by Jim Heath | Oct 19, 2018 | 2018, Foreign Affairs, Headlines
The Justice Department today charged a Russian woman for her role in a conspiracy to interfere with the 2018 U.S. election, marking the first criminal case prosecutors have brought against a foreign national for interfering in the upcoming Midterms. Elena Khusyaynova,...
by Jim Heath | Oct 19, 2018 | 2018, Headlines, Republicans, Trump
President Trump believes journalists are the “enemy of the American people,” and last night in Montana he saluted GOP Rep. Greg Gianforte for body-slamming a reporter last year, despite Gianforte pleading guilty and apologizing. Trump told the Missoula...
by Jim Heath | Oct 17, 2018 | 2018, Ads, Battlegrounds, Democrats, Headlines
Proving anti-Trump fever is alive and well in 2018, Democratic candidates running for Congress this year have collectively raised more than $1 billion for their campaigns. That’s a record-shattering sum that highlights the party’s zeal to retake the House and...
by Jim Heath | Oct 17, 2018 | 2018, Democrats, Headlines
A staff member for Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) is no longer with the campaign following an ad that named abuse victims without their permission. The gross mistake is all but certain to end Heitkamp’s ambitions of being reelected. Heitkamp is already down in...
by Jim Heath | Oct 16, 2018 | 2018, Headlines
Dennis Hof, the famed owner of The Bunny Ranch brothel, and a GOP legislative candidate in Nevada, has died after attending a campaign event. Hof died today at the age of 72 his campaign manager revealed, just a few weeks before he was set to compete in the general...
by Jim Heath | Oct 15, 2018 | 2018, Analysis, Battlegrounds, Debates, Headlines
Martha McSally (R-AZ) has gone from a never-Trumper to an unapologetic backer of the president, while Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) demonstrated an eerie calm in their only face off Monday night in Arizona. McSally started the debate sounding truly annoyed about being...