to step up and show the same political courage that Heitkamp showed on Thursday.
The letter demonstrates just how unpopular Kavanaugh’s nomination is to people who care most about the court’s integrity.