Category: 2022 Midterm Elections

Politicians Behind COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Should Be Brought to Justice: Maryland AG Candidate

Politicians who enacted strict COVID-19 measures including lockdowns and vaccine mandates should be brought to justice, says Republican Maryland Attorney General candidate Michael Peroutka. “Nothing could be more on the point that all these lockdowns, mandates, orders, edicts, proclamations, declarations, whatever you want to call them, none of them were lawful. They were all violation…


Fear, Humor, Emotion: The Political Ad Tricks That Sway Voters

Turning on the TV these days causes ad expert Tobe Berkovitz to groan in frustration. And when pre-Election Day content is especially egregious, he admits to lashing out at the screen with critiques that only his wife can hear. The onslaught of subpar political advertising blaring across the airwaves is what irks him. And it…


Fetterman Under Fire Over Progressive Stance on Crime, Connections to Crips Gang

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman, who is under attack from Republican opponent Mehmet Oz over his progressive views on criminal justice reform, attracted criticism from recent a TV ad that chronicled a 2013 incident when he chased down an unarmed black jogger and detained him until police arrived. Now, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor is answering…


Biden Postpones Florida Rally That Demings Was Ditching

With a strengthening Hurricane Ian churning north through the Gulf of Mexico, the White House has postponed President Joe Biden’s Tuesday trip to Florida. Biden was scheduled to pitch his proposals to lower health care costs and protect Medicare and Social Security at a Fort Lauderdale gathering before heading to Orlando for a Democratic National…


Maryland Officials Can Count Mail-In Ballots Before Election Day: Judge

Mail-in ballots can be counted before Election Day, a judge in Maryland has ruled. Maryland law states that officials can not start tabulating mail-in ballots until “8 a.m. on the Wednesday following election day.” But waiting that long would mean results could not be verified within 10 days after an election, as required by another law,…


Beto O’Rourke Blames Biden for Latino Voters’ Rightward Shift

Beto O’Rourke has blamed Joe Biden’s actions during the 2020 election as playing a part in Latino voters’ rightward political shift in recent years. “Candidate Biden didn’t spend a dime or a day in the Rio Grande Valley—or really anywhere in Texas, for that matter—once we got down in the homestretch of the general election,”…


Sen. Sinema Suggests Republicans Will Take the House

During a rare public appearance to discuss politics, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) suggested that she thinks Republicans will take the House in November. Sinema’s comments, delivered during an address on bipartisanship hosted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to an audience at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, align with general predictions by contemporary…


Psaki Admits Democrats Will Lose If Midterms Are a ‘Referendum’ on Biden

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Sunday said the Democrats will lose if the November midterm elections are a “referendum” on President Joe Biden. “If it is a referendum on the president, they will lose. And they know that. They also know that crime is a huge vulnerability for Democrats, I would say…


Politicians Opt for New Tools to Reach Young Voters

As he makes political ads, Heath Garrett may realize a race, like many statewide ones in Georgia, will come down to college-educated, persuadable, politically moderate women living somewhere in the Atlanta suburbs. How will he reach them? The answer used to be simple: television, the big gun in the political ad arsenal. Put your ads…


Liz Cheney Says Will Campaign for Democrats, Leave Republican Party If Trump Is 2024 Nominee

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said on Saturday that she will not remain a Republican if former President Donald Trump is the GOP presidential nominee in the 2024 elections, and that she would also be willing to campaign for Democrats to stop GOP nominee Kari Lake from being elected in the Arizona gubernatorial race. Cheney, who has been called a “Republican in…