Author: David M. Drucker

WENATCHEE, Washington — Republican Tiffany Smiley is stubbornly resisting partisan and ideological labels in her underdog bid to unseat Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), indicting the incumbent as failing at the most basic responsibilities of political leadership. “From the beginning, I’ve just been Tiffany Smiley, running to find common ground,” she told the Washington Examiner Thursday…

RITZVILLE, Washington — Tiffany Smiley is wielding Sen. Patty Murray’s (D-WA) slogan against her as she barnstorms east to west across Washington state in a bid to make believers out of skeptical grassroots conservatives and become the first Republican to win a Senate race here in nearly 30 years. Murray, 72, advanced to the Senate…

Don’t lie. If I had told you six years ago that, in the home stretch of the not-so-far-off 2022 midterm elections, Tulsi Gabbard would be crisscrossing the country campaigning for conservative Republicans and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) would be doing the same for liberal Democrats, you would have laughed me out of whatever room we…

The message in Republican Herschel Walker’s final television advertisement of his Senate campaign is simple: Democrats have made a mess of the country under President Joe Biden, but recovery can begin, immediately, by ousting Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA). The Walker campaign has put 1,000 gross ratings points behind this 30-second spot ahead of Tuesday’s midterm…

The shadow campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is poised to break wide open, with about a dozen 2024 contenders scheduled to showcase themselves to leading donors and activists attending an annual Republican Jewish Coalition conference. Former President Donald Trump is not on the guest list. He was invited to Las Vegas but declined, RJC…

The Republican Jewish Coalition is spending another $350,000 in Pennsylvania, increasing to $2 million its total advertising buy targeting black voters in a bid to push Dr. Mehmet Oz (R) past Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) in this key Senate race. The RJC’s investment boost comes roughly one week before Election Day, as Oz moves…

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Mediocre candidates, lackluster fundraising, self-inflicted wounds. Squint hard enough and you might catch remnants of the three political hurdles, or some combination thereof, that once conspired to derail Republican efforts to win control of the Senate and help Democrats avoid the midterm elections curse. Now with Election Day around the corner, polls…

PITTSBURGH — Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) sought to mitigate damage to his Senate bid from his heavily scrutinized debate with Dr. Mehmet Oz (R), arguing in extensive remarks during a campaign rally that his ongoing recovery from a stroke would not affect his fitness to serve in Congress. “And here’s the thing also about…

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Dr. Mehmet Oz (R) concluded remarks to highlight his commitment to get tough on crime if elected to the Senate in the midterm elections, then promptly exited through a backdoor without taking any questions from a throng of reporters. This is what confidence looks like and reflects the momentum Republicans believe they…

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) opened his debate versus Dr. Mehmet Oz (R) with a “goodnight, everybody,” delivering a heart-wrenching and at times hard-to-watch performance that raised more doubts about his fitness for the Senate than it satisfied amid his ongoing recovery from a stroke. Fetterman, 53, tried to tackle the “elephant…