These days, Republicans have a structural advantage in the fight for the House because of how district lines were drawn earlier in the decade. But the party’s current structural advantage in the Senate may be even more important, since it doesn’t depend on state legislators drawing favorable lines, and the…
Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer’s commitment to radio town halls should keep him connected to his constituents, but it could also help lay the groundwork to challenge a Democratic senator in a top-tier race.
The North Dakota congressman held the most town halls (164) among members of Congress in 2016, and…
It’s no secret that Steve Bannon wants to oversee the demise of the mainstream media, but President Donald Trump’s senior adviser probably wouldn’t mind incapacitating the Republican Party in order to remake it into his own image as well.
Bannon (and Trump, for that matter) referred to the media, as…
As the Senate confirms President Donald Trump’s cabinet members, the special elections to replace some of them are starting to take shape.
Late Thursday night, Republicans in Kansas’ 4th District selected state Treasurer Ron Estes as the GOP nominee to replace Mike Pompeo, who was confirmed as Trump’s CIA director.…
During the campaign, there probably weren’t enough full-throated Donald Trump supporters on Capitol Hill to fill a minivan. But two Trump campaign aides could get elected in House special elections later this year, while another adviser may challenge a Republican senator in a primary next year.
Their candidacies will test…
No, you don’t have vertigo from the 2016 elections. Some candidates have already announced their campaigns for the 2018 midterm elections, including Ohio Republican Josh Mandel. And no, you’re not experiencing déjà vu, Mandel faced Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in 2012, and is on track to do so again next…
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump took the oath of office, hundreds of thousands of women descended onto the streets of Washington, D.C. in protest of the new president.
There were immediate comparisons to the Tea Party movement that began in 2009 with rallies against new President Barack Obama,…
Donald Trump’s critics believe the new president is clueless (or worse), but he might be on track to avoid repeating former President Barack Obama’s biggest political mistake.
Trump’s pre-inaugural press conference was widely panned, but his comments on the future of health care legislation were instructive.
“The easiest thing would…
The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s assault on Democratic senators up for re-election in 2018 has already begun.
That committee has sent out more than half a dozen press releases since the beginning of the year attacking Democratic senators facing re-election from states carried by Donald Trump in November or generally…
With the end of the Obama Administration approaching, I recently looked back at the notes from my two meetings with Barack Obama during his run for the United States Senate. Obama was not well known then, and he was regarded as nothing more than a long-shot for the Democratic nomination.
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