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Donald Trump and his allies in Congress and election offices throughout the country have a variety of tools to dismantle the will of voters and install Trump as president — Tuesday’s election results be damned. Much of the nation was shocked when attempts to overturn the 2020 election culminated in …

VANCOUVER, Washington — Joe Kent is nervous, and he keeps checking the clock on his phone. A far-right candidate for the House, with connections to white nationalists, Kent is making his closing pitch to GOP voters at a town hall in Vancouver, Washington, a commuter city across the river from …

With less than a week to go before the election, Donald Trump still hasn’t produced a concrete healthcare plan after teasing that he had “concepts” of one last month. Instead, one of his most prominent allies is wading into radioactive territory for Republicans: vowing to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. …

House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t want to hear about Arnold Palmer‘s johnson. The Republican bristled when confronted about Donald Trump‘s recent rally comments where he told a story about Palmer’s “unbelievable” penis size. During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper asked for Johnson’s reaction to …

Republican House speaker Mike Johnson claimed — without evidence — that there will be “cheating” in the 2024 election, once again raising unfounded doubts about electoral integrity. In 2020, Johnson voted against the certification of President Joe Biden’s win. “I think there is going to be some cheating in this …

House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to condemn recent comments by Eric Trump trying to paint the Democratic Party as responsible for assassination attempts on his father. Instead, Johnson essentially repeated the claims by attacking Democrats’ “rhetoric.” “I don’t think they’re saying that the Democratic Party tried an assassination attempt. I …

The August recess has ended, and Congress has less than a month to pass legislation to fund the federal government or plunge the nation into a shutdown. It’s already getting ugly. On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump demanded that “If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances …

Mere minutes after President Joe Biden announced he is stepping down from the presidential race, former president Donald Trump called him “not fit to serve” as Republican politicians, sensing blood, clamored for Biden to resign as president. “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not …

As Donald Trump recovers from an assassination attempt and Republicans head to Milwaukee for his coronation this week, the GOP elite has rallied around a new messaging strategy: emotionally blackmailing Democratic politicians, journalists, Hollywood celebs, and numerous other Trump critics into shutting up about the former president’s openly authoritarian vows …

Was Donald Trump’s survival an act of God? In the wake of the shocking assassination attempt on the former president in Pennsylvania Saturday evening, many prominent Republicans — and even a shortlister for Trump’s vice president — are crediting divine intervention for saving Trump’s life. Florida Senator Marco Rubio, widely …