Some GOP lawmakers cultivate gruff, gun-toting, frontiersman brands. But no one is immune to loving puppies.
Riley Rogerson is a politics reporter covering Congress at the Daily Beast. Prior to joining the Beast, Riley was the Washington correspondent for the Anchorage Daily News and a Report for America Corps member. She is a graduate of Georgetown University.
Tim Sheehy, GOP candidate for Senate in Montana, hired a campaign staffer with social media accounts and public statements emblematic of the fringe far right.
In his first campaign video, Jeff Gunter was decked out in western gear head to toe. Records show he'd just purchased them at a chain retailer.
In an increasingly rare show of compromise in Congress, everyone is giving up something to get something—except for a peeved crew of MAGA members.
We asked Republican lawmakers about Plan-B and the so-called “abortion pill,” Mifepristone. They didn’t seem to know what they were talking about.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) finally gave Ukraine aid a vote on the House floor, passing the legislation overwhelmingly. Now he's looking at a potential GOP mutiny.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is using some complex congressional procedure to force the Senate to vote on a bill that would force the sale of TikTok within a year.
The House speaker is betting he can get Ukraine aid over the finish line this week—and that it won’t cost him his speakership.
We asked more than 20 Republicans in Congress whether they were comfortable with the GOP nominee potentially being a convicted felon. Only one expressed any issue with it.
Montana Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy has claimed he grew up in “rural” Minnesota. His hometown is actually a quintessential slice of Twin Cities suburbia.