Skip to main contentSkip to navigationSkip to navigationAnalysisBen JacobsAt Joni’s Roast and Ride, the nominee mixed with hog-riders and hog-eaters. In rare harmony, party bigwigs loved him just as much as grass-roots votersLast modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 14.07 ESTIn November 2015 Donald Trump proclaimed to a crowd of Iowans: “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” Two months later he lost the Iowa Republican caucus. Almost a year on he may win the Hawkeye State in the presidential election.Republicans have only won Iowa once since Ronald Reagan – in 2004, when George Bush eked out a win by...…Skip to main contentSkip to navigationSkip to navigationAnalysisBen JacobsAt Joni’s Roast and Ride, the nominee mixed with hog-riders and hog-eaters. In rare harmony, party bigwigs loved him just as much as grass-roots votersLast modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 14.07 ESTIn November 2015 Donald Trump proclaimed to a crowd of Iowans: “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” Two months later he lost the Iowa Republican caucus. Almost a year on he may win the Hawkeye State in the presidential election.Republicans have only won Iowa once since Ronald Reagan – in 2004, when George Bush eked out a win by...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission.Though it will decide who is second in line for the presidency, this week’s battle for the Speaker’s gavel among House Republicans won’t be like a normal election. There will be no exit polls or campaign ads. And the candidates won’t end up having a televised debate, after an initial proposal from Fox News to hold one tonight was rejected.Instead, the competition for support among the 224 members of the House Republican conference will play out more like a student-government election. While the final vote on the House floor...…Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission.Though it will decide who is second in line for the presidency, this week’s battle for the Speaker’s gavel among House Republicans won’t be like a normal election. There will be no exit polls or campaign ads. And the candidates won’t end up having a televised debate, after an initial proposal from Fox News to hold one tonight was rejected.Instead, the competition for support among the 224 members of the House Republican conference will play out more like a student-government election. While the final vote on the House floor...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.The presidency is the most powerful position in the country, but it could accidentally wind up with a new perk: the ability to cast electoral votes. That’s because, as a result of a constitutional quirk, the current push for would leave a remnant federal district in which the White House might be the only permanent residence. It’s one of the more bizarre features of the long-running fight to grant congressional representation to the 700,000 taxpaying residents of the District of Columbia.On Thursday, Democrats in the House...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.The presidency is the most powerful position in the country, but it could accidentally wind up with a new perk: the ability to cast electoral votes. That’s because, as a result of a constitutional quirk, the current push for would leave a remnant federal district in which the White House might be the only permanent residence. It’s one of the more bizarre features of the long-running fight to grant congressional representation to the 700,000 taxpaying residents of the District of Columbia.On Thursday, Democrats in the House...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.For the past two months, Washington, D.C., has been part-fortress. Stepping out the grand marble entrance of Union Station, the typical vista of the U.S. Capitol remains marred by high fencing topped with razor wire, which stretches four miles around the Capitol, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, and various congressional office buildings. Behind the fence are armed National Guardsmen idly standing watch. Even during the Civil War, when the enemy was just across the Potomac and a military prison stood at the...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.For the past two months, Washington, D.C., has been part-fortress. Stepping out the grand marble entrance of Union Station, the typical vista of the U.S. Capitol remains marred by high fencing topped with razor wire, which stretches four miles around the Capitol, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, and various congressional office buildings. Behind the fence are armed National Guardsmen idly standing watch. Even during the Civil War, when the enemy was just across the Potomac and a military prison stood at the...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Everyone has had a co-worker who aggravates them, who posts on social media constantly and keeps on forcing awkward conversations about conspiracy theories. But what happens when your office is the House of Representatives? That’s the challenge for the 434 other members of Congress, who now have to spend the next two years working alongside Marjorie Taylor Greene.“Whenever I see her in the Capitol, she is trailed by staffers with cell-phone videos rolling as she spews her stream of consciousness for social media followers. It...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Everyone has had a co-worker who aggravates them, who posts on social media constantly and keeps on forcing awkward conversations about conspiracy theories. But what happens when your office is the House of Representatives? That’s the challenge for the 434 other members of Congress, who now have to spend the next two years working alongside Marjorie Taylor Greene.“Whenever I see her in the Capitol, she is trailed by staffers with cell-phone videos rolling as she spews her stream of consciousness for social media followers. It...