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Gerrymandering:
[A word which is noted in one or more
articles below including how it can affect the 2018 midterms]
Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish
a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating
district boundaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
-- 2017 --
February 15: A Very Early Look At The Battle
For The House In 2018 ...
Donald Trump is unpopular enough that Republicans could lose the House, but
there’s a lot of uncertainty.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-very-early-look-at-the-battle-for-the-house-in-2018/
April 2: Will This Midterm Be Different From
All Other Midterms?
Will the race portend a sea change for 2018? The most up-for-grabs seats in an
election year that could be epic.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/what-democrats-need-to-do-to-take-congress-in-2018.html
May 22: Why The 2018 Senate Elections Are
Looking Bad For Both Parties
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-2018-senate-elections-are-looking-bad-for-both-parties/
July 14: Republican Corey Stewart announced
Thursday a “vicious, ruthless” bid to unseat Sen. Tim Kaine in the 2018
midterms. Stewart, who serves as the Prince William County Board of Supervisors
chair, narrowly lost the Republican nomination for governor to former Republican
National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie by one percentage point last month.
http://smcmarketingtips.com/blog/category/news/page/39/
July 30: House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said questions about her future in
leadership are “unimportant."
"... What is important is that we have the lively debate on a better deal,”
Pelosi said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/344552-pelosi-unimportant-to-win-midterm-elections
August 7: The Congressional Map Has A
Record-Setting Bias Against Democrats ... And it’s not just 2018.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-congressional-map-is-historically-biased-toward-the-gop/
October 3: In a case from Wisconsin that
could reshape the way American elections are conducted, the Supreme Court
heard from challengers that it was the “only institution in the United
States” that could prevent a coming wave of extreme partisan gerrymandering that
would distort the basic structure of democracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-takes-up-wisconsin-as-first-test-in-partisan-gerrymandering-claims/2017/10/03/4349b5de-a82a-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html?utm_term=.fbf6a31d1147
November 3: States Watch As Supreme Court
Weighs Wisconsin Gerrymandering Case
http://wamc.org/post/states-watch-supreme-court-weighs-wisconsin-gerrymandering-case
November 17: Wisconsin awaits Supreme
Court's ruling in gerrymandering case
http://www.htrnews.com/story/opinion/2017/11/17/wisconsin-eagerly-awaits-us-supreme-courts-ruling-gerrymandering-w-michael-slattery-manitowoc/874083001/
December 8: Ten Elections to Watch in 2018
https://www.cfr.org/blog/ten-elections-watch-2018
December 20: Democrats' already wide
advantage over Republicans in a hypothetical Congressional matchup has grown,
according to
a new CNN poll conducted by
SSRS. At the same time, enthusiasm about voting next year has increased
among Democrats nationwide following an unexpected win in Alabama's Senate
special election and a strong showing in Virginia's state government elections
last month.
Among registered voters, 56% say they favor a Democrat in their congressional
district, while 38% prefer a Republican. That 18-point edge is the widest
Democrats have held in CNN polling on the 2018 contests, and the largest at this
point in midterm election cycles dating back two decades. The finding follows
several other public polls showing large double-digit leads for Democrats on
similar questions.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-advantage-grows-2018/index.html
December 28: In every midterm election since
the Civil War, the president's party
has lost, on average, 32 seats in the House and two in the Senate.
In next year's battles, Democrats need only 24 seats to flip the House and two
to take the Senate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/everything-you-need-know-about-2018-midterm-elections-n832226
-- 2018 --
Undated: A total of 468 seats in the
U.S. Congress (33
Senate seats and all 435
House seats) are up for election on November 6, 2018.
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2018
January 2: 5 ways the 2018 midterms could
change American politics ... What’s really at stake in this year’s elections.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/2/16795804/elections-2018-midterms-consequences
January 2: The one question likely to decide
2018 elections ... Will Americans vote to constrain President Donald Trump by
electing a Democrat-led Congress that will challenge and resist him, or to
empower the Republicans who are increasingly working in harness with him?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/congress-trump-2018-midterm-election-republican-democrat/index.html
January 4: Republicans kept control of
Virginia’s House of Delegates on Thursday after their candidate [David Yancey]
won a lottery-style drawing to resolve a tied race, but the losing Democrat
[Shelly Simonds] said she might challenge the results.
Simonds told reporters she was weighing her options,
raising the prospect of a second recount in a race that has seen several twists
since the November vote.
... Republicans [have] a slim 51-49 advantage in seats when the legislature’s
session starts on Wednesday ...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-election/republicans-keep-control-of-virginia-state-house-after-tie-breaker-idUSKBN1ET152
January 4: Redistricting Cases Could
Redefine State and U.S. Politics in 2018 ... More than a dozen cases on partisan
and racial gerrymandering are winding their way through the court system. Two
cases, in particular, could become two of the most important this decade.
http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-partisan-gerrymandering-redistricting-2018.html
January 7: The gerrymandering cases to watch
in 2018
https://www.axios.com/the-racially-charged-gerrymandering-cases-to-watch-in-2018-1515329836-bce0beaf-f75e-4ad6-a91f-55a643b0d1fd.html
January 10: Federal court voids North
Carolina’s GOP-drawn congressional map for partisan gerrymandering
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/10/federal-court-voids-north-carolinas-gop-drawn-congressional-map-for-partisan-gerrymandering/?utm_term=.1bf70a563dbd
January 11:
States Push Back After Net Neutrality Repeal
...
