How America’s two big parties select presidential candidates

“Contrary to many countries where voting is organized at the national level, in the American federalist system our elections processes are a state (and sub-state) competency,” Bridgett King, a lecturer at the University of Kentucky’s Department of Political Science, emphasized in her opening remarks during a recent briefing organized by the Washington Foreign Press Center. … Read more

Lara Trump on 2020 election: ‘I think we’re past that’

Lara Trump thinks the Republican Party is past disputing the 2020 presidential election, she told NBC News in a Tuesday interview. Her remarks come despite the fact that her father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, continues to campaign on unfounded claims that he lost the race due to election fraud. “Well, I think we’re past that. … Read more

MSNBC host on Lara Trump takeover: ‘Now we’ve got nepo-RNC’

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace noted the recent election of former President Trump’s daughter-in-law as Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Friday. “Now we’ve got nepo-RNC,” Wallace quipped on “Deadline: White House” Friday. The RNC voted to make Michael Whatley, who has previously been the chair of the North Carolina GOP and Lara Trump, the wife of … Read more

RNC member floats draft resolutions to bar committee from paying Trump’s legal bills

A member of the Republican National Committee (RNC) floated two draft resolutions Saturday that would bar the committee from paying former President Trump’s mounting legal fees and ensure it stays neutral in the GOP primary race. The resolutions, shared by Henry Barbour — an RNC member from Mississippi — were first reported by The Dispatch, … Read more