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Democrats appear unfazed after Texas shutout
“In no way is Congressional District 6 a bellwether for what is going on politically,” said Matt Angle, a Democratic strategist and consultant with the Lone Star Project.
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“In no way is Congressional District 6 a bellwether for what is going on politically,” said Matt Angle, a Democratic strategist and consultant with the Lone Star Project.
This happened despite many corporate donors hitting the pause button on campaign donations to GOP lawmakers after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, CQ Roll Call’s Doug Sword reports.
In 2008, with Barack Obama at the top of the ballot and carrying the district by 14 points, Reichert won reelection by 6 points against the same opponent he barely beat two years earlier.
Cashing in: After the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, corporations pledged to stop contributing to House Republicans who objected to certifying certain Electoral College results.
He does not accept donations from lobbyists or political action committees but said the moves of some corporate PACs to suspend donations after the violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 was “the responsible
state Department of Administration commissioner, painted the incumbent as a career politician and also referenced Murkowski’s vote to convict Donald Trump at his impeachment trial for inciting the Jan. 6
PAC crash: Corporate PAC donations plummeted dramatically after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, according to a CQ Roll Call analysis.
The unusual inaction of the two PACs, among the biggest of their kind, is emblematic of a dramatic plunge in contributions by all corporate PACs following the deadly Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill.
Trump said he is not starting his own party (“Fake news, fake news”); he wants to take on the Republicans who voted to impeach him for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol (“Get rid of them
While we’re reluctant to employ the language of war, especially after the violence of Jan. 6, we can safely say that the Republican Party’s internal strife is not over.
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.”
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
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
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
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
Scott Tipton in a GOP primary last year and went on to beat a former state senator by 6 points.
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