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Scott Jennings said Trump's post had "assassination instructions" for McConnell and "blatant racism" toward his wife, Trump official Elaine Chao.

"Usually it's the closest people to them."

CNNSen. Rick Scott (R-FL) tried his best at justifying former President Donald Trump’s racist Truth Social post from Friday, in which the ex-commander in chief said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had a “DEATH WISH” and called his former transportation secretary Elaine Chao "Coco Chow.” The senator, flailing after being asked during a CNN appearance about the post, defended Trump's predilection for "nicknames."Trump Claims McConnell has ‘Death Wish’ in Stinging Attack“As you know, the pre

CNN commentator and “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin denounced former President Trump for comments he made attacking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. Trump said on Truth Social on Saturday that McConnell had a “death wish” for supporting bills that Democrats sponsored and referred to Chao…

Republicans are catching up in money and polls as they zero in on Georgia and Nevada as their best shots to flip a seat and win the upper chamber.

Trump's remarks demonstrate a growing schism between him and McConnell, as the senator increasingly distanced himself from the former president.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has whipsawed his way through the national conversation this month, first by putting migrants on planes or buses to Democratic strongholds and then shifting to a more traditional role of crisis manager as one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the U.S. barreled into his state.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that finances the federal government through mid-December and provides another infusion of military and economic aid to Ukraine.

GOP billionaire donors are souring on Senate candidates endorsed by Donald Trump and instead are giving to groups aligned with Republican leadership.

Oct. 2 marks 100 days since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, ending federal abortion access.

Congress is moving quickly to avoid a government shutdown.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., was again the target of fierce media criticism for speaking kindly about Mitch McConnell, but a double standard may be at play.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he believes his party now has a 50-50 shot of getting the chamber back less than six weeks away from the midterm elections.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that he believes his party now has a “50-50 shot” of getting the chamber back less than six weeks away from the midterm elections. “We are in a bunch of close races,” McConnell told reporters during a press conference. The comments reflect a greater degree of optimism from the GOP leader after he drew criticism last month from fellow Republicans when he downplayed the party’s chances in the fall elections, saying it would be more likely for the party to gain control of the House than the Senate.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) was the only committee member to vote against it Tuesday. Here’s why his and others’ arguments against it have apparently fallen flat.

The bipartisan bill is meant to prevent another Jan. 6, 2021.

ABC News featured an article and a tweet that claimed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s, D-Ariz., ongoing support of the filibuster against Democratic pressure was “controversial.”

The bipartisan bill is meant to prevent another Jan. 6, 2021.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he will “proudly support” legislation to overhaul rules for certifying presidential elections, bolstering a bipartisan effort to revise a 19th century law and avoid another Jan. 6 insurrection.

McConnell's support for the Senate bill to reform the Electoral Count Act comes just days after all but 9 Republicans voted against the House version.

Like a similar bill that passed the House last week, the Senate bill was prompted by the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob seeking to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral win.

Sen. Joe Manchin has abandoned his push to speed up the permitting process for energy projects.

The "Countdown" host said he went out with the Arizona lawmaker in 2010 and 2011, and had some thoughts about her alliance with Mitch McConnell.

On Twitter, liberals angrily reacted to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema appearing at a bipartisan event with Sen. Mitch McConnell about protecting the filibuster.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema says Americans prefer politicians who work across the aisle.

While speaking at an event held by the McConnell Center, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, spoke about her unlikely friendship with Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky. Although Senator Cinema is a registered Democrat, she is one of the few Democrats who is not always aligned with the Democratic party. One that is rooted in our commonalities, including are pragmatic approach to legislating, our respect for the Senate as an institution, our love for our home states, and a dogged determination on behalf of our constituents.

Top allies of ex-President Donald Trump are creating a new super PAC that's expected to serve as the main vehicle for his midterm spending and could become a key part of his campaign infrastructure if he moves forward with a 2024 White House run.

North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Ted Budd is leaning into his support for abortion restrictions and his allegiance to former President Donald Trump as Democrats fight for an elusive victory in the Southern swing state.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is rolling out his party's Trump-like midterm election agenda.

The White House is reaching out to local governments.

