While House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is still defending Representative George Santos, whose web of biographical lies continues to unravel as we speak, the last Republican to wield the gavel is siding with the handful of Republicans who want Santos out. “This isn’t an embellished candidacy, it’s a fraudulent candidacy,” former House Speaker Paul Ryan told […]

After Donald Trump was impeached for the second time, Republicans had an opportunity to find him guilty and prevent him from ever running for public office again. Instead, they chose to let him get away with everything, i.e. the incitement of a violent riot because the 2020 election didn’t go his way. That was pretty offensive to those […]

“I think many, many in our ranks right now are ignoring the results of the midterms,” Republican congressperson Nancy Mace said in an interview Thursday afternoon with Vanity Fair. The House had just finished passing two antiabortion measures—one of Republicans’ first acts since assuming the majority this year. Mace, a two-term South Carolina congresswoman, characterized the effort as […]

Is Donald Trump going to win the 2024 presidential election? With almost two years to go until voters head to the polls, it’s obviously incredibly difficult to predict. On the one hand, the fact that he lost in 2020 does not bode well for his prospects, nor does the 10-mile-long list of reasons he shouldn’t […]

The House Judiciary Committee is launching an investigation into the discovery of classified documents at President Joe Biden’s former office in Washington, D.C. and his private home in Wilmington, Delaware—including some additional documents that were found on Thursday, the White House reported on Saturday. Trump ally and now the chair of the powerful committee, Rep. Jim Jordan […]

On Friday, a federal judge rejected former president Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss a civil sexual assault lawsuit—in which writer E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s in a Manhattan department store—and unsealed excerpts of their depositions, which are nothing short of shocking.  In his deposition, the former president seemingly misconstrued what Carroll said in […]

Bipartisan concerns over President Joe Biden’s document discoveries grow after more classified papers were reported on Saturday, and as the House Oversight Committee called for the release of the visitor log for Biden’s home. Republicans have been quick to lambast Biden, while also calling the justice system “two-tiered” and accusing it of having a “double standard.” […]

Dress code in the Missouri State House of Representatives became stricter—just for women—ordering them to show less skin in The Show Me state’s House chamber. In a vote of 105-51, the Missouri State House adopted the legislation on Wednesday. A woman—Republican State Rep. Ann Kelley—pushed for the stricter dress code. She reportedly wanted to mirror the dress code put […]

Joe Biden is, in several respects, far better positioned for a presidential reelection campaign than Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were at similar points in their first terms. Unlike those two, Biden isn’t coming off a midterm thrashing; Republicans continue to marginalize themselves by playing to the right-wing fringe; and the economy, while uneven, seems poised for […]

Former president Donald Trump may be the only GOP candidate who has announced a 2024 White House run, but the primary jockeying has already begun — and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ name is clearly top of mind for many.  At this point Trump’s rivalry with DeSantis is well-documented; DeSantis is consistently leading in the polls against Trump. […]