Democrats recruited third-party candidates to siphon votes from Republicans — which could decide close Virginia congressional contest
Candidate recruitment from a secretive political organization threatens to undermine Virginia's competitive congressional election and return the state's 2nd Congressional District to the Democrats. The Patriots Run Project, a group with ties to Democratic campaign offices, has recruited third-party candidate Robert Reed to run against Republican Rep. Jennifer Kiggans and Democratic challenger Missy Cotter Smasal. […]
Congressional task force requests Secret Service briefing
The leaders of a congressional select committee announced on Sunday that they had requested a report from the Secret Service following the new assassination attempt on former President Trump. “Our task force is monitoring the assassination attempt that took place this afternoon in West Palm Beach on former President Trump,” Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and […]
Harris mocked online for breaking out another ‘new accent’ at Congressional Black Caucus event
Vice President Harris was mocked online after she once again showed off her “new accent” during a Congressional Black Caucus event on Saturday night. “Hello, my brothers and sisters of the Divine Nine,” Harris said at the Congressional Black Caucus' Phoenix Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., “and hello to my brothers and sisters at HBCUs.” […]
Biden, Harris address Congressional Black Caucus: ‘The baton is in our hands’ | US elections 2024
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the Congressional Black Caucus' Phoenix Awards Dinner on Saturday, conveying the message that lawmakers are in a “battle for the soul of the nation.” Biden highlighted the Congressional Black Caucus' (CBC) ties with black voters. “In 2020, I ran for president to save the soul […]
Jill Stein Mocked After Fact-Check Over Basic Congressional Numbers
Green Party candidate Jill Stein has been widely mocked after she failed to accurately state the number of voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives during an interview. The Breakfast Club. On Thursday, when her morning radio show co-host Angela Rye asked Stein how many voting members there are in Congress, Stein hesitated, deflected […]
Congressional Gold Medals for 13 service members killed in Kabul
Congress on Tuesday posthumously bestowed its highest honor on 13 U.S. soldiers killed in a bomb attack at Kabul's airport during America's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Lawmakers gathered in the Capitol Rotunda alongside tearful relatives of fallen heroes for the awards ceremony, which came on the heels of a scathing House report on the withdrawal […]
Hotly contested congressional coming down to kitchen table issues
(The Center Square) – Candidates in the nation’s most competitive congressional district are campaigning on a variety of issues, but the only ones they can fully agree on are lower taxes and health care costs. In Michigan's 8th Congressional District, Democrat State Senator Kristen McDonald-Rivett is running against Republican Paul Junge, and incumbent Democratic Rep. […]
Secret surveillance of congressional staff by DOJ in focus after whistleblower advocates notch court win
A federal judge last week ruled in favor of a whistleblower advocacy group that sued the Justice Department seeking disclosure of documents related to the department's secret acquisition of communications about congressional officials who were investigating the department. Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Research won a partial victory in a lawsuit it filed in May when […]
New York man sentenced to prison for threatening to kill congressional staffers
A New York man was sentenced Tuesday to just over a year in prison for threatening to kill congressional staff and making more than 12,000 harassing phone calls to dozens of lawmakers. Federal prosecutors announced that Ade Salim Lilly, 35, was sentenced to 13 months in prison with 36 months bail in U.S. District Court […]
FACT CHECK: Did Kamala Harris Claim A Congressional Candidate Needed To Be Deported?
Posts Share on social media It purportedly shows an image from a post by Vice President Kamala Harris calling for the deportation of Republican congressional candidates. U.S. prosecutors have issued an amended indictment that includes language that takes into account former President Donald Trump's immunity from prosecution for meddling in the 2020 election. BBC News […]