2020 Election - Page 18

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday defended House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) as the congresswoman continues to face blowback for voting to impeach President Donald Trump over last month’s U.S. Capitol riot.

“I want to make it clear. There’s a lot of talk, with good reason, about the number of executive orders that I sign,” he said. “I’m not making the law. I’m eliminating bad policy.”

A new progressive political group with ties to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is mobilizing to punish two moderate Senate Democrats for their refusal to support abolishing the filibuster.

An autopsy report on former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign demonstrates that voters’ perception of his coronavirus response affected his support in key swing states he won in 2016 but lost in 2020.

New York State Senate Democrats blocked a subpoena for nursing home fatality data on Monday, mere days after New York Attorney General Letitia James released a damning report indicating that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) administration had “undercounted” the number of coronavirus-related fatalities in nursing homes “by as much as 50 percent.”

The petty totalitarians of the Lincoln Project once made lists of Trump staff and supporters for retribution. Now they are the targets.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday lauded House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) in the wake of her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump, calling the congresswoman an “important leader” with the courage to act on “deep convictions.”

The Lincoln Project, a left-wing super PAC, spent the entirety of its political advertising budget to assist Democrats, despite its founders and directors marketing themselves as conservative Republicans.

A Republican group has launched a massive billboard campaign calling on several GOP lawmakers to resign following the violence at the Capitol on January 6.

Over three-quarters of likely U.S. voters say Americans are “less tolerant” of each others’ varying political opinions despite President Biden’s initial calls for unity, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found. 

Nonvoters and registered Democrats were among those who were arrested at the January 6 Capitol protest, an analysis of voting records show.

Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) paid off her campaign debt from her congressional bid by using corporate PACs donations after she pledged not to take donations from those PACs.

Seven of the ten Republicans who voted in January to impeach former President Donald Trump face primary challenges, according to Newsweek.

Anti-Trump Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway tried to put distance between himself and his colleague, John Weaver — who has been accused of online harassment, sending sexually explicit messages to young men — on Monday, contending that he did not know him “very well.”

A Michigan voter who allegedly licked his ballot envelope has had the charge dropped by a prosecutor who had originally sought a life sentence.

A Republican group announced the launch of “Stop Stacey” on Monday as strategists prepare for Stacey Abrams’ potential run for governor.

The Biden Pentagon indicated recently it may depart from the Trump administration’s peace agreement with the Taliban.

GOP state lawmakers in three battleground states where President Joe Biden narrowly defeated former President Donald Trump in November are looking to tighten their states’ vote-by-mail rules.

ROME — The Vatican’s former doctrinal czar, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, has sharply criticized Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich for his unwillingness to call out President Joe Biden on his support for abortion.

Lawyers who had been preparing President Donald Trump’s defense for his Senate impeachment trial have reportedly quit over his insistence that they present a defense that involves claims of election fraud in several states in the 2020 election.

A near majority of Missourians approve of Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) job as their senator, according to a poll released recently. 

Josh Mandel, the former Ohio treasurer, told Breitbart News Saturday that the key to keeping Ohio red ahead of the 2022 Senate elections is to maintain the working-class “Trump coalition.”

Former President George W. Bush appears to be backing Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), one of the ten Republican House members who sided with Democrats in voting to impeach former President Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, made his first official appearance as second gentleman in northeast Washington, DC, on Thursday to put a spotlight on “food insecurity,” a phenomenon taking place just miles away from the couple’s luxurious vice presidential residence.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said at a press conference on Thursday that Democrat majority in the House and Senate and Joe Biden in the White House means the stars are aligned to make the District of Columbia the 51st state.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) will allow New York City restaurants to resume indoor dining at 25 percent capacity beginning on February 14, or Valentine’s Day, he announced Friday.

Most Americans believe that the Senate impeachment trial for former President Trump will only serve to “cause more division” in the country, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found.

The U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) has condemned President Biden’s reinstatement of taxpayer-funded abortions around the world, calling his act “grievous.”

President Joe Biden’s tenure will likely bring a return to “the failed policies of the Obama administration” abroad, conservative foreign policy experts predicted during a webinar on Wednesday hosted by the Center of Security Policy (CSP) think tank.

Two Democrats lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday, dubbed the “Vote at Home Act,” to expand “Oregon-style” mail-in voting nationwide, contending that the move is necessary to “make real progress” in the country.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters Thursday the upcoming impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump is about the “protection of the constitution and the preservation of our republic.”

This latest impeachment is such a piece of failed political theater, even establishment toady John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, refuses to participate.

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) said Thursday that President Joe Biden’s harmful executive orders will make Democrats run into “real trouble” ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. 

The White House reportedly feels “blessed” by Twitter’s move to permanently ban former President Trump’s personal account from the platform, Politico reported on Thursday.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is defending President Joe Biden, who in his first week in office signed more executive orders than any of his predecessors, contending that such excessive, unilateral actions are necessary as the administration is trying to “fix what Trump broke in the executive branch.”

A group of Republican attorneys general sent a letter to President Biden on Wednesday as the president continues signing executive orders at a record pace, warning that they are willing to take legal action if the administration or federal agencies overstep the bounds of their authority in any capacity.