All eyes are on any GOP front-runners who might emerge in 2024 should the former president opt to not run for another term. DeSantis and Trump Jr. are among those who have been eyed as potential candidates. We found Mitch McConnell’s image has significantly improved since February, while Kevin McCarthy’s has remained consistent but positive, Tony Fabrizio said in a statement to Axios about the poll. Liz Cheney is incredibly unpopular, while Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene have positive images but are largely undefined and driven by the far right of the party. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, Jr. are well-known and very well-liked by most Republicans, doing best among President Trump’s biggest supporters, he added.
GOP sees debt ceiling as its leverage against Biden
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Wednesday’s mob attack endangered lawmakers, staff, members of the press and a beleaguered Capitol Police force that was badly outnumbered.
One police officer died after being hit with a fire extinguisher, and a woman who was part of the mob was shot and killed as she tried to reach the Speaker’s lobby just outside the House floor.
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Days after the ugly episode, it is becoming increasingly clear that it could have been even worse.
There have been reports of rioters searching for Speaker Nancy Pelosi
A photographer for Reuters, Jim Bourg, said he heard three older white men wearing red “MAGA” hats talking about finding Pence to hang him as a “traitor.”
Will Pence be able to escape the Trump stain? Bill Schneider, opinion contributor © Greg Nash Will Pence be able to escape the Trump stain?
Donald Trump s presidency will be remembered for one thing and one thing only: his incitement of mob rule two weeks before the end of his term. The storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 will be etched into the nation s historic memory as clearly as the Cuban missile crisis was under President John F. Kennedy and 9/11 under President George W. Bush. It was the greatest moment of peril for our constitutional order since the Civil War.
President Trump sees it differently. He continues to fantasize about his great electoral triumph, stolen from him by evil conspirators. These are the things that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long, he wrote in a subsequently deleted tweet. He added, in an appare