Democrats replaced their departing leader with Sen. Chuck Schumer, meaning the New Yorker will be Washington’s most powerful Democrat as the party confronts a Republican-dominated government.
The 2016 election cycle brought a continuation of the decimation of the Democrat Party in the era of Obama, with Democrats losing ground all across the nation, from Washington D.C. to state and county offices.
Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan is declaring victory in the New Hampshire Senate race. But incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte is not conceding.
(AP) Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania has narrowly defeated Democrat Katie McGinty in the most expensive political race in Senate history. Republicans will retain control of the Senate after Toomey’s win in Pennsylvania if they hold Louisiana, Alaska as
Kamala Harris became the favorite to win early on and received the endorsements of U.S. President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, California Gov. Jerry Brown, the California Democratic Party and a host of other elected officials and Democratic organizations in a virtual coronation of Harris.
Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth has unseated first-term Republican Sen. Mark Kirk in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.
Indiana Republican Rep. Todd Young has defeated former Sen. Evan Bayh in a Senate race that could be crucial to determining party control. The seat is now held by Republican Sen. Dan Coats, who is retiring.
Marco Rubio failed in his bid to end up in the White House, but he’s still going back to Washington. Florida voters elected him to a second term in the Senate on Tuesday.
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman has defeated former Gov. Ted Strickland in a race that once looked like one of the Democrats’ best bets to flip a Senate seat.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott, the South’s first black senator since Reconstruction, has won his first full term.
Governor Jerry Brown has the power to appoint a new California Attorney General if Kamala Harris wins the U.S. Senate race on Tuesday.
Latino voters in California are increasingly deserting Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) in favor of the favorite, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, in the race for U.S. Senate in California in a new September Field poll.
KINGWOOD, Texas – Senator Ted Cruz warned patriots gathered for a Constitution Day gathering that Democrats could have “massive wins” in the large urban counties in Texas “if one, two, or three percent stay home.” Cruz also called Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton “manifestly unfit” to be president.
Three parents whose children lost their lives at the hands of illegal aliens endorsed Dr. Kelli Ward to replace John McCain in the U.S. Senate.
Asked by Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon why he was running for the U.S. Senate, retired Air Force Colonel Rob Maness of Louisiana spoke of the importance of this year’s election.
In the Democrat versus Democrat fallout of California’s top two primary system, U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris leads her only competitor Rep. Loretta Sanchez by 15 percent in a post-Primary Election Field Poll.
With transgender mania in full swing across the progressive half of the nation, two transgender candidates have won their respective Democrat primaries to become the first transgender candidates to appear on a general election ballot from one of the nation’s two major parties.
An abundance of Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in California is aiding the top two Democrats in the race, as demonstrated in new polls measuring the number of undecided voters.
Pro-family conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly endorsed Dr. Kelli Ward in her campaign to replace incumbent John McCain in the U.S. Senate.
California Governor Jerry Brown announced his official endorsement of the state’s Attorney General, Kamala Harris, for U.S. Senate on Monday over U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA).
TEL AVIV – The Saudi press is continuing to unleash fury over the U.S. Senate’s unanimous vote on a bill allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, this time with the London-based Al-Hayat daily claiming that the U.S. planned the attacks on the World Trade Center in order to generate a global war on terror.
Former 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz filed papers on Wednesday to run for re-election to the U.S. Senate from Texas in 2018.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a debate Tuesday evening that Americans should “embrace our Muslim brothers and sisters” in response to the controversy over Syrian refugee resettlement in the U.S.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is scheming to slam the door of the Senate in the face of another conservative Republican like Sen. Ted Cruz.
CNN reports: Washington (CNN) Senate Democrats unexpectedly blocked a major spending bill for energy and water programs Wednesday to prevent a vote on a Republican amendment that would ban U.S. tax dollars from being used in the future to buy heavy water from Iran.
Tom Del Beccaro, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from California, said during a debate Monday evening that state California Attorney General Kamala Harris should relinquish her investigation into David Daleiden, the investigative journalist who produced the videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s apparent fetal tissue trafficking scandal.
Democrat Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), one of two frontrunners in the U.S. Senate race in the California primary, doubled down Monday on her claim last December that up to 20% of Muslims worldwide support terror to establish a caliphate.
More than four-fifths of the U.S. Senate have signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to quickly reach an agreement on a new defense aid package for Israel worth more than the current $3 billion per year.
U2 lead singer Bono appealed to Congress on Tuesday for a “Marshall Plan” to provide aid to the Middle East much like the massive relief the United States provided to rebuild Europe and counter extremism after World War Two.
Sen. Mike Lee reaffirms that the next nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court should be chosen only after a new president is elected and the American people have a voice in that choice.
The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm former New York State Commissioner of Education John B. King, Jr., as secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
The Senate will vote Monday, March 14, on the nomination of John B. King, Jr. to be the next U.S. Department of Education secretary.
Vice President Joe Biden used the California Democratic convention stage to congratulate 2016 presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton for winning Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will “withhold” consent of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the nation mourns the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, talk on Capitol Hill is raging about the possibility that President Barack Obama will fill the seat of the deceased conservative lion and how Sen. Mitch McConnell can block Obama by moving quickly to recall the Senate.
The House of Representatives passed the Financial Institution Customer Protection Act on Thursday by a vote of 250-169.
On Wednesday, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) attacked rival California Attorney General Kamala Harris as bluntly as possible, telling a candidate forum hosted by the Latino Journal: “I think we need a Latina in the U.S. Senate.”
Monday on “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, went on the offensive against his opponent Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), in an appearance from Council Bluffs, IA. Christie
Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) confirmed Saturday that he will not run to replace John McCain in the U.S. Senate, as Maricopa county Republicans voted for a second time to reject the entrenched incumbent McCain. Rumors have been circling about whether
Dr. Kelli Ward weighed in following President Barack Obama’s Tuesday evening State of the Union address and highlighted the Obama presidency’s “lack of basic leadership.”