“Let’s just ignore him,” the GOP Senate leader said at one point, underscoring his hands-off approach on whether to stand up to pro-Trump lawmakers after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The cuts are another blow to a GOP candidate who has been significantly outraised by his Democratic opponent and outmatched on the airwaves.

The Republican governors of Florida and Texas have delivered migrants on planes and buses to Washington, D.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is fully on board with depositing disoriented migrants on Democratic rivals' doorsteps ahead of the midterms.

Senate Republicans are asking for the Justice Department to give U.S. Attorney David Weiss special counsel authority as he investigates Hunter Biden.

Graham defended his federal abortion bill on "Fox News Sunday," saying he is "pro-life even in an election year" after some Republicans indicated they wouldn't support it.

California launched a publicly funded website to promote the state's abortion services, listing clinics and linking to financial help for travel.

Host Major Garrett is joined by Stephen Law, president of the super PAC aligned with McConnell, who has the job of figuring out where spending that millions will help Republicans win.

President Joe Biden is hailing a labor agreement that avoided a strike that would have shut down railroads across the country as a win for America.

Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement to avert a nationwide strike that could have shut down the nation’s freight trains and devastated the economy less than two months before the midterm elections.

Republican candidates have given wildly differing responses to South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s plan to ban abortion nationwide at 15 weeks.

Normally, political parties make changes in response to election setbacks. Not anymore.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has introduced a bill calling for a nationwide abortion ban.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is transferring $15 million from his campaign account to his party’s candidates, incumbents and political committee for the fall election.

Former President Donald Trump is sitting on top of more than $115 million across several political committees.

Retired Army Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc has won New Hampshire’s Republican Senate primary and will face potentially vulnerable Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan in November.

In recent speeches, President Joe Biden has stopped talking so much about inflation worries.

"The legitimacy of the court was undermined when they [Senate Republicans] wouldn't take up Merrick Garland," Franken said during a CNN segment.

President Joe Biden marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, taking part in a somber wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon in a somber commemoration held under a steady rain.

The Republican Party’s hopes for a red wave this November dimmed on flagging fundraising and an emphasis on inflation that’s lost some of its potency.

President Joe Biden’s request for $47 billion in emergency funding is getting a thumbs down from Republicans in Congress.

President Joe Biden’s request for more than $47 billion in emergency funding to help Ukraine and tackle COVID-19, monkeypox and natural disasters is encountering deep skepticism from Senate Republicans, signaling a showdown ahead. The early resistance on the size and scope of the spending request points to the fraught negotiations to come as Congress labors to pass a stopgap spending bill that would keep the federal government running past Oct. 1 or risk a federal shutdown. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that while Ukraine aid “is obviously a priority,” he downplayed the need for other funding — even in his Kentucky home state hit hard by devastating floods.

House GOP leaders are hoping the midterm agenda scheduled for release September 19 will be the vibe shift they need to cruise to victory in November.

House GOP leaders are hoping the midterm agenda scheduled for release September 19 will be the vibe shift they need to cruise to victory in November.

The great red wave is looming.

It's Donald Trump's first rally of the general election season, a Saturday night event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with Republican candidates in the pivotal state.

Trump has ramped up his bitter feud with the Senate GOP leader, saying the party would "have to do something with him."

Trump has ramped up his bitter feud with the Senate GOP leader, saying the party would "have to do something with him."

Party leaders don’t even have a plan to fix it — which is a pity, since benefits are growing beyond the program’s revenue.

At first, Republicans were highly critical of the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

How has Congress changed in the last four decades.

To Democrats championing the White House’s student loan forgiveness plan, it was the long-awaited delivery of one of President Joe Biden’s campaign promises.

The first steps toward change at CNN have been slow and incremental — at least until the network cancelled its long-running media criticism show ‘Reliable Sources’ and cut loose its host, Brian Stelter.

President Joe Biden is calling on Democrats “to vote to literally save democracy once again” in the midterm elections — and comparing Republican ideology to “semi-fascism” — as he leads a kickoff rally and a fundraiser in Maryland.

After Biden announced $10,000 in student-loan forgiveness for federal borrowers, Republicans slammed the policy, calling it unfair and costly.

