COVID-19 tested every governor’s character. Roy Cooper failed North Carolina because he treated power as a substitute for the honest, dependable leadership North Carolinians needed. The defining challenge was never whether the government should respond to a dangerous virus. It was whether leaders could protect lives without inflicting avoidable damage on families, livelihoods, and communities. […]
Democratic governors are expressing their dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court’s Monday decision to lift a lower court’s block on the Trump administration’s executive order restricting mail-in ballot voting. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill criticized the move as a “terrible decision” in a social media post. “States run elections, not Donald Trump,” she wrote. “I will...
President Trump’s approval rating for his second term has reached a new low, according to a new poll. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, the president’s approval rating hit 33 percent, a 14-point slide from the start of his second term, when it was at 47 percent, and a 4-point slide from about a month ago, when...
A man is facing federal charges over allegations that he impersonated a federal officer on several occasions and forged Chief Justice John Roberts’s signature on fabricated Indiana court documents. Joshua Culver was indicted last week in the Northern District of Indiana on four counts of falsely impersonating an officer of the United States and one...
Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman are neck and neck in a new survey, as voting concludes Tuesday to determine which Republican will be on the ballot in South Carolina's Senate race. The poll, which the Trafalgar Group conducted from Saturday through Monday, found that 47.9 percent of 1,031 respondents backed Graham, whom South...
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee argues that state governments must leverage their regulatory authority to advance affordable clean energy initiatives to counter the Trump administration's federal opposition.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who ran for president in 2016 and is considered a possible future contender for the White House, says the Republican Party has not coalesced around Vice President Vance as its 2028 nominee and needs to have a broader discussion about its direction after President Trump leaves office. Asked by MS NOW’s...
Two individuals have died from measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s Department of Health said Tuesday. Both individuals, who were unvaccinated, lived in Lancaster County. The state health department said in a release it will not identify the deceased to protect their privacy and that of their families. Their deaths marked the first measles-related deaths in...
Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.), a centrist Democrat who frequently criticizes his party for catering to its left-wing base, is more popular among Republicans in Pennsylvania than the state’s GOP senator, Dave McCormick, according to a new poll. A New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena University poll of registered voters in Pennsylvania found that 73...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal judge in Massachusetts late Monday to lift a nationwide block on mail-in voting restrictions ahead of the November midterms. The DOJ wrote in a late-night filing that the Supreme Court’s ruling in a separate challenge to President Trump’s executive order “leaves no room for further dispute” in...