Paul ryan and donald trump

President Donald Trump on Saturday lambasted former House Speaker Paul Ryan once again, calling him “Weak, ineffective & stupid” and said the now-retired lawmaker “almost killed” the Republican Party when he was in Congress.“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is a far superior leader than was Lame Duck Speaker Paul Ryan,” President Trump began on Twitter. “Tougher, smarter and a far better fundraiser, Kevin is already closing in on 44 Million Dollars. Paul’s final year numbers were, according to Breitbart, “abysmal.”” “People like….Paul Ryan almost killed the Republican Party. Weak, ineffective & stupid are not exactly the qualities that Republicans, or the CITIZENS of our Country, were looking for,” he added. “Right now our spirit is at an all time high, far better than the Radical Left Dems. You’ll see next year!” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is a far superior … [Read more...] about Trump Unleashed: Paul Ryan ‘Weak, Ineffective & Stupid,’ ‘Almost Killed’ Republican Party

If there was any doubt about it, the results showed that the GOP was very much Trump’s party in 2018. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images It’s a well-established tenet that most midterm elections are functionally referenda on the president of the United States. And the particular president in office right now helped make the 2018 midterms emphatically about himself via high-profile campaigning and some characteristically inflammatory behavior designed to energize his supporters and opponents alike. Still, as Ron Brownstein observes, 2018 set a new standard for presidential domination of a midterm: In the midterms of 2006, 2010, and 2014, between 84 percent and 87 percent of voters who approved of the president’s job performance voted for his party’s candidate in their local House race, according to exit polls. Last week, 88 percent of Trump approvers said they backed Republicans for the House, according to results from the Edison Research exit … [Read more...] about Republicans Paid the Price for Bending the Knee to Trump

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) invoked President Trump’s tweet on Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg during a hearing to consider articles of impeachment against the president on Thursday.Trump tweeted earlier in the day in response to a tweet congratulating Thunberg on being named Time’s 2019 Person of the Year: “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!” So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill! https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2019 Jeffries raised that tweet when arguing for the impeachment of the president: This is a president that attacks everybody to distract. He attacks everybody who won’t bend the knee to Donald J. Trump. He attacked John McCain, a war hero. He attacked Mitt … [Read more...] about Hakeem Jeffries Invokes Trump’s Tweet on Greta Thunberg During Impeachment Hearing

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegSaagar Enjeti says Buttigieg's release of McKinsey client list shows he 'caved to public pressure' Biden hires Clinton, O'Rourke alum as campaign's digital director Trump neck and neck with top 2020 Democrats in Wisconsin: poll MORE said on Friday that he shares a lot of the same beliefs as the individuals protesting the high-dollar fundraisers for his presidential campaign. “It is a little strange because I think I share the same values and goals of a lot of these people," the Democratic candidate told journalist Robert Costa at a Washington Post Live event.Buttigieg added that he found it difficult to have a conversation with the protesters. ADVERTISEMENTThe mayor's campaign has come under scrutiny for holding high-dollar fundraisers and announced on Monday that the events would be open to reporters and the names of campaign bundlers would be disclosed amid growing pressure from progressives over … [Read more...] about Buttigieg: I share a lot of the same values as people protesting my fundraisers

McCarthy finally wins the top House GOP position, though it came without the Speaker’s gavel. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP/REX/Shutterstock California Republicans, who had a really bad midterm election, did get one good piece of news today, as Kevin McCarthy was elected House Minority Leader in a surprisingly easy 159-43 victory over conservative leader Jim Jordan of Ohio, a founding member of the ever-fractious House Freedom Caucus. McCarthy, previously the second-ranking House Republican, will succeed retiring Speaker Paul Ryan as leader of a diminished GOP band in the lower chamber. The win gives McCarthy some measure of vindication — or maybe even revenge, as Politico notes: The victory seals McCarthy years-long drive to rise to the top of the House Republican Conference, an effort that had been derailed by Jordan and the House Freedom Caucus in 2015.At that point, McCarthy was running for speaker, but ran into opposition from the hard-line Freedom Caucus and withdrew his … [Read more...] about Kevin McCarthy Easily Wins Bid to Lead Diminished House Republicans