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Election officials scanned absentee by-mail ballots from the 2022 primary election at the Region II Elections Office in Anchorage. (Bill Roth / ADN archive) Two Republican candidates have withdrawn from an Eagle River state Senate race, leaving incumbent Sen. Kelly Merrick, also a Republican, to face one GOP challenger in a contest that could determine control of the state Senate.Merrick, who won the Senate seat in 2022, will face Republican Jared Goecker in November. With 21% primary turnout in the district, Merrick had 34% of the vote and Goecker had nearly 33%. They will also face Democratic political newcomer Lee…
What began as a sombre wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, attended by Donald Trump on Monday morning had by Wednesday evening degenerated into a poisonous round of campaign vitriol between the opposing parties in the US election.Monday marked the third anniversary of the deaths of 13 American service personnel who lost their lives during the calamitous evacuation of American troops from Afghanistan in 2021. A suicide bomber killed more than 100 people in an explosion at Kabul airport on August 26th of that year.As a subsequent statement made clear, families of the deceased had invited Donald Trump to…
Vice President Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, pose with members of the marching band at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Ga., on Wednesday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Vice President Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, are back on their campaign bus. The pair are together on the campaign trail for the first time since last week’s Democratic convention. This time, they’re on a two-day bus tour of Georgia. Their trip is taking them into areas of the state that don’t always get attention from Democratic…
The family of a late Green Beret buried in Arlington National Cemetery is not happy that former President Donald Trump took photographs and filmed a TikTok in the section of the cemetery where the soldier was buried.Trump attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington on Monday for the third anniversary of the attack on US troops withdrawing from Afghanistan. Trump and the GOP have often used the 2021 Kabul attack — in which 13 US service members were killed — to slam the Biden administration.Trump’s campaign also filmed a TikTok video in the cemetery, which showed him laying a wreath on…
A new report shed more light Wednesday on the altercation between Trump campaign staffers and an official at Arlington National Cemetery.The confrontation reportedly took place when former President Trump attended a wreath-laying ceremony dedicated to veterans killed and injured during the 2021 Kabul airport bombing, which occurred as the U.S. military was pulling out of Afghanistan.Two Trump campaign staffers, identified by The New York Times as Press Secretary Steven Cheung and campaign co-manager Chris LaCivita, reportedly got into a verbal and physical altercation with an an official at the cemetery who directed them not to take photos in Section 60,…
ATLANTA — A Georgia Senate committee kicked off a new push by Republicans in the state to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports, hearing testimony on Tuesday from five former college swimmers who are suing the NCAA and Georgia Tech over a transgender woman’s participation in the 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships.Transgender participation in women’s sports roiled Georgia’s General Assembly in 2022, when lawmakers passed a law letting the Georgia High School Association regulate transgender women’s participation in sports. The association, mostly made up of public high schools, then banned participation by transgender women in sports events it…
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America will continue as Senate Republicans strive to prevent Democrats from passing even the most popular measures under Biden’s presidency. While prices skyrocket across the country and our rights are put in jeopardy, Americans like you continue to fight for representation and push back against the rise of fascism. Despite the challenges facing the journalism industry these days, we’ve been fortunate to have a loyal reader base and to be able…
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be making a statement by choosing Georgia for her first campaign trail swing following last week’s Democratic National Convention.Harris on Wednesday kicked off a two-day bus swing through the southeastern part of the key battleground state accompanied by her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.Walz will head off to North Carolina for a Thursday evening fundraiser while Harris plans on “energizing thousands of Georgians at a rally in Savannah,” according to her campaign.The vice president’s message is that Georgia is once again in play in November’s election.THIS POPULAR GOP GOVERNOR SAYS…
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — Donald Trump’s campaign is co-managed by the man who engineered the “swift boating” of John Kerry in 2004, so it should come as no surprise that 20 years later, military service and treatment of veterans are turning into uncomfortable political issues. Trump pivoted from a visit to Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week to an attack on President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan policy – a turn that apparently followed a dustup with an official at the cemetery over…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign was warned about not taking photographs before an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony earlier this week to honor service members killed in the Afghanistan War withdrawal, a defense official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter concerning Monday’s events. It came a day after NPR reported, citing a source with knowledge of the incident, that two Trump campaign staff members “verbally abused and pushed” aside a cemetery official who tried to stop them from filming and photographing in Section 60,…