How Roy Moore won the first battle of the anti-McConnell war

All the Republican establishment's money and muscle couldn't stop culture warrior Roy Moore from ousting Sen. Luther Strange here Tuesday night. Now, suddenly, other outsider candidates see a much bigger opening to make Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a villain and turn the party on its head in the 2018 midterms.

Little appetite for extra budget cuts as House passes 2018 spending bills

As the House finished work this past week on next year's funding for the federal government, approving a package of eight different different spending bills, one thing noticeably absent from the debate on the House floor was a successful push to make new cuts in next year's budget, as efforts to make deeper spending reductions were routinely rejected by a coalition of both parties.

Ousted chief justice makes runoff in Alabama Senate race

Ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is trying to play usurper to deep-pocketed Republican forces after making a runoff with incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in the state's Senate primary. Getting to the runoff is a sweet win for Moore, who was twice stripped of his chief justice duties - for refusing to remove a biblical monument he installed in a state judiciary building and for resisting federal gay marriage rulings.

The Latest: Light turnout in Alabama Senate primary

The Latest on Alabama's special primary election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions : Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill said Tuesday afternoon that turnout could be as low as 10 percent to 15 percent if the trend continues. Polling places across the state reported light traffic in the morning.

Low turnout expected as polls open for Senate election

Twenty to 25 percent of registered Alabama voters are expected to turn out Tuesday for the U.S. Senate primary election, Alabama's secretary of state said Monday. Voters go to the polls Tuesday to cast their first vote on a replacement for former Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican who vacated one of Alabama's Senate seats when he was appointed U.S. attorney general.

Poll: Will The Trump Endorsement Matter in Alabama?

Donald Trump says that Luther Strange is the best choice to replace Jeff Sessions in the Senate. Are Alabama Republicans listening to him or defying his preference? Last week, in the first poll since the Trump endorsement, Trafalgar Group asked Alabama Republicans who their pick was in the Senate primary.

Alabama GOP Senate Primary Tests Reach Of McConnell, Trump

Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., has been endorsed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump ahead of Tuesday's GOP special Senate primary. But in Tuesday's primary, the leading candidate sounds and acts more like the president, while it's the incumbent, an appointed senator just fighting to make it into a likely runoff, who has Trump's actual blessing - but also the curse of being Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's favorite candidate.

Alabama Senate race a fight to the finish

Wearing an NRA baseball cap and newly armed with an endorsement from President Donald Trump, Alabama Sen. Luther Strange on Saturday strolled by the sausage vendors and rodeo ticket booths at a rural county fair, rallying voters ahead of Tuesday's critical Republican primary for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat. "The day will turn on turnout.

Trump’s North Korea rhetoric splits candidates

Trump's rhetoric toward North Korea splits Senate candidates Republicans support president, try to downplay war threats; Democrats sharply critical Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: President Donald Trump has sent out another warning against North Korea saying that American weapons are "locked and loaded." As is customary for Trump, he tweeted this out also saying: " Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!" These comments come after threats North Korea made and after his very own defense secretary said that they were ready to counter any threat.

White House aide, Fox News host criticize Senate GOP leader

" A top White House aide and a Fox News host lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday for saying people think Congress hasn't done anything this year partly because President Donald Trump is inexperienced and had "excessive expectations" about how quickly lawmakers could act. The back and forth was an unusually negative public exchange between Republicans that came less than two weeks after the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Obama health care law was rejected by the Senate.