Category: 2018

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Martha McSally Is Fundraising Off A Video That Shows Her Throwing A Tantrum Over CNN Question

It remains to be seen whether Martha McSally’s strategy of adopting Donald Trump’s political style will work, but it reeks of desperation.

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Republicans Are Plotting To Go After Social Security Behind Closed Doors

Republicans in Congress are trying to pay for their tax scam by coming after earned benefits that millions of people rely on.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar Tells Republicans That Their Hate Campaign Will Never Silence Her

This is a hate campaign meant to silence and marginalize the first two female Muslims in Congress. Newsflash for the GOP: It’s not working.

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Former GOP Congressman Tells House Dems To Ignore The Fox Bubble And Move Toward Impeachment

Doing nothing is not an option, particularly after Democrats were successful in 2018 based in part on their promise to hold this president accountable.

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Pete Buttigieg Crushes Trump’s Laughable Claim That The GOP Is The Party Of Health Care

In making another effort to take health care coverage away from millions of Americans, Trump is handing Democrats a giant gift.

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Loser Scott Walker signs Republican bills curbing Democrats’ power

Outgoing Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker on Friday signed a package of legislation aimed at weakening the powers of his newly elected Democratic successor, dismissing critics who said the move was a last-minute partisan power grab.

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Dems Could Add Another Seat To House Majority As Stolen NC Race Is Pulled Out Of GOP Column

Dems could add another seat to their majority, giving them a gain of 41 seats and icing on the cake of what turned out to be a massive blue wave in 2018.

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Calls of ‘shame’ as Wisconsin Republicans aim to curb incoming Democrats’ power

Protesters chanting “Shame!” disrupted a tree-lighting ceremony and a legislative session at the Wisconsin state capitol on Tuesday as Republican lawmakers moved toward a vote on bills to weaken the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general.

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Record-Breaking Blue Wave: Democrats Won The 2018 Midterms By Widest Vote Margin Ever

The Democrats’ raw vote margin from the 2018 midterm elections broke the previous record they set in the Watergate era midterms.

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California Republican concedes, Utah representative sues

(Reuters) – A Republican U.S. representative of Utah who is trailing her Democratic challenger filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to halt vote counting while a four-term California Republican congressman conceded, more than a week after the U.S. midterm elections. The races are among about a dozen high-profile contests that remained unresolved. But the outstanding…

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Trump urges Florida to halt recount, hand races to Republicans

Trump on Monday urged Florida election officials to abandon recount efforts, declare his fellow Republicans the winners and, without evidence, cast doubt on vote tallies as state officials scrambled to review more than 8 million ballots by a Thursday deadline.

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In abuse of power, Trump says he will send lawyers to contested vote in Broward County, Florida

Editor’s note: this is not normal and would be an abuse of Trump’s power if he did so. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would send lawyers to expose what he said without evidence was “fraud” in contested voting in Broward County, Florida. In Florida’s U.S. Senate race, Republican Governor…

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Newly emboldened Democrats want healthcare protected – and Trump impeached: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Democrats have a clear message for party leaders who will take control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll: Protect their healthcare and impeach President Donald Trump.

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U.S. House freshman class includes most veterans in nearly a decade

The freshman class of the new Congress will boast the largest number of military veterans in nearly a decade, including a record number of former servicewomen, bolstering a corps of ex-military lawmakers that has been depleted in recent years.

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Factbox: Democrats to pick up net 28 seats in U.S. House – media/data provider DDHQ

The Democratic Party needed to pick up 23 seats to wrest control of the chamber from the Republican Party. The Democrats were seen picking up 28 seats although votes were still being counted on Wednesday to determine the outcomes of as many as 13 more races.

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Democrat Evers wrests Wisconsin governorship from Republican Walker: DDHQ

Democrat Tony Evers won the Wisconsin governor’s race on Tuesday, ending the conservative Scott Walker’s eight years in power, according to data provider DDHQ.

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Baltimore votes to become first large U.S. city to ban water privatisation

The city of Baltimore voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to ban the privatisation of its water and sewerage systems, in what supporters say is the first large U.S. jurisdiction to take such a step.

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LGBT+ candidates make gains in U.S. elections

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More LGBT+ candidates won in the U.S. midterm elections than ever before – and gender or sexual orientation was less of an issue than ever before, too, experts said.

