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“Donald Trump’s most vocal supporter in decidedly anti-Trump New Jersey.” “Ultra-conservative Republican.” “The first politician in New Jersey to endorse Trump for president.” Those are just some of the phrases The Record columnist Mike Kelly used to describe Representative Leonard Lance’s State of the Union guest, New Jersey state Senator Mike Doherty, whose calling card […]

Recent polling shows voters want to hear a plan to reduce healthcare costs more than any other issue According to extensive excerpts of President Trump’s prepared remarks, he will completely ignore the issue of healthcare and its rising costs under this Republican Congress and White House. A recent Politico poll found that 59% of voters […]

Displaying the spinelessness he’s known for, vulnerable Republican Congressman John Faso is staying mum on whether he’ll campaign with President Trump in this year’s mid-term election. In a deep dive into Republican squeamishness with Trump, Politico Magazine reported that Faso “punted questions [on whether he’d campaign with Trump] to an aide who said he was […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT In case you missed it, NRCC Chairman Rep. Stivers could not name a single battleground district that he’d want President Trump to campaign in. “Rep. Stivers’ inability to name a swing district that he’d want the Republican President to campaign in points to President Trump’s toxicity across the entire battlefield, […]

IRVINE – Congressman Darrell Issa may be running away from a sure loss this fall in California’s 49th Congressional District, but that hasn’t stopped him from backing up President Trump’s attempts to terminate the Mueller investigation because it is ‘distracting’ the President. Kevin McCarthy doubled down this weekend, saying that there is ‘no need’ for […]

Koch Brothers plan to spend unprecedented amounts of money to defend imperiled Republican majority In case you missed it, the Koch brothers’ biggest fan Speaker Paul Ryan was jumping for joy this weekend at the opportunity to thank the billionaires for bankrolling his agenda. Specifically, he praised them for pushing an agenda that has proven […]

For the second time in nine months, the ACLU has warned Representative Ryan Costello that he may be violating his constituents’ constitutional rights. The warning relates to a bizarre incident earlier in the month, when Costello wrote a Facebook post accusing his opponent, Chrissy Houlahan, of sending her “associates” to photograph Costello and his family. […]

Upon the news that vulnerable Representative Frelinghuysen (NJ-11) – who has been on the DCCC retirement watch list since May 2017 – will not seek re-election, DCCC spokesperson Evan Lukaske released the following statement: “After ducking his constituents for months, Representative Frelinghuysen has now denied them the chance to throw him out. His retirement comes […]

In case you missed it, sixty-two year old Rep. Pat Meehan is in the midst of a meltdown after a New York Times story revealed he paid thousands in taxpayer dollars to settle with a decades-younger employee for “making unwanted romantic overtures.” After initially denying the reports, Rep. Meehan personally admitted today that he told […]

Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Representative Pat Meehan—a member of the Ethics Committee who was an original-co-sponsor of Rep. Barbara Comstock’s sexual harassment training legislation—had himself used thousands of tax dollars to secretly settle a sexual harassment lawsuit from a former staffer. But the scandal didn’t end there. Yesterday, Meehan confirmed […]