by Jim Heath | Jul 12, 2019 | Battlegrounds, Headlines, Republicans
The Pennsylvania Republican Party today ended a messy internal battle for its next chairman — and the possibility that the preferred candidate of Donald Trump campaign’s would lose — by announcing that the two contenders have reached a power-sharing arrangement....
by Jim Heath | Jul 11, 2019 | 2020, Headlines, Republicans
Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick did not look like himself in a fundraising email that was sent by the National Republican Congressional Committee yesterday. The message included a picture of Kaepernick that appeared noticeably altered to make his skin darker, an...
by Jim Heath | Jun 25, 2019 | Headlines, Republicans
The chairman of Pennsylvania’s Republican Party abruptly resigned today after a news report that he sent a sexually explicit photograph of himself to a female candidate who ran unsuccessfully for the Philadelphia City Council. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that...
by Jim Heath | Jun 20, 2019 | 2020, Headlines, Republicans
Roy Moore, the polarizing Alabama Republican whose Senate campaign in 2017 was derailed by allegations of sexual misconduct, said today that he would seek a rematch next year. His decision was an unsurprising act of overt defiance toward many of his party’s national...
by Jim Heath | May 29, 2019 | 2020, Headlines, Republicans, Trump
President Trump today issued a highly public warning to the former Alabama judge Roy Moore not to make a second run for Senate, or else risk losing a seat in a solidly Republican state again. Moore, who was defeated in a 2017 special election after being accused of...
by Jim Heath | Apr 16, 2019 | 2020, Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Headlines, Kamala Harris, Republicans, Trump
Monday was the deadline for 2020 presidential candidates to upload their fundraising disclosures for the first quarter of 2019 to the Federal Election Commission. Early fundraising totals are an indicator of candidates’ capacity to power a national presidential...
