Category: Republican Party

Republican Party Doomed to Be Extinct If It Backtracks: Mike Huckabee

The Republican Party must stick to the working class or face the fate of becoming extinct, a former governor warned. “Let’s hope it doesn’t go back to the days of globalists, the days of just basically being servants to the big multinational corporations, that we become the party of the country clubs and the swells….


Capitol Report (Nov. 9): Kari Lake Closing Gap in AZ; Rep. Comer on GOP Oversight Committee Agenda

The ranking member of the House oversight committee—and likely the next chairman—joins us to discuss the state of the Republican Party after the midterms and what the oversight committee’s agenda could be with a Republican-led House of Representatives. All eyes are on Arizona. Will the delayed vote count yield a win for the Democrats or…


Capitol Report (Nov. 9): Kari Lake Closing Gap in Arizona; Rep. Comer on GOP Oversight Committee Agenda

The ranking member of the House oversight committee—and likely the next chairman—joins us to discuss the state of the Republican Party after the midterms and what the oversight committee’s agenda could be with a Republican-led House of Representatives. All eyes are on Arizona. Will the delayed vote count yield a win for the Democrats or…


‘MAGA’ State House Candidate Files Lawsuit After Being Bumped From Florida Primary Ballot

Tim Sharp—an America First “MAGA” candidate in Flagler County, Florida—has filed a lawsuit against Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd and the Florida Division of Elections after allegedly being unjustly bumped from the ballot. Sharp, who was running for the Florida House of Representatives, was disqualified from the Aug. 23 Florida primary despite completing all…


F.H. Buckley: ‘Progressive Conservatism’ Is GOP’s Golden Ticket

Progressive conservatism: these two words seem to contradict each other. But according to George Mason University law professor F.H. Buckley, “progressive conservatism” is the original way of the Republican Party, beginning with President Abraham Lincoln. The presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Donald Trump also fit Buckley’s model of conservatism that doesn’t shy away…


Macomb County GOP Ousts Party Leaders Stuck Re-litigating Trump’s 2020 Loss

Commentary On Monday evening, each of Michigan’s 83 county parties held Republican conventions. Conservatives met with the purpose of electing delegates to the state endorsement convention to begin the process of nominating candidates for attorney general and secretary of state, as well as to the Supreme Court and state education boards. This is a granular…


The Republican Party’s Multiethnic, Working-Class Coalition Is Taking Shape

Commentary In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party’s aggrieved grassroots and its blinkered elite spilled out into the open. For years, the chasm widened between the GOP’s heartland base, the river valley-dwelling “Somewheres” from David Goodhart’s 2017 book, “The Road to Somewhere,” and the party’s bicoastal “Anywhere” rulers. The…


Whether Trump Runs in 2024 or Not, Key Party Figures Say He Defines the Future of the GOP Agenda

News Analysis Exuberant Republicans cannot wait for the 2022 mid-term elections that they expect will restore their congressional majorities and the 2024 presidential contest to put one of their own back in the Oval Office. Public approval ratings for President Joe Biden and the Democratic Congress are scraping bottom thanks to surging inflation, chaos at…


‘Our Work Is Not Done’: Ciattarelli Conceded New Jersey Gubernatorial Race to Incumbent Governor

New Jersey’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli conceded on Friday after the election results showed that he lost the race to incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy. “Our work is not done,” Ciattarelli said at the press conference on Friday in Raritan, New Jersey–Ciattarelli’s hometown. When asked by a reporter about his future plans, Ciattarelli, a former…


‘Our Work Is Not Done’: Ciattarelli Concedes New Jersey Gubernatorial Race to Incumbent Governor

New Jersey’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli conceded on Friday after the election results showed that he lost the race to incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy. “Our work is not done,” Ciattarelli said at the press conference on Friday in Raritan, New Jersey–Ciattarelli’s hometown. When asked by a reporter about his future plans, Ciattarelli, a former…