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​​​Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said he doesn’t believe former President Donald Trump can beat President Biden in 2024 — and is considering jumping into the race to provide “new leadership.” Sununu, who won reelection to a fourth-term in New Hampshire on Nov. 8, said results of the midterm elections show Trump doesn’t have the same drawing power as he did in 2016. “No. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, November of ’22 showed us that, right? Trump is going to be seen as a very extreme candidate. The country is going to push back against it,” Sununu, 48, said...

As many of you know, Republicans are currently deciding on who they want in leadership at a time when Republicans really need to get the message out. One position is the House Republican Policy Committee Chair. And it looks like there is a chance for some fresh energy committed to fighting for conservatives. Congressman Michael Burgess of Texas is running for Policy Chair and really seems committed to getting engaged when it comes to pushing the Republican message. After all the complaints that Republicans would not get in the game the past few years and that we need to get...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2006 -- Calling Donald H. Rumsfeld “a superb leader during a time of change,” President Bush announced at a White House news conference today that he and Rumsfeld have agreed the time has come for a change in leadership at the Pentagon. Bush said he will nominate Bob Gates, former director of central intelligence and current president of Texas A&M University, to succeed Rumsfeld as secretary of defense. “Our military has experienced an enormous amount of change and reform during the last five years while fighting the war on terror, one of the most consequential wars...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Mike Pence, a 46-year-old former radio talk show host from Indiana serving his third term in Congress, is chairman of the Republican Study Committee. He has tried hard to cooperate with the regular House Republican leadership rather than confront it. So, he could not have been happy last Tuesday when he found himself in a closed-door autodafe, with GOP leaders as the inquisitors and Pence as the heretic. Pence and the RSC's heresy was to propose that massive federal outlays resulting from Hurricane Katrina be offset by reduced spending elsewhere. Specifically, they requested offsets to cut highway...