As it was becoming clear that Election Day 2025 was a very bad one for Donald Trump’s Republican Party, the president weighed in with his own electoral analysis. He posted a quote Tuesday night that he attributed to unspecified “pollsters” – apparently ones he was watching on Fox News.

Paul Dame of St. George was reelected as party leader by just three votes over Sen. Russ Ingalls, R-Essex, at the state GOP’s biennial convention Saturday.

Only one Republican will remain on Charlotte City Council. That district, too, is in danger of flipping in the future.

Let’s be clear, in Virginia and New Jersey, the GOP would have had a much better chance of winning if the Hispanic vote would have stuck with the GOP," Salazar said in her widely viewed social media p

Republican finger-pointing has begun in the wake of Democrats’ stunning success in Tuesday night’s elections. President Trump was quick to distance himself from the results, blaming the shutdown

"We are the ones that have done a great job on affordability... but we just lost an election, they said, based on affordability," Trump said Nov. 6.

Also in today’s newsletter, how Supreme Court justices reacted to the administration’s use of emergency powers

As the government shutdown entered its 37th day, Trump called on Republican senators to abolish the Senate filibuster—a parliamentary procedure requiring a 60-vote