Predicted historic Republican comeback fails to materialise in midterms

She shot to fame as John McCain’s folksy running mate in the 2008 US presidential election. Now Sarah Palin is ready for her close-up again – even if large swathes of her own party are left unmoved by the prospect of her return to the political fray

A fearless cultural warrior with a shaky relationship with the truth, Trump acolyte Madison Cawthorn may have finally embarrassed the party when he accused older colleagues in Washington of partaking in drugs and ‘sexual get-togethers’

The January 6 Select Committee will not even contemplate the role the voting system played in facilitating the Capitol Hill assault on democracy

Despite decisively losing to Joe Biden last November, the former president’s hold over his party appears stronger than ever before

Matt Gaetz, the Florida Congressman and a rising star in the Republican Party, is embroiled in a sex-trafficking scandal that threatens to consume his career

The US election last November delivered an electoral earthquake in Georgia whose white Republican senators were ousted in favour of two Democrats – a Jewish journalist and a black preacher. But Georgia also sent QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress, a woman who sees herself as Maga’s Joan of Arc

An avowed conspiracy theorist and white supremacist, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has emerged as the public face of the far-right QAnon movement as a schism develops within the Republican Party

Trump’s refusal to condemn the neo-Nazis among his supporters, his calls to ‘liberate’ states during lockdowns and his silence on a foiled plan to kidnap Wisconsin state governor Gretchen Whitmer and put her on trial for treason all led to the events in Washington last week

The Republican Party’s Faustian pact with Trump has left it morally and ideologically bankrupt