National Security Expert: Baseless Allegations of Election Fraud Are Incitement
National security expert Juliette Kayyem warned on election day that baseless allegations of election fraud are a form of incitement.
National security expert Juliette Kayyem warned on election day that baseless allegations of election fraud are a form of incitement.
Nearly two-thirds of American voters surveyed say that President Donald Trump “has not been truthful” about the investigation into Russian 2016 election interference and a possible conspiracy between his campaign and Russia. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday morning shows a heavy partisan discrepancy, however. The poll shows the following: 94 percent of…
A woman said Monday that a Bladen County, N.C., Republican election official paid her to illegally collect absentee ballots from the November 6 midterm elections. Absentee ballot witness Ginger Eason told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte , that the official, McCrae Dowless, paid her between $75 and $100 to take completed absentee ballots…
During this election cycle political commentators have spent much time analyzing different voting groups. Will young voters and minorities turn out for Democrats? Will angry white male voters carry Trump’s GOP to victory? Will women voters be the force behind a dominant Blue Wave? With all of this political discussion, however, there has been one…
GOP candidates and party bosses all over the country are in panic mode as they have seen President Donald Trump hijack the 2018 midterm elections. They wanted their campaign message to focus on how great the economy is. But instead he has made sure the election is all about him. With his packed schedule of…
The 2018 midterm elections have turned into a referendum on President Donald Trump. He has made sure of that by holding dozens of campaign rallies all over the country. But the elections will also be a referendum on his brazen campaign strategy, where he has taken lying to an entirely new level. In every rally…
On Wednesday Donald Trump attacked Paul Ryan in what many believe was an attempt by the president to deflect blame in advance of a crushing Republican defeat in Tuesday’s midterm elections. It appears that Trump needs a scapegoat and he did not hesitate at all to throw the retiring Speaker of the House under the…
The statistical website FiveThirtyEight gives the Democratic Party an 86 percent chance of winning the House next Tuesday which is not a sure thing. But recent travels by President Donald Trump prove that the Republican Party has given up all hope of retaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Many people seem to think…
Political observers closely watch the so-called generic congressional ballot to get an idea of which party is likely to win control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. Because of Republican gerrymandering, it is widely believed that Democrats need an advantage of approximately six percent in the national popular vote if they are to win…
Pattie Blair, 74, a Democratic voter in Arizona, says that whenever she sees Donald Trump on television an intense wave of anger washes over her. “It’s the most negative, blackest place to find yourself,” Blair said. “It’s like being in a bucket you can’t get yourself out of – a hand keeps pushing you back…
It is very clear that all Republicans, but especially President Donald Trump, are growing increasingly desperate as the midterm elections grow near. While they had initially planned to base their November campaigns on the great economy and the wonderful benefits of their tax plan, they have discovered that those ideas aren’t working. Most American voters…
If they win a majority in November, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will re-open the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. They would like to investigate a lot of other things about Donald Trump also, including his family, his business associates and his cabinet members. But they will have to be…
The 2018 elections could see the highest turnout for a midterm since the mid-1960s, according to an elections expert who has been studying voting patterns. In fact, based on evidence to date, it could be the highest midterm election turnout ever. “It’s probably going to be a turnout rate that most people have never experienced…
In a Tuesday interview, Michael Blake vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee said he thought there was “no way” that Republicans would be able to preserve their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. “There is no way the Republicans are going to hold the House,” he said on Hill.TV’s morning show “Rising.” Blake…
Conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin, a longtime Republican, warned her party on Tuesday that Donald Trump has “unleashed a pink resistance that will transform American politics forever.” ‘Blue wave’ or ‘left-wing mob’? Anti-Trump fervor fuels a new movement aimed squarely at winning elections. https://t.co/G1qqP6LwPB neither: the pink resistance https://t.co/JYKgRqhK3S — Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 16, 2018…
Recently Republicans and the mainstream media have been promoting the narrative that Republicans are tightening the race for control of the U.S. House of Representatives. But a new Washington Post/ABC News poll contradicts this narrative, showing Democrats with a very strong 11 percentage point lead in the generic congressional ballot. And independent women voters favor…
Yesterday The Des Moines Register, Iowa’s largest newspaper, announced that it was endorsing only Democrats in this year’s congressional races. The respected newspaper’s editorial board said that this year the stakes are too high to do anything else. The Register has won 16 Pulitzer Prizes and its readership covers the entire state of Iowa, the…
