GOP Strategist Spots How Trump Could Have Hurt Republicans In Tennessee
HuffPost
Doug Heye said the president didn't do the one thing he loves to do ahead of the Tennessee special election.
A veteran GOP strategist on Tuesday questioned why President Donald Trump didn’t campaign on the ground for Matt Van Epps, the Republican nominee in Tennessee’s special election to fill a vacant U.S. House seat.
“Donald Trump used to love doing political rallies. I’m surprised he didn’t do it here. We saw him phone it in, but that’s exactly what he did. He phoned it in,” said Doug Heye in an appearance on CNN.
Roughly a month after GOP losses in several key races, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republican National Committee chair Joe Gruters attended a Van Epps rally on Monday. Trump, fresh off several days of little to no public events on his schedule, spoke to the crowd via phone. He later dropped into a tele-rally for the Republican.
Van Epps, who is running in a district that went to Trump in last year’s election, has received over $1 million from MAGA Inc., a Trump-backing super PAC. In an Emerson College poll conducted late last month, Van Epps held a narrow lead (48% to 46%) over Democratic nominee Aftyn Behn.
Heye, a former RNC communications director, said he feared Republicans — aside from Johnson and Congress’ GOP campaign arm — didn’t leave “everything on the field” in the race.
The painting that introduced the movie “Star Wars” to the world nearly 50 years ago sold at auction for $3.875 million on Wednesday.
Robert Kennedy Jr. has spearheaded efforts to ban junk food and soda from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Texas and Florida have launched the latest lawsuit seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
The president said during a rally Tuesday that Somalia-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. citizen since 2000, is in the country illegally and "should get the hell out."
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
A strong performance for Democrats in 2026 could give them more opportunities to draw congressional lines in their favor.
The "Daily Show" crowd erupted in laughter over a "completely real" error that aired on Fox News.
The president celebrated the shocking Christmas "miracle" with total disregard for life.
Letterman gave a shoutout to several late-night TV hosts for doing a masterful job of "defending democracy."
Charlamagne Tha God also accused left-wing leadership of “normalizing fascism” and making the term “mean absolutely nothing.”
Tucked into the over-3,000-page bill are several measures that push back against the Department of Defense, including a demand for more information on boat strikes in the Caribbean.
The 22-year-old acquitted shooter is now married to a woman named Bella.
Anti-vaxxers are using the conservative culture war playbook to make schools less safe for children across the country.