Conservative commentator Joe Hoft alleged Monday that a new PAC linked to a Democrat-backed spoiler campaign in Alaska against GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) sent mailers to confuse voters. A photo Hoft posted online showed a mailer that promoted Democratic Sullivan opponent Mary Peltola and independent candidate Dan J. Sullivan, whose nearly identical name has […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s Washington Secrets, your guide to power and politics. OK, there’s an election on. We know. But here’s an idea: Why don’t we worry about it when we have the results in? Today we offer you something else by way of palate cleanser … Plus, well, we can’t help ourselves: Which one of […]
Voting machines at most polling stations in Westchester County, New York, experienced issues that are set to delay ballot counting for Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), in one of the closest House elections in this cycle. The Westchester County Board of Elections said the issue involved the “thickness of paper ballots,” which caused machines to reject […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said Republicans are often undervalued in polling, and expressed optimism that the party will pull big wins in the midterm elections. “I saw a survey that was like one in three Democrats will pick up a call when a pollster is calling, one in 10 Republicans will do the same,” […]
ALLEN, Texas — Ken Paxton didn’t mince words on his final day of campaigning for Texas’s open Senate seat about what was at stake in Tuesday’s midterm elections: the Texas way of life. “Texas has never been this close to slipping away. We have never been this close to losing everything that we hold here: […]
Storms and flooding are set to complicate voting across several states, including in locations where pivotal races are being held. Poor weather is known to suppress turnout, especially among low-propensity voters. In some places such as Florida, however, severe storms and flooding have disrupted the logistics of voting, forcing 19 polling locations across seven counties […]
President Donald Trump revealed in an interview that all military funding to Israel will be cut by the end of the year, despite claiming no bad blood with the Middle East ally. Speaking by phone with Fox News on Wednesday, the president said the United States “won’t be paying anymore” for Israeli security because “they […]
The Washington Examiner asked six pundits from both sides of the aisle a simple question: Who is going to win on Election Day? Most believe the House will flip to the Democrats, but there are very different views on which party will be controlling the Senate in 2027. The Washington Examiner will give props to […]
Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb told voters on Tuesday to report the presence of National Guard troops near voting locations, emphasizing that federal personnel at polling stations is illegal. Schwalb said in an X post that his office had contacted the Trump administration about the issue in the days leading up to the midterm […]
The Department of Justice announced the largest voting-monitoring effort in its history, made up of around 1,000 monitors and observers deployed across all 50 states for the first time. For reference, former President Joe Biden’s DOJ sent fewer than 400 monitors to 24 states in the last midterm elections in 2022. This year’s effort will […]
