Major political figures hit the campaign trail in the closing days of the 2022 midterm elections, from former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump to the Oval Office’s current occupant, Joe Biden. On Nov. 5, Obama and Biden, who won the presidency and vice presidency as a ticket twice, traveled to Philadelphia to back the […]
Como gobernador de Florida, el republicano Ron DeSantis ha declarado repetidamente su convicción de que los líderes deben luchar contra los intentos de “adoctrinar a los estudiantes” en las aulas. En el único debate entre los candidatos antes de las elecciones del 8 de noviembre, el gobernador DeSantis comparó su historial en educación con el […]
One of the most common Republican messages during the 2022 midterm campaigns has been that President Joe Biden is to blame for inflation, which reached a 40-year high during the past year. Republicans have said, with some justification, that Biden’s spending programs, including his effort to forgive some student loan debt, have fueled inflation by […]
Over the past several weeks, the campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels has repeatedly argued that Michels is running a more press-friendly campaign than incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The issue drew some attention last month when Michels agreed to participate in a Rotary Club of Milwaukee event, saying he would take questions from […]
David DePape had the tools he believed he needed to send a message to members of Congress: a hammer, zip ties and a plan to break House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s kneecaps “if she lied.” He later told authorities that if he had executed his plan, “she would then have to be wheeled into Congress, which […]
It’s been a busy, fraught and thorny campaign season in Wisconsin as national issues seep into state and local politics. Perhaps none has held center stage as much as the abortion debate. On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, scrapping federal protections for the procedure and turning its legality back to […]
Democratic Rep. Val Demings outraised and outspent her opponent in Florida’s U.S. Senate race, Republican incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio. Still, she faces an uphill battle to unseat him from an office he’s occupied since 2011. Demings, a former police chief elected to the House of Representatives in 2016, borrowed attacks from some of Rubio’s past […]
As he rallied with Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott in a final pre-midterm push in Miami, former President Donald Trump reiterated misleading claims about drop boxes, mail ballots and his economic record. He also called Rubio’s opponent, U.S. Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., a “radical left maniac” and channeled his own expected announcement that he […]
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz are locked in a tight race for a U.S Senate seat that could determine which party controls that chamber in 2023. Multiple polls show Fetterman, a Democrat, and Oz, a Republican, neck and neck in a heated battle for the seat held by retiring Republican […]
The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband has been in the U.S. illegally since 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection told PolitiFact. On Nov. 1, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the agency in charge of deportations — asked the San Francisco County Jail to notify it before David DePape is released […]
El expresidente Donald Trump promovió la falsa teoría de que los demócratas están utilizando boletas “no verificadas” en Pensilvania como parte de un complot electoral. “Ya se han enviado más de 240,000 boletas ‘no verificadas’ en Pensilvania, un verdadero desastre”, dijo Trump el 28 de octubre en su plataforma de medios sociales Truth Social. “Los […]
The outcome of Nevada’s U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Adam Laxalt could determine which party controls the Senate. Cortez Masto, the first Latina to serve in the Senate, was the state’s attorney general from 2007 to 2015. Laxalt, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, served as Nevada’s attorney […]