
Many Democrats legislators are willing to unite with Republican legisaltors to elect a “consensus choice” for Speaker of the House, Democratic Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said this weekend. “I think in our caucus there is interest and support, there’s an openness to a bipartisan approach to this [the election of the next Speaker of the House],” Pelosi said at the Texas Tribune Festival, according to Conservative HQ.
by Alex Swoyer19 Oct 2015, 6:57 AM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has a jab for GOP frontrunners Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson, suggesting they threatened to boycott the CNBC debate because they were worried about answering questions for three hours and saying they are acting like politicians.
by Alex Swoyer16 Oct 2015, 2:32 PM PST0

Conservative primary challenger Jim Duncan is charging fundraising numbers prove that Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) is “the ultimate Washington, D.C. insider, completely out-of-touch with her North Carolina constituents.”
by Alex Swoyer16 Oct 2015, 12:50 PM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is criticizing some of the guests on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show. Trump calls two particular “Kelly File” guests “dumb puppets.”
by Alex Swoyer16 Oct 2015, 12:46 PM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says he is more competent than both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, noting that the World Trade Center came down during Bush’s watch.
by Alex Swoyer16 Oct 2015, 11:10 AM PST0

The man behind GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s “formidable” ground game in Iowa, Chuck Laudner, calls Trump’s presidential campaign “the greatest anti-establishment campaign of all time.”
by Alex Swoyer16 Oct 2015, 7:20 AM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump posted on Twitter a photo of him signing his tax return — including hundreds of pages stacked higher than Trump’s head.
by Alex Swoyer15 Oct 2015, 12:17 PM PST0

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is reminding members of the House of Representatives that nothing has changed since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dropped out of the running for Speaker of the House. King is encouraging members to throw support behind Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL), saying he can “bridge the divides currently running through [the] Conference.”
by Alex Swoyer15 Oct 2015, 10:33 AM PST0

“Look, my father is very blunt. He’s very direct. He is not gender specific in his criticism of people, and people that he doesn’t particularly like or people that he does like but thinks they’re wrong on a particular issue,” Ivanka Trump tells CNN’s Poppy Harlow. “So I don’t think that he’s gender-targeted at all. Like I said, I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t be a high-level executive within his organization if he felt that way.”
by Alex Swoyer15 Oct 2015, 7:33 AM PST0

GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee “out-tweeted” GOP frontrunner Donald Trump on Twitter during the Democrat debate Tuesday evening, according to the Washington Post.
by Alex Swoyer14 Oct 2015, 7:52 AM PST0

GOP presidential candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee is criticizing the GOP leadership in the Senate for negotiating a debt ceiling increase that would include cuts to Social Security and Medicare with the Obama Administration.
by Alex Swoyer13 Oct 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump takes to Twitter, after news broke that a Jeb Bush campaign volunteer questioned Trump about women’s issues during a campaign event in New Hampshire on Monday.
by Alex Swoyer13 Oct 2015, 12:16 PM PST0

A volunteer for Jeb Bush’s campaign ambushed GOP frontrunner Donald Trump at a “No Labels” forum in New Hampshire on Monday. The young woman challenged Trump about equal pay for women and whether she can control what happens with her
by Alex Swoyer13 Oct 2015, 8:03 AM PST0

Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) circulated a letter Monday saying that if Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) stays out of the race for Speaker of the House, Flores will throw his own name in the hat, according to CNN.
by Alex Swoyer12 Oct 2015, 5:36 PM PST0

Conservative radio host Sean Hannity says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) isn’t the right man to be Speaker of the House and is urging other members of the House to come up with another option.
by Alex Swoyer12 Oct 2015, 3:16 PM PST0

GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is up with a series of videos in response to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton sending all the GOP candidates who attended the last GOP primary debate a copy of her book, “Hard Choices.” Huckabee is mocking the former Secretary of State on several fronts.
by Alex Swoyer12 Oct 2015, 9:49 AM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump took up for the Tea Party to a Left-leaning crowd at the No Labels Convention in New Hampshire Monday morning.
by Alex Swoyer12 Oct 2015, 9:29 AM PST0

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) would make a great conservative Speaker of the House, suggests the American Conservative Union’s member scorecard.
by Alex Swoyer11 Oct 2015, 7:35 PM PST0

Conservative author and activist Daniel Horowitz said that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) would be the “worst option” for Speaker of the House. “Paul Ryan is the absolute worst option,” Horowitz professed. “In this case [‘worst’] really applies.”
by Alex Swoyer11 Oct 2015, 6:51 PM PST0

Paul Ryan was one of the strongest advocates to grant Obama fast-track trade authority under the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
by Alex Swoyer11 Oct 2015, 8:39 AM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump thinks Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is “a very nice guy,” but “far from [his] first choice” to be the next Speaker of the House.
by Alex Swoyer10 Oct 2015, 8:10 PM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who recently hit more than 30 percent support in a New Hampshire poll, headed South to a packed campaign rally in Norcross, Georgia at the North Atlanta Trade Center on Saturday with between five to 10,000 supporters.
by Alex Swoyer10 Oct 2015, 11:14 AM PST0

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries contains a chapter on intellectual property rights that could impact freedom of expression, according to The Guardian. This news comes after Breitbart News reported there is a controversial chapter on immigration law within the Trade in Services Act (TiSA), another part of President Obama’s trade pact.
by Alex Swoyer10 Oct 2015, 9:43 AM PST0

If GOP leadership puts forward Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as its “Plan C” for Speaker of the House, which appears to be Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) plan, it’s sure to be a third strike, according to several influential conservatives.
by Alex Swoyer10 Oct 2015, 9:26 AM PST0

Myriam Witcher – the Hispanic woman whose enthusiasm for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump made headlines – says Trump is a “great mentor” in Hispanic countries and she has more admiration for Trump than former GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
by Alex Swoyer9 Oct 2015, 2:31 PM PST0