Susie Wiles, a longtime GOP operative who helped run Trump's successful campaign, will serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday President Biden believes he did the right thing stepping out of the presidential race in July.
Republicans knocked off Democrats in two perennially contested U.S. House seats in eastern Pennsylvania while U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, one of the hardest right members of the chamber, survived a challenge in a southern Pennsylvania district with more moderate politics.
President Biden stands by his decision to drop out of the presidential race, the White House said Thursday, and suggested the Democrats' loss was part of a global phenomenon in which voters rejected incumbents because of pandemic fallout.
Government investigators have concluded that Neera Tanden, the domestic policy adviser at the White House, broke the law when she repeatedly used social media to solicit campaign donations for Democrats.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the current House GOP leadership are urging their colleagues to reelect them to the same positions in the next Congress, another sign that Republicans believe they will again control the lower chamber.
After former President Donald Trump gave his victory speech early Wednesday, at the Palm Beach Convention Center, dozens of his supporters gathered in a lobby to sing "How Great Thou Art," reciting from memory the words and harmonies of a classic hymn, popular among evangelical Christians.
Rep. Anthony D'Esposito of New York, a Republican saddled with a personal scandal in a competitive district, lost his bid for reelection by Democrat Laura Gillen, a lawyer and former Hempstead Town supervisor.