Former President Donald Trump said in an interview posted Thursday that “Democrats were killing babies after birth, killing babies in the ninth month” after his GOP opponents peddled similar falsehoods in the third debate. (Watch the video below.) What’s more, Trump’s comments came after Republicans faceplanted in this week’s election around abortion, with Democrats rolling […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities were hunting Thursday for whoever sent suspicious letters — including some containing fentanyl — to elections offices in at least five states this week, delaying the counting of ballots in some local races in the latest instance of threats faced by election workers around the country. The letters were sent to […]
Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, on Wednesday rejected 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s call for her to resign over the party’s poor performance in several election cycles. Ramaswamy said he was “upset” about the party’s results in Tuesday’s off-year races. Republicans sustained multiple defeats, including losing control of the House […]
Republican presidential candidates expressed dismay with their party’s stinging election losses this week as Democrats notched key victories across the country, including on the hot-button issue of abortion. “I am upset about what happened last night. We’ve become a party of losers, at the end of the day,” former biotech CEO Vivek Ramaswamy said at […]
This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Moms for Liberty, the right-wing extremist group that aims to bring a conservative agenda to public education, set out to take over school boards across the country in Tuesday’s elections. But instead of installing like-minded candidates in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Iowa […]
The leading GOP candidates in the 2024 presidential field — minus former President Donald Trump, who again declined to participate — are facing off Wednesday for their third debate of the primary season. Just five Republicans made the cut for the Miami event, hosted by NBC News: former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. […]
WASHINGTON ― Congressional Republicans aren’t giving up on efforts to pass legislation sharply limiting abortion nationwide despite their party’s losses in Tuesday’s elections, which saw Democrats notching huge victories for abortion rights. Staunchly anti-abortion lawmakers argued that the GOP needs to work even harder to persuade voters of their cause and redouble their efforts to […]
The claims amassed thousands of shares on social media Tuesday after reports of a gas leak at Highland Baptist Church in Louisville caused polls there to close for about 30 minutes while Louisville Gas & Electric investigated the issue. The delay prompted a judge to extend voting at the church until 6:30 p.m. instead of […]
HOUSTON (AP) — The race for Houston mayor headed to a runoff Tuesday night between U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and state Sen. John Whitmire, two Democrats who breezed past a wide field of candidates in a race dominated by issues of crime, crumbling infrastructure and potential budget shortfalls. If elected, Jackson Lee would be […]
Democrats came away the clear winners of 2023’s off-year elections, with a string of wins across red-tinted and swing states showing the party can overcome President Joe Biden’s unpopularity with a focus on electable candidates and abortion access. The results give Democrats something to celebrate just days after new polling showed Biden trailing former President […]