Joe Biden

Republicans are on the verge of declaring "total war" on an issue voters care little about, and one conservative predicted disastrous results.

The GOP majority intends to plunge into deep-dive investigations of President Joe Biden and his family, especially son Hunter Biden, and conservative David Frum wrote a column for The Atlantic detailing his sense of déja vu.

Republicans won back the House of Representatives earlier this month with a narrow majority that could inhibit the party's ambitions to launch aggressive investigations against President Joe Biden.

Politico reports that while House Freedom Caucus stalwarts such as Rep. Jim Jordan are raring to go with investigations into Hunter Biden, other Republicans who won in swing districts this fall are worried about blowback.

Contrary to the expectations of many observers, the “red wave” stopped at the House of Representatives and only delivered the Republican Party a small majority. The Senate, though, will remain under Democrat control. So the US Congress will be divided until the 2024 election and the Biden administration no longer has the numbers to get its legislative program through without a fight – or at least, negotiation “across the aisle.”

And that can be a problem for US governance – sustainable solutions to major policy issues need both congressional and presidential approval. A failure to provide answers for pressing issues will further depress public opinion about the government and democratic institutions.

It increasingly seems that projections of election results based on public polling are unreliable. The 2022 midterm elections in the United States are a prime example.

Americans appeared set to vote Republican en masse — in a so-called “Red Wave” — on the morning of Nov. 8.

Donald Trump has continued to lie about the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden and is now using identical language to attack the Department of Justice after special counsel Jack Smith was appointed to investigate the Mar-a-Lago documents, insurrection, and potential obstructions of justice.

On Saturday, Trump took to his Truth Social website to smear investigators after lashing out at The New York Times for a column mocking his victimization.

The odds are stacked against Donald Trump's comeback attempt in both the GOP nomination battle and potential general election rematch against Joe Biden, according to a new CNN analysis of the race.

"Former President Donald Trump is giving it another go. He announced last week that he’s trying to become only the second man (after Grover Cleveland) to be elected to non-consecutive terms as US president," CNN senior data correspondent Harry Enten reported. "Trump’s move comes at a time when his political brand is at its weakest point since his first presidential bid in 2015-2016."

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl described a scene of Donald Trump flying in the helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base to give a final speech as president and then jetting off to Mar-a-Lago before incoming President Joe Biden could be inaugurated. Republican Party chair Ronna Romney McDaniel called as a kindness to the outgoing president only to get an ear full about his determination to start his own party.

After some discussion, the GOP told Trump that he could abandon the GOP and start his own party, but he would no longer have any of his legal bills paid by the party. Trump ultimately held back, but now that he has taken over power and control of the party, it means that no candidate can make it through a Republican primary without the blessing of Donald Trump.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) threatened to investigate special counsel Jack Smith after he was appointed to lead an investigation into former President Donald Trump's misuse of government documents and his effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election.

During an interview with Jordan on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo wondered why Attorney General Merrick Garland had not also appointed a special counsel to look into President Joe Biden's son Hunter.

Attention has mostly been focused on the defeats of election deniers at the top of the ballot, both in Michigan and nationwide. Republican Tudor Dixon lost to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Republican Kristina Karamo was defeated by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Republican Matt DePerno was beaten by Attorney General Dana Nessel.

Democrats also wrested control of both chambers of the Michigan Legislature for the first time in almost 40 years. However, the next class of lawmakers will still include a bevy of election deniers.

On Friday evening, Trump delivered a televised speech at the America First Experience Gala held at Mar-a-Lago and aired his grievances regarding the appointment of special counsel in the furthering of his Jan. 6 legal saga.

Stepping to the podium dressed in a tuxedo, Trump remarked on the number of people in attendance, gave an attagirl to Kari Lake, who lost her Arizona gubernatorial race, and then went on to express his views that elections are "rigged, tainted and bad" until C-SPAN made the decision to cut away to other programming. In what was surely a hitch in Trump's giddyup, the programming they cut away to was U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's public announcement that he'd chosen Jack Smith as special counsel.