
A leading Democrat is in trouble after mocking Native Americans at the California Democrats’ Convention on Saturday, whose keynote speaker was left-wing U.S. Senate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who claims dubious Native American roots.
by Joel B. Pollak17 May 2015, 5:28 AM PST0

Much-anticipated challenger to U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), state Senator Kelli Ward (R-Lake Havasu City) announced early Thursday that she is officially exploring a 2016 run for the U.S. Senate.
by Michelle Moons9 Apr 2015, 12:05 PM PST0

U.S. Senator John McCain’s wife Cindy has joined in an intensifying fundraising effort in a Saturday hard sell for donations that comes as the incumbent, some call weakened, appears to be feeling the heat from dissatisfied constituents and impending primary challengers heading into 2016.
by Michelle Moons29 Mar 2015, 7:54 PM PST0

Speculation that U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) would challenge John McCain in 2016 have been squashed as Gosar says he will “absolutely” pursue his re-election to his current House seat.
by Michelle Moons22 Mar 2015, 6:14 PM PST0

The former chief of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Benjamin T. Jealous, is said to be considering a run for the US Senate seat in Maryland that is opening up now that Senator Barbara Mikulski has announced her retirement.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Mar 2015, 9:30 PM PST0

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker already has staff and time invested in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states in the GOP’s presidential sweepstakes. Now he’s plotting what CNN describes as a “blitz” in South Carolina.
by Dan Riehl2 Mar 2015, 8:17 PM PST0

On Thursday, it was reported that Democrat National Committee Chair and Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz offered to change her anti-pot vote to please a big Democrat donor. Now the Congresswoman is denying that she made any such offer, despite released emails to the contrary.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Feb 2015, 8:36 PM PST0

The leader in the race to replace retiring U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in America’s most liberal state is… Republican Condoleezza Rice, according to a new Field Poll released Wednesday. Rice, the former Secretary of State and Stanford don, is backed by 49% of voters–ahead of Attorney General Kamala Harris, the liberal Democrat who was the first to declare.
by Joel B. Pollak18 Feb 2015, 6:27 AM PST0

Calling it “one of the largest burdens the party has carried in decades,” The Hill reports that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is carrying $15 million in operational debt going into the 2016 election cycle, and that doesn’t include the “$5 million loan the organization took out to buy a house adjacent to its headquarters that it has leased for years…”
by Dan Riehl30 Jan 2015, 7:35 PM PST0

Reports out of Wisconsin indicate former Senator Russ Feingold may resign his position at the State Department and potentially run for the Senate against Republican Ron Johnson.
by Dan Riehl28 Jan 2015, 9:59 PM PST0

Between his low approval numbers and the existence of at least one, if not more popular potential Republican challengers, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has emerged as the most vulnerable Democrat in the upcoming election cycle according to Larry Sabato.
by Dan Riehl18 Jan 2015, 10:40 AM PST0