When prosecutors charged Derrick Evans for Jan. 6 crimes, they didn’t struggle to make their case against the defendant — because Evans had already created overwhelming evidence to be used against him. In fact, the West Virginia Republican livestreamed himself storming the U.S. Capitol, bragging about his actions, repeatedly referencing his own name aloud, and […]
J.B. McCuskey (left) won the Republican nomination for West Virginia attorney general and Kris Warner (right) won the Republican nomination for Secretary of State on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (Courtesy photos) State auditor J.B. McCuskey won the Republican nomination for attorney general Tuesday night over opponent Sen. Mike Stuart, R-Kanawha. In November, McCuskey will face […]
Rep. Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) speaks during a House Select Committee on Climate Crisis hearing on June 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Nathan Howard | Getty Images) Derrick Evans will not be in the Capitol. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va. has won her race to defend her congressional seat in the November general election. Miller defeated convicted […]
BALTIMORE — Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. will be the Democratic nominee in the race to replace longtime U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, setting up a November election between him and Republican Kim Klacik, who also won in Tuesday’s primary. The Baltimore County-focused 2nd Congressional District was one of a few competitive primary races for […]
Hal Weatherman is Republican voters’ choice in the runoff election for lieutenant governor, according to the Associated Press. AP called the race for Weatherman about 20 minutes after polls closed. Tuesday was North Carolina’s second primary election, held to select the Republican nominees for lieutenant governor and state auditor. In early results from the runoff […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson will join former President Donald Trump at his hush money trial in Manhattan on Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter said. Johnson, the top Republican in Congress, is the latest and most senior party member to attend the proceedings, in which Trump is […]
North Carolina Republicans have the chance today to vote in the 2024 primary election … again. That’s because state law says if no candidate receives more than 30% of the vote in a primary, the second-place candidate can request a runoff. During the first primary in March, Republican contests for lieutenant governor, state auditor and […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In one of the most closely watched congressional races this year, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska is looking to defeat a fellow Republican in Tuesday’s primary election in his quest for reelection. He’ll have to do it without the support of the state Republican Party, which has endorsed his primary […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual — spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. That incumbent, conservative two-term Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., voted to remove former Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker last fall. It’s just the latest example of how […]
In practical terms, Barron Trump’s truncated stint on the political stage as a Florida delegate to the Republican party’s national convention was little more than symbolic. His father Donald Trump’s third successive presidential campaign as the Republican nominee was all but certain anyway, and the names of those who will confirm it are essentially inconsequential. […]
A controversial political leaflet that hit mailboxes in Boone County this week has people picking sides – literally. It’s pitted the county’s GOP party chairman against the county’s top elected Republican official, who denounced the mailer as a “hit piece.” The back of the double-sided mailer lists 10 GOP candidates in two columns. On the […]
Former Rep. David Jolly (Fla.), who served in the House as a Republican but later left the party, ripped into independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him a “MAGA crazy Republican” who could take votes from the GOP this November. “I still think RFK Jr. could take more from Republican and I think […]