Back in late October, during a heated debate, incumbent Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) was accused of being a “crook” by his Democratic challenger, Jon Ossoff, for questionable stock trades Perdue made shortly after receiving a high-level briefing from the White House on the severe damage COVID-19 was expected to wreak on the United States, with […]
If Republicans do indeed retain control of the U.S. Senate (which we’ll know when runoff elections for two Senate seats in Georgia are completed in early January), Mitch McConnell (R;KY) will keep his title as majority leader, and there are already reports that he’ll try to obstruct President-elect Biden at every turn: “’Mitch McConnell will […]
Now that he can sense that Senate Republicans are headed for a massive loss, Donald Trump has decided to cut them loose and try to save his own ass. The Washington Post reports that Trump told donors at a fundraising event held recently at the Nashville Marriott that it will be “very tough” for the […]
For just a moment, imagine the United States Senate no longer under the control of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Republicans. Legislation would move forward and the upper chamber of Congress would finally work for the people once again instead of merely serving as little more than a judge-confirming rubber stamp for the executive […]
Over the past two weeks, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong for Donald Trump, including the devastating New York Times report on his taxes, his disastrous performance in the first debate, and his hospitalization for treatment after he contracted the novel coronavirus and spread it to a still unknown number of others in […]
Shortly after President Donald Trump announced he would nominate Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would start confirmation hearings for Barrett on October 12 and hopes to have a final vote out of the […]
Senate Republicans are looking at the latest polls, and what they see has them absolutely terrified. A memo obtained by The Guardian from the campaign arm of the Senate GOP uses stark terms and warns that “the Senate Majority is at risk”: “The September 2020 political update from the National Republican Senatorial Committee summarizes the […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) thought he had the perfect issue to use against his Democratic challenger, Jaime Harrison: Taxes. Last week, Graham released his own income tax returns and urged Harrison to do the same. When Harrison didn’t, Graham tried to troll him with this tweet: It’s now been 5 days, so I’ll ask again: […]
While the race for the White House gets most of the headlines, there’s a major battle going on behind the scenes to turn the U.S. Senate blue in the November election, and recent polling suggests that a Democratic majority is well within reach. The most vulnerable incumbent Republicans are Sens. Susan Collins (ME) and Martha […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is making it clearer by the day that he fully expects Donald Trump to lose his bid for a second term in office, so he’s decided to try and mitigate expected GOP losses in the Senate while preparing to hamstring Joe Biden the minute he takes office. How can […]