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Darrell Issa Admits That Democrats Are Going To Win His House Seat

Everyone’s least likely to succeed Congressional Representative, Mr. Darrell Issa of the indicted for grand theft auto infamy and also the endless conspiracies infamy, told Fox News today that his California district will go to a Democrat tonight.

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Republican strategists sweat over suburban, women votes in mid-terms

Are the women voters key in this election probably more than ever?

A) Douglas Heye: Yes – white suburban women are a key demographic. They don’t like Trump, by and large.

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Facebook boots 115 accounts after FBI tip on eve of U.S. election

Eighty-five of the removed accounts were posting in English on Facebook’s Instagram service, and 30 more were on Facebook and associated with pages in French and Russian, the post said.

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Hacking allegation shows peril of Georgia Republican Kemp’s twin election roles

“It looks pretty suspicious, and I would say that regardless of which party it was,” said Alan Abramowitz, a professor of political science at Emory University in Atlanta. “It’s just one more example of the kinds of problems that can occur when the person who is in charge of running the elections in the state is not only a partisan elected official but is a party’s candidate for the highest office in the state.”

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Social media, tech firms use sites to urge U.S. citizens to vote

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Criticized by lawmakers and others for being unable or unwilling to stop false and inflammatory information about divisive political issues, social media and tech companies say they are doing more to boost voter turnout for next Tuesday’s U.S. congressional elections. Snap Inc, Facebook Inc and other firms will…

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I Went to the Tree of Life Synagogue and What I Found Surprised Me

I went to the Tree of Life Synagogue on Friday to follow up on the horrific slaughter of eleven innocent Jewish and I was surprised by what I felt and found.

The first thing I found was love.

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As U.S. election nears racist fliers, antisemitic graffiti appear

Days ahead of a contentious U.S. national election in which immigration has become a central issue, racist fliers saying “It’s okay to be white” have been reported on university campuses in five states, while synagogues in New York and California have been sprayed with antisemitic graffiti.

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Rebuke of Brian Kemp as Federal Courts Rule Against His Voter Suppression Efforts in Georgia

The rulings are a rebuke to Secretary of State Brian Kemp, whose office oversees the voter rolls and who is the Republican candidate in the state’s hotly contested gubernatorial race.

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‘Cool to vote’: Hollywood election telethon aims to get youth to polls

In a first-of-its-kind event, more than 50 actors, comedians and YouTube stars will join a two-hour, live-streamed telethon on Monday night aimed at firing up younger voters, the age group least likely to cast a ballot.

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FBI confirms suspicious package sent to Trump impeachment advocate Tom Steyer

The FBI on Friday said it had recovered a suspicious package addressed to California billionaire Tom Steyer, a Democrat known for his ads calling for the impeachment of Republican President Donald Trump, exactly one week after federal authorities arrested Cesar Sayoc for mailing pipe bombs to Trump critics.

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Exclusive: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting

Twitter Inc deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday’s U.S. election and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats, after the party flagged the misleading tweets to the social media company.

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Trump’s Closing Argument For The Midterm Is Not Only Racist, But False And Misleading

As my colleague, Leo Vidal here at PoliticusUSA makes clear regarding Mr. Trump using the most blatant of racist ads to use as his closing argument for the mid-term elections by pinning it up on top of his Twitter feed: “It remains to be seen whether this will serve him — and his party —…

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Young U.S. voter turnout surges, but challenges linger

Early turnout by young voters has surged ahead of Tuesday’s congressional midterm elections, powered by gains in states whose voters are pivotal to Democrats’ chances of winning back control of the U.S. Congress.

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U.S. Senator Manchin’s social media accounts hacked: statement

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin was notified his social media accounts had been hacked, his office said on Thursday, amid U.S. government warnings of attempts to interfere in next week’s congressional elections.

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Democrats Must Counter Punch Every Time Trump Lies About The Caravan

Many in the media once again fell for Trump’s lies on Thursday, airing his hate speech packaged as a “policy” announcement. Democrats need to do to Trump what he did to the Fox debate he skipped; counter program him every day until the election. Every public appearance by Trump or a Trump surrogate regarding the…

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Trump’s final campaign stretch rattled by twin calamities

Trump’s desire to focus on red-meat issues was rattled by two shocking cases of political violence as he plowed into an eight-state blitz ahead of Tuesday’s congressional elections.

Non-stop cable TV coverage of pipe bombs mailed to prominent political opponents of Trump and of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue upended his goal of dominating the news.

