• 'Radioactive for the Republican Party': Trump's 'woman problem' said to be worsening

    In elections across the country, the abortion issue is proving to be political kryptonite for Republicans. And now, a columnist is suggesting a major swing state's recent abortion restrictions threaten to doom former President Donald Trump's hopes of retaking the White House in November, and in turn, Republicans' down-ballot electoral chances.In a Saturday column for the British Independent newspaper, columnist Jon Sopel wrote that Trump's "woman problem" is growing more urgent by the day. He...

  • To pass Ukraine aid, 'Reagan Republican' leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump

    WASHINGTON (AP) — For Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson, the necessity of providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid as it fends off Russia’s invasion is rooted in their earliest and most formative political memories. McConnell, 82, tells the story of his father’s letters from Eastern Europe in 1945, at […]

  • To pass Ukraine aid, ‘Reagan Republican’ leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump

    Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress. But the all-out effort to get the package through Congress left House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell struggling with an entirely new generation of the Republican Party shaped by Donald Trump. Throughout the six-month debate in Congress, both lawmakers had to expend significant...

  • Trump trial updates: Prosecutors say Trump engaged in criminal conspiracy and a cover-up. Defense lawyers call it 'democracy.'

    Criminal conspiracy and cover-up (First column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Silent and brooding, Trump endures courtroom ordealHas To Be 'Jolted Awake' AgainProsecutors make history with opening statementsTrial's First Witness Could Destroy Defense

  • The death of the Republican party is not a tragedy to be celebrated

    Richard Nixon infected the modern Republican party with a sickness that would kill it – Donald Trump has finished the jobLast Sunday, on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos asked Chris Sununu, New Hampshire’s Republican governor, about his recent switch from supporting Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, for the Republican presidential nomination to supporting former president Donald Trump.“Your words were very, very clear on January 11, 2021,” Stephanopoulos reminded...

  • Democrats are more skeptical about Biden than Republicans are of Trump: Poll

    Democrats are more skeptical about President Joe Biden than Republicans are about former President Donald Trump, according to a new poll. An NBC News poll found significant concerns among Democrats about Biden, with only 54% saying that “none” of the president’s vulnerabilities were most convincing, compared to 72% of Republicans feeling the same about Trump. […]

  • How Mike Johnson Is Taming Trump and His Party — Against All Odds

    Mike Johnson Taming Trump and His Party -- Against All Odds (Second column, 11th story, link) Related stories:How Republicans castrated themselves Drudge Report Feed needs your support!   Become a Patron

  • Trump Has Changed the Rules for How Republicans Win (and Lose)

    Not only is the 2024 presidential election weirder than we imagine, but it is weirder than we can imagine. Former President Donald Trump enjoys an insurmountable 22-point lead among people who don't vote. Presidentish Joe Biden has an insurmountable nine-point lead among those who do. This is all according to Interactive Polls.

  • Trump presses Republicans for kickbacks when using his likeness

    Trump’s presidential campaign wants other Republicans to pay up, if they use the former president’s name, image or likeness in any fundraising solicitations.

  • Trump presses Republicans for kickbacks when using his likeness

    Trump’s presidential campaign wants other Republicans to pay up, if they use the former president’s name, image or likeness in any fundraising solicitations.

  • Trump endorses Pennsylvania Republican David McCormick

    Former President Trump officially announced his endorsement of Pennsylvania Republican Dave McCormick, throwing his support behind the Senate candidate who did not get the former president’s blessings last time he ran for a seat in the upper chamber. Trump unveiled the endorsement during his rally in Schnecksville, Pa., on Saturday. “I am officially giving my

  • Avenatti calls Trump a ‘victim of the system’ in interview from prison

    Former attorney Michael Avenatti ripped into the hush money case against former President Trump, arguing it was politically motivated to prevent the former president from taking back the Oval Office in November. "I certainly see [Trump] as a victim of the system," he said in a phone interview with Fox News Digital while in prison.