Celebrities including Bette Midler and Robert De Niro faced widespread online mockery for their anti-Trump concert meant to counter-program his UFC event.
South Carolina House Republicans advanced a new GOP-favored map aimed at dismantling Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn’s district and putting the GOP one step closer toward passing an aggressive redraw ahead of the midterms. The Palmetto State’s lower chamber passed new congressional lines in a 74-37 vote shortly after midnight Wednesday. Four Republicans defected, voting against the proposed map. The legislation now heads to the state Senate,...
President Trump got his wish on Tuesday, with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) sent packing by voters in his Kentucky primary. The win by Trump-backed Ed Gallrein was the last in a string of election efforts to dismiss rebels who don't bow to the president's agenda. Elsewhere on the latest primary election day, the president's influence...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) did not withhold his anger toward President Trump after his primary loss late Tuesday. “I got to watch Fox [News] for the first time in 18 months, and there was the president talking about — by the way, while gas is almost $5 and diesel’s almost $6 — they’re talking about...
President Trump’s public break with the Federalist Society, the sprawling conservative legal organization, created uncertainty over the types of nominations he’d make to the courts in his second term. Now 16 months in, Trump’s new nominees aren’t so different from the last crop of jurists he tapped for the bench. Key figures associated with the...
If Washington continues to read Iran as a stable revisionist power rather than an insecure regime increasingly focused on survival, it may misjudge the threat in ways that carry real consequences.
President Trump’s retribution crusade reached a crescendo Tuesday when the president’s endorsee, Ed Gallrein, prevailed in the GOP primary to unseat Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), extending his winning streak against Republicans who have defied him. Massie, a libertarian-leaning lawmaker whose opposition to key Trump priorities has long drawn the president’s ire, is the latest victim of Trump’s revenge campaign after...
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) is set for a rematch against Republican state Sen. Christine Drazan in the race for governor of the Beaver State, Decision Desk HQ projects. Kotek narrowly won her first term in the governor’s mansion by less than four percentage points in a 2022 showdown against Drazan. The rivals will face...
Republican-appointed Justices Charlie Bethel and Sarah Warren are projected to defeat their Democratic-backed challengers in their reelection bids for Georgia Supreme Court, according to Decision Desk HQ. Bethel and Warren defeated liberal-aligned candidates Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan, respectively. While Georgia Democrats scored two major upsets on the Georgia Public Service Commission last year, Tuesday's results suggest...
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) on Tuesday became the latest foe of President Trump to lose a Republican primary ahead of the midterm elections. Raffensperger, who is well known for rebuking the president’s push to overturn the 2020 election, came in dead last in a field of three candidates vying for the GOP...
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is projected to win the Democratic primary for Georgia governor, according to Decision Desk HQ. Bottoms avoided a June primary runoff and beat a crowded field of Democratic candidates, including former DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond, former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican-turned-Democrat, and former state Sen. Jason Esteves,...
Georgia GOP Rep. Mike Collins and former college football coach Derek Dooley are projected to make it into the GOP runoff for Georgia’s Senate seat, according to Decision Desk HQ, teeing up a proxy battle between the factions of the party aligned with President Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp (R). Collins and Dooley, who enjoyed Kemp’s endorsement, were...
Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb (D) is projected to win the Democratic primary in the Keystone State’s 3rd Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. Rabb faced off against state Sen. Shariff Street (D) and pediatric surgeon Ala Stanford in the primary for the district spanning parts of west and north Philadelphia. A member of...
