President Trump spent the final day of the midterm campaign talking about his renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, an unusual closing argument for a president whose party faces the prospect of losing its grip on Washington.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) condemned President Trump’s recent low flyover on Halloween in a Monday letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought. The flyover occurred last Thursday during the White House’s Halloween party with Air Force One making two...
Chaos in Michigan is raising the stakes even higher in one of the most closely watched Senate battles in the nation. The political world was agog on Sunday when Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) endorsed the GOP’s Senate candidate, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), over her party colleague Abdul El-Sayed. Democrats immediately and fiercely denounced Stevens,...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Monday went after former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who is running for Senate in Michigan, over his claims that more young people are “against the Jews.” In an appearance on CBS News’s “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday, Rogers said “the next generation of kids thinks it's really cool to be against...
National Guard members in at least seven states will have some form of a role around Tuesday’s highly charged midterm elections. As Americans head to the polls, plain clothes National Guard soldiers are set to help monitor ballot boxes in seven Washington state counties, Iowa guardsmen are tasked with monitoring and defending election networks, and...
The Supreme Court on Monday quickly rejected the Trump administration’s effort to force California officials to set aside 20,000 ballots it claims belong to likely noncitizens and must be investigated. The court’s one-sentence order contained no explanation and had no noted dissents. California and immigration rights groups question the veracity of the administration’s list and...
Thousands of voters in Washoe County, Nev., received mail-in ballot return envelopes with the word “FALSE” written on them. A spokesperson for the county’s Registrar of Voters, George Guthrie, said in a statement to The Hill that the affected envelopes were “not limited to voters of any particular political party.” “The inclusion of the word...