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News Sentinel
April 24, 2018
Braun, Messer and Rokita are running against each other in the May 8 primary election for the opportunity to face incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly in November. Newspaper and broadcast journalists from Fort Wayne and central Indiana – including News-Sentinel.com reporter and columnistÃâà...
Paste Magazine
April 24, 2018
The Republican Party simply does not believe in using government to help the common man. They have no problem passing a multi-billion dollar increase in spending for the already bloated Department of Defense, or an unpaid tax cut for the rich that will raise the deficit to $1 trillion by the end of Trump'sÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
April 24, 2018
The Utah Republican Party's civil war between moderates and die-hard conservatives is perfectly mirrored in the state House District 19 race, where Rep. ... from fighting the law allowing signature-gathering candidates to get on the ballot and intends to press the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Politico
April 24, 2018
National Republicans have poured more than $1 million into a deep-red slice of the Phoenix suburbs to boost Debbie Lesko, a former state senator running to replace former Rep. ... The Arizona Republican Party volunteers plan to send upward of 100,000 text messages to voters by Election Day.
New York Times
April 24, 2018
John Cox is a businessman and a Republican with a shot, after the June primary, of being one of the two candidates on the November ballot for governor. California ... Q: Does the Republican Party need to expand its appeal to become more competitive here? ... I like moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Roanoke Times
April 24, 2018
Our democracy works best when we have two strong, healthy parties competing in the free market of ideas. Right now, though, Republicans are being hijacked by so-called populists such as Stewart, an acolyte of Donald Trump. At a time when the nation is growing more diverse, they embrace a mocking,Ãâà...
CBS News
April 24, 2018
That fear is most acute in three Southern California districts that are top party targets with multiple Republicans and Democrats running. Failing to field a candidate in a California race could have national implications. The party needs to flip at least 24 Republican seats, and the cluster of California districtsÃâà...
Vox
April 24, 2018
I'll lay out the case below, but the reasoning is not that complicated: There are, for all intents and purposes, two parties contending in the American system. If you believe ... The Republican Party is slowly becoming comfortable with the authoritarian, blood and soil politics of Marine Le Pen's National Front.
New York Times
April 23, 2018
But he does have a natural inclination for one of the most distinctive and defining contributions that Mr. Trump has made to American politics: its sound. ... In Indiana, Representative Todd Rokita, a Republican candidate for Senate, proudly slaps on a red “Make America Great Again” cap in a new ad as heÃâà...
New York Magazine
April 19, 2018
Just a few weeks ago, it looked like America might weather the remainder of the Trump presidency without taking on any more (major) legislative damage. Paul Ryan's ... And that would mean that Republicans would suddenly gain the power to kill decades of regulatory decisions through party-line votes.
Vox
April 19, 2018
Eleven House Republicans — Ron DeSantis, Andy Biggs, Dave Brat, Jeff Duncan, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Andy Harris, Jody Hice, Todd Rokita, Claudia Tenney, and Ted Yoho ... But it's also an important signpost of where we stand in terms of Trump's relationship to the congressional Republican Party.
CNN
April 19, 2018
"I see the Republican Party, as near as I can tell, reflects now entirely Donald Trump's values," the former FBI director added. "It doesn't reflect values at all. It's transactional, it's ego-driven, it's in service to his ego." Comey, who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations, testified beforeÃâà...
The Hill
April 19, 2018
The fact is that on the matters that move the hearts and minds of voters in elections, the man,President Trump, and the party, Republicans, are ... Democrats should run aggressively against the Trump Republican tax scandal in which Republicans wrote a secret tax bill behind closed doors, under theÃâà...
Politico
April 19, 2018
If the high-water mark of Republican power came on the day last December that congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump celebrated the ... “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy” is Ta-Nehisi Coates' lament over what he considers the lost opportunity of the Obama years.
WJLA
April 19, 2018
That quality also helped when the first lady was hosting parties at the White House, bringing Republicans and Democrats to the table. "She's from an almost forgotten era of bipartisan politics," said Andrew Och, historian and so-called "First Ladies Man." He told Circa, "They didn't care what party you were in, they knew thatÃâà...
