In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home in Pacific Palisades. Ronald Reagan was thinking of trying his hand at politics: a long-shot bid for California governor against a sitting Democrat.
With all the attention deservedly on President Trump and what he intends to do with his defiant return to the White House, there’s a more than good chance we’ll spend
Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern political consulting business along the way — has died.
Unlike past incoming presidents, Trump knows how to get his agenda done because he already had one term sitting in the Oval Office.
President Trump's GOP allies were ecstatic after his remarks at the U.S. Capitol after his inauguration on Monday.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed, but felt they had no choice. That's what White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican president and first
One of the nation’s first campaign consultants for hire, he advised leading Republicans, including President Gerald Ford, but Reagan was his prized candidate.
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength since the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s.
Ronald Reagan was about to become president after defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter in November, and the GOP controlled the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1955. The new majority leader in ...
Bush inherited from Ronald Reagan. Reagan was reelected in a 49-state ... The current change hasn’t happened so much on abortion, even if GOP politicians are spooked by some post-Dobbs election ...
Trump came out swinging in his inaugural address, calling Jan. 20, 2025, “Liberation Day,” and vowing sweeping changes via a series of executive actions.
Trump said, calling her a "disaster" and mocking another former GOP lawmaker ... Then President Ronald Reagan's second swearing-in in January 1985 marks the last time the ceremony took place ...