The victory by Thune, a well-regarded institutionalist, shows that while the Senate Republican Conference has grown more aligned with President-elect Donald Trump with each successive election, it ...

It comes after Republicans won Senate seats in Ohio, West Virginia, and Florida. Republican Sen. Deb Fischer also held off a stronger-than-expected challenge from independent candidate Dan Osborn ...

The three-way fight to replace outgoing Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, pits Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota against John Cornyn of Texas, a former McConnell deputy ...

The party has retained its narrow lower chamber majority after wins in Arizona and California gave Republicans the 218 victories needed to clinch its hold on the 435-member House. Current vote totals ...

President-elect Trump demanded Sunday that the next Senate GOP leader allow him to make recess appointments, which would effectively let him fast-track his nominees and appointments without ...

Newly elected GOP congressman-elect Abe Hamadeh revealed what went right for Republicans and what went wrong for Democrats in Tuesday's election during a post-election victory interview with Fox ...

Republicans began scrambling to replace Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) as House GOP conference chair almost immediately after news broke that President-elect Trump had picked her to serve at the ...

Rachel Maddow points out that Donald Trump's demand that new Republican-led Senate take a recess so he can make appointments unencumbered by confirmations is largely unnecessary because there are ...

US stocks slipped on Thursday as the post-election rally paused. Investors assessed the impact of a Republican sweep of political power and awaited a Jerome Powell speech to set the tone on interest ...

Moderate Republican Rep. Don Bacon is projected to survive a close re-election race in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District. The Associated Press projected on Friday that Bacon, a retired ...

On Friday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY Congress & Campaigns Reporter Riley Beggin discusses what a GOP trifecta in Washington would look like. President-elect Donald Trump ...

Mark Paoletta is probably not widely known to most Americans, but in the nation’s capital, especially in Republican legal circles, he’s a well-known figure. In fact, over the last decade or so ...