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“He’s running like Bernie Sanders,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of his 2018 U.S. Senate Democrat opponent, Rep. Beto O’Rourke. He offered his remarks during a Tuesday interview with SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Breitbart News Tonight.

Rep. Todd Rokita said he is campaigning to make sure we have a “true Trump supporter in the U.S. Senate from the state of Indiana.”

Likely Republican challenger State Attorney General Josh Hawley is making sure Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) can’t get away from her long standing support of failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

When Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009, Democrats controlled the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) ended two weeks of media speculation he created when he floated the idea that he was having “second thoughts” about not running for re-election when his chief of staff told Politico the frequent critic of President Trump has decided he will not seek a third term in the U.S. Senate.

China lodged strong objections to the Taiwan Travel Act this week as it emerged from the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week and headed for a vote. China warns that the bill, which would enable American officials to travel to Taiwan for meetings with their counterparts and vice versa, would damage relations between America and China and threaten regional stability.

Former Massachusetts governor and failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he would announce on February 15 if he is running for the Utah Senate seat being vacated by longtime statesman Orrin Hatch (R-UT).

New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan blasted the Senate’s failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, calling the vote a rejection of “common sense.”

Pro-life leaders say the failure of the Senate to pass a bill that would ban abortion past the 20th week – or fifth month – of pregnancy shows indifference to the will of most Americans.

Conservatives must “keep the fight up” while rejecting “ridiculous pressure” from Democrats and the broader left to criticize President Donald Trump, said Republican senatorial candidate Kevin Nicholson.

“You don’t win elections by moderating or changing your views to cater to certain identity politics,” said Danny Tarkanian, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) in this year’s Nevada Republican senatorial primary.

Despite a looming government shutdown, Vice President Mike Pence, the President of the U.S. Senate, took off for a trip to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel on Friday night.

A Democrat has won a special election for state senate in Wisconsin, winning the seat in a Republican-leaning district prompting hopes that the win is another sign of a coming “blue wave” of Democrat victories going into the 2018 midterm election cycle.

Convicted classified document leaker and transgender former Army private Chelsea Manning filed to run for a U.S. Senate seat.

The loss of the Senate seat that once belonged to Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not stop Republican tax reform efforts. To the contrary, those efforts will likely be accelerated.

Wisconsin Sheriff David Clarke stepped off the stage of a Roy Moore barn rally in Midland, Alabama, on Monday night to join Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM Patriot 125, where he called out the Republican and Democratic “ruling class” for weaponizing the government and turning politics into a “blood sport.”

Wisconsin Sheriff David Clarke rallied supporters of Roy Moore at an election eve rally on Monday where he lauded the voters of Alabama as “smart people” who have been “skewered,” “called names,” and “disparaged” in the liberal media.

Former President Barack Obama has taped a robocall urging Alabama voters to vote for Democrat Doug Jones on Tuesday, in a last ditch attempt to stop Judge Roy Moore’s election to the U.S. Senate.

Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday that he may be setting his sights on a bid for higher office in Arizona.

Dr. Gina Loudon harkened back to the first days of the Tea Party in Alabama as she rallied supporters of Alabama candidate for U.S. Senate Judge Roy Moore and told the Washington, DC, swamp that Alabamans don’t take orders from them.

Democrat Alabama candidate for U.S. Senate Doug Jones came to the defense of media outlets in comments to those outlets gathered in Dolomite, Alabama on Monday, “You are not fake news.”

Going all the way back to 2009, it was obvious Obamacare would end up looking like a Rube Goldberg machine powered by totalitarianism. Who would have ever guessed, though, it was such a fiasco that the mandate would actually cost the government money — a delicious irony that would result in its undoing.

Alabama candidate for the U.S. Senate Doug Jones worked for a Democratic politician’s foundation caught in a still-unraveling bribery scandal, according to a new report from local WHNT19 News.

A reporter with One America News Network traveled to Gadsden, Alabama, digging up accounts that there was no evidence to support some of the claims against Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore.

A man who served in Vietnam with Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore said in an editorial published the day after Thanksgiving that he knew Moore to be one of the better men with whom he served.

Doug Jones, the Democrat running for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, says he loves to hunt but the Second Amendment has “limitations.”

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is incensed that President Donald Trump may be able to nominate and confirm 11 conservative federal California judges without her permission.

Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, the retiring Republican from Arizona, said he would vote for a Democrat over Republican candidate Roy Moore who is running for the Senate in an Alabama special election.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich endorsed Judge Roy Moore on Wednesday and asked for others to join in filling the U.S. Senate seat — vacated this year by the now-U.S. Attorney General — with a man who will help advance President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Dr. Kelli Ward, the former Arizona state senator and now-candidate to replace Sen. Jeff Flake in the U.S. Senate, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Sen. Jeff Flake’s decision to not seek re-election in 2018 “has paved the way for the America First agenda.”

Nationally syndicated radio host, author, and soon to be Fox television host Laura Ingraham rallied Arizonans for Sen. Jeff Flake challenger Dr. Kelli Ward on Tuesday night, as she declared that Flake “stands diametrically opposed to what you all believe.”

The Club for Growth PAC announced on Tuesday its endorsement of Republican Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley in his bid to unseat liberal Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill.

CNN political commentator Jason Miller, the former communications director for Donald Trump’s presidential team, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Tuesday to discuss Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and the anticipated war on the Republican establishment to be played out during primaries leading up to the 2018 mid-term elections.

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam announced on Thursday that he will not run for the Republican nomination to replace retiring Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) in the 2018 election.

Judge Roy Moore’s Senate campaign identified on Friday the five top questions opponent Luther Strange failed to answer in their Thursday evening Lincoln-Douglas-style debate and, at the same time, provided Strange’s background on those five issues.

During Thursday night’s contentious Lincoln-Douglas-style debate for a seat in the U.S. Senate, Judge Roy Moore called out former lobbyist Luther Strange for “hypocrisy” and being a part of the D.C. swamp that helped kill thousands of United States jobs.