CNN Goes There, Tells Don Jr His Dad’s Ad Is Racist
Joshua L. Jones/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want to understand the relationship between the Trump administration and CNN, you could start with this exchange Saturday morning between the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and the network’s corporate PR staff, about a racist video tweeted by the…
Midwestern Democrats Have a Secret Weapon—It’s Called Chicago
Demonstrators gather across from Trump tower in Chicago to celebrate the GOP’s failed repeal of Obamacare on March 24, 2017.Max Herman/Sipa via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Early in 2017, in the depths of a bitter Midwestern winter, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee deployed a staffer to Illinois’ 6th…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Stumps for Congresswoman Who Said Mass Shooters Are “Democrats”
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is in western New York on Saturday to campaign for Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, a first-term congresswoman who is facing a strong challenge from Democrat Anthony Brindisi, a state assemblyman. Though Trump carried…
Map of the Day: Automatic Voter Registration
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Oregon gets a lot of attention every election year because it’s gotten rid of polling places and gone to 100 percent mail-in ballots. That’s great, but Oregon’s real contribution was its leadership in something much more important: automatic voter registration. If you have a driver’s…
Even If Democrats Win New Jersey, They’ve Already Lost
Julio Cortez/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. New Jersey, which went to Hillary Clinton by 14 points in 2016, is a state Democrats should have had locked up months ago; instead they’ve been forced to embark on a rescue mission to save embattled incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez, who is…
How Thousands of Already Cast Florida Ballots Could Be Tossed Aside Without Voters Knowing
Rejected mail-in ballots sit in a box as members of the canvassing board verify signatures at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in Miami. Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since moving to Florida in 2007, Paul Cauchi has voted in person in his Miami-Dade…