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Senate Minority Whip earned another endorsement in his bid to succeed Mitch McConnell as Republican leader.

President-elect Donald Trump is moving quickly to install immigration hardliners into prominent White House posts, suggesting his promise to implement sweeping new restrictions on migration and launch a mass deportation program could take priority in the first days of his...

Democrat Cleo Fields has won a Louisiana congressional race in a recently redrawn second majority-Black district

As Senate Republicans prepare to vote Wednesday on a new majority leader, Trump is already weighing in with demands for recess appointments.

An army of online pro-Trump voices is trying to boost underdog Rick Scott for Senate Republican leader over two Mitch McConnell deputies, John Thune and John Cornyn.

Congress has a short but important to-do list as lawmakers return to Washington this coming week for what is known as a lame-duck session. Priorities on the list include bills to keep the federal government open after funding runs out...

Raheim Sanders and Princely Umanmielen headline top transfer performances from Week 11

Sen. Mike Lee offered to escort Senator-elect Dave McCormick into the Capitol after Sen. Chuck Schumer declined to invite him to orientation.

House Republicans need to pick up just four additional seats to secure control over the chamber, with 18 races remaining to be called.

House Republicans claimed a mandate for their 2025 agenda and celebrated keeping their majority Thursday, even as they remain shy of the seats needed to officially secure continued control of the chamber in January. Why it matters: The jubilant tone of Republicans' first conference-wide call since Tuesday's elections underscores how confident Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other GOP leaders are that the battle for the House will break their way — an outcome that seemed unlikely just days ago.Votes are still being counted in 27 uncalled House races, but even Democrats admit that Republicans are on track to keep their majority in 2025.National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) told lawmakers on the call that he expected the GOP to win about a dozen more seats, one lawmaker told Axios.The big picture: Johnson lauded the party's efforts over the campaign cycle to make up a fundraising deficit with Democrats, another source on the call said.Johnson pointed out that he and his affiliated political action committee — the Congressional Leadership Fund — raised $300 million for House Republicans since he was named speaker just over a year ago, according to the source.Zoom in: House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) told members that the party was successful overall in New York, for instance, despite losing seats, in part because Democrats poured so much money into races in the Empire State with little success. "This is an overall win in New York for what Democrats spent," Stefanik said.Sources told Axios that California Rep. Ken Calvert predicted he'd retain his seat and that fellow California Republicans Michelle Steel and David Valadao's races "should be good' as well. What he's saying: Johnson told his members that Republicans — who also won control of the Senate and the White House — have a "mandate" to govern and called on them to unite behind a policy agenda. "We gotta execute these plays with precision in January as soon as we're handed the ball," Johnson said, according to a source on the call.

Sen. Steve Daines is pushing colleagues to support Sen. John Thune in the leader race, according to a source familiar.

Trump has promised to cut taxes and government regulations, slap tariffs on imports and order large deportations of immigrants. Here's how that could impact the economy.

House Republicans appear to be closing in on keeping the majority as several key races in the West remain outstanding.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the current House GOP leadership are urging their colleagues to reelect them to the same positions in the next Congress, another sign that Republicans believe they will again control the lower chamber.

The far-right conservative and staunch Donald Trump loyalist fended off a serious challenge by Democrat Janelle Stelson.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), a fierce critic of Donald Trump, congratulated the president-elect on Thursday, emphasizing that Democrats respect the will of the voters and won’t challenge the results. “The American people have spoken,” Jeffries said in a statement. “I congratulate President-elect Donald J. Trump.” The brief statement, issued two days after Trump [...]

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and John Mannion respond to House Speaker Mike Johnson's comments about the CHIPS and Science Act — the bill that is supporting Micron in CNY.

WASHINGTON – In the closing week of campaigning, former President Donald Trump made U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson part of the general worry over reactions to the outcome of the presidential election, which probably won't be decided Tuesday when voting...

Donald Trump has tempted evangelical Christians just as Satan tempted Jesus — except this time it worked

U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson keeping his job as the first speaker of the House from Louisiana.

Harris and Trump are on one last weekend quest to round up every possible vote in the battleground states that will determine the next president.

The final doors are being knocked, ads are blaring and candidates are making a last pitch to voters. Even with the high-energy final push, the races for control of Congress are at a stalemate, essentially a toss-up for the House and fight to the finish for the Senate.

A series of self-inflicted wounds made by top Republicans is giving Democrats ample fodder in the final days of the 2024 election.

Investigators also say the man suspected of setting fires in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state is an experienced metalworker.

'We got a lot of ideas on how to do that,' Johnson said at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.

A Butte man has admitted to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and will be sentenced in December.

A Republican super PAC with ties to House Speaker Mike Johnson rolled out its first-ever ad entirely in Vietnamese to target a key demographic in a tight House race.

