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Estes is state treasurer and won a special election for the 4th Congressional District seat previously held by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Estes plans to step down as state treasurer when he's sworn in as congressman.
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There are still 110 active fires covering 20,285 acres, according to the Florida Forestry Service. The destructive wildfires, which have been burning from the Florida-Georgia border down to Miami-Dade County, led Gov. Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency on Tuesday, which remains in effect Sunday.
In this Jan. 3, 2017, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appear onstage together during an event at New York's LaGuardia Community College. It's the hope of proponents such as Sanders and Hillary Clinton, who made debt-free college a key talking point in their Democratic presidential campaigns, that New York's first-in-the-nation free tuition program for middle-class students will spread to other states.
At least 126,000 acres have burned in wildfires across Florida since January, surpassing the five-year average of acreage burned in a typical year, officials said. Florida's fire season peaks this month, during the driest part of the year in the state, and experts warn that the fire risk may worsen in the coming weeks.
Rep. David Valadao meets a constituent during district meetings last month. The last two GOP presidential candidates lost in his district by double digits.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is embarking on a 10-day, four nation tour of the Asia-Pacific this weekend, arriving in South Korea amid tensions over North Korea's aggressive flaunting of its nuclear and missile program. Pence will visit South Korea, Japan, Indonesia and Australia during his trip, meeting with leaders in the region, military troops and business groups.
Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Daily Kos Elections' project to calculate the 2016 presidential results for every state legislative seat in the nation hits New York, a heavily Democratic state, but one where a coalition of Republicans and rogue Democrats run the state Senate. You can find our master list of states here , which we'll be updating as we add new states; you can also find all our data from 2016 and past cycles here .
Gov. Chris Sununu took office armed with a long list of priorities: tackle the drug crisis, lower energy costs, reform the child services agency, expand full-day kindergarten, tighten election laws and recruit new businesses to the state. He also pledged to fix the state's mental health system.
To understand just how fractious and ungainly the Trump coalition truly is, look no further than his administration. You'll find establishment Republicans , former Tea Party insurgents , Wall Street players and, for the time being, clash-of-civilization ethno-nationalists , not a few of whom seem to be working at cross purposes.
In this March 7, 2016 file photo, Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte, left, introduces Lesley Robinson, center, as his running mate in East Helena, Mont., as Attorney Gen. Tim Fox, right, looks on.
In this Jan. 5, 2017 file photo, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu waves as he stands with his wife Valerie, left, and Speaker of the House Shawn Jasper after taking the oath of office at the State House in Concord, N.H. Sununu set an ambitious agenda for a first-term governor, and as he marks his first 100 days in office, he's made headway on some while seeing little to no progress -- or outright losses -- on others.
This satellite image provided by Digital Globe shows an image captured on April 7 of the northwest side of the Shayrat air base in Syria following U.S. Tomahawk Land Attack Missile strikes on Friday He told ministers in Lucca last week US missile strikes were necessary as a matter of USA national security, and indicated the Trump administration may not be done with Assad. Once that threat "has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in Syria", he told CBS' "Face the Nation ".
Western Democrats are pressuring President Donald Trump not to rescind land protections put in place by President Barack Obama, including Utah's Bears Ears National Monument. Obama infuriated Utah Republicans when he created the monument in late December on 1.3 million acres of land that is sacred to Native Americans and home to tens of thousands of archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings.
However, these winning appointments have exposed an embarrassment of riches. As conservatives move up the chain of command, someone has to take their place.
Gov. Sam Brownback, left, shakes hands with WATC president Sheree Utash after signing a bill that officially affiliates Wichita State University with the Wichita Area Technical College, during a ceremony Wednesday at WSU's Experiential Engineering Building. Gov. Sam Brownback, center, signs a bill that officially affiliates Wichita State University with the Wichita Area Technical College, providing benefits to its students as well as the university, during a ceremony Wednesday at WSU's Experiential Engineering Building at the Innovation Campus.
West Virginia's Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has scheduled a series of constituent visits around the state over the next two weeks to discuss current state and national issues. According to the senator's office, they include a Town Hall meeting at West Virginia University in Parkersburg on Wednesday.
Even if Sen. Bernie Sanders had won last year's Democratic presidential primary, he wouldn't have defeated Donald Trump in the general election, says former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley . "I don't believe so," O'Malley speculated Friday on DC/BS, a political podcast hosted by Jon Allen and Peter Ogburn.
Republicans have survived an election scare to win a House seat in the first congressional election since President Donald Trump's victory, but the next contest for a seat in Georgia could be tougher. The party saw its winning margin in Kansas' 4th House district shrink from 31 per cent in November to just seven per cent on Tuesday, as state treasurer Ron Estes fought off a challenge from Democrat and civil rights lawyer James Thompson.
In the first special congressional election since President Donald Trump took office, a Republican candidate won a narrower-than-expected victory in a district President Donald Trump easily carried less than six months ago. State Treasurer Ron Estes won the U.S. House seat vacated by Mike Pompeo, who now serves as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.