Author: Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner
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Tlaib spurns Harris endorsement at Detroit UAW rally
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a member of the progressive faction in the House referred to as the “Squad,” refused to back Vice President Kamala Harris during a Michigan United Auto Workers rally just days ahead of the election. With union workers forming a critical component of the Democratic base, Tlaib joined Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)…
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Steep decline in support from California Hispanics could signal deeper problems for Harris
If Vice President Kamala Harris’s declining performance among traditionally Democratic voting blocs in California foreshadows trends in battleground states, her campaign could face unwelcome news come Election Day. Only 57% of Hispanics across the Golden State backed Harris’s presidential campaign, according to a new poll conducted by the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental…
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Georgia’s Jamaican population backing Harris could put her over the top
Vice President Kamala Harris’s Jamaican heritage could make all the difference in whether she wins or loses the pivotal battleground state of Georgia in just four days. Harris’s mother hails from India but her father was born in Jamaica in 1938. Donald J. Harris is a retired Stanford economics professor who immigrated to the United…
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Republican women join Trump in blasting Mark Cuban for ‘intelligent women’ dig
Texas billionaire Mark Cuban has been bombarded by Republican women joining in the Trump campaign’s fury over comments he made about “strong” females. From the governor of Arkansas to former Sopranos star Drea de Matteo, a growing chorus of GOP women are pushing back against Cuban’s recent suggestion that “strong, intelligent” women don’t support Trump.…
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Trump sues CBS over edited ‘deceitful’ Harris interview
Former President Donald Trump brought a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against CBS News for “deceitful, deceptive manipulation” after the network made controversial edits to an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump filed the $10 billion lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday, arguing that CBS “used its national platform…
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Georgia’s rural counties lead the way with positive early voting signs for GOP
High early voting turnout in deep red Georgia counties indicates former President Donald Trump could be on the pathway to win the battleground state in just five days. Towns County, which lies in Georgia’s 9th Congressional District, went for Trump by an overwhelming margin of 80% during the 2020 presidential election. This time around, early…
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The down-ballot candidates defying trends on the campaign trail
From New York to Arizona, high-profile candidates running for races further down the ballot than the presidential race are defying expectations. Ticket splitting is a phenomenon where voters support a party’s candidate for one office and another party’s candidate for another, such as president and representative. This appears to be occurring in five of the most closely…
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Here’s what we know about early ballot problems
More than 50 million voters in the United States have already cast their ballots since early voting began in mid-September as the country looks to elect the next president and other candidates down the ballot. However, people looking to cast their votes ahead of Election Day have been faced with several challenges. Long lines in…
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Stefanik steps up concerns FBI downplaying Iranian ‘election interference’
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is magnifying concerns that the Biden-Harris administration is playing political games with Iranian attempts to influence the 2024 presidential election. As a senior member of the powerful House Intelligence Committee, Stefanik has worried that the Biden administration’s FBI is downplaying Iran’s move to hack former President Donald Trump…
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WATCH LIVE: White House holds press briefing after Biden called Trump supporters ‘garbage’
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is holding a press briefing Wednesday afternoon. Jean-Pierre will take questions from reporters at 1:30 p.m. after President Joe Biden called supporters of former President Donald Trump “garbage” on Tuesday evening during a get-out-the-vote Zoom call. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Jean-Pierre is likely to field questions about Biden’s derogatory…




