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With the midterm elections quickly approaching, we asked readers to send us any lingering questions they had before heading to the ballot box. Our reporters investigated queries about specific candidates in key states such as Georgia, Florida and Wisconsin, as well as what changes have been made to the voting process since the 2020 presidential […]

Millions of Americans are casting mail ballots via drop boxes. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said that’s dangerous. “There’s danger involved in drop boxes,” Rubio said in the Oct. 18 debate with his Democratic rival, U.S. Rep. Val Demings. “People need to think about it. OK. Imagine someone decides, ‘Oh, there’s a drop box. I’m just […]

El senador republicano titular Marco Rubio y su rival demócrata, la congresista Val Demings, se criticaron agresivamente sus credenciales durante el único debate en la contienda para representar a Florida en el Senado de los Estados Unidos. Rubio, elegido por primera vez para el Senado en 2010, promocionó su experiencia en política exterior y sus logros […]

If you’re even a casual television watcher during this midterm season, you will have seen lots of campaign ads. Republican campaign ads target many of President Joe Biden’s policies on student debt forgiveness, taxes, crime, police funding, Medicare, and energy policy. Democratic ads are focused on warnings about abortion restrictions and topics particular to the […]

Republican incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio and his Democratic rival Rep. Val Demings took aggressive swipes at the other’s credentials during their sole debate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat. Rubio, first elected to the Senate in 2010, touted his foreign policy experience and legislative achievements over Demings’ time in the lower chamber, quipping, “I was against […]

Republican J.D. Vance and Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan used the final Ohio Senate debate to air favorite attack lines from months of TV ads, clashing over themes of abortion, the opioid crisis and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Vance, the Republican author of “Hillbilly Elegy” endorsed by former President Donald Trump, said Ryan “had his chance” […]

La senadora Catherine Cortez Masto, demócrata de Nevada, la primera latina elegida al Senado de Estados Unidos, dice que su oponente republicano celebró la pérdida de trabajos y negocios latinos durante la pandemia del COVID-19.  Un comercial de 15 segundos en español comienza con imágenes de dos trabajadores detrás de estas palabras: “Adam Laxalt hablando […]

As Gov. Tony Evers heads into the November midterm elections, here at PolitiFact Wisconsin we’re taking a look at how he fared in keeping the promises he made in the 2018 campaign. Aiming for a second term, Evers faces Republican Tim Michels in the Nov. 8, 2022 election. A look at the Evers-O-Meter, where we […]

In what’s expected to be the only debate of the pivotal Senate campaign in Georgia — just before the Oct. 17 start of early voting in the state — the two nominees, incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, sparred over a variety of topics. During the hourlong debate in Savannah, Walker, an […]

The U.S. House Jan. 6 committee’s unanimous decision to subpoena former President Donald Trump is unusual. But presidential subpoenas are not unprecedented — and the outcomes of prior clashes between the executive and legislative branches provide some context for the tensions surrounding the committee’s Oct. 13 decision. The subpoena noted that 30 witnesses had cited […]

Galvanized by the Supreme Court’s decision to end nearly 50 years of federally protected abortion access, Democrats are elevating abortion in their campaigns and putting Republicans on the defensive ahead of the Nov. 8 elections.  Abortion was the top issue mentioned in broadcast TV ads in races for the Senate, House and governor from Sept. […]

In its final hearing before the midterm elections, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol made its case that former President Donald Trump knew he had lost, lied to his followers about it, and tried every possible device to overturn the results of a legitimate election. At the […]