Republican Politics

Roasts are not usually vehicles for deep introspection, but during his remarks at this year’s Al Smith dinner on Oct. 17, Donald Trump’s lips issued something that sounded suspiciously like an apology. It concerned his own joke that he judged had gone too far, about Democratic opponent Kamala Harris’s child care plan. “The only piece…

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said he would not step down from his role if President-elect Donald Trump asked him to do so. Powell, who was nominated by Trump to lead the central bank, butted heads with the former president during his first term. Trump has reportedly had private conversations about whether he has the…

Employers added a record 4.8 million jobs in June as the economy bounced back from coronavirus shutdowns, prompting an increasingly vulnerable President Trump to celebrate the “spectacular” news four months before he faces voters, while a key government forecaster warned that a full recovery is still years away. The …

Veterans of Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign are eyeing an alliance with Joseph R. Biden, looking to make a splash in announcing they have turned their backs on the Republican Party this year and will support the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee instead. Micah Spangler, who was a staffer in southern …

Hawk Newsome, head of the Black Lives Matter chapter of New York, joined Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday’ to talk about his ideas for police reform: WALLACE: Protesters in American streets are calling for the country to address our racial tensions, both current inequities and contentious symbols of America’s past. But how to do…

President Trump on Tuesday threatened to lock up protesters who try to pull down statues and monuments, drawing a line in the sand for activists demanding a racial justice makeover of U.S. history. Calls to topple or remove statues and monuments, as well as outright vandalism, have stretched beyond reminders …

Diamond and Silk at President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa: DIAMOND AND SILK: Let me tell you how I know my black life matter. Because President Trump made sure that black unemployment was at an all-time low. Let me tell you how I know my black life matters. He made sure HBCUs was funded. He’s…

Former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton claims in his upcoming book that President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to increase agricultural purchases from the U.S. to improve his electoral prospects in farm states, according to advance copies and a newspaper column he wrote Wednesday. In an op-ed based …

House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) on Wednesday called President Trump perhaps the worst president since Woodrow Wilson. In an interview with CNN, Clyburn said Wilson, a one-time South Carolina resident, set the country back and that Trump is “mimicking so much of what he did.” JOHN BERMAN, CNN HOST: You have said in…

The campaigns of President Trump and presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden have turned down offers for counterintelligence briefings on threats to the coming election, a senior U.S. intelligence official has told The Washington Times. The briefings were offered in the past several weeks and rejected, said the official, …