Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux is suspending his campaign for Congress, endorsing Rep. Vince Fong in the November election in a video released Monday. Boudreaux announced he is dropping out on Monday — over a month after Fong, R-Bakersfield, soundly beat the Republican sheriff in the May special election for California’s 20th Congressional District by […]
While presidential hopefuls routinely try to raise expectations for their rivals ahead of debates, Donald Trump has done largely the opposite, telling the public that President Joe Biden “can’t put two sentences together” and is “the WORST debater“ the former president has seen. Complicating matters is the fact that the Republican and his allies have […]
The biggest race of Tuesday still doesn’t have a winner. Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) squared off with a primary challenger backed by former President Donald Trump and has faced millions in negative ads. But it wasn’t the blowout that one would expect when a candidate has nearly every major player in his party against him. […]
GOOCHLAND, Va. — For Rep. Bob Good, Tuesday’s primary is about much more than the next member of Congress representing Virginia’s 5th District. “The nation is watching,” the Virginia Republican told a few dozen supporters gathered outside the historic county courthouse on a muggy Friday evening. He warned that this race is about the “D.C. […]
The first test for Kevin McCarthy’s revenge tour comes Tuesday in South Carolina, where GOP Rep. Nancy Mace is facing a primary challenger backed by the former House speaker. Mace, one of the eight House Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy from his leadership post in October, has faced millions of dollars in ad spending […]
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, we report on Act I of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s revenge tour. Plus, senior political editor […]
Words matter, and the two used to label a group of rising, 20-something actors in 1985 — “Brat Pack” — were game-changing. For Andrew McCarthy, not in a good way. “It had a long shadow over us,” McCarthy tells Yahoo Entertainment. In his new documentary, Brats, premiering June 13 on Hulu, the Pretty in Pink […]
Jun. 6—The 60-mile gravel McCarthy Road was reopened Wednesday after a partial collapse near Chitina prompted state officials to enact emergency repairs. The road runs from Chitina to just outside the town of McCarthy, about 225 miles east of Anchorage. State transportation officials reopened one lane of the road Monday evening after shutting it down […]
Jun. 4—McCarthy Road was closed Monday near where it begins in Chitina after a portion of the road collapsed, Alaska transportation officials said. The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities said in a social media post that the road was closed between Mile 0 and 1 due to “significant roadway subsidence.” Maintenance crews noticed the […]
WASHINGTON (KGET) — Vince Fong was sworn in Monday as a member of the House of Representatives, filling the seat of his mentor and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Fong won the May 21 special election for the 20th Congressional District seat. McCarthy resigned from the seat in December, after he was removed as Speaker of […]
Assembly member Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, right, is congratulated by Assembly member Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto, as lawmakers honored Fong for his recent election to the House of Representatives, during the Assembly session in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, May 23, 2024. Fong will complete Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s term after defeating Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux in Tuesday’s […]
Kevin McCarthy, former Republican US House speaker, has said that Americans should accept the results of November’s presidential race – as rising political tensions in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s campaign finance violation conviction in New York are set to inflame election integrity issues. The relatively moderate McCarthy, who was ousted as speaker last year […]