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As Trump makes fresh threats against Liz Cheney, Republican senators look the other way

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Romney admits the Trump MAGA agenda he stood up to now dominates Republican Party

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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a lengthy live interview Sunday with Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the …

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Live updates: Trump presidential transition, Cabinet picks

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Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, who stood by his criticism of Donald Trump’s character but acknowledged in a CNN interview that the party has been reshaped in the president-elect’s image, says it’s up to Congress to weigh the suitability of some of Trump’s controversial Cabinet picks. Trump’s picks are “an unusual collection of individuals, not the people that I would have …

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"MAGA is the Republican Party": Romney admits to Tapper that he's a dinosaur

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While Democratic Party strategists seem stuck in a loop of chasing down the last remaining Never Trump Republicans, some of the GOP's biggest names are willing to admit that the old conservatism is a thing of the past. Sen. Mitt Romney, a choice straight out of central casting for the sort of blue-blood establishment Republican that once defined the party, …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Romney stands by Trump criticism but says MAGA is now the Republican Party

CNN

CNN — Sen. Mitt Romney, a frequent Donald Trump critic who will soon retire from Congress, stood by his criticism of the president-elect’s character but said Trump and his MAGA movement now define the Republican Party. Asked what he thinks the legacy of the January 6 attack will be, Romney said he thinks that it will be seen as “a …

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Mitt Romney’s Senate exit may create a vacuum of vocal, conservative Trump critics

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SALT LAKE CITY — With Mitt Romney set to exit the U.S. Senate, Washington will be without one of its strongest conservative critics of Donald Trump when the president retakes the White House in the new year. The retiring senator will reflect on his two-decade political career, which included the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, a term as Massachusetts governor and …

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The five Republican senators who could thwart Trump’s agenda and nominees

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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Trump got a reality check last week when Matt Gaetz, the embattled former Republican …

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For some – It’s ‘Mourning’ in America

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Former US president Ronald Reagan’s seminal political ad “It’s Morning in America Again” is widely touted as one of the most successful presidential campaigns. In 2016, the juxtaposition was stark, then Secretary Hilary Clinton, who had the most polished and accomplished resume of all presidential candidates – a former First Lady, two-time Senator from New York, former Secretary of State, …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Trump’s Matt Gaetz attorney general appointment: Why the Senate will confirm him.

Slate

We are now engaged in what we in the press like to call a spirited debate about the confirmation prospects of one Matt Gaetz, the galactically unqualified and credibly accused sexual predator, to be the chief law-enforcement officer of the United States. I don’t really know him, other than his public persona.” And we have the two faces of Oklahoma’s …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The key places election race will be decided

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By 7pm EST, voting will have finished in six states, including Georgia. Voting history: 2012 Obama, 2016 Trump 2020 Biden Nevada Despite the Democrats winning the last three presidential elections in the state, Nevada is regarded as a political bellwether. Latest polling: Harris 49 per cent Trump 46 per cent according to New York Times/Siena. Latest Polling: Harris 48 per …

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The Biggest Non-Endorsements Of 2024

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LOADING ERROR LOADING When The Washington Post announced last week that its editorial board would not endorse Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump for president, the newspaper invited a flood of criticism — and more than 250,000 cancellations from apparently irate subscribers. “Look, it was always automatic that Democrats get the Teamsters, and they said, ‘We won’t endorse the …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump calls Putin; Wisconsin polls; Elon Musk’s hurricane misinformation: The biggest political stories of the week.

Slate

This week’s winner in excessive cutesiness in an answer goes to a longtime heavyweight in the genre, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney. But he’s also never endorsed a Trump opponent. “I’ve made it very clear that I don’t want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States,” he said, “and you’re going to have to do the very …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

How could hurricanes impact the election? What we can learn from 5 recent storms

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How could hurricanes impact the election? “We absolutely have the funding that we need to support the ongoing response to Helene and the response that we're preparing for Hurricane Milton,” FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell told NPR’s Morning Edition on Tuesday. That has fueled further political drama, with NBC News reporting on Monday that Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis — whose …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

The secret weapon Republicans use to win elections

Raw Story

After Ronald Reagan struck down the Fairness Doctrine and the Equal Time Rule, Republican money men got the memo. The billionaire leaned back in his chair, took a deep breath, tented his fingers in front of his mouth, and then said, carefully but emphatically: “I’ll never put anybody on my air who wants to raise my taxes.” A few years …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Republican ex-senator Jeff Flake endorses Kamala Harris as anti-Trump right coalesces

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Mitt Romney concerned about Trump 'retribution': 'How am I going to protect 25 grandkids?'

