These Are the Candidates for the Senate Leadership Election
As Republicans prepare to take control of the Senate in January, all eyes are on the three-way contest to replace Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who has held the top GOP post for nearly two decades and is stepping down at the end of the year.
A look at the candidates vying to be the next Senate majority leader
In the first seriously contested Senate Republican leadership election in decades, three senators are vying to replace longtime GOP leader Mitch McConnell when he steps down from the post at the begin
Senate Republicans to vote on new majority leader
Following the election, Republicans will control the Senate with a 53 to 47 majority, but one question remains -- who will become the new Senate majority leader? Outgoing leader Mitch McConnell will remain in Congress but will step aside as the longest serving party leader in history.
Republicans complete power takeover with US House majority
WASHINGTON, United States — The Republicans were declared the majority party in the US House of Representatives Wednesday, completing a clean sweep of Congress and the White House in last week’s elections and handing incoming president Donald Trump vast legislative power.
Senate Republicans settle on a new party leader after seizing the majority on Election Day
It was the first seriously contested Senate Republican leadership election in decades. Three senators were competing to succeed longtime GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, when he steps down from the post at the beginning of next year and Republicans take back the Senate majority.
Republicans to vote on Senate leader Wednesday, GOP appears poised to retain House majority
Votes are still being counted in key U.S. House races, but it's looking more likely that President-elect Donald Trump will take office with the Republicans holding majorities in both chambers of Congress.
Following the money in Utah’s elections
A lot of the spending in Utah elections for statewide seats comes before convention and before the primary, likely because ...
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Splaine: The 2028 presidential candidates are coming
I have learned about the value of NH's first-in-the-nation presidential primary status ever since I sponsored the law 49 ...
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For Many Candidates, Last Week’s Election Illustrated the Triumph of Hope Over Experience
Jake Weigler, a veteran political consultant who advised six candidates in last week’s Portland City Council races, says for ...
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Rep. Dean Phillips, an early primary candidate against Biden, said his voice and others were ignored
He was one of a very few Democrats who called on Biden to drop out of the race and make room for a new generation, months before that actually happened. “My voice, yes, was ignored..." ...
Proposition 140, Proposition 133: Competing primary elections measures set to lose
Proposition 133 would nullify the creation of open primaries and enshrine the current partisan primary system in the state ...
Prop 1 would have remade Idaho elections. Voters rejected it by a wide margin
The measure’s proponents, the Idahoans for Open Primaries coalition, amassed a $5.5 million war chest this year, ran ads on ...
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Montana rejects constitutional initiatives to reshape primary and general elections
Backers of two proposed constitutional amendments concede defeat despite a close race for CI-126 and ongoing ballot counts in ...
Handful of votes separate Las Vegas-area council candidates, echoing their primary
Just a handful of votes separated two candidates for a North Las Vegas City Council seat as of Tuesday -- a repeat from their ...