Republicans were hoping to flip Senate seats in three states Trump won — but Mitch McConnell is already assuming that’s not going to happen.

Desperate Republicans are reduced to rigging to legislative calendar.

Trump’s embrace of cronyism has led him to nominate Gordon Hartogensis, brother-in-law of Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao, to run a government agency for which he has no prior experience.

Republicans are making a show of criticizing the Trump aide who attacked John McCain. But the GOP is nowhere to be found when Trump denigrates the military and veterans.

Don Blankenship can’t stop saying racist things.

Convicted criminal and GOP Senate candidate Don Blankenship insisted that his blatantly racist slur against Asians was definitely not racist.

Republicans are terrified at the data showing massive election losses ahead. In attempt to save their party, they staged an intervention with Trump to get him to behave.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is now in a very tough spot — and his fellow Republicans helped put him there.

Sources report McConnell is using a shady new strategy to keep his Senate majority: block red-state Democrats from going home to campaign.

Mitch McConnell and his allies are cracking down to try to stop a convicted criminal from winning the Senate nomination against a red-state Democrat. And it is getting ugly.

Republicans know they’re in big trouble this November, and Paul Ryan bailing on Congress proves it.

Trump just issued his most direct hint that he’s looking to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. His Republican enablers in the Senate still refuse to do anything about it.

Republicans 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.

The Senate Majority leader becomes the latest to ring very loud alarms about the midterms.

Senior Republican leaders are panicking now that Trump’s trade war is rattling their base, forcing Trump to send out his economic team to do damage control.

Matt Jones wants to take down Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Republicans like Mitch McConnell talk a good game — until they don’t.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell had a clear hand in making it easier for Russia to interfere in our elections.

Mitch McConnell’s empty promises to protect immigrant children mean nothing — and everyone knows it.

“Speaker Ryan should talk to Leader McConnell, who’s the only person in the U.S. Senate standing in the way of paying our troops.”

Republicans refused to protect military pay as they pushed for a government shutdown — a change from President Barack Obama’s move to defend soldiers in 2013.

Donald Trump has ridden an unbroken streak of using his weaponized Twitter feed to chaotic effect, attacking everything from the First Amendment to the entire religion of Islam, but Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is fine with it as long as Trump isn’t attacking him. During an interview with Axios’ Mike Allen, McConnell was asked […]

It looks like Senate Majority Mitch McConnell needs to start looking for a new line of work. Because by his own admission, if Republican leaders can’t sell the GOP’s tax bill to voters as a gift from Washington, D.C., then they have failed miserably. From CNN’s Phil Mattingly: McConnell: “If we can’t sell this to […]

After weeks of asserting that the will of Alabama voters was the final word on the state’s special election, Republicans are now insisting that since they lost — thanks in large part to black voters — the results don’t quite count anymore. Soon after it became clear that Doug Jones would defeat Roy Moore, Sen. […]

Following the latest allegations of sexual harassment against Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, over 20 Democratic Senators — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mazie Hirono, Kamala Harris, Patty Murray, Maggie Hassan, and Claire McCaskill — have called on him to step aside. But notably, their chorus was joined by one man who had decidedly no business pointing […]

The mountain of evidence that Donald Trump and his campaign engaged in a conspiracy with the Russian government got a whole lot higher this week. And the case against Trump for obstruction of justice, which was already all but a slam dunk, may have gotten even stronger Sunday morning. The day after Trump implicated himself on […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is apparently a fan of “alternative facts.” After Donald Trump petulantly lashed out at Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi over their stances on immigration and taxes, the two backed out of a planned meeting with Trump intended to avert a government shutdown. “Given that the president doesn’t see a […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell now says he believes four women who have accused Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore of pedophilia and sexual abuse, and has begun to pressure Moore to drop out of the race. In the immediate aftermath of the bombshell report in the Washington Post which described allegations that Moore had pursued sexual relations with […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claims he “misspoke” when he recently said that “nobody in the middle class is going to get a tax increase” under the Republicans’ tax scheme. “I misspoke on that. You can’t guarantee that absolutely no one sees a tax increase,” McConnell now says. But in the GOP thesaurus, “misspoke” is […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday waved away concerns that Donald Trump or his allies might try to oust special counsel Robert Mueller, saying he doesn’t feel any pressure to protect the integrity of the Russia investigation. McConnell made the comments during an interview with MSNBC’s Hugh Hewitt, just one day after Republicans introduced […]