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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In January 2023, a group of about 15 people gathered for three days at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative Washington think tank a few blocks from the Capitol. Their aim was ambitious and farsighted: to start building the next Republican administration, two years before a Republican president might again take office. The group’s leaders originally cast the initiative as candidate-agnostic, intended to assist the 2024 Republican nominee, whoever that might be. But there was no real doubt who…
Washington CNN — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bipartisan tax package that would have temporarily expanded the child tax credit and restored some business tax benefits. The bill failed to advance in a procedural vote of 48-44, short of the 60 it required to succeed. Democrats brought up the vote, which was expected to fail, as they seek to spotlight the child tax credit in a political messaging push ahead of the November elections, giving vulnerable members of their party a chance to vote to expand the tax credit and putting Republicans on the spot over the issue. The…
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state’s top court is deciding whether lawmakers had the proper authority when they expanded who was eligible to vote by mail. The Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge to the system enacted last year. It is nuanced lawsuit brought by North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik and backed by the state Republican party. They argue the 2023 law, which allows any registered voter to request an early mail ballot, is unconstitutional. This is separate from absentee ballots, which require an excuse, although the plaintiffs argue they are functionally the same. Attorneys argued over letter of…
John Giles: I wouldn’t say that’s an issue. That’s the issue in Arizona.So that’s an issue that the vice president’s going to have to come to Arizona and convince the people here that she has a good policy and that she is going to work, treating it as a problem to be solved, as opposed to President Trump’s approach, which is to treat it as an issue to be exploited.Republicans are attempting to blame her for the surges and the chaos at the border. I think there’s blame to be passed all around, going back multiple presidential administrations. But, in…
Kamala Harris is bringing her newly-minted presidential campaign to Georgia, a state that some Democrats now consider up for grabs in the closely contested election.The vice-president held a star-studded campaign rally in Atlanta on Tuesday, at which she challenged her Republican rival Donald Trump to meet her on the debate stage.Pop star Megan Thee Stallion and rapper/singer Quavo performed while Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock also addressed the crowd of about 10,000 people. The possibility of Democrats winning in the battleground state was a stretch one month ago, but some analysts now believe a new face on top of the ticket…
PHOENIX (AP) — Abraham Hamadeh has defeated Blake Masters in the Republican primary for an open U.S House seat that saw a rare dual endorsement from former President Donald Trump in a crowded field.Other key congressional primaries were too early to call Wednesday evening with more than 100,000 ballots left to count statewide.Voters delivered victories to some front-runners in Tuesday’s primary election, namely former Phoenix television news anchor and gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. She defeated Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb in a Republican U.S. Senate primary that headlined the election statewide and will face Democrat Ruben Gallego in November.Earlier Wednesday,…
PHOENIX — Incumbent Stephen Richer was ousted in his Republican primary for Maricopa County recorder, an outcome that could have a major impact on how elections are administered in the nation’s most populous battleground county. State Rep. Justin Heap had 42.4% support to 35.9% for Richer when The Associated Press called the race Wednesday morning. Don Hiatt, a candidate who worked in information management technology, took 21.8%. Richer is an outspoken defender of the swing state’s election process who forcefully pushed back against the unfounded voter fraud claims that spread after the 2020 and 2022 races. Heap, a critic of Maricopa elections in…
Final results from Tuesday’s primary election are still being calculated and could take a few days. In an acceptance speech on Tuesday night, Ms Lake referred to Trump as a “hero”, who needs help in Washington DC. “He can’t do this alone,” the former TV anchor said. “I’m going to be his back-up.” Ms Lake’s primary opponent, Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, had sought to position himself as the best candidate to secure Arizona’s border with Mexico and win in a general election. While Ms Lake raised substantially more money in her campaign – $10.3m (£8m) compared to Mr Lamb’s…
A new poll shows all five Democrats trailing the two Republicans running to become Washington’s next Commissioner of Public Lands – but many voters still haven’t decided. Washington state’s top-two primary next week will see the two candidates with the most votes advance to the general, regardless of party. Because of that system — and the totally open primary where anyone can run for office, and often multiple people from the same party do — sometimes the top two vote-getters in the primary are from the same party. New polling shows that scenario could happen next week in the statewide…
SEATTLE (AP) — Congressional primary races in Washington state are attracting outsized attention, including one that pits one of the last remaining U.S. House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump against two conservative candidates whose platforms are in lock-step with the GOP presidential nominee.Another race in the state’s moderate 8th Congressional District — held by centrist Democrat Rep. Kim Schrier — has been shaken up by an upstart campaign by the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington, who has made the Israel-Hamas war the centerpiece of his platform.And in the 3rd District, Trump-endorsed Joe Kent…