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Wisconsin cannot count mail ballots that arrive well after the polls close, under an order issued Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court, a defeat for Democrats in a battleground state, NBC News reports.

Republicans have criticized a push by some on the left to expand the number of seats on the U.S. Supreme Court if Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins the presidency and Democrats win full control of Congress.

The Republican Party has cut into Democrats’ advantage in voter registration tallies across some critical presidential battleground states, a fact they point to as evidence of steady — and overlooked — enthusiasm for President Donald Trump and his party.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker wouldn’t say Wednesday who he’ll vote for in the presidential election, but he said who he won’t support: his party’s nominee. After avoiding the question at a news conference on Massachusetts’ budget, the Republican governor’s staff released a statement saying he “cannot support President Donald Trump for president.” The statement from communications director Lizzy Guyton...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spent a year prepping his Republican colleagues for this moment confirming a Supreme Court justice

Elliott Broidy, a prominent fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, was charged in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an investigation into efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests.

Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to put a hold on a court ruling in the battleground state that extends the deadline in November’s election to receive and count mailed-in ballots.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on Sunday became the second GOP senator to publicly oppose voting on a new Supreme Court nominee before the November election.

Sue O’Connell sat down with Amy Carnevale, a delegate from Massachusetts who is attending this year’s Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

President Donald Trump and his allies are hoping to use the Democratic National Convention to advance their months-long efforts to frame Joe Biden as a captive of the party’s far-left wing — a message that has so far this year failed to gain traction.

Amid a stalled fight in Congress over the future of a $1 trillion coronavirus aid package, a parallel battle has been coming into focus: a struggle for the future of the Republican Party, NBC News reports.

Hundreds of protests over Black injustice have cropped up in small cities in rural areas across the upper Midwest and Rust Belt, many with their own lingering current of white supremacy and racial unrest.

Jacksonville, Florida, has been picked to host the GOP celebration marking President Donald Trump’s acceptance of his party’s nomination to run for reelection, the Republican National Committee chairwoman said Thursday.

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, called former Defense Secretary James Mattis’ statement regarding President Donald Trump “stunning and powerful.”

Bay Area Republican leaders have confirmed that the party is suing California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s vote-by-mail order, claiming that the system opens itself up to inaccuracy and fraudulent voting.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld has announced he has suspended his Republican bid for the White House. “I am immensely grateful to all the patriotic women and men who have stood with me during the past eleven months in our effort to bring better government to Washington, D.C.,” Weld said in a statement. Weld made the announcement Wednesday afternoon...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, saying “this never happened.” Biden’s first public remarks on the allegation come at a critical moment for the presumptive Democratic nominee as he tries to relieve mounting pressure after weeks of leaving denials to his...

The Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump shifted the votes of some independent voters, but most Americans were driven even deeper into their political corners by the sessions, according to an LX and Morning Consult poll released Friday. The survey, conducted during the final 24 hours of the quickest impeachment trial in U.S. history that ended in a...

A House freshman from New Jersey who was planning to break with his party and vote against impeaching President Donald Trump will become a Republican, a GOP official said Saturday. Top House Republicans have been told of Rep. Jeff Van Drew’s decision, according to a GOP official familiar with the conversations. The lawmaker had discussed switching parties in a...

Republican George P. Bush, the only member of the Bush dynasty still in public office, condemned Thursday recurring episodes of what he described as racist or hateful rhetoric within the Texas GOP and ripped what he called false accusations fanned by his Hispanic heritage.