Today is the final day West Virginians can register to be eligible to vote in the May 14 Primary Election. If the trend continues, the final numbers before the election will show that Republican registration will have grown, while Democratic registration will have declined or remained static. Currently, 40.3 percent of all registered voters are
69% are worried, poll shows. But Evers and Legislature can't agree on how to address problem.
Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and James Comer, R-Ky., shouted at each other Wednesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing on China. Rep. Raskin took issue with Republicans accusing Joe Biden of accepting bribes. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
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.
Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but the hapless House Republicans have finally achieved something big: an end to tit-for-tat impeachments. Of course, that’s the opposite of the achievement they promised two years ago, ahead of the midterm elections that gave them control of the House. Back then, some chest-beaters were vowing to impeach President Biden as well as members of his Cabinet, starting with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the administration’s border security...
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, national political reporter Bridget Bowman spotlights the moderate House Republicans who are facing primary challenges from the right in the coming weeks. Plus, national political correspondent Steve Kornacki explains how high voter turnout could boost Donald Trump...
Abortion politics and policy are clashing here like in no other state as the Republican-led Legislature convenes Wednesday to sort out the aftermath of a ruling allowing a statewide ban to take effect within weeks. It adds more uncertainty for a state that has sometimes felt like the center of the political universe since President Biden’s 2020 victory here helped seal his election, prompting the first false cries from former President Trump that the election was rigged. Republicans here are...
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...
Prosecutors in Texas asked the state’s highest criminal appeals court on Thursday to reverse a ruling that overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot
In the 118th Congress, House Republicans have been riddled with party infighting and chaos since being sworn into office earlier in 2023. After 15 different votes to elect former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, disagreements over sending aid to Ukraine during Russia’s war, and a failed bipartisan border bill, this Congress is set to […]
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...
A left-wing website has been using a near-identical domain name as the Pennsylvania State Department to register new voters.