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 | Oct 19, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Mark Kelly has more money in his Senate election war chest than Joe Biden does running for president. The former astronaut, gun control activist and husband of Gabrielle Giffords has established a veritable cash gusher in Arizona, raising nearly $14 million this year,...
by Jim Heath | Oct 8, 2019 | Headlines, Trump
The Senate Intelligence Committee today unveiled a sweeping new bipartisan report detailing Russian efforts to boost Donald Trump’s White House bid on social media during the 2016 U.S. elections, dealing an indirect blow to a push by the president and his allies...
by Jim Heath | Sep 18, 2019 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines, Republicans
While Donald Trump wants to build the wall, a top supporter of his in Arizona wants to annex Mexico. Ahead of a general election where the Grand Canyon State could be purple enough to be a problem for Trump, the wealthy owner of a cosmetics company, Daniel McCarthy,...
by Jim Heath | Sep 11, 2019 | Headlines
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing today for Steven Menashi, one of President Trump’s most controversial nominees for a lifetime seat on a U.S. appeals court. It didn’t go that well. Republicans and Democrats castigated Trump’s nominee to the...