“Net neutrality will be a major
issue in the 2018 campaigns, and we are going to let everyone know
where we stand and where they stand,” Mr. Schumer said at a news conference,
warning Republicans to vote in favor of the Democratic-led resolution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/net-neutrality-states.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=1E80A62E7129CE0C1459B309FE2ECB8F&gwt=pay
January 12:
Supreme Court to hear Texas case on
racial gerrymandering
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/12/supreme-court-texas-racial-gerrymandering-338733
January 12: The way state legislatures draw
election districts for political gain is coming to dominate the Supreme Court's
docket.
The justices agreed Friday to hear two cases challenging congressional and state
legislative districts in Texas, adding them to ones already pending from
Wisconsin and Maryland. Other cases are brewing in North Carolina and
Pennsylvania.
The Texas lawsuits involve more traditional challenges to the use of race in
drawing district lines, something the high court deals with perennially from
states with a history of violating the 1968 Voting Rights Act. By contrast, the
Wisconsin and Maryland cases allege excessive political gerrymandering --
designing districts to benefit one party over the other.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/12/supreme-court-adds-texas-election-districts-challenge-others-wisconsin-maryland/1028063001/
January 12: Republican lawmakers are
appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to block the ruling this week that struck
down North Carolina’s congressional districts – at least temporarily – and they
want an answer by Jan. 22.
Phil Strach, the Raleigh-based attorney representing Republican lawmakers in the
partisan gerrymandering case, stated in his 22-page request for an emergency
stay on the order issued Tuesday that a three-judge panel “has used an entirely
novel legal theory to hopelessly disrupt North Carolina’s upcoming congressional
elections.”
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article194451309.html
January 16: The U.S. Supreme Court Won't
Hear Texas' Partisan Gerrymandering Case
The U.S. Supreme Court announced today it won’t be hearing a challenge to the
state’s political maps from the Texas Democratic Party. In a lawsuit, Democrats
claimed state lawmakers drew political boundaries in 2011 in favor of
Republicans.
The Supreme Court dismissed the Democrats' appeal on the grounds their arguments
weren't presented properly. Part of what justices were asked to consider is
whether a lower court made a mistake by dismissing Democrats' partisan
gerrymandering claims “without discovery and an evidentiary record," but the
high court declined to weigh in.
“Today, the Supreme Court ruled that it does not presently have jurisdiction to
hear a partisan gerrymander claim under the unique posture of this complex
case," Hinojosa said. "Nonetheless, we anticipate an upcoming opportunity to
continue our pursuit of justice for Texas voters."
http://kut.org/post/us-supreme-court-wont-hear-texas-partisan-gerrymandering-case
January 18: The Supreme Court has blocked a
lower court's order requiring North Carolina's legislature to redraw the state's
congressional district boundaries for this year's elections.
The justices appear to have split, 7-2, in deciding to put on hold
the ruling that tossed out the state's map as "an unconstitutional partisan
gerrymander" in favor of Republicans. The map will likely remain in effect for
the 2018 midterm elections.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/18/supreme-court-blocks-redrawing-north-carolina-congress-347950
January 22: Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered
House map was just struck down — with huge implications for 2018 ... It was one
of the most pro-Republican gerrymanders in the country.
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/22/16920636/pennsylvania-gerrymander-ruling-house
January 22: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has
ruled on Monday that the heavily gerrymandered districts in their state violated
the commonwealth's constitution.
One noteworthy detail regarding the gerrymandering case is that, because the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court found it to be in violation of the state constitution
rather than the United States Constitution, the Pennsylvania Republican Party
will have no
recourse to the United States Supreme Court. They will be legally compelled
to redraw the state's 18 congressional districts so they will have fairer
boundaries.
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/22/pennsylvanias-supreme-court-just-struck-down-the-gops-gerrymandering/
January 26:
The Gerrymandering Fight
Heats Up
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/democrats-target-donald-duck-election-map-in-bid-for-congress
January 27: Candidates of color get off the
sidelines in the age of Trump: 'The soul of America is at stake right now'
Run For Something, a national group started after the election to recruit and
train Democratic candidates, has recruited more than 15,000 potential
candidates, according to co-founder Amanda Litman, a former Hillary Clinton
campaign staffer. Two-thirds of those candidates are women, and one-third
identify as persons of color.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/27/politics/candidates-of-color-age-of-trump/index.html
January 30:
They’ll Clap, But Will They Campaign
With Trump?
House Republicans, nervous about keeping their majority, are running away from
the president back in their home districts.
Don’t mistake all the standing ovations on Tuesday night for House Republicans
wanting to be anywhere near President Donald Trump between now and November.
A new Morning Consult/POLITICO poll found that just 27 percent of registered
voters believe that Trump’s support will have a positive impact on Republicans
running for Congress this year, and 40 percent believe he’ll have a negative
impact.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/30/house-republicans-trump-battleground-steve-stivers-216550
February 3: Democrats challenging California
Rep. Devin Nunes for his House seat have seen some benefit to the House
Intelligence Committee memo alleging the FBI misused its surveillance authority.
The leading Democratic candidate hoping to unseat the Republican chairman of the
committee has raised more than $100,000 in campaign donations.
Since Nunes' classified memo was released on Friday, the campaign for California
prosecutor Andrew Janz has raised $130,379 and is just shy of 4,000 individual
contributions.
http://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/national/472538833.html
February 5: Supreme Court declines request
from Pennsylvania GOP to stop redistricting
The ruling will have massive ramifications for the 2018 midterm elections, where
Republicans' control of the US House is on the line and Democrats are targeting
a handful of GOP-held seats in Pennsylvania.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/politics/supreme-court-pennsylvania-redistricting/index.html
February 7: Democrats won a Missouri special
election on Tuesday for a state house seat in a district that President Donald
Trump won in a landslide victory during the presidential election.
