Matt Salmon Exits Arizona Republican Gubernatorial Primary
Former Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) announced his exit from Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, roughly one week before early voting began.
Former Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) announced his exit from Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, roughly one week before early voting began.
Freedom Caucus cofounder and former Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday that he would stand as strongly against President Joe Biden as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) does if he were elected governor of Arizona.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey will soon appoint a successor to fill the Senate seat of the late iconic Sen. John McCain and reportedly has five candidates on his short list, some of whom would be safer than others where important issues like the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation and various major national priorities are concerned.
Representatives Jeff Duncan (R-SC-3) and John Carter (R-TX-31) introduced legislation on January 9 that will eliminate the paper trail and federal tax on firearm suppressors.
Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon endorsed “warrior” Sen. Ted Cruz for president just two days before a tight presidential primary in Salmon’s home state.
Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) confirmed Saturday that he will not run to replace John McCain in the U.S. Senate, as Maricopa county Republicans voted for a second time to reject the entrenched incumbent McCain. Rumors have been circling about whether
Politico reports that members of the supposedly anti-establishment House Freedom Caucus are offering excuses to shield House Speaker Paul Ryan from getting the blame for his closed-door, budget-busting, welfare-extending, refugee-boosting, illegal-immigrant-funding, job-outsourcing, regulation-preserving, $1.8 trillion spending-and-tax plan, which has thrilled Democrats and angered GOP voters.
On October 22 Representative Matt Salmon (R-AZ-5) announced the Hearing Protection Act (HPA), a bill aimed at removing suppressors from National Firearms Act oversight so Americans can more easily acquire them for hearing protection while target shooting or hunting.
“As the leader of the Republican Party in Congress, the Speaker must be willing to fight the Obama administration’s dangerous, immoral, and sometimes illegal, actions using every tool our Constitution provides,” Rep. Matt Salmon said. “This is what the majority of Americans want their leaders in Congress to do, and ultimately, Mr. Boehner could no longer provide the leadership necessary to do this.”
Representative Matt Salmon (R-AZ) stated that he dropped his support of House Speaker Representative John Boehner (R-OH) because of his constituents’ dissatisfaction with Boehner and “we promised many, many things if we took the Senate, those things haven’t materialized” on
Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) slammed the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday for releasing three violent criminal aliens into Arizona.
“Our Department of Homeland Security needs to focus more on securing our homeland, not on cornering the market as a transportation option for illegal aliens in the United States,” Salmon said.
An amendment was successfully added to the Student Success Act that could possibly bring an end to Common Core. This week, the US House narrowly passed the reauthorization of HR 5 (the Student Success Act). HR 5 is the controversial proposed replacement for the No Child Left Behind Act. The amendment, authored by conservative Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), would allow a state to opt-out of Common Core “or other specific standards” without reprisals from the feds. It passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support in a 373-57 vote.
Many in the GOP reportedly refrained from voting until the last minute and some changed their votes under pressure from Republican leadership. Only one conservative amendment, introduced by Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) was adopted, by a vote of 251-178, that would allow parents to opt their children out of standardized testing.
Reports this week revealed that a truck carrying 11,500 BCCs to U.S. Consulates in Guadalajara and Monterrey, Mexico was hijacked on June 7. The visas have yet to be recovered.
State Sen. Kelli Ward, a conservative Republican and family practice physician who’s considering running against McCain, told Breitbart News exclusively that she doesn’t believe the secrecy surrounding Obamatrade is the way government should operate.
McCain’s campaign team was recently called out on Twitter by the American Conservative Union (ACU) for selectively promoting his ratings with the influential group. A review of ACU ratings for the long time Senator’s voting record shows a trend toward more conservative voting going into tough election years. McCain’s Team posted his 2014 rating of 91 percent, ignoring the 53 percent from the prior year.
Democrat Representative Ann Kirkpatrick is looking to boot John McCain from elected office and take his seat in the U.S. Senate, launching her bid with campaign calls on Monday, Memorial Day, and a Tuesday video announcement.
