With tens of thousands of Michigan residents already having cast their ballots in the midterm voting that ends with Election Day on Nov. 8, Kristina Karamo, the Republican nominee for secretary of state challenging incumbent Democrat Jocelyn Benson, has filed a lawsuit in Wayne County in an eleventh-hour attempt to interrupt the process. According to reporting by the Detroit News, the suit Karamo...
Tim Michels’ business fined for damaging roads while Wisconsin paid it to fix them
Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin Tim Michels’ construction company has been fined 11 times for running overweight trucks on Wisconsin roads in the last five years — even as the company received more than half a billion dollars in state contracts to repair Wisconsin’s roads. Michels, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, is locked in a tied race with...
Abortion access in Illinois at stake in upcoming Supreme Court elections
State supreme court races have emerged as some of the most consequential down-ballot contests in the nation this election season. In Illinois, where Democrats hold a slim 4-3 majority on the Supreme Court, the consequences of the race for two seats on the court could be enormous. Seats on the Illinois Supreme Court are filled by elections in five judicial districts, with three from the 1st...
Anti-Biden ads using Russian-provided stock footage airing during World Series
A political ad that ran on television on Oct. 28 during a World Series game broadcast and criticized President Joe Biden for aiding Ukraine used stock footage from Russian sources, a review has found. The ad is funded by Citizens for Sanity, a dark money conservative tax-exempt nonprofit group that has supported Republican candidates during the 2022 election cycle. Politico reported that Citizens...
Oregon Republican gubernatorial nominee took $10,000 from firearms lobbying group
The campaign of Christine Drazan, the Republican nominee for governor of Oregon, received a $10,000 contribution from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for the firearm industry, in the final days of the 2022 midterms. The group, which, the Daily Beast reported, has filled a gap in campaign spending left by the National Rifle Association after its legal...
Republican Senate candidates are already preparing to claim fraud in the 2022 election
Before and after the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump lied about the integrity of the process, baselessly claiming widespread voter fraud was the only reason for President Joe Biden’s victory. Now several Republican Senate nominees are using the same playbook to cast doubt on the 2022 midterms. Biden defeated Trump 306-232 in the Electoral College — a margin Trump himself...
Steve Bannon speaks at campaign rally for Kari Lake before serving 4-month prison sentence
Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake on Tuesday held a campaign event with Steve Bannon, the former senior adviser to former President Donald Trump. Lake is challenging Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in the governor’s race. Bannon, who is awaiting a date to report to prison after he was sentenced for a conviction on charges of contempt of Congress, was a surprise...
September report shows job openings over 10 million for 15th month in a row
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday released its monthly report on job openings, revealing that openings increased to 10.7 million in September, nearly half a million more than in August. This comes in spite of a Federal Reserve effort to decrease job growth to fight inflation. The Federal Reserve announced another interest rate hike today, a little over a month after a rate increase in...
GOP candidate calling for ‘confronting’ China is executive at company doing business there
Republican candidate Jeremy Shaffer, who is running to represent Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District, claims he wants to “end our dependence on China,” but the company of which he is a vice president has had multiple contracts with organizations in China. Shaffer, who is running against Democratic candidate Chris Deluzio, named “Confronting Communist China” as...
Democratic governor candidate says abortion law ‘puts New Hampshire women in extreme risk’
Dr. Tom Sherman is the Democratic nominee for governor of New Hampshire running against incumbent Republican Gov. Chris Sununu. “I’ve always felt that a woman should have the right to make her own health care decisions, period,” Sherman told the American Independent Foundation in an interview. “There’s just no role for the government being in between that process of medical...