by Jim Heath | May 12, 2020 | 2020, coronavirus, Election Night, Headlines
The presidential election is on November 3, but when asked if it would still be held then, Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law and White House senior advisor, was not fully committal. It is not possible for the White House to unilaterally postpone an...
by Jim Heath | Nov 16, 2019 | Election Night, Headlines, Trump
President Trump put his considerable political weight on the line in Louisiana’s governors race, but when the votes were counted the Democratic incumbent held on to his office. Gov. John Bel Edwards battled to a razor thin win tonight, defying the partisan odds...
by Jim Heath | Nov 6, 2019 | Election Night, Headlines
It wasn’t so long ago that Republicans could bank Virginia’s 13 electoral votes in presidential elections. But not any more. Democrats claimed majorities in both houses of Virginia’s legislature in yesterday’s statewide elections, building on gains they...
by Jim Heath | Nov 5, 2019 | Election Night, Headlines
A woman who drew widespread attention in 2017 after she was seen flipping off President Trump’s motorcade while riding on a bicycle has won a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in northern Virginia. Democrat Juli Briskman, who announced last year...
by Jim Heath | Nov 5, 2019 | Election Night, Headlines
Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has been defeated for reelection just one day after President Trump campaigned for him in the solidly Republican state. Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear, who out-fundraised and out-spent Bevin, blew through expectations in...
by Jim Heath | Aug 19, 2019 | Election Night, Headlines
Ellen Weintraub, the chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, today rebuked President Trump’s repeated allegations of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election as “damaging to our democracy” and wholly unsubstantiated. “There is no evidence of rampant voter...
