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President Donald Trump brings Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on stage during a campaign rally in Lexington, Ky., Nov. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Who will replace Mitch McConnell as Senate GOP leader? It remains deeply uncertain
By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press
Sun,11/03/24-6:50AM , 128 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans vying to replace longtime leader Mitch McConnell have been crossing the country to campaign and fundraise for colleagues, making their final arguments before a consequential ballot the week after the presidential election.
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President Donald Trump brings Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on stage during a campaign rally in Lexington, Ky., Nov. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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McConnell called Trump 'stupid' and 'despicable' in private after the 2020 election, a new book says
By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press
Thu,10/17/24-4:00AM , 138 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered," a “despicable human being" and a “narcissist,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this month
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Mia Lemon, 13, an eighth grader at Skyline Middle School, marks Nevada as a blue state as she counts ballots cast by her fellow students during the school's mock presidential election Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Harrisonburg, Va. (Nikki Fox/Daily News-Record via AP, File)

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What is the Electoral College and how does the US use it to elect presidents?
By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press
Tue,10/08/24-2:08PM , 34 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 because of the Electoral College. So did George W. Bush in 2000. Even when neither captured the popular vote.
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Senate Republicans again block legislation to guarantee women's rights to IVF
By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press
Mon,09/16/24-11:07PM , 139 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have blocked for a second time this year legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization, arguing that the vote is an election-year stunt after Democrats forced a vote on the issue.
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