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Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey was recorded on video calling the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol a "hoax."
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Michigan's Top Republican Calls U.S. Capitol Attack A 'Hoax'

Feb 10, 2021
Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey said Tuesday he regretted his "insensitive comments," but he didn't address his claims that the siege was fake.
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Insurrection At The Capitol: Live Updates
Members of the audience react as President Trump delivers remarks at an Evangelicals for Trump coalition launch at the King Jesus International Ministry in Miami on Jan. 3, 2020.
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'How Did We Get Here?' A Call For An Evangelical Reckoning On Trump

Jan 13, 2021
Evangelicals, says Ed Stetzer of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, should start to reckon with their own behaviors and actions that may have helped fuel the insurrection at the Capitol.
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A woman wears a hijab and an American flag mask during an election celebration last month in New York's Times Square.
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Majority of Muslims Voted For Biden, But Trump Got More Support Than He Did In 2016

Dec 04, 2020
Despite anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies, President Trump appears to have gotten more support from American Muslims in the 2020 election than four years ago.
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Geraldo Cadava, author of <em>The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump</em>
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What Pundits Get Wrong About The Latino Vote

Oct 30, 2020
Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican, discusses the biggest misconceptions about Latino voters, who are projected to be the largest nonwhite voting demographic in 2020.
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National
Parker shows off a vestige of his old punk phase: a Black Flag tattoo, symbolizing rebellion against authority. He recalls his days as a mohawk-wearing youth scrapping with neo-Nazis in Phoenix, Ariz.
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Militia Leader Known As The 'Bundy Ranch Sniper' Seeks A New Title: State Senator

Oct 22, 2020
The election season's spotlight on the militia threat is glaring for Eric Parker. Federal authorities consider him a domestic extremist. That hasn't stopped his run for the Idaho legislature.
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Republicans Sue Clark County For Election-Related Records

Jun 02, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Republican Party and Republican National Committee are suing Clark County officials for public records related to the June primary election.

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Elections
Supporters of President Trump cheer as he arrives to launch Black Voices for Trump at an Atlanta event.
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Trump Campaign Makes Pitch To Black Neighborhoods. Will It Connect?

Mar 08, 2020
The Trump campaign held a Black Voices for Trump event in Milwaukee, part of what many see as an uphill push to peel off some African American votes in battleground states in 2020.
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Trump Impeachment Inquiry
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks to reporters as he arrives at the Capitol. On Wednesday, he became the first senator to vote to convict and remove a U.S. president of the same party.
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Trump Blasts Romney Over Impeachment Vote

Feb 06, 2020
During a White House speech, Trump attacked Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, calling him a "failed presidential candidate." Romney met with GOP leaders in his home state, where some in his party are upset.
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White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller waits for the start of a meeting with President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House in Seoul in June.
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Leaked Emails Fuel Calls For Stephen Miller To Leave White House

Nov 26, 2019
White House adviser Stephen Miller faces growing calls to resign after leaked emails show he promoted the ideas of white nationalists. Critics say this is how fringe ideas move into the mainstream.
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Garrison Coward is one of two African American Republican candidates running in next month's legislative elections in Virginia. Coward previously served as an aide to GOP U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman and led the Republican Party of Virginia's outreach to minori
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In Virginia, 2 Young Candidates Vie To Be First Black GOP Lawmakers In 15 Years

Oct 18, 2019
Since Reconstruction, Virginia has elected only two African American Republicans to the legislature. This year, two young black men running against Democrats might change that.
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Then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III appears before the congressional committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987.
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Trump To Honor Former Reagan Attorney General, Who Left Government Under Ethics Cloud

Oct 08, 2019
Edwin Meese III was part of Ronald Reagan's surge among "movement conservatives" who strove to rebuild the Republican Party after its disastrous defeat in the presidential election of 1964.
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Analysis
"Help Wanted/No Irish Need Apply" sign photographed in 1998 at O'Riley Hibernian Pub in Lawrence, Mass.
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With Latest Nativist Rhetoric, Trump Takes America Back To Where It Came From

Jul 16, 2019
By repeating that these immigrants are "not you" the president defined them as "the other" in stark terms. The battle lines could not be clearer, and the battle is nearly as old as America itself.
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Democrats Lead Republicans In February Voter Gains In Nevada

Mar 04, 2019

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The latest Nevada voter registration figures indicate the state Democratic Party gained more registered voters than the state Republican Party during February.

