(The Center Square) – This election season’s traditional “October Surprise” has turned into a series of events, the latest of which has candidates scrambling to distance themselves from inflammatory remarks made by a comedian and a sitting president. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during the warmup for the recent Trump […]
(The Center Square) – With all eyes on Tuesday’s election, some are already thinking about upcoming Illinois legislation sessions. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he has a legislative agenda, but doesn’t expect much until the new General Assembly is seated in January. “Lots of agenda. Not necessarily for the veto session,” Pritzker said at the Governor’s […]
(The Center Square) – With two more days of early voting remaining, nearly 50% of all North Carolina registered voters have already cast their ballots. As of Thursday morning, 3.6 million out of the nearly 7.8 million voters in the state had either early voted or submitted their absentee ballots. “We are in tremendously good shape […]
(The Center Square) – As the last few polls come out before Election Day 2024, Georgia is looking more and more favorable for former President Donald Trump. Of the last dozen polls out of the state reported by Project 538, the Republican has led them all. While many were well within the statistical margin of error, […]
(The Center Square) – Just over two weeks after early voting first began in Georgia, 50% of all registered voters in the state have already cast their ballots. These are historic numbers for the battleground state, which has 16 electoral votes and is considered pivotal to winning the White House. Nearly every day of early voting […]
President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race in July, and in the final days before the election, he is traveling to a key swing state — but not to campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden has largely stayed out of Harris’s campaign efforts, instead sticking to White House events and smaller appearances […]
Iconic photos featuring three presidents whose items are often treated as collectibles are quietly being auctioned in a “private treaty offer” timed for the election. One photo shows the Sept. 26, 1960, debate between then-Vice President Richard Nixon and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy from behind the cameras and lights used in the first-ever televised clash. […]
Country singer Lee Greenwood, 82, was hoping to pen a strong concert closer when he wrote a tune in the back of a tour bus in 1983. What he came up with changed his career. After recording the song later that year, Greenwood released “God Bless the U.S.A.” in May 1984, but it made little […]
Former President Donald Trump will make the first trip by a major presidential candidate of the 2024 cycle to the Arab stronghold of Dearborn, Michigan. Sam Abbas, owner of The Great Commoner, told the Associated Press that Trump will visit his restaurant on Friday. The move is a major breakthrough for the Trump campaign among […]
High hopes Drugs and crime are top concerns for voters, and five states could wind up changing the conversation by legalizing their use. Some states are opting to ask voters to reconsider how marijuana is treated, while a single state is taking the legalization question further, possibly following in the footsteps of Colorado and Oregon […]
