Mail-in voting changes could play a decisive role in these swing states
The COVID-19 pandemic turned absentee voting into an essential part of the 2020 elections, with more than 39 million Americans choosing to cast their ballots by mail. States have been reckoning with the consequences ever since. Former President Trump’s unfounded claims of fraud in his loss to President Biden included suggestions that absentee voting was partly to blame, leading his allies in GOP-led states to enact limits to mail-in voting. Other states have made temporary pandemic measures permanent, making it easier to send in votes ahead of
Read MoreGOP election deniers spark alarm about 2024
Democrats are sounding the alarm about the possibility of Republican election deniers winning statewide office in key swing states. Some Republican gubernatorial candidates, like Kari Lake in Arizona and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania, and secretary of state candidates like Jim Marchant in Nevada and Kristina Karamo in Michigan, have gained notoriety for casting doubt on the last presidential election, with some even suggesting they would not have certified the 2020 results. Now Democrats and even some Republicans are worrying about the effect these candidates could have
Read MoreBiden calls recent Jan. 6 video and testimonies 'devastating,' says he has gone out of his way not to comment
President Biden said on Saturday that he found the Jan. 6 committee’s newly released footage and testimony to be “devastating,” Reuters reported. "I think the testimony and the video are actually devastating, and I've been going out of my way not to comment," Biden told reporters while in Oregon, according to Reuters. The committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol released
Read MoreIn a twist for first ladies, Jill Biden is diving into the midterms
First lady Jill Biden is traversing the country in the final weeks before the midterm elections, adding several stops to her already travel-heavy time in the White House and outstripping her recent predecessors in terms of campaign appearances and active fundraising. Biden this week visited Tennessee, Wisconsin, Georgia and Florida. Her solo trips, while President Biden has been traveling out west this week, have been focused on top issues for her portfolio, including education, the military and COVID-19, but also include fundraising for Democrats. The first lady o
Read MoreDemocrats try to break through on drug pricing message
Much of the public appears to be largely in the dark about Democrats' signature effort to let Medicare negotiate drug prices, a potentially troubling sign ahead of next month's midterm elections. The inclusion of a provision allowing those negotiations in the Inflation Reduction Act marked the culmination of an at least 20-year push by Democrats and was touted as a major win over Big Pharma. Health care has been a winning issue for the party in previous midterm elections, and the law's passage was intended to give lawmakers a major political victory
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