Author: Ramsey Touchberry Washington Examiner

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will spar head-to-head Tuesday evening for the first time during a live televised debate. The debate, moderated by ABC News, will be 90 minutes of discussion with two commercial breaks and will feature muted mics after each candidate finishes speaking. Boundless hot-button issues will come up,…

A lead nonpartisan elections forecaster changed its outlook Friday on the closely watched Montana Senate race, switching the rating from “toss-up” to “lean Republican.” The shift from Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball is welcome news for Republican and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, who’s gunning to oust Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) in what is Senate Democrats’…

During a Thursday address to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Annual Leadership Summit, former President Donald Trump pondered why his support is not higher among Jewish voters. His rhetorical question to the crowd of Israel supporters came as he’s attempted to capitalize on the dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s handling of the war in Gaza to make…

The Republican Senate hopefuls in some of the most closely watched races in the country are being hit with millions of dollars in ad spending by EMILY’s List, the abortion-rights group that buoys Democratic female candidates. Its political action committee is pumping $2.65 million against Republican Eric Hovde in Wisconsin and $2.2 million against former…

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland — Maryland Republican Senate nominee Larry Hogan made little direct mention of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening during a speech on protecting democracy 50 years after Watergate. He didn’t need to. Attendees of the event, hosted by Principles First, a conservative group that calls itself the center-right “alternative to CPAC,”…

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is pushing for Congress to use a decades-old strategy from the Cold War that was used against the former Soviet Union to tackle one of America’s biggest modern-day foreign threats: China. The senator has asked the leaders of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee, which he sits on, to conduct annual…

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign on Tuesday launched a bus tour from Palm Beach County, Florida, focused on abortion rights, just miles down the road from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Democrats made clear that their proximity to the GOP presidential nominee, who they say is to blame for the overturning of Roe v.…

Maryland Democratic Senate nominee Angela Alsobrooks on Thursday unveiled an ad featuring past clips of her Republican rival, Larry Hogan, closely identifying himself with the GOP. The 30-second montage shows the former two-term centrist governor stating in various interviews that he’s a “die-hard, lifelong Republican,” couldn’t “possibly support the Democratic nominee,” and would not “call…

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) asked Democratic and independent voters to reconsider former President Donald Trump at a firefighters convention in which he was met with boos from some in the audience. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) spoke to the same crowd in Boston one day earlier as Vice President Kamala Harris also courts the group for…

Maryland Republican Senate hopeful Larry Hogan’s campaign is on a high note after the latest poll for the closely watched race showed him in a dead heat with Democrat Angela Alsobrooks in the deep-blue state. But the centrist GOP candidate’s team emphasized Wednesday in a strategy memo that the path to victory hinges on Hogan…