Questions tagged [republican-party]
The Republican Party (sometimes called Grand Old Party, or GOP) is a major political party of the United States. Use with the [united-states] tag.
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Has any Republican chapter denounced the Colorado GOP for its anti-pride flag tweet?
Has the national Party or any state chapter of the Republican Party denounced the Colorado GOP's tweet urging people to "burn all #pride flags"?
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What is Project 2025 and is it really a threat to U.S. democracy if Trump is elected? [closed]
Project 2025 is, as Wikipedia describes it,
a collection of conservative policy proposals from The Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government in the event of a Republican ...
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Republican and Social Conservative Manifesto
Is there any Manifesto outlining basic GOP and Social Conservative values? Regarding the latter, I want a nonchristian and if possible a neutral version for the USA.
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Have politicians led recall campaigns?
Why have U.S. politicians (mostly Republican, it seems) fought election fraud in the courts instead of using their following of voters to sign a recall petition against the candidates they thought ...
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Is there any other Republican who is against a TikTok ban?
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that the proposed TikTok ban
“makes no sense,” ahead of an expected vote on the House floor on
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In an interview with NewsNation’s Leland Vitter on “On ...
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What explains the sharp partisan divide between SE KY and S WV?
Southeast Kentucky (the portion of the U.S. state) is always deep Republican and Southern West Virginia (the adjacent portion of a different U.S. state) is deep Democratic (at least until recently) ...
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Why are a majority of Vietnamese Republican, as opposed to other Asian-American groups in the United States?
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/25/asian-voters-in-the-u-s-tend-to-be-democratic-but-vietnamese-american-voters-are-an-exception/
About half of Vietnamese American registered voters ...
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Why did Nikki Haley continue in the race for Republican nomination for so long?
In the ongoing race to select the Republican Party nominee, Nikki Haley has lost every primary and caucus but one. That was the District of Columbia Republican primary, which she won with 62% of the ...
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How come Republicans are more likely to support state-led solutions rather than national-led solutions?
The federal nature of the US political system can also explain, in
part, why President Trump did not adopt strong mitigation measures. In
a federal system, in the face of a complex policy problem with ...
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Why are Republicans more likely to support keeping the filibuster than Democrats in the U.S.?
Most Democrats say they'd end it, as a general matter, according to a
CBS News poll from Jan. 2022. Two-thirds of Republicans say they'd
keep it.
But the partisan split appears strongly connected to ...
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Does Republican Nikki Haley speak any Indian languages?
According to Wikipedia,
Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa at Bamberg County Hospital in Bamberg, South Carolina,[1][2][10] to immigrant Sikh parents from Amritsar, Punjab, India.[11][12] Her ...
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Who were the Republicans who signed off on the Santos report? Are any of them part of the Freedom Caucus?
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A statement from the committee accompanying the report said the panel unanimously voted to adopt the report. The committee said it uncovered additional “uncharged and unlawful conduct” by Santos ...
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How is this continuing resolution different from what got McCarthy vacated?
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House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the measure less than a week before funding from a short-term bill passed in September was set to expire.
But dissent from within his own party over its lack ...
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Who coined the term "the Lululemon Belt"?
An article at Politico by Jonathan Martin refers to constituency or faction (apparently) made up of white female moderate suburban Republicans in "the Lululemon belt — from Buckhead to Bala ...
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Has Jim Jordan said what he intends to do to pass the Republican objectives into law?
Jim Jordan, one of the founders of the Freedom Caucus, often described as the "hard right" in some of the press, is the Republican speaker-nominee (was thus elected by secret ballot of the ...