National security expert Juliette Kayyem warned on election day that baseless allegations of election fraud are a form of incitement.
National Security Expert: Baseless Allegations of Election Fraud Are Incitement
Two-thirds of Americans Say Trump is ‘Not Truthful’
Nearly two-thirds of American voters surveyed say that President Donald Trump “has not been truthful” about the investigation into Russian 2016 election interference and a possible conspiracy between his campaign and Russia.
Woman Says She Was Paid To Take Absentee Ballots in North Carolina
A woman said Monday that a Bladen County, N.C., Republican election official paid her to illegally collect absentee ballots from the November 6 midterm elections.
Absentee ballot witness Ginger Eason told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, that the official, McCrae Dowless, paid her between $75 and $100 to take completed absentee ballots from the voters. She said she took the ballots and then never mailed them, depriving the individuals of their legal right to vote in the election.
Healthcare Lies May Cost the GOP Their Most Reliable Voters
During this election cycle political commentators have spent much time analyzing different voting groups.
Will young voters and minorities turn out for Democrats? Will angry white male voters carry Trump’s GOP to victory? Will women voters be the force behind a dominant Blue Wave?
As Trump Hijacks the Midterms, Republicans Panic
GOP candidates and party bosses all over the country are in panic mode as they have seen President Donald Trump hijack the 2018 midterm elections.
They wanted their campaign message to focus on how great the economy is. But instead he has made sure the election is all about him.
Trump’s Rallies Take His Lying to a Whole New Level
The 2018 midterm elections have turned into a referendum on President Donald Trump. He has made sure of that by holding dozens of campaign rallies all over the country.
But the elections will also be a referendum on his brazen campaign strategy, where he has taken lying to an entirely new level.
Trump Is Already Blaming Scapegoats For Tuesday’s Losses
On Wednesday Donald Trump attacked Paul Ryan in what many believe was an attempt by the president to deflect blame in advance of a crushing Republican defeat in Tuesday’s midterm elections. It appears that Trump needs a scapegoat and he did not hesitate at all to throw the retiring Speaker of the House under the bus.
Trump’s Travels Prove Republicans Have Given Up On Keeping the House
The statistical website FiveThirtyEight gives the Democratic Party an 86 percent chance of winning the House next Tuesday which is not a sure thing.
But recent travels by President Donald Trump prove that the Republican Party has given up all hope of retaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Shocker: Democrats Ahead By 17 points On Generic Ballot
Political observers closely watch the so-called generic congressional ballot to get an idea of which party is likely to win control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections.
Because of Republican gerrymandering, it is widely believed that Democrats need an advantage of approximately six percent in the national popular vote if they are to win control of the House of Representatives.
New Poll Shows Democrats’ Anger May Lead to Victory in November
Pattie Blair, 74, a Democratic voter in Arizona, says that whenever she sees Donald Trump on television an intense wave of anger washes over her.
“It’s the most negative, blackest place to find yourself,” Blair said. “It’s like being in a bucket you can’t get yourself out of – a hand keeps pushing you back in every time you try to surface.”
How the GOP Is Using Racism, Bigotry and Fear to Try To Win the Midterms
It is very clear that all Republicans, but especially President Donald Trump, are growing increasingly desperate as the midterm elections grow near.
While they had initially planned to base their November campaigns on the great economy and the wonderful benefits of their tax plan, they have discovered that those ideas aren’t working.
Democrats Will Investigate Trump Scandals, Including Russia
If they win a majority in November, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will re-open the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. They would like to investigate a lot of other things about Donald Trump also, including his family, his business associates and his cabinet members. But they will have to be selective in what they investigate, according to experts on the subject.
Voter Turnout For Midterm Elections Could Be the Highest Ever
The 2018 elections could see the highest turnout for a midterm since the mid-1960s, according to an elections expert who has been studying voting patterns. In fact, based on evidence to date, it could be the highest midterm election turnout ever.
DNC Vice-Chair: There’s ‘No Way’ Republicans Hold the House
In a Tuesday interview, Michael Blake vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee said he thought there was “no way” that Republicans would be able to preserve their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
A New ‘Pink Resistance’ Is Transforming American Politics Forever
Conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin, a longtime Republican, warned her party on Tuesday that Donald Trump has “unleashed a pink resistance that will transform American politics forever.”
‘Blue wave’ or ‘left-wing mob’? Anti-Trump fervor fuels a new movement aimed squarely at winning elections. https://t.co/G1qqP6LwPB neither: the pink resistance https://t.co/JYKgRqhK3S
Washington Post: Democrats Have an 11 Point Lead in the Generic Ballot
Recently Republicans and the mainstream media have been promoting the narrative that Republicans are tightening the race for control of the U.S. House of Representatives. But a new Washington Post/ABC News poll contradicts this narrative, showing Democrats with a very strong 11 percentage point lead in the generic congressional ballot. And independent women voters favor Democrats by an astounding 33 percentage points.
Iowa’s Largest Newspaper Endorses Only Democrats
Yesterday The Des Moines Register, Iowa’s largest newspaper, announced that it was endorsing only Democrats in this year’s congressional races.
The respected newspaper’s editorial board said that this year the stakes are too high to do anything else.
GOP Jams the Upcoming Agenda for Their Lame-Duck Congress
Republicans in Congress are packing the agenda for their lame-duck session after the November 6th midterm elections. Clearly they are worried about losing control and know this may be their last chance to set the agenda for several years.
Due to Trump, Millions of Women Have Left the Republican Party Forever
Donald Trump’s election has clearly pushed independent and Democratic women into action, resulting in record numbers of women running for office, and huge numbers of women doing political organizing and becoming activists for the first time.
Florida Democrats Ask For Voter Registration Extension Due to Hurricane
With Hurricane Michael on a path to devastate 300 miles of northwest Florida coastline tomorrow afternoon, Florida Democrats want the voter registration deadline extended.
Michael is bringing to Florida’s northern Gulf Coast its most serious hurricane threat in decades, and the National Hurricane Center has said the devastation caused by storm surges may be greater than anything residents there have ever seen before. The storm will make landfall Wednesday as a major category 3 hurricane.