Michelle Obama’s voter participation organization is spending big on Facebook ads to ensure that fans of several high-profile domestic abusers have the information they need to vote in the upcoming elections. When We All Vote, the “nonpartisan” voter registration group that the former first lady founded in 2018, has invested more than $35,000 on Facebook
A Michigan farmers’ group endorsed the Republican candidate in the state’s competitive U.S. Senate race for the first time in nearly 20 years following reports that Democratic candidate Elissa Slotkin received farming tax credits without holding a farming license. AgriPac said this week that it is backing Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman, over Slotkin
The House failed to pass a six-month stopgap spending plan Wednesday that included an election integrity measure. WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) moved on Sept. 19 to advance a stopgap government funding bill, a day after the House failed to pass a Republican bill aimed at averting a shutdown. Schumer filed cloture on a
A donor to Democratic Reps. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.) and Cori Bush (Mo.) was forcibly removed from a Senate hearing on hate crimes Tuesday after shouting anti-Semitic slurs including “fucking Jews!” and “fuck Israelis!” As Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) issued remarks from the dais about anti-Semitism, several protesters shouted obscenities from the audience. The most
Republican senators have introduced bill to elevate former President Trump’s protection. A group of GOP senators on Thursday introduced a bill that would elevate the U.S. Secret Service’s protection of presidential nominees, days after a second apparent assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump. The bill, called the “Protect Our Presidents Act,” would mandate that
Washington — Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday he’s hopeful Nebraska will change the way it apportions its Electoral College votes in the upcoming election, given the possibility that the presidential election could come down to a single electoral vote. “I hope they will allow winner-take-all,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told reporters on Thursday. Graham
The anti-Israel Uncommitted National Movement declined to endorse Democratic nominee Kamala Harris for president and called on fellow Democrats to push for an Israeli arms embargo and an end to the Israel-Hamas war. “Harris’s unwillingness to shift on unconditional weapons policy or to even make a clear campaign statement in support of upholding existing U.S.