GOP clings to Trump on campaign trail even after humiliating losses
Republicans seem to think sending out a scandal-ridden, unpopular president will be the key to victory in November.
By Eric Boehlert - March 19, 2018Republicans seem to think sending out a scandal-ridden, unpopular president will be the key to victory in November.
By Eric Boehlert - March 19, 2018After passing a disastrous, error-ridden tax bill with zero Democratic support or input, Sen. Chuck Grassley thinks it’s only fair Democrats vote for all the changes Republicans need.
By Matthew Chapman - March 19, 2018Only three Republican senators thus far have shown the courage and the patriotism to call out Trump’s reckless attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller.
By Alison R. Parker - March 18, 2018Sen. Richard Burr apparently does not know what the word “collusion” actually means.
By Matthew Chapman - March 12, 2018Democratic primary voters are surging way ahead of Republicans, and creating a disaster for Sen. Ted Cruz.
By Oliver Willis - March 03, 2018The GOP may be fine with giving money to accused sexual predators, but the American people are not.
By Caroline Orr - March 02, 2018They wish they had a record of victory as good as Sen. Claire McCaskill’s.
By Matthew Chapman - February 28, 2018Now he could be facing a steep fine.
By Oliver Willis - February 16, 2018Rubio doesn’t want to talk about how to save kids from gun violence — but kids sure do.
By Kaili Joy Gray - February 16, 2018The Trump administration really doesn’t think there’s anything to do to stop gun violence.
By Tommy Christopher - February 15, 2018It doesn’t get much colder than this.
By Tommy Christopher - February 15, 2018This spells trouble for Trump with Republican women.
By Tommy Christopher - February 13, 2018Republicans have resorted to begging a congressman who already said he wouldn’t run.
By Matthew Chapman - February 13, 2018Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate Karla Bigham kept a crucial Minnesota swing district blue, barely a year after its voters chose Trump.
By Matthew Chapman - February 13, 2018The reviled GOP senator is warning his party that, even in deep-red Texas, Democratic voters are a real threat.
By Matthew Chapman - February 12, 2018Republican Senate hopeful Gary Emineth of North Dakota is refusing to back down after being busted for a series of hateful social media posts. On Thursday, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski unearthed a trove of vile social media activity from Emineth, including a Facebook post calling President Obama a “POS,” a retweet calling for “no more mosques […]
By Matthew Chapman - February 09, 2018Fox News attack on Sen. Mark Warner was so pathetic that even Sen. Marco Rubio spoke up against it.
By Matthew Chapman - February 08, 2018Sen. Orrin Hatch’s response to Rob Porter’s resignation in disgrace was to praise him and complain that allegations of domestic violence against him had surfaced.
By Oliver Willis - February 07, 2018“There is no excuse for him to fail to [testify] except of course that he is becoming increasingly desperate as the investigative vise tightens around the Oval Office.”
By Caroline Orr - February 06, 2018Kellyanne Conway is supposed to be leading the fight on the opioid crisis. Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who represents one of the hardest hit states, has no idea how she is doing that.
By Matthew Chapman - February 06, 2018The GOP’s chances of unseating Claire McCaskill just got worse.
By Matthew Chapman - January 31, 2018West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is no partisan. But even he is calling out the GOP’s attacks on the FBI as “asinine” and reckless.
By Eric Boehlert - January 31, 2018Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown didn’t let Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin get away with his evasive answers about imposing Russian sanctions and protecting our democracy.
By Tommy Christopher - January 30, 2018The country is facing a number of problems, but passing a law to put doctors in jail for providing health care to women is not actually one of them.
By Kaili Joy Gray - January 29, 2018“I can still feel the hangnail in my right foot, and it’s missing! And we have a guy who says he had a bone spur that kept him out of Vietnam but doesn’t remember where it was.”
By Alison R. Parker - January 28, 2018Pennsylvania Rep. Lou Barletta, who Trump has boasted is going to win big against Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, has associated with extremists who deny the Holocaust on at least two occasions.
By Matthew Chapman - January 26, 2018So far, not one Republican senator has commented on Trumps attempt to fire the special counsel.
By Matthew Chapman - January 26, 2018Trump has created a crisis for this nation, and Congress must act immediately before it gets any worse.
By Kaili Joy Gray - January 25, 2018Lots of people are pointing and laughing at Sen. Ron Johnson after he uncorked ridiculous claims about a mysterious underground FBI clique.
By Eric Boehlert - January 25, 2018Why are Republicans letting Trump’s son-in-law, and one of his closest advisers, off the hook?
By Oliver Willis - January 25, 2018