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Jim Conroy, senior political adviser to Governor Charlie Baker, wanted to be the Republican National Committee's northeastern regional political director so bad he applied for the job twice - and got shot down twice. The RNC announced Voccola's appointment Wednesday, a job in which she will consult with regional parties, set up victory campaigns, organize get-out-the-vote efforts, and create voter ID files.
Democrats have a long way to go to rebuild their party after brutal losses across the board last November. But they're seeing glimmers of hope in recent and upcoming special elections where they argue the backlash to President Trump is resulting in change at the ballot box.
California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said a special prosecutor is needed to investigate into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Bill Maher asked Issa during an interview on his show Real Time about reports that members of President Trump's campaign had contact with Russian officials.
"Ghostwriting" isn't really what happens in a presidential speechwriting shop. There's too much back and forth between the president and his writers to say a speech was actually ghosted for a president when it's a big one like President Trump's first address to Congress Tuesday night.
The classic "third rail" for decades has been social security. Republicans, dating back to its origin in the mid-1930s, have detested Social Security because of the bond it allowed its Democratic creators to forge with the great mass of American voters.
The most striking aspect of the vast and swiftly organized movement against Donald Trump is how little it had to do with the Democratic Party. Whoever is elected to chair the Democratic National Committee this weekend should draw two conclusions from this, and they are in tension.
Letter: National Guard story invents controversy where there's none Saw your front page article about the National Guard being used to round up illegals. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2luyA5S Donald Trump and John McCain have been sparring publicly from the beginning of Trump's campaign for presidency, which began in June 2015.
His administration "insults women" and his unwelcome presence in public life "insults us all." And, because the Republican party is all about the winning these days, the GOP establishment is "ready to forgive" .
Most presidents look to govern for a bit before returning to the campaign trail, but Trump isn't most presidents. "Life is a campaign," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his 30th day in office, as he made the brief flight up the Florida coast from the "Winter White House," his Mar-a-Lago club.
Without ever mentioning President Trump by name, Sen. John McCain used a speech in Germany on Friday as an international platform in an apparent blast at his fellow Republican's policies and worldview. At conference of world leaders, McCain blasts Trump's worldview Without ever mentioning President Trump by name, Sen. John McCain used a speech in Germany on Friday as an international platform in an apparent blast at his fellow Republican's policies and worldview.
"Let me as be unequivocal as possible-allegations of voter fraud in NH are baseless,without any merit-it's shameful to spread these fantasies," tweeted Tom Rath, who worked on the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney.
A permanent U.S. resident living in Texas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally voting, a punishment that will probably result in the woman's deportation after she completes her sentence. On Wednesday, a Tarrant County , Tex., jury convicted 37-year-old Rosa Maria Ortega on two felony charges of illegal voting, for casting a ballot as a noncitizen in 2012 and 2014.
It has been two weeks since he took over, imposing his dark vision upon this country. It has been two weeks since he declared war on religious minorities, our environment, our democracy.
Mitt Romney said Friday he has no regrets about criticizing then candidate Donald Trump in a stinging speech in Utah last year but now sees the new president as having "obviously gotten off to a very strong start." Romney, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2012, told the Deseret News that he wishes Trump well despite having labeled him a "fraud" and a "phony" in a University of Utah speech last March.
Employers added 227,000 jobs in January, the Labor Department announced today, marking a record 75 straight months of job growth . It's the final jobs report of the Obama administration .
It was only a few months ago when Republicans routinely blasted the president for what they called his executive overreach and his failure to tout America's superiority over other nations. Not so much anymore.
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... Send a letter to U.S. Senators: Block Jeff Sessions' appointment as Attorney General. **NOTE: THE FORM LETTER IS BLANK.
On Jan. 23, 1933, the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called "Lame Duck Amendment," was ratified as Missouri approved it. In 1516, King Ferdinand II of Aragon, who with his late queen consort, Isabella of Castile, sponsored the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492, died in Madrigalejo, Spain.
'My mother raised me with everything I needed... she is no felon': Teen girl snatched from hospital 18 years ago by woman dressed as a nurse defends her abductor after they're found living together Texas teacher, 24, who had sex repeatedly with her 13-year-old student and got pregnant with his child gets 10 years in jail I don't see Trump as a 'legitimate president' - the Russians helped him win: Veteran Democrat congressman claims 'conspiracy' to beat Clinton Britain's royal rebel: Society photographer Lord Snowdon, the charming ex-husband of Princess Margaret who captured iconic images of the Queen and Diana, dies peacefully at home aged 86 'I'm really sorry.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at a Senate committee hearing on Feb. 13, 2018, on Capitol Hill. He was nominated as the new secretary of state, replacing Rex Tillerson, on March 13. CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at a Senate committee hearing on Feb. 13, 2018, on Capitol Hill.