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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was reelected Tuesday as the top House Republican for the 117th Congress.

Republicans held votes for leadership positions Tuesday to which McCarthy was reelected as the Republican leader of the next Congress and faced no opposition. McCarthy said he thinks the party is stronger than ever and that the future is bright for House Republicans during an

No one likes to hear “I told you so,” certainly not an incumbent president weeks before Election Day -- and most especially not from the rival nominee. For now, there is only an implied rebuke that President Trump took a much more cavalier attitude than Joe Biden toward basic health precautions during the coronavirus pandemic. But how much longer can it go unsaid?

Joe Biden is filling his White House with longtime aides who served in key roles in his campaign and, in some cases, worked alongside the president-elect during the Obama administration.

The Biden transition team announced a series of staff moves Tuesday, including that adviser and confidant Mike Donilon will move to the White House as senior adviser to the president. Donilon drove much

Democrats by 2004 had become obsessed with defeating incumbent President George W. Bush.

Four years earlier, in the 2000 election, Bush had won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote. Democrats were still furious that Bush supposedly had been “selected” by the Supreme Court over the contested vote tally in Florida rather than “elected” by the majority of voters.