Vermont self-styled ‘independent-minded Republican’ holds fundraiser with Mitch McConnell
Christina Nolan has been trying to present herself as someone who would not rubber-stamp McConnell’s far-right agenda.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2022Christina Nolan has been trying to present herself as someone who would not rubber-stamp McConnell’s far-right agenda.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2022GOP senators are making bogus arguments to defend the filibuster rule.
By Josh Israel - January 11, 2022Under the proposed law, independent prosecutors — not military commanders — would handle the most serious cases.
By Associated Press - December 12, 2021Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said a panel investigating the U.S. Capitol attack would be too ‘partisan.’
By Josh Israel - October 05, 2021Some Republicans now criticizing Biden for the Taliban’s takeover previously praised the Trump administration for its plan to swiftly remove US support from the region.
By Emily Singer - August 16, 2021Sens. Joni Ernst and Roger Marshall want to ban nonexistent ‘meatless Mondays’ at federal agency cafeterias.
By Josh Israel - April 19, 2021President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan is overwhelmingly popular, even among GOP voters.
By Josh Israel - March 03, 2021‘We are confident in the fairness and accuracy of Iowa’s election system,’ say Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst.
By Donna Provencher - December 03, 2020In fact, Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock said the opposite of what Ernst claimed they did.
By Amy Lieu - November 25, 2020The Iowa Republican senator says the newest Supreme Court justice will stop environmental protections, gun safety laws, and ‘anarchist’ protesters.
By Josh Israel - October 28, 2020The ad features a former GOP politician who defended racial profiling in law enforcement.
By Josh Israel - October 26, 2020And Sen. Ernst’s reelection prospects look more bleak than ever.
By Donna Provencher - October 16, 2020The Iowa Republican senator has trailed Democratic businesswoman Theresa Greenfield in every major poll since early August.
By Josh Israel - October 15, 2020In reality, she’s voted multiple times to get rid of those protections.
By Josh Israel - October 08, 2020Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey joins North Carolina’s Richard Burr in abandoning swing-state seats in 2022.
By Josh Israel - October 05, 2020The Iowa senator opposed letting Trump fill an election-year vacancy as recently as 2018.
By Josh Israel - September 29, 2020Amy Coney Barrett is against abortion rights and criticized the decision upholding the Affordable Care Act. But Senate Republicans are lying about her stances as they rush to confirm her.
By Emily Singer - September 29, 2020Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst suggested that the public wants the Senate to rush through a Trump nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
By Josh Israel - September 25, 2020Ernst also continues to push the debunked claim that mental illness is the cause of gun violence.
By Josh Israel - September 22, 2020Republican senators say they will vote for Trump’s nominee, no matter who it is or what that person believes.
By Emily Singer - September 22, 2020Ernst gave credence to a QAnon-pushed conspiracy theory that falsely claims the coronavirus death toll is just 10,000.
By Emily Singer - September 02, 2020Joni Ernst is mad that her Democratic opponent posted a selfie with her dog.
By Josh Israel - July 31, 2020Few Republicans have spoken out, but the ones who have say the election will not be moved — despite Trump’s claims.
By Emily Singer - July 30, 2020Multiple Republican bills aim to cut funding to cities and states over racial justice protests.
By Emily Singer - July 22, 2020In 2016, Joni Ernst demanded that the ‘people’ have a ‘voice’ in who got to fill the empty Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
By Josh Israel - July 17, 2020‘We’re trying to ferret those people out.’
By Dan Desai Martin - July 10, 2020Republican senators are taking credit for a provision they tried to strip out of the latest coronavirus stimulus package.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 30, 2020Iowa’s Des Moines Register warned Sen. Joni Ernst’s that voters might remember her commens ‘when they go to the polls in November to decide whether she deserves a second term.’
By Dan Desai Martin - January 28, 2020Sen. Joni Ernst said the quiet part out loud when she suggested the point of Trump’s obsession with ‘corruption’ was about hurting Joe Biden.
By Kaili Joy Gray - January 27, 2020Collins’ popularity has dropped 10 points since September in the Morning Consult’s tracking poll.
By Emily Singer - January 17, 2020