Nella Domenici's campaign raised $1.25 million in the first quarter of the year. She is the daughter of late Republican New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici. Domenici is looking to unseat Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich. Cook Political Report rates the New Mexico Senate race as 'solid Democrat'
Rebecca Gordon If you work for a living, or if you know and love people who do, there’s a lot on the line in this year’s election.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden vowed to "fight like hell" for women's reproductive rights in a reelection ad Thursday, as his team pounced on the backlash to a Republican-backed decision all but outlawing abortion in the swing state of Arizona. "Your bodies and your decisions belong to you, not the government, not Donald Trump," Biden says in the ad, which will be aired in Arizona during popular shows including American Idol and Saturday Night Live this month.
Republican dysfunction on the Hill continues to drive a wave of House retirements. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is wrangling with Republican-dominated state governments in Ohio and Alabama to assure he is listed on their fall ballots, as once-mundane procedural negotiations get caught up in the nation’s fractious politics. Both states, which carry a combined 26 electoral votes, have deadlines for appearing on the ballot that precede the […]
Donald Trump on Friday endorsed a primary challenger to Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington, one of two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach the former president over his role in the Jan. 6 riot. In a Truth Social post, Trump threw his support behind Jerrod Sessler, a former petty-officer in the Navy who has gone after Newhouse for his impeachment vote. "Jerrod Sessler is a fantastic candidate and will be a GREAT Congressman for Washington State’s 4th Congressional District," Trump...
Former New York Police Department officer Alison Esposito recently launched a Republican campaign for New York's 18th Congressional District, taking on Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan. But she doesn't appear to have reported paying any of her campaign staff — and she isn't keen on discussing why.According to Timmy Facciola of the Times Union, "her most recently available campaign finance records [show] Esposito did not pay anyone on her campaign in the three months after launching it last year. From...
Illinois State Rep. Tim Ozinga abruptly resigned on Monday night.
House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner says colleagues have repeated false claims made by Moscow
On Capitol Hill, there are a small handful of prominent Republicans who have a reputation for occasionally breaking party ranks and showing a degree of independence. GOP members such as Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, for example, has been rather bold about expressing her dissatisfaction with the GOP’s direction under Donald Trump’s direction. House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul, however, are not exactly known as Republican...
Republican strategist Karl Rove, who was the architect of George W. Bush’s successful presidential run, says that Donald Trump has made a mistake calling imprisoned January 6th rioters hostages and said President Joe Biden should “go hard” at Trump on the issue.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is in grave peril as renegade House Republicans are threatening to call a motion to remove him from power, exactly as they did for his predecessor Kevin McCarthy.The craziest part of this whole affair, analyst David Chalian told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday, is that the far-right House rebels are throwing away the power of the entire GOP House majority in its current state — coming at a moment when they were just rebuked by the summary dismissal of their...