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Republican Sec. of State and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp was caught in a massive conflict of interest as secret audio recorded him worrying about minorities in Georgia voting.
But in an op-ed published in the Reno Gazette Journal newspaper, a dozen of Laxalt's relatives - including aunts and cousins - characterized the Republican nominee as an outsider who was raised in Washington, D.C. and moved to Nevada in 2013 to pursue his political ambitions.
As Democrat Andrew Gillum is up 54 percent to Republican Ron DeSantis' 42 percent in Florida, the Democrat is being targeted by new racist robocall.
The 10% middle-class tax cut that Trump is touting isn’t real, and the White House only wants Republicans to pass a symbolic promise to cut middle-class taxes later.
Advisers have discussed the idea of having Congress vote on a symbolic “resolution” for a future 10 percent tax cut for the middle class, people familiar with discussions said, part of their scramble to meet Trump’s demand for rapid action to blunt Democrats’ economic messaging ahead of the midterm elections.
Conservatives are apparently outraged that Stacey Abrams burned “the old *Georgia* flag, which had been designed specifically by white supremacists as a show of defiance to desegregation in 1956.” That is to say, the Confederate “battle flag,” the “banner for Dixiecrats and white supremacists.”
Former Obama HUD Secretary Julian Castro said that the latest caravan of Central American migrants moving through Mexico is proof that Trump's immigration policies have totally failed.
A man who was arrested for groping a female passenger while on a flight reportedly told the officials who arrested him that “the president of the United States says it’s OK to grab women by their private parts.”
Garland County, Arkansas closed early voting after it was found that the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State was left off of the ballot.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported:
An official with the Garland County Election Commission said three of the county’s four early voting sites were closed at times Monday because ballots did not include Susan Inman, the Democrat running for secretary of state. The sites have since re-opened.
A package containing what appeared to be an explosive device was found in a mail box outside the New York residence of billionaire financier George Soros on Monday, police said.
Democratic candidates have some new ammunition in their fight to retake control of Congress during this year’s midterm elections.
A new government report shows dollar-for-dollar cuts to the nation’s social safety net programs for every dollar of tax cuts going to rich people.
Former Trump lawyer, Ty Cobb said that the Russia investigation is not a witch hunt, and called the special prosecutor an American hero.
Following patterns seen around the country, there were historically large turnouts throughout the state on Monday as early voting opened in Texas.
More than 63,000 in-person votes were cast in Harris County, The Houston Chronicle reported, compared to 20,215 in 2014.
Donald Trump’s lawyer, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, seems to have escaped from the doghouse. After months on TV telling lies and saying strange, indecipherable things, Giuliani disappeared from public view. Now he has reappeared and he is right back at it, making comments that can best be described as bizarre.
The recent indictment of a Russian national accused of trying to interfere in U.S. elections shows that not enough has been done to stop Russia from trying to illegally influence American voters in 2018, experts say.
A New Hampshire judge on Monday put on hold a law requiring some voters to present proof of residency when they register, saying it would lengthen lines at polling places and make it difficult for students, disabled voters and others to cast ballots
By Tom Hals and Kristina Cooke
(Reuters) – U.S. authorities have held some immigrant children who entered the country illegally and without a parent in a temporary “tent city” in Texas for months, violating a 20-year-old court order on how long minors can be detained, according to court filings by civil rights lawyers and immigration advocates.
Donald Trump said on Monday that transgender issues were in flux and he aims to protect the country after a report that his administration was considering defining gender as male or female based on genitalia at birth drew widespread condemnation.
All across the country, Republicans are trying to fight the coming blue wave by keeping as many Democratic-leaning voters as possible from voting.
Over and over again, the same president who promised to drain the swamp has used his position to enrich himself at our expense.
A campaign event meant to energize supporters of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended up quickly turning into a Donald Trump 2020 rally on Monday night.