Senior Republican Rick Scott offered an optimistic assessment of his party’s chances in midterm Senate elections on Thursday, saying the G.O.P. could win 55 seats on its way to taking back the chamber. It puts the head of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm at odds with Mitch McConnell, the party’s leader in the chamber, who … Read more
Corbyn-era former shadow minister Christina Rees is suspended by the Labour Party amid probe into allegations she bullied her constituency staff The MP for Neath has had the whip removed after the party began investigation The 68-year-old is a former judo black belt and international squash player She was shadow Welsh secretary from 2017 to … Read more
Almost 50 illegal immigrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will qualify for visas to stay in the US because their treatment was criminal, a Texas sheriff has said. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar submitted documents on Thursday suggesting the 48 migrants were victims of a crime, making them eligible for a … Read more
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to the Democrat mayors of New York City and Washington, DC on Monday inviting them to see the southwestern border crisis firsthand. ‘As you know, our nation’s southern border has become both a humanitarian and security crisis,’ Abbott wrote. ‘This crisis was created by President Biden and is … Read more
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, 82, breaks his hip: One of the oldest members of Congress to undergo surgery after falling in his Virginia home Patrick Leahy, 82, fell at his Virginia home Wednesday evening and broke his hip His office said that the break requires him to undergo surgery Thursday morning Leahy is the fifth … Read more
A new poll shows that 73 percent of Trump voters believe that Democrats are trying to replace white Americans with immigrants and people of color to shore up more votes. The so-called ‘Great Replacement Theory’ was cited by an 18-year-old white gunman who shot 10 black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y. weeks … Read more
The House Judiciary Committee provided the following timeline of its interactions with Amazon: Third-Party Seller Data Round One July 16, 2019: Nate Sutton, Amazon’s Associate General Counsel for Competition, testifies under oath about Amazon’s use of third-party sellers’ data in its private-label business and states that ‘we do not use any seller data for—to compete … Read more
Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar ripped his colleague Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for campaigning for his primary challenger, calling her a ‘far-left celebrity’ who should take care of her own district. Ocasio-Cortez, N.Y., is headed to Texas Saturday to campaign for two progressive House candidates – Jessica Cisneros, a Laredo immigration attorney is challenging Cuellar, and … Read more
President Joe Biden claimed five Republican senators have told him they’d vote alongside Democrats on various bills, but expressed fear former President Donald Trump would unleash a primary challenger if they stepped out of line. ‘I’ve had five Republican senators talk to me, bump in to me … or sit with me. Who have told … Read more
Psaki announces Biden will FINALLY hold a press conference next Wednesday: President will face the full press for the first time in 78 days Biden will take questions from reporters Wednesday, Jen Psaki said It will be his first formal presser since early November in Glasgow White House has fended off questions for months about … Read more
At least one House Democrat is refusing to attend a meeting with one of Kamala Harris‘ top aides after the vice president’s new hire was found to have made disparaging comments about undocumented immigrants. Rep. Lou Correa of California told The Hill on Tuesday that he would not join fellow members of the Congressional Hispanic … Read more
Donald Trump hung up on NPR during a dial-in interview Tuesday when host Steve Inskeep repeatedly pushed the former president on his election fraud claims. After badgering Trump for around nine minutes on his claims the 2020 presidential election was stolen, the ex-president got fed up and abruptly ended the interview, which was scheduled for … Read more
Even Gen Z and millennials are abandoning Biden: Just 27% of Americans under 30 approve of the president and only 4% believe the economy is ‘excellent,’ according to another dire poll amid mounting questions over whether he will run again A new dire poll shows that President Joe Biden’s approval rating stands at 27 per … Read more