Rick Scott, R-Fla., seeing him as the most loyal among their options. Not only did the effort fail, but some GOP aides told NBC News it also backfired and sparked a negative reaction among senators.

Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters WASHINGTON—Republican senators chose John Thune of South Dakota as their first new leader in nearly two decades ... Thune will need to hold together the dueling wings of the ...

Republicans have secured their monopoly on power in Donald Trump’s new Washington, retaining their majority in the House of ...

Emma Green on the new pro-life playbook. Plus: why Democrats whiffed on the minimum wage; images of small-town Ohio; and is ...

This election marked, among other things, the birth of a new Republican-led multiracial working-class coalition and the ...

In light of big conservative wins across the country in the election this week, students and faculty reassess how much the Republican Party has shifted from the Reagan-era conservative movement to ...

Both Trump’s and Harris’s campaigns framed the Presidential election as a contest between men and women. Did the results ...

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

Not only by returning to the White House four years after his expulsion from it, but also by founding a new American ...

The majority in the chamber is expected to be slim no matter who wins, meaning a call on House control could take days or ...

In a political cartoon from 1874 called 'Third Term Panic', Nast is credited with portraying the elephant as a symbol of the ...

If former President Donald Trump wins, the Democrats feel it will be a disaster, and it will be the Republicans’ fault because they pushed the right buttons to win. If Vice President Kamala Harris ...