Independent candidates are the scourge of major party candidates, who complain that they serve no other purpose than to spoil the race for one of the major party candidates. But in the case of two high-profile Democrats-turned-independents, it may be the Republican Party that suffers from the spoiler effect. In Arizona, Republican Kari Lake, who […]
Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t have “political capital” yet in Washington, Robert Costa says – CBS News Watch CBS News House Speaker Mike Johnson, who went from backbencher to second in line for the presidency in Oct., doesn’t yet have the “political capital” in Washington as Congress tries to negotiate a budget bill amid an impending […]
Rep. Robert Garcia is doubling down on his disappointment with CBS for its handling of captioning Bad Bunny’s Grammys performance. On Wednesday, the California Democrat called out CBS for not offering Spanish-language closed captions during Bad Bunny’s performances and speech during the broadcast. Bad Bunny kicked off the Grammys with a mashup of “El Apagón” […]
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s immigration minister Robert Jenrick resigned on Wednesday, interior minister James Cleverly said, after the government published draft emergency legislation aimed at getting its Rwandan migrant deportation scheme up and running. “That has been confirmed,” Cleverly told a lawmaker in parliament who asked about media reports Jenrick had quit. Jenrick, who had been […]
Here’s to another round in the continuing Robert De Niro and Donald Trump feud, with the former president pulling out some trusty insults for the Oscar winner. The long-time Democrat and actor delivered impassioned acceptance speech last week at the Gotham Awards, calling out Trump’s habitual lies. Several days later, Trump posted on Truth Social: “Robert […]