Republicans in Congress are packing the agenda for their lame-duck session after the November 6th midterm elections. Clearly they are worried about losing control and know this may be their last chance to set the agenda for several years. Top priorities for the GOP include: spending legislation , the farm bill, a package to extend expiring…
Donald Trump’s election has clearly pushed independent and Democratic women into action, resulting in record numbers of women running for office, and huge numbers of women doing political organizing and becoming activists for the first time. It is possible that Trump and the Republican are not alienating just left-leaning and independent women voters though. They may…
With Hurricane Michael on a path to devastate 300 miles of northwest Florida coastline tomorrow afternoon, Florida Democrats want the voter registration deadline extended. Michael is bringing to Florida’s northern Gulf Coast its most serious hurricane threat in decades, and the National Hurricane Center has said the devastation caused by storm surges may be greater…
A new opinion poll released Monday shows Democrats with a 4-point advantage in dozens of battleground House districts with just one month to go before November’s midterm elections. “NEW POLL: Dems have 4-point lead in battleground House districts” NEW POLL: Dems have 4-point lead in battleground House districts https://t.co/J7a0R8Cbzt pic.twitter.com/grMvwiUTw8 — The Hill (@thehill) October…
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker told Yahoo News on Sunday that impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh should be considered if Democrats take control of at least one of the houses of Congress in next month’s midterm elections. Kavanaugh was confirmed on Saturday by a narrow vote following a contentious process that included multiple sexual…
The good news is that Democrats now appear to have a better chance than ever at winning back contro l of the U.S. House of Representatives with 30 days until the midterm elections. Some people even believe that the Blue Wave will turn into a Blue Tsunami. The bad news is that the slim chance…
In a desperate plea for help in the upcoming midterm elections President Donald Trump late Saturday used some of his most inflammatory and excessive rhetoric to date. He said that Democrats have become “too extreme and too dangerous to govern.” After his unhinged appearance at a political rally in Topeka, Kansas the president tweeted: “You…
Advocates for sexual assault survivors and women’s rights have been energized by the fight against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Now that the fight is over they are focusing their energy on the November midterm elections. “Mobilized against Kavanaugh, women’s groups turn energy toward to midterms” Mobilized against Kavanaugh, women's groups turn energy…
Many Democrats today are dreaming of the possibility of impeaching Brett Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court. This is a highly unusual situation, especially since he has not yet been confirmed or taken his place on the high court. Kavanaugh is expected to be confirmed later today, while tens of millions (or more) Americans are in…
If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court today, many aggrieved Democrats have vowed to seek revenge. And the best form of revenge, of course, is to win elections in November and throw Republicans out of power. A Kavanaugh confirmation will be seen as a big victory for President Trump and the Republican Party…
Maria Gallagher may be the symbol of this year’s midterm elections. It was Gallagher who confronted Arizona Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator last week and said to him: “Don’t look away from me. Look at me and tell me that it doesn’t matter what happened to me, that you will let people like that…
President Donald Trump’s chances of avoiding impeachment in the U.S. Senate are taking a turn for the worse as more polls show Democrats leading in key Senate races. With public opinion strongly against Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh , Republicans are taking a great chance by forcing through a vote on his confirmation. Many…
This is something you rarely see in congressional elections: a national party abandoning its own incumbents with just weeks to go before the election takes place. But that is exactly what the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) is doing to Republican candidates — including incumbents — right now. They are pulling the plug on spending…
Despite the lowest presidential approval ratings in history just before a midterm election President Donald Trump insanely is predicting massive Republican victories in November. And the reason for this, he says, is that “people like the job I’m doing.” Trump’s remarks came during an interview with Hill.TV and proved once again that he is more…
This morning Bloomberg is reporting a nightmare scenario for the GOP’s prospects in the midterm elections. According to the business news service: “A private survey conducted for the Republican National Committee and obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek contains alarming news for Republicans hoping to hold on to control of Congress in November: Most Trump supporters don’t…
A Big Blue Wave has been building all year in favor of Democrats. As Trump’s approval keeps dropping to historic lows, the chances of a Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives keeps rising. Last week several polls showed the blue party with double-digit leads in the generic congressional ballot. Experts were saying even the…
A new poll provides evidence that there is an increasing lack of faith in American democracy. According to a new NPR/Marist poll nearly half of American voters do not believe that their votes will be counted accurately in November’s midterm elections . In addition to that bad news, nearly 40% do not believe that U.S….
