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By Sarah Fortinsky and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Republican Rep.-elect Mike Lawler of New York on Sunday offered his full support for House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid, saying the party won’t be “held hostage by a handful of members” seeking to place a different Republican atop the chamber. “Kevin is the only person that

By Paul LeBlanc and Daniella Diaz, CNN Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio said Sunday that “of course” the Buckeye State was still a swing state, brushing off concerns about a 2024 reelection bid after Republican J.D. Vance won the state’s other Senate seat last month. “I’m not worried. … I know it’s a challenge

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Some things have changed in the two weeks since Hakeem Jeffries learned — from listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s speech, sitting motionless with an intentional blank expression on his face for those who were watching — that she really was going to step aside. His phone is ringing more. He’s

By Tierney Sneed The former president sometimes called “Teflon Don” is learning that sometimes, the subpoenas do stick. In recent months, former President Donald Trump and his allies have suffered a string of defeats in court as they’ve tried to resist or impede criminal investigations into his conduct. The latest example was Trump’s unsuccessful bid

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Democrat Adam Gray conceded on Friday night to Republican John Duarte in the open-seat race to represent California’s 13th Congressional District, the final House race of the 2022 midterms to be called. “While I had hoped for a different outcome, I accept the results and have called to congratulate my opponent,

By Christopher Hickey and Nicholas Anastacio, CNN For the past two years, the eyes of the political world keep turning back to Georgia. And for the second time in two years, voters in this key state will choose their senator in a runoff election, which this time will determine whether Democrats expand on their 50-50

By Brian Rokus, CNN A superior court judge in Georgia has ordered Cobb County to extend its deadline for accepting absentee ballots in the US Senate runoff after a lawsuit claimed that numerous voters who had applied for absentee ballots had not received them. The suit, brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center and ACLU,

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office on Friday asked state and local prosecutors to investigate and take enforcement action against two Republican officials who had balked at certifying their county’s election results by the legal deadline. In the referral letter, State Elections Director Kori Lorick said Cochise County Supervisors Tom Crosby

By Holmes Lybrand An inspector general for the Internal Revenue Service said this week that significant tax audits conducted for 2017 and 2019 — years where former FBI Director James Comey and then-deputy Andrew McCabe have said they were audited — were randomly selected and did not show misconduct by the IRS. The report does

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Closing arguments ended Friday in the criminal trial of the Trump Organization with New York prosecutors urging the jury to put aside politics and the company’s namesake and focus simply on the fraud allegations against it — despite accusing Donald Trump of knowing about the schemes in real time. The

By Kate Sullivan and Ethan Cohen, CNN The rule-making arm of the Democratic National Committee on Friday voted to approve a proposal to drastically reshape the 2024 presidential nominating calendar and make South Carolina the first state to hold a primary, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on the same day a few days later,