Tag: Republican Party

The Junk Science at the Heart of the Gerrymandering Case

Jay Cost · October 13, 2017 7:00 am

It’s Trump vs. H&R Block

Tony Mecia · October 13, 2017 7:00 am

The Fractured GOP

Fred Barnes · October 13, 2017 7:00 am

He became an "unaffiliated voter" in his home state of Connecticut. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Joe Scarborough officially leaves the Republican Party

Katie Leach · October 12, 2017 9:16 pm

The following transcript reads like a poor man's Aaron Sorkin. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Robert Reich tries his hand at screenwriting

Becket Adams · October 12, 2017 7:52 pm

A faulty census will lead to a dubious reapportionment of congressional districts among states, and an even more dubious redistricting. (iStock by Getty Images)

A few cents, a lot of sense, and the Census

Washington Examiner · October 12, 2017 4:01 am

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., just barely survived in 2012 by helping an incompetent Republican candidate named Todd Akin win his party primary. This time, it doesn't look like there's going to be much of a contest in the Republican primary. Attorney General Josh Hawley (pictured above), a 37-year-old rising star who was just elected in November, has announced that he's in the race to win. (AP Photo/Jim Salter, File)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans score a top recruit as Josh Hawley announces for Senate

David Freddoso · October 10, 2017 7:50 pm

Some Republican insiders worry that the prevailing White House view is that passing legislation is the Senate's problem, not Trump's. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

As Trump battles Corker, Republican infighting threatens tax reform

David M. Drucker · October 10, 2017 6:15 pm

Thanks to Twitter, Blackburn just got a huge leg up in the GOP primary. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

By censoring Marsha Blackburn, Twitter supercharged her Senate campaign

Philip Wegmann · October 10, 2017 6:01 pm

"I like much of Obamacare because of the access issue," said Frist, speaking at the Permanente Executive Leadership Summit in Washington. "I'm not about throw it out and start over." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Bill Frist: ‘I like much of Obamacare’

Kimberly Leonard · October 10, 2017 2:22 pm

The real smashers of norms have always been Democrats. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Who’s breaking America’s norms now?

Noemie Emery · October 10, 2017 4:01 am

Bannon left Breitbart in 2016 to join Trump's campaign to serve as CEO. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Beltway Confidential

Don’t crown Steve Bannon kingmaker just yet

Philip Wegmann · October 9, 2017 9:10 pm