With about seven weeks until election day on November 6th, Republicans are in full panic mode. Almost every recent poll shows the president’s unpopularity falling to record low levels, while at the same time congressional generic ballots show Republicans facing a bloodbath in the midterms . Almost every GOP leader, pollster or candidate has expressed…
Many people believe that the 2018 midterm elections are as important as any elections held in American history. This assessment has not been done only by political scientists either. American voters have also given their opinions on the importance of this year’s elections by voting in the 2018 primaries in record numbers. Over 40 million…
Three new polls released this morning could spell doom for the GOP in November’s elections. These polls continue the rash of bad news that has come out recently for Republican candidates. Today’s polls deal with two major factors that are known to influence the outcomes of midterm elections: The generic congressional ballot, and Voters’ opinions…
With less than two months until the midterm elections Democrats find themselves in the surprising position of having a real chance of winning a majority in the U.S. Senate. Because Senate Democrats have to defend so many seats this year in states won by Trump in 2016, Republicans have long thought they would increase their…
Former Speaker of the House (and current Democratic House Leader) Nancy Pelosi of California is increasingly confident that there will be a Blue Wave election in November. Pelosi made comments on Tuesday expressing her confidence after a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed voters by a margin of 14 percentage points favor Democrats over Republicans in the generic congressional…
The political world was greeted Tuesday morning with some new polling information that will send shockwaves throughout Washington, D.C.. In the generic congressional ballot Democratic House candidates now lead their Republican opponents nationally by 52-38 percent among registered voters in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. “JUST IN: Democratic House candidates lead their Republican opponents…
Former President Barack Obama has kept kept out of the spotlight since leaving office, but he will soon start campaigning to help Democrats in November’s midterm elections. He is eager to help his party take back control of the House of Representatives, help vulnerable Senate incumbents win, and help state parties win legislative races in…
According to a new poll just 27 percent of people surveyed think Democrats should keep House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as their leader in the House. Of the Democrats surveyed, nearly half said that Democrats should have a new leader after November’s elections. The new American Barometer poll released Thursday found that a bare majority…
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the U.S. military may be used to defend against or prevent Russia’s election meddling in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections — but did not elaborate as to specifically how the armed forces would be deployed. The Military Times reported that Mattis also said he agrees that the order…
A new study of voting attitudes and preferences shows that the key to this year’s midterm elections will be so-called “swing voters” and not the voters who are historically partisan in favor of either Democrats or Republicans. This study, called The 2018 VOTER Survey, identified swing voters as those who split parties in their votes…
Secret “dark money” nonprofits are working with a previously unknown organization that is spending millions of dollars helping Democratic congressional candidates in swing districts during this election cycle. The nonprofts are buying large numbers of TV and other ads attacking swing-seat House Republicans on such issues as affordable health care and tax breaks for billionaires….