New York Times
April 18, 2018
WASHINGTON — As chief executive of the influential conservative think tank Heritage Action for America, Michael Needham waged years of unforgiving political warfare against the Republican Party establishment, deepening the divide between party leaders and grass-roots activists that helped elevateÃâà...
Vanity Fair
April 18, 2018
When Roy Moore became a top contender for the Alabama Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, it was without the help of the Republican party. “Our goal is to nominate people in the primaries next year who can actually win,” Mitch McConnell famously said in a thinly veiled dig at Steve Bannon, whoÃâà...
CNN
April 18, 2018
He was a US representative for Texas, UN ambassador, Republican Party chairman, ambassador to China and CIA director. He then became Ronald Reagan's vice president for two terms and won election to the White House in 1988. He left office in 1993 after losing a re-election bid to Bill Clinton.
Colorado Public Radio
April 14, 2018
Colorado's major party assemblies on Saturday feature a surprisingly open Republican governor's contest with candidates courting delegates loyal to ... Stapleton's problems sparked infighting with Coffman and Robinson and echoed those of Jon Keyser, a top contender in the 2016 GOP U.S. Senate raceÃâà...
New York Times
April 14, 2018
Despite Mr. Trump's considerable flaws as a presidential candidate, he effectively diagnosed the reasons the Republican Party is widely disliked, even by its own voters. It has become the party of the white working class — six out of ten Republicans are now whites without a college degree — but it hasÃâà...
The Economist (blog)
April 14, 2018
DONALD TRUMP is not a traditional Republican. His breaks with the party's orthodoxy on several issues, and above all on free trade, have caused many Republican officials and conservative intellectuals to denounce his leadership. But although most party officials have embraced the president onlyÃâà...
The Denver Post
April 14, 2018
Coffman attempted to challenge Stapleton's place on the assembly ballot, but the complaint was quickly dismissed by Republican Party attorneys. ... help with endorsements from immigration firebrand Tom Tancredo, a former congressman and onetime candidate for governor, and conservative U.S. Rep.
Charleston Post Courier
April 14, 2018
"We will be the nation's Republican response to the Comey investigation," party Chairman Larry Kobrovsky said. CNN has been here before for other local GOP events and watch parties. Kobrovsky said he plans to pick about 20 party members to take part. CNN focus group reporter Gary Tuchman saidÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
Most Republicans in the governor's race, however, have not joined Mr. Jones in chastising the right and the party overall remains committed to a small-government agenda, including in education. Among Democrats in these states, there is rising hope that a debate over funding schools and paying teachersÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
HANNIBAL, Mo. — Josh Hawley, Missouri's attorney general, took the stage in this historic Mississippi River town one evening last week, the picture of what the Republican Party wanted for the coming fight to unseat Senator Claire McCaskill this November: young, telegenic and smart. Six years ago, Ms.
89.3 KPCC
March 24, 2018
Not your grandparents' political parties: How the makeup of Republican, Democratic voter bases have changed over decades ... Five US Presidents pose for picture in front of the Reagan Library 04 November 1991 in Simi Valley, Ca. Never before have five American Presidents been together. From left, areÃâà...
The Economist (blog)
March 24, 2018
IN AN era of deep partisan division in America, is there anything about which Democrats and Republicans still agree? ... groups are those that tend to divide the major parties: Democrats, for instance, are not big fans of the National Rifle Association, while Republicans tend to frown upon Black Lives Matter.
The Hill
March 24, 2018
The belief that all people are created in God's image is the one thing standing between us and the nihilism of white nationalist, Randian, and Koch brothers wings of the Republican Party that would strip millions of Americans of health care, rip families apart through deportation, deny entry to refugees andÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 24, 2018
THURMONT, Md. (Reuters) - When Maryland Democrats drew new U.S. House of Representatives district maps in 2011, long-time Republican voter Bill ... roughly 55 miles north of the U.S. capital, said he thinks he and others like him were being targeted by the Democrats because of their party affiliation.
