The former and future first couple arrived in the nation’s capital on Wednesday ahead of Jimmy Carter’s funeral
Gov. Glenn Youngkin is heading to Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday evening, joining other Republican governors at a dinner meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Police arrested a man armed with a machete and multiple knives attempting to enter the U.S. Capitol complex as visitors streamed in to pay their respects to the late President Jimmy Carter and just hours before President-elect Donald Trump met with GOP senators.
In what is believed to be the first face-to-face meeting between Trump and Pence, the two shook hands before the state funeral for former President Carter.
President-elect Donald Trump emerged from a lengthy meeting on Capitol Hill with Republican senators late Wednesday with no preferred strategy for tackling his legislative priorities as House and Senate GOP leaders are straining to develop a plan as the party takes power in Washington.
When Jimmy Carter carried Wisconsin in 1976, the 15 most Democratic counties did not include Milwaukee or Dane.
So, in July 1979, the nation was in a deep, Carter-induced funk. And Carter's reaction was to ... blame the nation. That was the theme of the "malaise" speech.
The disturbing incident unfolded in front of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial just before 5:30 p.m. – at the same time Trump, 78, was arriving at the Capitol Building.
There were many reasons that Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980. The Panama Canal Treaty wasn’t among them.
As often is the case with the funerals of former politicians, the reverence and respect on display among attendees supersedes their partisan differences.
Former President Jimmy Carter arrived at the U.S. Capitol to lie in state after a memorial service attended by his family, Vice President Kamala Harris, members of Congress and other officials.