Seth McLaughlin

Donald Trump’s campaign style seen in Senate primary races

The race in West Virginia, like the Republican senatorial primaries in Ohio and Indiana on Tuesday, has turned into a test of Trumpiness.

May 6, 2018

Doug Jones quietly fulfills campaign promises in Senate

When Doug Jones won his seat in last year's Senate special election in Alabama, fellow Sen. Joe Manchin embraced him as a member of the "radical middle" in Congress, predicting he'd cross party lines to get things done.

May 3, 2018

GOP welcomes Nancy Pelosi’s desire to regain House gavel

Republicans are happy to hear that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi envisions sticking around after the 2018 election, signaling they believe that her hopes of winning back the speakership will help energize GOP voters in the fall.

May 2, 2018

Nancy Pelosi to run for speaker when Democrats win House in 2018

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi predicted Tuesday that Democrats will win back the House in the midterm elections and she will run for speaker, adding another wrinkle to the speculation over the California Democrat's political future.

May 1, 2018

Mike Braun, Luke Messer, Todd Rokita trade insults in final Indiana GOP Senate debate

The attacks in the fourth debate of the Indiana GOP Senate race started in the candidates' opening statements and didn't stop until they left the stage. It was a fitting finale, given the rock-'em, sock-'em tenor of the campaign between Reps. Todd Rokita and Luke Messer and former state Rep. Mike Braun.

April 30, 2018

Indiana Republican Senate candidates trading punches to very end

The GOP Senate race in Indiana started off ugly and is ending in similar fashion, with the candidates trading barbs -- in one case symbolic punches -- over everything from where they live to drunken rap sheets to their fidelity to President Trump.

April 29, 2018

Ted Cruz endorses Patrick Morrisey in W.Va. Senate race

Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday endorsed Patrick Morrisey in the competitive U.S. Senate race in West Virginia.

April 27, 2018

GOP Rep. Patrick Meehan resigns, decision tied to harassment settlement

Republican Rep. Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania resigned Friday amid an ethics probe into a secret payment he made to a former staffer over a sexual harassment claim.

April 27, 2018

House Democrats roll out innovation plank of ‘Better Deal’

House Democrats on Friday unveiled the "innovation" plank in a legislative blueprint that they hope will serve as a springboard for winning back the U.S. House in the November midterm elections.

April 27, 2018

Robert Menendez ‘severely admonished’ by Senate ethics committee

The Senate Select Committee on Ethics "severely admonished" Sen. Robert Menendez Thursday over his relationship with a Florida eye doctor and the gifts he received from him.

April 26, 2018

Steny Hoyer should resign over primary shenanigans, say Progressive Democrats

Liberal groups demanded the resignation of a top House Democrat on Thursday after he was caught on a secret recording trying to strong-arm a progressive candidate to nix his congressional campaign and clear the way for party leaders' preferred pick to win.

April 26, 2018

Elizabeth Warren ‘barf bags’ to be given out by super PAC at Massachusetts GOP convention

A political action committee announced Thursday it plans to dole out free "Elizabeth Warren barf bags" at the Massachusetts GOP convention this weekend, where the party is slated to endorse one of the liberal Democrat's rivals.

April 26, 2018

Donald Trump support no requirement for RNC campaign funds

National Republicans won't demand that candidates declare allegiance to President Trump in order to get financial backing this year, the party's main political committees tell The Washington Times.

April 25, 2018

Donald Trump’s base hopes Paul Ryan exit will unite GOP behind ‘America First’ agenda

President Trump's core supporters are happy that House Speaker Paul D. Ryan is retiring but say they are not ready for a full housecleaning in Congress, holding out hope that the rest of the Republican leadership team will see Mr. Ryan's departure as a chance to do more to back Mr. Trump.

April 24, 2018

Nancy Pelosi promises ‘pro-choice gavel when we win the Congress’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday the Democratic Party doesn't have litmus tests for its congressional candidates -- though she made it clear that if Democrats flip control of the House, they will fight for abortion rights.

April 24, 2018

Trump campaign mocks DNC’s fundraising struggle as ‘conspiracy theory’

The Democratic National Committee has laid out a conspiracy theory to explain away its fundraising struggles in the 2016 election.

April 22, 2018

RNC raises $13.9 million in March, breaking party record

The Republican National Committee set new fundraising record for the month of March, announcing they have raked in $13.9 million last month.

April 20, 2018

DNC: Fundraising woes tied to 2016 conspiracy

The Democratic National Committee, in a lawsuit filed Friday, blamed the party's fundraising woes during the 2016 presidential race on an nefarious plot, engineered by the Trump campaign, Russian officials and WikiLeaks, to disrupt the election.

April 20, 2018

DNC files lawsuit alleging Trump campaign, Russia conspired to influence 2016 election

The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit Friday against the Trump campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks, accusing them of plotting to tilt the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

April 20, 2018

Gingrich: James Comey is ‘almost a pathological liar’

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday that James Comey is an amateur fibber and described the former FBI director as "almost a pathological liar."

April 20, 2018