Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters paces around his home, cell phone in hand, the call set to speaker for the benefit of the camera. “If you want to get across the line, you need to be stronger on that one thing,” instructs former President Donald Trump, “look at Kari [Lake],” …
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Herschel Walker drove a woman to get an abortion in 1993, the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, claimed in a press conference on Wednesday with high-powered lawyer Gloria Allred. “Herschel Walker is a hypocrite, and he is not fit to be a U.S. senator,” the woman said, noting that …
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What kind of man profits from scalded monkey junk? On the campaign trail, Trump-endorsed Ohio Senate nominee J.D. Vance leans into the hardscrabble upbringing he wrote about in Hillbilly Elegy. He rails against universities and the abuses of Big Tech. He blasts Covid mandates, encouraging distrust, without evidence, of the …
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In early September, Donald Trump welcomed a handful of Republican allies to Manhattan’s Trump Tower with an urgent message: He saw a “scam” happening with midterm election voting in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, and he wanted conservatives to do something about it. “During our briefing, he was concerned that …
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WASHINGTON — There was a time, with a Democrat in the White House and a red wave building ahead of midterm elections, when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce poured approximately $40 million exclusively into Republican campaigns. The year was 2014, and the granddaddy of corporate lobbying groups in the nation’s …
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Art Reyes III had been delivering the closing remarks at a virtual election watch party on November 3, 2020, when he learned that busloads of Republicans had pulled up to a Detroit convention center to demand election workers stop counting ballots. Reyes, the founder of grassroots group We the People …
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The Republican campaign of voter suppression — voter ID laws, closures of polling places, voter purges — is normally aimed at making it harder for people of color to vote, in the hopes of preserving Republicans’ white-minority rule for as long as possible. But another population has found itself in …
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Randy Gene Kaufman, a Trump-loving Republican candidate for the Maricopa County Community College District Governing Board, was arrested for public sexual indecency after he was caught allegedly watching porn and masturbating in his car near a preschool on Oct. 4. According to an affidavit, a Maricopa County police officer noticed …
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Georgia election workers say that the first day of early voting turnout for the November midterms has surpassed their midterm record set in the 2018 elections. Reports that over 125,000 Georgians casting their ballot just one day into early voting bolster national treads predicting massive turnout for the midterms, and …
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BRISTOL, Pa. —John Fetterman will readily tell you he’s had a stroke. It was the first thing he mentioned in his rally stump speech at a riverside park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday —well, the second, after he razzed Dr. Mehmet Oz, his GOP opponent, for living in New …
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