Weeding through conflicting statements, Brett Samuels reports that a narrative is starting to form around the 2016 payment to an adult film star who claims an affair with the president.
The possibility that a Democratic Congress would seek to impeach Trump has the White House scrambling to back GOP candidates in the midterms, report Alexander Bolton and Melanie Zanona.
With conservatives mounting an effort to impeach him, deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein has reacted with defiance, report Olivia Beavers and Morgan Chalfant.
Vice President Pence’s doctor resigned this week, reports Jordan Fabian, deepening the mystery surrounding allegations about workplace misconduct by White House physician Ronny Jackson.
The annual defense policy bill under debate in the House would authorize a military parade for Trump that could include any “operational military unit,” reports Rebecca Kheel.
Freshman lawmakers have revived the push for congressional term limits, hoping to spark action on a long-stalled idea on Capitol Hill.
A bipartisan group of young members, led by rising GOP star and freshman Rep. Mike Gallagher (Wis.), took the cause directly to the president during a White House meeting last week, where they received President Trump’s full-throated endorsement.
While the first-term lawmakers acknowledge that they may face fierce resistance from the old guard in Washington, they think the issue is something that will resonate with a younger generation of voters.
Potential Democratic presidential candidates are campaigning for the midterms in states that President Trump took from their party’s column in 2016, testing the waters for the next presidential election.
The so-called “invisible campaign” has begun with would-be candidates including Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) checking out the political landscape while campaigning for congressional candidates.
“It’s like pre-season football practice: you’re not playing in pads yet but you’re on the field, leading the playbook,” said David Wade, a Democratic strategist who served as a senior aide to John Kerry during his presidential bid in 2004, said of the presidential hopefuls. “It’s candidate training, with a net.”