As Michigan voters head to the polls today to vote in the state’s primary election, some are wondering whether they need to bring an ID with them to cast a ballot. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 36 states in the U.S. have laws requiring or requesting voters to present some form of […]
Former President Barack Obama made some news when he delivered a eulogy for John Lewis, the civil rights activist and congressman from Georgia who died on July 17 after battling cancer. In his eulogy, Obama said he was open to ending the filibuster, the longstanding rule in the U.S. Senate that allows a minority of […]
In a rare sit-down interview at the White House, President Donald Trump repeated a slew of misleading claims aimed at painting a rosy picture of the United States’ coronavirus response. During the nearly 40-minute one-on-one, which Axios filmed on July 28 and aired on HBO Aug. 3, political reporter Jonathan Swan quizzed the president about […]
As a partisan fight over the White House coronavirus task force continues to play out in Washington, an altered video that makes it look like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is drunk has gone viral on Facebook. The video, which was published July 30, has more than 2 million views. It shows Pelosi drinking from a […]
Joe Biden, the expected challenger to President Donald Trump, says he can lead the United States to recover from the economic challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. He also says he can lead in the fight against climate change. In fact, the former vice president believes those two efforts should go together. “Here we […]
In the race for Oakland County executive, incumbent Dave Coulter is facing off against Andy Meisner, the current county treasurer, in the Democratic primary. Dark money ads are trying to tarnish Coulter based on his policing record while he served as Ferndale’s mayor. Oakland County was long governed by Republican county executives until August 2019 […]
With less than 100 days until Election Day, Vice President Mike Pence returned to Pennsylvania on July 30 for the second time this month and delivered a campaign speech to an enthusiastic crowd of law enforcement officers and their supporters. Recent polls show President Donald Trump losing ground to Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee. […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday repeated what election experts across the United States say is a false distinction between “absentee” and “mail-in” voting, one that experts say threatens to sow confusion and undermine confidence in this fall’s election results. In a tweet that grabbed the nation’s attention — mostly because Trump suggested postponing the Nov. […]
President Donald Trump floated the idea of delaying the Nov. 3 election, pointing to unsubstantiated concerns about mail-in voting. “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can […]
With state primary elections ongoing and the November general election a few months away, you can expect to be inundated with posts, comments, attack ads, and all types of election-related content if you haven’t already. The coronavirus has fundamentally changed the campaign season this election cycle. More so than ever, candidates, interest groups, foreign actors, […]
Despite social media platforms’ efforts to remove it, millions of people have seen a viral video of doctors making false and misleading claims about the coronavirus pandemic. Breitbart, a conservative news outlet, published the 40-plus-minute-long video on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on July 27. It’s a live stream of a Washington, D.C., press conference organized […]
U.S. Attorney General William Barr battled Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee as they questioned him over the administration’s response to the coronavirus, election security, excessive use of force in policing, and his conversations with President Donald Trump. Throughout the five-hour hearing, Democrats and Barr interrupted one another with frustration and disappointment. Republicans on […]