Tag: Elections

Republicans would be setting themselves up so the disruption would happen in January of an election year. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

House Republican plan would create Obamacare cliff for 2020 presidential election

Philip Klein · March 7, 2017 1:45 am

Oprah Winfrey has money on the order of Trump, and Trump's surprise victory against Hillary Clinton has her wondering if she could follow the same path. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP)

Attention celebrities: Winning an election isn’t automatic

Todd Shepherd · March 4, 2017 5:01 am

President Trump called the Senate 'pathetic' on Friday for failing to deliver a full Cabinet. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump: ‘Pathetic’ that Senate hasn’t approved full Cabinet

Pete Kasperowicz · March 3, 2017 12:46 pm

Attorney general-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions pledged to recuse himself on any investigations related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sessions should have fessed up to Russian meetings sooner

Washington Examiner · March 3, 2017 5:01 am

The president's effort to nominate Jessica Rosenworcel hit a roadblock in the Senate last year. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump axes Obama’s nominee Jessica Rosenworcel for the FCC

Daniel Chaitin · March 2, 2017 12:01 am

Not enough GOP members present to support Seema Verma's nomination. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci File)

Republicans stall on approving Obamacare chief Seema Verma

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 1, 2017 6:12 pm

Only 7 percent of all registered voters say women's issues are their foremost concerns. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Beltway Confidential

Economy, security trump women’s issues at the polls, survey finds

Emily Jashinsky · February 28, 2017 5:21 pm

O'Brien is a trial lawyer and previously served as a senior adviser to Romney during his presidential runs. (Screengrab/Ora.TV)

National Security

GOP foreign policy adviser Robert C. O’Brien under consideration to be Trump’s Navy secretary

David M. Drucker, Jacqueline Klimas · February 28, 2017 4:48 pm

Reading Vogue for politics is like reading the National Review for advice on your clothes, skin and hair. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

Fashionably nuts

Noemie Emery · February 28, 2017 12:00 pm

The full Senate voted to end debate on the former Republican congressman to head the Interior Department. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

Zinke advances to final vote as Trump’s interior secretary

John Siciliano · February 28, 2017 12:47 am

Ross was a key economic adviser during Trump's campaign who strongly influenced his views on trade. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Senate confirms Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary

Susan Crabtree · February 28, 2017 12:19 am

Of all the Republican-held districts in the country, Hillary Clinton ran further ahead of Barack Obama in this Georgia district than in any other except Texas's 7th House District, a demographically similar seat in the Houston suburbs.

A referendum on Trump in Newt’s old district

Salena Zito · February 26, 2017 5:02 am