Impeachment

Associated Press Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) is projected to advance out of the primary in Washington state’s 4th Congressional District, prevailing in the face of his vote to impeach former President Trump following the Jan. 6 insurrection. The race was called by The Associated Press at 5:15 p.m. PDT. Newhouse…

Data: Axios research; Table: Kavya Beheraj/Axios At least six of the ten House Republicans who voted for former President Trump's impeachment last year will not return next Congress — and that number is poised to rise. Why it matters: The bleak political future for those who broke with the ex-president…

Topline Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), the only freshman Republican congressman who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, has been defeated by Trump-endorsed challenger John Gibbs in the GOP primary for his House seat. Then-Michigan 3rd Congressional District Republican candidate Peter Meijer speaks at a campaign ... rally on October…

Tuesday’s primaries mark the biggest one-day electoral test so far for the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Three of them are on the ballot Tuesday: Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse of Washington state and Peter Meijer of Michigan. They will find out whether…

President Donald Trump was attending the National Prayer Breakfast, but showing no sign of grace. Lips pursed, face alternating between anger and frustration, he lashed out at enemies who had brought him to the doors of impeachment. He brandished the day's newspapers, waving them above his head. The first headline:…

A basic rule of Donald Trump is that he often accuses his foes of what he does himself. He described his first impeachment as a “coup attempt” just over a year before he incited a mob to attack Congress and the vice president. He accused President Joe Biden and his…

Donald Trump was the big loser in Tuesday’s primaries, when voters rejected several of his handpicked candidates in Colorado. A week earlier, though, he was a winner—or at least deemed to have won a tactical victory, though not a resounding one: The first Republican who voted for his impeachment after…

If Cassidy Hutchinson’s blockbuster assertions Tuesday prove to be a breakthrough in the Jan. 6 investigation, it would not be the first time a high-profile congressional hearing hinged on the testimony of a little-known aide.  In the Watergate hearings, presidential scheduler Alexander Butterfield first confirmed the Nixon tapes. Lt. Col. Oliver…

WASHINGTON —  The House of Representatives launched its hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection in the face of grimly low expectations. Didn’t we already know what happened? After two impeachments and innumerable disclosures, was there anything new to learn about the misrule of Donald Trump? The conventional wisdom turned out to…

On Tuesday, Republicans flipped a congressional seat in a heavily Hispanic district in south Texas, sent packing a pro-impeachment Republican congressman from South Carolina and nominated a passel of Trump loyalists in Nevada. It was a good night for the 45th president and an even better one for his party.…