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Supporters of Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin cheer on their candidate during a rally in Chesterfield, Va., Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. Youngkin will face Democrat former Gov. Terry McAuliffe in the November election. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Democrats preparing to fight GOP to be ‘party of the parents’ in 2022 midterms

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Virginia's Lt. Governor-elect Winsome Sears, left, meets with Senate Clerk Susan Schaar at the Virginia Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Alexa Welch Edlund)/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

History-making Winsome Sears ready to work in Virginia

By Matthew Barakat - Associated Press

Republican conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Stefanik-led PAC boosts GOP women candidates to help flip control of Congress in 2022

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

FILE - Sen. Rodger Smitherman compares U.S. Representative district maps during the special session on redistricting at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 3, 2021. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File)

Gerrymandering surges as states redraw maps for House seats

By David A. Lieb and Nicholas Riccardi - Associated Press

In this image from House Television, the vote total of 228-206 is displayed late Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Washington, as the House approves a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates, notching a victory that President Joe Biden and his party had become increasingly anxious to claim. (House Television via AP)

13 moderate House Republicans save Biden’s infrastructure bill after far-left Democrats rebel

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin speaks at an election night party in Chantilly, Va., early Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, after he defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Youngkin’s win rewrites Trump campaign playbook for Republicans, Democrats

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy greets supporters at the end of an election night party in Asbury Park, N.J., early Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

N.J. Democrat Murphy confident of victory, but result up in the air

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy greets supporters at the end of an election night party in Asbury Park, N.J., early Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Phil Murphy edges out GOP challenger in nail-biter N.J. race

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

New Jersey GOP gubernatorial challenger Jack Ciattarelli votes early in Hillsborough on Oct. 29. He is trying to catch Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, on Election Day on Nov. 2. (Tom Howell Jr./The Washington Times)

GOP’s Ciattarelli votes early in N.J., sees opening as Washington Democrats scuffle

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Gov. Phil Murphy points to the crowd at an early vote rally at Weequahic Park, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

HHS: N.J. extends postpartum care to a full year

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 22, 2021, file photo, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Facing growing resistance to vaccinations, the governors of Arkansas and Ohio are among several governors asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to grant full approval to coronavirus vaccines in the hope that it will persuade more people to get the shot. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

‘Recipe for disaster’: Arkansas governor says Trump’s voter fraud allegations could hurt GOP in 2022

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 2, 2021, file photo, people participate in the Houston Women's March against Texas' abortion ban from Discovery Green to City Hall in Houston. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

DOJ will ask Supreme Court to halt Texas abortion law

By Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, during an event announcing that his administration is restoring protections for two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Could Biden have screwed more things up in just 10 months?

By Joseph Curl

In this file photo, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., listens during the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mrs. Cheney, who will face a Trump-endorsed primary challenger in the 2022 election, pulled in over $1.7 million over the last three months, reported the Casper [Wyo.] Star-Tribune. Her campaign also reportedly also has $3.7 million cash-on-hand. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Trump target Liz Cheney posts strong fundraising haul ahead of primary fight

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

People wait for a rally with former President Donald Trump to begin at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa., Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Thomas Beaumont)

Congress’ classical narcissists fret as the Trump train rolls on

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the chamber after speaking, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. Republican and Democratic senators have edged back from a perilous standoff over lifting the nation's borrowing cap and will likely extend the deadline until December. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

McConnell warns Biden that Schumer’s ‘tantrum’ spells end of GOP cooperation on debt

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber for a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. Senate leaders announced an agreement to extend the government's borrowing authority into December, temporarily averting an unprecedented default that experts say would have decimated the economy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate narrowly passes short-term debt ceiling hike, delaying default showdown and dividing GOP

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the chamber after speaking, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. Republican and Democratic senators have edged back from a perilous standoff over lifting the nation's borrowing cap and will likely extend the deadline until December. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘We blinked’: McConnell criticized by other GOP senators over debt ceiling deal

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., questions Securities and Exchange Commission, Chairman Gary Gensler during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on &quot;Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission&quot; on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, in Washington. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)

Haley, Scott, Rubio advising group pushing for GOP diversity

By Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, then-U.S. Senate candidate, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., and his wife Lulli wave to supporters after Akin gave his concession speech to U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. in Chesterfield, Mo. Akin, whose comment that women's bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of "legitimate rape" sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, has died. He was 74. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Ex-U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies

By John Hanna and Jim Salter - Associated Press