April 27 2021 6:06 PM EDT
A Republican politician challenging U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the 2022 election once endorsed conversion therapy, has denounced the
Twilight book and movie series, and has claimed the 2020 presidential election was marked by widespread fraud.
CNN’s KFile investigative project revealed these facts about Kelly Tshibaka, who who has hired many people with connections to Donald Trump for her campaign against Murkowski. Murkowski, a Republican, sometimes breaks with her party for instance, voting to uphold the Affordable Care Act in 2017 and against an anti-transgender amendment to this year’s COVID-19 relief bill. She also voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, an act for which she was censured by the Alaska Republican Party.
As GOP Fragments, Sen. Ben Sasse Slams Weird Worship of Trump
“Personality cults aren’t conservative,” says the senator from Nebraska, who’s under threat of censure for criticizing Donald Trump. February 05 2021 4:26 PM EST
The craziness coming out of the Republican Party is continuing to alienate even some of its most conservative members, as indicated by a new video from U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, saying the party shouldn’t be about “the weird worship of one dude,” meaning Donald Trump.
Sasse, who is a solid conservative and no LGBTQ+ ally he has a string of zeroes on the Human Rights Campaign’s Congressional Scorecard is nonetheless not in thrall to Trump, QAnon conspiracy theorists, or the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol January 6 to disrupt the certification of the electoral vote for Joe Biden.
Pete Buttigieg has been confirmed as secretary of transportation (Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty)
There were few surprises on the list of senators who voted against Pete Buttigieg’s cabinet position, as almost every single one has a history of opposing LGBT+ rights.
Pete Buttigieg – a.k.a. Mayor Pete – became America’s first openly LGBT+ cabinet member on Tuesday (2 February) when he was confirmed as secretary of transportation by a vote of 86-13.
All of the 13 lawmakers who sought to block Pete Buttigieg are Republicans, almost exclusively from the South – and almost all are overtly anti-gay.
The votes came from senators Richard Shelby and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama; Tom Cotton of Arkansas; Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida; Roger Marshall of Kansas; Bill Cassidy of Louisiana; Josh Hawley of Missouri; James Lankford of Oklahoma; Tim Scott of South Carolina; Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee.
Warnock, Ossoff Win; Dems Will Control U.S. Senate January 06 2021 1:57 AM EST
Updated January 06 2021 4:35 PM EST
With control of the U.S. Senate at stake, both races in Georgia have now been declared wins for the Democrats.
The Associated Press and other national media affirmed Wednesday afternoon that Jon Ossoff had defeated incumbent Republican David Perdue in one of the runoff races, after having declared early in the morning that the Rev. Raphael Warnock had beaten another Republican incumbent, Kelly Loeffler.
The victories by Warnock and Ossoff give the Senate will have a 50-50 split between Democrats and Republicans (the Democrats’ numbers include two independents who caucus with them), and Kamala Harris, as vice president, will have the tie-breaking vote. This bodes well for pro-LGBTQ+ legislation, which would likely be blocked if the Senate kept a Republican majority. Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives.