Speaker Pelosi seeks re-election ahead of 2022 midterms
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that she would run for re-election to Congress in this year's midterms, though she has previously vowed to step down as the House Democrat leader after the 2022 election. In a tweet on Tuesday, Jan. 25, Pelosi, who will turn 82 in March, explained that ...
Trump tops the Republican race in 2024, with DeSantis a distant second
According to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 1,815 registered voters conducted January 19-20 and shared exclusively with The Hill, former President Trump is the most likely candidate in the Republican presidential election of 2024, receiving 57 percent of the vote. With a faraway ratio of 12 percent and 11 percent, ...
Poll: GOP gains biggest party preference lead since 1995
A study found more voters prefer the Republican Party than at any point in the past quarter of a century. The GOP recently secured a 14-point swing during 2021, giving it the largest lead against the Democratic Party since 1995. "The GOP has held as much as a five-point advantage in a ...
Sen. Graham raises concerns about McConnell’s effectiveness as Senate leader
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that he would support Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for the position of Senate Republican leader again if he can prove a “working relationship” with former President Donald Trump, who Graham said will win the White House in 2024. “He’s the most consequential Republican since Ronald Reagan. ...
Rep. John Katko (R-NY24), a member of the impeachment committee, is stepping down
Representative John Katko (R-NY24), one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for the second time, stated on Friday that he would not seek re-election in November. After voting to impeach Trump for encouraging the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by right-wing extremists last January, ...
Republican senators report new record fundraising haul in 2021
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), a campaign arm of the Senate Republicans, made an off-year record-breaking fundraising haul of $104.8 million in 2021. According to Breitbart, the NRSC released the figure in an announcement on Wednesday, Jan. 14, in which the GOP senators touted their ability to raise funds and beat off-year records ...
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson announced he is running for reelection
Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson announced Sunday, Jan. 9, that he would run for re-election, thus seeking a third term in office. While he had initially said he was not seeking a third term, Johnson openly declared in an interview to Fox News that the Democrats govern in a "very divisive and destructive ...
Michelle Obama announces progressive plan to recruit 1 million new voters by 2022
Former first lady Michelle Obama, along with the ultra-progressive foundation she heads, When We All Vote, announced a plan aimed at recruiting and training a total of 100,000 volunteers who will aim to bring in 1 million new voters to add to the Democratic electorate. Obama wrote in a letter Sunday ...
Larry Elder won’t bid for California governor, forms Super PAC to assist GOP
Radio talk show host Larry Elder will not join in California's governorship race this year; instead, he will create a political action committee (PAC) to support the Republican Party. On Tuesday, Jan. 4, Elder said that he would not seek to challenge Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for a second straight time in November 2022's ...
Biden could face impeachment if Republicans take back House, Senator Cruz warns
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz warned that, in the face of a possible Republican victory in the 2022 midterm elections, it would not be strange to propose an impeachment trial against President Joe Biden just as the Democrats did with Trump. According to the senator, reasons abound to carry it ...
Pelosi refuses to say if she’ll run for 2022 reelection amid Democrats’ fragile majority
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declined to directly answer a question about whether she would seek reelection next year as the Democratic Party’s already slim majority is weakening due to more resignations from Democrat lawmakers. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Oct. 24, Pelosi just laughed it off after host Jake Tapper ...
Obama to join Virginia gubernatorial candidate’s campaign to boost Democratic vote
Former President Barack Obama will join the political campaign of the candidate for governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, to encourage Democratic voters in a race that at the moment is very close. This Tuesday, the Democratic candidate's team announced that Obama would campaign alongside the former governor so that he could ...
Twitter accidentally censors GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown
Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown's Twitter account on Monday, Oct. 4, was suddenly permanently suspended, Fox News reported. Army veteran Captain Sam Brown slammed the social media giant for partisan censorship for removing his account. "Big Tech is waging an all-out attack on conservative voices—using unequally applied 'rules' to censor or ...
Republicans win a seat from Democrats in a district where Biden won by more than 25 points
Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party have their sights set on the 2022 midterm elections. The Democrats clearly intend to maintain their dominance in the capitol, and the Republicans seeking to wrest control of the legislative branch. Against this backdrop, each state election held between now and then ...
Rep. Greene pledges to fund challengers against any House Republican voting for infrastructure bill
Raising nearly $6 million from the beginning of this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is eyeing to help the candidates who challenge any Republican lawmakers in the House that would vote for Democrats’ $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Speaking on Bannon's War Room on Tuesday, Aug. 17, Greene vowed to fund primary ...
Speaker Pelosi ‘very confident’ Democrats will retain majority in the House next year
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday, Aug. 6, expressed her confidence that her Democratic Party will continue to control the House of Representatives following the 2022 midterms. At her weekly news conference at the Capitol, Pelosi said, "I'm very confident that we will win the House." The speaker responded to reports ...
