Impeachment

WASHINGTON ― It’s been a question weighing on Rep. Justin Amash’s mind for months: whether to run for his House seat again as an independent, or whether he should run for president. On Tuesday, the Michigan lawmaker finally decided he’s going for the White House. Amash, a five-term congressman who turned…

(Reuters) - The battle for U.S. Senate control is among the biggest electoral fights in 2020, along with the presidential contest.Democrats need a net gain of four seats to win the majority in the Nov. 3 elections - or three, if presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden defeats Republican President Donald…

Welcome to another false equivalence election. Congratulations, you’ll hate it here. President Donald Trump has an uncanny ability to project his own weaknesses onto his opponent: He’s rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off him and sticks to you. It’s a strategy that worked remarkably well against Hillary Clinton.…

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump has been determined to talk his way through the coronavirus crisis, but frequent misstatements at his daily news conferences have caused a litany of public health and political headaches for the White House.On Friday, Trump sought to clean up his briefing room riff from the…

Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyAs concerns have risen about voter safety in the midst of a global pandemic, the past few weeks have seen proposed solutions put forward by voter-rights organizations, Democratic lawmakers, and almost the entirety of former Vice President Joe Biden’s short list of potential running…

With the coronavirus outbreak spreading across the country over the past several weeks, President Donald Trump has bragged that his daily press briefings at the White House are achieving “Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football type numbers.”  At one such briefing in mid-March, a reporter posed Trump a unique question. “Major left-wing…

A clarifying look at the president’s response to the coronavirus, in his own words April 21, 2020 Contributing writer at The Atlantic and managing editor of Lawfare Contributing writer at The Atlantic and editor in chief of Lawfare Alexander DragoAt his daily pandemic briefing the other day, President Donald Trump…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold funding to the World Health Organization is “illegal” and will be “swiftly challenged” by Democrats. Trump announced Tuesday he intended to at least temporarily halt U.S. funding to the United Nations public health agency over its handling of the coronavirus…

Rep. Justin Amash holds a Town Hall Meeting in May 2019 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Of all the potential damage done by President Donald Trump’s meltdown during Monday evening’s briefing on the coronavirus, the biggest self-inflicted political wound may just be its impact on Michigan Rep. Justin…

WASHINGTON — Even as experts in his own government were increasingly alarmed about a pandemic threat this January, President Donald Trump apparently remained unconcerned, with no scheduled intelligence briefings before Jan. 6 and only nine the entire month. In the first week of the year, when dire warnings about the…