Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) became the latest casualty of President Trump’s revenge tour on Tuesday after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) easily trounced the incumbent in the Senate GOP runoff. Paxton is projected to garner about 64 percent support with over 95 percent of the vote reported early Wednesday, according to Decision Desk HQ The state's attorney...
Former Tarrant County GOP chair Bo French is projected to deliver an upset and defeat incumbent Jim Wright in the GOP primary for Texas Railroad Commissioner, according to Decision Desk HQ. French, a rancher and mineral owner, was backed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and GOP donors like Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, according to Houston Public...
Democrats continued their winning streak in key special elections this year with another victory in a contested state Senate seat in Iowa. The party eyed the seat as a pickup opportunity to break up a Republican supermajority in the body and demonstrate further enthusiasm among the Democratic base in an off-year election. The party’s candidate...
President Trump and Vice President Vance on Tuesday met with a delegation of Indiana state GOP lawmakers as the White House pushes for the Hoosier State to undertake a redistricting effort that could net the party additional House seats. Dozens of Indiana Republicans met with White House officials in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, with...
Democrat Catelin Drey has flipped an open Iowa state Senate seat, adding to the party’s successes in special elections this year, Decision Desk HQ projected. Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch in the race to replace the late state Sen. Rocky De Witt (R), who died in office in June from cancer. Democrats homed in on...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) popularity has grown among Democratic voters in recent months as he has emerged as a possible top contender for the party's 2028 presidential nominee, according to a new poll that was released on Tuesday. The new Morning Consult survey found that Newsom’s support among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents has increased by...
President Trump said Tuesday that the name for his "big, beautiful" megabill, which he signed in July, is "not good for explaining to people what it's all about." “So the bill that — I’m not going to use the term, ‘great, big, beautiful,’ that was good for getting it approved, but it's not good for...
Cracker Barrel is reversing course, announcing Tuesday that it would scrap the new logo it introduced after facing backlash over the rebrand. “We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our ‘Old Timer’ will remain,” the...
An Israeli strike killing five Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Monday marked one of the deadliest events for media officials working in the war, adding to the toll of nearly 200 reporters killed in nearly two years of fighting. Two Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, a southern city in the Gaza...
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin and DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee co-Chair Minyon Moore outlined the first steps regarding how the party would start considering the states that could go first in the party’s early presidential primary calendar in a meeting Tuesday. “Let me say this for everybody to hear: The presidential calendar...
General Motors (GM) is recalling more than 23,000 Chevrolet Corvettes due to a fuel leak issue, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The recall was initiated after it was discovered that excess fuel could be spilled into the cars’ fuel-filler pocket during refueling, possibly leaking onto an ignition source and increasing the...
Scores of House Democrats are pressing the Trump administration to allow Palestinian children injured in the Israel-Hamas war to seek emergency medical care in the United States. Earlier in the month, the State Department abruptly halted the issuance of visas for people from Gaza, including medical-humanitarian visas, citing a need to examine the process that allowed some of those...
The NAACP and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that a new congressional map passed in Texas violates the Voting Rights Act. The lawsuit alleges that Texas racially gerrymandered their map in such a way that it blocks Black voters from being able to elect their picks...
President Trump’s move to fire Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook raised a host of questions over the unprecedented nature of his decision. Chief among them is whether the allegations he cited reach the standard of cause needed to oust her — and to win that fight legally. The president alleged Cook committed...
Longtime Republican operative Karl Rove said on Tuesday that crime is a “big problem” for the Democratic Party and warned that some within the party, including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, don’t understand how their posture on the issue hurts the party’s “label.” “This is a big problem for the Democrats. The Democrats...
