Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday pushed back against Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, who suggested that Mr. Vance's grandfather was a racist who would not have approved of Usha Vance because she is of Indian descent.
Vice President J.D. Vance's speech Thursday night at the Republican midterm convention was interrupted by chants of "48!" from the enthusiastic crowd, which made it clear that he was their choice to succeed President Trump.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his primetime slot at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas to deliver a blistering indictment of the modern Democratic Party: the same party with which his family has been synonymous for generations.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that Republicans need more time calling the shots to deal with what he described as the mess they inherited from President Biden and Democrats in Washington.
Former Rep. Mike Rogers on Thursday accused Abdul El-Sayed of being a terrorism sympathizer, warning that Michigan cannot afford to send a Democrat who surrounds himself with "people who despise" the United States to Congress.
Lawmakers worried about the existential risk posed by new artificial intelligence products demanded information from OpenAI on Thursday with separate queries that underscored growing concerns in Washington about the technology's potential to elude human control.
The Republican National Committee left an empty chair for Charlie Kirk at the party's midterm convention and tried to fill the void with a moving tribute one year after his assassination on a college campus in Utah.
Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday warned fellow Republicans at the party convention in his home state of Texas that the Democratic Party has been overtaken by a "new and dangerous red-green alliance" of "communists and Islamists" who are defined by hostility.
Leslie Moody has strong opinions on politics. But ask her who was on the ballot for her U.S. House district in Kansas City when she voted in last month's primary, and she isn't sure, though she knew it wasn't her current representative, Democrat Emanuel Cleaver.
North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson told the party faithful at the convention in Dallas that the midterm election boils down to a choice between President Trump's MAGA vision and the Democrats' socialist vision.
