Seth McLaughlin

Mike Pence accepts Trump running mate slot, urges party unity to defeat Hillary Clinton

Fresh off being tapped as Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence urged voters Saturday to "join us" in their campaign against Hillary Clinton, saying the presumptive Democratic nominee "personifies the failed establishment in Washington, D.C."

July 16, 2016

Reince Priebus fails to rein in anti-Trump delegates as convention looms

Republican leaders scrambled Thursday to defuse flare-ups that threatened unity ahead of their national convention next week, slapping down an effort to free delegates to vote for someone else other than presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

July 14, 2016

Mike Lee mum on dump-Trump plans

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is being tight-lipped about whether he plans to support a last-ditch effort to steer the nomination away from Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention.

July 14, 2016

Anti-Trump forces move to defy RNC, free delegates to vote their ‘conscience’

It is nearing time for the dump-Trump forces to put up or shut up, as they prepare for a final showdown this week on trying to free delegates to the Republican Convention to vote against presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.

July 13, 2016

Bruce Ash, RNC official, suggests support for anti-Trump effort is overblown

The chairman of the GOP's standing committee on rules said Wednesday he suspects the level of support for the stop-Trump movement is softer than the New York billionaire's opponents would suggest.

July 13, 2016

Republican platform mixes in Donald Trump ideas on immigration, trade

Donald Trump put his fingerprints on the new Republican Party platform, which embraces his border wall and disavows bad trade deals — but Trump skeptics won their own fights by protecting conservative language on religious liberty and gay rights.

July 12, 2016

Republican Party can bind convention delegates to Donald Trump

Virginia cannot impose criminal penalties on Republican convention delegates who refuse to vote for Donald Trump but the GOP can still force them to back the billionaire businessman, a federal judge ruled Monday.

July 11, 2016

Republican party seeks to wedge Donald Trump goals into platform

Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach wants to add a little Trump to the Republican Party platform this week by pushing a plank reflecting the presumptive presidential nominee's immigration message -- including his famed vow to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

July 10, 2016

House Republicans report positive meeting with Donald Trump

Donald Trump built bridges to House Republicans on Thursday in a closed-door meeting that Speaker Paul D. Ryan described as "great" -- but the billionaire businessman ran into trouble with Senate Republicans by exchanging pointed words with some of his critics who have refused to endorse him.

July 7, 2016

DNC activists greet Donald Trump at Capitol Hill with chants of ‘fraud,’ ‘sexist’

Activists from the Democratic National Committee welcomed the presumptive GOP presidential nominee to Capitol Hill Thursday with chants of "Dump Donald Trump!" and by labeling him a "fraud" and a "sexist."

July 7, 2016

Tea party group endorses Marco Rubio’s re-election bid

A national tea party group on Wednesday endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio's re-election bid, saying the Florida Republican is the strongest conservative in the GOP field despite missteps on the issue of immigration.

July 6, 2016

Donald Trump raises $51 million with RNC in June

Donald Trump raised $26 million for his presidential campaign in June, as well as $25 million more in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, according to the New York billionaire's campaign.

July 6, 2016

Carlos Beruff: Obama’s ‘got the toilets taken care of,’ but not ISIS

Florida GOP Senate candidate Carlos Beruff says the Obama administration has done more to advance transgender bathrooms than it has done to get a better handle on ISIS in a new television ad in which he calls on voters to "clean house" in Washington.

July 6, 2016

Newt Gingrich’s VP bid haunted by NAFTA support as Donald Trump rails against trade deal

Speaking on the House floor in 1993, then-Rep. Newt Gingrich termed the vote on the pending North American Free Trade Agreement a "magic moment" -- a chance to strengthen ties with Mexico and to spur an economic boom in the U.S.

July 3, 2016

Donald Trump begins to right ship as time runs short on #NeverTrump crowd

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump ended June in arguably worse shape than he began it, though there have been some recent signs of improvement as he's honed a fundraising campaign and delivered a forceful message on issues like trade policy.

June 30, 2016

Donald Trump: Primary rivals should support me or be barred from future office

Donald Trump said Wednesday that his GOP primary rivals who have failed to follow through on their promise to support the party's eventual nominee should be barred from seeking elected office again.

June 29, 2016

Rob Portman, Pat Toomey, pro-free trade stances make for tough re-elections

Republican Sens. Rob Portman and Pat Toomey have been forceful advocates for free trade agreements during their careers in Washington — making their re-election bids all the tougher this year, when they'll need to count on the very anti-free trade voters being courted by their party's new leader, Donald Trump.

June 28, 2016

Trey Gowdy: Democrats should read the Benghazi report before ripping it apart

The chairman of the House probe into the Benghazi attacks dismissed Democrats' attempts to cast the investigation as a chance to tarnish former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying Democrats would realize that if they read the report.

June 28, 2016

Paul Ryan calls for new trade deal with U.K. following Brexit vote

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan called Tuesday for the United States to carve out a new trade agreement with the U.K. following last week's Brexit vote, saying the "special relationship" between the two nations must endure Britain's decision to pull out of the European Union.

June 28, 2016

Dave Brat waiting on Donald Trump to flesh out entitlement plans

Virginia Rep. David Brat said presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump could have a tough time delivering on his pledge to protect entitlements without increasing the national deficit if he is serious about not making any cuts to the programs.

June 28, 2016