Late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s daughter, Erica Lee Carter, announced Monday she is running in the special election for the U.S. House seat formerly held by her mother to finish the remainder of the late congresswoman’s term. This comes after Jackson Lee, D-Texas, died last month at the age of 74 following a battle with...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., successfully fended off her primary challengers Tuesday and is advancing to Minnesota’s general Senate election in November. The North Star State’s senior senator is seeking a fourth term, having first been elected to Congress in 2006 as the first woman from Minnesota to hold the job. She chairs the Senate Rules...
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, was able to avoid the recent fate of some of her other “Squad” members in Congress, coming away with the win in the Democrat primary for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District on Tuesday. The race featured another member of the so-called “Squad” facing off with a primary challenger, with Don Samuels, Abena...
A conservative think tank is demanding the Department of Homeland Security produce documents that refer to Vice President Kamala Harris as “border czar,” a position the Democratic presidential candidate insists never existed. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project and Mike Howell, its executive director, filed a lawsuit Monday against DHS in a Washington, D.C., federal court,...
Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest political news from Washington, D.C. and updates from the2024 campaign trail. Here’s what’s happening… – Vets continue to slam Tim Walz’s military record – There are only 24 days till voting starts as Election Day looms – Elon Musk says Trump pulled in 1 billion...
Rep. Michelle Fischbach beat out Steve Boyd in the GOP primary for Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday, advancing to the general election where she will face Democrat challenger A. John Peters. Fischbach, who received an endorsement from the Republican Party’s standard-bearer, former President Trump, has a conservative record in her deep-red Minnesota district, despite...
Elon Musk’s conversational interview with former President Trump on Monday evening pulled in a combined 1 billion views, according to the tech billionaire, who has now offered to host Vice President Kamala Harris for a similar X chat. “Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion,” Musk...
The Harris campaign did not properly prepare for potential attacks on the vice president’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, according to political strategists from both sides of the aisle. “The Walz military record story was clearly a failure of ‘reverse’ opposition research by the Harris campaign,” Democrat strategist Julian Epstein told Fox News Digital....
Vice President Harris appears to be singing a different tune when it comes to ensuring “Medicare-for-all,” compared to when she ran for president in 2019. A campaign official told Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy that Harris will not push the subject of single-payer or “Medicare-for-all” this go around, as she seeks her...
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey is invested, through several mutual funds, in the same Chinese fentanyl manufacturer that he recently claimed a company that was led by Republican candidate Dave McCormick was “profiting off people’s pain” by investing in. The senator’s campaign claimed McCormick “saw a way to get even richer” in the fentanyl crisis, in...
