Tag: Democratic Party

Last week Rep. Maxine Waters called Trump "the most deplorable person I've ever met in my life." (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Maxine Waters: Trump ‘cares about nothing’

Caitlin Yilek · August 7, 2017 4:36 pm

Brown can't be a good liberal so long as he strays from the party line. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Beltway Confidential

‘We’re not like a Marxist party,’ Gov. Jerry Brown asks Democrats to accept diversity of opinion on abortion

Philip Wegmann · August 7, 2017 4:15 pm

"Leadership has not been clever enough, or strong enough, or perhaps visionary enough," Brown said. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

California Gov. Jerry Brown: Democrats not ‘clever enough’

John Siciliano · August 6, 2017 2:23 pm

The NRCC is investing six figures to run the digital ad "Control" in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and Virginia. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republicans attack Democrats on government-run healthcare after Obamacare repeal failure

David M. Drucker · August 5, 2017 4:15 am

With tonight's switch by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice from Democrat to Republican, the GOP expanded its dominance of state governments. (AP Photo/Walter Scriptunas II)

Beltway Confidential

Nearly half of Americans now live under one-party Republican state governments

David Freddoso · August 3, 2017 10:49 pm

The West Virginia Republican Party attacked Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday mere hours before it was reported that Justice would switch to the Republican Party. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP, File)

West Virginia GOP mocks Gov. Jim Justice hours before report about him becoming a Republican

Matthew Trunko · August 3, 2017 9:23 pm

President Trump's rally is in Huntington, W.V. (AP Photo/Walter Scriptunas II)

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to switch from Democrat to Republican at Trump rally: Report

Al Weaver · August 3, 2017 8:07 pm

"Trump's repeated attacks on liberal orthodoxy highlight how Democrats are themselves bound -- hogtied is not too strong a word -- by the conflicting needs and goals of the various constituencies in their multiracial, multiethnic coalition -- a coalition that has been vulnerable to wedge issue attacks for 50 years," Edsall wrote. (Image courtesy screenshot)

New York Times writer: Democrats ‘hogtied’ to ‘conflicting needs’ of their voters

Eddie Scarry · August 3, 2017 4:17 pm

She's more Hillary than Bernie. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Beltway Confidential

Kamala Harris is already deepening divisions in the Democratic Party

Emily Jashinsky · August 2, 2017 8:58 pm

Trump openly questioned the constitutionality of a new sanctions bill that he signed into law. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Democrats fume at Trump’s sanctions statement

Pete Kasperowicz · August 2, 2017 6:55 pm

Voters think Trump is his own worst enemy: Poll

Melissa Quinn · August 2, 2017 6:50 pm

"I grew up Nancy D'Alesandro, in Baltimore, Maryland; in Little Italy; in a very devout Catholic family; fiercely patriotic; proud of our town and heritage, and staunchly Democratic," Rep. Nancy Pelosi told the Washington Post when Democrats struggled over the inclusion of pro-lifers into their party. "Most of those people -- my family, extended family -- are not pro-choice. You think I'm kicking them out of the Democratic Party?" (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

There’s a reason Democrats can’t agree on whether to exclude pro-life people from the party

Emily Jashinsky · August 2, 2017 6:41 pm