President Donald Trump said he wasn’t surprised to hear that Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas might be interested in a 2028 bid for the White House. “It’s a little early. It’s three and a quarter years (away). That’s a long time,” said Trump, responding to a question from a reporter in the Oval Office about…
U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his disappointment in Indiana State Senate Republicans and even called out Gov. Mike Braun on social media after the push to redistrict stalled in Indiana. In a Nov. 16 post on Truth Social, Trump said he was “Very disappointed” in state leaders, and stated that Democrats have done redistricting for…
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill used the U.S. House of Representatives’ first session since the government shutdown on Oct. 1 to announce her resignation as the representative for New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District. “This will be my last speech in this chamber,” she said Wednesday evening as the House debated in advance of a vote…
Would-be-Florida governor Byron Donalds has racked up Elon Musk’s endorsement. “Congratulations, Byron! You certainly have my full support,” the billionaire SpaceX leader Elon Musk wrote on Twitter Nov. 13. “Thank you @elonmusk!” Naples Congressman Byron Donalds wrote back hours later. “I am honored to have your full support.” The Republican gubernatorial candidate later elaborated on…
New Jersey Gov.-Elect Mikie Sherrill used the U.S. House of Representatives’ first session since the government shutdown on Oct. 1 to announce her resignation as the representative to New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District. “This will be my last speech in this chamber,” she said Wednesday evening as the House debated in advance of a vote…
President Donald Trump, after watching his Republican Party take a thorough thrashing from Democrats on Election Day, briefly appeared to be on the edge of learning a lesson. Being Trump, he cast a common concept – affordability – as some unique insight he discovered that drove the success for Democratic candidates in New York, New…
President Donald Trump‘s Republican allies in Congress, eager to help him rewrite the history of criminal investigations into his conduct after he lost the 2020 election, might have inadvertently offered us all a path to transparency about some of his alleged lawlessness. Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed in 2022 to investigate Trump’s attempts to…
Colorado voters resoundingly approved a ballot measure Nov. 4 to raise taxes on high-income households to pay for free school meals for all students at public K-12 schools. A separate measure also approved by a large margin allows the state to retain excess revenue already collected for the Healthy School Meals for All program, exempting…
It’s notable that President Donald Trump hasn’t weighed in on the Michigan Republican gubernatorial primary to help clear the field, shore up fundraising behind one candidate and establish momentum. Last week he issued more than 50 endorsements for Republican candidates nationwide, largely in 2026 midterm races across the country, but not many governors. Either Trump…
Former President Joe Biden, speaking to Democrats in Nebraska, criticized current President Donald Trump‘s administration for focusing on “billionaires and millionaires,” rather than working for “the American people.” Biden, 82, spoke to the 2025 Ben Nelson Annual Gala in Omaha, Nebraska, an event to honor the state’s former governor and senator, on Friday night, Nov….