Ohio’s ballot for the November election is nearly set.
Secretary of State Frank LaRose released a list of candidates who met the requirements to appear on the statewide ballot with the final deadline less than two weeks away.
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City councils in two Waukesha County municipalities, Brookfield and New Berlin, have voted to ban the use of ballot drop boxes in their cities for the upcoming general election, following a state Supreme Court ruling that reinstated municipalities’ right to utilize the equipment.
Brookfield justified its decision last week to ban drop boxes by arguing they are unnecessary.
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When Florida was hit with severe storms and Hurricane Ian in 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris demanded that “communities of color” must be first in line for aid and that assistance should be prioritized “in a way that is about giving resources based on equity.”
She has repeatedly made similar claims, differentiating “equity” from equality, stating that “not everyone starts in the same place.”
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The Arizona Police Association has endorsed Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego over Republican nominee Kari Lake in the state’s critical Senate race.
“As a Marine combat veteran, we know Congressman Gallego understands the complexities of modern policing in American society today, while at the same time recognizing the public’s expectations,” Arizona Police Association President Justin Harris wrote Monday on the social platform X.
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Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley said Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is “absolutely not ready to be the president of the United States” if she is not “ready for primetime in terms of handling the press or handling a debate.”
As of Tuesday, Harris has avoided unscripted interactions with the public or sitting down for a formal interview with the media for 37 days straight – which Whatley said is a sign that Harris is “just not ready for primetime.”
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The progressive Knight Foundation (KF) is providing training to journalists ahead of the 2024 general election on election related legal issues. KF announced in July that the organization would fund election news coverage “primarily in swing states.” It will also provide journalists with “explainers and training …from The Associated Press.”
“One local news organization in each swing state will also receive a grant to serve as an ‘anchor,’ bolstering the distribution of election-related coverage with editorial partners in their state.” So far, most of KF’s grants in Arizona have gone to Arizona State University.
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Around 12 percent of Bernie Sanders’ supporters 13.2 million in the 2016 Democratic Party primary against Hillary Clinton ended up supporting former President Donald Trump in the general election, or almost 1.6 million, according to the Guide to the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey released by Harvard University in Aug. 2017.
That included 9 percent of Sanders’ 570,000 Wisconsin supporters, or 51,300, 8 percent of his 590,000 Michigan supporters, or 47,200, and 16 percent of his 732,000 Pennsylvania supporters, or 117,120.
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A left-leaning organization backed by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is promoting a $6 million election grant program to “support local election officials” from an influential left-wing nonprofit, The Federalist reported Friday.
The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) allegedly told election officials to participate in the “A More Responsive Government 2024 Grant Program” associated with the Institute for Responsive Government (IRG), according to emails obtained by The Federalist. The CTCL funneled $350 million to states across the nation in 2020, with Zuckerberg donating $328 million to the organization, according to Influence Watch.
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The conservative nonprofit Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Action will spend $3.5 million to boost Republicans challenging vulnerable Democrats in the U.S. Senate, with Dave McCormick to benefit from the group’s spending in Pennsylvania.
According to The Daily Wire, who broke the news of the AFP Action advertising spend on Monday, the group will spend $3.5 million to target Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
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Christy Kelly, reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, detailed her firsthand experience witnessing history on Friday when Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump in the race.
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Money always finds a way. In the years following the 2020 election, dozens of states managed to ban private funding of elections. But even though Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly promised not to pour more of his money into your local election office, this year, the “Zuckbucks” team is recommitted to spreading cash wherever they legally can.
Recall that in late 2020, Zuckerberg directed his charitable arm to pass $350 million through an obscure nonprofit called the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to fund large and small election offices around the nation. Some politically important counties received millions of dollars while others did not. As of today, 28 states have since banned the practice. Despite the bans, the CTCL’s work continues. In fact, the bans guide cash along new paths of least resistance.
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A new American Greatness/TIPP poll shows that among likely voters in Michigan, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in a near-dead heat battle, with Harris at 46%, Trump at 45%, and RFK Jr. at 5%, before his announcement to drop out of the race and endorse Trump.
In a two-person race, Kamala leads by 2%, 48-46%, within the margin of error for this survey.
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A new poll suggests that President Donald Trump has retained a strong lead over Vice President Kamala Harris among independent voters, a crucial bloc that could decide the 2024 election.
Just The News reports that the new poll, released by Rasmussen Reports, shows the former president with an 11-point lead among independents, with 51% supporting Trump and just 40% supporting Harris. In the same survey one week prior, President Trump’s lead among independents was 9 points.
