Among Republicans, 82% say they have a close friend who is a member of the other party, compared with 64% of Democrats, according to the NBC News poll.

According to the poll, there is an 18-percentage-point gap between the two political parties over whether they have a politically opposite friend. While 82% of Republicans say they have at least one close friend who identifies as a Democrat, 64% of Democrats said the same about having a close friend who is a Republican.

President Donald Trump‘s approval rating has hit a new second-term low in a new poll, with the government shutdown weighing heavily on voters’ minds. Trump's Approval Rating With the government shutdown potentially ending soon,

Since government funding lapsed, the GOP has fallen in the polls and lost at the ballot box. But shutdown history shows the party can turn it around before the midterms.

A year after President Donald Trump’s re-election, Republicans are already seeing their gains among Latino voters erode, recent election results and polling suggest. Here’s what’s changed and what it could mean for next year’s midterm elections.

Former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger accused the party of a growing tolerance of Nazis, blasting Tucker Carlson’s interview with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and the Heritage Foundation’s defense of it.

So far, two of Arizona's six Republican congressmen have said they will support the measure. The other four have kept conspicuously quiet. A vote is expected the week of Nov. 17. If it passes the House, the bill would still need approval from the GOP-controlled Senate, and a signature from Trump, which is widely seen as unlikely.

In recent years, California Republicans wielded far more influence in Congress than in the state Legislature, thanks to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But since his ouster, and now under Prop. 50 maps,

Social media users expressed outrage over Graham's remarks at a Republican Jewish Coalition summit amid Israel's war in Gaza.

President Donald Trump referred to the Republican Party as the “Party of Affordability” on Friday, a week after calling affordability a “dead” matter for Democrats. His remarks come after Democratic candidates secured sweeping victories in the 2025 elections,