Author: David M. Drucker

EXCLUSIVE — The Republican backlash against Donald Trump is growing as officials lay the blame for the party’s disappointing midterm elections squarely on the shoulders of the former president. In an interview Thursday, the GOP operative who runs the political arm of a caucus of roughly 90 House Republicans said Trump single-handedly wasted the party’s…

Even as top Republicans griped about Donald Trump’s leadership costing the GOP dearly in a third consecutive national election, it was unclear whether influential party figures would thank the former president for his service and show him the door. Frustrated Republicans are blaming Trump for the predicted red wave that never materialized in Tuesday’s midterm…

ATLANTA — The Senate majority hung in the balance Tuesday night as Democrats were proving more resilient than predicted, with votes that might yet swing the chamber to Republicans still being tallied in key battleground states. In Pennsylvania, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) defeated Dr. Mehmet Oz (R), flipping a Republican-held seat and giving Democrats…

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer defeated Republican challenger Tudor Dixon, notching a major midterm victory for Democrats in this key Midwestern battleground. Whitmer, 51, led in nearly every poll from the outset of the campaign, propelled by a massive war chest and aided in part by Dixon’s late start. Dixon joined the general election in August…

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) held off a spirited challenge from Republican construction magnate Joe O’Dea, bolstered by a blue wall in Colorado too high for the red wave to climb. In defeating O’Dea, among the most celebrated Republican Senate candidates of the midterm elections, Bennet, 57, won his third full term since early 2009, when…

KENNESAW, Georgia — Republican Herschel Walker swung hard at Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) as he rallied roughly 500 cheering supporters, concluding a hard-fought 2022 campaign the GOP hopes will deliver the party Senate control in Tuesday’s midterm elections. “He’s not doing the right thing by you,” Walker said of Warnock, tying the Democratic incumbent directly…

MACON, Georgia — Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) rallied supporters to ignore political pundits predicting a red wave was poised to sweep Democrats from power in Congress, expressing confidence he would defeat Republican challenger Herschel Walker in Tuesday’s midterm elections. “Now we’re down to one day. I’ve got a feeling that everything is going to be…

AUGUSTA, Georgia — Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) is questioning Republican challenger Herschel Walker‘s fitness for office as he barnstorms the state in an uncertain bid to withstand the red wave building ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. “The man is running without an agenda. He’s literally running and hasn’t offered a single solution. Maybe he’s confused…

WENATCHEE, Washington — Republican voters here have been disappointed before. As Tiffany Smiley barnstormed across eastern Washington state (the red part of Washington state) in the final hours before Election Day, Republican voters flocking to see the brash Republican campaigning to unseat Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) were quietly crossing their fingers. They want to believe…

LAKEWOOD, Washington — Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) doesn’t look like a beleaguered Democrat about to get washed away by Republican challenger Tiffany Smiley and the red wave building across the country. Her supporters are another matter. As Murray and other prominent Washington state Democrats rallied the more than 50 volunteers and activists who packed a…