Asked if he had any reaction to Donald Trump insulting the woman he is married to, the Kentucky Republican simply responded, “No.”

A video shows clips of Sen. Mitch McConnell talking about Middle East policy and a Jan. 6 Commission, not about jailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked if he has any reaction to Trump calling his wife Elaine Chao “crazy”: “No.” Reporter: Senator McConnell, do you have any reaction to what former President Trump said about your wife over the weekend? Elaine Chao served on Former President Donald Trump’s cabinet as the 18th United States Secretary of Transportation.

"I wouldn't be worried about that one," McConnell said of American democracy, according to NBC News.

The embassy warned that Russia is ramping up efforts to strike Ukraine's civilian infrastructure and government facilities as Ukraine's independence day nears.

The U.S. State Department has issued a security alert warning that Russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and government facilities.

On July 29, the letter “Writer critiqued” by Joel Ramirez of Edinburg asks me to explain my list of bad boy Republicans; well, here you go. Matt Gaetz is under investigation for child sex trafficking, when he took a 17-year-old girl on vacation across state lines. Jim Jordan is accused of knowing, and doing nothing, about the serial sexual assaults of students at OhioStateUniversity. He would not let President Obama’s Supreme Court pick go to a vote, because it was an election year. Paul Gosar: Made a video of killing U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and swinging swords at President Biden.

Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after he said the GOP might struggle to flip the Senate due to "candidate quality."

After months of missteps, mishaps and misfortune, President Biden and his fellow Democrats are finally enjoying a run of good news. But will it be enough to prevent the sort of electoral bloodbath that a president’s party usually suffers in the midterms?

Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds like Maryland and Massachusetts when they have fielded moderate candidates who could appeal to voters in both parties.

Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters says he hopes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will back his close campaign in Arizona.

McConnell now suggests Republicans might not pick up the one seat needed to re-take the Senate.

The top Senate Republican's words come amid a rough summer for the party in some key races that will determine the majority.

A year after America’s tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines.

As more details emerge about the Georgia investigation into possible illegal attempts to influence the 2020 election, high-profile lawyers are getting involved.

America's approval of the highest court in the land is declining, and how was the U.S. Supreme Court created.

In battleground Wisconsin, Donald Trump’s pick for governor defeated the favorite of the Republican establishment.

Mitch McConnell addressed the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump's home, saying the "country deserves a thorough and immediate explanation."

Some Republicans dismissed concerns about extreme rhetoric.

For much of the year, small cracks in Donald Trump’s political support have been growing.

The nearly 12 months since the chaotic end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan haven’t been easy for Joe Biden.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer effectively became the leader of the U.S. Senate on the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) clinched a victory on Wednesday when the Senate — including 48 of the chamber’s 50 Republicans — voted overwhelmingly to admit Finland and Sweden to NATO. The resolution, which cleared the chamber in a bipartisan 95-1 vote, was a top priority for the Republican leader, who wanted to send a signal…

The Senate has approved Democrats' big election-year economic package.

While Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was consoling families displaced by historic flooding in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, Republicans at the state’s premier political event on the other side of the state were campaigning to oust him from office in 2023.

Sen. Joe Manchin sealed the deal reviving President Joe Biden’s big economic, health care and climate bill.

One of Washington’s favorite punching bags, the Internal Revenue Service, may finally get the resources it’s been asking Congress for if Democrats get their economic package focused on energy and health care over the finish line.

Senate Democrats say they have reached an accord on changes to their marquee economic legislation, clearing the major hurdle to pushing one of President Joe Biden’s leading election-year priorities through the chamber in coming days.

Democrats call it the “Inflation Reduction Act.”.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell played a pivotal role in the Senate ratifying NATO membership for Sweden and Finland.

Republicans see inflation, taxes and immigration as Democratic weak spots worth attacking in the upcoming battle over an economic package the Democrats want to push through the Senate.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin are making the case for overhauling the 1800s-era Electoral Count Act.

U.S. Senators delivered an overwhelming bipartisan vote ratifying NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.

The Biden administration is holding out the CIA operation that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri as a monumental strike against the global terror network responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001.

A bill that enhances health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits has hit a snag in the Senate.