Democrat Rep. Susie Lee will win re-election in a battleground Nevada district, The Associated Press projects, defeating Republican nominee April Becker. The incumbent congresswoman and former education nonprofit executive has served two-terms representing Nevada’s 3rd Congressional district, comprising the Las Vegas suburbs on the state’s southwest border. Lee sought to frame herself as a moderate…
Colorado Republican and former President Trump ally Rep. Lauren Boebert has inched ahead of her Democratic challenger as votes continue to be tallied Friday. In an unexpectedly tight race where the freshman lawmaker is vying to secure a second term, Boebert has jumped forward in the count for the first time since tallying began earlier…
Nevada Republican Adam Laxalt’s lead over incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., has shrunk to fewer than 9,000 votes as officials are still counting mail-in ballots in the state’s largest counties. The latest updates from Clark and Washoe counties have put Laxalt just 8,988 votes over Cortez Masto, less than 1% of the total vote….
The federal government has taken action to provide abortion access to pregnant unaccompanied children crossing the border. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) issued guidance Thursday stating that pregnant unaccompanied children (UC) at the border must be resettled in states without restrictions on abortion. RECORD 856 MIGRANTS DIE AT SOUTHERN BORDER IN FISCAL YEAR 2022:…
Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker forced Sen. Raphael Warnock into a runoff election, but former President Donald Trump’s expected 2024 run and an abbreviated runoff period to turn out voters could pose challenges for the candidate. Walker, who may have a chance to win a Senate majority for Republicans, closed a polling deficit in…
Businessman Rick Caruso’s lead over Democrat Rep. Karen Bass has now shrunk to just around 2,000 votes in the Los Angeles mayoral race, as county officials there are sifting through hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots. Caruso, a Republican-turned-Democrat, has so far captured 273,941 votes – about 50.25% – compared to Bass’s 271,246, according to…
Cyber interference has not affected midterm vote counting, U.S. cybersecurity officials said Wednesday, as several key races that will determine whether Democrats or Republicans will control the House and Senate had yet to be called. U.S. and local officials said that no known digital interference breached vote-counting infrastructure. “We have seen no evidence that any…
The Democratic Party exceeded midterm expectations in tossup races across the nation after President Biden campaigned in largely blue areas and shied away from many of the tougher contests. The president played it safe by mostly campaigning in secure Democratic states like New Mexico, California, Illinois and New York. His last event before election day…
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., said Republicans should have “done better” in Tuesday’s midterm elections, calling former President Trump a “drag on our ticket” that contributed to the party’s disappointing results. While interviewed from his home in Janesville, Wisconsin by local station WISN 12 News on Wednesday, Ryan said he was happy to see…
The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation has unveiled its list of top priorities for the new Congress and outlined a strategy to confront what it believes are the seven biggest challenges facing its mission of promoting public policies that focus on limited government, academic freedom, and other conservative principles. “We needed to identify what we…