Author: Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has positioned himself to be the future of the Democratic Party while maintaining a supportive relationship with President Joe Biden. Newsom has stirred presidential speculation in the past but has repeatedly said he has no interest in running for president, pushing his support for Biden’s reelection campaign on multiple fronts this…

Touch-screen voting machines are now permitted across New York after the state Board of Elections voted to allow counties to purchase new systems last week. Now, voters can cast their ballot electronically, an update to traditional voter-marked paper ballots. The updates have been met with backlash from some Republican counties in the state. On Monday,…

Payments of $500 for one year to 250 qualifying Long Beach, California, families will be issued in five days. The city’s guaranteed income pilot program, the Long Beach Pledge, will provide aid to families living in the west-central 90813 ZIP code struggling with finances. Payments to residents who applied at the start of this year…

Oregon Senate Republicans held the longest legislative walkout in state history this year, backlogging hundreds of bills until negotiations were met with the majority Democrats. This week, the secretary of state announced 10 state senators will be disqualified from reelection next term because they violated a measure declaring a representative or senator can not have…

Former President Donald Trump is waiting to see if he will be facing charges in Georgia’s 2020 election interference investigation, and CNN reported the district attorney is seeking more than a dozen indictments. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has hinted that charges related to the Trump inquiry could come within the next week. FEC…

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said the Republican presidential nomination has to be earned and candidates “have to show up.” His comments targeted former President Donald Trump, who said he won’t meet one of the requirements to attend the first primary debate in Milwaukee later this month. “Look, you have to earn this nomination and you…

Former President Donald Trump denounced a proposal from U.S. prosecutors to start the trial in less than five months on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal judge to begin Trump’s trial on Jan. 2, 2024, two weeks from when voters would first cast their ballots…

A political action committee backing Republicans is targeting Washington state’s new carbon pricing system that began operating at the beginning of this year. Let’s Go Washington is behind six ballot measures that go after some Washington state laws and programs, including the cap-and-invest system, which requires businesses to buy credits from the state for every…

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), who’s been investigating President Joe Biden‘s family’s business dealings, said Republicans plan to eventually subpoena members of the Biden family. “This is always going to end with the Bidens coming in front of the committee. We are going to subpoena the family,” Comer said on Fox Business Thursday.…

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is increasingly unpopular with national female voters, with new polling not offering any signs of his campaign gaining on former President Donald Trump. A survey from Fairleigh Dickinson University shows DeSantis with 11% support in the primaries among women, compared to the current Republican front-runner Trump at 52% with women despite…