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Thousands showed up for a Donald Trump rally with Turning Point USA in Glendale west of Phoenix, with many lining up overnight to get good seats. Robert Kennedy Jr. joined Trump at the Desert Diamond Arena to show his support, having suspended his presidential campaign in Arizona and nine other battleground states just hours earlier. Kennedy said earlier at a press conference in downtown Phoenix that if he stayed in the race, it might allow Kamala Harris to win the presidential race since he would take votes away from Trump.
Several candidates running for office in Arizona spoke before Trump, including congressional candidates and Kari Lake, who is running for U.S. Senate. Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk said Americans are tired of sending $200 billion to Ukraine when the U.S.’s own borders aren’t secure. He said American citizens should be prioritized over foreigners.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Friday that he was suspending his independent presidential campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump for the 2024 election. Speaking at a packed press conference in Phoenix, Kennedy cited dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party and his promise not to be a spoiler as key factors in his decision.
“These are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump,” Kennedy stated. He emphasized that, although he is withdrawing his candidacy vin ten swing states, his name will remain on the ballot in several states, allowing his supporters to continue backing him where their votes are unlikely to sway the outcome.
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Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced Wednesday that he has formally referred evidence of noncitizen voter registrations to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost for further review and potential prosecution as a result of his office’s ongoing effort to strengthen election integrity ahead of the November 5 general election.
“I’m duty-bound to make sure people who haven’t yet earned citizenship in this country do not vote in our elections,” LaRose said in a statement.
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Following the Wisconsin Election Commission’s dismissal of a complaint from a Democratic National Committee staffer, who seeks to remove Green Party candidate Jill Stein from the ballot, the plaintiff has doubled down and filed an expedited appeal with the state’s Supreme Court.
Court documents reveal it accepted the case Thursday and is requesting that the plaintiff provide additional information, actions that have caused two Supreme Court justices to dissent.
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick issued a statement on Thursday, “slamming” Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) for his Democratic National Convention (DNC) speech that pinned the blame for higher prices on “greedflation,” with McCormick accusing the Democrat of voting for policies that were actually behind price hikes.
“Weak career politician Bob Casey voted for every bill that is driving higher prices, enabling open borders and the flood of fentanyl, crushing Pennsylvania’s energy sector, and encouraging violent crime,” said McCormick in a statement posted to the social media platform X.
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Former President Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp found the perfect narrative Thursday night to upstage Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination acceptance speech, ending their feud dating to the 2020 election with a full-throated embrace that played out on national television.
The mutual endorsement reunited two of the GOP’s most powerful figures heading into the November election, and made the road for Democrats to score a win in Georgia more difficult.
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, conducted a poll for the closely watched Ohio U.S. Senate race between incumbent Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Republican nominee Bernie Moreno, which showed that the race is “dead even.”
Zawistowski said he polled 273 individuals chosen randomly from a phone database over a two-day period earlier this week and asked respondents about the U.S. Senate and presidential races and the overall direction of the nation.
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Christy Kelly, reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Friday morning announcement in Arizona may have been planned to knock Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris out of the news cycle less than 24 hours after her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night.
On Friday, Kennedy announced the suspension to his presidential campaign and that he would be endorsing former President Donald Trump in the race moving forward.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed paperwork to withdraw from the presidential ballot in the swing state of Arizona.
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Former Governor Terry McAuliffe on Thursday disputed the results of a Virginia poll that showed former President Donald Trump statistically tied with Vice President Kamala Harris in the commonwealth, raising allegations about the pollster’s credibility and claims its data was skewed, before arguing federal workers would turnout in sufficient numbers to propel the Harris-Walz ticket to victory.
McAuliffe claimed the pollster who released the Tuesday survey showing Trump and Harris statistically tied, with the Democrat leading the former president by just 3 percent, “has never had a poll that’s been correct in their life,” according to The Washington Times.
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Connecticut Republicans are calling for changes to the early voting law after the state’s top election official suggested that the weeklong voting period should be shortened amid lackluster turnout.
“For many months, Connecticut Republicans raised repeated concerns over the burden that many days of early voting would place on town budgets statewide,” Senate Republican Leader Stephen Harding, R-Brookfield, and other GOP lawmakers said in a statement calling for reforms to the system. “Simply put, it’s a waste of taxpayer money which puts unnecessary heavy burdens on our hard-working local election officials.”
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) announced the indictment of a voter who cast ballots in both Georgia and Arizona in the November 2022 election.
The secretary of state’s office conducted an investigation into double-voting following the 2022 general election and referred the case to the Forsyth County district attorney’s office, according to a press releaseWednesday.
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As voters prepare to cast their vote in the November election, Rep. Ruben Gallego’s (D-AZ-03) record on public safety has emerged as a central issue in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race. Gallego, who has served in Congress since 2015 and previously in the Arizona House of Representatives, faces scrutiny from his opponent, Kari Lake, and other critics over his stance on law enforcement and public safety.