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Jane Fonda, Amy Schumer among stars to appear on U.S. voter telethon

Hollywood celebrities including Jane Fonda, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Amy Schumer will take part in an online telethon on Monday to urge young people to pledge to vote in Tuesday’s congressional midterm elections.

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Panicked Trump Is Now Sending 15,000 Troops To Combat Imaginary Caravan Threat

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States could send as many as 15,000 military troops to the border with Mexico, as he hardens his stance against a caravan of migrants fleeing violence and poverty in Central America.

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Democrats gaining in Florida as Trump launches U.S. campaign blitz-poll

Democrats have pulled ahead in Florida’s marquee races for the U.S. Senate and governor, a new Reuters opinion poll showed on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump was set to return to the battleground state in a closing bid to bail out Republicans.

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Pentagon declines to discuss cost of Trump’s border operation, said troop levels could rise to 7,000

The top U.S. general overseeing a deployment of more than 5,200 troops to the border with Mexico said on Tuesday that troop levels would rise further, but declined to say how high or estimate what the operation will cost.

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Oprah jumps into contentious Georgia race, endorses Democrat Abrams

Oprah Winfrey plans to lend her star power to Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams’ quest to become the United States’ first black woman governor at a couple of appearances in the state on Thursday.

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Sen. Brian Schatz Flat Out Calls Republicans Corrupt

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) delivered a simple but powerful closing message for the Democrats. Schatz said that Republicans are corrupt and Democrats are here to stop them.

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Republicans on defense last week before elections focus on keeping control of the Senate

Republican campaigns took a defensive approach a week before elections to determine control of the U.S. Congress, with the party spending more to try to hold on to previously secure House seats and President Donald Trump preparing a six-day trip focused on Senate races.

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State of Play: With congressional election near, Republicans’ talk turns Trumpian

By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker last week learned the same lesson many other Republicans have during this congressional election year: One way or the other, it is hard to escape Donald Trump. Cruz and Walker both ran against Trump for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination,…

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Factbox: Democrats gain steam in analyst forecasts for U.S. House races

(Reuters) – As of Friday, there were 65 U.S. House of Representatives races widely seen as competitive or leaning against the incumbent party. The outlook for Democrats had improved in 48 of them during the seven weeks since early September in the eyes of at least one of a trio of political forecasting groups: Cook…

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Former President Carter asks Georgia GOP Brian Kemp to step down as top election official

Carter said he was concerned that popular confidence in Georgia’s gubernatorial election would be threatened if the candidate, Brian Kemp, were to remain in his current role as secretary of state.

“You are now overseeing the election in which you are a candidate,” Carter wrote. “This runs counter to the most fundamental principle of democratic elections.”

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Would-be Democratic investigators have crossed swords with Trump

In a multi-front House inquiry of Trump, his business interests and his presidency, Nadler would link arms with Elijah Cummings, who would become head of the House Oversight Committee, and Adam Schiff, who would chair the House Intelligence Committee.

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LeBron James Wears A Beto For Senate Hat To Game

LeBron James showed for the Lakers game with the Spurs sporting a political statement. King James was wearing a Beto For Senate hat. Here is James: LeBron James wearing a Beto for Senate hat before the Lakers game in San Antonio tonight pic.twitter.com/dNsVmETohV — Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 27, 2018 James hasn’t been shy about…

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Trump accuses the media of using pipe-bomb case to score political points against him

Donald Trump accused the media on Friday of using the actions of a man suspected of sending at least 14 bombs to prominent critics of the president to score political points against him.

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Trump says “‘Bomb’ stuff” slowing Republican momentum at polls

Donald Trump said on Friday that news coverage of the suspicious packages targeting high-profile Democratic politicians and critics of the president had slowed momentum for Republican candidates ahead of congressional elections.

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With record number of women running in U.S. elections, gender gap could boost Democrats

By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The record numbers of women running for office in the United States this year are mostly Democrats, and their party is banking on their candidacies and a widening gender gap on key issues to achieve big wins in the Nov. 6 elections. Reuters/Ipsos polling two weeks ahead of Election…

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Georgia NAACP Files Complaint Alleging Stacey Abrams Votes Being Counted For Brian Kemp

The Georgia NAACP has filed a complaint against Sec. of State Brian Kemp alleging that votes for Democrat Stacey Abrams are being counted for Kemp in the governor’s race.

