Tag: Elections

The National Labor Relations Board's members are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, but it otherwise operates independently. The confirmation of business lawyer John Ring would ensure that the NLRB has a Republican-appointed majority through at least 2020. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

White House close to picking new labor law enforcer

Sean Higgins · December 1, 2017 8:12 pm

Democrats only need to switch 24 seats on net to wrestle the gavel away from Paul Ryan and banish him from the Speaker's lobby. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Speaker Nancy Pelosi? Sabato’s Crystal Ball predicts control of the House comes down ‘to a coin flip’

Philip Wegmann · December 1, 2017 4:13 pm

Michael Flynn is charged with one count of "willfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the FBI regarding conversations he had during his time at the White House with Russia's ambassador. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

National Security

Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI, will cooperate with special counsel Mueller

Kelly Cohen · December 1, 2017 2:23 pm

After promises from the White House he won't campaign for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, President Trump will hold a campaign-style rally in Pensacola, Fla., next Friday, just across the Alabama border. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Trump to appear at campaign-style rally miles from Alabama border as special election looms

Diana Stancy Correll · December 1, 2017 6:55 am

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., has voted both for and against Obamacare repeal. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Danny Tarkanian: Why I’m running against Dean Heller

Danny Tarkanian · December 1, 2017 5:01 am

Among those reportedly under discussion to fill the potentially empty seat of Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. — should he take the CIA directorship — is White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Could we see Senator Sarah Huckabee Sanders?

Steven Nelson · December 1, 2017 5:01 am

Wealthy Republican donors in the Northeast --like businessman, investor, and philanthropist Kenneth Langone -- have already had a difficult time funding a Trump-led party. The GOP's tax plan, which penalizes lavish lifestyles, has closed the checkbook for many. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

GOP donors in New York sour on party’s tax plan

David M. Drucker · December 1, 2017 5:01 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has not been entirely consistent in her handling of the scandal surrounding Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

You’re bad at what you do, Nancy Pelosi

Becket Adams · December 1, 2017 4:18 am

There is an increasing sense that the old and devastating sexual misconduct revelations are receding into the distant past of two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

Why the Alabama Senate race is shifting in Roy Moore’s favor

Byron York · December 1, 2017 12:37 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been peddling theories that the U.S. is not only meddling with his business allies, but in the 2018 Russian elections and even the upcoming Olympic games. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, file)

Kremlin: US trying to turn oligarchs against Putin

Joel Gehrke · November 30, 2017 11:06 pm

Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore has regained his lead, in some polls, after a series of sexual misconduct allegations saw his popularity drop significantly. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Pro-Trump group polling shows upswing for Roy Moore

Daniel Chaitin · November 30, 2017 10:44 pm

Since the allegations of sexual assault against Roy Moore came out, Doug Jones has been outspending Moore by a margin of 10-to-1, but it hasn't been reflected in public polls. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

Despite Roy Moore’s faults, Democrats are blowing it in Alabama

Ryan Girdusky · November 30, 2017 6:35 pm