The Republican Party shattered its previous fundraising record by hauling in $67.6 million in August 2020. The Washington Examiner reported that the $67.6 million represents “nearly four times what the party did in the previous four Augusts combined.” Moreover, it puts the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) total for the current campaign cycle at $1.3 billion.
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In seeking her third term in the state Legislature, state Rep. LeAnne Burch, D-Monticello, faces a first for her political career: an opponent. Howard Beaty, a 50-year-old bank executive and former county GOP official from Crossett, is attempting to unseat Burch, a 59-year-old retired brigadier general and attorney, by tying her voting record to state
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for The Marshall Project’s newsletter, or follow them on Facebook or Twitter. The race for sheriff of Brevard County — the stretch of Florida coast east of Orlando that includes Cape Canaveral —
This week was the deadline for Governor Ige to sign or veto legislation on his desk. Governor Ige signed SB 3054, and HB 2744 went into law without his signature, due to his failure to veto the measure. Both bills are effective upon approval and are now state law. House Bill 2744 places severe restrictions on certain
On Saturday, The Daily Beast reported on evidence of a potentially illegal campaign arrangement between President Donald Trump’s campaign and the NRA. “The NRA and the Trump campaign placed … ads through two companies that appear separate on paper, but reporting by The Trace indicates they are affiliates of National Media Research, Planning and Placement,
Special to The Washington Post · Rosemary Armao · OPINION · Sep 16, 2020 – 3:59 PM ALBANY, N.Y. – In July, I was sworn in as a federal Narfu hunter. NRFU (Non-Responsive Follow-Up) is how the U.S. Census Bureau describes those Americans – roughly 35% of the population – who have not returned their
According to the most recent United States intelligence community report on international meddling in American elections, Russia is “using a range of measures” to interfere in the 2020 elections. It is not surprising that, after seeing the outsized returns on a minimum monetary investment to create chaos in the 2016 elections, Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir
Accra, Sept 19, GNA – Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, the Presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) for Ghana’s 2020 general election, is physically challenged, but is fit for President, Nana Nana Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpongmaa Kumankuma, Chair and Leader of the CPP has said. She described the candidate, affectionately called Green, as being athletic and
Who’s likely to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s crucial seat on the U.S. Supreme Court if Joe Biden wins? While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he intends for President Trump’s nominee to get a vote on the Senate floor, Biden and other leading Democrats say the next president should make the pick. Based on reporting prior to Ginsburg’s death Friday, here
Anti-gun Representatives tried and failed on Wednesday, September 16th to override Governor Chris Sununu’s veto of firearm seizure legislation, House Bill 687. House Bill 687, sponsored by Representative Debra Altschiller (D-Rockingham 19), would have allowed ex parte orders to suspend Second Amendment rights without adequate due process. Further, if the order was vacated after an individual
The City Council recently voted down Resolution R-20-68 that would have urged the New Mexico Legislature to rip the state firearms preemption language from the New Mexico Constitution. That important language, found in Article II Section 6, provides that “No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.”
President Donald Trump didn’t rule out the possibility of replacing FBI Director Christopher Wray on Friday, the day after Trump criticized Wray’s description of antifa. Wray referred to antifa as “a movement or an ideology” rather than a “group” in Congressional testimony on Thursday, a description with which Trump disagreed. Asked by reporters whether he
The former top National Rifle Association official who wrote a book highly critical of the NRA said Friday to Fox News that gun owners “don’t need the NRA to tell them to go out and vote” as he slammed the group for alleged corruption and scare tactics and called for a “reset” of the conversation about
EXCLUSIVE: The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund, the political action committee (PAC) associated with the gun rights organization, raised more than $1.7 million in August, beating its August 2016 total and raising more than it did in any month ahead of the presidential election that year. The $1,725,700 the organization raised in August is almost $240,000 higher
Candy Woodall, J.D. Prose, Matthew Rink, Rick Kazmer and Michelle Ganassi USA TODAY Network Published 6:33 PM EDT Sep 17, 2020 Barbara Boucher is the type of voter the Biden and Trump campaigns are both worried about. The 43-year-old mom was among thousands of voters who helped President Donald J. Trump win Lawrence County by
The two sides filed motions for summary judgment as they try to sway Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, with gun-control groups also submitting briefs last week in support of the law. After 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018, the Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott approved a
President Trump is pushing schools to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying parents want it, the children can handle it and the economy needs it. Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden says the teachers don’t want it, the children can spread the coronavirus and the country can’t stomach another surge of COVID-19 cases he fears
Eileen Banisch Eileen Banisch Photo: Sarah Kyrcz Photo: Sarah Kyrcz Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 Eileen Banisch Eileen Banisch Photo: Sarah Kyrcz Madison RTC leader resigns following Facebook comments on ‘shooting bagels’ Back to Gallery The vice chairwoman of Madison’s Republican Town Committee resigned that post, less than two