On Saturday, just hours before Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by a narrow 50-48 vote in the U.S. Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made it sound like the entire Kavanaugh fiasco had been a positive for Republicans: “It’s been a great political gift for us. The tactics have energized our base. We want to thank […]
Now that Donald Trump has informed his attorneys he doesn’t plan to sit down for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, things are about to start moving very quickly in the Russia investigation. The main focus in the weeks ahead, it seems safe to say, will be on additional indictments and plea agreements which will […]
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced Wednesday that he will not be seeking re-election to his Congressional seat, perhaps because he can already sense his party is going to be humiliated in the upcoming midterm elections. CNN commentator Jack Kingston, a former GOP member of Congress from Georgia, thought it would be a good […]
The latest poll numbers are dismal for Republicans, with the so-called “generic ballot” showing Democrats with a double-digit lead over their GOP opponents if the midterm elections were held today. But the news may be even more dire for President Trump. If Republicans lose control of both houses of Congress and Robert Mueller returns a report that […]
If there’s one thing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is good at reading, it’s the political tea leaves when it comes to his own party, and right now the leaves show a very dark future for the GOP. Politico is reporting that McConnell, along with GOP Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, is telling President Trump that Republicans will likely lose […]
There is probably no state that is more reliably Republican than Texas. The last time the Lone Star state went for a Democrat in a presidential election was 1976, when Jimmy Carter carried the state. No Democrat has been governor of the state since 1995, when Ann Richards left office after losing to George W. […]