Raw Story

Sen. Mitt Romney is worried about Donald Trump's campaign promise to be "retribution" for his supporters. The retiring Utah senator and former GOP presidential nominee has drawn MAGA ire as the only Republican to vote to convict in both impeachment trials involving the former president, and he worries that his family and himself could be targeted by the Justice Department …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Bizarre New Politics of Pets

Politico

These pet headlines, of course, bookended a news cycle dominated by Donald Trump and JD Vance’s unfounded claims that Haitian migrants have been killing and eating people’s dogs and cats. Thorstein Veblen, the sociologist who coined the term “conspicuous consumption” took note of this in his 1899 magnum opus Theory of the Leisure Class: “As he is an item of …

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Melania Trump’s nude modeling makes Republicans blush — and threaten reporters

Raw Story

WASHINGTON —While most Republicans are now fanboys of former President Donald Trump, talk of the former first lady’s nude modeling makes many in the GOP contort, even if she started the conversation on social media this week ahead of the release of her new memoir, “Melania”. “I don't know how to answer that.” Tuberville may not have heard of Melania …

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Reflections on America’s customary face-off

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Donald Trump’s decision not to go ahead with a second debate with Kamala Harris, coming as it does on the heels of his failure to stay on script in the first — and the resultant widespread consensus, even among Republicans, that he had lost the debate with the feisty Democrat — prompts me to recall the long tradition of American …

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Manchin signals he could endorse Harris while Romney stays coy

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Washington CNN — Sen. Joe Manchin, the conservative Democrat-turned-independent who had toyed with a presidential run and has long been a thorn in the side of the left, has been mum about the candidate he’s backing in November. “I’m certainly not going to be voting for former President Trump, and I think that’s been very clear,” Romney said when asked …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Dick Cheney says he will vote for Kamala Harris for president

LA Times

Former Rep. Liz Cheney in 2022 with her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a lifelong Republican, said Friday he will vote for Kamala Harris for president, two days after his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, endorsed the vice president. In a campaign ad for Liz Cheney as she sought a …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Arlington cemetery controversy shines spotlight on Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s sudden embrace of Trump

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Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. Cox, 49, said in his note that he believed Trump could save the country “by emphasizing unity rather than hate.” “You probably don’t like me much,” Cox wrote. “He allowed himself to compromise his values, and he’s not the first politician aligning with Donald Trump to have found himself in …

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Arlington cemetery controversy shines spotlight on Utah governor, former Trump critic

LA Times

In this combination photo, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at the National Governors Assn., in July in Salt Lake City, left, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a town hall last week. Cox, 49, said in his note that he believed Trump could save the country “by emphasizing unity rather than hate.” “You probably don’t like me much,” …

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More than 200 Republicans who worked for Bush, McCain and Romney endorse Harris

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As Trump makes fresh threats against Liz Cheney, Republican senators look the other way

Romney admits the Trump MAGA agenda he stood up to now dominates Republican Party

Live updates: Trump presidential transition, Cabinet picks

"MAGA is the Republican Party": Romney admits to Tapper that he's a dinosaur

Romney stands by Trump criticism but says MAGA is now the Republican Party

Mitt Romney’s Senate exit may create a vacuum of vocal, conservative Trump critics

The five Republican senators who could thwart Trump’s agenda and nominees

For some – It’s ‘Mourning’ in America

Trump’s Matt Gaetz attorney general appointment: Why the Senate will confirm him.

The key places election race will be decided

The Biggest Non-Endorsements Of 2024

Donald Trump calls Putin; Wisconsin polls; Elon Musk’s hurricane misinformation: The biggest political stories of the week.

How could hurricanes impact the election? What we can learn from 5 recent storms

The secret weapon Republicans use to win elections

Republican ex-senator Jeff Flake endorses Kamala Harris as anti-Trump right coalesces

Mitt Romney concerned about Trump 'retribution': 'How am I going to protect 25 grandkids?'

The Bizarre New Politics of Pets

Melania Trump’s nude modeling makes Republicans blush — and threaten reporters

Reflections on America’s customary face-off

Manchin signals he could endorse Harris while Romney stays coy

Dick Cheney says he will vote for Kamala Harris for president

Arlington cemetery controversy shines spotlight on Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s sudden embrace of Trump

Arlington cemetery controversy shines spotlight on Utah governor, former Trump critic

More than 200 Republicans who worked for Bush, McCain and Romney endorse Harris