Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) on Wednesday waded into an advertising controversy engulfing fellow Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial campaign, putting himself at odds with his Ohio colleague. Ramaswamy, who is challenging Democrat Amy Acton for the governor’s seat, has come under attack from some critics for airing a campaign ad this week featuring Acton’s estranged mother […]
The Trump administration filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking the justices to lift a lower court’s injunction halting border wall construction in Texas’s Big Bend region. Solicitor General D. John Sauer pleaded to the high court to lift a “baseless injunction that halts a major portion of the construction of […]
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee political action committee is reportedly no longer endorsing political candidates or making direct candidate PAC contributions after three cycles of political giving. “Endorsements, direct PAC contributions, and earmarking will no longer be part of our approach so we can expand individual giving and utilize new tools to help our […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) this week faced pushback from multiple Democratic sheriffs after saying they endorsed his gubernatorial reelection campaign in Texas. The saga started Monday, when Abbott announced that 12 Democratic sheriffs across the state were backing his campaign against Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa. Abbott is widely expected to secure a fourth term […]
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) on Wednesday faulted President Donald Trump for the tight South Carolina Senate race, claiming the dynamic would have been different if the president backed him over Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC). Norman, who fell to Graham in the primary runoff after Trump endorsed her, told Kelly Nash that Trump played a significant […]
A local chapter of the nation’s largest federation of labor unions bashed Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Wednesday for campaigning with former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a former Democrat-turned-independent. Maine’s local AFL-CIO President Cynthia Phinney called it “mystifying and insulting” that Collins would campaign with Manchin, citing his work as an adviser for the […]
Hundreds of migrants are traveling on foot through southern Mexico with hopes of making it into the United States. The caravan of migrants, predominantly from Central America, is on what some have called a “faith and hope” journey, according to a video posted by Reuters on Tuesday. In the video, men, women, and families with […]
Forty-two percent of registered voters would rather see survivors of a botched execution serve life in prison than attempt a second execution, according to a new poll. The updated count for those who believe death row inmates should serve life in prison after the procedure goes awry beat out the one-third of respondents who supported […]
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee and House Committee on Administration issued a subpoena to Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D-NJ) acting secretary of state on Wednesday, seeking more information about the state’s noncitizen voter registration scandal. The subpoena is the latest development in the saga over the 6,600 noncitizens who were placed on New Jersey’s voter […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said the recent attack ad against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, featuring her estranged mother calling her a liar, was unsettling. “You know, when I saw this, I thought, there’s something really weird about this,” York said Tuesday on The Hugh Hewitt Show. “And then I looked up […]
