Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared her playbook for handling bad press lessons she learned from President Donald Trump. “He’d be like, ‘Honey, I’ve been spinning up the press longer than you’ve been alive,” Leavitt said on Fox News Media’s Hang Out with Sean Hannity. “And he is right.” Leavitt spoke with Hannity […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York criticized Kamala Harris for campaigning with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed, saying Democrats don’t want her as a candidate. “She’s doing all the things that a candidate might do, she’s written a book, she’s got a book tour, she’s supporting candidates in elections,” York said on Fox […]
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) got a dose of bad news Tuesday when a nonpartisan political forecaster reclassified her Senate race as a “toss-up.” Sabato’s Crystal Ball revised the competitiveness of Iowa’s Senate race from “leans Republican” to a toss-up in favor of Democrats. The rating shift follows Hinson’s efforts on Monday to distance herself from […]
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D-MI) offered a late endorsement of Abdul el Sayed, the Senate nominee whose views on Israel have polarized the Democratic Party and prompted blowback from the Jewish community. Nessel, the first Jewish person elected to Michigan’s top law enforcement post, has been one of the loudest Democratic skeptics of el […]
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is not ruling out a third run for president. The 64-year-old two-time Republican presidential candidate spoke about the idea of a 2028 presidential run in an interview at the Granite State Summit on Responsible Gaming in New Hampshire on Tuesday. He argued that if Republicans perform poorly in the […]
An activist group tied to Democratic House nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier is planning to fundraise for an alleged Hamas supporter’s defense against federal charges. Columbia University Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting a local fair in October, with proceeds going to Mohamad Hamad, who is accused of helping attack Jewish sites in Pennsylvania, fraudulently […]
EXCLUSIVE — A new letter from a government watchdog urged Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to review the department’s contracts with Microsoft, citing the company’s employment of a former FBI official who once said she was “basically running a shadow government across the FBI.” Democracy Restored, a self-described nonpartisan watchdog, sent Mullin a letter Tuesday […]
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) is finding herself in a more competitive race just a week after she broke with President Donald Trump over his immigration policy. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan race-rater, shifted the Miami-area seat toward Democrats on Tuesday afternoon. The rating was moved from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican,” even as Trump […]
At least four Ohio television stations started rolling out a campaign advertisement from Democrat Brian Poindexter, who used the domestic violence allegations facing Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) to his advantage in the congressional race. The 30-second spot featured a local sheriff declaring the Republican incumbent is not the right man for the job, citing the […]
President Donald Trump said he has called for a ban on diesel exports as his administration weighs options for curbing all-time high fuel prices driven by the conflicts in the Middle East and Europe. “I’ve called for that too. I’ve said, let’s not send out the diesel,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the […]