by Jim Heath | Nov 17, 2020 | 2020, Headlines
For many of the officials who helped guide the nation through a 2020 presidential election that saw record turnout in the midst of a deadly pandemic, the past two weeks of protests and cries of voter fraud have been both baffling and frustrating. “We’re...
by Jim Heath | Nov 2, 2020 | 2020, Analysis, Headlines
The presidential election is on track to have the highest voter turnout in more than a century, reflecting the high stakes in the race between Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger, Joe Biden. Huge increases in early voting can be tracked, in part, to sharp...
by Jim Heath | Oct 19, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines
Florida shattered its opening day record for in-person early voting today, with at least 350,000 people casting ballots and election officials continuing to count statewide late into the night. The trend continues a record-setting pace in the battleground state that...
by Jim Heath | Sep 30, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Democrats, GOP, Headlines
Democratic voters who have requested mail ballots — and returned them — greatly outnumber Republicans so far in key battleground states, causing alarm among GOP party leaders and strategists that President Trump’s attacks on mail voting could be hurting the party’s...
by Jim Heath | Aug 25, 2020 | 2020, Conventions, GOP, Headlines
Anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, who has said she doesn’t believe in women voting and has suggested that police should racially profile her own son, endorsed President Trump for re-election on the second night of the Republican National Convention. “I support...