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Reporters pursue Marc Short, the White House legislative liaison, as House Republicans try to bridge their party's internal struggle over immigration at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June... . House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, answers questions from reporters as House Republicans try to bridge their party's internal struggle over immigration at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Wash... .
Ongoing tabulation of the June 5 primary vote in Orange County shows Undersheriff Don Barnes still holding a majority, with 50.6 percent of the vote. There are more than 160,000 ballots left to be counted, and if Barnes' total dips below 50 percent he'll face a runoff with Los Angeles County DA Investigator Duke Nguyen.
Reporters pursue Marc Short, the White House legislative liaison, as House Republicans try to bridge their party's internal struggle over immigration at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June... . House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, answers questions from reporters as House Republicans try to bridge their party's internal struggle over immigration at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Wash... .
Kids Reveal What They Know About Gay Pride, Coming Out of the Closet, Two Moms or Dads, Anderson Cooper and More: WATCH Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked the "fake news" media for not reporting on sighting Melania yesterday at the White House. Tweeted Trump: "The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania.
Nikko Johnson reviews the California primary election guide at San Francisco City Hall Tuesday, June 5, 2018. The 40-year-old nurse was waiting for her mother to arrive at the polling station so they could vote together.
Democratic hopes to retake control of the House will rise or fall in California, where the party is pursuing a string of Republican-held seats in Tuesday's primary election. Democrats need to gain 23 districts nationally to take the gavel in the House, and a key part of that strategy is expanding their 39-14 advantage in the home state of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi .
Eight states are casting midterm primary ballots on Tuesday, with outcomes that could help determine control of the U.S. House and Senate and decide several governor's races. Here are six things to keep in mind as primaries are being held in Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota: 1. California is a jungle: There are no party primaries in California, with voters instead choosing among all candidates on one ballot, with the top two vote-getters advancing to November regardless of party.
For years sidelined on the national political fringe, California has lurched to the center of the fight for control of Congress. No state will be more consequential in the success or failure of a prospective blue wave this fall.
Democrats have so many candidates running in key races, they fear voters will split the vote and allow only GOP contenders to advance to the general election. California primary holds promise and peril for Democrats as they seek to win House majority Democrats have so many candidates running in key races, they fear voters will split the vote and allow only GOP contenders to advance to the general election.
Doug Applegate talks with teenagers outside a Carlsbad polling place on Election Day 2016. The Democrat nearly defeated Rep. Darrell Issa but this year must get past a handful of Democrats to advance to the November election.
We've had blistering heat and humidity in much of the nation over the past week. Politics took a very brief break over the Memorial Day weekend, but with primaries and other political events this coming week, we're heading into the "dog days" or perhaps more fitting, the "dog daze" of summer.
Some of my Democrat friends, paranoid or rather traumatized by past Republican conspiracies, suspected the Scott Baugh challenge to Dana Rohrabacher in the 48th Congressional District to be a planned shadowplay to get two Republicans through the June primary and then Scott hand it to Dana by bowing out or not trying hard in the summer and fall. I assured them, having watched these two closely for a while, that the bad blood is real.
Democrats still optimistic about winning control of the House in the fall elections, but worried it'll be more seat-to-seat combat than any blue wave, got a shot in the arm on when several of their stronger candidates won contested primaries. In a Houston, Texas, district that Hillary Clinton carried, Lizzie Fletcher turned back a Bernie Sanders-type liberal, and is given an even chance of defeating a relatively weak Republican incumbent, John Culberson.
In this June 14, 2016, file photo, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., participates in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russia on Capitol Hill in Washington. Twenty-three years ago, Scott Baugh was a little known Southern California lawyer whose conservative politics and youthful brio impressed Rohrabacher, who steered his new protege to a seat in the state Legislature.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, participates in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russia on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 14, 2016. A California congressman has lost the endorsement of a 1.3 million-member realtors group after saying it was acceptable for people to refuse to sell their homes to gay men and lesbians if "they don't agree with their lifestyle."
National Democrats, confronting political chaos across Southern California, are pouring millions of dollars into congressional races to avert a self-inflicted disaster that could undermine their chances at taking control of the House. After months of optimism that the state's June 5 primary would position them to pick off seven Republican-held districts in November - a substantial down payment on reclaiming the House - Democrats are now trying to ensure that they do not hurt themselves because of their unusually crowded slates of candidates.
Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher ignited a firestorm when he said this month Congress shouldn't extend fair housing protections to gays and lesbians. Currently, it's illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in Rohrabacher's home state as well as in such states as Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico and Utah, the sites say.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has lost the support of the National Association of Realtors after telling a group of realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their homes to gays or lesbians. "Every homeowner should be able to make a decision not to sell their home to someone they don't agree with their lifestyle," Rohrabacher told an Orange County Association of Realtors delegation at a May 16 meeting in Washington, D.C., according to Wayne Woodyard, a former Orange County Realtor president who was at the event.