JD Vance sparked eye-rolls and caused irony meters to overload with his latest ― spectacularly unaware ― attack on Democrats. “There is this crazy idea in the Democratic Party that if you just repeat insane ideas, eventually the American people are going to believe them,” the vice president said during an interview with Fox News’ […]
A push by Texas’ hard right to widen control in the state Capitol fell short Tuesday after House lawmakers rejected its choice for the powerful speakership amid a Republican feud accelerated by the historic impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton. Instead, new House Speaker Dustin Burrows won the job with the support of Democrats, who […]
Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. Editor’s note, December 21 10:20 am ET: Shortly after midnight on Saturday, the Senate passed legislation that would fund the government and avert a shutdown. The bill did not include the suspension or elimination of the debt ceiling that Donald Trump had demanded. This […]
Harmeet Dhillon — one of California’s most prominent Republican Party operatives, a cultural crusader against “woke” politics and a fervent champion of President-elect Donald Trump — was named Monday by Trump to a top civil rights post in the U.S. Department of Justice. If confirmed, Dhillon would be the second woman to lead the Department […]
House Republicans will enter the new Congress with an even narrower majority than many expected, complicating president-elect Donald Trump’s initial push to enact his conservative policy plans.
Ronna McDaniel, former chair of the Republican National Committee, called on her party to get behind early voting after President-elect Donald Trump’s election win. “This has to be the norm going forward. We can’t expect to get everything on Election Day,” said McDaniel in an interview with NewsNation on Wednesday. Nearly 86 million early votes […]
The problem that many such voters have in this election is Trump’s style, even when they favor his policies over those offered by Kamala Harris and the Democrats.
