Tag: Republican Party

In this Tuesday, July 17, 2018 photo, Melissa Howard who is running for the District 73 State House seat being vacated by state Rep. Joe Gruters meets with voters during a "meet the candidates" event at Gold Coast Eagle Distriburing in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. Howard, a Republican candidate for the Florida Legislature who falsely claimed she had a college degree and posted a purported copy of her diploma online dropped out of her race on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018.

GOP candidate in Florida drops out of race after touting fake diploma

Mandy Mayfield · August 15, 2018 4:24 pm

President Trump speaks before a dinner meeting with business leaders on Aug. 7, 2018, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.

Trump has more converts than defectors

Kristen Soltis Anderson · August 15, 2018 2:00 pm

Tim Pawlenty stands with his wife, Mary, background left, and running mate Michelle Fischbach as he concedes his run for governor at his election night gathering at Granite City Food and Brewery, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018, in Eagan, Minn.

This is not Tim Pawlenty’s GOP anymore

Timothy P. Carney · August 15, 2018 12:40 pm

In this Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, photo, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise during a news conference on the tax bill on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Republicans want Steve Scalise as next House speaker, not Kevin McCarthy

Caitlin Yilek · August 15, 2018 11:48 am

FILE - In this July 26, 2018, file photo, Republican U.S. Senate candidates Leah Vukmir, right, and Kevin Nicholson debate in Milwaukee. Nicholson, running as an outsider, is running against Vukmir, a 15-year veteran of the Legislature who had the state GOP endorsement.

Beltway Confidential

Messy Wisconsin GOP Senate primary comes to tense end

Emily Jashinsky · August 14, 2018 4:00 am

Republican Gov. John Kasich, a former 2016 Presidential hopeful, gestures during a visit to New England College in Henniker, N.H., Tuesday, April 3, 2018.

John Kasich says tight Ohio special election ‘wasn’t good’ for Republicans, warns voters sent a ‘message’

Josh Siegel · August 12, 2018 3:11 pm

GOP chair Buddy Burkhardt, left, shakes the hand of libertarian-leaning Glenn Jacobs after early results showed Jacobs winning the mayoral race in Knoxville, Tenn.

Libertarians go local

W. James Antle III · August 12, 2018 4:00 am

President Trump speaks in an overflow room before speaking at the main rally in Lewis Center, Ohio.

Beltway Confidential

Here’s how Trump’s loose lips could actually help Republicans in swing districts

Emily Jashinsky · August 9, 2018 1:44 pm

Tahani Ahmed submits her ballot after voting at Lowrey School in Dearborn Mich., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010.

Beltway Confidential

Since voting for George W. Bush in 2000, a majority of Muslims are embracing socialism and the hard left

Siraj Hashmi · August 8, 2018 7:33 pm

The bad news for Trump: Every path requires Trump to win Florida. There is no margin for error there. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Republicans keep winning. So why are they so nervous about November?

W. James Antle III · August 8, 2018 5:31 pm

12th Congressional District candidates Republican Troy Balderson and Democrat Danny O'Connor.

Beltway Confidential

O-H-I-No: Ohio’s special election is the canary in the GOP coal mine

Siraj Hashmi · August 8, 2018 3:26 pm

In this June 30, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump waves as he arrive on Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J. Trump will make remarks honoring veterans at a Kennedy Center event on July 1, hosted by an evangelical megachurch. Trump is spending the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, but planned to briefly travel back to Washington on Saturday night for the âCelebrate Freedom Rallyâ at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Trump takes victory lap, ignoring blue warning signs

W. James Antle III · August 8, 2018 4:35 am