However, Republicans easily won three other state house seats in Missouri on
Tuesday and still have a super majority, the ability to override a governor’s
veto - in the chamber.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-missouri-election/democrat-wins-special-election-in-trump-heartland-missouri-idUSKBN1FR0YP
February 12: Cruz warns Texas GOP:
'The left is going to show up'
"Let me tell you right now: The left is going to show up," Cruz said during his
keynote address at the party's Lincoln Reagan Dinner.
"They will crawl over broken glass in November to vote."
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/373393-cruz-warns-texas-gop-the-left-is-going-to-show-up
February 13: The nation’s top spies said
Russia is continuing to target the U.S. political system
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-to-face-questions-on-security-clearances-and-agents-independence/2018/02/13/f3e4c706-105f-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html?utm_term=.ca0d7fe7f4f3
February 14: Republicans just got some good
news for the 2018 midterm elections: A new poll shows them leading in the race
for Congress
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/14/2018-midterm-elections-republicans-take-lead-on-a-generic-ballot.html
February 14: Democrats Push Hail Mary Plan
to Secure the Midterm Elections ...
In recent weeks, intelligence officials have said
clearly that
Russia will likely meddle again in the 2018 midterm election season—which
begins in Texas in less than three weeks. United States election systems,
though, have
not yet
adequately improved defenses since the 2016 presidential election. On
Wednesday, House Democrats outlined a last-ditch effort to step up security
while there's still some time.
https://www.wired.com/story/democrats-plan-to-secure-midterm-elections/
February 21: Kentucky Democrat wins state
House seat in Trump stronghold
Linda Belcher, a Democrat, won the special election for Kentucky's House
District 49 on Tuesday with 3,386 votes. Rebecca Johnson, a Republican, received
1,561 votes,
according to official results from Kentucky Secretary of State Alison
Lundergan Grimes.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/politics/kentucky-linda-belcher-trump/index.html
February 21: Artificial intelligence could
supercharge hacking and election meddling, study warns ... AI programs can make
it easier for trolls with minimal technical skills to make fake videos, audio,
researchers warn
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/artificial-intelligence-could-supercharge-hacking-election-meddling-study-warns-n849601
March 10: Polls in Pennsylvania's 18th
District show a tight race. A loss by Saccone to Democratic Marine veteran and
former prosecutor Conor Lamb would be seen as a major warning sign for the GOP
ahead of November's midterm elections.
Trump and the Republican Party have gone all in to prevent an embarrassing
defeat. Trump endorsed Saccone in January, and outside Republican groups have
spent more than $10 million on the race in support of Saccone, who's weak
fundraising numbers have seen him outraised by Lamb by nearly five-to-one in the
first seven weeks of the year.
Trump referred to the Democrat as "Lamb the sham" and said he'd vote with his
party in Washington if he's elected. Republicans have tried to tie Lamb to
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, but Lamb has said he does not support Pelosi.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/10/politics/trump-pennsylvania-speech-rick-saccone/index.html
March 12: Win or lose, Pennsylvania
18 likely forecasts bad news for the GOP in November
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/politics/pennsylvania-18-bad-news-for-gop/index.html
March 13: [Regarding Pennsylvania special
election] ...
Look, let's be 100% real here. The reason Conor Lamb had any shot here is
because of Trump. Trump is not that popular, even here. Many Republicans are
likely staying home.
A source close to the White House says both the White House and top Republican
leaders are “very” worried Republican candidate Rick Saccone will lose tonight.
The fear for weeks, this source said, has been that Saccone has not been pulling
his own weight in fundraising. The White House and GOP leaders see Conor Lamb as
“out of central casting,” meaning he is pretty tailor-made as a conservative
Democrat to win this R-leaning district.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/pennsylvania-election-latest/index.html
March 13: PA GOP Candidate Rick Saccone: My
Opponents Hate God, Trump, and U.S.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pa-gop-candidate-rick-saccone-my-opponents-hate-god-trump-and-us
March 14: It’s official: Democrat Conor Lamb
wins Pennsylvania special election in major upset
Trump won this district by 20 points in 2016. For him, this was personal.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/14/17109448/pennsylvania-special-election-conor-lamb-defeats-rick-saccone
March 14: Trump broke his silence on the
election at a private fundraiser for Missouri Senate candidate Josh Hawley
Wednesday night, telling a crowd of donors that Lamb had run “a pretty smart
race, actually,” according to an audio recording of the remarks obtained by
The Atlantic.
“The young man last night that ran, he said, ‘Oh, I’m like Trump. Second
Amendment, everything. I love the tax cuts, everything.’ He ran on that basis,”
Trump said. “He ran on a campaign that said very nice things about me. I said,
‘Is he a Republican? He sounds like a Republican to me.’”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/trump-on-the-lamb/555668/
March 14: Republicans keep telling us that
we shouldn’t focus on the noise, but rather the substantive accomplishments of
this administration and this Congress.
But taking a look at the special election in Pennsylvania today, one gets a
pretty strong sense that they’re just blowing smoke.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/13/gop-buries-good-news-in-pennsylvania-race.html
March 17: Pa. GOP wants probe of
'irregularities' in special election
Attorney Joel Frank, in a letter dated Friday, outlined five areas of concern,
ranging from calls about machine errors to confusion about polling places and a
dispute over whether a Republican attorney could watch part of the elections
process.
“In the interest of transparency and nonpartisanship, we ask that you consider
assigning this task to a Commonwealth elections official capable of conducting
an impartial investigation in light of the positions you’ve taken on ongoing
redistricting litigation,” Frank wrote.
A spokeswoman said earlier in the week that there were relatively few problems
reported with the election, most of which elections workers said they quickly
resolved.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/conor-lamb-rick-saccone-pennsylvania-special-election-irregularities-20180317.html
March 21: Holocaust denier is officially the
GOP nominee in Chicago-area House race
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/politics/holocaust-denier-gop-illinois-third-district/index.html
March 21: A Republican candidate for
Kentucky secretary of state has apologized after suggesting he'd like to use US
Rep. John Yarmuth as target practice.
