Author: Mike Debonis
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Ahead of midterms, voters prefer Democrats even as Republicans appear more motivated to vote
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll offers conflicting forecasts for the 2018 midterm elections, with voters clearly preferring Democrats in control of Congress to check President Donald Trump even as Republicans appear more motivated to show up at the polls. A slight majority of registered voters – 52 percent – say they want Democrats to…
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Listen to the secret tapes from the Republican congressional retreat
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Without evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote
Days after being sworn in, President Trump insisted to congressional leaders invited to a reception at the White House that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for millions of illegal votes, according to people familiar with the meeting. Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud caused him…
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Priebus to Obama: ‘Step up’ and quiet Democrats who question Trump’s legitimacy
A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump urged President Obama on Sunday to tell fellow Democrats to stop questioning Trump’s legitimacy — and rejected comparisons to Trump’s own well-publicized doubts about Obama’s eligibility to serve. The remarks from incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus came after a prominent lawmaker and civil rights activist, Rep.…
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead, Schumer tells labor leaders
WASHINGTON – The Senate’s soon-to-be-top Democrat told labor leaders Thursday that the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal at the center of President Obama’s “pivot” to strengthen ties with key Asian allies, will not be ratified by Congress. That remark from Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who is expected to be the incoming Senate minority leader, came…
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Paul Ryan turns the GOP presidential race toward a forgotten issue: Poverty – The Washington Post
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican presidential candidates on Saturday turned their attention away from border walls and terrorist threats and birth certificates, if only for a day, to focus on a topic that is dear to the hearts of some leading conservative thinkers but has remained far from the center of the GOP race: poverty in…