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Sep 20 2021
Analysis
The redistricting wars
Republicans are trying to gerrymander themselves into control of the House of Representatives — and they very well might succeed.
A seat in Tennessee here, seats in Ohio and Missouri there. Multiple seats, perhaps, in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia. There are more possibilities, and they add up. Draw lines on the map that flip enough Democratic districts to safe GOP ones (
VoxNov 08 2020
Analysis
Peter Navarro's No-Good Economic Nationalism
Peter Navarro is a loser. Literally.
He has run for office five times and never won. He has never gained approval from the Senate to occupy an official cabinet post. He started a trade war that may not technically be lost yet, but it hasn't been a roaring success by any account.
And yet, somehow, he's become one of the most powerful people on the planet.
In a presidential
ReasonJan 06 2021
News
With Democratic sweep in Georgia, Mitch McConnell will lose majority leader role
Georgia voters have spoken, and their voices resonate loudly in Kentucky: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won't keep his job as the most powerful senator in Congress.
Tuesday's high-stakes runoff elections in the Peach State pitted two Republicans, David Perdue and U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, against Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, with the GOP's current control
USA TODAYSep 21 2020
News
Trump to Make Supreme Court Nomination Friday or Saturday
President Trump said he would nominate a Supreme Court pick on Friday or Saturday and has five women under consideration, as Senate Republicans lined up behind him and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and rejected Democrats’ calls to let the winner of the presidential election make the pick.
Mr. Trump maintained that the replacement of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 06 2020
News
WSJ Columnist: These Wisconsin Turnout Numbers Don't Seem Feasible
Look, we know there’s a lot of funny business happening right now with these vote counts. We’re seeing vote dumps favoring Biden in Pennsylvania that would make the late Hugo Chavez blush. Right now, some folks are calling this thing for Biden in the Keystone State. If his lead holds, that’s the ball game, but votes are still being counted. The Trump team is filing legal challenges due to
TownhallDec 02 2020
News
Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud
WASHINGTON (AP) — Disputing President Donald Trump’s persistent, baseless claims, Attorney General William Barr declared Tuesday the U.S. Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.
Barr’s comments, in an interview with the The Associated Press, contradict the concerted effort by Trump, his boss, to subvert
Associated Press Fact CheckNov 05 2018
News
Civics lessons: Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Neil Gorsuch on promoting education in citizenship
"There's no such things as not voting. Not voting is voting," said Eric Liu. "It's voting to hand your power over to someone else who's gonna say, 'Thank you very much. Let me take that voice and that power and exercise it in your name, but in my interests.'"
CBS News (Online)Mar 08 2021
Fact Check
Would Georgia Bill Outlaw Giving Food, Water to Voters Waiting in Line?
On March 3, 2021, a left-leaning Twitter account posted the below-displayed image that alleged the Georgia House of Representatives approved legislation that would allow law enforcement officers to criminalize volunteers who give free food or water to voters standing in line at polling sites on Election Day.
The claim was true.
Before we address the bill directly, some context:
SnopesMar 31 2020
Analysis
Coronavirus primary delays mean some states could lose delegates at the Democratic National Convention
New York has delayed its 2020 presidential primary until June 23 due to coronavirus concerns, a delay that the Democratic party said could result in the state losing delegates at the national convention in July. New York is just the latest of more than a dozen states figuring out how to balance public health concerns with concluding a Democratic primary.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
VoxJan 20 2022
Opinion
Were Biden's Election Legitimacy Remarks Dangerous or Just Stupid?
In the middle of a nearly two-hour, nearly 18,000-word press conference on Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden seemingly cast doubt over whether the upcoming midterm elections would be "illegitimate" if Congress did not pass a series of voting reform bills he has proposed.
"I'm not going to say it's going to be legit," Biden said at one point, after being asked to clarify an
Reason