Rep.-elect Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel military college, still suffers lingering effects from a serious bout of coronavirus this summer and cautions others to take the disease seriously.
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Georgia Rep.-elect Carolyn Bourdeaux fell just 433 votes shy of becoming a congresswoman in 2018 in the tightest House race in the country. But two years later, the college professor and public policy expert mounted a comeback by beating GOP emergency room physician Rich McCormick by more than 10,000 votes and becoming the first woman to represent Georgia's 7th Congressional District.
Rep.-elect Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel military college, still suffers lingering effects from a serious bout of coronavirus this summer and cautions others to take the disease seriously.
Rep.-elect Yvette Herrell understands the joy of leading on election night and then the sinking feeling of having that advantage slowly erased as mail-in ballots are counted. The Republican attributes her tough loss two years ago in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District to voter fraud and now empathizes with President Trump's claims that he would have beat President-elect Joe Biden had it not been for widespread illegal votes.
Rep.-elect Scott Franklin, a former naval aviator, appreciates when others thank him for his military service because it's a sign that America has reached a point where veterans are respected. But the new incoming GOP Florida congressman thinks of himself as the lucky one.
Protests are raging on for another weekend in Olympia, Wash. Trump supporters and members of the Proud Boys gathered at Washington's state Capitol, along with leftist counterprotesters.There was at least one street brawl between the groups.
Rep.-elect Burgess Owens, a former Super Bowl champ who went broke after the NFL, comes to Congress with a nine-word message to inspire others: "If I can do it, you can do it." Owens, 69, flipped Utah's 4th Congressional District for Republicans in one of the most competitive 2020 House races. He's joining an incredibly diverse team of incoming freshmen that he compared to Super Bowl all-stars.
The Supreme Court has denied a Texas effort Friday that would have essentially nullified the presidential elections in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin. “The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution,” the Supreme Court’s order reads.
Texas GOP Rep.-elect Beth Van Duyne, who got started in local politics because of her daughter's preexisting health condition, said Americans should no longer be stuck with the Affordable Care Act. Van Duyne, who won one of the most competitive open congressional seats in the country, said she wants to work on providing a replacement for the act, known as ObamaCare, because the law's promise to make health care affordable has been broken.
President-elect Joe Biden's claim last month that he "seeks not to divide but unify" has been undercut by his nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as the next secretary of health and human services, Laura Ingraham argued Monday.
A Michigan man says he was possibly targeted due to his political beliefs after at least one explosive was thrown into his home on Saturday morning, according to reports. The St.
Washington state police responded to reported gunshots during opposing protests between pro-Trump, pro-police demonstrators and Black Lives Matter and Antifa counterprotesters in Olympia, according to reports. Video captured the moment when the groups clashed, with “Back the Blue” supporters using flagstaffs to beat on counterprotesters dressed entirely in black and wearing face coverings.
Rep.-elect Marie Newman, a progressive who counted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among her backers, rejected the GOP branding of her party as socialists and said Democrats are the party of "jobs, jobs, jobs." Republicans throughout the 2020 election drove home a message that electing Democrats would mean a vote for socialism based on influential leaders on the left like Ocasio-Cortez and Sen.
WASHINGTON – When Congressman-elect Barry Moore enters Congress early next year, he plans immediately to join the fight to keep President Trump in office, challenging Electoral College votes with Rep. Mo Brooks, a fellow Alabama Republican.
reports.Around 50 people attended the protest, which seemed to be directed at the economic impact of California’s attempts to curtail the coronavirus pandemic by imposing new restrictions.While at the rally, Bisignano, dressed in a “Trump 2020” t-shirt, was filmed calling a counterprotester a “faggot.” Bisignano also called the person filming her a “Nazi” and a “new world order Satanist.”“Say it again,” the person who captured the video said to Bisignano.
Republican Carlos Gimenez, who toppled a Democratic incumbent in November to win a South Florida congressional seat, brings to Washington nearly three decades of leadership in local governance, tackling budget cutbacks, public safety and most recently the coronavirus pandemic. Gimenez, who served as mayor of Miami-Dade County for much of the last decade, says he's proven he can cut taxes, make government run smoothly, spur economic development and even slash his own salary by 50%.
Thirteen congressional districts have flipped red during the 2020 election bringing more diverse representation to the GOP than ever before, including Utah Rep.-elect and former NFL player Burgess Owens. Owens joined “Fox & Friend Weekend” on Sunday representing the GOP’s new “freedom force,” opposing Democratic Rep.
Move over, Squad. Make way for the Freedom Force.
Incoming Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, an anti-big government Republican who previously defied local shutdown orders, said she's finding a creative way to bypass Colorado's Thanksgiving gathering restrictions by having a "funeral" for a dead turkey.
Tony Gonzales, the newly elected Republican congressman from Texas, brings to Washington a drive to tackle border security and immigration reform -- examples of thorny issues that the Navy veteran says politicians have avoided for too long. Gonzales, a Mexican-American first-time politician, will represent a majority Hispanic southern border district that Democrats unsuccessfully targeted to flip this November.
Rep.-elect Diana Harshbarger was the first person in her family to graduate high school and she went to become a pharmacist and business owner. When Harshbarger set her sights on Congress this year, the first-time candidate again defied the odds and became the first woman elected to a full term to represent Tennessee's 1st Congressional District.
Eric Trump‘s wife has some thoughts, er, feelings about how this past presidential election went down! But it doesn’t really matter, because facts don’t care about her feelings!