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Jeff Flake
Bannon Backs Kelli Ward Over Jeff Flake in Arizona The Trumpist insurgency wants to replace one of the GOP’s most vulnerable senators with a candidate best known for holding a town hall on chemtrails.
By Eric Levitz
Steve Bannon’s Dubious Plan to Purge Senate Republicans It’s hard to tell whether it’s just talk or a real threat.
By Ed Kilgore
The Trump-McConnell Feud Becoming a ‘Cold War’ At the worst possible time, relations between the president and the leader of his party in the Senate have become frosty, distant, and even combative.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Could Bust Loose Again at Phoenix Rally It would be natural for the president to follow up on controlled remarks about Afghanistan with an uninhibited base-feeding frenzy the next night.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Cheers on Primary Challenge to Stalwart Supporter of His Agenda Trump’s endorsement of a primary challenge to Jeff Flake demonstrates, once again, that the mogul cares more about his ego than his agenda.
By Eric Levitz
Jeff Flake Draws Top-Tier Dem Challenger for 2018 The Trump critic may be in for a fight next year.
By Benjamin Hart
Top Trump Donor Wants to Take Out GOP’s Second-Most Vulnerable Senator Billionaire Robert Mercer has already ponied up $300,000 to evict Jeff Flake from the Senate for sullying Donald Trump’s good name.
By Eric Levitz
The Mess in Washington Could Soon Drive Republicans Into Rebellion Against Trump If the prospects of vulnerable 2018 GOP candidates get much worse, and the chaos in D.C. doesn’t improve, an anti-Trump rebellion is a possibility.
By Ed Kilgore
the national circus
Aug. 2, 2017
John Kelly Is Destined to Fail The retired general may have had early success in ousting Scaramucci and instilling some order. But this is Trump’s White House we’re talking about.
By Frank Rich
Heller’s Hamlet Act on Health Care Bombing Back Home For a long time Dean Heller looked likely to thwart his party’s drive for health-care legislation. Then he flipped back, but the GOP failed anyway.
By Ed Kilgore
Things Are Looking Up for Democratic Senators in Trump Country Six Senate Democrats running for reelection in states easily carried by Trump last year are benefitting from strong popularity and GOP fecklessness.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Senator Wants to Let Your ISP Sell Your Info to Advertisers Again Another consumer protection could quickly get rolled back under the new Washington regime.
By Brian Feldman
early and awful
June 12, 2013
By Dan Amira
early and awkward
Oct. 11, 2012
By Margaret Hartmann