Topic: GOP Senate

Pete Hegseth and Matt Gaetz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump prefers nominees with shady pasts

Amanda Marcotte
Candidate for US Senate Herschel Walker (R-GA) speaks to supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Herschel Walker lied about college

Kelly McClure
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why the GOP is scared of Trump's Big Lie

Heather Digby Parton
Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc )

GOP blocks witnesses, makes excuses

Sophia Tesfaye
U.S. Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters as he leaves the courthouse after a pretrial hearing in his insider trading case, in New York. Lawyers for the ex-U.S. congressman say he is humbled and remorseful after pleading guilty to conspiracy in an insider trading scheme and should face no time behind bars. Sentencing is set for Jan. 17. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

How Trump bought off impeachment jury

Sophia Tesfaye
Donald Trump; Mitch McConnell (AP/Salon)

McConnell's true legacy: Those judges

Sophia Tesfaye
Beto O'Rourke; Will Hurd (AP/Getty/Salon)

Gun laws in play as Texas turns purple?

Sophia Tesfaye
Cindy Hyde-Smith; Mitch McConnell; Robert Mueller (Getty/AP/Salon)

Mueller: GOP is a security risk

Sophia Tesfaye
Mitch McConnell; Donald Trump; Lindsey Graham (AP/Getty/Salon)

GOP joins Trump's war on Puerto Rico

Sophia Tesfaye
Tim Scott talks about his plan to meet with Donald Trump to discuss race. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP Sen. Tim Scott nixes Farr nomination

Nicole Karlis
John McCain (Getty/AP/Salon)

Republicans to betray Dreamers?

Sophia Tesfaye
Roy Moore (Getty/Scott Olson)

Republicans start to embrace Roy Moore

Sophia Tesfaye
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore speaks to the media during a news conference in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. He is accused of breaking judicial ethics during the fight over same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) (AP)

Moore accusers

Charlie May
Roy Moore (AP/Brynn Anderson)

Yes, people are defending Roy Moore

Charlie May
Roy Moore (Getty/Scott Olson)

GOP 2018: Jeff Flake out, Roy Moore in

Sophia Tesfaye