Vance first shot to fame through his acclaimed 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy JD Vance / Getty Images Former president Donald Trump tapped Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) as his vice president nominee on Monday in a bid to solidify his polling leads in the Rust Belt. The choice cements Vance’s meteoric rise in the GOP … Read more
Montana Senate race considered one of GOP’s best chances to flip a Senate seat Tim Sheehy (Tim for MT campaign) Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (Mont.) raised nearly $5.3 million in the second quarter of 2024, a spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon, a weighty sum in his bid to unseat incumbent Montana Sen. Jon … Read more
Just last month, Rep. Bennie Thompson mocked GOP criticisms of his effort to strip Trump’s Secret Service detail Rep. Bennie Thompson / Getty Images Secret Service agents shielded Donald Trump with their own bodies after a shooter opened fire on the former president during a Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday. But if a group of powerful … Read more
Democratic senator’s campaign previously slammed Trump’s tip tax cut as ’empty talking points’ Jacky Rosen, Joe Biden in 2018 (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) A vulnerable swing state Senate Democrat endorsed one of former president Donald Trump’s signature campaign promises on Thursday after previously dismissing the idea. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D., Nev.) co-sponsored a Republican bill on … Read more
Key swing state’s Senate race could determine party control of upper chamber L: Rep. Elissa Slotkin (Nathan Howard/Getty Images) R: Rep. Mike Rodgers (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The U.S. Senate race in Michigan moved from “lean Democrat” to “toss up” according to the Cook Political Report on Thursday, amid growing concerns that President Joe Biden’s stumbling … Read more
Column: A divided, demoralized party slouches toward November (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) President Biden’s high-stakes press conference at this week’s NATO summit was a triumph—for his challenger, former president Trump. Why? Because Biden’s performance did nothing to resolve the Democratic Party’s dilemma over his status as its 2024 presidential candidate. The press conference supplied Biden’s internal … Read more
Rep. Elissa Slotkin is the latest swing-state Democrat to ditch the president (Anna Moneymaker/Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Rep. Elissa Slotkin, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, will not appear with President Joe Biden when he visits Detroit on Friday, according to CNN. Slotkin, who has been ducking questions about whether she supports Biden staying in the … Read more