GOP plots to kick failed Speaker Paul Ryan out of his job
Paul Ryan’s lame-duck speakership has been a disaster.
By Eric Boehlert - May 21, 2018Paul Ryan’s lame-duck speakership has been a disaster.
By Eric Boehlert - May 21, 2018With no accomplishments to speak of, Devin Nunes is touting his role as a doormat for Trump and begging East Coast donors to save him from voters in his own district.
By Caroline Orr - May 19, 2018Republicans were hoping to flip Senate seats in three states Trump won — but Mitch McConnell is already assuming that’s not going to happen.
By Eric Boehlert - May 18, 2018Desperate Republicans are reduced to rigging to legislative calendar.
By Eric Boehlert - May 17, 2018Republicans are currently projected to lose 26 seats in the House — and with the Democratic enthusiasm gap, that number might be even bigger.
By Erin Reed - May 15, 2018Bruising Republican primaries are leading to extended feuds within state parties, as some losing candidates hint that they’re not ready to rally around the winner.
By Eric Boehlert - May 14, 2018Some Republicans in Congress admitted they were trying to pass their tax scam to ensure their billionaire donors would keep the cash flowing. Now, they’ve even failed at that.
By Matthew Chapman - May 14, 2018Donald Trump Jr. is determined, even though he’s already failed miserably this year as a campaign surrogate.
By Eric Boehlert - May 10, 2018The Republican tax giveaway to corporations has turned into a midterm albatross.
By Eric Boehlert - May 07, 2018Some desperate Republicans are now trying to confuse voters.
By Eric Boehlert - April 30, 2018Saddled with their wildly unpopular tax bill, GOP leadership is scrambling to point to any achievements.
By Eric Boehlert - April 30, 2018With his congressional seat in danger, Devin Nunes is desperately blaming his own failures on imaginary boogeymen.
By Caroline Orr - April 28, 2018Even on their home turf, Republicans are getting badly beaten in the race for cash.
By Eric Boehlert - April 25, 2018Pennsylvania is in deep midterm trouble, but the GOP is committed to insisting everything is fine.
By Eric Boehlert - April 23, 2018Need to lose money in NJ? Throw a fundraiser at a Trump property featuring a Fox News speaker.
By Eric Boehlert - April 23, 2018Several veteran Republicans don’t have much faith for the upcoming midterms, fearing ‘the smoking rubble of a 40- to 50-seat pounding.’
By Eric Boehlert - April 19, 2018Sources report McConnell is using a shady new strategy to keep his Senate majority: block red-state Democrats from going home to campaign.
By Matthew Chapman - April 19, 2018In at least 20 races, Democratic women are winning the fundraising race against incumbent Republican congressmen they’re running to unseat.
By Caroline Orr - April 18, 2018After vying to be the Trumpiest candidate running, an Indiana Republican now trails badly.
By Eric Boehlert - April 18, 2018It’s possible that every member of New Jersey’s 11-person House delegation will be a Democrat in 2019.
By Eric Boehlert - April 17, 2018The RNC is spending a quarter of a billion dollars desperately trying to hold on to its majority even as many Republicans concede the House may be lost.
By Eric Boehlert - April 16, 2018Republicans know they’re in big trouble this November, and Paul Ryan bailing on Congress proves it.
By Oliver Willis - April 11, 2018Paul Ryan exits as a complete policy fraud.
By Eric Boehlert - April 11, 2018Paul Ryan, the self-appointed wonk of Congress, is cutting and running like a coward before the blue wave wipes out his party and he loses his speaker’s gavel.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 11, 2018Youth vote enthusiasm has doubled since the last midterm cycle, and that’s very bad news for the GOP.
By Eric Boehlert - April 10, 2018A new poll shows 63 percent of Orange County residents disapprove of Donald Trump. It no longer looks like a reliable Republican stronghold.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 09, 2018If Republicans can’t even count on older white voters, they’ve got no hope this November.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 09, 2018Republicans are admitting they’ll probably lose the House this November, but now they’re worried they might not even be able to hold on to the Senate.
By Eric Boehlert - April 09, 2018Evangelical leaders aren’t so much concerned about Trump’s sex scandals. They’re just concerned about the fallout.
By Caroline Orr - April 06, 2018With their tax scam predictably failing, Trump and his fellow Republicans are focused on bashing immigrants in a misguided attempt to close the Democratic enthusiasm advantage.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 05, 2018