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In Massive Blow To Ted Cruz, The Dallas Morning News Endorses Beto O’Rourke

The Dallas Morning News, citing his demeanor that offers respect for each person and a humbleness,” endorsed Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke Thursday morning, even though they disagree with some of his more progressive policy positions. The editorial board wrote that Beto O’Rourke’s “demeanor that offers respect for each person and a humbleness that will…

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Ted Cruz Denounces Bombs Sent To Democrats After Calling For Beto O’Rourke To Be Jailed

Sen. Ted Cruz denounced the bombs that were sent to Democrats and CNN, a day after calling for his Senate race opponent Rep. Beto O’Rourke to be jailed.

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Family – including aunts and cousins – blasts Nevada Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt

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.

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Judge bars Republican-backed New Hampshire proof of residency requirement for new voters

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

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Bolton Tells Russian ‘Colleagues’ that Russian meddling in U.S. elections had negligible effect

Bolton played down the consequences of the alleged interference. “Today I told our Russian colleagues that their meddling in our election process had hardly had any real effect,” radio station Ekho Moskvy quoted him as saying on a visit to Moscow.

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State of Play: Tightening Arizona race threatens Democrats’ slim Senate hopes

The odds, however, have always been against Sinema, a member of the House who is seeking to replace retiring Republican Jeff Flake. Arizona has long been a right-leaning state, one that has come, in a sense, to embody the divisive politics of President Donald Trump.

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Republicans fear Democratic ‘blue wave’ spreading to once-safe districts

But the real reason they were there was basic: Donald Trump. They don’t like the president, and they were not about to vote for anyone, like Brat, who supports him.

“More than the policy, it’s the animosity he is fostering within the country,” Sneed said of Trump.

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Nate Silver Says Democrats Have an 85% Chance Of Winning The House

Nate Silver is out with his latest forecast, and it shows that Democrats have an 85% chance of winning the House.

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The Top Of The Republican Ticket Is Bombing In Swing States Setting Off A Democratic Chain Reaction

The top of the Republican ticket is bombing in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, which has set off a chain reaction helping Democratic candidates down the ballot.

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Alaska governor ends re-election campaign, throws support to Democrat

Alaska Governor Bill Walker, a political independent, halted his re-election campaign on Friday and said he would support his Democratic challenger, ending a three-way race in which the Republican candidate had appeared to possess an insurmountable lead.

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Special Report: The Trump trap – Republicans duck president in key House races

Leonard Lance is a Republican congressman seeking re-election in a Republican district. But he has little to say about the Republican president.

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O’Rourke comes out swinging at ‘Lyin Ted’ Cruz in Texas debate

Texas Democratic U.S. Senate contender Beto O’Rourke, slipping in the polls despite a record fundraising haul, went on the attack in a raucous debate with Republican rival Ted Cruz on Tuesday and resurrected the senator’s nickname of “Lyin Ted.”

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Georgia GOP Rig The Vote Effort Spreads To New Attack On Mail-In Ballots

This scam is called ‘reject the mail-in ballot’ in the majority minority county of Gwinnett, where 62% of the residents are not white. Gwinnett County, Georgia is responsible for 40% of mail-in ballot rejections statewide, and rejection rates for Asians and African-Americans are much higher than whites.

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Democrats Are Rolling As Sen. Sherrod Brown Sets Ohio Fundraising Record

More signs that Democrats are rolling toward election day, as Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) broke the Ohio Senate fundraising record by raising more than $27 million in the previous quarter.

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Texas U.S. Senate hopeful O’Rourke says raises $38.1 million in third quarter

Democratic U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke has raised $38.1 million in the final fiscal quarter before the Nov. 6 elections in his campaign to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, O’Rourke said on Twitter on Friday.

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Missouri judge blocks parts of state’s voter photo ID law

A Missouri state judge ordered on Tuesday that state election authorities could no longer tell voters that they are required to show a photo identification card in order to cast a ballot, blocking parts of Missouri’s voter identification law.

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Toxic Trump Leads to Trouble for GOP as Women Power Democrats to 14 Point Lead In Generic Polling

With growing support from women, Democrats are poised for major gains in midterm, new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll shows. Democrats are poised to make huge gains this midterm, and it’s thanks to three groups of women voters who have been important for Republicans: suburban residents, married white women and white women without college degrees….

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Back to the wall, Cruz decries challenger O’Rourke as out-of-touch leftist

Ted Cruz is in the political fight of his life — and he knows it.

