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Category: 2018 Elections

Phil Bredesen Is Testing the Limits of What Democrats Will Put Up With

YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As his party has continued to move farther to the left, Phil Bredesen has had an increasingly uneasy relationship with it, despite being one of Tennessee’s most famous Democrats. But when the former governor and current Senate hopeful issued a statement recently that said he would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh…

Duncan Hunter Releases Letter From Retired Generals Calling His Democratic Rival a “National Security Risk”

Joe Raedle/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Duncan Hunter, the embattled Republican congressman fighting to hang onto his San Diego seat after he was indicted for campaign finance violations, has released a letter written by three Marine Corps officers claiming Hunter’s opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, is a “national security risk.”…

Democrats Are Hauling In Unprecedented Funds for the Midterms

Democratic House candidate Abigail SpanbergerAP Photo/Steve Helber Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Democrats continue to wring their hands over whether they can turn out voters on Election Day, yet another candidate is reporting a remarkable multi-million dollar fundraising haul, adding to the arguably historic numbers reported by a number of campaigns already. One…

The Virginia GOP Just Released an Especially Vicious Attack Ad

Thomas McKinless/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican Party of Virginia just released a new attack ad claiming that Leslie Cockburn, the Democrat running for Congress in Virginia’s 5th congressional district, “hates America.” The ad, first reported on by the Washington Post, was posted on the state GOP’s Facebook and…