Illinois Republicans grapple with mail voting amid mixed signals from Trump — 'We have to adapt' A greater share of Chicago area Republicans cast their ballots by mail in March compared to the 2022 primary, but they were still vastly outpaced by Democrats in utilizing a voting system that has ... 04/26/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Disgraced coal CEO lost races as GOP and third party candidate. He’s trying again as a Democrat Blankenship ran for the Senate as a Republican in 2018 and sought the White House in 2020 as a third party candidate. He lost badly both times. 04/23/2024 - 10:24 pm | View Link
Erie County Primary election: Wertz wins state Senate bid; Bizzarro falls in treasurer race It's primary election day in Erie County, and voters can stay informed by visiting GoErie.com for regular election updates. The polls for the April 23 primary election will close at 8 p.m., the same ... 04/23/2024 - 4:50 pm | View Link
Nearly 1,100 ballots cast in Erie County on second day of early voting for House seat Polls got busier Sunday on the second day of early voting in Erie County for the April 30 special election in the 26th Congressional District, Elections Commissioners Ralph M. Mohr and Jeremy J. 04/21/2024 - 12:36 pm | View Link
Ohio AG shuts down Democrat proposal that would skirt election deadline to get Biden on ballots The Ohio Attorney General shot down a plan to allow President Biden to appear on state ballots despite being scheduled to miss a key deadline. 04/17/2024 - 5:10 am | View Link
“This week, one presidential candidate has called the other a loser, made fun of him for selling Bibles, and even poked fun at his hair,” the New York Times reports.
“That kind of taunting is generally more within the purview of former President Donald J. Trump, whose insults are so voluminous and so often absurd that they have been cataloged by the hundreds.
Following the indictment of Donald Trump’s allies over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Arizona, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer told Margaret Hoover that those efforts came “quite close” to succeeding.
Said Richer: “I think we put ourselves in a pretty perilous situation.”
“The Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, after the White House weighed the potential public-health benefits of banning minty smokes against the political risk of angering Black voters in an election year,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Donald Trump suggested someone is purposely keeping him a “freezing” courtroom for his hush money criminal trial.
Said Trump: “We have another day in court, in a freezing courthouse. It’s very cold in there, on purpose I believe.”
“All charges have been declined against the 57 people arrested in connection to the Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas,” the Austin American-Statesman reports.