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May 10 2024
News
The MAGA Party
The headquarters of the Douglas County Republican Party in west Omaha. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner) The Douglas County Republican Party held its regular biennial convention on April 6 to elect members to its central county and state committees, and to choose delegates to the state convention. As a former Douglas County Republican Party chairman and state party official, I have
Yahoo NewsMay 07 2024
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Early Addition: Ain't no party like a PowerPoint party
Early Addition is a daily newsletter to guide you through New York City news, plus other tidbits from around the internet. Sign up here to get the full version in your inbox every weekday morning. Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where IDNYC cards are getting easier to obtain. Here's what else is happening: • Gov. Kathy Hochul has apologized for saying "we have young Black kids growing
GothamistFeb 07 2024
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Biden Allies Continue to Fret over Third-Party Candidates
In yet another sign that mainstream Democrats fear that third-party candidates will throw the election to former president Donald Trump in November, the pro–Joe Biden group Citizens to Save Our Republic urged third-party candidates on Tuesday to sign a pledge that they will withdraw their names from six swing-state ballots by the summer if they don’t meet certain polling and ballot-
National Review (News)May 10 2024
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Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now Party loses major party status
Dana Ferguson with MPR News reports the Minnesota Supreme Court has demoted the Legal Marijuana Now Party from major party status. Streets.MN has a tribute to Oak Grove Grocery in Loring Park. In December of 2023 a cashier was murdered, prompting the store’s closure. Also via MPR: “Minnesota will mark its Statehood Day on Saturday by changing its look — namely, the flag that’s been flying
MinnPostFeb 16 2024
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To Dems’ relief, Joe Manchin passes on third-party presidential bid
For the last year, Sen. Joe Manchin has delivered nothing but mixed messages about his national ambitions. The conservative West Virginia Democrat spent much of 2023 making unsubtle references to a possible third-party presidential bid, even telling Fox News in October, “Why not have options?” Around the same time, however, Manchin told MSNBC, “I don’t think that democracy as we know it would
MSNBCMay 09 2024
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Arizona Green Party says major parties hijacked their Senate primary candidates
The Arizona Green Party is concerned with possible meddling by the two main political parties in their Senate primary for the pivotal race that could decide if Republicans or Democrats control the chamber next Congress. Arizona Green Party co-chair Cody Hannah told the Washington Post he is worried that the two people on the party’s Senate primary ballot are being pushed by one of the two
Washington ExaminerApr 01 2024
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Georgia lawmakers back broad election changes, including one that could benefit third-party presidential contenders
Republican-backed legislation headed to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk would establish new rules for challenging voters’ eligibility and make it easier to qualify for the presidential ballot – changes that could have consequences in this fall’s elections in a closely watched battleground state. Late last week – just before wrapping up their legislative session – state lawmakers approved a
CNN (Online News)Dec 18 2023
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Opinion | A Third-Party Candidate Can’t Win in 2024
With a rematch between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump almost set in stone, it’s time to put a farce to rest: The notion that a third-party candidate could actually win the presidency in 2024.
The idea that a “unity ticket” featuring a Republican and a Democrat could somehow produce a nominee with “a clear path to victory” is worse than a political fiction. The group behind it, No
PoliticoMay 10 2024
Opinion
The Tea Party Movement Is Dead
Yesterday’s announcement of the abrupt closure and dissolution of FreedomWorks by its board of directors is the closest thing we will get to a formal date of death for the Tea Party movement, which in truth has been dead since Donald Trump descended the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015. Trump did for the Republican establishment what it couldn’t do on its own in killing the Tea Party and
Dan McLaughlinDec 01 2023
Analysis
Biden’s third-party challengers look to capitalize on Gaza
President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Gaza war has angered and alienated Democrats. In polling before last week’s temporary truce — which collapsed on Friday morning — up to 70% of them were unhappy with the administration’s course.
Some of those disgruntled 2020 Biden voters are threatening not to vote at all, a problem that Democrats think they can fix. But those voters are
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