Gallego’s efforts to reform police practices and limit military-grade equipment for law enforcement, as well as his public appearances and fiery social media posts has become a major focus in the contentious Senate campaign.
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Republican U.S. House candidate James Hayes told Outside the Beltway host John Fredericks on Thursday that Representative Summer Lee (D-PA-12) is “alienating whole communities” with her positions on Israel and “anti-police agenda” that leaves communities less safe.
Hayes told Fredericks, who is publisher of The Pennsylvania Daily Star, that Lee’s public remarks caused new excitement and enthusiasm for his Republican candidacy in the district that President Joe Biden carried with a 20-point margin.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced Wednesday that his office has launched an investigation into organizations allegedly registering non-citizens to vote.
The AG’s Election Integrity Unit found that multiple nonprofit organizations have opened booths outside Texas Department of Public Safety Driver License offices to assist with voter registration. U.S. citizens have the opportunity to register to vote at the offices when they are being issued or renewing their driver’s license or identification card.
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Eric Trump, former President Donald Trump’s son and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, blasted the mainstream media for being ” dishonest ” in reporting the Biden-Harris administration’s shortfalls, especially in the economy.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Labor released revised federal jobs data, which showed that it overestimated the number of jobs created in the U.S. by 818,000 over the year through March 2024.
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Former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry on Tuesday announced an event titled “VP Kamala Harris Day” will take place on Saturday, issuing a flyer that invited Nashville Democrats to “win with black women” by attending.
The Barry campaign posted a campaign flyer to social media advertising an event, titled “VP Kamala Harris Day,” which will be held in Nashville on Saturday.
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The Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee, U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH), will travel to Nashville next week to attend a fundraiser hosted by Nashville businessman and former Trump administration official Adam Boehler and his wife, Shira Boehler, according to a flier for the event first obtained by the Tennessee Lookout.
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The Detroit Department of Elections hired 2,000+ more Democrats than Republicans as poll workers for the August primary election, similar to prior elections over the last four years and contrary to state law. That law states that election clerks must “appoint an equal number, as nearly as possible, of election inspectors in each election precinct from each major political party.”
Nearly 80% more Democrats were hired as poll workers for Detroit’s primary election this year compared to Republicans. This stark contrast is a trend that has repeatedly occurred over the last four years in Detroit and happened in Flint in 2022, despite state law requiring nearly equal numbers of poll workers from both political parties.
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Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump and co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), on Tuesday predicted softening in the feud between former President Donald Trump and Governor Brian Kemp after the Georgia leader reportedly offered his “political machine” to the Trump-Vance ticket.
The prediction came after the former president described Kemp as “disloyal” during an August 3 rally in Atlanta, which prompted questions about whether the terse relationship between the men that developed after the 2020 election results would impact the Trump campaign in November.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday blamed Democrats for the ballot access lawsuits by his independent presidential campaign faces from outside a courthouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he claimed a judge refused to allow him or a campaign official to testify because they were late to the courtroom.
Kennedy attributed blame for the legal challenges to his candidacy solely to Democrats, specifying Republicans have not engaged in such tactics, on the same day his vice presidential running mate suggested Kennedy could soon end the campaign and endorse former President Donald Trump.
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Several grassroots groups, including the Voter Reference Foundation run by Arizona Republican Party Chair Gina Swoboda, put on election integrity training in Scottsdale and Tucson on Monday. Organized by America First Policy Institute (AFPI), speakers from the Honest Elections Project, Heritage Action for America, Save Our States Action, and American Constitutional Rights Union Action taught attendees how to work at the polls, observe elections, and educated them on the Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) proposition on the ballot and efforts to require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Jordan Kittleson, policy director of AFPI, moderated the event, asking the experts questions and commenting on them. Organized by America First Policy Institute (AFPI), speakers from the Honest Elections Project, Heritage Action for America, Save Our States Action, and American Constitutional Rights Union Action taught attendees how to work at the polls, observe elections, and educated them on the Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) proposition on the ballot and efforts to require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Jordan Kittleson, policy director of AFPI, moderated the event, asking the experts questions and commenting on them.
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The Montgomery County Republican Committee (MCRC) in Pennsylvania removed a committeeman on Monday after he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and appeared on CNN to confirm his interest in Republican activism was inspired by his opposition former President Donald Trump.
After initially endorsing “the Democrat” against Trump in July 3 opinion column written for The Philadelphia Inquirer during the period when Democrats were urging President Joe Biden to step down in favor of another candidate, MCRC committeeman McCaffery confirmed his endorsement of the Harris-Walz ticket during a Friday appearance on CNN.
