June 7, 2020 Ilhan Omar’s GOP challenger decries ‘silence’ on Chicago gun violence A Republican who's challenging U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in November decried “silence” on a recent spate of deadly gun violence in Chicago amid the media focus on the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
June 6, 2020 Facebook pulls ad from gun-toting Georgia candidate taking on Antifa: 'Big Tech censorship of conservatives must end' A Georgia GOP congressional candidate is claiming Facebook "censorship" after the social media giant took down her campaign video where she holds an AR-15 gun and warns Antifa to "stay the hell out of Northwest Georgia."
June 6, 2020 AOC supports Defund the Police demands in wake of George Floyd's death Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw her weight behind a movement to defund police departments that's become a rallying cry from some protesters in the wake of George Floyd's death.
June 5, 2020 GOP candidate in closely watched NH race accuses Dem congressman of siding with ‘criminals over our cops’ GOP candidate Matt Mowers, who hopes to unseat Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, accused his opponent of siding with “criminals over our cops” amidst protests and unrest in New Hampshire following the death of George Floyd.
June 4, 2020 AOC rankles Democrats again for campaigning against an incumbent: 'She has abandoned her colleagues' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has again ruffled the feathers of fellow Democrat lawmakers by endorsing the challenger of her colleague Rep. Eliot Engel in his tough primary race in New York.
June 4, 2020 Trump picks sides in GOP runoff for Mark Meadows' House seat President Trump on Thursday said that he is endorsing Lynda Bennett for White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' old North Carolina House seat, backing the conservative political activist over her charismatic young opponent Madison Cawthorn.
June 3, 2020 Ex-CIA spy Valerie Plame loses House bid in New Mexico Dem primary Former spy Valerie Plame on Tuesday lost her bid for the U.S. House of Representatives, falling in New Mexico’s Democratic primary election to attorney Teresa Leger Fernandez.
June 2, 2020 Engel, on hot mic, begs for speaking time at NY protest event: ‘If I didn't have a primary, I wouldn't care' Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., was caught on a hot mic Tuesday saying he “wouldn’t care” about not being allowed to speak at a news conference about the unrest in his Bronx district following the death of George Floyd -- if he wasn't in a competitive Democratic primary.
June 1, 2020 Guide to the June 2 primaries: Can Biden officially clinch the nomination? As lockdowns start to ease, eight states and Washington, D.C., are set to hold primary elections on Tuesday, which have implications in several important congressional races and the presidential contest.
May 29, 2020 Conservative groups push diverse slate of GOP House candidates in effort to take back lost ground Right-leaning activist groups and political action committees are backing and bankrolling a diverse group of GOP congressional candidates.