Category: 2022 Midterm Elections

Wisconsin Court Shoots Down Attempt to Change Rules for Absentee Ballots Before Midterms

A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday dealt a blow to a group in the state who hoped to change rules governing absentee ballots, denying their request that local election clerks accept absentee ballots that contain partial addresses of witnesses. Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas said in his ruling (pdf) that in the past 56 years that Wisconsin elections have been…


Biden Tells Voters ‘MAGA Republicans’ Will Lead US Down a ‘Path of Chaos’

President Joe Biden on Nov. 2 told voters to reject “extreme MAGA Republicans” in the midterm elections, saying those politicians are a threat to American democracy and will lead the United States down a “path of chaos.” Biden made the remarks during a speech at a Democratic National Committee event inside Union Station in Washington….


Midterm Elections Updates: Reset District Favors Florida GOP Rep in Clash of Congressional Incumbents

The latest on the midterm elections. ____ Reset District Favors Florida GOP Rep in Clash of Congressional Incumbents Since Reps. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) and Al Lawson (D-Fla.) were both elected to the House in 2016, the three-term congressmen from Florida’s Panhandle have been reliably and routinely partisan in canceling out each others’ votes. On Nov. 8,…


Midterm Elections Updates: 2nd Arizona County Mulling Hand-Counts Rejects Effort

The latest on the midterm elections. ____ 2nd Arizona County Mulling Hand-Counts Rejects Effort The elected leaders of an Arizona county who had considered following the lead of a rural county by expanding their hand-counts of ballots from next week’s election rejected the effort Wednesday. The majority on the Pinal County board of supervisors said they…


Midterm Elections Updates: New Forecast Predicts Republicans Will Have a Good Night on Tuesday

The latest on the midterm elections. ____ New Forecast Predicts Republicans Will Have a Good Night on Tuesday Republicans are projected to have a good night on Nov. 8 in the Senate, according to a new forecast released Thursday. The model from RealClearPolitics shows that the GOP will control the Senate with 54 seats, as compared…


GOP Senate Candidate Don Bolduc Attacked Before New Hampshire Debate

New Hampshire’s Republican Senate candidate Donald C. Bolduc was the victim of an attempted assault prior to Wednesday’s debate against incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), according to the GOP nominee and campaign officials. Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general, mentioned the incident near the end of the Nov. 2 second and final debate prior to the…


Thousands Wait In Line Ahead of Obama Rally for Democratic Candidates in Phoenix

PHOENIX, Ariz.—Jeff Gustavson of Mesa, Arizona, sees a political wave coming in the Nov. 8 midterm election, but not a red one. And if thousands of Democrats standing in line waiting to hear former President Barack Obama speak at a Nov. 2 rally in Phoenix was any indication, Gustavson was even more confident. “I think…


Maine Elections Under Heavy Watch as State Faces Critical EMT Worker Shortage

With days to go before elections, the outcome of the gubernatorial race in the state of Maine is under especially heavy watch by a large grassroots group fighting some of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates against some of the most lenient voter identification laws in the United States. In her campaign to keep her seat,…


Attack on Paul Pelosi Won’t Have ‘Any Political Effect That Matters’: Gingrich

The attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband would not take attention away from voters who are more focused on kitchen table issues, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. “The reality is for most Americans, the price of food the price of gasoline, the price of heating oil, the crime level in their…


EXCLUSIVE: Attack on Paul Pelosi Won’t Have ‘Any Political Effect That Matters’: Newt Gingrich

The attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband would not take attention away from voters who are more focused on kitchen table issues, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. “The reality is for most Americans, the price of food the price of gasoline, the price of heating oil, the crime level in their…