Jeff Dufour

Mar 5, 2025 | nationaljournal.com | Jeff Dufour |Savannah Behrmann |Casey Wooten |Lauren Green

Five years after then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up President Trump’s last speech to Congress, Democrats found a new way to voice their displeasure at the first joint address to Congress of his second term: placards, walkouts, and interruptions. There was bad blood from the moment Trump entered the chamber. As the president walked toward the dais, Republican Rep. Lance Gooden ripped a sign from Democratic Rep.

May 15, 2024 | nationaljournal.com | Savannah Behrmann |Erin Durkin |Jeff Dufour |Ledyard King

Rep. Maxwell Frost is the first Gen Z member to serve in Congress. The 27-year-old first engaged with politics after watching Barack Obama deliver his first inaugural address. He has since gotten involved in the gun-violence-prevention organization March For Our Lives. The Florida progressive spoke with Lauren Green about what led him to run for Congress, who and what he advocates for, and how he will speak with young voters as the November election quickly approaches.

Mar 7, 2024 | nationaljournal.com | Jeff Dufour |Savannah Behrmann

When President Biden took the podium to deliver the State of the Union Thursday night, it was the latest date a president has ever delivered the speech in the television era. Thanks to the Super Tuesday primary results earlier this week, it’s also the first such address in which a president running for reelection—to say nothing of the voters—knew exactly who his opponent would be in the fall.

Oct 31, 2023 | nationaljournal.com | Mackenzie Weinger |Savannah Behrmann |Jeff Dufour |Natalie Jackson

House Republicans have found success in recent cycles by promoting candidates from underrepresented communities, but Senate Republicans have not adapted a similar tactic as they look to flip the upper chamber. The National Republican Congressional Committee boasts that in 2020, every seat Republicans flipped “was won by a woman, a minority or a veteran.” The GOP House campaign committee expanded on that strategy in the last cycle and is sticking to the same plan in 2024.

Oct 18, 2023 | nationaljournal.com | Cristina Maza |Mackenzie Weinger |Savannah Behrmann |Jeff Dufour

Sami Abu Shehadeh is an Arab politician in Israel and the leader of the political party Balad. He served as a member of the Israeli Knesset from 2019 to 2022. He spoke to Cristina Maza about what Palestinians are experiencing today, how Israel should respond to the attacks by the militant group Hamas, and U.S. involvement in the region. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Where are you now, and what is the atmosphere like? I am in Jaffa. It's a very complicated situation.