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At the Races: After the fist bump
Meanwhile, Johnson grabbed headlines this week for downplaying the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, saying it “didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.”
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Meanwhile, Johnson grabbed headlines this week for downplaying the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, saying it “didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.”
Seven Republican senators crossed party lines and joined all 50 members of the Democratic Conference in voting to convict Trump for inciting the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop
Pivoting away from impeachment, the QAnon conspiracy theory and the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the GOP sees championing the cause of returning students to their classrooms as a chief,
As Democratic impeachment managers made their case to senators that Donald Trump incited an insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the former president’s second trial also came up on the campaign
Josh Hawley showed us who he really is,” Sifton, a former state senator, says in the video as a widely shared image of Hawley greeting supporters of President Donald Trump outside the Capitol on Jan. 6
Those efforts are likely to increase in the coming weeks as images from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol are replayed during Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and as Democrats in both chambers
More than three dozen House Democrats have introduced a resolution to censure Brooks for comments he made at a rally before the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, but he said the notoriety has an upside
In Iowa’s 2nd District, another swing district, Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks was seated in January after winning her race by just 6 votes.
And recent security questions underscore the persistent threats facing lawmakers, which were on full display as a mob attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Starting gate Still running: In the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and amid ongoing threats against lawmakers, some potential candidates have been raising questions about their safety.
Peters said some potential candidates have been spurred to run after the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol, when a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters, fueled by lies that the 2020 election
It comes at a pivotal moment for the GOP as party insiders wrestle with the role that will now be played by Trump, whose supporters rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6 but who also remains hugely popular
Fear, guilt, anguish: Congressional staffers are still struggling in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, whether they hid from the violent mob in their workplace or watched in terror
Stivers criticized former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection but did not vote to impeach him.
Steve Stivers, the former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman who has criticized Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection but did not vote to impeach Trump, is considering a Senate run,
On Jan. 6, Trump told his supporters to “primary the hell” out of GOP lawmakers who did not object to the Electoral College certification, which includes all but one GOP senator up for reelection in 2022
Scott Tipton in a GOP primary last year and went on to beat a former state senator by 6 points.
representatives of outside groups pushing for passage of the package, said the overhaul would help shore up voters’ confidence in a democracy damaged by a violent attempted insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6
The Jan. 6 mob attack provided key visuals of the Trump coalition that will be played on loop for months to come.
The ads feature grayscale images of the Jan. 6 riots on the Capitol superimposed with text accusing the members, who are named, of voting “with the mob,” “against accountability” and of giving “Trump