Los Angeles Times
March 24, 2018
In the last several days alone, as Republicans presided over the mammoth spending bill, Trump announced billions of dollars in trade tariffs. Such expansive spending and tariffs have both long been opposed by a party that prides itself on fiscal diligence and free trade, and the alternatives as more in theÃâà...
FiveThirtyEight
March 24, 2018
Just because the parties are trending in a certain direction doesn't mean they're fully there: Republicans are not just the party of old, conservative, white ... Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a poll from the Pew Research Center found that American adults are still split on whether it was the rightÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 23, 2018
John Kasich, left and Assemblyman Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) at an event to debut a new group trying to reform the California Republican Party. ... "We are engaging in this idea that you can be a Republican and you can be with us on 50% of the issues or 60% of the issues; you don't have to be with usÃâà...
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
The US Senate has approved a sweeping $1.3tn spending bill just hours after the 2,232-page text was released to lawmakers, as Republican leaders ... The House vote was not divided along party lines: 145 Republicans and 111 Democrats voted yes while 90 Republicans and 77 Democrats voted no.
New York Times
March 23, 2018
WASHINGTON — House Intelligence Committee Republicans said Thursday that opposition to Donald J. Trump by the party's national security ... Conaway, Republican of Texas, who led the inquiry, said that the committee had found “a pattern of Russian active measures in the United States, both throughÃâà...
New York Times
March 23, 2018
“The party was going down and down and down. Today we are the Titanic after it hit the iceberg — but before the last bit of the ship submerged.” Mr. Schwarzenegger was speaking at a youth center in East Los Angeles marking the start of an organization of moderate California Republicans trying to moveÃâà...
News & Observer
March 21, 2018
The four Democrats and four Republicans on the new state elections board went 'round and 'round Wednesday, casting tie vote after tie vote, as they ... the NC Republican Party executive director, said Republicans will talk about asking the legislature to consider a constitutional amendment to allow "a fullyÃâà...
New York Times
March 21, 2018
WASHINGTON — Phil Bryant, the Republican governor of Mississippi, defied a last-minute appeal from the White House and announced Wednesday .... for Ms. Hyde-Smith, though, is if additional Republicans enter the race, making it easier for Mr. McDaniel to emerge as the party's top vote-getter in the firstÃâà...
Press Herald
March 21, 2018
I supported and voted for Susan Collins in 2002 and 2008. Since then, both of our political parties have become vastly more partisan and have demonstrated a remarkable deterioration in regard to integrity and trustworthiness. Why this deterioration and partisanship have developed are subjects of muchÃâà...
KVRR
March 21, 2018
FARGO, N.D. — Former U.S. Rep. Rick Berg is back in politics after losing the Senate race to Heidi Heitkamp in 2012. Berg has been elected chairman of the North Dakota Republican Party. The one-term congressman was elected by unanimous ballot during a meeting of the party's state committee onÃâà...
Haaretz
March 21, 2018
Arthur Jones, who has been disavowed by his own party, is very likely to lose the general election, since the district is considered as a safe Democratic seat. The very fact that he secured the nomination, however, has created negative headlines for the Republican Party in the state as well as on a nationalÃâà...
HuffPost
March 21, 2018
And last week, despite a Trump visit to the Pittsburgh suburbs just three days prior to voting, Republican Rick Saccone still lost Pennsylvania's 18 ... Other Republicans argue that, Trump's unpopularity in much of the country notwithstanding, the party is stuck with him and needs his help or face doing evenÃâà...
New York Times
March 21, 2018
He pointed to Paul Nehlen, whose primary bid against the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, was denounced by the Wisconsin Republican Party last month, and Joe Arpaio, the immigration hard-liner pardoned by President Trump, who said in January that he was running for United States Senate in Arizona.
CNN
March 21, 2018
(CNN) As Republicans gear up for a tough midterm election year, party leaders are pointing to their success in passing the tax overhaul last year as the key ... The Republican there, Rick Saccone, embraced the tax cuts during the campaign, saying in a debate that they're "not the 'crumbs' that Nancy PelosiÃâà...
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