Tag: Democratic Party

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

"I feel it happens a lot with women's issues and I feel really disappointed in both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton," said Lizz Winstead, creator of "The Daily Show." (AP)

Media swarm Hillary Clinton over silence on Harvey Weinstein

Eddie Scarry · October 10, 2017 3:19 pm

The federal government said Tuesday that contractors began building eight prototypes of President Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

National Security

Trump: Democrats oppose border wall because they ‘don’t care’ about America’s safety

Anna Giaritelli · October 10, 2017 12:00 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

The party is hinting that Baldwin will be ready with his impression of President Trump. (Photo by Diane Bondareff/Invision for National Geographic Encounter/AP Images)

Alec Baldwin to deliver keynote speech at Iowa Democrats’ fall gala

Katie Leach · October 9, 2017 8:22 pm

This strife would be occurring even absent President Trump, for his election was a result, not the cause, of nationwide white working-class ire. And beneath the whole issue is that Democrats desperately need race as a prominent issue if they are to regain political power. They have proved themselves willing for decades to highlight racial division.

Racial politics: Democrats brought the coals, Trump fanned the flames

Timothy P. Carney · October 9, 2017 4:01 am

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting with, from left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in Washington. The president genially calls them "Chuck and Nancy." Schumer and Pelosi, have used two White House meetings to become Trump's dealmaking partners on budget and immigration. They have a combined 67-year record of being willing negotiators in Congress. But they're also partisan Democrats perfectly happy to rumble. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi won’t talk immigration with Trump: Proposal ‘goes so far beyond what is reasonable’

Anna Giaritelli · October 9, 2017 12:37 am

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Harvey Weinstein attends amfAR's New York Gala honoring Harvey Weinstein in New York. Weinstein is taking a leave of absence from his own company after The New York Times released a report alleging decades of sexual harassment against women, including employees and actress Ashley Judd. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein fired following sexual harassment allegations

Kyle Feldscher · October 8, 2017 11:19 pm

The New York Times reported last week at least eight settlements had been paid to women who alleged sexual harassment by Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax, the studio that produced such hits as "Pulp Fiction" and "Chicago." (Photo by Vince Bucci/Invision/AP)

Democrats distance themselves from Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein

Sean Higgins · October 8, 2017 7:09 pm

Democratic enthusiasm, like the Democratic electorate, is geographically and demographically clustered. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Can Democrats extend anti-Trump enthusiasm beyond their cocoons?

Michael Barone · October 8, 2017 5:58 pm

President Trump took aim at late night television hosts Saturday morning for their evergreen "anti-Trump" material, accusing the hosts collude with Democrats for their content. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump attacks late-night TV hosts for ‘dealing with’ Democrats for their ‘unfunny’ material

Mandy Mayfield · October 7, 2017 1:11 pm

Beltway Confidential

Harvey Weinstein should force media to admit Hillary Clinton is not a feminist icon

Eddie Scarry · October 7, 2017 4:01 am