Tag: Elections

Shannon Edwards, whose affair with a married eight-term Pennsylvania congressman led to his resignation, announced in a statement that she is seeking the Republican nomination to take on Democratic Pittsburgh Rep. Mike Doyle. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Woman who had affair with GOP Rep. Tim Murphy is running for Congress

Salena Zito · February 22, 2018 3:13 am

We all knew, and agreed that, vast sums of American and other foreign money were being shoveled into backing Boris Yeltsin and making sure the communists couldnÃ¢â¬â¢t make a comeback. (AP Photo/David Brauchli)

Beltway Confidential

How much has the US intervened in elections abroad?

Tim Worstall · February 21, 2018 10:01 pm

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the congressional map drawn by the GOP-led General Assembly in 2011, saying it constituted a partisan gerrymander and violated the state constitution. In response, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said, "What the court has done is truly breathtaking. They have grabbed power from the elected legislators. They did it in order to draw a partisan map of their own." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pat Toomey: Talk about impeachment of state Supreme Court judges ‘inevitable’ after they ruled against district map

Melissa Quinn · February 21, 2018 7:20 pm

"We're running a different kind of campaign," Dylan Ratigan tweeted, including a link to his official campaign website. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan running for Congress as a Democrat

Katelyn Caralle · February 21, 2018 7:19 pm

Alex Trebek, a native Canadian who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1998, will be asking the questions at the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry's annual dinner at Hershey Lodge. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek set to moderate Pennsylvania gubernatorial debate in October

Katelyn Caralle · February 21, 2018 5:02 pm

Democratic candidate Linda Belcher came out victorious in the special election to fill the vacant seat for the Kentucky House of Representatives 49th District on Tuesday. Belcher defeated Republican Rebecca Johnson, who sought to fill the seat that was vacated by her husband Dan Johnson following his suicide in 2017. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Democrat takes back Kentucky legislature seat in special election

Diana Stancy Correll · February 21, 2018 2:18 am

Hundreds of teenage students marched to the White House Monday to stage a "lie-in" for three minutes, the amount of time a gunman spent roaming the halls of a Parkland, Fla., high school last week, killing 17. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to meet with gun victims, backs safety measures amid pressure to act

Gabby Morrongiello · February 20, 2018 10:40 pm

Beltway Confidential

Ahead of first Indiana primary debate, Rep. Todd Rokita trains his fire on third-place ‘tax-hike Mike Braun’

Philip Wegmann · February 20, 2018 9:40 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the new Cyber-Digital Task Force will be chaired by a senior department office picked by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and include members of the department's Criminal and National Security divisions, U.S Attorneys, the Office of Legal Policy, the Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Chief Information Officer, the ATF, FBI, DEA and the U.S. Marshals Service. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Justice Department launches task force to examine election interference

Kelly Cohen · February 20, 2018 8:52 pm

"Hope Republicans in the Great State of Pennsylvania challenge the new 'pushed' Congressional Map, all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary," the president tweeted. "Your Original was correct! Don't let the Dems take elections away from you so that they can raise taxes & waste money!" (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump urges Pennsylvania GOP to challenge new congressional map up to the Supreme Court

Katelyn Caralle · February 20, 2018 2:36 pm

"Thank you to @foxandfriends for the great timeline on all of the failures the Obama Administration had against Russia, including Crimea, Syria and so much more," the president tweeted. "We are now starting to win again!" (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

National Security

Trump thanks Fox for broadcasting timeline of Obama failures against Russia

Katelyn Caralle · February 20, 2018 1:18 pm

Beltway Confidential

Sen. Joe Donnelly has a Mike Pence problem

Philip Wegmann · February 20, 2018 1:07 pm