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The New York Times has called the Pennsylvania House special election in favor of candidate Conor Lamb, saying the Democrat's lead "appears insurmountable." Lamb had declared victory in the race to fill the seat in the Pennsylvania district early Wednesday morning, but most media outlets have yet to call the tight race. Sponsored The Hill 1625 K Str

House Republicans are fretting over the results of Pennsylvania’s special election, worried that the tight race in the heart of Trump country might be a harbinger of a Democratic wave in the midterm elections later this year. There’s a “50-50” chance that Democrats can flip the House, senior Rep. MORE (R-S.C.) called a blue wave this fall “certainly a possibility.” “It would be a seismic shift politically” if that happened, Sanford told The Hill.

The White House said Wednesday that Democrat Conor Lamb, who appears headed for an upset special election victory in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, won by embracing MORE’s policies. Trump campaigned for Republican Rick Saccone, who appears headed for a narrow loss in a district that Trump carried by 20 points. “The president’s engagement in the race turned what was a deficit for the Republican candidate to what is essentially a tie,” said White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah. “Also the Democrat in the race really embraced the president’s policies and his vision

The House passed a school safety bill on Wednesday that does not contain any new gun measures as thousands of students walked out of classrooms across the country to protest gun violence and demand tougher gun laws. The school safety legislation, which passed the House one month after the deadly mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., steers clear of the demands of gun control advocates. “Today, young people are taking a stand and calling on this Congress to do something about the scourge of gun violence. … This bill fails to do so,” said Rep.

CANONSBURG, Pa. — Democrat Conor Lamb looks likely to win Pennsylvania’s close special election, giving his party a significant morale boost heading into the battle for the House majority this fall. MORE won the district by nearly 20 points in 2016, but Lamb has reversed Democratic fortunes in the area.

Shortly after President Rex Tillerson. Trump wants to replace Tillerson with current CIA director Mike Pompeo, a fierce critic of the Defense Secretary James Mattis told Congress last October that it's in America's national security interest to keep the agreement. "If we can confirm that Iran is living by the agreement, if we can determine that this is in our best interest, then clearly, we should stay with it," Mattis said.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday vowed to continue their inquiry into allegations of links between the Trump campaign and Russia, despite Republicans’ announcement Monday that they had found no evidence of collusion in the probe. Blasting Republicans’ decision to “prematurely shut down” the committee’s investigation, Rep.

A pool reporter who was on the plane with Secretary of State Tillerson hours before he was fired says there is “open revolt” between Trump and the State Department. “The White House and the State Department are now in essentially open revolt over who exactly fired the Secretary of State when” Associated Press reporter Josh Lederman who covers Tillerson and was accompanying him on an official flight said everything seemed fine that morning told Powerhouse Politics podcast. “The fact

The TAKE with Rick Klein More than $10 million, a visit by President Donald Trump, the mobilization of the GOP army … all to buy a tie? It’s not just any tie. Republicans fought to almost (but not quite) even in a district Trump carried by nearly 20 points in 2016, and where Democrats had stopped bothering to even fi