4 mins agoGOP leadership battle pits McCarthy against Jordan for House minority leader spotLawmakers are returning to Washington on Tuesday for the first time in more than a month and with control of the House flipping to the Democrats after the midterm elections, Republicans are readying themselves for an impending internal struggle on Wednesday over who will assume leadership of a party that is in the minority for the first time since 2011.
19 mins agoOcasio-Cortez joins climate change protesters outside Pelosi’s office during first day on Capitol HillMoments after arriving on Capitol Hill for freshman orientation, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., went to the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
24 mins agoLondon Lamar, incoming Tennessee state House rep, calls residents ‘racist’, GOP voters ‘uneducated’A newly-elected Tennessee state lawmaker is now apologizing after a video surfaced of her calling her state “racist” and claiming that most of its residents who “voted Republican are uneducated.”
49 mins agoSen. Mitch McConnell: Will Dems work with us, or simply put partisan politics ahead of the country?Last Tuesday I was proud to see that the American people voted keep Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate. But we also learned that, come January, the Republican Senate majority will be dealing with a House of Representatives under Democratic control.
1 hour agoIn Florida vote recount, slow and steady may not win the raceAfter days of delays, the recount in Broward County, Florida, officially began Tuesday morning.
1 hour agoRace for Georgia governor still unsettled as frustrated candidates blame each otherA week after the election, rhetoric is still heated in Georgia’s race for governor.A week after the election, rhetoric is still heated in Georgia’s race for governor. Today, Georgia Democrats accused Republican Brian Kemp of “preemptively declaring himself the winner" over Stacey Abrams in an election still too close to call.
2 hours agoOcasio-Cortez claims she can't afford DC apartment, but records show she has at least $15,000 in savingsDemocratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' claims that she's unable to afford an apartment in Washington, D.C., until she begins collecting her congressional salary crumble under scrutiny, with records showing the 29-year-old has collected more than $6,000 from her campaign and reported having a minimum of $15,000 in savings.
5:013 hours agoElection law expert: Scott, DeSantis leads insurmountableAttorney Charlie Spies says the only way Democrats can win in Florida is to change the rules.
2:354 hours agoRick Scott flying to DC for Senate elections, orientationGovernor's office says the Republican is moving forward as the state's next senator amid the Florida recount; Doug McKelway reports on the backlash over the ballot-sorting.
5 hours agoPelosi's quest to regain speaker role forces allies to end intra-party rebellionAllies of Nancy Pelosi are trying to stop a Democratic rebellion from taking place that could imperil a Pelosi return to the speakership, after an election where a number of newly-elected House Democrats vowed during the campaign to support someone other than the California Democrat for speaker.