EXCLUSIVE: Rep.-elect Ami Bera, D-Calif., said he would vote for a so-called ‘unity candidate’ for House speaker as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy again failed to secure the position in a fifth round of voting Wednesday.…
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House speaker race: Boebert says Trump should call McCarthy and tell him ‘it’s time to withdraw’
House GOP firebrand Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., called on former President Trump to pressure Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to withdraw his name from consideration to be the next House speaker. Boebert rose on the House floor…
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As House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy struggles to garner the 218 required votes to obtain the speaker’s gavel, Democrats are repeatedly delivering votes for incoming Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who has a history of denying…
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Deleted Biden campaign ad slamming Buttigieg’s lack of experience resurfaces amid multiple crises
A political campaign ad released by President Biden’s campaign ahead of the 2020 presidential election attacking Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a presidential candidate in Democratic primary, for his inexperience has resurfaced amid a series of…
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A lone Republican member of the House voted ‘present’ on Wednesday in the fourth attempt to agree on a House speaker, the first such vote in the two days the GOP has been trying to…
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Speaker’s race: Chip Roy gets standing ovation after noting historic nominations of 2 Black Americans
It was a rare moment of bipartisanship during a fraught House speaker vote Wednesday. Rep.-elect Chip Roy of Texas saw a standing ovation in honor of Reps.-elect Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., two…
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy again failed to secure the necessary 218 votes to be the next House speaker in a fifth round of voting Wednesday. McCarthy only captured 202 Republican votes in the first…
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Nevada’s Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo called for unity at his inauguration ceremony on Tuesday while still pushing for conservative ideals such as school choice and repealing some recent criminal justice reforms that he called ‘soft…
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f Video The State Freedom Caucus Network, which launched at the end of 2021 with the support of the influential House Freedom Caucus, expanded its reach throughout the U.S. on Wednesday after what organizers say…
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Ohio House lawmakers on Tuesday picked a Republican from rural southern Ohio as the GOP-led chamber’s next leader, after support shifted away from another representative who’d won an informal vote weeks ago for that powerful…