Tag: Elections

Heidi Heitkamp and Hillary Clinton.

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Hillary Clinton haunts Heidi Heitkamp

Emily Jashinsky · May 15, 2018 6:13 pm

Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, displayed on the poster, celebrate in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, early Monday, May 14, 2018. The political coalition of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took an early lead in Iraq's national elections in partial returns announced late Sunday by the Iraqi electoral commission.

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No, Iran didn’t win Iraq’s election

Michael Rubin · May 15, 2018 5:35 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., center, accompanied by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., right, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

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Top Senate obstructionists are all running for president in 2020

Emily Jashinsky · May 14, 2018 8:12 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2013, file photo, U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., discusses his first months back in Congress during an interview in Mount Pleasant, S.C. A spokesman for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 that the agency is investigating after Sanford's niece's foot was apparently injured in an incident involving the congressman. An incident report said it happened on June 18, 2016 on a dock at the Sanford family farm near Beaufort, S.C.

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New ad assumes voters still care about Mark Sanford’s mistress in age of Trump

Philip Wegmann · May 14, 2018 7:38 pm

President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speak during a news conference at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club, Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in Palm Beach, Fla.

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Supporting Trump is a selling point for GOP hopefuls

Becket Adams · May 14, 2018 6:26 pm

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C, center, Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., right, and other conservative Republicans discuss their goal of obstructing the Affordable Care Act as part of a strategy to pass legislation to fund the government, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19.

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Next week: GOP tests the waters on food stamps work requirement

Susan Ferrechio · May 12, 2018 1:00 pm

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez voiced concern that the Iranian nuclear talks started off on the wrong foot. (AP file)

Bob Menendez will vote ‘no’ on Gina Haspel’s CIA confirmation

Susan Ferrechio · May 11, 2018 9:28 pm

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker touts proposals he says will stabilize the state's insurance market.

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Scott Walker to give tough midterm warning to GOP: ‘We need to wake up’

Emily Jashinsky · May 11, 2018 8:32 pm

Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivers a speech as Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., introduces her as his vice presidential running mate.

Sarah Palin responds to John McCain saying he regrets picking her for 2008 ticket

Anna Giaritelli · May 10, 2018 9:17 pm

Republican Don Blankenship, who lost in West Virginia's GOP primary in May, is challenging his state's sore loser law and attempting to earn a spot on the ballot in the midterm elections.

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Stop calling Don Blankenship a felon

Becket Adams · May 10, 2018 8:41 pm

Will Maine Elect Its First Female Governor?

Alice B. Lloyd · May 10, 2018 5:06 pm

U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson speaks during a press conference for the opening of Parisian Macao in Macau, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. Adelson was set to throw open the doors Tuesday to the French-themed Parisian Macao, the mogul's fifth property in the former Portuguese colony.

Sheldon Adelson donates $30 million to House Republicans, triple the amount in 2016

Anna Giaritelli · May 10, 2018 2:31 pm