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Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File Mike Lee leads Evan McMullin 36%-34% in a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll. The Utah Senate race is shaping up to be one of the most competitive statewide contests in years. The key to victory is the support of the state's moderate voters, […]
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky at a press conference on Capitol Hill on May 17, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Republicans are increasingly criticizing their party's controversial, unpopular Senate nominees. Even Mitch McConnell has noted that the Senate may not flip this year, citing "candidate quality." But […]
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said he had reservations about Chief Justice John Roberts’ response to President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about a federal judge. In a tweet, Grassley, the Judiciary Committee Chairman, referenced Roberts’ previous interactions with the executive branch during President Barack Obama’s administration. Grassley suggested Roberts was curiously […]
Accosted by a protester demanding that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh take a lie detector test, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) quipped that maybe Kavanaugh should be subjected to a witch hunt test instead. “If he would take a polygraph, this would all be over!” a woman yelled at Graham inside a corridor on Capitol […]
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), the key figure behind the White House’s decision to reopen an FBI investigation into SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh, has said he would have not called for the probe if he hoped to get reelected. Flake has been serving as a Senator for Arizona since 2013. In October last year, he announced […]
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid One of Sen. John McCain’s closest friends on Capitol Hill offered his condolences amid the news of his death on Saturday. Graham’s friendship with McCain grew after Graham, who was then a House Representative, delivered remarks on President Bill Clinton’s impeachment with a light-hearted jab. One of Sen. John McCain’s closest friends on […]
Charlie Riedel/AP Sen. Claire McCaskill secured the Democratic nomination for her re-election bid in Missouri, in one of the nation’s most hotly contested Senate races. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has won the Republican nomination. Retaining seats like McCaskill’s is critical for Democrats if they are to have any chance of gaining control of the […]
Published time: 3 Dec, 2017 22:01 Edited time: 3 Dec, 2017 22:39 The Pentagon should begin moving spouses and children of active US military service members out of South Korea, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said, because the US is “getting close to military conflict” with Pyongyang. “It’s crazy to send spouses and children to South […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Minnesota Sen. Al Franken said he plans to return to work on Monday. Franken will enter the public eye for the first time after laying low for eight days, following several sexual misconduct allegations made against him. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Sen. Al Franken is telling a local newspaper that he plans to return […]
Thomson Reuters President Donald Trump mocked Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota on Twitter Thursday night. Earlier Thursday, Franken was accused of sexually assaulting a Los Angeles news personality in 2006. President Donald Trump needled Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota on Twitter after a woman accused the Democrat lawmaker of sexual assault on Thursday. On Thursday, Los Angeles TV broadcaster Leeann Tweeden wrote […]