A Republican candidate for Kentucky secretary of state has apologized after
suggesting he'd like to use US Rep. John Yarmuth as target practice.
"I'm so proud of my @NRA rating, I'll wear it on my chest," Yarmuth, a Kentucky
Democrat, posted on Twitter Monday, along with a picture of him wearing a "F"
pin showing his rating from the National Rifle Association.
Carl Nett, whose campaign website says he's a former US Secret Service agent and
CIA contractor, replied that Yarmuth should move the pin "over just a bit."
"I was trained center mass," he added, referring to the
law enforcement tactic to hit a suspect's vital organs. Nett has since
deleted the tweet.
After receiving backlash from Democrats and Republicans in his state, Nett later
apologized on Twitter
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/kentucky-gop-tweet-suggests-shooting-democrat/index.html
March 21: Democrats get high turnout again,
this time in Illinois
The primaries in Illinois on Tuesday night were, for the most part melodramatic
-- some big names got scares but there were no major upsets.
There was, however, some good news for Democrats: In the second of two statewide
primaries this year (Texas
being the other), turnout was significantly higher for Democrats than in
either 2010 or 2014.
There were just under 1.3 million votes cast in the Illinois Democratic primary
Tuesday to just over 700,000 in the Republican primary. Put another way, 64% of
the votes cast were on the Democratic line, compared with only 36% on the
Republican line. Now, Illinois is a blue state, but even taking that into
account, it was an impressive performance for Democrats.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/democrat-high-turnout-illinois/index.html
March 21: New York's Nixon-Cuomo primary is
shaping up to be a blockbuster
"Only in New York, kids, only in New York."
Tabloid gossip queen Cindy Adams' signature signoff is the best on-ramp to these
frenzied early days of the New York Democratic gubernatorial primary.
The actress and activist Cynthia Nixon's decision to
enter the race, challenging two-term Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has touched off the
kind of pitched political battle that many in the state, as recently as a couple
of weeks ago, seemed confident belonged exclusively to Cuomo and New York Mayor
Bill de Blasio, the perpetually warring liberal leaders.
But the stakes are different and perhaps higher in certain quarters with Cuomo's
potential presidential ambitions, along with his current job, on the line.
Unlike de Blasio, Nixon has nothing to lose by torching the governor with every
breath, especially in the five boroughs, where the troubled subway system --
which is controlled by the state -- is in a rolling crisis.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/cuomo-nixon-new-york-governor-first-days/index.html
April 4: Walker warns GOP 'at risk of a #BlueWave'
after Democratic win in Wisconsin court race
The Democratic-backed candidate won a seat Tuesday on Wisconsin's Supreme Court,
another warning signal for the GOP that led Republican Gov. Scott Walker to
tweet that the party is "at risk of a #BlueWave" in November.
Liberal Rebecca Dallet trounced conservative Michael Screnock in the race for a
10-year term on the state's high court. Screnock conceded the race, and results
continued to trickle in late Tuesday showing Dallet with a double-digit lead.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/04/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-democrats-win/index.html
April 11: US House Speaker Paul Ryan to
retire in blow to Republicans
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43729218
April 11: House Key Race alerts: Paul Ryan's
and six other seats move toward Democrats
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/11/politics/house-race-ratings-ryan-retirement-update/index.html
May 4: Democrats target union workers who
regret Trump vote
... with coal still struggling and Trump stoking a trade war — many union
workers have soured on the president ahead of November’s midterm congressional
elections, the Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/democrats-target-union-workers-who-regret-trump-vote/article_a0c5444b-2f5f-55c3-86a3-9a43b2d5507f.html
May 7:
McCarthy: 'Very Confident' That Voters Will Reject Pelosi's
Obstruction, Keep GOP in Majority
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he's "very confident" that
Republicans will keep control of the chamber in November.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/05/07/kevin-mccarthy-very-confident-voters-will-reject-nancy-pelosi-agenda
May 8: North Carolina's Rep. Robert
Pittenger became the first House incumbent to lose his seat in a primary in the
2018 midterm election cycle, conceding the race Tuesday to conservative pastor
Mark Harris.
Pittenger, a 69-year-old Republican who was first elected in 2012, trailed
Harris by 2 percentage points with just one precinct left to report.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/politics/first-house-republican-loses/
May 16: Democrats' anti-Trump resistance
scores a big primary win in Nebraska
A nonprofit executive who campaigned on offering "Medicare for all," stunned the
Democratic establishment and secured one of the activist left's biggest wins yet
Tuesday in a House primary in Nebraska.
Kara Eastman defeated the better-known former Rep. Brad Ashford, a "Blue Dog"
who argued for compromise, by nearly 3 percentage points
As a result of Eastman's primary win, CNN is moving the race from "toss-up" to
"Lean Republican."
The victory also came on a night that moderates fell in several other important
races. In Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, well-known district attorney John
Morganelli lost a House primary to Susan Wild, an EMILY's List-backed candidate
well to his left. In a Philadelphia-area House primary, a self-funding
progressive millionaire, Scott Wallace, defeated 33-year-old Navy veteran Rachel
Reddick, who until 2016 was a Republican. The Democratic Socialists of America
won several state legislative contests in Pennsylvania.
And John Fetterman, the tattooed, bearded and Sanders-backed mayor of Braddock
just outside of Pittsburgh, unseated Pennsylvania's sitting Democratic
lieutenant governor, Mike Stack.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/kara-eastman-nebraska-democrats-trump-resistance/
May 21: Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders
said Monday he will run for re-election on an agenda that would prioritize
working families.
