In the early days of President Donald Trump's second term, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has openly challenged or rebuked him at least three times — stunning for a congressional Republican who has faced his wrath before and yet remains unbowed by pressure to embrace his agenda. Murkowski is a moderate with a history of bucking her party and Trump when she has felt it was the right thing to do.
President-elect Donald Trump has laid out an ambitious agenda that he has promised will go into effect on Jan. 20, the day he will be sworn into office for his second term.
President-elect Donald Trump’s recipe for victory in Tuesday’s election was built on his ability to improve his support from 2020 with several different demographic groups, exit polls show.
President Donald Trump stepped back into the presidency this week moving quickly to set a new agenda, but from his inaugural address continuing through a flurry of executive actions, press conferences and interviews Trump relied on an array of false and misleading information to support his case. CLAIM: Speaking to attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Trump said he won by millions of votes in the 2024 election, which gave him “a massive mandate from the American people, like hasn’t been seen in many years.” The popular vote, however, was far closer, with Trump receiving 49.9% of the vote with 77,303,573 votes cast to Harris’ 75,019,257 votes (48.4%), according to AP Vote Cast.
Democrats are trying to figure out how to make a comeback in Nevada after President Trump became the first GOP presidential candidate to win the state since President George W. Bush in 2004. Trump is set to take a victory lap this weekend, traveling to the state to celebrate his big win during this first…
President Trump is back in Las Vegas this weekend, to say thank you to Nevada voters for his November election victory in the key battleground state and to give details on his push to exempt tips from federal taxes.
In the early days of President Donald Trump's second term, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has openly challenged or rebuked him at least three times — stunning for a congressional Republican who has faced his wrath before and yet remains unbowed by pressure to embrace his agenda. Murkowski is a moderate with a history of bucking her party and Trump when she has felt it was the right thing to do.
Copland Rudolph cast a ballot in the November election, just as she has for years, with her vote counting on a long list of North Carolina contests that were settled soon after. Nearly three months later, she's still not sure it will count for one of the higher-profile races — a seat on the state Supreme Court. The Republican candidate, Jefferson Griffin, is still seeking to reverse the outcome, even after two recounts showed Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs narrowly winning the election.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s (D) relationship with President Trump is alarming Democrats, who question the embattled mayor’s motives amid his ongoing legal challenges. Adams sat down with Trump for a meeting days before the president was sworn in and caught attention for a last-minute cancellation of his schedule to attend Trump’s inauguration on…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is rallying behind CBS News as its parent company reportedly mulls a settlement with President Trump following his $10 billion lawsuit.
Bloomberg released a long-form article covering the importance of right-leaning podcasters and influencers in helping swing the election to President Donald Trump.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on CBS News to “stand tall” and not settle amid a lawsuit from President Trump over the network’s editing of an interview with former Vice President Harris. “CBS may be reaching a legal settlement with Trump because he didn’t like how a campaign interview with Kamala was edited. Really? If…
The president has been railing against California and Gavin Newsom. But on Friday, he embraced the ambitious Democrat and pledge cooperation with the devastated Golden State.
A mixed response underscores the political challenges some of the largest Democratic enclaves are facing as they confront Trump’s toughened immigration actions.
Only about 3 in 10 Americans support President Trump’s formation of the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) that tech billionaire Elon Musk helms, but the majority agree that inefficiency and corruption are major issues in the federal government, according to a survey released Friday. The new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found…
Trump initial guest list doesn't include Gov. Gavin Newsom or state forest officials on his trip to the Los Angeles fires — but he's bringing the head of the Forest Service, a Biden appointee with California experience.
Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, who is seeking to oust Sen. Bill Cassidy in 2026, is calling the senator a "RINO," or "Republican in name only."
Control of the U.S. House isn’t on the line in Tuesday’s special congressional primaries in Florida, but Republicans are still eager to find replacements for former GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz to add some breathing room to their slender majority in the chamber. Trump has backed state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis among a crowded 10-person field in Gaetz’s former 1st Congressional District.
