In theory, the looming impeachment trial of ex-President Donald Trump would force Senate Republicans to confront a question they’ve dodged for the last four years: Is the way the 45th president behaved in office OK or not?
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022
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Senate elections typically happen only every two years -- except sometimes they're three years in a row. Democrats picked up two seats in November 2020. They won two more in Georgia runoffs in January 2021. And in ...
Senate confirms Cecilia Rouse to be Biden’s top economist
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The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden's nomination of Cecilia Rouse to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. The vote on Tuesday was 95-4. Rouse, a labor economist and dean of the Princeton School of Public and...
Why Republicans think Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head can save them
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The prevailing message that emerged from last weekend's annual Conservative Political Action Conference wasn't that Joe Biden is a bad president or that Donald Trump is great (although both speakers and attendees vo...
Beware false (Trump) idols!
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On Sunday morning, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana told CNN's Dana Bash something very important about the future of his party. "If we idolize one person, we will lose," Cassidy said. "And that's kind of c...
The 50 most ridiculous lines from Donald Trump’s CPAC speech
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Donald Trump delivered his first major post-presidential speech on Sunday, an address to the Conservative Political Action Conference laden with falsehoods and attacks on his fellow Republicans -- suggesting absolut...
Senate Democrats drop proposal to penalize companies for not providing $15 minimum wage
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Senate Democrats decided Sunday to abandon an alternative proposal to penalize companies for not providing a $ 15 minimum wage to their employees, the latest indication that boosting the federal minimum wage in thi...
Why the very conservative bloc is so important to Trump
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Poll of the week: A new Granite State Poll from the University of New Hampshire finds that 58% of New Hampshire Republicans probably or definitely want former President Donald Trump to run for president in 2024. Th...
Trump makes fundraising moves ahead of CPAC speech
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Former President Donald Trump is weighing the creation of a super PAC as he seeks to assert his authority over the Republican Party and expand his post-presidential political operation. Trump spokesman Jason Miller ...
Trump endorses primary opponent to Ohio Republican who voted for impeachment
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Former President Donald Trump on Friday endorsed a primary challenger running against Ohio's Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who voted to impeach Trump last month, in an early sign of the former President's plans to exert hi...
Golden Trump statue turns heads at CPAC
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Orlando, Florida With the first full day of the Conservative Political Action Conference underway, there's already an indisputable star: an outrageously golden statue of Donald Trump wearing shorts and flip-flops. T...
Trump returns and Republican 2024 prospects seek breakout moments at CPAC gathering
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Orlando, Florida Republican politicians, media personalities and activists are gathering this weekend in Florida for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, an event that could offer an early window into...
Senate parliamentarian rules against including minimum wage in Covid relief bill
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The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against including the increase in the minimum wage in the Covid relief bill, an aide familiar with the process and two sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell CNN. Th...