Tag: Republican Party

Republicans have put a one-week time limit on debating immigration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House set to vote this week on two anti-sexual harassment bills

Al Weaver · February 5, 2018 8:29 pm

A fundraising page from the NRCC encouraged donors to contribute $10 and enter to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Trump Winery in Charlottesville, Va., which will take place May 11 to May 13. The winner will receive four round-trip plane tickets, a two-night stay at Albemarle Estate at Trump Winery, four tickets to the Mother's Day brunch at the winery, and ground transportation. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

GOP hosts contest to send donors to Trump Winery for Mother’s Day

Melissa Quinn · February 5, 2018 7:55 pm

President Trump praised Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., on Monday for helping make public a classified memo on government surveillance. Trump said, "Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!" (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

National Security

Trump: Devin Nunes should be recognized as a ‘Great American Hero’ for controversial memo

Melissa Quinn · February 5, 2018 3:32 pm

Arthur Jones, 70, has run for elected offices in Illinois and Wisconsin numerous times since the 1970s, but never came close to winning. He's expected to secure the GOP nomination in the March 20 primary because he's the only candidate on the Republican ballot. (Screenshot, via Arthur Jones' website)

Holocaust denier set to claim GOP nomination in Illinois congressional race

Caitlin Yilek · February 5, 2018 1:43 pm

Sen. Kamala Harris D-Calif., speaks during a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and to avoid the government shut down on Capitol Hill.

Kamala Harris will vote to shut down the government again over Dreamers

Pete Kasperowicz · February 5, 2018 12:45 pm

President Trump attended the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

GOP eyes rules changes to presidential nominating process

David M. Drucker · February 3, 2018 5:01 am

Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has not formally launched a campaign to replace outgoing Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, but he has hinted an announcement is forthcoming. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mitt Romney being eyed to replace Cory Gardner as head of NRSC: Report

Katie Leach · February 3, 2018 2:34 am

Red-state Democrats are being dragged into battles that pit them between the party's base and their constituents. For example, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sought to capitalize on her presumptive Republican opponent Josh Hawley's remarks on sexual liberation and human trafficking. Hawley then tweeted: "Fly commercial home from your next Hollywood fundraiser & ask people what Hollywood is doing to our culture." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

GOP midterm strategy drags vulnerable Democrats into culture wars

Emily Jashinsky · February 2, 2018 11:28 pm

"Shame on the Republican National Committee for slandering the brave transgender men and women who serve our nation," Ashley Broadway-Mack, the president of the American Military Partner Association, said in a statement. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

Rights group calls RNC vote on transgender military ban ‘disgusting’

Travis J. Tritten · February 2, 2018 11:22 pm

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said, "The Nunes memo is dangerous, ugly, and an assault on the integrity of the institutions of our country." (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

National Security

John Kerry: Release of Nunes memo ‘dangerous, ugly’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 2, 2018 8:26 pm

President Trump's low approval ratings and voter frustrations with his leadership in key battlegrounds is threatening the Republicans' 24-seat House majority, and could depress gains in the Senate. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

RNC members optimistic as they gird for midterms

David M. Drucker · February 2, 2018 5:18 pm

Author Stephen King apologized for saying that a train crash that involved Republican lawmakers was "karma." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Stephen King apologizes for mocking Republicans after train crash

Caitlin Yilek · February 2, 2018 3:29 pm