September is Newt's preferred timeline for a big re-election rollout but he said discussions should happen now. "It's good to have an idea-oriented party — particularly if your ideas are a lot more popular than the other guy," he said.
Gingrich says he embraces every opportunity to get his messages out.
"Nothing I do is secret. ... Ninety-eight percent of my help is stuff you can pick up if you look at the podcast. And the newsletters. And I tweet."
Florida Rep. Carlos Gimenez is on one of the task forces set up by McCarthy to ID priorities for the '22 midterm campaign. He likened the work to drafting a new "10 commandments," adding in an interview: "It sounds very similar to the Contract with America, right?"
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A year ago Thursday, Donald Trump boarded Air Force One for the final time in his presidency and retreated to Mar-a-Lago, refusing to stand witness for the swearing-in of Joe Biden.
It was a momentous day marking the culmination of an electoral defeat Trump had pushed desperately to overturn. Now a full year out of office — and 5 years removed from his own swearing-in — Trump is closing in on anniversaries that carry more legal than political significance.
NEW: Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm violated a federal conflicts-of-interest and transparency law by improperly reporting up to a quarter-million dollars in stock sales, per a @thisisinsider analysis of financial disclosure documents. by @WARojasbusinessinsider.com/biden-administ…
Granholm — one of the Biden administration's highest-ranking officials whose personal finances have come under previous scrutiny — reported making nine stock trades between April 30, 2021, and October 26, 2021.
But she disclosed these trades to the Office of Government Ethics on December 15, 2021, and December 16, 2021 — either weeks or months past a 30-day disclosure deadline prescribed by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012.
A @thisisinsider analysis of incoming Gov. Glenn Youngkin's recently-announced appointments shows that one-third of his new hires worked for the Trump presidential administration in some capacity.
The list includes his CoS, Jeff Goettman, worked in the Treasury Department during the Trump administration before becoming chief operating officer of Youngkin's gubernatorial bid.
NEW: Rs are giddy about the DNC unionization. "This is the greatest act of unilateral disarmament since Carthage submitted to Rome," Ron Nehring, the ex-Calif GOP Party chair, told @thisisinsider. "Which of those two cities is still on the map today?" businessinsider.com/dnc-unionizes-…
Others are weighing in too. On Tuesday shortly after news broke of the DNCs choice to unionize, Republican National Committee chief of staff Richard Walters said, "We applaud the DNC for rendering themselves even more useless. Perhaps they'll offer tenure next."
At the DNC, union spokesperson Lucas Acosta told Insider the union hoped to enshrine equal pay and flexible working conditions in their ultimate contract, @KaylaEpstein reports.
NEW: Trump has spent his post-presidency embroiled in lawsuits & investigations, a swirl of legal scrutiny that would keep a more careful person quiet. His initial plan to hold a 1/6 presser was “boneheaded” an ex-US prosecutor told @thisisinsider businessinsider.com/donald-trump-c…
The cancellation of the January 6 press conference means that Trump will not deliver public remarks just days before a crucial court hearing in cases alleging that he encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol.
Any remarks at the press conference would almost surely have complicated the hearing, scheduled for January 10 in Washington, DC, federal court, where a judge is set to hear Trump's arguments for dismissing lawsuits filed by Democratic lawmakers and Capitol police.
As the pandemic has prompted a major push from workers against long shifts, low pay, & poor work-life balance, the politico army that greases the wheels of Democratic politics is seizing on a unique moment to publicly demand workplace protections ahead of a busy election year.
The accelerating unionization efforts taking place within the Democratic world may shift the dynamics at private political firms and campaigns if enough staffers feel empowered to fight for better benefits, more diversity, and higher pay than the industry typically features.