(The Center Square) – With 103 days to Nov. 5, Democrats are out-fundraising Republicans in the top state-wide elections across North Carolina. These races, often called the Council of State election races, include the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, commissioners of agriculture, insurance, and labor, the secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction. […]
Kamala’s path to victory Democrats’ shiny new object in the form of a new presidential candidate has been a boon. Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris is boasting historic fundraising numbers, hauling in $80 million in her first 24 hours and $124 million in less than a week. Voters are excited to turn out […]
(The Center Square) — The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority voted Thursday to spend $20 million on more than 14,000 laptops to grow internet access in the commonwealth. The unanimous vote allows the Authority to award between 20 and 200 laptops to libraries, schools, municipalities and other groups. So far, 130 groups have applied to the […]
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is emerging as a prominent contender to join Vice President Kamala Harris on the Democratic presidential lineup this November. President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the reelection campaign and endorse Kamala has sparked immediate speculation about who might join her as a running mate should she win the nomination. […]
Former President Ronald Reagan had been out of office for five years when he returned to Washington, D.C., to address a Republican National Committee fundraiser. It was three days before his 83rd birthday. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, RNC Chairman Haley Barbour, and Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole were among those on hand for […]
Like President Joe Biden before her, Vice President Kamala Harris‘s map back to the White House is poised to go through Pennsylvania. While proper polling of Harris’s prospects against former President Donald Trump this November is only days old, the battleground state data, instead of her fundraising numbers and social media memes, underscore how Trump […]
The presidential window for former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley appears to be closed after her unsuccessful run for the 2024 Republican nomination. But there is one development that could reopen it, if only slightly. Though Haley served under former President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, she […]
The most memorable piece of information from my Bush-Quayle-era AP Biology class has nothing to do with cellular mitosis, genotypes, or, really, any scientific concept. Rather, it’s our long-tenured John Muir High School teacher, Al Razum, recalling how, more than 20 years earlier, FBI agents came calling on his classroom on a sad June 1968 […]
President Joe Biden’s shock July 21 announcement on X that he would not stand for reelection, months after securing enough delegates to be his party’s standard-bearer, left some questions about what this would mean for Vice President Kamala Harris. The note thanked Harris near the end for “being an extraordinary partner” in pushing White House […]
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has been heralded as a sort of intellectual progenitor of “Trumpism” as a political philosophy. The Ohio senator’s career has evolved from his bestselling memoir and excursions in venture capital to becoming former President Donald Trump’s running mate on the 2024 GOP ticket. But for all of […]
