Marco Rubio roasted for sharing how easy it was for him to repay student loans by writing a book Republicans flounder with response to Biden’s action The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2022
Bernie Sanders pans GOP response to Biden canceling some student loans "I don't hear any of these Republicans squawking when we give massive tax breaks to billionaires." Axios · Aug 28, 2022
'Free Staters' roil New Hampshire politics in ski area spat A recent power struggle at a New Hampshire ski area illustrates the growing influence of a 20-year-old political experiment that promotes a mass migration of 20,000 libertarians to the state The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2022
The Republican Party is having an identity crisis WASHINGTON — The GOP is now acting like a party in search of itself with less than three months before U.S. elections that once favored Republicans to retake both chambers of Congress and set them up for 2024. Tribune News Service · Aug 28, 2022
Families of the Uvalde shooting victims denounce Gov. Greg Abbott’s inaction on gun reform The governor has made a vocal enemy in the families of Robb Elementary shooting victims. They are demanding a special legislative session to reach a compromise on the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic rifles. The Texas Tribune · Aug 27, 2022
Michigan GOP nominates Hernandez for lieutenant governor at occasionally combative convention LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Republicans officially set their ticket of candidates for November at an occasionally combative convention Saturday in downtown Lansing, where former state Rep. Shane Hernandez was selected as the party's nominee for lieutenant governor. Tribune News Service · Aug 27, 2022
Mastriano wore Confederate uniform for faculty photo Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano posed in a Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, three years before he retired from the U.S. Army The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2022
John Bolton urges the US and others to 'consider Taiwan an independent country' The prominent American conservative shares his thoughts on Taiwan, former president Donald Trump and the war in Ukraine. ABC News · Aug 27, 2022
Abrams, Georgia Democrats look to prove 2020 wasn't 'fluke' Four years ago, Georgia Democrats had a contested primary for governor because the party old guard didn’t believe in Stacey Abrams The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2022
GOP, Dems seek political boost from student loan debt plan To Democrats championing the White House’s student loan forgiveness plan, it was the long-awaited delivery of one of President Joe Biden’s campaign promises The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2022
Supreme Court to have final say on Arizona voting initiative The Arizona Supreme Court is reviewing a lower court’s decision keeping a voter initiative rolling back Republican-backed election law changes and expanding voting access on the ballot The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2022
Donor coaches GOP to lie about tax hike Steve Wynn urged Republicans to falsely tell workers "they're coming for you" Salon · Aug 26, 2022
Republican effort to remove Libertarians from November ballot rejected by Texas Supreme Court On Aug. 8, a group of Republican candidates asked the Supreme Court to remove 23 Libertarian opponents from the ballot, saying they did not meet eligibility requirements. The Republicans included Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and others in congressional and state legislative races. The Texas Tribune · Aug 26, 2022
Sen. Kevin Priola joins Democratic Party Colorado Sen. Kevin Priola announced that he was leaving the Republican Party and would register as a Democrat on Aug. 22. Priola belonged to the Republican Party since 1990. Ballotpedia · Aug 26, 2022
Salon · Aug 26, 2022 GOP, gobsmacked by abortion, backpedals Republicans find themselves suddenly squandering an easy midterm win due to the conservative Supreme Court's action
Tribune News Service · Aug 26, 2022 Editorial: Doug Mastriano should have rejected his extremist allies. He didn't, and hasn't “I reject antisemitism in any form,” Doug Mastriano has said, in response to the controversy over his use of the right-wing social media site Gab as a “consultant” to his campaign. Pennsylvania's GOP gubernatorial nominee later quietly closed his account. We’re glad he rejects antisemitism, but he needs to specifically…
Axios · Aug 26, 2022 GOP ad blitz mocks Biden's student loan plan "Wanna be a struggling artist? College is on me."
Tribune News Service · Aug 26, 2022 Earmarks’ future unclear as Republicans split ahead of midterms WASHINGTON — Potential changes in control of one or both chambers in the midterm elections could put the practice of earmarking federal funds for local projects on the chopping block in the next Congress.
Los Angeles Times · Aug 26, 2022 Michael Hiltzik: Republicans attacking student loan relief as a taxpayer burden got degrees on taxpayers' dime President Joe Biden's student loan relief proposal, including a freeze on payments through the end of the year and forgiveness of $10,000 to $20,000 in loan balances, has elicited predictable cries of outrage from Republicans.
Tribune News Service · Aug 26, 2022 Editorial: Trump and DeSantis put their thumbs on the scale and emerged as winners in Miami-Dade Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to become an omnipresent force in Florida politics with loyalists at all levels of government who will push his agenda. He’s taken a page out of the playbook of the man whose support thrust him into political stardom four years ago, Donald Trump.
Tribune News Service · Aug 26, 2022 President Biden kicks off Democratic midterm push at Maryland rally ROCKVILLE, Md. — President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee kicked off the party’s midterm campaign Thursday in Maryland’s safely Democratic suburbs with a show of solidarity that showcased Wes Moore, a rising star with a good shot at flipping the state’s governorship.
Tribune News Service · Aug 26, 2022 Matt Bevin for Kentucky governor ... again? GOP primary field in 2023 could grow more crowded LEXINGTON, Ky. — He may not have dropped $5 million on a piece of prize-winning pork, but former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin didn’t go unnoticed at Thursday’s Kentucky Farm Bureau Annual Country Ham Breakfast.
Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 25, 2022 The stakes are high if Donald Trump is prosecuted What if Trump is tried and acquitted? How much stronger will he seem to the base?
The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2022 White House trolls Marjorie Taylor Greene for student loan criticism: ‘She had $183k in PPP loans repaid’ White House called out multiple GOP leaders for criticising student debt plan after taking government loan forgiveness during pandemic
The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2022 Ruling keeps Arizona voting access measure on the ballot .A judge in Phoenix has ruled that an Arizona initiative expanding voting access and rolling back a host of restrictions enacted by the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature and GOP Gov. Doug Ducey will be on the November ballot. Thursday's ruling will stand unless opponents of the Free and Fair Elections Act…