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The Replacements: Trump Has No Shortage of Candidates to Follow Sessions
There is no shortage of candidates to replace Jeff Sessions as attorney general, and President Donald Trump could even again turn to the Senate.
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There is no shortage of candidates to replace Jeff Sessions as attorney general, and President Donald Trump could even again turn to the Senate.
Bill Nelson, who reportedly conceded defeat just after midnight in his re-election bid against GOP Gov. Rick Scott, is now awaiting a recount.
One day after the election, Virginia’s newly re-election Sen. Tim Kaine was ready to talk policy and where he thinks that Republicans and Democrats could rally to move forward in a divided Congress.
But this time — Paulsen’s first re-election with a Republican in the White House — was different. Well-educated voters in the Twin Cities suburbs chose Democrat Dean Phillips.
The current Congress already had the most women of any Congress in history, with 84 in the House and 23 in the Senate.
The 2018 cycle was no different, with 22 House and three Senate races still uncalled by 10:15 a.m. Wednesday.
Beto O’Rourke, who is also being sent home after losing his Senate bid. Rep.
“And them being in the majority, I’m just going to blame them,” he said, remarkably just moments after extolling his contribution to expanding the GOP majority in the Senate.
Kavanaugh’s confirmation threw a wildcard into the race for Senate control.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is fond of saying that unlike the House, the Senate is in the “personnel business.”
Claire McCaskill told reporters she doesn’t “really care” whether Democrats win back a majority in the Senate or if Republicans squeak out another win.
Joe Manchin has won re-election in West Virginia in the heart of Trump country, dispatching Republican state Attorney General Patrick Morissey.
Tester has never won a Senate race with more than 50 percent.
President Donald Trump will make final pleas Monday to voters in three battleground states — Ohio, Indiana and Missouri — as he tries to boost Republican candidates with control of the House and Senate
Joe Donnelly of trying to “steal” his re-election bid by purchasing Facebook ads for the libertarian candidate on the ticket to siphon votes from his GOP foe.
Some suspected that he wanted to make sure the ordeal would not impact his re-election, while John Nance Garner, a “wet” Texas Democrat known as “Cactus Jack,” objected to proceeding because he believed
The ad was paid for by DefendArizona, a super PAC aligned with Senate Republicans that has spent nearly $22 million boosting Arizona Senate candidate Rep.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the only member of the Republican leadership not facing a conference-imposed term limit on his role.
Trump’s goal is to limit Democratic gains in the House and pick up one or more seats in the Senate. And his every move is made with an eye toward his own expected 2020 re-election bid.
McCaskill, one of 10 Democratic Senate incumbents running for re-election this year in a state Trump won in 2016, is locked in a tight battle with GOP Attorney General Josh Hawley.