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That means the state House will flip from Republican-led majority control and have a new speaker, according to a news release.

House Republican leaders expressed confidence that they will control the lower chamber next year during a private conference call on Thursday, even as some races remain too close to call. That sentiment was conveyed by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, who ticked through a number of races on...

A day after U.S. voters elected climate-denying Republican Donald Trump in ...

Amid the postmortems and reckoning that will now follow the wreckage of Donald Trumps return to absolute power, as authorized by the Supreme Court, there are a two notes in particular that deserve a deeper dive.First. In Missouri, a state Trump wo...

(The Center Square) Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gambled in Texas by pouring millions of dollars of outside money into the state to pick off three Republican Texas Supreme Court justices. He lost. Texas voters rejected his message at the ballot box, resoundingly reelecting all three justices he targeted. With the support of […]

Former Republican White House candidate Nikki Haley argued the results of this week's election in which her former primary rival, ex-President Trump, defeated Vice President Harris should be a wake-up call for woke companies, government official and both Democrats and Republicans. I think at the end of the day, this should be a...

Vice President Kamala Harris became the face of the Democratic Party in July after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. However, she failed to convince voters that her presidency would be different than Biden’s, who holds an average job approval rating of 43%. For the next two years, Republicans will have full […]

Democrats scored a critical victory in New York's suburbs, flipping Rep. Anthony D'Esposito's House seat from red to blue, it is projected.

LAS VEGAS Sen. Jacky Rosen, the freshman Nevada Democrat who grabbed a Senate seat Republicans held for nearly two decades, has won re-election. Late-arriving mail ballots put her over the top Thursday against Republican wounded Afghanistan combat veteran Sam Brown. Rosen leads Brown 47.7% to 46.7%, with 95% of votes counted, Decision Desk HQ...

Democrats scored a key House win on Long Island, unseating a Republican accused of an affair and patronage.

House Republican leaders are moving quickly to consolidate power in show of confidence over the election results.

The Republican courted the bro vote and won, apparently with an assist from his 18-year-old son.

Although Republicans have won the presidency and regained a majority in the Senate, it remains unclear which party will claim control of the House. As of this writing, Republicans have

LAS VEGAS (AP) At least one of three U.S. House seats in Nevada will remain under Democratic control after incumbent Rep. Dina Titus won in her race.The Associated Press has declared Titus the winner Thursday. The races for the seats sought by Reps. Susie Lee and Steven Horsford were still too early to call. Nevadas lone Republican Congressman, Mark Amodei, cruised to victory ...

House Republicans are set to consider a rule change that would grant more powers to an interim speaker in the case of an ouster or leadership change, according to a proposal circulating among GOP lawmakers. The rule change would take effect in the event of a vacancy in the Office of the Speaker and it […]

WASHINGTON >> President Joe Biden urged Americans to “bring down the temperature” today following Republican Donald Trump’s election victory and sought to console fellow Democrats who were alarmed by the former president’s stunning comeback.

{beacon} 12:30 REPORT Its Thursday. The Starbucks holiday menu officially launches today! I swear that peppermint mocha hits differently in the festive red cup. How did Trump win so decisively? House control is still TBD, but DDHQ estimates an 85 percent chance Republicans keep it. Biden just spoke publicly for the first time since the...

“One day after Donald Trump declared victory in the presidential race, Gov. Gavin Newsom resurrected efforts in California to thwart the president-elect by asking state lawmakers to pre-empt potential Republican […]

(The Center Square) Democratic Rep. Jared Golden claims to have fended off a challenge on Tuesday from Republican NASCAR star Austin Theriault in Maine’s 2nd congressional district, but the GOP contender wasn’t ready to concede the race.  Golden was ahead with 50.3% of the vote to Theriault’s 49.3%, according to a tally by the […]