An angry letter from a retiring Republican senator has kicked off a new round of handwringing inside the Senate Republican caucus.According to Punchbowl News’ Andrew Desiderio, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who has grown increasingly alienated from his own party in recent years, fired off an angry 15-pag…
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Religious conservative activist Alveda King came to a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday as a Republican star witness. She left rattled — and firing back at a Texas Democrat who questioned whether she has any right to her famous last name.The confrontation erupted at a GOP-called hearing tar…
President Donald Trump made his way to his home city of New York Monday to attend the NBA Finals game only to be met with thunderous boos by basketball fans, which, according to a former senior Trump administration official, genuinely upsets him.“Getting booed in public really gets to him,” said the…
House Republicans are working to contain the political fallout from two remarkable statements by President Donald Trump.The 79-year-old president declared last month that he doesn’t care about the midterms and that Americans’ economic hardships are of no concern to him, setting off weeks of damage c…
Hollywood legend Christopher Meloni trolled Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after the conservative politician moaned about his midterm election fears.The “Law & Order” franchise star responded to the Texas Republican’s Fox News interview on Monday night, where Cruz told the conservative outlet that if Democrat…
Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor predicted Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s “self-serving agenda” may soon trigger a GOP Senate revolt, one that could potentially sink his future nominees for the remainder of his term.“I hear a sound coming from the Republican side of the aisle…
A House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) went sideways Tuesday when a GOP witness interrupted a line of Democratic questioning with a non-sequitur about infant genitalia.It started simply enough. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) pressed the panel on whether the Justice D…
MAGA influencer Nick Shirley recorded himself confronting a woman at her home in a video published online Sunday regarding his baseless claims of voter fraud in California, but on Tuesday, a Democratic strategist bluntly pointed out an apparent flaw in Shirley’s latest probe.Shirley, the “pro-Trump”…
For more than two generations, Bill Pulte’s family has had close ties with a covert Christian group that has backed allies of President Donald Trump and other conservatives, according to a report on Tuesday.The acting national intelligence director’s grandfather and father have been closely involved…
President Donald Trump has already settled on a scapegoat if an Ebola outbreak occurs during the FIFA World Cup, according to new reporting.The Trump administration is pressing European nations to dramatically tighten their Ebola restrictions ahead of the global event, which kicks off Thursday in th…