(The Center Square) – Vice presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. JD Vance focused on border security and the fentanyl crisis during his second visit to Arizona, where he held rallies in both Mesa and Phoenix on Wednesday and Thursday. Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake appeared before Vance at a rally hosted by the conservative […]
(The Center Square) – As Spokane continues to grapple with its structural budget gap, the city now says the deficit stands at $14 million after a series of cuts and new contracts. Mayor Lisa Brown proposed two additional cost-saving measures on Wednesday Brown and other city officials referred to the structural gap as a $50 million […]
(The Center Square) – Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in a statistical dead heat in the battleground of North Carolina, a new poll released just days ahead of absentee by mail ballots going out says. With margin of error at +/- 3%, the Harris-Tim Walz ticket for Democrats leads Republicans’ […]
Concerns over the Biden-Harris border crisis have surged amid a wave of horrific news stories of crimes conducted by suspected illegal immigrants, and a new poll shows that Americans blame “border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris. In the survey for the National Sheriffs’ Association provided to Secrets, just 29% approved of the job Harris has […]
(The Center Square) – Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan wants to screen the social media accounts of potential jurors after extensive pretrial publicity for one of the state’s most high-profile corruption cases since Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Madigan’s defense team traced the publicity issue back to former Gov. Bruce Rauner, a wealthy Republican who fought […]
(The Center Square) — The first appeal of a decision made by the Pennsylvania Opioid Trust has been completed — and Somerset County lost. In a 5-1 vote in the trust’s dispute resolution committee, trust members went against the county, ruling that $30,000 on an outdoor recreation program for young people didn’t qualify as an […]
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign celebrated “the largest haul of the 2024 cycle” with $361 million received in donations last month. The Democratic nominee’s record-setting sum for August nearly tripled former President Donald Trump’s numbers and included 1.3 million first-time donors. “75% of those donors didn’t donate last cycle,” a senior adviser to the Harris […]
‘Blue wall’ reinforcement None of the seven primary battlegrounds have tipped so far in one direction that either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump can afford to take their foot off the gas. Both candidates are scrapping for every inch of ground for a map that was shaken up by President Joe […]
EXCLUSIVE — A conservative nonprofit organization will launch an ad campaign thanking Republican governors across the country for efforts to crack on diversity, equity, and inclusion in their states. The project, titled “Opportunity for All: Dismantling DEI,” seeks to call attention to DEI policies being implemented by state legislatures, particularly in higher education institutions. The […]
Early voting is poised to get underway in several states this month. The Washington Examiner will take a closer look at the swing states, including voting rules you need to know and key differences from prior elections. Part four of Battleground Ballots will focus on what has changed in Michigan, a key battleground state that has been key to […]
