Trump’s Former Lawyer Is Now Trying to Get Out the Vote For Democrats
Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In one of the stranger twists of the midterm cycle, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, who once said he’d “take a bullet” for Trump, is now trying to get out the vote for Democrats. “Listen, here’s my recommendation,” Cohen told CNN outside his…
A Pro-Obamacare Ballot Measure Has a Big Lead in Utah
Hagen/NTB Scanpix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s looking like voters are fans of Obamacare when they have a chance to directly vote on it—even in deeply red states like Utah. Utah is one of four states with ballot initiatives next month that ask voters about Medicaid expansion, the part…
New Justice Department Case Shows Russia Is Now Attacking the Midterm Elections
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in JulyValery Sharifulin/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a criminal complaint accusing a Russian national named Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova of conspiring to interfere in…
DOJ Charges Russian With Conspiring to Disrupt 2018 Elections
Kremlin pool/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Justice Department on Friday filed a complaint against Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, a 44-year-old Russian national who, prosecutors allege, was the chief accountant managing the finances for Project Lakhta, Russia’s political influence operation aimed at disrupting elections in the United States and other…
How Democrats Could Beat Back Voter Suppression at the Ballot Box
Voters wait in line for ballots at the Polk County Election office on the first day of early voting for the Iowa general election on October 8 in Des Moines. Charlie Neibergall/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Deidre DeJear announced her candidacy for Iowa secretary of state last August, on the…
“The President Called Him Lyin’ Ted”: Beto O’Rourke Shifts Into Attack Mode
Tom Reel/San Antonio Express-News/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a revealing stat about the Texas Senate race by way of the Dallas Morning News: Over the last month, 80 percent of the ads paid for by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and his two allied super-PACs were attacks on…