Libertarian drops out of Yadira Caraveo’s CD8 race, backs Gabe Evans

Libertarian drops out of Yadira Caraveo’s CD8 race, backs Gabe Evans

The Libertarian candidate running for a Front Range Colorado congressional seat is dropping out and backing the Republican contender in a move that could bolster the GOP’s chances of flipping one of the most hotly contested seats in America. Eric Joss, the Libertarian nominee in the 8th Congressional District, announced the armistice with Republican state … Read more

Trump or Harris — Canada will work well with either one, ambassador to the U.S. says

Trump or Harris — Canada will work well with either one, ambassador to the U.S. says

Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. said Tuesday the country will work well with whomever wins the November presidential election, saying the government’s “Team Canada” approach of continually meeting with a bipartisan group of American federal, state and local officials has prepared Canada for any eventuality. Speaking to reporters at the Liberal cabinet retreat in Halifax after … Read more

Colorado GOP committee ousts Dave Williams as chair in contested vote

Colorado GOP committee ousts Dave Williams as chair in contested vote

Dave Williams and other top officials in the Colorado Republican Party are “squatters,” illegitimately occupying the party’s Greenwood Village headquarters after having been booted from their leadership positions over the weekend. So says Eli Bremer, whom the party’s central committee selected to replace Williams as party chair in a vote on Saturday. Eli Bremer in … Read more

Judge allows Colorado Republicans to meet to remove Dave Williams

Judge allows Colorado Republicans to meet to remove Dave Williams

A group of Colorado Republicans is moving ahead with a plan to boot party chairman Dave Williams after a judge ruled that his court lacked jurisdiction to block it. Tuesday evening’s ruling reversed an earlier temporary order by the same judge that blocked the disaffected Republicans from conducting official business. El Paso County vice chair … Read more

Joy Ride: Upbeat Dems Are Spreading Optimism to a Divided (and Newly Delighted) Nation

Joy Ride: Upbeat Dems Are Spreading Optimism to a Divided (and Newly Delighted) Nation

The joy squad has rattled not only Team Trump but right-wing pundits as well. Even Fox News attack dog Jesse Watters, who has also been known to criticize Harris’s laugh, has voiced frustration about his own mother’s newfound infatuation with the vice president, insisting his mother is “a Kamala fanatic. Keeps talking about joy.” Third, … Read more

Inside the “Big Weirdo” Political Strategy That Democrats Are Using to Taunt Republicans

Inside the “Big Weirdo” Political Strategy That Democrats Are Using to Taunt Republicans

Even Republican cheerleader senator Mitch McConnell despairs over his party’s increasing weirdness. In 2022, explaining away the GOP’s midterm election performance (read: not good!) he basically said, yikes, what can you do? “My view was do the best you can with the cards you’re dealt,” he said of his fellow Republicans. “Now, hopefully, in the … Read more

Lauren Boebert warns Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams of ousting

Colorado GOP committee ousts Dave Williams as chair in contested vote

A planned attempt to oust the head of the Colorado Republican Party this weekend was put on hold Friday by a district court judge — but not before calls for Dave Williams’ removal reached new peaks. Williams, whose tenure as the GOP chair has been marked by controversy and months of growing intraparty frustrations, faced … Read more

Donald Trump’s GOP Acceptance Speech Gives America Whiplash

Donald Trump’s GOP Acceptance Speech Gives America Whiplash

Donald Trump made a rare call for unity in his address Thursday to the Republican National Convention—before returning to some of the more standard “American Carnage” fare that gets standing ovations among his ecstatic base. Still wearing a bandage on his right ear, where he was injured in a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania … Read more

Democrats at Republican National Convention Witness Donald Trump’s “Tremendously Aligned” GOP

Democrats at Republican National Convention Witness Donald Trump’s “Tremendously Aligned” GOP

The mood here among Republicans in Milwaukee has been one of unmitigated glee—a sense that they’re about to cruise to victory in November, amplified by a seemingly endless parade of polls suggesting Donald Trump is on track to defeat Joe Biden, possibly in a landslide. They’ve been giddy about the swing state polls, gloating over … Read more

Republicans shift their gaze to national security as RNC enters third day

Republicans shift their gaze to national security as RNC enters third day

The third day of the Republican National Convention kicks off Wednesday with Republicans — led by the newly nominated Donald Trump and his running mate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio — shifting their focus to issues of national security and foreign policy. Originally Published: July 17, 2024 at 7:35 a.m. Read original article here … Read more