The conservative U.S. senator from Texas is being outpaced and overshadowed by his progressive challenger, Beto O’Rourke, who is pushing to be the first Democrat in Texas to be elected to the Senate in 30 years.

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Senate candidates Cruz, O’Rourke square off in fractious debate

By James Oliphant DALLAS (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, trying furiously to beat back a high-profile challenge from Democratic rival Beto O’Rourke, repeatedly accused his opponent of being out of step with the Texas electorate as the two candidates faced off in a debate just six weeks before critical congressional elections. At Southern Methodist…

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Democrats’ enthusiasm to blunt Trump soars for congressional election: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Across almost all demographic groups, more Democrats say they are certain to vote compared to poll results in 2014, the last non-presidential election year.

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James, NY Democratic attorney general nominee, to aim investigations at Trump

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – For President Donald Trump, the New York attorney general‘s office has been a nemesis for years, one whose sting has grown more potent during his rocky tenure in office. Letitia James, who emerged Thursday as the Democratic nominee for New York’s top prosecutor, is expected to create more…

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Obama to urge Democrats to vote, citing ‘perilous’ time for U.S.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama will jump back into the political fray on Friday, telling Democratic voters the stakes are too high to sit out November’s elections, when the party is seeking to wrest control of Congress from President Donald Trump’s Republicans.

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Trump-backed candidate’s ‘monkey’ comment draws fire in Florida race

By Letitia Stein TAMPA (Reuters) – Florida‘s marquee governor’s race heated up on Wednesday, when the Trump-backed Republican candidate said the state should not “monkey this up” by electing his opponent, Democrat Andrew Gillum, who is African-American, in November. U.S. Representative Ron DeSantis, a staunch supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump who won his party’s…

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It Took Less Than 24 Hours For Ron DeSantis To Go Full Blown Racist On Andrew Gillum

Republican Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis needed less than 24 hours before he launched a Trump-style racist attack on his Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum.

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This is So Much Bigger Than Russia: Democrats Need to Run on Hope

“The facts are going to come out about Russia. I hope they do. But there’s a lot more to this. Just like Russia, just like racism has been a thing, long before Trump. It pains me to say this, but Russia was a problem long before Trump too. And I think that in the same way we fail to confront racism, we failed to confront Russia.”

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Democratic left, Trump loyalists, women win U.S. nominating contests

By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans loyal to Donald Trump scored victories in nominating contests for Florida and Arizona, giving momentum to the insurgent wings of America’s two main parties ahead of November elections. “Some worry that we are beyond a point in American politics where you can come…

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Liberal Democrat pulls off upset in Democratic primary for Florida governor

By John Whitesides and Letitia Stein (Reuters) – A liberal Democrat backed by Senator Bernie Sanders pulled off an upset in the Democratic primary for Florida governor on Tuesday, setting up a November showdown with a Republican backed by President Donald Trump. Andrew Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, beat moderate Gwen Graham, a former U.S….

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With Trump’s support, Republican DeSantis wins gubernatorial nod in Florida

By John Whitesides (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Representative Ron DeSantis easily won the Republican primary for governor in Florida on Tuesday after a campaign in which he highlighted his enthusiastic loyalty to President Donald Trump. DeSantis, who was endorsed by Trump, beat state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam for the Republican nomination for governor, the Associated…

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Virginia GOP Senate Candidate Admits It Wouldn’t Matter If Trump Is On Tape Saying The N-Word

Corey Stewart’s comments suggest that GOP candidates are already working on a blame-the-media pivot if the tape does exist.

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More U.S. states deploy technology to track election hacking attempts

By Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of U.S. states has adopted technology that allows the federal government to see inside state computer systems managing voter data or voting devices in order to root out hackers. Two years after Russian hackers breached voter registration databases in Illinois and Arizona, most states have begun using…

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As more women run for office, U.S. state legislatures are poised to change

By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As women line up to run for U.S. political office at historic rates, state legislatures – where some of America’s most critical policy decisions get made – could see a slew of new female lawmakers after November’s vote, according to a Reuters analysis of election data. In Michigan, for…

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U.S. House candidates vulnerable to hacks: researchers

By Joseph Menn LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Three of every 10 candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives have significant security problems with their websites, according to a new study by independent researchers that underscores the threat hackers pose to the November elections. The research was due to be unveiled on Sunday at the…

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Retiring GOP Congressman’s Son Donates The Max To Democrats To Flip His Dad’s Seat

Bobby Goodlatte, the son of retiring Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) announced that he donated the maximum to the Democratic candidate who is trying to flip what will be his dad’s former seat.

