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With less than a month to go until Election Day, Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., has released a new campaign ad painting him as a foil to the "radical left" and "socialists." As his fierce battle for re-election nears a close, Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly attacked the "radical left" and even sought to align with President Trump and former President Ronald Reagan.
On the campaign trail, Rep. Beto O'Rourke has cast his mother, Melissa O'Rourke, as a lifelong Republican. The Texas Democrat's comments serve a purpose: his Republican mother is the exact sort of voter he'll need to win over in order to defeat GOP Sen. Ted Cruz in the red state and become the first Democrat to win a Senate seat there for the first time since 1988.
All four Democratic candidates vying for competitive U.S. House seats in Virginia outraised their Republican counterparts in the latest fundraising period and had more cash on hand going into the final weeks of the mid-term elections. The Virginia numbers are in keeping with national trends as Democrats try to capitalize on President Trump's unpopularity in suburban districts to take control of the House of Representatives.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday released the results of a DNA analysis that she said indicated she has some Native American heritage, a rebuttal to President Donald Trump, who has long mocked her ancestral claims and repeatedly referred to her as "Pocahontas."
FILE -- Pictured: Jay Pharoah as President Obama and Taran Killam as Senator Mitch McConnell during the "A Drink at the White House" skit on November 15, 2014. FILE -- This Oct. 20, 2012 photo released by NBC shows Jason Sudeikis portraying Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, and Jay Pharoah as President Barack Obama in a skit from "Saturday Night Live," in New York.
Hamza Abdelgany, a Warren campaign staff member on the Democratic Outreach Team, works at his laptop at the campaign headquarters. Hamza Abdelgany, a Warren campaign staff member on the Democratic Outreach Team, works at his laptop at the campaign headquarters.
Of course the system is rigged - systems are always rigged to protect the wealth, power, and self-interest of those who created them, those who benefit from them. That's not hyperbole; that's reality, that's human nature, and that's what the Bible calls sin.
Senate Democrats briefly turned the chamber... . Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks after the Democratic policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 in Washington.
You and your polls! You said Hillary Clinton had a 90 percent chance of winning/that Clinton would win in a landslide! Polls are wrong and you don't know what you're talking about! It's not the case that polling was generally wrong in 2016. Clinton had a wide advantage in the polls multiple times over the course of the campaign, but those leads consistently narrowed again.
The Senate's majority leader, insisting his chamber won't be irreparably damaged by the bitter fight over new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is signaling he's willing to take up another high court nomination in the 2020 presidential election season should another vacancy arise. Heading into pivotal midterm elections, McConnell tried to distinguish between President Donald Trump's nomination of Kavanaugh this year and his own decision not to have the GOP-run Senate consider President Barack Obama's high court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.
Orange County voters will fill seats for mayor, council and school board on Nov. 6. If history shows anything about midterm elections, it's that the sitting president's political party often - but not always - has a tough night. In 35 out of 38 midterm elections held since the end of the Civil War the president's party has lost seats in the House, according to the Cook Political Report.
Russia has challenged the US claim that it has fulfilled its obligations under a pivotal nuclear arms deal, a new argument that could further fuel tensions between Moscow and Washington. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it "can't confirm" the latest State Department data indicating the US has complied with thresholds set by the 2010 New Start treaty.
Interest in the Maine Republican senator's 2020 re-election has exploded in the days since she cast the deciding vote to confirm President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick - a vote that helped transform the balance of power on the nation's high court for a generation and suddenly complicates Collins' path to a fifth term.
Former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Monday the Democratic nominee Sharice Davids for the state's 3rd congressional district seat held by Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder. Biden, a former U.S. senator who served under President Barack Obama, said Kansans in the Kansas City -area district should turn to Davids as a voice of the middle class and people who want to expand access to health care.
Many Americans want to keep building on the tremendous results we have seen since Republicans took control in Washington. Others who are seeing their power and elite status wane are bitterly fighting to resist, obstruct and distort the Republicans' success.
Adam Price borrows Obama's slogan 'Yes, we can' as he calls for independence in his first Plaid conference speech as leader The newly-elected Plaid leader gave his party an optimistic message telling them independence for Wales was both possible and necessary Wales will never be able to solve its economic problems until it becomes an independent state in charge of its own destiny, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price told delegates to his party's conference in Cardigan. During a passionate speech he called on everyone who cares about Wales to join Plaid and help build a new more prosperous nation.
Former President of the Republic of Poland and the Nobel Prize Laureate Lech Walesa delivers a speech during the fifth Informal High-Level NATO-Ukraine Consultations. A monster truck went out of control at an "Extreme Aeroshow" in Chihuahua, Mexico, killing eight people and injuring ten times as many.
Hanging on a wall in John Bolton's West Wing office is a memento of his proudest achievement as national security adviser: a framed copy of President Donald Trump's order to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal. Bolton's choice of decor reflects his disdain for the deal secured by President Barack Obama and other world powers in 2015, and his relentless focus on trying to isolate Tehran and cripple its economy by reimposing tight sanctions.
At least four former presidential candidates, a former Arizona governor, and the 43rd President of the United States are among the big-name politicians coming to the state this month to stump for candidates in high-profile races. Republican Congresswoman Martha McSally, running in a competitive Senate race against Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, nabbed the biggest prize.
What took place in a Senate Hearing Room, on September 28, 2018, will go down in American history as one the most sordid, outrageous, abjectly shameless, and disgusting episodes in U.S. Senate history. Americans bear witness to nothing less than wholesale character assassination: the attempted murder of a person's very self by Congressional Democrats.