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As primary voters in Michigan head to the polls Tuesday, there are constant reminders that while the state has largely recovered from the harsh toll of the economic downturn of 2008, it remains a place of transition in the era of President Donald Trump. A competitive race to succeed a two-term Republican governor, and key U.S. House races around the cities of Detroit and Lansing have put Michigan front and center in the 2018 midterm landscape.
President Donald Trump endorsed Kris Kobach ahead of Tuesday's Kansas Republican gubernatorial primary. The endorsement doesn't come as a surprise, but should Kobach win, it could cost the Republican Party a governor's seat in deep red Kansas.
Vice President Mike Pence once argued the president of the United States should be held to the highest moral standards to determine whether he should resign or be removed from office. Pence made the argument in two columns in the late 1990s, where he wrote that then-President Bill Clinton's admission of an affair with a White House intern and prior lies to the public about the matter, possibly under oath, meant Clinton should be removed from office.
A Republican co-chair of the Legislature's budget committee said Monday there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass a tax break bill designed to keep open a pair of Kimberly-Clark Corp. plants in northeast Wisconsin, saving more than 600 jobs. Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex tissue, Huggies diapers and other paper products said earlier this year it planned to shutter the plants , but hopes of saving them were rekindled last month after the union representing workers there agreed to concessions.
U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio argued the benefits of gun ownership to a tiny toy doughnut in the latest episode of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new prank show.
Corey Stewart rose to become the Republican Party's Senate nominee in Virginia with blatant appeals to racial division. Now his party fears they'll be the ones who end up paying the price.
A Republican co-chair of the Legislature's budget committee said Monday there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass a tax break bill designed to keep open a pair of Kimberly-Clark Corp. plants in northeast Wisconsin, saving more than 600 jobs. Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex tissue, Huggies diapers and other paper products said earlier this year it planned to shutter the plants , but hopes of saving them were rekindled last month after the union representing workers there agreed to concessions.
President Donald Trump officially endorsed Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Monday, a day before polls close in Kansas in the GOP primary for governor. The endorsement is a major slight to the state's sitting governor, Jeff Colyer of Johnson County, who rose to the state's top office in January after Trump appointed former Gov. Sam Brownback to an ambassadorship.
Vladimir Putin would not dream of a system in which the president isn't in charge. "The issue, I think, for us in the midterms is, what message is Putin hearing? Is he hearing the message that we heard from [Director of National Intelligence Daniel] Coats and [FBI Director Christopher A.] Wray and others in that press conference at the White House, or is hearing the message of the president of the United States? And I fear that the message that the Kremlin cares most about is what they hear from Donald Trump, and that is still one of denial and cover for the Russians."
If you want to know why Bruce Rauner doesn't know what to say about Donald Trump , consider the fallout from the president's latest Twitter war juxtaposed with POTUS's proposed capital gains tax cut. One of which got a ton of publicity, the other almost none at all.
U.S. states are tightening rules for online political advertising ahead of the November midterm elections as prospects dim that federal rules will be in place to prevent a repeat of the Russian interference seen in 2016. As political campaigns dump millions of advertising dollars into Facebook, Twitter and Google, states including Maryland, Washington and New York are putting more pressure on tech companies to keep tabs.
Republican congressional candidate Troy Balderson said Sunday he was "honored" to have President Donald Trump campaign for him despite Ohio Gov. John Kasich's claim that Balderson did not invite the president to the Saturday rally in Delaware County. With Balderson finding himself at the center between an ongoing feud between Kasich and Trump on the eve of Tuesday's special election in Central Ohio, Balderson said in a statement he "welcomed" the president to the Saturday rally where "he highlighted his support for" Trump and his agenda.
As a workplace designer, my media feeds and inbox were full of summaries like that of the recent Harvard Business School study on the impact of open-office plans . Many of the headlines had a doomsday tone, and our clients were reaching out to us, asking: "Have we got it all wrong?" As with many such headlines, the story is always more nuanced than it appears.
Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday that Democrats are focusing their messaging in 2018 on the idea that they will "rescue" America from Donald John Trump Pastor at Trump rally prays to shield Trump from 'jungle journalism' Bill Russell: Being criticized by Trump is the 'biggest compliment you can get' Salmon farmers in California fear Trump will destroy their industry MORE "Our message is rescue America - and we will rescue America - from the grasp of an unhinged narcissist who is creating ... chaos," Inslee said on ABC's "This Week." He added that Democrats are also focused on protecting and expanding healthcare, as well as improving the economy for U.S. families.
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he only destroys the career of Republican lawmakers after they say bad things about him, "and you fight back and they go down the tubes and that's OK." "A couple of them," Trump said during a rally in Ohio at the Lewis Center without mentioning names.
Republicans Mike Dunleavy and Mead Treadwell are vying to become the third person in what is shaping up to be a three-way fight for governor in Alaska. The winner of the Aug. 21 GOP primary will advance to the general election.
Walt Maddox greets supporters at Tuscaloosa River Market on June 5 after winning the Democratic Party's nomination for governor. [GARY COSBY JR./THE TUSCALOOSA NEWS VIA AP] Alabama Governor Kay Ivey speaks to supporters at her watch party after winning the Republican nomination for Governor of Alabama at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery.
At Netroots Nation, the largest annual gathering of liberal activists, the Democratic Party's leading left-wing voices lashed out at the political centrists. "We tried it their way and we lost to a racist extremist," Cynthia Nixon, who is waging a primary challenge against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D, said Friday.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and several City Council members on Friday criticized a campaign mailer from Republican Tim Pawlenty that features several uniformed Minneapolis officers standing next to the candidate for governor in front of two squad cars. Frey said the mailer may have violated two city policies, calling it an unauthorized use of the Minneapolis police trademark and citing a prohibition on officers other than the union president or a designee appearing in a political advertisement.
The now-disbanded voting integrity commission launched by the Trump administration uncovered no evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud, according to an analysis of administration documents released Friday. In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who are both Republicans and led the commission, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said the documents show there was a "pre-ordained outcome" and that drafts of a commission report included a section on evidence of voter fraud that was "glaringly empty."