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Republican lawmaker charged with insider trading halts re-election bid

By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Chris Collins, an ally of President Donald Trump charged with taking part in an insider trading scheme, halted his campaign for re-election on Saturday, as Republicans sought to minimize the damage from his case ahead of November’s midterm elections. Collins said in a statement his decision was…

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Sen. Bill Nelson Warns That Russia Has Breached Florida’s Election System

It’s an open question whether more Democratic candidates in close races are facing similar attacks without even being aware of them.

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Trump-backed candidates struggle to cross finish line in Ohio, Kansas

Republican candidates backed by Donald Trump clung to small leads in closely watched races in Ohio and Kansas on Wednesday, with the narrow margins serving as encouraging signs for Democrats heading into November’s elections.

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Close-fought Ohio race fuels Democratic hopes for November

By John Whitesides (Reuters) – A hotly contested race in Ohio for a U.S. House of Representatives seat that has gone Republican for more than 30 years remained too close to call on Wednesday, in an encouraging sign for Democrats heading into the Nov. 6 elections. Republican Troy Balderson led Democrat Danny O’Connor by about…

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Republican Panic Grows As Ohio Special Election Is A Less Than 1 Point Margin In District Trump Won By Double Digits

Trump and the Republican Party should be deeply concerned about the fact that they can’t even coast to victory in their own territory.

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Steve Kornacki Warns GOP That Unpopular Trump Could Cost Them An Easy Win In OH-12

With the Trump presidency falling deeper into chaos and scandal, parts of the country that used to be reliably red no longer are.

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U.S. farmers could receive cash from Trump aid plan as late as September before midterms

U.S. farmers could receive cash payments from a planned $12 billion aid package as soon as late September, United States Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told Reuters on Saturday, adding that the program will not make farmers whole.

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The Blue Wave Strengthens As Women Support Democrats By Massive 2-To-1 Margin

Because of Democratic strength with the female electorate, they now hold a 12-point advantage heading into the critical midterm elections.

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Trump-backed candidate wins Republican primary for Georgia governor: media

A candidate backed by President Donald Trump won a two-man Republican primary run-off for governor on Tuesday, a local media projection said, in a race that became a proxy battle between the president and the state’s popular Republican governor, Nathan Deal.

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U.S. must prepare for more Russian meddling in all 50 U.S. states this year – Neilsen

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday said the United States needed to be prepared for an attempt by Russia to interfere in elections in all 50 U.S. states this year, adding that there was no question Moscow interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential contest.

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DHS Sec Nielsen Stabs U.S. in the Back Claiming That Russia Didn’t Interfere on Trump’s Behalf

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday that we need to brace for election interference in all 50 states. But she also pretended that Putin had not interfered on Trump’s or Republicans’ behalf in 2018.

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Alabama Republican who once spurned Trump appears headed for runoff win

Representative Martha Roby, an Alabama Republican who spurned Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, appeared headed for victory on Tuesday in a runoff election against a former Democrat-turned-Trump supporter.

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DHS Says Says Russia Isn’t Targeting 2018 Midterms Like 2016

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirtsjen Nielsen has been in the hot seat for several months as she has been caught in the middle of Donald Trump’s immigration battles. In May we reported that Nielsen considered resigning after her boss severely admonished her in front of his entire cabinet for failing to stop illegal…

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Nancy Pelosi Is Preparing To Crush ‘Dealmaker’ Trump

Democratic House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is ready to go, and she understands that if Democrats take back the House, she is going to have the leverage to test or crush the myth of Trump as a dealmaker.

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Energized Democrats Surge Toward Midterms As Trump Is Losing On Immigration and Trade

Trump has made immigration and trade the two centerpiece issues of his midterm election strategy, but a new poll shows that he is losing on both as Democrats have surged to a double-digit lead on enthusiasm.

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Democrats Flip Wisconsin Senate Seat In District That Trump Won By 18

A special election that Gov. Scott Walker put off holding for months turned into the GOP’s worst nightmare as Democrat Calen Frostman flipped the state senate seat from red to blue.

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Women candidates surge but face tough fights in battle for U.S. Congress

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Dozens of women on Tuesday won congressional and gubernatorial nominations as voters in eight U.S. states chose candidates ahead of November’s elections, including several who notched firsts in a year boasting a historic number of female contenders. But many of those women – particularly Democrats – will face tough contests…