Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) have all been jockeying in earnest for the gig for months. Wednesday’s vote will be behind closed doors and conducted via secret ballot. The forum was hosted by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a vocal conserv...
Among the counties with the biggest declines in vote totals this year, for example, are Democratic strongholds in Republican states such as Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which includes Cleveland, and Harris County, Texas, home to Houston, where Harrisheld a late-O...
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s mail ballots had been returned as of Monday, which is “among the lowest” in the state and 15 points below the statewide average. The suit also alleges that the Postal Service has no record of receiving 1,800 mail ballots from the county’s mail vend...
Lead Art: A ballot drop box is seen while, in the background, people wait in line for early voting and voter registration at the Chester County Government Services Center in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Oct. 21. | Francis Chung/POLITICO Nov 2024 Supreme Court clears way for...
"We really need that new energetic voice in politics,” Broome County GOP Chair Benji Feldman said. Brittany Gibson07/16/2024, 8:37pm ET New York Republicans say vice presidential pick J.D. Vance will help them return their swing seat members to Congress. "We really need that new energ...
“The RNC’s priorities will remain the same: get out the vote, protect the ballot, and raise the money we need to elect Republicans up and down the ticket,” Whatley said in the post. “That’s the strategy which helped re-elect President Trump, flip the Senate, and protect our Hous...
Even if Republicans hold on,Johnson will still have some work to do: One Freedom Caucus member traveling with the speaker (and Olivia) this past weekend, Rep.MICHAEL CLOUD(R-Texas), refused to say if he’d back Johnson for speaker — or if Trump’s endorsement would matter. ...
Earlier Wednesday, Biden told reporters he wasn’t concerned that Johnson, who solicited signatures for an amicus brief in 2020 in the longshot Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate electoral college votes from multiple states, would seek to overturn a 2024 Biden victory. “Because he can’t — ...