The campaign said Sanders would kick off his re-election bid with a series of
rallies across Vermont next month.
Sanders ... is among the list of possible contenders for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 2020 ....
"Our struggle to create a government which represents all of us and not just the
one percent — a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial
and environmental justice — must continue," Sanders wrote in a statement
released by the campaign.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article211577659.html
May 22: Stacey Abrams wins Democratic
primary in Georgia. She could become the nation's first black woman governor.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/georgia-governor-race-stacey-abrams/index.html
May 29: Trump accuses Mueller's team of
meddling in midterm elections
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-push-expand-access-public-lands-leads/story?id=55392471
May 31: President Donald Trump is deepening
his investment in the midterm elections, stepping up his travel
across the country to raise money and rally Republicans in hopes of
overcoming the tide of history by retaining control of Congress in the fall.
Nearly every president in modern history has lost congressional seats during
their first midterm election, a fact that Trump has told advisers he doesn't
believe necessarily applies to him.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/31/politics/midterm-trump-campaign/index.html
June 1: Nathan Larson, a man who advocates
pedophilia, white supremacy and rape, and who served 16 months in prison for
threatening to kill the president, is running for Congress.
The 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Va., is running as an
independent in Virginia's 10th congressional district. Larson identifies himself
as a "quasi-neoreactionary libertarian." His platform includes drug
legalization, the elimination of all regulations regarding firearms and "putting
an end to U.S. involvement in foreign wars arising from our country's alliance
with Israel."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/01/pedophile-white-supremacist-congressional-candidate/663215002/
June 6: 6 takeaways from the biggest primary
night of 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/california-primary-takeaways/index.html
June 6: A "printing error" omitted over a
hundred thousand names from voting rosters in one of California's largest
counties on Tuesday, potentially slowing the count in the state's closely
watched governor's race.
Officials in Los Angeles County said the error affected 118,000 voters and about
a third of the county's 4,357 polling locations.
In addition to the governor's race, Californians were voting in primaries for
both senators and a number of U.S. House races.
Residents left off the lists were given provisional ballots and assured that
their votes would be counted at a later time, the Los Angeles County
Registrar-Recorder's Office said.
Provisional ballots will be counted when their registration is confirmed,
Registrar-Recorder Clerk Dean Logan said in a statement.
http://abc7news.com/printing-error-omits-118000-names-from-voting-rosters-in-los-angeles-county-/3567269/
June 6: President Donald Trump singled out
Republican John Cox in a congratulatory tweet Wednesday morning, following Cox's
second-place finish for governor in the California primary Tuesday night.
"Great night for Republicans! Congratulations to John Cox on a really big number
in California. He can win. Even Fake News CNN said the Trump impact was really
big, much bigger than they ever thought possible," Trump
wrote. "So much for the big Blue Wave, it may be a big Red Wave. Working
hard!"
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article212649799.html
June 6: "Our values are under assault...
We're engaged in an epic battle," Newsom told supporters Tuesday, calling Cox a
"footsoldier in (Donald Trump's) war on California."
"I've never backed down from a fight," Newsom said, signaling the
Democrat-on-Republican matchup this November.
Newsom led Cox as returns continued to roll in, 34 percent to 26 percent.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article212369614.html
June 6: Republican businessman John Cox, who
will face Democratic Lt. Govenor Gavin
Newsom in the California governor's race, had the backing of President
Donald Trump.
Cox appeared on FOX 5 San Diego Wednesday and told Raoul Martinez he welcomes
Trump's support, despite not voting for him in the 2016 presidential election.
Cox blames state Democrats and his opponent Newsom for causing the high cost of
living in California.
Newsom responded to Trump's tweet about Cox stating, "Please come campaign for
him as much as possible."
http://fox5sandiego.com/2018/06/06/john-cox-proud-of-trumps-support-despite-not-voting-for-him-in-presidential-election/
June 20: Michael Bloomberg to spend $80
million in 2018 to help Democrats win the House
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/bloomberg-midterms-spending/index.html
June 27: House Democrats in shock as they
break down what Joe Crowley's loss means for leadership ... the No. 4 Democratic
leader in the House,
Rep. Joe Crowley, lost his primary in New York to Democratic socialist
challenger
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/democrats-reaction-joe-crowley-leadership/
July 24: Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill
was hit with another politically damaging report Tuesday when her local
newspaper revealed businesses tied to her husband have gotten more than $131
million in federal subsidies since she took office.
Husband Joseph Shepard doesn't personally pocket that money. But he has
benefited from profits from the housing projects he's invested in that received
those subsidies.
According to
the investigation by The Kansas City Star, Shepard's personal income from
the investments grew considerably since McCaskill took office in 2007. He
reportedly made between $1,608 and $16,731 in 2006. But in 2017, Shepard
reportedly earned between $365,374 and $1.1 million "from investments in housing
projects that received federal subsidies."
There is no evidence that McCaskill was involved in directing any funds into her
husband’s affiliated businesses, and she does not sit on any committees that
award such funding. McCaskill has also voted both for and against government
spending bills that benefit affordable housing programs.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/24/mccaskill-campaign-hit-with-report-on-husbands-federal-subsidy-windfall.html
July 24: Meet the women candidates taking #MeToo
to the ballot box
Four women candidates with personal experiences with sexual misconduct and
assault say Trump helped galvanize a political movement.
At all levels of government, in both parties, and among both incumbents and
insurgents, women in politics are
speaking about their personal experiences like never before.
“The silver lining of Trump’s presidency is the movement that he inspired,”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/meet-women-candidates-taking-metoo-ballot-box-n894106
July 24: GOP lawmaker in Georgia drops pants, uses racial slur in
Sacha Baron Cohen TV series
Rep. Jason Spencer's on-camera conduct horrified fellow Republicans, some of
whom called for his immediate resignation.
