From left: Rep. Mo Brooks, Katie Boyd Britt, and Mike Durant. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters; Campaign video via YouTube; Campaign image via Twitter) A Senate election of contrasts in Alabama could become a three-horse race. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A labama’s Republican primary race to replace the retiring Richard Shelby has, thus far, garnered only modest national attention.

Mehmet Oz poses during a photocall for the TV series The Dr. Oz Show at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in Monaco in 2012. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters) The TV doctor and Senate candidate’s political and financial ties to the Turkish government deserve closer scrutiny. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A fter announcing his decision to run for U.S.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on infrastructure at the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority in Kansas City, Mo., December 8, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Biden said Wednesday he plans to run for reelection in 2024 and that he would only be even more likely to run if former President Trump is his opponent. “If I’m

Demonstrators at an immigration reform rally in Washington, D.C., October 8, 2013. (Jason Reed/Reuters) The GOP is making gains among Hispanics without liberalizing on issues such as immigration. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or years, elite conventional wisdom held that Republicans needed to liberalize on immigration to make inroads with Hispanic voters. This theory enjoyed bipartisan

The White House in Washington, D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) In 2008, Americans elected as president a first-term senator who’d spent most of his career as a backbench state legislator, a man with no executive experience, no political-leadership experience, no national-security experience, and no record in business or the military.  He was chosen

(rarrarorro/Getty Images) For the eighth straight month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has outraised its Democratic counterpart, bolstering the GOP’s financial advantage ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.  The NRSC collected $8.4 million in November, while the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee hauled $6.8 million, according to FEC filings. The former now boasts savings of

Dusk falls over the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., November 18, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) In a speech last night announcing her about-face on the filibuster (from supporting it while in the minority to opposing it while in the majority), New Hampshire senator Maggie Hassan proclaimed that “we must pass legislation to protect American democracy.” She

Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant restarts the “Tax Amazon” campaign she led in 2019 with a rally at Washington Hall in Seattle, Wash., January 13, 2020. (David Ryder/Reuters) Seattle’s openly Marxist city councilwoman Kshama Sawant appears to have narrowly defeated an attempted recall campaign and will likely hold onto her seat. As of Wednesday,

Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders during a Senate Budget Committee’s hearing to examine President Biden’s proposed budget request for fiscal year 2022, June 8, 2021. (Shawn Thew/Pool via Reuters) On a dime, Democrats shift to court the Twitter vote by claiming what’s really important is a new voting-rights bill. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE U nable

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Capitol Hill, July 16, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Amid congressional Democrats’ pivot to federal voting legislation, placing President Biden’s Build Back Better plan on the back burner for now, moderate Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema has doubled down on her defense of the filibuster, indicating that she won’t vote to kill the

Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger at the capitol in Atlanta, November 6, 2020 (Dustin Chambers / Reuters) Georgia’s elections are the most secure and trustworthy in the country, according to an election integrity scorecard released on Tuesday by the Heritage Foundation. The No. 1 ranking comes barely a year after former president Donald Trump

Voters at the Oklahoma Election Board during early voting in Oklahoma City, Okla., October 29, 2020. (Nick Oxford/Reuters) If our political system is to be made sound again, we need to rethink this practice. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R epublicans in a number of states are engaged in artful redrawing of congressional-district boundaries for their own

A delegate looks at an electoral map at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., in 2016. (Charles Mostoller/Reuters) The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is an existential threat to our republic — and its supporters are getting closer to success. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ver the years we have witnessed a reliable pattern develop

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., December 9, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Pushing back on speculation that President Biden will bow out of the 2024 presidential race due to his advanced age, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that he has “every intention for

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives for the opening ceremony of the Generation Equality Forum at the Louvre Carrousel in Paris, France, June 30, 2021. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters) Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton warned that former President Trump is poised to run for election again in 2024, and said

Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant restarts the “Tax Amazon” campaign she led in 2019 with a rally at Washington Hall in Seattle, Wash., January 13, 2020. (David Ryder/Reuters) Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s open Marxist city councilwoman, was trailing in the first ballot drop of her recall election Tuesday night, with the six percentage-point margin expected

A brutal poll from CNBC shows President Biden’s job approval rating at 41 percent and the GOP taking a commanding lead on the generic ballot test: Republicans now sport a historic 10-point advantage when Americans are asked which party they prefer to control Congress, holding a 44%-34% margin over Democrats. That’s up from a 2-point

Trump supporters hold signs on the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 20, 2016. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Bit of a needle-scratch sound to this, considering it comes from Ruy Teixeira (in his Substack newsletter The Liberal Patriot): Democrats like to believe that, since a relatively conservative white population is in sharp

People fill out ballots during the New York mayoral primary election at a polling site in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 22, (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) New York City councilman Robert Holden blasted a bill that would permit an estimated 800,000 non-citizens to vote in municipal elections, in an interview with National Review. The bill, known as Intro 1867,

Voters fill out ballots during early voting in Brooklyn, New York, October 27, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) The New York City Council on Thursday passed a bill that would allow an estimated 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections. The measure passed in a 33 to 14 vote with two abstentions and will become law unless

State attorney general Letitia James in New York, November 19, 2019 (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) New York attorney general Letitia James announced on Thursday that she is suspending her campaign for governor less than two months after entering the Democratic primary race. “I have come to the conclusion that I must continue my work as attorney general,”

People at an early voting site in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 25, 2021. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) A proposal in New York City to give non-citizens the right to vote should be rejected. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he 2021 elections were nothing short of a disaster for far-left Democrats across our country. The results were no different

For years, we heard that Republicans couldn’t be tough-minded on immigration and win Hispanics, and yet here we are with these stunning numbers from a new WSJ poll: The nation’s large and diverse group of Hispanic voters is showing signs of dividing its support between Democrats and Republicans more evenly than in recent elections, a

Left: Beto O’Rourke speaks during a protest in Austin, Texas, May 8, 2021. Right: Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the annual National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, Texas, May 4, 2018. (Mikala Compton, Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Another data point suggests that overturning Roe would not ignite an overwhelming backlash against Republicans in 2022. NRPLUS MEMBER

Then-Senator David Perdue (R., Ga.) speaks during a campaign event as he runs for reelection at the Olde Blind Dog Irish Pub, in Milton, Ga., December 21, 2020. On the menu today: With David Perdue jumping into Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial primary, Peach State Republicans face a huge and consequential choice; a report from South Africa

Then-senator David Perdue (R., Ga.) speaks during a campaign event in Milton, Ga, December 21, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) Former Georgia senator David Perdue, a Republican, announced a run for governor on Monday, with former president Trump issuing an endorsement of  him later that same day. Perdue will enter the Republican primary against current governor Brian

Boxes containing state Electoral College votes are opened as a joint session of the House and Senate convenes to confirm the Electoral College vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via Reuters) Amending such an essential democratic safeguard is in the country’s best interest. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D onald

The U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, Carla Sands, poses at the U.S. election party at the National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, November 3, 2020. (Martin Sylvest/Ritzau Scanpix via Reuters) As I noted on Tuesday, the crowded Republican field in the Pennsylvania Senate race somehow has no candidates who have ever been elected to public office. It

Stacey Abrams speaks to the media in Atlanta, Ga., January 5, 2021. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams announced another bid for the office on Wednesday. “I’m running for Governor because opportunity in our state shouldn’t be determined by zip code, background or access to power,” Abrams wrote in a Twitter post alongside

Dr. Oz speaks onstage during the 2021 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City, September 21, 2021. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images) Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician best known as the host of the Dr. Oz Show, announced Tuesday that he is running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican. “During the pandemic, I learned that