ArchiveSeptember 2022

Don Bolduc, a far-right Republican Senate candidate who has previously voiced support for anti-LGBTQ measures, won New Hampshire’s Republican primary for Senate last week. His opponent in the general election is incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a longtime supporter of marriage equality and LGBTQ rights. The political action committee of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a LGBTQ civil...

Michigan Republican congressional candidate John Gibbs suggested in a May interview that the United States should withhold aid from countries where abortion is legal. Gibbs, who is running for Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District, has said he is “absolutely against abortion” and is “100% pro-life in all cases.” “As a lawmaker, your job is to vote on...

In addition to opposing new federal legislation aimed at preventing gun violence, New Hampshire Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc wants to get rid of the few federal gun safety laws that are already on the books. Bolduc’s 2022 Senate campaign website provides little information about his position on guns beyond a mention of rights in general: “We must stand firm against government...

A number of Republican senators who just two years ago voted to ban abortion nationwide are now trying to distance themselves from that position as polling shows their anti-abortion stance could sink their chances in the November midterm election. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and GOP Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, John Thune of South Dakota, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin all voted for the...

A new National Republican Senatorial Committee ad accuses Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock of voting for massive cuts to Medicare. In reality, he voted to save hundreds of billions for the program and to cut out-of-pocket expenses for its beneficiaries. In the spot, released on Sept. 16, a narrator says: “It didn’t take long for Raphael Warnock to become a politician. Now he...

A Republican super PAC is accusing Ohio state Rep. Emilia Sykes, a Democrat running for the state’s 13th Congressional District, of wanting to release “dangerous criminals” onto the streets in a new attack ad full of false information. Sykes, who is Black, is among a number of candidates of color being accused in Republican campaign ads of being soft on violent crime. The new...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre compared the actions of Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott to “smugglers” on Friday after both took credit for trafficking several asylum seeking migrants out of their states into other locales without prior notice. “They used them as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel, premeditated political stunt,” Jean Pierre said...

Last week, former Wisconsin state Supreme Court Judge Michael Gableman repeated conspiracy theories and unproven allegations about the 2020 presidential election during a speech at a Republican fundraiser.  He also brought up the specter of “revolution.” Gableman’s remarks came during an Outagamie County Republican Party Constitution Day dinner in Appleton, Wisconsin. The...

J.R. Majewski, the GOP nominee for Congress representing Ohio’s 9th District, is the subject of numerous ads centering on his role in the insurrection on Jan. 6. Majewski was on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters breached the building — amidst a joint session of Congress — in effort to block certification of President Joe Biden’s...

National Republicans and a super PAC associated with Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson are attacking his Democratic opponent in the 2022 election, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, with a stream of deceptive advertisements. In total, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and Wisconsin Truth PAC have spent $7.5 million targeting Barnes, filling Wisconsin airwaves with ads that cast the Democrat...