A federal judge Monday dismissed a criminal complaint against two former FBI officials accused of lying to Congress about their knowledge of investigations involving Hunter Biden, dealing a setback to the Justice Department after three days of tedious hearings last week. U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui’s decision followed several days of defense attorneys for the […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) indicated Democratic leaders could discuss disciplinary action against Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) after she broke with her party to endorse Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, deepening an already bitter divide among Michigan Democrats. Jeffries accused Stevens of bucking the Democratic Party by backing Rogers over Democratic nominee Abdul el […]
A power outage in the Foggy Bottom area of Washington, D.C., is affecting thousands of Potomac Electric Power Company customers, including government agency buildings and George Washington University. The State Department has reportedly been affected by the outage, with several agency facilities “experiencing an unscheduled loss of electrical power,” according to The Daily Wire. The […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha gave a “golf clap” to the New York Times for reporting that the “Decoy Dan” in Alaska was intentionally set up to confuse voters. “Kudos to the New York Times here, guys, because the story was justified completely; we’ve seen it in plain sight for weeks, the two Dan Sullivans,” […]
Vice President JD Vance is set to rally Republican voters in Rome, New York, at 10:45 a.m. Monday. Vance’s trip to upstate New York marks his final rally after he and President Donald Trump crisscrossed the country in October to shore up GOP support ahead of the midterm elections. Where has Trump traveled the most […]
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said she believes Rep. Haley Stevens’s (D-MI) decision to buck her party and endorse Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers instead of Democrat Abdul el Sayed will backfire in the tight Michigan Senate race. Stevens ran as a moderate against socialist-leaning el Sayed in the state’s Democratic primary earlier this year. She […]
Democratic Senate candidates are leading their Republican opponents in seven battleground states surveyed by the New York Times and Siena College, highlighting the political challenges facing the Republican Party on the eve of Election Day. The latest polling found Democrats ahead in races stretching from Texas to Alaska, including several states President Donald Trump safely […]
In purple Georgia, where independent voters make up nearly 30% of the electorate, Republicans are hoping to pull nonpartisan voters who support Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) into their fold to vote for Republican Rick Jackson in the state’s gubernatorial race. The Peach State has a history of split-ticket voters, with 6.1% of voters splitting their […]
A handful of members of Congress have made a reputation for themselves by winning on unfavorable terrain, repeatedly navigating some of the toughest districts in the country despite the perpetual churn of running for office every two years. The list of lawmakers who survive tough districts time and time again is small and dwindling as […]
The law firm of Democratic election attorney Marc Elias is involved in dozens of high-stakes legal battles this midterm election cycle, most recently mounting Alaska Senate Democratic nominee Mary Peltola’s election certification fight against the Justice Department. According to Elias, his team, the Elias Law Group, is currently litigating 92 election-related cases across 42 states, […]
