Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) suggested Tuesday he could run for reelection again, after announcing plans to retire earlier this year if Republicans were successful in efforts to redraw his Texas district. “To borrow from Mark Twain, the reports of my death, politically, are greatly exaggerated,” Doggett said in a video posted to X. The Texas […]
Democrats have a higher favorability rating over Republicans than before they won 40 seats in the 2018 midterm elections, according to a new poll. An NPR-PBS News-Marist poll released Tuesday found that voters are 14% more likely to support Democratic candidates in congressional races than Republican candidates, Democrats’ highest advantage since 2017. One reason for […]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Wednesday referred Thomas Windom, a former attorney for then-special counsel Jack Smith, to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution related to his alleged obstruction of Congress. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jordan lays out how Windom refused to answer multiple questions during a […]
A coalition of hundreds of British parents accused the BBC of giving their children a “constant drip-feed” of one-sided, pro-transgender content. The Bayswater Support Group, a support and advocacy group of British parents whose children identify as transgender, demanded that British broadcasting regulator Ofcom investigate the BBC over alleged pro-transgender propaganda, the Telegraph reported. The […]
The Trump administration announced a $15 million reward for information that leads to the arrest of former Canadian Olympic athlete Ryan James Wedding, the alleged leader of a cross-border drug trafficking enterprise. Officials from the Justice, State, and Treasury departments, as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said Wednesday that Wedding remains at large […]
The Pennsylvania Working Families Party announced it will be launching a campaign to primary Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) in 2028, though they have not selected a candidate to run against him yet. Though the WFP initially supported Fetterman in his 2022 Senate race against Mehmet Oz, the party called him a “Trump-enabling corporate Democrat” in […]
Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York suggested that President Donald Trump’s political opponents are still trying to find evidence related to Jeffrey Epstein “that they can use against” the president. On Tuesday, the House and the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill to release more files regarding Epstein, the late convicted sex trafficker, from the […]
Washington Examiner columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher said some Republicans will try to “reignite” the topic of the Epstein files in the future, even after President Donald Trump is expected to sign legislation related to it. The House voted almost unanimously on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which would force the Justice Department to release all […]
Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer on Wednesday jumped into California’s crowded governor’s race, pitching himself as the ultimate outsider who can lower the cost of living, bring back affordable housing, and drop electricity rates for more than 39 million people in the country’s most populous state. In a nearly two-minute video on YouTube, Steyer, a billionaire who has […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday urged Tennesseans to participate in a special House election Democrats hope to claim in the state. Harris’s appearance at a small Nashville rally ahead of the December election featuring Democrat Aftyn Behn and Republican Matt Van Epps marked the first time she has campaigned for a political candidate […]