Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Wednesday that President Donald Trump had yet to call them, despite the president’s pledge to work with Democrats after their sweeping midterm victories. “No, not yet,” Schumer said when asked during a victory press conference whether he had heard from Trump […]
Mayor-elect Janeese Lewis George is preparing to usher in a new era of Washington, D.C., politics, outlining an ambitious legislative agenda and transition plans Wednesday after winning the seat to become the city’s first socialist mayor. Lewis George, 38, easily won Tuesday’s general election, following her decisive victory in the June Democratic primary. She will […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) posted a photo of himself grilling on social media, except it’s Republicans who seem to be getting cooked. “54 seats and counting,” Schumer wrote on X. “And I learned how to grill … these burgers and dogs are fully cooked.” The post shows the New York senator smiling as […]
Fresh off sweeping midterm victories, Iowa Democrats are pressing the Democratic National Committee to restore the state’s coveted first-in-the-nation position on the party’s presidential nominating calendar in 2028. “I call upon the DNC to take a hard look at their calendar and restore Iowa to [the] early-vote window,” former elected Iowa Democrat Charlie Comfort told […]
Democratic Senators who have acted as party mavericks, willing to defect or speak out against their party, are likely to wield less power heading into the next Congress as their party expands its control of the upper chamber. Democrats have won at least 54 seats in the Senate, with races in Alaska and Mississippi still […]
Democrat Christina Hines defeated Republican Mike Bouchard in the race to replace Rep. John James (R-MI) in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District. Hines garnered 52% of the vote compared to Bouchard, who won 45% of the vote, according to the Associated Press, which called the race at 12:26 p.m. on Wednesday. The Democrat’s win flips James’s […]
EXCLUSIVE — President Donald Trump is expected to hunker down for the next two days and is unlikely to make his first post-midterm public appearance until Friday at NASA’s inaugural MAX POWER Aerospace Expo, White House officials tell the Washington Examiner. Trump has made revitalizing NASA and expanding Space Force a top focus of his […]
Sen.-elect Abdul el Sayed (D-MI) on Wednesday joked about meeting Vice President JD Vance in January, after defeating the White House’s favored Michigan Senate candidate in a resounding rebuke to Republicans. El Sayed, the socialist-leaning Democrat who on Tuesday clinched the victory over Mike Rogers in the battleground state’s bitter Senate race, has long warred […]
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) will run for another term as the top Senate Republican after a midterm cycle that cost his party a majority in both houses of Congress. Unlike Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who announced he would step down from leadership on Wednesday morning, Thune is planning to run for minority leader in the […]
Two Senate races remain too close to call Wednesday as votes continued to be counted in Alaska and Mississippi, where Democrats are mounting challenges that could further reshape the balance of power in the upper chamber. Democrats scored sweeping victories in Tuesday’s 2026 midterm elections, capturing control of both the House and Senate, but the […]
