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The stunning defeat of President Trump’s chosen Senate candidate in Alabama on Tuesday amounted to a political lightning strike — setting the stage for a worsening Republican civil war that could have profound effects on next year’s midterm elections and undermine Trump’s clout with his core voters. It marked yet another humiliation for the Washington-based Republican establishment, particularly Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose allies pumped millions of dollars into the race to prop up Strange and reassure his colleagues that they could survive the Trump era. “If you’re an incumbent, you have to assume the wind is against...

Newly elected junior Senator Ted Cruz is really shaking things up in Washington. He campaigned on a promise to do just that and he has easily fulfilled that promise, even though he has been in Washington for less than two months. In the United States Senate, things are supposed to be genial and comfortable, or so says the status quo. Ted Cruz is not playing along and some of his fellow Senators aren't so happy about his unwillingness to go along, just to get along. I would contend that's maybe what we need in Washington, someone who will see what...

NORWICH, Conn. — U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said Friday he has no interest in being vice president on the McCain ticket or in accepting a cabinet post should the Arizona Republican win the presidency in November. “I’m not supporting John with the hope of getting anything else,” Lieberman said at a meeting of the Norwich Bulletin’s editorial board Friday afternoon. “When I decided to endorse him I didn’t think he’d win (the Republican nomination).” Lieberman, a former Democrat who sits with the Senate’s Democratic Caucus, has endorsed McCain and has campaigned extensively with him. He has been widely rumored...