Category: Midterms

New Poll Shows How FBI Raid on Trump Has Motivated Voters for 2022 Midterms

More than  70 percent of Americans say the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s residence in Florida increases their motivation to vote during the November midterms, according to a new poll. Some 83.3 percent of Republicans said the raid increases their motivation to vote in 2022, while 10.8 percent said it doesn’t, according to…


Capitol Report (Aug. 8): New Bill to Provide 87K New IRS Agents; Trump, Biden Weigh In on China Threat

Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing to close out a big package this week, expanding the government’s role in multiple sectors including health care and energy. Virginia Congressman Bob Good spoke with NTD to discuss the implications of the bill and how he plans to vote on it when it lands in the House later…


Democratic Congressman Won’t Support Biden in 2024, Wants ‘New Generation’ of Candidates

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) on Thursday said that he would not support President Joe Biden running again in 2024, saying that it’s time for a “new generation” of Democratic candidates. When asked by local radio, the congressman for Minnesota’s third district said that Biden would be an octogenarian by 2024 and hopes “other Democrats step up.” “To…


Kansas Governor Primaries Only Formalities Before Fall’s Intense Kelly-Schmidt Showdown

The Kansas primaries on Aug. 2 will include Democratic and Republican inter-party preliminaries to select their gubernatorial candidates for fall’s general elections. But both primaries are perfunctory formalities, non-competitive preambles to a predicted three-month toss-up brawl between incumbent Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and her Republican challenger, Kansas attorney general Derek Schmidt. Both face nominal opponents…


Aerospace Entrepreneur Donates $10 Million to Gov. Ron DeSantis Reelection Effort

A Nevada aerospace entrepreneur has donated $10 million to support Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s reelection campaign. News of the $10 million was published by the Friends of Ron DeSantis statewide political committee on its website on Thursday. The donation was made on July 7 and is the largest single contribution that DeSantis, a Republican, has…


Nancy Pelosi Responds to Trump’s 2024 Decision

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) declined to comment on how former President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-announced decision about a 2024 presidential run might impact the November midterms for Democrats. “Do I ever even mention his name? Would I even waste my time talking about him?” she said at her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capital…


Analysis: Over 1 Million Voters Switch to GOP in Warning for Democrats

At least one million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party in the past year alone, according to an analysis released by The Associated Press on Monday. AP said that it compiled ballot intentions to make the finding, noting that the shift is happening more frequently in suburbs. Over the last year, far…


Navy Vet Who Fled Vietnam War Looks to Take Back Virginia’s 10th Congressional for GOP

Republicans, looking to take back Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, picked a fresh face from Vietnam to represent the diversity that the party sorely needs on the ballot, say observers. Hung Cao, 50, a former U.S. Navy special operator, said that the defining moment for his decision to run for Congress was the fall of Afghanistan….


What to Expect in November’s Midterm Elections

Commentary “Ultra MAGA.” “Putin Price-Hike.” You can envision the White House hired consultants as they scramble around conference rooms, desperately trying to come up with the right keywords to deflect blame from the current administration’s objectively failing policy agenda. “How does ‘Vlad’s Cost-Rise’ make you feel?” They ask a demographically diverse focus group: “Are you…


Veteran Mounts Challenge Against Democrats in Midterms, Could Become Only Black Republican Woman in House

When Jennifer-Ruth Green, a black woman, won an overwhelming victory in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District Republican primary this month, she helped improve the chances that the GOP would take the once-reliable Democrat district in the general election. Not only did Green, a political newcomer, beat an accomplished politician, Blair Milo, who served as mayor of…