If that wasn’t enough, Thomas-Greenfield will assume leadership of the U.N. Security Council on March 1 — the global organization’s top decision-making body — before the boxes of her 40th floor apartment overlooking the Hudson River are even unpacked. U.N. officials told POLITICO they hope to see both a return of American leadership and a […]
David Perdue speaks to the crowd during a campaign rally. | Jessica McGowan/Getty Images Former Republican Sen. David Perdue will not run for Senate in 2022, he said in a statement Tuesday, ruling out another campaign in Georgia less than two months after losing a runoff election for a second term. The decision comes just […]
“They don’t know what it means to be an Indian,” Williams said of these elected officials from his party. “An old Indian proverb would say: ‘walk a mile in his moccasins.’ Then maybe they’d come to that understanding.” Normally, voting against the nomination of a progressive environmentalist would a be a no-brainer for an Alaska […]
In some instances, Bloomberg representatives have assured the aides that the additional taxes they now owe the government were taken care of by the campaign. A Bloomberg campaign spokesman told POLITICO that the aides were paid more during the campaign to account for the higher tax burden, though not all of the ex-aides said they […]
Donald Trump has confirmed his attendance at the Republican National Committee’s upcoming spring donor retreat, | Pete Marovich/Getty Images Donald Trump has confirmed his attendance at the Republican National Committee’s upcoming spring donor retreat, as the former president reemerges following his departure from the White House. The private retreat is slated to take place April […]
That 52-point lead over Rubio represents a massive increase since July — the last time Fabrizio polled a matchup between the three and found DeSantis ahead by just 11 points over Rubio. “In order to run for president, you need to have your home state, you need your home base. And DeSantis clearly has that,” […]
The Democratic Party, which continues to move leftward, isn’t a good ideological fit. Those who want to fight to recapture the GOP from within are vastly outnumbered. Building a third party from scratch requires gigantic sums of money and overcoming a thicket of daunting state laws designed in large part by the two major parties. […]
Hutchinson said in January that he wanted the Trump administration to end, but stopped short of calling for the former president’s resignation. He also called a second set of impeachment proceedings “unworkable.” The governor’s nephew, an Arkansas state senator, has since announced he is leaving the Republican Party due to the direction the GOP has […]
Trump has been a CPAC regular, making his first appearance there in 2011, years before he became a presidential candidate. Since leaving office Trump has given several TV interviews on friendly outlets and released public statements, but has yet to speak before an audience. Trump is expected to play an active role in the 2022 […]
But we can do better than remembering it with a quip, however immortal. Given the new and hard-to-check ways in which presidents can hold on to power—or even tee it up for their relatives—we ought to take a moment to appreciate what motivated the amendment’s champions. They were on the right side of history, animated […]