Pence says Trump should apologize; 'wrong' to give anti-Semite 'a seat at the table'

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday said former President Trump was “wrong” to have dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes last week, but said he does not believe Trump is an anti-Semite or racist. “President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier a seat at the table, and I think he should apologize,” Pence told NewsNation in an interview. “With that being said, as I po

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Arizona's Maricopa County votes to certify 2022 election over GOP objections

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Kellyanne Conway meets with Jan. 6 panel: reports

Former Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway met Monday with investigators from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, according to multiple reports.  Conway was seen entering the O'Neill House Office Building where the panel conducts its depositions and interviews. Conway was not publicly subpoenaed by the committee, and according to NBC News told reporters “I’m here volun

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Susan Collins: Trump should have never met with Fuentes 

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), a prominent Senate centrist Republican, said Monday that former President Trump should never had a meal or a meeting with Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist organizer and podcaster.   “I condemn white supremacy and anti-Semitism. The president should never have had a meal or even a meeting with Nick Fuentes,” Collins told reporters when asked about a dinner he had with Fuentes and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, at Mar-a-Lago before Thanksgiving.   The Anti-Defamation League reports that Fuentes and his followers support closing U.

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Five things to watch as voting begins in Georgia Senate runoff

Early voting in Georgia’s runoff election between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and GOP hopeful Herschel Walker kicked off over the weekend, marking the final stretch in a race that will determine whether Democrats expand their majority in the upper chamber or Republicans maintain a 50-50 split.  The runoff, which started bitter and has grown only more contentious, has the two candidates within a close margin. Warnock led Walker by only 37,000 votes on election night.  Now, as all eyes once again turn to Georgia, both candidates have ramped up advertisements and their fu

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