Special counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for the prosecution of Donald Trump for his efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election, pushing back against the former president’s claim that he should be shielded from standing trial as he again seeks the White House. In a filing […]Read More

Democrats on Wednesday sought to capitalize on a decisive election victory in New York, with party leaders freshly emboldened to challenge Republicans on immigration and reinforce their focus on abortion and “MAGA extremism,” as they forge a blueprint to overcome President Biden’s low approval ratings this fall. Democrat Tom Suozzi won a special election for […]Read More

Donald Trump is expected at the defendant’s table in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday for a conference that could confirm he’ll be tried next month for allegedly falsifying hush money repayment records — the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. At the same hour in Atlanta, a team of Trump’s lawyers will appear […]Read More

Wisconsin is one of the most deeply politically divided states in the country. That’s reflected most obviously in the state’s presidential voting; the margin for the winning candidate has been fewer than 25,000 votes in four of the last six elections. In the past two, it was central to determining the winner of the electoral […]Read More

The morning after the Senate voted to approve a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, freshman Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), 48, lamented that it had done so. “Nearly every Republican Senator under the age of 55 voted NO on this America Last bill,” he wrote on social media, adding: “15 out of […]Read More

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in the 2024 election. Today, we actually have a competitive election result to analyze (what a concept!) and a shift in the Washington power dynamics. Former Democratic congressman Tom Suozzi’s win Tuesday in the special election in New York for former Republican congressman George […]Read More

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas became the first sitting Cabinet secretary to be impeached Tuesday — with House Republicans succeeding in the public rebuke of the Biden administration’s immigration policies. The impeachment passed by a single vote. It was House Republicans’ second attempt to impeach Mayorkas, after a similar vote narrowly failed last week. Democrats […]Read More

Fox News host Sean Hannity likes to tell his audience about “bombshells.” Since President Biden took office in January 2021, the word “bombshell” has appeared in a database of the closed captions from Hannity’s show more than 200 times. Hannity has informed his viewers about bombshell interviews, bombshell hearings, bombshell disclosures, bombshell developments, bombshell reports, […]Read More

The very-online right’s insane Taylor Swift conspiracy theories seemed Taylor-made for determining just how readily an increasingly conspiratorial Republican Party would believe virtually anything could be part of a deep-state plot. We finally have our first indication of just how much this kind of thing can penetrate the party. A new Monmouth University poll shows […]Read More