A desperate House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has told Republicans in Congress that nobody is safe in this year’s midterm elections, and nobody can take their seats for granted. McCarthy has confirmed that GOP leaders are extremely worried about a Blue Wave this year that will take away their congressional majorities. Reports are that…
Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday said “history has its eyes on us” and encouraged Americans to vote for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. Comey posted a tweet urging Americans to turn away from Republican candidates this November. “James @Comey urges voters to choose Democrats, warns that ‘history has its eyes on us’…
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirtsjen Nielsen has been in the hot seat for several months as she has been caught in the middle of Donald Trump’s immigration battles. In May we reported that Nielsen considered resigning after her boss severely admonished her in front of his entire cabinet for failing to stop illegal…
Right-wing Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan’s sexual abuse scandal is getting even worse for him and it could cost him a seat in Congress and his party control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Jordan has been accused of being aware that a team doctor was sexually abusing athletes while he was a wrestling coach…
Earlier today we reported that “Former President Obama is planning to come back into American politics and campaign for Democratic candidates in September ahead of the November midterm election.” And now POLITCO has reported that the popular former president spoke to an event for the Democratic National Committee last night and said people are “right…
The Koch Brothers political network has announced it will not support the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, in another indication of the group’s growing independence from the GOP. Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the political arm of the Koch network, will not endorse either party’s candidate or contribute money to either side in the…
The chances of Democrats picking up a Republican-held congressional seat in New Jersey just increased yesterday after a video was released with the GOP candidate making several derogatory comments about race. The candidate is Republican Seth Grossman, who last week won a surprise victory in the primary in New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District. The district is…
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Wednesday that he has asked former president Barack Obama to help, and he is optimistic that Democrats can take back control of the Senate after the 2018 midterm elections. In an interview with The Washington Post, Schumer (D-N.Y.) asserted that Democratic candidates are doing very well in their…
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are far from unified on many important policy issues. First and foremost among these issues is immigration, especially when it comes to creating a workable U.S. policy on a path to citizenship and the treatment of “Dreamers” under the DACA program. And according to the Associated Press, immigration…
Perhaps the group of voters hurt most by Trump’s tariff announcements have been farmers in states that voted for Trump in 2016. And since many of these states have senators up for reelection in November, the ill-advised tariffs might possibly cost the GOP control of the U.S. Senate. There is no question that retaliation by…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York has been more vocal lately in his criticisms of President Trump, calling out the president for saying the Russia investigation is “phony” and also blaming him for higher gas prices. After Trump tweeted that the Mueller probe is a “phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt” Schumer responded very…
Barack Obama may have ended his presidency a year and a half ago, but his legacy is continuing in the form of over 64 former members of his staff who, according to NBC News, are running for elective office this year. According to a tweet from NBC: “At least 64 of President Barack Obama’s former…
Desperate times require desperate measures, and desperate Republicans in Congress are running scared. Because they know they have no legislative accomplishments to help them win elections in November and because the president they blindly support has historically low approval ratings, they have resorted to a last-ditch desperation move which they insanely think will help them…
First, the Republicans said they would win the 2018 midterm elections because they would “repeal and replace” Obamacare and everybody would be happy. But that strategy didn’t work out so well, and most Americans are unhappy with the costs of healthcare, as well as the lack of universal coverage. And most people still blame Republicans…
A new midterm elections strategy has appeared among Republicans this year, and is being supported by President Donald Trump . The strategy is to stoke fear among the voters that if Democrats take back control of Congress then Trump will be impeached. One can easily understand why Trump would support this strategy. But what is…
According to the Associated Press (AP) Republican primary fights going on now “are pulling the party to the right, leaving some leaders worried their candidates will be out of a step with the broader electorate in November.” If this happens, it would not be unusual, since primaries must appeal to the party faithful instead of…
The Trump White House is in chaos and people know it. If Democratic candidates play their cards right this year, this fact may help them in their efforts to take back control of Congress. According to a new Morning Consult poll, “62% of registered voters said the Trump administration is running somewhat or very chaotically.” Here…
Because just 39 percent of poll respondents had a favorable view of the Trump/Republican tax cut bill in an April Gallup poll, the GOP’s biggest billionaire mega-donors are spending $20 million in a new effort to convince more people that they should like the tax law change which gives unneeded tax breaks to billionaires while exploding the…
