He filed the paperwork, but now he says he will not run against Rafael Warnock in 2022. Here is the PBS News Hour: Former Georgia Sen. David Perdue said Tuesday that he won’t run in 2022 to reclaim a seat...
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Steve Bannon: “Any candidate who wants to win in Pennsylvania in 2022 must be full Trump MAGA”
With Sen. Pat Toomey retiring, and the GOP split between Trumpism and traditional conservatism, the 2022 Republican senate primary is going to be a war. There are several potential MAGA candidates for the GOP nomination, including Guy Reschenthaler, Doug Mastriano,...
What is Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson thinking?
Yesterday, in commenting on the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, Johnson said, “This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.” Here is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Two days after members of the U.S. Senate acquitted former...
David Perdue couldn’t beat Jon Ossoff. Now he may run against Rafael Warnock
Jon Ossoff defeated GOP incumbent David Perdue in the January 5, 2021 Georgia Senate run-off. On the same day, Ralph Warnock defeated GOP incumbent Kelly Loeffler. Georgia went blue and the Democrats took the Senate. The Atlanta Journal Constitution is...
Mitch McConnell clarifies his vote to acquit Trump in a *Wall Street Journal* op-ed.
Mitch McConnell is a weasel. He is also a very crafty politician. In his mind, moral conviction always takes a back seat to his quest for political power. This was on display Saturday when he voted to acquit Donald Trump...
The seven GOP Senators who voted to convict Trump were unafraid of political retribution
Here is Catie Edmundson at The New York Times: …the senators were united by a common thread: Each of them, for their own reasons, was unafraid of political retribution from Mr. Trump or his supporters. “Two are retiring, and three...
Is Lara Trump the future of the Republican Party?
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham seems to think so. And, sadly, he may be right. If Marjorie Taylor Greene can get elected to Congress, why not Lara Trump? Both her and Greene embody GOP values right now. Here is Ray...
Why did the GOP Senators voted to acquit Trump? Here is a cheat sheet:
Over the weekend we posted the statements of most of the U.S. senators (all Republicans) who voted to acquit Donald Trump on Saturday. You can read that post here. It is a long post, so we created a cheat sheet:...
Let’s check out what the 43 Republicans who voted to acquit Trump are saying tonight:
Marsha Blackburn (TN): Roy Blunt (MO): “I said before this trial started that I believe the constitutional purpose for presidential impeachment is to remove a president from office, not to punish a person after they have left office. None of...
Milbank: “Trump left them to die. 43 Senate Republicans still licked his boots”
Dana Milbank of The Washington Post gives it to us straight: Trump’s lawyers, in their slashing, largely fictitious defense, claimed that Trump was “horrified” by the violence, hadn’t known that Vice President Mike Pence was in danger and took “immediate steps” to...
Trump is acquitted by a vote of 57-43 in the United States Senate
Fifty-seven U.S. Senators voted to convict Donald Trump in his impeachment trial. But it was not enough. Sixty-seven voters were needed to convict. Here are the GOP members who broke with their party and voted to convict Donald Trump in...
Louisiana GOP denounces Sen. Bill Cassidy
Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy voted to support the constitutionality of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial on Tuesday. The Louisiana Republican Party is not happy with him. (Some of you recall that a similar thing happened to Ben Sasse in Nebraska)....
The names of the GOP senators who voted against the constitutionality of the second Trump impeachment trial
Today the Senate debated the constitutionality of the second Trump impeachment trial. (Is it constitutional to convict a former president in an impeachment trial?) The Senate voted to move forward with the trial by a vote of 56-44. Six Republicans...