Pressure grows on House GOP to denounce Steve King
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other GOP leaders are facing mounting pressure to speak out and take action against Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) for his public support of white nationalist candidates and...
View ArticleDem House candidate Abigail Spanberger says Project Veritas infiltrated campaign
Democratic House candidate Abigail Spanberger's (Va.) campaign said Wednesday that the campaign was infiltrated by a person allegedly working for the conservative activist organization Project...
View ArticleTrump's attack on Ryan seen as advance scapegoating
President Trump’s stunning attack on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday is being interpreted by many on Capitol Hill as an attempt to deflect blame and throw the retiring Speaker under the bus...
View ArticleSteve King calls his critics 'cannibals', vows he’ll be reelected...
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Wednesday dismissed his critics as "cannibal[s]" and suggested he will be re-elected easily in next's week midterm election, despite polls showing him running in a close...
View ArticleDems move from optimism to confidence about winning House
Democrats have moved from feeling hopeful to confident they will win back the House, with growing signs that the volatile political environment has shifted back their way in the final days before the...
View ArticleLiz Cheney running for Republican Conference chair: report
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is running for a top GOP leadership post in the House, according to a new report.A source close to Cheney confirmed to CNN that she's running for chair of the Republican...
View ArticleGOP infighting spills into public view
Republican infighting has spilled out into public view less than one week before the midterm elections.President Trump on Wednesday unleashed a stunning Twitter attack on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.),...
View ArticleBlack Caucus calls for African-American representation among House leadership
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are calling for an African-American lawmaker to be granted the No. 1 or No. 2 spot in the House if Democrats win back the majority next week, setting up...
View ArticleProfessor says GOP lawmaker’s office called him over ‘liking’ vandalized...
An associate professor the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said he received a threatening phone call from the office of Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) after he "liked" a Facebook post depicting one of...
View ArticleVideo of John Lewis dancing to ‘Happy’ while campaigning for Stacey Abrams...
A video of civil rights icon John Lewis dancing to the song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams went viral on Thursday while the Georgia Democratic lawmaker was campaigning for his party's gubernatorial...
View ArticleJockeying already stepping up in House leadership fights
The final week of the midterm election has seen a flurry of last-minute, behind-the-scenes jockeying in House leadership races, even though it’s unclear which party will control the lower chamber after...
View ArticleCurbelo explains reason he forgave man who tweeted death threat
Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) called for more forgiveness and civility in explaining why he held a press conference with a 19-year-old man who tweeted out a death threat against him."If this country...
View ArticlePoll: Iowa voters favor Democrats for control of the House
A new poll by Iowa's largest state newspaper could spell trouble for Rep. Steve King (R).The Des Moines Register poll asked likely midterm voters across the state whether they would support a...
View ArticleDems are confident about House despite painful 2016 memories
Democrats’ growing confidence heading into Election Day bears echoes of 2016, leaving some liberals fretting that party leaders took no lessons from their drubbing that year — and are now measuring the...
View ArticleNate Silver says Dems could retake House, or not: 'Both extremely...
FiveThirtyEight's election forecaster Nate Silver said Sunday that the House could end up in Democratic or Republican hands in Tuesday's election, though polling predicts that Democrats will flip the...
View ArticleBattleground voters say midterms just as important as presidential election
Ninety-three percent of voters in battleground districts say their vote in this midterm election matters just as much, if not more, than in a presidential race, according to a new poll released...
View ArticleEx-Obama official, New Jersey Republican present moderate credentials as...
ROEBLING, N.J. — In what has become one of the most contested and contentious House races in the country, two-term GOP Rep. Tom MacArthur and his Democratic challenger Andy Kim, a former Obama national...
View ArticleHispanic enthusiasm over midterms surges: poll
Voter enthusiasm among Hispanics has spiked, which could be bad news for Republicans in the upcoming election, according to a poll released Sunday.Thirty-six percent of Hispanic voters surveyed in the...
View ArticleAuthor Stephen King tells Iowans to vote out Steve King: ‘I’m tired of being...
Legendary horror author Stephen King is urging Iowans to vote out Rep. Steve King (Iowa), the GOP lawmaker with whom he shares a name.“Iowans, for personal reasons I hope you’ll vote Steve King out,”...
View ArticleGOP candidate hits back at SNL: Vets don’t deserve to have wounds used as...
Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw (R) on Sunday hit back at "Saturday Night Live" after cast member Pete Davidson mocked Crenshaw over the eye patch he wears because he lost his eye in...
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