Sen. Mitt Romney (R., Utah) speaks with a reporter as he arrives at the Capitol before the start of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2021. (Bill Clark/Reuters) Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) said Tuesday that if former president Donald Trump were to run again in 2024 that he is

A poll worker casts a mail-in ballot for a voter at a drive-thru polling station during the primary election in Miami, Fla., August 18, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters) In a season of recriminations over election procedures, Florida stood out as an exemplar. More than 99 percent of its 11 million votes were counted by midnight on

President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pa., November 2, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Former president Trump will attempt to ensure that all open 2022 midterm races will feature a Republican candidate with his endorsement, three people familiar with the matter told Politico. The report comes amid an intra-GOP

Every time I’ve seen an eye-popping claim about election fishiness that’s supposed to make me think that Biden didn’t really win, a small amount of inquiry has debunked it. So it is again today. Michael Anton writes in the latest Claremont Review of Books: Then there are the statistical anomalies. For instance, political scientist Patrick Basham

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE H ow much of “Trumpism” will survive in the Republican Party now that Donald Trump is gone from the White House? That is the hot question of the day on the right. Much depends, of course, on whether Trump himself is able to stage a comeback in 2024, but there are still

Senator David Perdue (R., Ga.) speaks during a campaign event in Milton, Ga., December 21, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) Former Senator David Perdue of Georgia filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Monday to run for the Senate again in 2022 after losing his reelection bid in November. Perdue, 71, lost a bitterly fought Senate runoff election

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A mong the seven Republican senators who voted to convict Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial, six won’t have to face voters for quite some time: One is up for reelection in 2024 (Mitt Romney), three are up in 2026 (Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, and Ben Sasse), and two are retiring

Lara Trump, an adviser to the Trump re-election campaign and wife of the president’s son, Eric, delivers a pre-recorded address in Washington, D.C., August 26, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) touted Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, as a potential candidate in the North Carolina Senate race for 2022, in comments to Fox

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T hree months ago, no one expected a recall of Governor Gavin Newsom to make the ballot. Then Newsom broke his own coronavirus protocols and attended an opulent dinner at French Laundry, one of the most expensive restaurants in the country, with lobbyists. Photos show that no one was wearing masks or

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) conducts a news conference at the U.S. Capitol, December 1, 2020. (Tom Williams/Pool via Reuters) Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) indicated that he will support Senate candidates in 2022 based on “electability,” in comments to Politico published on Sunday. McConnell made the comments shortly after the

Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock speaks to the media as early voting in two run-off elections begins in Atlanta, Ga., December 14, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Senator Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) is under investigation for his involvement in the New Georgia Project, a voter registration organization founded by Stacey Abrams, which officials say failed to follow

Then-President Donald Trump speaks about early results from the presidential election in the East Room of the White House, November 4, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Her account of the election being rigged against Trump by an invisible cabal of activists is needlessly provocative and unsupported. Writing a column in Time magazine entitled, “The Secret History of

President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event in support of candidate for congress Claudia Tenney in Utica, N.Y., August 13, 2018. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) A New York judge has ordered the state to certify Republican Claudia Tenney as the victor in the state’s 22nd Congressional District elections, after months of delays brought on by errors

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here’s more projection in Washington than in a chain of movie theaters. An excellent example of this is the Left’s relentless attack on “dark money,” cast as a distinctly conservative poison polluting American politics. So goes the hooey. Just what it is, how much of it there is, who gets the

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell stands outside the West Wing of the White House, January 15, 2021. (File photo: Erin Scott/Reuters) A Newsmax anchor walked off the air in the middle of an interview after the show’s guest continued to insist that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Newsmax invited Mike Lindell, founder and chief

The U.S. House of Representatives has held 18 recorded votes so far this year. Three seats remain vacant. In Louisiana’s fifth district, Republican congressman-elect Luke Letlow died December 29, 2020, of COVID-19 before assuming office. In Louisiana’s second district, Representative Cedric Richmond resigned his office January 15 to become the director of the Biden administration’s

What is Matt Gaetz doing? In case you missed it — and let’s remember, the Florida representative’s entire modus operandi is designed to ensure otherwise, thus I am somewhat loath to give him what he wants — Gaetz has flown to Wyoming to campaign against Liz Cheney. Cheney is the No. 3 Republican in the

Congressman Jim Jordan: Out. Former Governor John Kasich: Out. Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted: Out. As Ohioans begin to contemplate who will replace Rob Portman in the U.S. Senate next year, some of the biggest names in Buckeye State Republican politics are bowing out early, creating openings for lesser-known candidates to organize and emerge on the

President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Biden’s scaremongering imagery has been memory-holed together with Trump’s promises of unity and healing. Credit where it’s due: The president’s repeated calls for unity were a tonic. After an extraordinarily contentious election that his opponent to

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders speaks with reporters in the driveway at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 8, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Monday that she will run for Arkansas governor in 2022. Sanders’s father, Mike Huckabee, also served as Arkansas’s Republican governor from 1996 to 2007. “I’m fighting

Georgia governor Brian Kemp knows a segment of his state’s Republican Party isn’t happy with him. He heard the crowd roar at an early January rally when then-President Donald Trump vowed he’d be back “in a year and a half campaigning against your governor, I guarantee you that.” He’s aware that in late December, Trump

President Trump waves as he walks out of the stadium during Army-Navy game at Michie Stadium. West Point, N.Y., Dec 12, 2020. (Danny Wild/USA TODAY Sports) “Trump exposed the dead consensus and rot within the Republican Party, opening the door for a new, more populist GOP.” It’s the mantra of a certain kind of conservative,

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and other Republican leaders hold a press conference in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2020. (Bill O’Leary/Reuters Pool) During remarks on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell blamed President Trump and “other powerful people” for feeding lies about the election to the mob that attacked

President-elect Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., January 8, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) You can sponsor a flag on the National Mall for Joe Biden’s inauguration. If you do, you will be subscribed to Planned Parenthood’s mailing list. Donald Trump wasn’t a healing presence in Washington. Joe Biden says he wants to be one. He says

Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff (left) and Raphael Warnock (Brian Snyder, Mike Segar/Reuters) Democrats took control of the Senate on Wednesday as Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were sworn in as Georgia’s two representatives to the upper chamber. The swearing-in, which took place hours after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, comes after the pair narrowly defeated

Surprise, surprise, Chris Buskirk, publisher and editor of American Greatness, believes that the biggest takeaway from these past few election cycles should be that it’s time for Mitch McConnell to take his leave as head of the Republican caucus in the Senate. Naturally. For Buskirk, the proof is in the pudding. Let’s start back in

Cindy McCain, Chairman of the board of The McCain Institute for International Leadership, speaks on stage at the Women in the World Summit, N.Y., April 12, 2019. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) What is the point of a political party bent on renouncing its own members? A party exists for two purposes: to win elections, and to govern

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Valley International Airport after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Harlingen, Texas, January 12, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) If you have been on Republican fundraising email lists the past several years — even if, like me, you have never given a penny to Donald Trump’s campaigns — you

The day after the November election, Christina Bobb had good news for viewers of the One America News Network: “President Trump won four more years in office last night.” His victory was “decisive,” said Bobb, a 35-year-old host on the pro-Trump cable network, but there was a problem – Democratic leaders in Michigan and Pennsylvania

Sen. David Perdue gives a thumbs up as he arrives at a campaign event in Savannah, Ga., December 4, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) A look under the hood at the back-to-back Georgia elections, including Perdue’s vote advantage over Trump. Georgia’s slip to the Democrats in both the presidential and Senate races for the first time in