Sen. John McCain’s campaign team is getting called out by the very organization whose rating it cited on Twitter.
Five-term incumbent Sen. John McCain may have reason to fear a primary challenge. Newly released data from liberal-leaning Public Policy Polling shows half of Arizona’s Republican primary voters disapprove of McCain’s job performance, and more than half would prefer a more conservative Senate candidate in 2016.
The state Senator has faced unsubstantiated accusations of belief in the “chemtrails” theory solely on the basis of a constituent-requested public forum on environmental quality she held back in June of 2014.
Conservatives in Arizona intend to primary five-term incumbent Senator John McCain. But it isn’t yet clear whether Rep. Matt Salmon will step up to challenge McCain.
Topping off the day of his Senate re-election bid announcement, Senator John McCain joined Fox’s Greta Van Susteren, taking the opportunity to emphasize national security issues and express his support of Senator Lindsey Graham for president.
Multiple conservative groups rebelled right out of the gate to Senator John McCain’s announcement that he will indeed seek re-election in what is expected to be a historic 2016 election cycle.
After weeks of pushing fundraising pleas to potential re-election supporters, Senator John McCain has announced he will seek another six years in the U.S. Senate.
Will he run for the Senate? Speculation is growing over whether Rep. Matt Salmon will launch a primary challenge to Senator John McCain in Arizona.
John McCain hasn’t announced a reelection bid yet, but he’s already asking his friends to pony up to support him.
Friends of John McCain are trying to save him from a primary challenge in Arizona next year.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has come out publicly against the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General because of her support for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty. McCain’s announcement comes as he potentially faces strong conservative challengers in a primary election next year.
It’s not too early to think about the 2016 primary season. And Kelli Ward, a family physician and state senator in Arizona, is considering taking on John McCain for his U.S. Senate seat.
The House passed a Senate-passed DHS spending bill on Tuesday with Democratic votes. It’s seen as a vote of no-confidence in Speaker John Boehner’s leadership.
The murder of Grant Ronnebeck, allegedly by an illegal immigrant, “is a clear example of why we need to address the failed catch-and-release policies of the Obama administration,” Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) argued Wednesday during an Oversight and Government Reform panel hearing.
House leadership intends to tackle “issues” with a controversial border bill after a new conservative group claimed credit for getting the measure yanked off this week’s schedule.
House conservatives are calling on their counterparts in the Senate to finish the job of defunding President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty and pushing back against the administration’s policies. While the legislation has passed the House, the White House is already threatening to veto the bill and few expect that the effort has the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.
Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) is calling on President Barack Obama to visit the U.S. border with Mexico during his visit to Phoenix. Obama is scheduled to travel to Phoenix on Wednesday and deliver a speech on economic recovery at a local high school Thursday.
Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that conservatives in the House heard “not one word” from House GOP leadership on compromises to make changes to the cromnibus in order to get conservatives to vote for it even though “we were willing
The 1.1 trillion dollar spending bill being hawked by the Republican House Leadership has language funding Obama’s illegal immigration amnesty plan. However, there are a few Representatives in office willing to stand up for our conservative principles in a last-ditch
While the primary politics of 2016 may not afford movement conservatives a great many opportunities to take on establishment Republicans in primaries, there si one notable exception. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will be 80 years old, if or when he
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton tells Breitbart News that Congress should boycott President Barack Obama’s next State of the Union speech as part of its response to Obama’s executive amnesty for five million or more illegal aliens. “That seems to
During his now infamous Rose Garden appearance with Bowe Bergdahl’s parents, President Obama said that “America doesn’t leave our people behind,” including “American citizens who are unjustly detained abroad and deserve to be reunited with their families, just like the Bergdahls.” Well,
A working group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner submitted their final policy recommendations to him late Wednesday, which did not include language intended to prevent President Obama from expanding a unilateral amnesty for so-called DREAMers, a member of