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Ohio Democratic congressional candidate Danny O'Connor speaks during a volunteer canvas launch in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 5, 2018. Ohio Democratic congressional candidate Danny O'Connor speaks during a volunteer canvas launch in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 5, 2018.
Clear language struggles to thrive in the face of passion, which may help explain why, as our politics becomes more passionate, our language becomes less precise. Perhaps we could be more careful.
In this Aug. 26, 2017 photo provided by Kyle Reardon, Dimitri Shein, back center, poses with his family, back row from left, Vincent, Joy, Victoria, wife, Melissa; front row, left to right, Genevieve, Mica, and Madelyn at Point Woronzof in Anchorage, Alaska. Shein, a Russian immigrant, is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Alaska and is one of four candidates competing in the Aug. 21 primary.
It's primary season in Wyoming again. The primaries are when we pick which Republican we are going to elect to not accomplish a single thing that is important to us as a state.
President Donald Trump 's legal team plans to respond to special counsel Robert Mueller's request for a potential interview with the president in the coming days. The response could happen as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday, sources with direct knowledge told ABC News.
As one of the internet's most controversial personalities, making outlandish claims and spreading conspiracy theories through his Infowars website has made Jones a household name in political circles. Initially, it was for his baseless accusation that 9/11 was an inside job , but in the past couple years, he's claimed surviving high schoolers from a Parkland, Florida, shooting are "crisis actors."
President Donald Trump made a last-minute push on Tuesday for Republican House candidate Troy Balderson as voters head to the polls in Ohio's 12th Congressional District. In an early morning tweet, the president appealed to the district's voters to elect Balderson over Democrat Danny O'Connor in Tuesday's special election.
President Donald Trump could soon tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to lower oil prices just ahead of the U.S. midterm elections in November. The Trump administration is considering releasing up to 30 million barrels of oil into the market, cutting the stockpile nearly in half , according to Bloomberg.
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As voters go to the polls on this Tuesday for Congressional primaries in four states, the main story line tonight will be a special election for a U.S. House seat in the state of Ohio, as Republicans struggle to hold on to a seat which has been easily in the GOP column for years, as a defeat will be seen as a clear rebuke of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party writ large in a key mid-term election year. "He's really tough.
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.
Some areas where Pres. Trump's border wall will be built have not received a cost analysis, and that has a congressional watchdog warning that the price of the wall could go up.
President Donald Trump's preferred congressional candidate - and his chief legislative achievement - are about to be tested in battleground Ohio in the season's final high-stakes special election. The midsummer affair comes as Trump's shadow looms over primary contests in four other states on Tuesday, none bigger than Kansas, where the Republican president roiled the governor's race Monday by opposing the sitting GOP governor on the eve of the election.
Margaret M. Heckler, an eight-term Republican congresswoman from Massachusetts who later became an embattled secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan before serving as U.S. ambassador to Ireland, died Aug. 6 at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia. She was 87. Throughout much of her career, Heckler was a groundbreaking figure who often forged her way in law and politics as one of the few women in the male-dominated fields.
Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole endorsed Gov. Jeff Colyer in the state's Tuesday Republican gubernatorial primary, a split with Donald John Trump South Korea urges Pyongyang to speed up denuclearization process More than a dozen arrested as protesters, counter-protesters clash in Berkeley Trump golfs with Graham at New Jersey club MORE Dole, the 1996 GOP presidential nominee, tweeted his support for Colyer, whom he called "our best choice to win tomorrow AND in the fall." Proud to support Jeff Colyer for Governor-our best choice to win tomorrow AND in the Fall.
Kris Kobach has emerged as the outright favorite to win the GOP nomination in Tuesday's gubernatorial primary after winning an endorsement via Twitter from Donald John Trump South Korea urges Pyongyang to speed up denuclearization process More than a dozen arrested as protesters, counter-protesters clash in Berkeley Trump golfs with Graham at New Jersey club MORE Trump's tweet calling Kobach a "fantastic guy" came just hours before the polls open, and represents the first time the president has endorsed a candidate running against a Republican incumbent in a primary. The unlucky incumbent is Gov. Jeff Colyer , a former surgeon with years of experience in the state legislature, and a far more traditional candidate than Kobach has been.
Los Angeles: No one would mistake President Donald Trump for an expert on climate change or water policy, but a tweet he issued late Sunday about California's bushfires deserves some sort of award for most glaring misstatements about those two issues in the smallest number of words. Trump blamed the fires on "bad environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilised."
POLITICALLY, PAUL RYAN is suffering rigor mortis - his last impotent months as speaker of the House. The immediate cause of death was Donald Trump and the mindless tribalism that turned Ryan's Republican caucus into a snake pit.