The Nevada Senate race pitting incumbent Republican Dean Heller against Democratic challenger Jacky Rosen, a first-term congresswoman, is so tight that two major political handicappers have called it a tossup.
Debra J. Saunders
Review-Journal White House correspondent
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Debra J. Saunders joined the Review Journal as White House correspondent in December 2016, after 24 years writing a usually conservative opinion-page column for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, which may or may not prepare her for covering the Trump White House. She is syndicated with Creators Syndicate.
President Donald Trump’s apparent struggle over how to react publicly to the death of Sen. John McCain – a fierce critic who let it be known he did not want Trump at his funeral – played out on the very roof of the White House Monday.
Lanny Davis became a TV news staple during President Bill Clinton’s second term as the White House lawyer who battled a Senate investigation into Clinton fund-raising practices – with a focus on suspected Chinese attempts to influence the 1996 election.
“Double standard?” President Donald Trump guffawed after Fox News anchor Ainsley Earhardt asked if federal law enforcement has a double standard for how it handles allegations of wrongdoing by Republicans and Democrats.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter Wednesday to strike back at his former private lawyer and offer praise for a former campaign chairman as the White House grappled with the fallout from two legal cases.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty Tuesday of eight counts of tax fraud, bank fraud and failure to disclose foreign bank accounts; a mistrial was declared on 10 other charges.
President Donald Trump will be returning to Nevada within weeks to campaign in advance of the midterm elections, according to White House officials who spoke to reporters Tuesday afternoon.
With an eye toward the midterm elections, President Donald Trump saluted federal immigration enforcement officials Monday, recognizing “heroes” who saved lives, made their communities safer and, in the case of four Border Patrol agents, fell in the line of duty.
After President Donald Trump yanked the security clearance of former CIA chief John Brennan, the retired admiral who oversaw the mission that led to the death of Osama bin Laden asked to have his clearance revoked as well.
Rick Gates is to political consultant Paul Manafort what Omarosa Manigault Newman is to President Donald Trump.
Jurors will begin deliberating the fate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Thursday after the prosecution and defense delivered their closing arguments Wednesday in the first case brought to trial by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
President Donald Trump continued to feud Tuesday with former staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman – on Twitter for him, cable news for her – as questions arose about White House personnel practices.
President Donald Trump and former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman engaged in mudslinging Monday over allegations contained in her upcoming book and tapes of secretly recorded conversations.
In June, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis slammed the position of special counsel as a post too easily “wielded as a political weapon” to troll for dirt on targeted adversaries. At the same time, he ruled that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecution of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was legitimate and should continue.
A new paper by the bipartisan Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, however, suggests that playing to the party base may be the wrong strategy for the 2018 midterm elections for both parties, but especially for the GOP, and particularly in Nevada.
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