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Seth McLaughlin

Seth McLaughlin, a reporter on the Politics Desk, can be reached at smclaughlin@washingtontimes.com. Follow him on Twitter: @SethMcLaughlin1

Articles by Seth McLaughlin

Sen. Joe Donnelly, Indiana Democrat, defended his vote against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh by saying he voted "yes" on Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court and on 77 percent of Mr. Trump's judicial nominees. (Associated Press/File)

Red-state Democrats avoid Donald Trump attacks

The midterm elections next month are being billed as a referendum on President Trump, but don't tell that to red-state Democrats who are shying away from their party's red-meat attacks against the commander in chief. Published October 8, 2018

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, heads to the Senate floor for the vote on the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Susan Collins Kavanaugh vote angers liberal activists

As the Senate emptied Saturday, the tension of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's confirmation finally lessening, Sen. Susan M. Collins went desk to desk picking up discarded copies of the Congressional Record from the day before. Published October 7, 2018

"I've been clear that I believer we'll pick up the House," said Rep. Ben Ray Lujan. "I never said it would be easy, I always said that it would be tough and that we'd have to fight for every seat," he said. He is the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The midterm election is Nov. 6. (Associated Press)

60 House Democrats raise over $1 million for midterm races

Sixty House Democratic candidates raised more than $1 million apiece for their campaigns over the last three months, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Thursday, putting them on firm financial footing roughly a month before the midterm elections. Published October 4, 2018

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., waves to another member of the committee during a hearing of the the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for Steven D. Dillingham to be Director of the Census, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Kamala Harris makes fundraising pitch for Joe Donnelly

Sen. Kamala Harris of California is pleading with voters to chip in money to help defend Sen. Joe Donnelly, the vulnerable Indiana Democrat who has come under fire for coming out against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. Published October 4, 2018

U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, shakes hands with a guest following an address in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. Flake, days after a critical vote in support of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, made his second visit this year to New Hampshire. The visit will once again stoke suggestions that he might run against President Trump in 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) (Associated Press)

Jeff Flake calls for ending ‘destructive partisan tribalism’ in New Hampshire

Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake traveled to the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire on Monday to call for a new kind of politics that rejects the "destructive partisan tribalism" that has infected Washington and prevented elected leaders from tackling the nation's biggest problems. Published October 1, 2018

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks to media during a break in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, with Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Kirsten Gillibrand, 2020 Democrats latch onto Christine Blasey Ford’s political coattails

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand claimed a prominent seat in the audience during Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and rushed to the cameras afterward to proclaim her support for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were in high school. Published September 27, 2018

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., a member of the Judiciary Committee, stops to speak to members of the media as he heads to Senate Chamber floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Jeff Flake: Pro-Trumper threatened to take my family ‘out’ over SCOTUS pick

Sen. Jeff Flake said Wednesday his family have faced threats over his insistence that the Senate hear testimony from Christine Blasey Ford, holding it up as an example of the "toxic political culture" that has engulfed the nation and the nomination battle over Brett Kavanaugh. Published September 26, 2018

Michael Avenatti, attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels, talks to reporters after a federal court hearing in Los Angeles, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. Judge S. James Otero appears poised to toss out a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump by Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. Otero said that a tweet the president wrote in April appears to be "rhetorical hyperbole" and protected speech. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)

Michael Avenatti’s Brett Kavanaugh client claim boosts 2020 profile

Lawyer Michael Avenatti's claim that one of his clients has damaging information on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh has thrust President Trump's nemesis back in front of the television cameras -- and into the living rooms of potential voters he's wooing as he ponders an unlikely presidential run in 2020. Published September 25, 2018

Former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka told the audience at the Values Voter Summit this weekend that Donald Trump's presidential victory in 2016 was a form of "divine intervention." (Associated Press)

Values voters see Donald Trump’s ‘red tide’ for GOP

Predictions of a looming Democratic "blue wave" haven't soured Christian conservative activists, who say President Trump has notched so many surprise wins that they have faith he will again defy the naysayers and deliver Republican victories in November. Published September 23, 2018

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2006 file photo, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks at Northeastern University in Boston. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015, the University of Virginia's Miller Center and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate are set to release the Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project. It features 19 interviews with the longtime Democratic senator about his Senate career, which spanned almost five decades and 10 presidential administrations. The project also includes nearly 250 interviews with family, friends, colleagues, foreign leaders, journalists, and staffers. Kennedy died in 2009. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)

Bill Bennett: Where was the liberal outrage over Ted Kennedy?

Conservative icon Bill Bennett said Saturday the uproar over Judge Brett Kavanaugh has exposed Democrats for having a political double standard, asking where was the outcry over former Sen. Ted Kennedy's involvement in a 1969 car crash on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts that left a woman dead. Published September 22, 2018