Seven sitting governors are throwing their support behind Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler's run for Democratic National Committee chair. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tina Kotek of Oregon, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Laura Kelly of Kansas, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, and Janet Mills of Maine lauded Wikler as an experienced organizer and unifier. Kelly, Beshear, Lujan Grisham and Whitmer are among the 448 DNC members who can vote for chairperson next week on Feb. 1.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.” Ogles proposed an amendment Thursday that says, “No person shall be elected to the office of the…
Republican Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday that he is running to be the next governor of Ohio — wedging the news between the departure from the race of a top rival and the expected entry as soon as next week of a new one. Yost, 68, seeks to succeed two-term Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a fellow Republican, who is term-limited in 2026. The formal announcement comes less than a week after DeWine appointed a one-time top contender for the job, former Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, to the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Vice President JD Vance — and ahead of an expected campaign launch by Vivek Ramaswamy, the Cincinnati-born biotech entrepreneur who recently left President Donald Trump's federal government efficiency project.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly speaking to family and friends, including Hillary Clinton, about possible next steps after her loss in the 2024 election.
After President Donald Trump pardoned around 1,500 Jan. 6 Capitol rioters on Monday, far-right activists cheered the move and said it strengthened their loyalty to him. Enrique Tarrio, the former national Proud Boys leader whose 22-year sentence on seditious conspiracy charges was pardoned by Trump, went on the podcast of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after his release.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) announced Thursday he’s running to replace term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine (R), the first major GOP candidate to declare a bid. “I’m officially running to be Ohio’s next governor. I’m honored to serve as your America First Attorney General & support President Trump’s agenda,” Yost said in a post on the…
JD Vance's first big moment as vice president sits on the horizon as the Senate prepares to confirm Pete Hegseth and John Ratcliffe, which could require a tiebreaking vote.
Whitehouse sat down this week with the POLITICO Energy podcast, where he predicted “there'll be some litigation” if Trump looks to stop offshore wind projects that “are already ongoing and which there's a vested defensible interest."
Rep. Nancy Mace says if she moves ahead and launches a 2026 Republican run for South Carolina governor, she'll aim "to lock down support" from President Trump.
The North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a request by the trailing candidate in an extremely close race for a seat on this same court to rule now on whether well over 60,000 ballots should be removed from the tally. Instead, the justices ordered that the appeals of Republican Jefferson Griffin seeking to reverse decisions by the State Board of Elections to keep counting the ballots should be held first in the local trial court, as state law directs appeals of board decisions to begin. The dismissal of the legal motion by Griffin to bypass Wake County Superior Court could slow down the effort to determine whether he or current Associate Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, will win an eight-year term.
President Donald Trump is acting on his campaign promises at the fastest clip in modern memory — sending almost hourly shockwaves through the government, the legal system, the science community and around the world.
Rep. Ritchie Torres called out the Biden administration for failing to address practical issues that matter dearly to working-class Americans across the country.
President Donald Trump littered a Wednesday interview on Fox News with many of the same false claims he made earlier in his first three days back in the White House.
President Trump’s second term is coming into much sharper focus in its first 72 hours — delighting his supporters but ringing loud alarm bells for liberal Americans. Trump has been delivering on the “shock and awe” approach that his allies promised. The first president since the 19th century to serve nonconsecutive terms, Trump has used his…
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversaw President Trump’s federal election subversion case, wrote in court filings that his sweeping pardons for those charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack could not change the “tragic truth” of that day. Chutkan, who also presided over several Capitol riot cases, contended that federal judges…
Donald Trump took office eight years ago, pledging to “drain the swamp” and end the domination of Washington influence peddlers. Trump issued a Day 1 executive order that rescinded one on ethics that former President Joe Biden signed when he took office in January 2021. The new president also has been benefitting personally in the runup to his inauguration by launching a new cryptocurrency token that is soaring in value while his wife, first lady Melania Trump, has inked a deal to make a documentary with Amazon.
Days after Trump pardoned the Capitol’s violent attackers, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) will lead a new subcommittee investigating what led to the attack.
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina said Wednesday that she is “seriously considering” a gubernatorial run in 2026 and will make a final decision in the coming weeks. In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday in Washington, Mace — who last year won her third term representing South Carolina’s 1st District — told The Associated Press that she plans to ask for support from President Donald Trump, who has maintained popularity in the state since his 2016 primary win there helped cement his status as the GOP presidential nominee.
Donald Trump Jr., the adult son of President Trump, weighed in on a survey that showed him as a leading 2028 Republican presidential candidate, telling the crowd not to get him “in trouble.” Asked about the poll at an inauguration weekend event, Trump Jr. shook off the idea that respondents believe he is a top…
