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Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) claimed confidently that he is “not at all” concerned about losing his position as Speaker of the House despite growing opposition among conservative lawmakers regarding the recent debt limit deal reached between him and Joe Biden. On Sunday, Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden reached a final agreement on the debt limit to avert a government default. “Good news,” Biden announced. “The agreement prevents the worst possible crisis, a default, for the first time in our nation’s history,” he said. “Takes the threat of a catastrophic default off the table.” “This is a good strong bill that a...

The delusion is strong with this one. A report on Saturday indicates that former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, mired around 3% in GOP Presidential Primary polls, looks ready to launch a quixotic bid next month for the Oval Office anyway. Haley’s senior aides are prepared to assume essential campaign roles once Haley gives the green light. She already possesses the necessary infrastructure thru her prominent political action committee and political nonprofit to build a ground game and campaign operation. Should Haley launch a bid for president as expected, such a move would mark a broken promise to former President...

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that former President Donald Trump asked him to violate his oath to the Constitution on January 6, 2021. Pence said, “I write did it in the book, I will never forget, it was the night before January 6, the president and I were alone in the office in what was ultimately a tense conversation. I had made my position clear, as vice president, I did not believe I had the authority to return or reject electoral votes when the House convened to count the electoral votes, but there...

According to the Washington Post, Trump and McCarthy spoke Thursday evening after the audio was leaked. Trump is reportedly not upset with McCarthy and was “happy that McCarthy hadn’t followed through on what he had said privately.” WaPo reported (emphasis ours): House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) hold on his status as the presumptive next GOP speaker was already tenuous. And on Thursday it seemed like it could slip further. But how much? For now, McCarthy appears to have avoided blowback from the top of the party. Many Republicans seem to be waiting for a cue from Trump about how...

RINO Rep. Adam Kinzinger said that former President Donald Trump continuing to assert that he won the election could lead to large scale violence. Rep. Kinzinger began the interview with Cooper by whining about people on the internet talking about bringing out the gallows. “On January 5, we never imagined that January 6 the level of dead would happen, even though a lot of us predicted violence up to that day. That’s the new floor now. So when you look at online rhetoric and you look at chatter that’s happening, and you look at maybe 100 people post insane comments...

Last night Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) spoke at an event in Chicago. During questions and answers Crenshaw told supporters there was no voter fraud in the 2020 election adding, “Don’t kid yourself into believing that’s why we lost. It’s not. I’ll tell you openly.” At that point conservative activist Bobby Piton jumped in to challenge Crenshaw. “You’re wrong. Dan Crenshaw: “I’m not wrong.” Bobby Piton: “There is plenty of proof. I have proof in Arizona…” Dan Crenshaw: Yeah, yeah. You told me you did the Maricopa. How did that turn out?” Crenshaw obviously does not know or care that the...

Cheney spews the leftist narratives on President Trump, ignoring voter fraud, and ultimately expressing contempt for GOP voters. She's in a power grab which, to win, she must destroy Trump. Fresh from controversy - and GOP censure - for her sparsely followed vote on impeachment, House Republican Conference leader Rep. Liz Cheney is putting some new plans on the table for Getting Trump. Speaking on Chris Wallace's Fox News show, she suggested that the impeachment vote wasn't enough. Now she was joining the Democrats to look for criminal prosecution of President Trump. According to left-wing Rolling Stone: “The Senate [impeachment]...

In Last Tuesday’s win over Chris McDaniel, Senator Thad Cochran engaged in all manner of political chicanery and racial subterfuge. In a scheme concocted Haley Barbour, the Cochran campaign accused Chris McDaniel and the Tea Party of plotting to disenfranchise African-Americans. When asked to comment about Team Cochran’s unethical and borderline illegal tactics– NH GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown giggled demonically….

GOP Worried Romney's War Chest Helps Obama, Bachmann By Elspeth Reeve Updated: July 8, 2011 | 8:38 a.m. Mitt Romney crushed his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in the money-raising race, bringing in $18.5 million in the second quarter--more than quadrupling the haul of the second place guy among candidates who don't believe our currency is counterfeit. But it still wasn't good enough for some in the GOP, report Politico's Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, arguing that the "clear winner" of Republican fundraising was Barack Obama. American Conservative Union chief Al Cardenas told Politico he worries that the Republican...

PROVO – Did unreported factors contribute to the demise of Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign? How did the news media cover the 1967-68 presidential campaign of his father, George Romney? Two research projects presented to an audience of more than 100 people at BYU's Mormon Media Studies Symposium recently compared the two Romneys' campaigns. BYU professors John Gee and Louis C. Midgley titled their paper, "Under the Media's Nose: Overlooked Factors Undermining the Presidential Campaign of Mitt Romney.