The membership of the state board investigating allegations of election irregularities in North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District race could be dramatically altered if the state legislature overrides a gubernatorial veto of an election reform bill it passed this month.
The dramatic vote in the Senate Friday afternoon on whether to proceed to a final vote on the House-passed continuing budget resolution that includes $5.7 billion of border wall funding placed an intense spotlight on three Democrat senators whose re-election prospects in 2020 are considered uncertain.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement has delayed the evidentiary hearing into alleged election irregularities in the Ninth Congressional District race until January 11.
Sen. Lamar Alexander’s (R-TN) announcement on Monday that he will not seek re-election to a fourth term to the U.S. Senate in 2020 is certain to launch a political free-for-all over the next year and eleven months in Tennessee to replace him.
A federal judge ruled against Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s (R-ME-02) constitutional challenge to Maine’s “rank voting” system (also known as “RCV,” or ranked-choice voting) on Thursday.
The recount in Maine’s controversial 2nd Congressional District race, where the state’s new “rank voting” system was used for the first time in American history, is proceeding faster than anticipated.
Late Tuesday the executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party called for a new election in the controversial 9th Congressional District race, “if early voting numbers were leaked.”
The Democrat Secretary of State of Maine is refusing to investigate sworn affidavits presented by 17 residents of the state’s 1st Congressional District that they were erroneously given ballots to vote in the 2nd Congressional District race between Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME-02) and Democrat Jared Golden.
The future direction of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is in question after Kathleen Kraninger was confirmed as the new director of the powerful independent agency in a straight party-line vote on Thursday by the United States Senate, 50 to 49.
Democrat Dan McCready took back his concession to Republican Mark Harris in the race to represent North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District on Thursday, more than a month after the November 6 election in which local election boards certified Harris had won by 905 votes.
The Maine Republican Party called on Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap on Thursday to launch an investigation into election irregularities it has uncovered in the controversial 2nd congressional district election held on November 6.
On Monday, Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap announced that a recount of the November 6 election in Maine’s Second Congressional District will begin on Thursday and will continue for an estimated four weeks.
Democrats continue their full-court legal press to reverse the election day results in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District where all eight of the counties in the district have certified Republican Mark Harris’s 905 vote victory.
President Trump’s nominee to become the next director of the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) cleared a key hurdle when the Senate voted along party lines by a 50 to 49 margin to invoke cloture, ending debate and setting up a final vote on the confirmation of Kathleen Kraninger.
The executive director of Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina asked, “Are Democrats plotting to steal a NC Congressional seat?” on the non-partisan non-profit’s website’s Thursday night.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) defeated former Clinton administration Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy on Tuesday in the Mississippi Senate runoff election.
A poll of Tuesday’s Mississippi Senate runoff election released on Sunday shows incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) leading her Democrat challenger, former Clinton administration Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy, by ten points, 54 percent to 44 percent.
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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and Democrat challenger Mike Espy faced off on Tuesday night in the only debate in advance of next week’s runoff election to determine who will serve the remaining two years in former Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) term in the United States Senate.
Democrats are going all out to win next Tuesday’s runoff election for the Mississippi Senate seat in which incumbent Sen. Cyndi Hyde-Smith (R-MS) faces former Clinton administration cabinet official Mike Espy.
President Trump will hold a pair of Mississippi rallies for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) a week from Monday, the day before the November 27 Senate runoff.
The lobbying firm managed by Mississippi Democrat Senate candidate Mike Espy received a second payment of $350,000 from a trade organization controlled by African despot Lauren Gbagbo.
Democrats have emerged with a net gain of at least 35 seats with all but six of the 435 House of Representatives races called. This is a dozen more than they needed to take back the majority.
Democrats in Mississippi are hoping to pull off an upset in the November 29 Senate runoff election between GOP nominee Sen. Cyndy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and Democrat nominee former Rep. Mike Espy (D-MS).
The projected election night victories of the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate and Governor in Florida are headed to recounts, and it looks to be a protracted, nasty battle that will once again center on vote count problems in the heavily Democratic Broward County.
Republican Mike DeWine defeated Democrat Richard Cordray Tuesday night to win the election for governor of Ohio.
Fox News has projected that Republican nominee Josh Hawley will defeat incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) to flip Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat from Democrat to GOP control.
FRANKLIN, Tennessee—Fox News called the U.S. Senate race in Tennessee for Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) at 8:05 p.m. Central over her Democratic opponent, former Gov. Phil Bredesen. Minutes later, Politico followed suit and called the race for Blackburn as well.
The final two polls of the Tennessee Senate race give Republican nominee Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) leads of eight points and nine points over Democrat nominee Phil Bredesen, an average of eight and a half points.
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate former Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) told Breitbart News Washington political editor Matt Boyle on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday that he is “running against a guy who wants a 40 percent tax increase in Florida.”
The leading newspaper in the state of Minnesota has endorsed Republican nominee Pete Stauber over his Democrat opponent in Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional District.
Google is refusing an ad buy from the Tennessee Republican Party for a YouTube video supporting Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07), the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN).
With six days and a few hours until the polls open for the 2018 midterm elections, control of the House of Representatives is now down to 10 key races.
Half a dozen angry liberal protesters attempted to disrupt a Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) campaign rally Sunday afternoon where Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was the featured speaker.
President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, Friday night to support the campaign of Dr. Mark Harris, the Republican nominee who is in a close race against Democrat nominee Dan McCready in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.
Republican nominee Maria Elvira Salazar leads former Clinton Foundation CEO Donna Shalala by nine points, 50 percent to 41 percent, in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, according to an internal poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates and released by the Salazar campaign on Tuesday.
Republican nominee Bob Hugin is within striking distance of embattled incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) with just two weeks until New Jersey voters select a U.S. Senator.
Twenty key races are expected to determine which party controls the House of Representatives after voters go to the polls on November 6.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) great-great-great grandfather Jonathan Crawford was a member of the Tennessee Militia that rounded up Cherokees for the Trail of Tears journey to Oklahoma, giving Warren a 1/32, or 3.125 percent, Tennessee Militia heritage.
On Monday Sen. Warren offered something beyond family lore to support her heritage claims — a report from Dr. Carlos Bustamante of Stanford University on DNA genotypes provided by a DNA testing lab that purports to show she has between 0.1 – 1.6 percent Native American ancestry.
