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Jones won a special election on December 12, 2017, the first Democrat to win a US Senate seat in Alabama for years. His win means that the Republican Party’s Senate majority is…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB227887
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Johnson is one of five Republican senators openly opposing the Senate version of legislation aimed at replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ‘Obamacare’), with more signalling…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB221764
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Biden will request USD2bn in additional military aid to Israel following the Hamas attacks, and is expected to tie this to a broader emergency assistance package that would unlock…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB282706
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Three states will elect governors this November and eleven more will do so a year later.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB280282
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Republican incumbents Senator Marco Rubio and Governor Ron DeSantis look certain to shrug off Democratic challengers on November 8, and the party will increase its representation…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB273792
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The latest Republican effort to retrench Obamacare federal outlays and protections, the Graham-Cassidy bill, stalled in the Senate due to insufficient signs of support, with the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB224752
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Both groups are backed financially by the Koch brothers, who are leading conservative political donors and have sought to shape the Republican Party in favour of strictly limiting…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB219809
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The Republicans lost control of the US House of Representatives to the Democrats for 2019-21 in the midterms, while Democrats also made gains at state-level. Yet there is…
US presidents lead their political party. Trump has remade the Republican Party in his image. The question now, therefore, is whether he will continue to lead the Republicans…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB257925
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McCarthy has a difficult role within a Republican Party that remains beholden to former President Donald Trump but has elements that wish to maintain a degree of autonomy from…