Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Sessions and Congressman Dave Brat issued a challenge to Republican presidential hopefuls in a joint op-ed titled, “Curb immigration or quit.”
Hillary Clinton has backed away from one of her biggest applause lines of the Democratic debate, in which she declared Republicans–without differentiating between politicians and voters–her “enemy.”
White House press secretary Josh Earnest consistently vows that President Obama would veto a bill from House Republicans that fully defunds Planned Parenthood. But he remained open to the idea that Obama might sign a bill that partially defunds the abortion corporation.
In a surprise visit to a Latino Victory Project fundraiser, Vice President Joe Biden denounced Republican candidates running for president for their views on illegal immigration.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hails from Bakersfield in the Central Valley. But local Republicans are divided about his prospects as Speaker of the House, as McCarthy emerges as the likely candidate to replace John Boehner, who announced his resignation last month, effective Oct. 31.
White House Denounces Republican ‘Brinkmanship’ After Poor Jobs Report
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suggested on Sunday that his regime in Tehran would consider releasing three Americans held hostage in the country if the U.S. would release several jailed Iranians.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows that nearly half of Americans say immigration to the U.S. should be decreased. This marks the 50th year since passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which has resulted in increased immigration to the U.S. and substantial demographic changes.
Erik Prince, founder of the famed private military contractor Blackwater, addressed the Bush-linked Maverick PAC on Friday night. His remarks, as transcribed by the Daily Beast, were provocative.
Republican politicians have spent so long living in an environment controlled by the leftist media that they believe every narrative will be turned to their disadvantage. This is why Republican leadership buys into the idiotic notion that if Republicans fund the entire federal government except Planned Parenthood, and Obama then refuses to sign the budget, they will be blamed for the shutdown. That is not fully true.
The 67th Emmy Awards on FOX, hosted by SNL alum Andy Samberg, was filled with one-liners and other comments aimed at conservatives. Most notably, was Samberg’s assertion that frontrunner Donald Trump might be a “racist.”
A majority of Republican registered voters want either Donald Trump or Ben Carson to be their party’s 2016 presidential nominee, according to two new national polls from the Washington Post-ABC News and the New York Times-CBS News.
Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough laid into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, for her remarks on Thursday likening the Republican 2016 presidential field to terrorists for their position on abortion. “It was
This isn’t to say that Donald Trump is right; he’s not. It’s to say that all the other Republican candidates are wrong. Every Republican candidate should have raised his hand when asked who would not blindly support the eventual Republican nominee.
It should be noted that the poll was actually conducted July 21 through August 2, so it doesn’t even account for the incredibly damaging recent revelations about classified and top-secret material moving through Hillary Clinton’s server, which is – let’s be frank here – indisputably a federal crime. It’s likely that most poll respondents are not well-versed in the relevant laws, but think it’s simple common sense that such a serious matter should be thoroughly investigated.
Ted Cruz says he hopes all of Donald Trump’s supporters vote and campaign for the Republican Party in 2016–and the GOP trend of attacking them will assure the exact opposite.
(Ferenstein Wire) — White Americans are slowly dwindling into the minority, which poses big problems for Republicans. Democrats’ popularity with minorities has helped them snag the presidency in recent elections. By 2024, Republicans may need to blow past George Bush’s 2004 historic record with Latinos (44 percent) in order to ever have a shot again at another conservative president.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved swiftly Thursday to shut down any possible conservative attempt to block funding for Planned Parenthood, the federally-funded abortion provider weathering a political scandal.
(From The Ferenstein Wire) — The Republican field for president is massive, and conservative contenders are scrambling to stand out from the crowd. Polls tend to swing wildly from month-to-month, as new candidates enter the race or happen to get into a headline-making story.
Donald Trump’s rise to a position of total dominance in the Republican presidential field has been accompanied by a dismissive snort from Beltway mandarins that Trump is merely a “fringe” candidate.
The Conservative Opportunity Society—founded in 1983 by Newt Gingrich and Vin Weber, among others—is a Republican members-only group that meets for breakfast every Wednesday morning when the U.S. House of Representatives is in session. Each week, Chairman Rep. Steve King (R-IA) brings in different prominent speakers to address the group—this week, GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson will make an appearance.
On Saturday, 2016 presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump, angered by Senator John McCain’s (R-AZ) derogatory slam at immigration hardliners as “crazies,” said that McCain wasn’t a war hero: “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” The slam was apparently an awkward, Michael Scott-like adaptation of a 2008 Chris Rock routine.
Donald Trump speaks candidly with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa about a variety of topics centering on his 2016 presidential campaign–where his ongoing fight with mainstream media has rocketed him to the top of the Republican field, shocking the Washington establishment.
After mulling over his options, and keeping the national press sitting on the edge of their seats, hoping that he will make the much anticipated run, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) has announced that he is running for the U.S. Senate in 2016.
Recent polls indicate that Republicans will not fair as well in the 2016 general election as in the Republican primary elections when it comes down to the controversial issue of immigration reform.
Every conservative who cares about the unholy mess known as Congress should visit conservativereview.com (CR) and examine the “Liberty Score.” Every liberal who wonders how conservatives view their elected leaders should examine it as well.
Of course, Ted Cruz is a Republican. That puts him in proximity with guns and gun posters, as seen in this picture from Associated Press photog Charlie Neibergall, more often than Democrats.
MSNBC breathlessly reports that Donald Trump’s sensible remarks about Mexico and the peasant class it dumps on American taxpayers is “already infamous,” meaning, Americans must accept the destruction of their country without protest.
Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., said House GOP leaders argued that the situation presents an opportunity for Republicans. “This is transitioning out of Obamacare, not repealing it and not even affirming it. It’s transitioning,” Ross said.
An African American pastor from Chicago’s murder-ridden South Side is slamming Democrats, saying that the party has failed the black community.
Now that the California Assembly has approved AB 641, which would enable home-based childcare providers to unionize, a joint budget-writing committee will consider it, according to the Sacramento Bee. If approved, the resultant collective bargaining expansion would add thousands of child-care slots and trigger a rise in reimbursement rates.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s staff has announced that the Senator isn’t taking his campaign for the 2016 GOP nomination to the Iowa Straw Poll this year.
On Wednesday, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum chose big Clinton Foundation donor George Stephanopoulos to help him announce his second bid for the GOP nomination for president.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who finished second place in the 2012 GOP presidential nominating contest, nailed his announcement speech here early on Wednesday evening—hammering ISIS, open borders advocates, the permanent political class in Washington, and the failures of both parties—all while real American workers stood by his side.
California Democrats and Republicans may agree to raise the state’s gas tax in order to address the $59 billion the state needs for roadway maintenance.
From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — The sleepy United States senators thought they were done voting. But then, around 1 a.m. on the Saturday before Memorial Day, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky and presidential candidate, marched spryly to
A poll by Pew Research Center finds that despite the fact Republicans have taken control of both houses of Congress, our legislature is still not well-liked, even by Republicans.
Leave it to the Republican Party to create a problem it doesn’t need. Nothing irks the grassroots quite so much as their need to demonstrate the top-down control of the apparatus.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi predicted Wednesday that Republicans will “rue the day” if the Supreme Court buys their arguments and invalidates tax subsidies for millions of people under President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Electronic music pioneer Moby (real name Richard Melville Hall) went on quite the Twitter tirade on Saturday, railing against “racist, xenophobic, ignorant” Republicans who “support war” and “hate immigrants.