Republicans finally revealed their health care plan: repeal the Affordable Care Act. A new video has surfaced of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson saying that Donald Trump, if elected, will kill the Affordable Care Act in the first 100 days, potentially throwing 22 million Americans off their insurance. “Health care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda. When I say we’re going to have a very aggressive first 100 days agenda, we got a lot of things still on the table,” Johnson said during a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Monday, while a life-sized Trump cardboard cutout loomed behind him. The video was first obtained by NBC News.“No Obamacare,” Johnson continued. “The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work, and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.”xMike Johnson says one of Trump’s top priorities will be to repeal the Affordable Care Act and rip away health care from tens of millions of Americans: “No Obamacare” pic.twitter.com/ZOquqx2sFE— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 30, 2024

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A partial list of people and institutions withholding their support from this year's presidential candidates.

The former president tried to distance himself from the comments made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe

Election Day is Tuesday, but in reality, that’s just the beginning of the process. It may take days to sort out who voters chose as president and who runs the House.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the "little secret" is not "diabolical," but a "get-out-the-vote" effort

Louisiana voters will decide which presidential candidates will receive their eight electoral votes in the Nov. 5 election

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ignored Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric in a statement dubiously blaming Democrats for the assassination attempts against him.

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The possibility of a special vote in Congress to budget for more disaster relief has been up in the air since Hurricane Helene made landfall in late September.

Native American voters in Montana could be the most critical bloc in the entire nation. Their ballots could sway one of the country’s most important elections.

Keon Coleman had a breakout performance as the Buffalo Bills trounced the Tennessee Titans in the second half.

Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the October 7th terror attack.

During a CNN appearance on Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson deflected concerns about Donald Trump’s mental state following Trump’s rant about golfer Arnold Palmer’s manhood.At a campaign rally the day before, Trump spoke at length about the deceased athlete’s genitals, telling an audience of his supporters, “When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable.’”In an interview with the Associated Press, one of Palmer’s daughters, Peg Palmer Wears, said Trump’s rhetoric was “a poor choice of approaches to remembering my father.”

One of the late golf legend Arnold Palmer's daughters calls Trump’s references to her father’s genitalia "a poor choice of approaches” to honoring his memory.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson is taking his "American Revival" tour to the swing states with less than three weeks until Election Day.

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GOP sources on the ground in Michigan are confident in their chances to win the election despite recent reports of Republicans falling victim to a struggling ground game.

It's getting hard for veteran Richmond political observer Bob Holsworth to find words to describe the amount of money flowing into Virginia political campaigns for U.S. Senate and targeted congressional races.

Democrats hope Janelle Stelson can beat Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry, a Donald Trump ally and Freedom Caucus leader, in the 2024 election.

Federal candidates have now submitted their reports for what was the final full fundraising quarter before Election Day, offering a snapshot of their financial status with just three weeks to go. Spending particularly shot up from July to September, which began with President Biden still as the presumptive Democratic nominee and Vice President Harris not [...]

House Republicans see a path to keeping their majority on Nov. 5 by picking up seats in the Rust Belt that they contend could help offset potential losses on the coast. Why it matters: Political strategists have pointed to clusters of seats in New York and California as the key to which party will have a majority next year, but the National Republican Congressional Committee sees a window in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania to keep control or grow their numbers. Driving the news: The House GOP's campaign arm has been paying for ads in the Michigan districts held by Democratic Reps. Hillary Scholten, Elissa Slotkin, who is running for Senate, and Dan Kildee, who is retiring. The NRCC is also investing in the Pennsylvania districts held by Democrats Susan Wild, Matt Cartwright and Chris Deluzio, as well as Ohio Rep. Emilia Sykes's (D) district. Zoom in: Congressional Leadership Fund, a group with ties to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), similarly has ramped up spending by about $9 million in the past five weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter. CLF added $2.3 million in Lansing, Mich., bringing the total to almost $7 million for the open seat currently held by Slotkin, and $1.8M in Flint, Mich., bringing the total there $4 million in spending for the seat being vacated by Kildee — districts Democrats have said are two of their tightest races.Johnson's PAC also added $3.8M to its initial $5.4 million Philadelphia reserve for Wild's seat and is spending an additional $1.1 million in Toledo, Ohio, bringing their total to over $4 million in an attempt to unseat Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur.What they're saying: "Holding the line on the coasts is how Republicans keep the House majority; Winning races in the Rust Belt is how Republicans expand the majority," one GOP operative said. The operative said former President Trump's appeal in the region could be boon for Republican House candidates there. CLF Spokeswoman Courtney Parella said in a statement that the group was focused on highlighting Democrats' failures "on key issues such as illegal immigration, fentanyl trafficking, and the rising cost of living," adding that they were "confident that voters will turn away from Democrats' extremism."The other side: Democrats dismissed the GOP's bullishness in the region, arguing their spending strategy is flawed and taking out Democratic incumbents will be a heavy lift. Operatives noted Democrats have been outspending in a number of seats including Skyes.' "Republicans struck out recruiting candidates in Ohio, have massive fundraising disadvantages in Pennsylvania, and are running far-right extremists across the Heartland who would ban abortion nationwide," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesperson Aidan Johnson told Axios."This is a last ditch effort to save face, and nobody is buying it."Go deeper: Jeffries and Johnson plow cash into House "squinter" races