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Senate Majority Leader MORE’s political dealings with foreign governments. McConnell made news in the first days of the two-week congressional recess, when he said he would have “no choice” but to move impeachment if the House sends over articles.  Since then, however, he’s largely gone quiet, turning his attention to issues like opioid funding, getting money for Fort Campbell and judicial nominations.  McConnell held an event last week in Kentucky with Defense Secretary MORE, a day after Trump publicly floated that China and Ukraine should i

The drip, drip of revelations from the House Democratic impeachment probe of MORE is continuing to create bad headlines for the White House, marring its efforts to push back on the issue. The latest negative news from the White House’s perspective came Friday, when the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine excoriated the administration in closed-door testimony on Capitol Hill.  According to reports, Marie Yovanovitch said she had been told that Trump had pressed for her ouster, despite officials at the State Department contending she had done nothing wrong.

Jim and John McLaughlin occupy a fraught space in Trump World as pollsters for a president who runs on gut instinct and disparages the polling industry that failed to forecast his shocking 2016 election victory. The McLaughlin brothers, both of whom are on the Trump campaign’s 2020 polling team led by Tony Fabrizio, have become trusted confidants for Trump, particularly on the hot-button cultural issues the president uses to highlight rifts between middle America and coastal “elites.” The pollsters have also become visible spokesmen for the campaign through appearances on Fox News, where they’

MORE this week showed no sign of backing down on his decision to withdraw U.S.

House Minority Leader McCarthy slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other Democrats that have distracted Congress from addressing “real” issues such as the opioid crisis.

“These wars, they never end,” Trump said.

“They’re coming after me because I’m fighting for you,” Trump said. The president spoke to religious conservatives at the Value Voters Summit in Washington, DC, hosted by the Family Research Council. He appeared shocked that Democrats began an impeachment inquiry over a simple phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky, when he said that the president himself said that he did not feel pressured by Trump. “The whistleblower said quid pro quo eight times,” Trump said. “It was a little off.

President Donald Trump campaigned for Republicans on Friday evening in Louisiana and told a raucous Lake Charles crowd that a Republican will unseat Edwards if the race goes to a runoff. Polls close at 9 PM ET, about 45 minutes after the monumental Florida-LSU showdown kicks off at Death Valley. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates of the primary results. — Election results will trickle in here (Secretary of State’s office) after polls close at 9 PM ET. — 11:25 PM: 11:16 PM: Trump: 11:15 PM: Abraham concedes and endorses Rispone:

President Trump’s rally Thursday night in Minneapolis was several things: very long, occasionally profane, and decidedly not “Minnesota nice.” Trump spoke for more than 90 minutes before a crowd of supporters inside the Target Center, railing against Democrats, the media, Somali refugees, and polls as protesters gathered outside.

WASHINGTON — The State Department’s request went in early March to Marie Yovanovitch, a longtime diplomat who had served six presidents: Would she extend her term as ambassador to Ukraine, scheduled to end in August, into 2020? Less than two months later came another departmental communiqué: Get “on the next plane” to Washington. Her ambassadorship was over. How and why Yovanovitch was removed from her job has emerged as a major focus of the impeachment inquiry being conducted by House Democrats.