Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) has once again beat a Democrat in California’s 40th Congressional District, which voted for Biden in 2020, topping Joe Kerr, a retired fire captain. Kim beat Kerr with 56.4% of the vote to Kerr’s 43.6%. The Associated Press called the race at 9:09 p.m. with 74% of the vote counted so far. The […]

Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) is publicly encouraging President-elect Donald Trump to stay neutral in next week’s race for majority leader. In repeated TV interviews, Thune has asked that Trump not endorse any of the three candidates running to replace GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Thune is perceived as the marginal front-runner in that […]

A pair of House Republicans demanded on Thursday that the FBI clarify the process by which it updates its crime statistics, accusing the bureau of giving off a false impression that crime has decreased in recent years. Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote in a letter to the FBI that they believed the bureau had quietly updated its statistics last […]

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) took a similarly defiant tone as many Democrats since President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election with a warning seemingly pointed at him. “People have often said that I’m a happy warrior, and I’ve always taken seriously my role as a happy warrior on behalf of this state,” the Illinois governor […]