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Steve Cortes, former senior spokesman and strategist for the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns and current head of the League of American Workers, is warning that Kamala Harris’ vow to pass the first federal ban on price gouging if she becomes president would lead to “scarcity, shortages, and black markets” for everyday goods in America.
Last week, during a campaign event in North Carolina, Harris said her plan to lower the prices of everyday goods if she were elected president would be to go after the “bad actor” businesses that are not “playing by the rules” by working to pass the first-ever federal ban on price gouging.
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Rumors are swirling that Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. plans to drop out of the race as early as this week and endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Kennedy’s running mate Nicole Shanahan confirmed that the remarkable development is on the table during an interview Tuesday with filmmaker and entrepreneur Tom Bilyeu on his podcast “Impact Theory.”
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, has stated that the campaign is exploring a potential withdrawal from the race in favor of endorsing former President Donald Trump.
“There’s two options that we’re looking at and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Waltz presidency because we draw more votes from Trump,” she said. “Or we walk away right now and join forces with with Donald Trump and explain to our base why we’re making this decision.”
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Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator says it’s not accidental Wisconsin’s voter rolls remain filled with dead people and voters who have moved out of state.
Sen. Ron Johnson was on Fox Business over the weekend, and once again criticized Democrats for wanting “to make it easy to cheat in elections.”
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Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego on Monday doubled down on her endorsement of Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03), her ex-husband, in remarks made weeks after an emergency motion was filed in a bid to seal details of their divorce case from the public.
Kate Gallego made her remarks about the endorsement of her ex-husband during an interview with KTAR News host Jim Sharpe at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
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Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) received $5,000 from a political action committee which supports the controversial EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program that grants permanent residence visas to wealthy foreign nationals who make significant investments in the United States.
Documents submitted by the Immigrant Investors Association/Invest in the USA (IIUSA) PAC to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) confirm the organization gave Casey $5,000 on June 13, and records additionally reveal Casey is the only U.S. Senate candidate who received such a contribution.
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Virginia appears to be in play in the presidential election, with Vice President Kamala Harris holding a slight lead over former President Donald Trump in the commonwealth, according to a poll released Tuesday morning.
The Institute for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College shows Harris ahead of Trump by three percentage points (47%-44%) in a head-to-head matchup. When other candidates were included, Harris still leads by three points (45%-42%). When factoring in the poll’s 4.5% margin of error, Harris and Trump are in a statistical dead heat.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee, repeatedly implied he and his wife used IVF procedures in order to conceive their children. However, the couple never used IVF.
According to both the New York Times and CNN, the Harris-Walz campaign recently disclosed that Walz and his wife, Gwen, did not use IVF to conceive their children. Instead, the couple used a very different procedure called IUI. For months, Walz had been heavily implying that he and his wife used IVF to conceive their children.
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Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno has launched a $25 million ad campaign across television, mail and radio.
The Trump-backed Moreno hopes to unseat incumbent Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown in November.
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A bipartisan election board in Luzerne County, Pa., found that the number of ballots returned to two drop boxes in the November 2022 election was roughly the amount collected, after reviewing video surveillance footage, despite an earlier review showing significant disparities.
The county board conducted a second review of the surveillance footage after an initial review found that significantly fewer ballots were dropped off than collected from the two drop boxes, the Times Leader reported Monday after the results were released ahead of the board meeting on Wednesday.
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The Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes announced on Saturday that eight Green Party write-in candidates would be moving on to the general election. The Green Party is an independent political party “connected to American social movements,” according to the Green Party’s website.
At this time, the Green Party has 100 elected officials across the country. However, Arizona has never had a Green Party candidate elected into a federal or state office. The write-in candidates were not mentioned in the official Arizona Primary Canvass due to a clerical error, according to an Aug. 17 press release from the Secretary of State’s office, which explained the way voting for a write-in candidate works.
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Several congressional Democrats facing tight reelection bids, particularly those in tossup or GOP-leaning states or House districts, are skipping the party’s nominating convention in Chicago this week.
Montana Sen. Jon Tester has not yet endorsed Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, and he was the red state’s only delegate to withhold a vote backing Harris, according to Montana Public Radio.
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The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) on Monday adopted a rule that requires the number of ballots and voters be the same before the certification of election results.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz used favorable language to describe Chinese communism when teaching a high school social studies class in 1991, according to an unearthed article in Nebraska’s Alliance Times-Herald.
Walz told students that, under communism, “everyone shares” and gets free food and housing from the government, according to the resurfaced newspaper piece first reported by the Washington Free Beacon. Just two years before the article was published, China’s communist government massacred pro-democracy student protesters in Tiananmen Square, with death counts ranging from several hundred to thousands, according to the BBC.
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