Spencer repeatedly shouts a racial slur for black people after Cohen tells him
the tactic is useful for drawing bystanders' attention to an unfolding attack.
He also drops his pants, then his underwear, before backing his exposed rear end
toward Cohen while shouting "USA!" and "America!"
Regardless, there won't be any reckoning for Spencer at the ballot box this
year. A Republican challenger already defeated the lawmaker in Georgia's May 22
primary.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-lawmaker-georgia-drops-pants-uses-racial-slur-sacha-baron-n893736
July 26: Trump Facebook Ads Blast Democrats
Over Second Amendment: ‘The Truth Is Finally Out’
More than 100 ads contend Dems want to curtail gun rights
“It is unequivocally not the Democratic caucus’ position to repeal the Second
Amendment,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told The
New York Times.
https://www.thewrap.com/trump-facebook-ads-democrats-second-amendment/
July 27:
Is a Blue Wave on Its Way?
None of this summer’s electoral trends is etched in stone. But there is
turbulence even among the president’s voters.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/midterms-democrats-republicans-trump/566165/
July 29: President Donald Trump threatened
to push the government into shutdown ahead of the coming appropriations deadline
in September if Congress does not fund his border wall and change the nation's
immigration laws.
"I would be willing to 'shut down' government if the Democrats do not give us
the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery,
Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We
need great people coming into our Country!" Trump tweeted Sunday.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/29/politics/donald-trump-shutdown-wall/index.html
August 30: President Donald Trump attacked
his own Justice Department and FBI leadership and implied Hillary Clinton could
face criminal charges during a campaign rally Thursday night in Indiana.
"Our Justice Department and our FBI have to start doing their jobs and doing it
right and doing it now, because people are angry. People are angry," Trump said
at a rally in Evansville, where he was campaigning for Republican Senate nominee
Mike Braun.
Trump also suggested he could take a heavier role in the Justice Department --
comments that came hours after he told Bloomberg that Attorney General Jeff
Sessions would remain in his job until after November's midterm elections.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/30/politics/trump-evansville-rally/index.html
August 31: President Donald Trump will head
overseas after November's midterm elections, the White House said on Friday,
making stops in Europe and South America even as he forgoes yearly summits in
Asia usually attended by the US leader.
The trips could provide an escape for Trump should Democrats post wins in the
congressional contests. Past presidents have used foreign travel to shift the
spotlight after bruising midterm losses, including President Barack Obama, who
traveled to Asia immediately after disastrous losses for Democrats in 2010, and
George W. Bush, who made a round-the-world journey in 2006 after Republicans
lost control of the House and Senate.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/donald-trump-travel-plans/index.html
September 7: Obama's
campaign season debut launches his midterm effort to rally Democrats to the
polls and end Republicans' grip on power in Congress. The former president
warned Friday that the stakes are high and the consequences of staying on the
sidelines “dire.”
Delivering some of his toughest broadsides against the GOP since leaving office
– and referring to Trump by name, something he used to avoid – Obama said there
are certain "powerful and priveleged" people who want to "keep us angry."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/07/obama-rails-against-trump-republicans-in-fiery-return-to-campaign-trail.html
September 7: In the battle for control of
Congress, President Donald Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on
Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise
their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut
Medicare.
He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell
trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if
the GOP loses, violence could follow.
The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months
to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance
Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521
September 8: Obama campaigns in California, says 2018 brings a chance to
restore 'sanity' in politics
"We have the chance to flip the House of Representatives and make sure that
there are real checks and balances in Washington," Obama said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/obama-stumps-california-says-2018-brings-chance-restore-sanity-politics-n907801
September 8: Ex-intelligence officials run
for Congress as Democrats.
Fed up with what they see as Trump's disdain and distrust of the intelligence
community — and his refusal to embrace fully the conclusion that Russia
interfered in the 2016 election — an unusually large number of former
intelligence officers and operatives are campaigning for office as Democrats in
this fall's midterm elections, according to experts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/their-new-mission-foil-trump-ex-intelligence-officials-run-congress-n907291
September 9: Mick Mulvaney, a top Trump
administration official, warned behind closed doors on Saturday that Republican
candidates such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz could be at risk of losing and were not
"likable" enough,
The New York Times reported.
Mulvaney made his comments, according to the Times, at a meeting with party
donors alongside Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. The
Times said a person at the private event provided the paper with an audio
recording of Mulvaney's remarks.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/08/politics/mick-mulvaney-ted-cruz/index.html
September 10: President Donald Trump has
steadfastly refused to release his tax returns. But if Democrats take the
majority in the House or Senate following the mid-term elections in November,
the choice may no longer be his to make.
... thanks to a 1924 provision in the Internal Revenue Code, the chairmen of the
House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee are authorized to
request the president's -- or indeed anyone's -- tax returns from the IRS to
conduct an investigation.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-tax-returns/
September 10: ‘Anger is a great motivator.’
A guide to the GOP’s biggest 2018 fears
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article218001420.html
September 13: Cuomo, after election win,
dismisses socialist wave as 'not even a ripple'
"A progressive Democrat, a Democrat in New York state, these are not ivory tower
academics, these are not pontificators, these are not people who live in the
abstract or theoretical," he said according to the Daily News.
"New York Democrats, these are hard-working men and women, they’re middle class,
they’re working families, they have real problems, and they need real help in
life, and they don’t need theoretical or abstract solutions, they need real
solutions in their lives."
"I am not a socialist. I am not 25 years old. I am not a newcomer," Cuomo said.
"But I am a progressive, and I deliver progressive results."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/15/cuomo-after-election-win-dismisses-socialist-wave-as-not-even-ripple.html
September 15: As an anti-war activist in the
early 2000s, Arizona Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema led a group that
distributed flyers depicting an American soldier as a skeleton inflicting "U.S.
terror" in Iraq and the Middle East.