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Democrat Dan McCready (left) and Republican Mark Harris are the candidates at the center of a contested race to represent North Carolina's 9th Congressional District. The state is investigating claims that a GOP operative may have manipulated ballots.
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N.C. GOP Leader Open To New Election As Fraud Investigation Continues

Dec 06, 2018
The head of North Carolina's Republican Party says he would "not oppose" a new election in the state's 9th Congressional District if allegations of fraud by a GOP operative prove true.
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Former President George H.W. Bush crosses his colorfully socked feet during the unveiling ceremony of portraits of his son former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush, in 2012.
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President George H.W. Bush's Choice Of Bold, Whimsical Socks Made Him A Style Icon

Dec 01, 2018
The former president's choice of socks were often a colorful counterpoint to his conservative suits and attire.
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Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., in a June 2018 file photo. Brat lost his re-election bid to Democrat Abigail Spanberger. Before the election, Brat blamed the Democratic fundraising platform, ActBlue, for allowing Spanberger to raise more money than he was able to
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Democrats Built A Small-Donor Money Machine. Now, Republicans Want Their Own

Nov 23, 2018
In 73 of the most competitive House races, Democrats raised more than $62 million from donors who gave $200 or less while Republicans raised barely $27 million.
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A statue of former President Ronald Reagan stands in front of a home on Orange County's Balboa Island. Reagan's political career and the Republican Party of the 1970s and '80s were long associated with Orange County, but the party was swept out of power
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Democrats Demolish The 'Orange Curtain' In Orange County

Nov 20, 2018
There will be no Republican members of Congress from Orange County, Calif. It is a stunning turn for a county that was once the heart of the state's GOP.
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Analysis
A volunteer stands in front of an American flag before President Trump speaks at a rally last week in Indianapolis. Indiana is a key Senate battleground state for the GOP.
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Key Questions The 2018 Election Will Answer

Nov 04, 2018
Voters will give the final judgment on Tuesday, determining not just the control of Congress — but also the very future of American politics.
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Democratic U.S. House candidate Andrew Janz raised more than $4 million in three months as part of his effort to unseat U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.), part of a wave of record-breaking fundraising hauls by Democratic candidates.
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Democrats Enter Campaign's Final Stretch Flush With Cash

Oct 10, 2018
One party celebrates its fundraising, while the other starts culling out the weakest candidates.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox speaks to supporters in San Diego on Tuesday. He advanced to the general election against Democrat Gavin Newsom, giving the GOP a foothold in a top statewide race.
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In California, Republicans And Democrats Appear To Avoid Jungle Primary Nightmares

Jun 05, 2018

Eight states voted on Tuesday. California Democrats look like they will avoid getting shut out of key House races. Republican John Cox got on the ballot for governor to face Democrat Gavin Newsom.

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez hasn't quite figured out how to calm the restive Democratic base, but the left hasn't bitten the Democratic Party just yet.
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Midterm Messages: Women Are Owning 2018, But So Is Trump

Jun 05, 2018
The dominant storylines from the 2018 primaries so far have been that women have dominated and the president has had his own relative success — and a big impact on GOP congressional candidates.
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In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed a major immigration law that offered amnesty to people in the country illegally who arrived prior to 1982.
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The GOP's Evolution On Immigration

Jan 25, 2018
In 1980, Ronald Reagan argued against putting up a fence on the border with Mexico. By 2016, Donald Trump was rallying GOP voters to "build the wall."
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A bell ringer with the Salvation Army in New York City in 2014. Nonprofit groups estimate that the new tax bill proposed by House Republicans could reduce charitable giving by $13 billion annually.
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Nonprofits Fear House Republican Tax Bill Would Hurt Charitable Giving

Nov 04, 2017
Even though Republicans promise to preserve the deduction for charitable donations, nonprofits say other proposed changes in the bill could discourage as much as $13 billion in annual giving.
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Vice President Mike Pence, left, gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie, R-VA, after a campaign rally in southern Virginia on October 14, 2017.
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Races For Governor Put Trump's Immigration Message On The Ballot

Nov 02, 2017
In the two states electing new governors this year, New Jersey and Virginia, once-moderate Republicans are running attack ads painting their Democratic opponents as weak on illegal immigration.
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Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, calls the House of Representatives to order in Austin, Texas in July 2017.
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In A Blow To Moderate Wing Of GOP, Powerful Texas Republican To Retire

Oct 25, 2017
Joe Straus, the influential Texas House Speaker, was viewed as a pragmatic moderate who blocked a so-called 'bathroom bill' from passing during this year's legislative session.

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