Rick Scott, R-Fla., seeing him as the most loyal among their options. Not only did the effort fail, but some GOP aides told NBC News it also backfired and sparked a negative reaction among senators.

This guest essay reflects the views of Ed Cox, chairman of the New York Republican State Committee. The results of this ...

Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters WASHINGTON—Republican senators chose John Thune of South Dakota as their first new leader in nearly two decades ... Thune will need to hold together the dueling wings of the ...

Republicans have secured their monopoly on power in Donald Trump’s new Washington, retaining their majority in the House of ...

Emma Green on the new pro-life playbook. Plus: why Democrats whiffed on the minimum wage; images of small-town Ohio; and is ...

This election marked, among other things, the birth of a new Republican-led multiracial working-class coalition and the ...

Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until ...

In light of big conservative wins across the country in the election this week, students and faculty reassess how much the Republican Party has shifted from the Reagan-era conservative movement to ...

Democrat Kamala Harris conceded the election but urged her supporters to keep fighting for America’s promise following her defeat to Republican Donald Trump ...

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

Not only by returning to the White House four years after his expulsion from it, but also by founding a new American ...

The majority in the chamber is expected to be slim no matter who wins, meaning a call on House control could take days or ...