On Monday, CNN changed their ratings on a dozen GOP congressional seats, saying that they are in “more electoral danger” and thus more likely to be won by a Democrat in November’s midterm elections. This change by the CNN “key house race tracker” is just the most recent in a series of developments which point to…
Seeing Donald Trump holding a Bible and pretending to be a religious leader is enough to short circuit every synapse in one’s brain. Yet here we are, deep into the second year of Trump’s presidency and he is still being supported by the vast majority of people who consider themselves Evangelical Christians. How can these…
The results in Arizona’s special congressional election were a wake-up call for Republicans who have been used to hitting the snooze button in recent years. An Arizona GOP polling expert, Mike Noble, said: “Republicans shouldn’t be hitting the alarm, they should be slamming it. This district isn’t supposed to be competitive, and so to see…
Most Americans think that the Trump/Republican tax bill passed last December was a bad idea, and a new report from the Joint Committee on Taxation shows why. The report was released on Monday and it should come as no surprise that the Joint Committee found that most of the law’s tax breaks go to the…
Right on cue, the Republican Party in the state of Missouri is falling apart just in time to help Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill in her bid to win re-election in this fall’s midterm elections. Many people remember how McCaskill won her senate seat six years ago when her opponent Todd Akin went off the deep…
Republicans are fighting among themselves again in the U.S. Congress, and this is a bad sign for their chances in November’s midterm elections. Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) is pushing hard to get another misguided and harmful tax cut passed in the next few months. For some reason he thinks this will…
If pollsters at Monmouth University are correct, the Republican Party this year will lose all five of the seats it currently holds in the U.S. House of Representatives. This would be a substantial percentage of the 23 seats needed to give Democrats control of Congress after the 2018 midterm elections. The Monmouth University Poll was…
Consider these separate but related news items: The cost and availability of health care is the #1 issue that Americans care about right now, according to the Gallup poll. The Gallup poll for the last year has been showing that Obamacare (ACA) is approved of by over half of American voters. A new HuffPost/YouGov poll shows…
The economy is soaring, and so is public optimism about the economy. You would think this should result in President Trump having high approval ratings, but that is not the case. Trump’s approval rating based on the average of public opinion polls is stuck at around 41%. This is an historically low number. You…
“Trump’s very much in line here with what you’d expect to see from a president whose party takes a shellacking in a midterm election.”
Democrats have a huge advantage over Republicans in a generic ballot match-up, with midterm campaign season around the corner.
It’s hard to gauge the outcome of midterm elections more than a year before they’re held, but Donald Trump’s presidency has motivated progressive and moderate voters in a way they haven’t been in a long time.
In record time, most voters are seeing that Trump is just a con artist who cares nothing about making life better for average Americans.
The sad fact is that the stupidity that drove the results of the midterms is not reserved to the Republican base, or Democratic voters would not have stayed home in a repeat performance of the devastating 2010 midterms.
Even shaky reason dictates that a robust women’s electoral movement would cleanse Republican patriarchs from Congress, governorships, and state legislatures, and bring the Republican war on women to an abrupt and just end. However, that is certainly not the case and it is down to American women’s greatest enemy and it is not Republican men per se, but the evangelical women electing them.
In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that he would burn to the ground in a hot second if he were able.
Ernst’s treatise on government dependency revealed that not only is she a hard line devotee of tea party orthodoxy, she has a perverse vision of America’s 20th Century as a monumental error; because like the Koch’s she sees government for the people as an abomination that needs to be abolished once and for all.
There has been relative silence on two new economic reports that put a stake in the economic agenda Republicans are frothing at the mouth to enact should they win control of Congress.
Despite their Herculean efforts to bankrupt America though, another report this week revealed the economy is on the mend despite the GOP plot to obstruct the new President’s attempt to turn around the economic disaster eight years of Republicans’ drunken spending spree on the nation’s credit card.
Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has done nothing Republicans promise and everything Democrats warned will come to pass. If he has accomplished nothing else, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has given Democrats and all of America a preview of precisely what a Republican Congress will do to America.
Crucial to their success is Republicans’ heavy dependence on one of the Koch brothers’ legislative arms, the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create template legislation for Republicans to block access to voting in what can only be termed as a direct assault on America’s rapidly waning democracy.
Republicans are big on dog whistle politics, particularly going into a midterm election where they have no apparent agenda to run on, and as is usually the case with Republicans, they are appealing to a dependable voting bloc that are rabid over socially conservative (read religious) issues.
If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell’s own words encapsulated the entire conservative mindset when he promised that “Obama won’t like it, but that will be done. I guarantee it.”