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Adam Kinzinger was one of ten House Republicans to vote to impeach Donald Trump over his incitement of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and for that he was personally attacked by Trump, censured by Republican activists in his Illinois district, and even. Yet the six-term congressman and Air Force veteran isn’t bothered. He spoke to Intelligencer about why he launched a to defend Republicans such as himself and move his party back toward the mainstream, and he made a bold prediction: Trump will fade away.Since you’ve gotten...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Adam Kinzinger was one of ten House Republicans to vote to impeach Donald Trump over his incitement of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and for that he was personally attacked by Trump, censured by Republican activists in his Illinois district, and even. Yet the six-term congressman and Air Force veteran isn’t bothered. He spoke to Intelligencer about why he launched a to defend Republicans such as himself and move his party back toward the mainstream, and he made a bold prediction: Trump will fade away.Since you’ve gotten...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.The group that puts on the Conservative Political Action Conference is called the American Conservative Union, but the first two days of speeches at this year’s CPAC in Orlando suggest the right-wing activists who attend the annual conclave have embraced a foreign political ideology.It’s not that the event wasn’t patriotic. Each day began with the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem and countless speakers professed their love of country. Instead, it marked the further transition of the American right away from its...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.The group that puts on the Conservative Political Action Conference is called the American Conservative Union, but the first two days of speeches at this year’s CPAC in Orlando suggest the right-wing activists who attend the annual conclave have embraced a foreign political ideology.It’s not that the event wasn’t patriotic. Each day began with the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem and countless speakers professed their love of country. Instead, it marked the further transition of the American right away from its...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.National Republicans long saw Majorie Taylor Greene, a first-term member of Congress from northwest Georgia, as . Few probably thought it would get this bad. Ever since Greene — who has expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory — last August in Georgia’s deep-red 14th congressional district, she has become a perpetual headache for the GOP. She championed former president Donald Trump’s stolen-election claims, which may have deterred Georgia Republicans from voting in the critical Senate runoffs earlier this month,...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.National Republicans long saw Majorie Taylor Greene, a first-term member of Congress from northwest Georgia, as . Few probably thought it would get this bad. Ever since Greene — who has expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory — last August in Georgia’s deep-red 14th congressional district, she has become a perpetual headache for the GOP. She championed former president Donald Trump’s stolen-election claims, which may have deterred Georgia Republicans from voting in the critical Senate runoffs earlier this month,...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.My Pillow CEO entered the West Wing of the White House on Friday bearing what appeared to be plans for something resembling a ahead of his meeting with President Trump. An eagle-eyed Twitter user of a piece of paper in the right hand of the mustachioed mattress topper mogul that included phrases such as “insurrection act now as a result of the assault” — apparently last week’s . It also clearly shows Kash Patel, a hardcore Trump loyalist, “as acting CIA” and references Trump’s former lawyer and noted conspiracy theorist...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.My Pillow CEO entered the West Wing of the White House on Friday bearing what appeared to be plans for something resembling a ahead of his meeting with President Trump. An eagle-eyed Twitter user of a piece of paper in the right hand of the mustachioed mattress topper mogul that included phrases such as “insurrection act now as a result of the assault” — apparently last week’s . It also clearly shows Kash Patel, a hardcore Trump loyalist, “as acting CIA” and references Trump’s former lawyer and noted conspiracy theorist...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Ted Cruz h as an unctuous asshole. Even so, his staffers have tended to hold him in high regard as a kind and geeky man who treated his underlings well even while his fellow senators . Now, though, “most of Cruzworld is pretty disgusted” with the senator for choosing to back Donald Trump’s absurd claims of widespread election fraud, in the words of one former aide. As another former aide put it, “Everyone is upset with the direction things have gone, and the longer they’ve been with the senator, the more distaste they are...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Ted Cruz h as an unctuous asshole. Even so, his staffers have tended to hold him in high regard as a kind and geeky man who treated his underlings well even while his fellow senators . Now, though, “most of Cruzworld is pretty disgusted” with the senator for choosing to back Donald Trump’s absurd claims of widespread election fraud, in the words of one former aide. As another former aide put it, “Everyone is upset with the direction things have gone, and the longer they’ve been with the senator, the more distaste they are...WW…