The flyers could become an issue for Sinema, the Democratic nominee challenging
Republican Martha McSally in one of the most competitive US Senate races this
year.
Sinema's past political positions are a contrast from the more moderate profile
she has developed since her 2012 election to Congress.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/15/politics/kfile-sinema-flyers/index.html
September 15: 'This is our moment': Veronica
Escobar, slated to become Texas' first Latina congresswoman
Saturday marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month and the former El Paso
county judge reflects on what it means to be a Latina who’s about to make
history.
Latinos represent almost
40 percent of
the population in Texas, but the Lone Star State has never before elected a
Latina congresswoman.
Now, two Latinas are poised to change that: former El Paso County Judge Veronica
Escobar, who is
running to replace Democratic U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, and state Sen. Sylvia
Garcia, who is the Democratic nominee for the 29th Congressional District. Both
candidates easily won their Democratic primaries and are expected to be
victorious in November’s general election.
https://www.nbcnews.com/know-your-value/feature/our-moment-veronica-escobar-slated-become-texas-first-latina-congresswoman-ncna909806
September 22: Attack ads are nothing new in
the world of politics, but one campaign video targeting an
Arizona congressman just hit a new level of “whoa.”
David Brill, an Arizona Democrat going after Republican Rep.
Paul Gosar’s seat in Congress, released a series of campaign ads on Thursday
attacking Gosar’s character, morals and politics while urging Arizona residents
to vote him out.
The videos star six of Gosar’s siblings ― David, Gaston, Grace, Jennifer, Joan
and Tim ― who are all endorsing their brother’s opponent.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-gosar-siblings-attack-ad_us_5ba57e7fe4b0375f8f9cfaed
September 26: Battleground Florida begins
'tipping in the Democrats' favor'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/battleground-florida-begins-tipping-democrats-favor-n913226
September 26: Trump accuses China of 2018
election meddling; Beijing rejects charge
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-un/trump-accuses-china-of-2018-election-meddling-beijing-rejects-charge-idUSKCN1M623Y
October 1: What the House of Representatives
means in US politics - and how it could change at the midterms
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/house-representatives-means-us-politics-could-change-midterms/
October 15: President Donald Trump has not
publicly released his tax returns and has no plans on ever doing so. But whether
he wants to might not matter at all if Democrats take back the majority in the
House of Representatives.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-democrats-trump-tax-returns-public-if-retake-house-2018-10
October 22: Trump and Republicans settle on
fear — and falsehoods — as a midterm strategy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-republicans-settle-on-fear--and-falsehoods--as-a-midterm-strategy/2018/10/22/1ebbf222-d614-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e16403d34903
October 22:
Trump and G.O.P. Candidates Escalate Race and Fear as Election Ploys
President Trump on Monday sharply intensified a Republican campaign to
frame the midterm elections as a battle over immigration and race, issuing a
dark and factually baseless warning that “unknown Middle Easterners” were
marching toward the American border with Mexico.
The unsubstantiated charge marked an escalation of Mr. Trump’s efforts to stoke
fears about foreigners and crime ahead of the Nov. 6 vote, as he did to great
effect in the presidential race. Mr. Trump and other Republicans are insistently
seeking to tie Democrats to unfettered immigration and violent crime, and in
some instances this summer and fall they have attacked minority candidates in
nakedly racial terms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/us/politics/republicans-race-divisions-elections-caravan.html
October 23:
Trump has whipped up a frenzy on the
migrant caravan. Here are the facts.
President Donald Trump’s remarks in recent days about a caravan of Central
American migrants heading toward the United States have stirred up a political
frenzy — in the process distorting reality and ignoring basic facts.
Such caravans are nothing new — a smaller one formed last spring, and similar
caravans have been organized regularly for the past two decades. There's no
evidence that the caravan includes Middle Easterners, much less terrorists, as
the president has suggested, and annual border crossings remain low by the
standards of recent history.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/23/migrant-caravan-facts-trump-border-881006
October 26: Trump Seen As Important Factor
In Americans' Vote, As Democrats Open Up Lead
"This is definitively a national election — with a referendum on Trump," said
Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which
conducted the survey.
What's more, 47 percent of voters said their opinion of Trump makes them more
likely to vote for a Democrat for Congress, while 34 percent said their opinion
of Trump makes them more likely to vote for a Republican.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/660670687/poll-trump-seen-as-important-factor-in-americans-vote-as-democrats-open-up-lead
November 3: A white supremacist group that
targeted Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum with racist robocalls is
now targeting Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
The prerecorded phone message features a voice impersonating Oprah Winfrey, who
was in Georgia on Thursday stumping for Abrams, and contains racist and
anti-Semitic rhetoric.
The robocall went out to Georgia voters, but it is unclear how many received it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/racist-robocall-targets-stacey-abrams-oprah-in-georgia-governors-race/ar-BBPighm
November 3:
The deployment of
as many as 15,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border — potentially equal in
size to the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan — occurs as the budgetary
largesse the military has enjoyed since Trump took office looks set to come to
an end.
November 3:
President
Donald Trump could learn a thing or two from former President
Barack Obama about how to handle hecklers.
Trump has infamously encouraged supporters to “knock
the crap” out of people who protest him at rallies. Obama showed how it
should be done Friday, however, when he was heckled while
stumping for Democratic candidates Bill Nelson and Andrew Gillum in Miami,
Florida, ahead of Tuesday’s midterms.
“Sir, sir, don’t curse in front of kids, come on. Don’t do that in front of
them, come on,” Obama calmly told one heckler.
