Anti-Muslim rhetoric has emerged as a strong ingredient in the looming Republican Texas primary as candidates race to raise fears about the spread of Sharia law in the state and present themselves as the toughest option to oppose it. From the heated Senate primary to local races, Republican candidates are vowing to fight hardest against … Read more
Utahns are nearly evenly split on whether to repeal Utah’s redistricting law, Proposition 4, eight years after it passed as a ballot initiative, according to the latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll. As Republican lawmakers seek to overturn a series of court decisions that allowed 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson to implement a new … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — For House Republicans, the political year began with a pep rally of sorts when President Donald Trump gathered them at the Kennedy Center in Washington for a speech. But by the time MPs completed their first week of work in this mid-term election year, fractures in the party were already visible. From … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — It’s the biggest mystery in Georgia politics right now: Who’s paying for the attacks on Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones? Someone operating under the name “Georgians for Integrity” poured about $5 million into television ads, mailers and texts. The attacks allege that Jones, who already has the endorsement of President Donald Trump … Read more
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — The Republican-led Congress left Washington for a year without a deal to extend Obamacare subsidies, giving Democrats a strong political attack line heading into an election year squarely focused on affordability. Health care premiums for more than 20 million Americans will more than double on average in 2026, which risks … Read more
Senate Republicans are growing uneasy about the Pentagon’s investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced his office is stepping up its investigation into him. The Defense Department announced Monday that the Kelly review had escalated to a “formal command investigation,” intensifying the dispute between the two sides over Kelly’s role … Read more
Some Senate Republicans are expressing frustration that their conference has been unable to unify behind a health care plan ahead of a vote next week on a Democratic proposal to extend health insurance premium subsidies that expire in January. Republicans are worried that subsidies, and health insurance and costs in general, could become a major … Read more