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Mike Pence Reemerges, Lays Groundwork for 2024 Run

(Headline USA) When former President Donald Trump was asked to list those he considers the future leaders of the Republican Party, he quickly rattled off names including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. Conspicuously absent from the list: Mike Pence. The former vice president is steadily reentering...

House Democrats Plan Retirement or Run for Statewide Office Amid Redistricting Worries

Some House Democrats seem resigned to losing their seats in the 2022 midterm elections as the redistricting that occurs after the decennial census could make their districts more favorable to Republicans, Politico reported. Although they do not yet know how the new districts will be designed, Democratic representatives in Republican-controlled...

SD Gov. Noem Kills Transgender Bill, but Orders Ban

(Headline USA) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday killed a bill that would have banned "transgender" biological men from female sports, then later issued weaker executive orders that include restrictions but which conservatives decried as political face-saving. Lawmakers in more than 20 states have introduced similar bans this year, with...

Activists Sue Ga. for Election Integrity Law & Call for Corporations to Boycott State

(Headline USA) Critics of Georgia's new Republican-backed election law issued fresh calls Monday to boycott some of the state's largest businesses for not speaking out more forcefully against the law, a day after advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging it. In a letter to more than 90,000...

Murkowski Gets Her First Republican Primary Opponent

(Associated Press) An early Republican candidate announced plans Monday to seek the Alaska U.S. Senate seat that has been held since 2002 by Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Kelly Tshibaka, who has led the sprawling Alaska Department of Administration since early 2019, in a statement said she is running "for the Alaskans...

Thom Tillis’s Pollster Says He Would Have Lost Senate Seat w/out Dem Opponent’s Affair

The pollster for Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said that Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham would have won North Carolina's 2020 race if he had not been caught cheating on his wife, The Washington Examiner reported. "Lots of politicians have had affairs," said Glen Bolger, a top Republican pollster who advised...

MURDOCK: Dems’ DC Statehood Demands Swamped by Complications

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) As I warned last fall, Democrats are pushing to make Washington, DC, America’s 51st state. Republicans are resisting this idea, as well they should. Democrats, in turn, blame the GOP’s reluctance on---what else?---“Racism!” “Now today the state of DC would be 46% black, which would make it...

New Border Czar Kamala Harris Still Has No Plans to Visit Crisis Ground Zero

(Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris won’t be on the ground at the Southwest border anytime soon as she becomes the public face of an escalating immigration crisis that shows no signs of improving. Many have speculated that the radical leftists within the Biden administration, including the vice president, favor...

Biden Spars w/ Kemp, Calls Ga. Election Integrity Bill an ‘Atrocity’

(Headline USA) Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp pushed back forcefully after President Joe Biden injected himself into the state's political debate over how to ensure the integrity of its elections. Biden on Friday called the state's recently passed SB 202 law “outrageous” and urged Congress to move quickly on its own...

Rep. Ted Lieu Explodes at House Witness Who Cited Harvard’s Admissions Bias

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., exploded at a witness during a congressional hearing on Thursday after the witness pointed out that public universities deliberately limit the number of Asian--American applicants they accept. Explosive exchange: @tedlieu yells at Peter Kirsanow when he mentions that one of the foremost examples of anti-Asian discrimination...

Cotton to Introduce Bill Banning Critical Race Theory Training in Military

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is introducing legislation to ban critical race theory training in the military. “Our military’s strength depends on the unity of our troops and the knowledge that America is a noble nation worth fighting for,” Cotton said in a statement. Critical race theory would undermine that unity because...

Mich. GOP Chair Calls Top Democrat Women ‘Witches’

(Headline USA) The leader of Michigan's Republican Party referred to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and two other top Democratic elected woman as “witches" that the GOP wants to “soften up” for a “burning at the stake” in the 2022 election. He also joked about assassination when he was asked how to remove...
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