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Republican Steve Scalise is seen as a fighter, but becoming the House speaker might require a brawl
Read full article: Republican Steve Scalise is seen as a fighter, but becoming the House speaker might require a brawlRepublican colleagues call Steve Scalise a fighter, but the nominee for House speaker may be in for a brawl.
Kevin McCarthy was an early architect of the Republican majority that became his downfall
Read full article: Kevin McCarthy was an early architect of the Republican majority that became his downfallThe day before he was ousted, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was doing what he loved — stopping to greet tourists at the Capitol and gushing over its place in American democracy.
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Moving the flip zone: Democrats march deeper into suburbia
Read full article: Moving the flip zone: Democrats march deeper into suburbiaA purple ring — call it the flip zone — emerges through the suburbs. But the midterm elections of 2018 showed that flip zone has moved in the era of President Donald Trump, with dramatic consequences. To hold the White House and control of the Senate, he and his party must stop the flip zone from moving farther out again. In 2018 in Milwaukee, the flip zone moved out less than half a mile as Wisconsin elected a Democratic governor. — In Atlanta, the flip zone was nearly 24 miles out, at 434 households per square mile.