Jonathan Strong

Aristotle said “nature abhors a vacuum.” Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s stunning primary defeat last night has left a rather large one in the House GOP power structure, and the resulting struggle is likely to get bloody. “It’s very fluid. There

As the clock approached midnight on Tuesday night, Randolph-Macon economics professor David Brat was still in a bit of shock that this was really happening to him. “I’m still recovering…we’re watching it on TV right now I’m like, ‘that’s me!’

There’s only a few weeks left until the summer recess swallows Congress’ legislative agenda for 2014, but a group of key Republicans haven’t given up immigration quite yet. Helping guide a secretive effort to informally gauge support for legislative action

Speaker John Boehner’s friends are trying to design new, more effective punishments for the conservative members that might vote against him on the House floor come January, but the message from the right is, “don’t even try it.” “Look, intimidation

Reclaim America, Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) leadership PAC, will be going on air with a new television ad for Iowa GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst, Terry Sullivan, the PAC’s director, told Breitbart News. Rubio, who shares a consultant, Todd Harris,

Matt Bevin was the candidate, but Matt Hoskins, the Jim DeMint protege and the head of the Senate Conservatives Fund, was his most important supporter – and one McConnell allies took pains to highlight and isolate throughout the race. Hoskins’

LINCOLN, Nebraska–We’re sitting in an RV that Ben Sasse and his family and aides have lived in and campaigned out of for eight months, and I’m getting the sense that I’m riding with a militia member. There’s a stuffed pheasant

LINCOLN, Nebraska–Contrary to some reports, the tension between Nebraska GOP Senate nominee Ben Sasse and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell does not seem to be over. McConnell and Sasse feuded in the fall, with McConnell upset about Sasse’s involvement with the

LINCOLN, Nebraska–Midland University President Ben Sasse won convincingly against former State Treasurer Shane Osborn and businessman Sid Dinsdale in the Republican Senate primary here, likely sending a vaunted young conservative voice to the Senate in 2015. Sasse, who received the

With less than 48 hours before polls open for the Republican Senate primary in Nebraska, immigration has emerged as an issue of newfound importance in the race after former State Treasurer Shane Osborn signed a pledge from an anti-amnesty group

A bill that reauthorized the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which was criticized on the right as unnecessary interference by the federal government in the free market, passed the House in violation of the so-called “Hastert Rule” Thursday. The bill passed

Speaker John Boehner is negotiating with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi over details of the select committee on Benghazi, with Pelosi pressing for Democrats to have a role in deciding what subpoenas the panel issues as well as full access to

Joni Ernst, the Republican Senate candidate who received national acclaim for a campaign ad touting her background “castrating hogs on an Iowa farm,” rides her Harley Davidson to the gun range for some target practice in her latest spot. Ernst

Sen. Ted Cruz is demanding the resignation of Secretary of State John Kerry over remarks he made that Israel risks becoming an “apartheid state.” “‘Apartheid’ is inextricably associated with one of the worst examples of state-sponsored discrimination in history: the

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire–The intra-GOP bloodshed that followed the 2012 elections is far from over, but the activists and officials who came together for an energetic day of speeches from top Republicans here showed an increasing clarity of purpose as the

Former Navy pilot Shane Osborn is getting help from two of the most prominent moderates in the Senate in his campaign for the GOP nomination for an open senate seat in Nebraska. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he had donated

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee says a proposal to allow illegal aliens to receive permanent legal residency by enlisting in the military won’t be in the underlying text of a must-pass defense bill, dealing a serious blow

South Carolina Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan is dropping his co-sponsorship of an immigration bill House Republicans have been quietly working to include in the upcoming Department of Defense authorization bill, saying the language should never have been considered to be

Watching President Obama’s deeply partisan speech Tuesday on his health care law, you might have thought he was making a play for the midterm elections, with red meat rhetoric that could make Democratic base feel good again, if at least

President Obama seized on the veneer of good news about Obamacare to tear into his critics, issuing one of the most partisan speeches of his presidency and accusing opponents of lying about the law to scare the public because they’re

The Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) dropped a brutal new television ad against Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), the first time the group has waded into a primary that has become something of a proxy battle in the Tea Party war