The debacle that required 15 votes to finally resolve became a violent example of how much political extremism and unruly behavior dominate politics and government in the United States today.
Preliminary vote-counting says Kevin McCarthy is short of the 218 votes he needs to become the new speaker.
At the moment, it looks like Kevin McCarthy does not have the votes he needs to become the next speaker.
The attack on women’s right by Republicans and the Supreme Court backfired on the rabid right-wing and its clan leader, Donald Trump.
Picking where to campaign causes Biden to tread a fine line that comes with having a less than 50% approval rating.
After a ton of scrutiny and hours of hearings, this could be the week when the high court gets its first Black woman justice
Those who worked for months putting the bipartisan plan into place now want public help as key vote approaches this week.
In a long, often disjointed, conference call between outgoing president Donald Trump, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and others in Washington and Georgia, the defeated president who lost in both the popular and Electoral College vote for president against Joe Biden tried to convince, persuade, threaten and even begged, the state to change at least enough votes to overturn his loss in that state. It didn’t sell.
But the Senate Majority Leader also lauded defeated president Donald Trump for his Supreme Court appointments and other claimed “accomplishments” while other Republicans say the fight to overturn democracy is “not over.”
As usual, Trump lied. He had claimed that the Electoral College vote would allow him to accept the results of an election he lost, but he turned to Twitter to claim Biden lost while he, and only he, won.