By JOHN RABY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship is making another attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, this time as a Democrat. Blankenship finished third out of six candidates in the 2018 Republican primary for Democrat Joe Manchin’s Senate seat. Manchin decided last
Disgraced coal CEO lost races as GOP and third party candidate. He's trying again as a Democrat
Businessman Tim Sheehy, who is running for US Senate in Montana, has been hyping his rural connections to voters on the campaign trail. But a new report suggests Sheehy is actually a product of suburbia. Farm life is a mainstay of Montana. US Census records show that the Big Sky State has the nation's fifth largest concentration of rural residents (behind Vermont, Maine, West Virginia and Mississippi), with 46.6% of its residents living in remote areas. Incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana), who...
Bill Cotter, known as Barstool Sport‘s “Billy Football,” announced his bid in March to run as a Republican for New York‘s 3rd Congressional District, previously held by expelled Republican Rep. George Santos, but now the congressional candidate is taking on his own party. The 25-year-old called out Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Cairo and his […]
Earth Day was still in its infancy when I first arrived in Boulder way back when, as was the Running Boom.
Johnson is not concerned with doing what’s best for his voters or his party. He’s concerned about staying in power by any means necessary.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has laid it all on the table: He’s staking his speakership—and his cozy relationship with Donald Trump—on aid to Ukraine, and putting his fate in the hands of Democrats. Democrats, in turn, are not going to make it easy for him. In an impassioned speech Wednesday, Johnson argued that getting aid to Ukraine was paramount, even if putting that bill on the floor will likely trigger a move to oust him. “This is a critical time right now, a critical time on the...
SEYMOUR — Incumbent Republican Rep. Jim Lucas of Seymour is facing a challenge for the GOP nomination for Indiana House District 69 seat in the May 7 primary. The winner will face Democrat Trish Whitcomb in the Nov. 5 general election. Continue reading at The Republic News.
Eric Hovde is a deeply patriotic Republican who desperately loves the U.S., and he’s running for Senate. How do we know he loves the U.S.? Because he’s a Californian running in Wisconsin, which means he loves the U.S. at least twice as much you unwashed single-staters. And he regularly flies over a big chunk of America when he’s not counting his money at his bank in Utah, so there’s that too. He also likes to tell everyone how patriotic he is. In fact, he’s outraged—outraged!—that anyone would...
Congressional Democrats appear ready to save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from a motion to vacate if one is triggered, according to a report.
MORNING NEWSBREAK | A state circuit judge ruled Tuesday that political parties control their primary ballots in a decision that will keep former Charleston County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Alan Ali off the county’s Democratic ballot in June. In his ruling steeped in the First Amendment, S.C. Circuit Judge George McFaddin said parties have broad discretion […]
Only one primary was held on Sunday, and former President Donald Trump ran away with its delegates.