Author: Kate Scanlon, Washington Examiner

Former President Donald Trump is planning to endorse author J.D. Vance in Ohio’s crowded and contentious Republican Senate primary. NBC News reported that Trump is planning to endorse Vance, citing three sources with knowledge. Vance, like all the candidates in the field, has openly courted Trump’s endorsement as a means of differentiating himself from the…

Ohio’s messy redistricting process may have left a longtime Democratic lawmaker newly vulnerable in the midterm elections as Republicans attempt to flip control of the seat. Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio’s 9th Congressional District is the longest-serving woman in the history of the House of Representatives, according to her biography. First elected in 1982,…

Mark Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman and chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, has been removed from the state’s voter rolls by elections officials, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections, amid allegations he was fraudulently registered to vote there while living in Virginia. Meadows was reportedly registered to vote…

A new ad campaign for Republican Ohio Senate candidate Mike Gibbons hits his rivals J.D. Vance and Jane Timken on taxes. Gibbons made remarks during a podcast interview last fall that recently gained attention, suggesting that middle-class people do not pay “any kind of a fair share” in income taxes. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR HOPEFUL KEEPS DISTANCE…

Pennsylvania attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro criticized the reimplementation of Philadelphia’s indoor mask mandate this week, joining the growing ranks of state Democratic officials looking to move past such pandemic policies. The Philadelphia Department of Health announced this week it would reimplement its indoor mask mandate in response to a rise in COVID-19…

Hawaii Rep. Kai Kahele has not voted in person in the House since January, congressional voting statistics show. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the House of Representatives adopted temporary emergency rules permitting members to vote by proxy for the first time in its history. The measure was intended to reduce gathering in…

Recent polls show Missouri’s scandal-plagued ex-Gov. Eric Greitens may no longer be leading a crowded Republican primary field in the state’s open-seat Senate race following domestic abuse allegations. Greitens’s ex-wife, Sheena, recently alleged Greitens physically abused both her and their children during their marriage and that he threatened to use his political connections to damage…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Monday that she has tested negative for COVID-19 after disclosing an asymptomatic infection last week. “Today, happily I tested negative for COVID,” the California Democrat, 82, wrote on Twitter. “Tomorrow, I will be exiting isolation at the direction of the Capitol’s Attending Physician and consistent with CDC guidelines for asymptomatic…

Senate Minority Whip John Thune, despite sparking the ire of former President Donald Trump, does not face a viable primary challenge to his reelection campaign. Trump attacked Thune after the 2020 election and claimed the longtime officeholder’s political career was over after the South Dakota Republican criticized efforts to overturn the results of the election.…

Shortly before the expected confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, a group of Republican senators reiterated their arguments against appointing the judge to the nation’s highest court while lamenting that they came up short of the votes to defeat her nomination. Three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney…