Huckabee Sanders to deliver Republican response to Biden's State of the Union
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to deliver the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Thursday. McConnell and McCarthy in their statement lauded Sanders, who will give her remarks from Little Rock as the nation's youngest governor and a champion of conservative principles. “While President Biden keeps repeating old mistakes and failing Americans, a rising generation of Republican Governors are fighting for families, advanci
Read MoreScott: 'I don’t think it made any sense' for McConnell to boot me from Commerce
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who has challenged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) leadership and strategy on multiple fronts, told CNN in an interview that he doesn't think McConnell kicking him off the powerful Commerce Committee "made any sense." But Scott said he’s undeterred by the setback, which some Senate conservatives think is payback after the Florida senator challenged McConnell for the Senate Republican leader’s job in a bruising race last year. “I’m going to keep doing my job,” he told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “I put out a plan. He completely oppos
Read MoreTrump taunts Haley about past statements on challenging him
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Read MoreDeSantis's record on COVID-19: Here's what he said and did
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s record on the COVID-19 pandemic is in the spotlight as speculation builds that he will mount a White House campaign. If he enters the race, DeSantis will pose the most serious threat to former President Trump’s quest for the GOP nomination. Trump has reacted angrily to the speculation around DeSantis. The former president and his supporters believe the Florida governor has become a media favorite and has not faced sufficient scrutiny. Team Trump argues this is particularly true of COVID, where DeSantis portrays hims
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