Author: Washington Examiner
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Could the bombs that targeted Democrats win them the midterm elections?
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By W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner Democrats are gearing up to use the attempted bomb attacks on frequent objects of President Donald Trump’s criticism, including the Clintons and former President Barack Obama, as part of their closing argument less than two weeks out from the midterm elections. Although Trump denounced these “despicable acts,” Senate…
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Republicans learn to love wind and solar jobs after once mocking them
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By Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner Republicans used to deride so-called “green jobs” when former President Barack Obama promised to create millions of them with subsidies and loan guarantees. Mitt Romney, the GOP nominee for president in 2012, attacked Obama’s “unhealthy obsession with green jobs.” During a campaign stop in Colorado, he famously asked mockingly, “Have…
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Wave goodbye to the blue wave? GOP starting to think they could hold the U.S. House
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By Al Weaver, The Washington Examiner They’re whispering it, but House Republicans are beginning to think they just might have a chance. After believing for months that a Democratic landslide was on the way, many Republicans are now daring to hope that they’ll either keep the House majority or lose it by the slimmest of…
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National poll: Democrats hold 9-point edge in midterm elections for Congress
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By Sean Higgins, Washington Examiner Democrats hold a 9-percentage-point lead over Republicans among likely voters in the latest congressional-preference polling for the 2018 midterm elections, with voting already underway and Election Day approaching fast. A NBC-Wall Street Journal poll‘s generic ballot gives Democrats a 50-41 percent edge over the GOP on the question of who…
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YIMBY? Ben Carson, Trump’s housing secretary, pitches affordable-housing strategy
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By Joseph Lawler, Washington Examiner Ben Carson is aiming to become the nation’s highest-ranking YIMBY. That is, he’s aiming to encourage people to say “Yes in My Back Yard,” instead of “Not in My Back Yard,” or NIMBYism, as its known. In recent weeks, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development has embraced YIMBYism and…
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Kavanaugh complaints sent to Colo.-based court are unlikely to succeed, say scholars
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More than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints have been filed against Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearings, but they will probably fail on the grounds that the law doesn’t cover Supreme Court judges, legal scholars say. They deal with his behavior not as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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Cory Gardner pushes back on Dems, calls for civility
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By Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, and Colorado Politics U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, a Republican senator whose wife received a video of a beheading during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation process, is calling for civility following top Democrats’ advocacy of a more aggressive approach to defeating their opponents. In a series of…
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Top Republican funders split on Coffman support, saving GOP House majority
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By David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner Sharp differences over spending and strategy are cleaving U.S. House of Representatives Republicans as the two main groups charged with saving the party’s embattled majority in the midterm elections go separate ways in key suburban battlegrounds. The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with senior GOP leaders, canceled…
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Colorado, New Mexico officials praise Trump administration on election security
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By Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner Wayne Williams, Colorado’s secretary of state, and his counterpart from New Mexico on Thursday praised the Trump administration for helping to secure their election infrastructure ahead of the midterm elections next month. “2016, the difference between then and now is the difference between night and day. We have an incredibly…
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Interview: Trump says ‘easier path’ would have been to dump Kavanaugh
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By Salena Zito, Washington Examiner President Donald Trump has said that while any other Republican president would have “abandoned” Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court nominee, he was so incensed by treatment of the judge during Senate confirmation hearings that he “didn’t even think about going the other way.” Trump, at the start of a…
