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Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 24, 2020. Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Ken Buck voted out of House Freedom Caucus

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks with reporters following their weekly policy meetings, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Leader race between John Cornyn, John Thune drives fundraising boon for Senate Republicans

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., talks with reporters outside the West Wing after meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

House GOP eyes dozens of seats to expand majority, plans to exploit Democrats’ weaknesses

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., walks out of the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2024. Buck announced Tuesday, March 12, that he’ll resign next week, narrowing his party’s razor-thin House majority and scrambling the already heated GOP primary to fill his Colorado seat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Ken Buck’s hasty exit from Congress makes him a target for Republican vitriol

By Kerry Picket and Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Kansas Republican Party Chairman Mike Brown, right, watches and works on his cell phone from the floor of the Kansas House, March 15, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Two top Kansas Republican Party officials, including Brown, are facing calls to resign over a viral online video showing people at a fundraiser kicking and beating a mannequin with a mask of President Joe Biden, highlighting the GOP's deep divisions and problems with suburban voters. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Kansas GOP officials face calls for resignation after video of Biden effigy beating goes viral

By John Hanna - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Trump wins delegates needed to become GOP’s presumptive nominee for third straight election

By Jill Colvin - Associated Press

Lara Trump, the newly elected Republican National Committee co-chair, right, and newly elected Chairman Michael Whatley, greet attendees as they crowd the podium after the general session of the Republican National Committee Spring Meeting Friday, March 8, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Trump’s team is slashing Republican National Committee staff amid takeover

By Steve Peoples - Associated Press

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a senior member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, leaves a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Chip Roy blames backlash against Katie Britt’s SOTU rebuttal on ‘Swamp GOP’

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

U.S. Congress to stop genocide in Ukraine illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Speaker Johnson can help stop genocide in Ukraine

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Former President Donald Trump, right, listens as his daughter-in-law Lara Trump speaks at the North Carolina Republican Convention, June 5, 2021, in Greenville, N.C. Donald Trump is calling for a shakeup at the highest levels of the Republican National Committee. And party leaders are taking it very seriously. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, Fike)

RNC members see Lara Trump as a sharp message maker, answer to their fundraising struggles

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel arrives on stage before House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at an event on Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. McDaniel says she will leave her post on March 8. She's leaving the GOP’s national leadership as Donald Trump moves toward another presidential nomination and asserts new control over the party. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Ronna McDaniel calls for GOP to unite in tearful goodbye speech

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., speaks during a news conference on the border, Feb. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Britt will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech on Thursday, March 7, 2024. She is the youngest female senator and the first woman elected to the Senate from Alabama. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Katie Britt calls Biden a ‘diminished leader’ in GOP response to the State of the Union

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump, left, is welcomed by Michael Whatley, then-chairman of the N.C. GOP, before he speaks at the North Carolina Republican Convention, June 5, 2021, in Greenville, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) ** FILE **

New leadership team takes over the RNC

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, May 18, 2023. Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law. A measure lawmakers sent to the governor, Friday, March 1, 2024, would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of some drugs. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP) ** FILE **

GOP says Biden is passing the buck on fighting fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Steve Bannon speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, on March 3, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Former President Donald Trump's longtime ally has appealed his criminal conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Steve Bannon says Trump is just fine without Nikki Haley’s endorsement

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of his Competition Council to announce new actions to lower costs for families in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden says there’s room in his campaign for Haley supporters

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Haley lays down her arms after Super Tuesday loss, says Trump must earn votes of party detractors

By Susan Ferrechio and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Photos of U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., at left, a U.S Senate candidate, and his Republican opponent Steve Garvey flash on a television screen during an election night party for Schiff, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Republican Steve Garvey and Democrat Adam Schiff set to compete for California Senate seat

By Michael R. Blood - Associated Press

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivers his State of the Commonwealth address before a joint session of the Virginia General Assembly, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Youngkin endorses Trump after Super Tuesday’s nomination-clinching wins

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks during a press availability on Capitol Hill, Feb. 27, 2024, in Washington. McConnell has endorsed Donald Trump for president. McConnell announced his decision after Super Tuesday wins pushed Trump, who is the GOP front-runner, closer to the party nomination. It’s a remarkable turnaround for McConnell, who has blamed Trump for “disgraceful” acts in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

McConnell puts aside distaste for Trump and endorses him for president

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times