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Republican Party

US Politics

US shutdown would ‘make Republican hand weaker’ - McCarthy

US House Speaker says government shutdown would be self-defeating for GOP
  • Business Post
  • September 18, 2023
US Politics

Marion McKeone: Democrats race to reboot Harris to boost Biden’s chance of election success

With 77 per cent of Americans thinking the current President is too old for the job, they need to know that the vice president is up to par
  • Marion McKeone
  • September 10, 2023

Simply Better
Back to School

Delicious recipes by Neven Maguire

US Politics

Marion McKeone: Fractious succession wannabes confirm GOP as a party adrift and out of touch

Trumpless first Republican debate provided a spectacle of disunity in a party driven by angry populism over guiding principles
  • Marion McKeone
  • August 27, 2023
US

US Catch-up: Trump to dodge GOP debate - but will he show at Fulton County jail?

What you need to know for the week ahead in the US
  • Business Post
  • August 21, 2023
US Politics

Trump leads a crowded if underwhelming field as GOP primary wars kick off in earnest

Florida governor Ron DeSantis won some friends in crucial Iowa, but influential Republicans are hoping fresher faces like Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin and New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu enter the fray
  • Marion McKeone
  • June 4, 2023
US

Trump’s claims he could stop Ukraine war in ‘one day’, urges Republicans to allow debt default

Former president is the front runner for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, polls show
  • Sarah McGuinness
  • May 11, 2023
US

Republican congressman charged with fraud, money laundering

The charges follow a five-month investigation that began shortly after George Santos’s election in November
  • Bloomberg
  • May 10, 2023
US

Trump assumes candidate race is already won, sets Biden in his sights

While the former president prepares an attack campaign on Biden, strategists say it’s too soon to declare the nomination contest over
  • Bloomberg
  • May 4, 2023
Letter From America

Marion McKeone: Starting gun for Republican primary campaign distinctly lacking in calibre

Republican no-shows at this year’s CPAC gathering are feeding conjecture that the GOP is looking to weaken an association that has become an instrument for Donald Trump – whose victory in the 2024 primaries is by no means assured
  • Marion McKeone
  • March 11, 2023
US Politics

Marion McKeone: Maga brand fails to come up trumps for far-right kingmakers

Predicted historic Republican comeback fails to materialise in midterms
  • Marion McKeone
  • November 12, 2022

Marion McKeone: Palin plots an unlikely comeback after years in Alaskan wilderness

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
  • Marion McKeone
  • April 9, 2022

Marion McKeone: Claim of ‘cocaine and orgies’ on Capitol Hill is a line too far for GOP

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’
  • Marion McKeone
  • April 3, 2022

Marion McKeone: Electoral college system is outdated and undemocratic

The January 6 Select Committee will not even contemplate the role the voting system played in facilitating the Capitol Hill assault on democracy
  • Marion McKeone
  • December 20, 2021

Republicans still crying foul on election as Trump tightens his grip

Despite decisively losing to Joe Biden last November, the former president’s hold over his party appears stronger than ever before
  • Marion McKeone
  • May 16, 2021

Trump protégé fights for his political life amid sex and drugs controversy

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
  • Marion McKeone
  • April 4, 2021

The GOP goes from one extreme to another

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
  • Marion McKeone
  • March 14, 2021

Trump’s legacy lingers on as his protégé lunges for power

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
  • Marion McKeone
  • January 31, 2021

After four years, none of this should be a surprise

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
  • Marion McKeone
  • January 10, 2021

Reign of error: How Trump brought down the GOP

The Republican Party’s Faustian pact with Trump has left it morally and ideologically bankrupt
  • Marion McKeone
  • January 10, 2021

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