“We’re
OK, we’re OK, we’re OK,” Obama continued, after the unidentified person was
reportedly removed by security and the crowd stopped chanting the ex-POTUS’
name.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-hecklers-florida-trump_us_5bdd9c0de4b01ffb1d029a29
November 5: In the
words of the Washington Post’s Philip Rucker, Trump has
“taken his no-boundaries political ethos to a new level—demagoguing the
Democrats in a whirl of distortion and using the power of the federal government
to amplify his fantastical arguments.” According to a
report by Politico, Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House, called
Trump on Sunday and asked him to end the campaign on a more positive note, but
it was already too late. On Friday, in West Virginia, Trump
described predatory immigrants as “the worst scum in the world.” In Ohio on
Monday afternoon, he
said that the Democrats would “take a wrecking ball to our economy and to
the future of our country,” and described their agenda as “a socialist
nightmare.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/hopeful-signs-for-democrats-to-score-a-midterms-victory-against-trump
November 6: These are the historic firsts
for women, minority and LGBTQ candidates in 2018
Several candidates made history with their November 6 election victories,
recording significant "firsts" for minorities and women in American politics.
Among the historic accomplishments: The first gay man to win a governor's race
and the youngest woman to be elected to Congress. Several states also elected
minority candidates to the U.S. House and Senate for the first time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/06/election-results-2018-women-minority-candidates-history-firsts/1912048002/
November 7: Voters give House Democrats a
check on Trump
http://www.wtvm.com/2018/11/07/battle-house-tests-trump-gop-hold-congress/
November 12: Trump on Florida: 'Many ballots
are missing or forged.' Gillum: 'You sound nervous'
There has been no evidence yet of fraud in the voting for governor or Senate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-says-florida-elections-massively-infected-many-ballots-are-missing-n935096
November 13: ... the closeness of the 2018
election in Florida comes as no surprise to Michael McDonald, a political
science professor at the University of Florida. He calls Florida, which has
experienced a series of close elections, "the purplest of purple states."
McDonald says an influx of Democratic-leaning voters from places like Puerto
Rico has been offset by recent arrivals of seniors, who tend to lean Republican.
McDonald also says the rhetoric being tossed out by GOP Senate candidate Gov.
Rick Scott and President Trump, including charges of fraud and missing or forged
ballots, "does not match the facts on the ground." No irregularities have been
reported by either law enforcement or election observers from both parties who
are watching the recount.
A judge on Monday urged those alleging fraud without evidence to "ramp down
the rhetoric."
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/666942846/chart-election-recounts-are-rare-reversals-almost-unheard-of
November 19: US mid-terms: How election
results just got worse for Trump
On the morning after polling, Mr Trump said the results showed almost a
"complete victory".
Even at the time that was difficult to square with the reality that his party
had lost control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight
years.
There was the prospect that the Republicans were going to make historic gains in
the Senate, however. The president boasted of the possibility of a four-seat
pick-up - which would build the largest majority for his party in more than a
century.
Such a historic win was not to be.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46267519
November 21: The election that won't end: 2
House seats in New York, 1 in California remain in question
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/21/election-2018-house-races-question/2084065002/
November 22: Democrats won House midterms by
largest margin since Watergate scandal
... Democrats led Republicans in House races by a whopping 8.6 million votes in
this year's midterms. NBC News reports that number is the largest margin that
Democrats have defeated Republicans in a midterm House election since 1974.
This year's midterms flipped nearly 40 seats, allowing Democrats to take control
of the House and setting the stage for two years of confrontations with
President Donald Trump when they take power in January.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/21/democrats-won-house-midterms-largest-margin-since-watergate/2084052002/
November 28: Republican Sen. Cindy
Hyde-Smith is the projected winner of the Senate runoff in Mississippi,
according to the Associated Press, overcoming a series of missteps that brought
the state's dark history of racism and violence to the forefront.
Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate earlier this year after GOP Sen.
Thad Cochran stepped down due to health reasons, defeated former congressman and
Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Neither candidate had won the requisite 50
percent in the first round of the special election on Election Day. She's the
first woman elected to the Senate from Mississippi.
Hyde-Smith was the favorite in the solidly red state, and the final Senate
election of 2018 was long seen as an afterthought. But when video surfaced
earlier this month of the senator telling a supporter, "If he invited me to a
public hanging, I'd be on the front row," the state's racial wounds were
re-opened.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/27/671358332/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-wins-miss-senate-runoff-after-racially-charged-campa?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181127&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews
December 6: Kobach ‘very concerned’ voter
fraud may have happened in North Carolina
The Republican candidate in the race, Mark
Harris, has a 905-vote lead over Democrat Dan McCready, but that
result has not been certified. The state board of elections cited
"irregularities," and is set to meet on Dec. 21 on how to proceed.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/420192-kobach-very-concerned-voter-fraud-may-have-happened-in-north-carolina
December 6:
Dan McCready, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional
District, withdrew his concession on Thursday as new details emerged about
allegations of election fraud that may have favored his Republican challenger.
McCready’s decision, first announced in an interview with Charlotte television
station WSOC, comes as North Carolina is dealing with an unfolding scandal over
absentee ballots. Election officials are trying to determine why many were never
mailed in in certain counties that likely would have favored the Democrats in
the election, and three people have told
BuzzFeed News and
WSOC that they were hired to collect such absentee votes, which would be a
violation of state law.
Republican Mark Harris is currently leading in the election by
905 votes. McCready conceded last month about 24 hours after polls closed in
the midterm elections.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-dan-mccready-withdraws-concession_us_5c09a755e4b0b6cdaf5d7267
December 19: Poll: Americans don't believe
Trump has received the message from the midterms
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-americans-don-t-believe-trump-has-received-message-midterms-n948721?cid=referral_taboolafeed
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