North Carolina voters headed to the polls Tuesday to choose their parties’ nominees for seats in the North Carolina House and Senate in November’s general election. Polls closed at 7:30 p.m. in the state’s Super Tuesday primary, where everything from presidential to local races were on the ballot. In and around Charlotte, multiple seats in […]
A man running for governor of Missouri whose ties to the Ku Klux Klan were recently made public said that the state Republicans who are now working to oust him from the race were already familiar with his beliefs. “The Missouri GOP knew exactly who I am,” Darrell McClanahan III wrote on X. “What a […]
Is the appearance of impropriety enough to change the trajectory of the Donald Trump trial in Georgia? That’s one legal question Scott McAfee, the Fulton county superior court judge, will wrestle with as he contemplates whether to throw the Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade off the trial of the […]
The Missouri Republican Party said it is working to remove a Republican candidate for governor after it was revealed he has ties with the Ku Klux Klan, and was seen in a photo giving a Nazi salute while standing in front of a burning cross. Darrell Leon McClanahan III “filed for Governor as a Republican […]
Feb. 27—New Lebanon Mayor David Nickerson on Tuesday defended both the substance and timing of village council’s vote to put most of village leadership on administrative leave a week earlier. It was his first formal statement since announcing an internal investigation into alleged misconduct Feb. 20. Council voted to place Village Manager Glena Madden, Chief […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A potential key witness for lawyers seeking to derail the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others is expected to return to the witness stand on Tuesday as the judge considers an effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her romantic relationship with a top prosecutor. Special […]
The Southern Baptist Convention’s top administrative body voted Tuesday to oust four congregations — one for having a woman as senior minister, two for what it said were failures related to the denomination’s sexual-abuse policy and one for lack of financial participation. The SBC’s Executive Committee announced the decision after a closed-door session at the […]
In January 2023, Rep. Mike Bost got up and screamed at Matt Gaetz as he trashed Kevin McCarthy. Now, Gaetz is backing Bost’s primary challenger: failed GOP gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey. Gaetz called the Illinois congressman “lackluster” and compared him to Liz Cheney. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida is seeking to end the career […]
The College Democrats of New Jersey were preparing to make an endorsement in one of the country’s most closely watched U.S. Senate primaries when calls began to come in from someone in touch with the campaign of Tammy Murphy, the presumptive front-runner and the wife of the state’s governor. The caller, a female college student […]
WASHINGTON — A handful of moderate Democrats say they would be willing to save the new Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, if hardline conservatives move to oust him from power as they did to his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy. “Yes, we would back him,” said one senior moderate House Democrat who has been speaking with colleagues […]
Some Republicans are already grumbling about ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., just months after he was elected. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, during a Monday interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, floated the possibility of pushing Johnson out of the role, observing that colleagues “are really frustrated” with the House Speaker. Roy, who is also the […]
Michigan Republicans are on the verge of ousting their party’s conspiracy theory-touting chair after a tenure marred by financial collapse and internal feuds that have at times turned into physical altercations. Kristina Karamo, the Michigan Republican party chair, an election-denying activist who won a hard-fought race for the position last year, is facing a likely […]