Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro is holding a commanding lead as Hondurans appear poised to remove the conservative National Party after 12 years of continuous rule. Castro declared herself the winner despite orders from the National Electoral Council to political parties to await official results. “We win! We win!” Castro, Honduras’ former first lady who is making her third presidential run, told cheering Liberty and Re-foundation party supporters when only a fraction of the ballots had been tallied Sunday night. “Today the people have obtained justice. We have reversed authoritarianism.” The National Party also quickly declared victory for its candidate, Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura, but the early returns were not promising.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been on a PR blitz promoting his new book. In “Republican Rescue," Christie says Republicans should stop talking about 2020 and focus on the future or risk losing elections. Christie's rebuke of former President Donald Trump’s election lies is a message that’s finding traction on cable television as he stakes out his own lane for a possible second presidential run in 2024. He's painting himself as a Trump loyalist who largely agrees with the former president’s policies but is fully aware of Trump’s flaws and is willing to call him out on them.

Demands by Democrats to fix the nation’s broken immigration system were wielded as a cudgel against Republicans during the 2020 campaign. Elect us, went the argument, and we’ll stop the cruel treatment of migrants at the border, and put in place lasting and humane policies that work. Action on the issue has been hard to find a year into Joe Biden's presidency, and there is growing consternation privately among some in the party that the Biden administration can’t find the right balance on immigration.  

Minnesota's Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is calling on House leaders to take “appropriate action" against Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert for using anti-Muslim language in describing a recent encounter with Omar. Boebert said Friday she has reached out to Omar and apologized “to anyone I offended in the Muslim community" with the remarks. According to a video clip posted by a Twitter account called PatriotTakes, Boebert made the remarks at a meeting with constituents this holiday break, using the term ‘jihad squad’ to refer to Omar. She also said Omar wasn't “wearing a backpack," an allusion to suicide bombers. Omar says such inflammatory remarks endanger the lives of Muslim Americans.