As GOP tries to convince public it opposes antisemitism, Trump questions Jewish voters
Trump says he doesn’t understand how so few Jewish voters backed him.
By Josh Israel - June 17, 2021Trump says he doesn’t understand how so few Jewish voters backed him.
By Josh Israel - June 17, 2021The minority leader has long ignored discriminatory comments by several House GOP members.
By Josh Israel - June 16, 2021Christopher Wray testified on Thursday that at least one rioter brought a gun inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
By Emily Singer - June 10, 2021It was not a ‘normal tourist visit,’ as one GOP lawmaker said.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021‘It’s inconceivable that they don’t even want to find out how to prevent this in the future,’ Officer Aquilino Gonell said.
By Emily Singer - June 04, 2021House Republicans have their own priorities.
By Josh Israel - May 28, 2021Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is one of just a handful of Republicans voting in favor of an independent review of the Capitol insurrection.
By Emily Singer - May 28, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy once opposed hate crimes laws of any kind.
By Josh Israel - May 26, 2021Republican senators say the bipartisan House bill is duplicative, partisan, and premature.
By Josh Israel - May 26, 2021In video from 2020, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says statues of Hitler and Satan would have educational value and therefore shouldn’t be taken down.
By Oliver Willis - May 25, 2021Republicans have been railing for months against Democratic spending proposals in ‘totally unrelated’ bills.
By Josh Israel - May 20, 2021A total of 175 House Republicans voted against creating the Jan. 6 commission.
By Josh Israel - May 20, 2021Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy have both said they oppose a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.
By Oliver Willis - May 19, 2021Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came out against a bipartisan commission to probe the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
By Emily Singer - May 19, 2021The House minority leader thought ACORN, Benghazi, the IRS, and Planned Parenthood were important enough to probe.
By Josh Israel - May 18, 2021Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) wants to take $350 million meant to bolster the emergency response at the Capitol and instead use it to build Donald Trump’s border wall.
By Emily Singer - May 18, 2021Republicans want totally unrelated issues to be part of the bipartisan commission to examine the insurrection Donald Trump incited.
By Emily Singer - May 18, 2021House Minority Leader said no one is ‘questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.’ But more than two-thirds of Republicans do not believe President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - May 17, 2021Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) announced a bill on the formation of a commission on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
By Emily Singer - May 14, 2021More than 100 law enforcement officers were injured on Jan. 6 during the violence at the U.S. Capitol.
By Emily Singer - May 13, 2021Donald Trump called Republican Rep. Liz Cheney a ‘bitter, horrible human being.’
By Associated Press - May 13, 2021He made the comment just hours after the GOP ousted Liz Cheney from House leadership for calling out Donald Trump and election fraud lies.
By Emily Singer - May 12, 2021On the eve of her ouster, the Wyoming Republican excoriated her fellow GOP lawmakers for being ‘at war with the Constitution’ and ‘undermining democracy’ by pushing Donald Trump’s election lies.
By Emily Singer - May 12, 2021Kevin McCarthy and GOP leadership have been lax in disciplining members who have made racist or white supremacist comments or have been in legal or ethical trouble.
By Emily Singer - May 11, 2021Meanwhile, the House minority leader is trying to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership role for not lying enough.
By Josh Israel - May 11, 2021Some House Republicans are casting doubt on Kevin McCarthy’s leadership amid the effort to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from her No. 3 role in the GOP conference.
By Emily Singer - May 11, 2021Kevin McCarthy never seems to stand up to antisemitism when it comes from Republicans.
By Josh Israel - May 10, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called the GOP the party of ‘free thought and debate,’ even though he’s punishing a Republican for daring to criticize Donald Trump.
By Emily Singer - May 10, 2021Republicans previously warned the president’s proposals might make the economy too hot.
By Josh Israel - May 07, 2021‘We all need to be working as one if we’re able to win the majority,’ GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy said this week.
By Associated Press - May 07, 2021