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First Candidate to Enter 2020 Race is Fighting for Nonpartisan Primaries
The 2020 presidential election has its first announced candidate, and he supports nonpartisan primary reform in all states: US Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.).Delaney officially announced he is running for ...
Gary Johnson: America Needs Independent Reps Now
The Pew Research Center has been tracking Americans’ political party “identification” for more than 20 years. A few weeks before last year’s election, their annual survey found 33 percent of American ...
US Rep. Says Social Media Is Killing Political Parties
"Just to make sure you know what you just said, you're a Republican advocating for the Republican Party to fall apart."That's from the teaser intro to a half-hour interview by Reason Magazine's Matt W...
Morning Report: July 27, 2017
Senate Republicans have cast two separate votes since Tuesday that have removed the option of "repeal-only" and a replacement plan. Now it appears their only viable option is what is known as the...
Wasserman Schultz IT Staffer Arrested Trying to Flee Country, Charged with Bank Fraud
The congressional IT staffer working for the office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and over 20 other Democratic House members, was arrested Monday by the FBI while attempting to flee t...
Morning Report: July 25, 2017
President Donald Trump made a last-ditch plea to U.S. Senate Republicans Monday to fulfill seven years of campaign promises to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's signature health care ...
NEW POLL: Most Say Congress Cares More About Media than Voters
US voters say lawmakers on Capitol Hill care more about what the media is saying than what voters want. That is what a new Rasmussen poll found.Rasmussen published the results of a new poll Monda...
INTERVIEW: Gary Johnson for U.S. Senate in 2018?
In a recent interview for IVN, Gary Johnson consultant Ron Nielson said Johnson "would be a fantastic senator" if he chose to run in 2018 against New Mexico's Democratic junior senator, Martin Heinric...
Morning Report: July 22, 2017
It would seem to make sense that the removal of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer would mean the return of the televised White House Press Briefing with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.Much has been made...
The Shortest Press Secretary Stints: Where Spicer Ranks
Sean Spicer's resignation as press secretary is adding more fuel to the argument that the Trump administration is growing all the more tumultuous.At 182 days, Spicer outlasted a few predecessors.Howev...