Tag: 2022 Midterm Elections

Schumer to Keep Sinema’s Committee Assignments After She Leaves Democratic Party

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who announced she’s leaving the Democratic Party, would keep her committee assignments. “She asked me to keep her committee assignments and I agreed,” Schumer said in a statement to news outlets on Friday. With Sinema as an independent, Democrats will hold majorities on…


Sinema to Keep Committee Assignments After Leaving Democratic Party: Schumer

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who announced she’s leaving the Democratic Party, would keep her committee assignments. “She asked me to keep her committee assignments and I agreed,” Schumer said in a statement to news outlets on Friday. With Sinema as an independent, Democrats will hold majorities on…


Republican Party of Arizona Calls for RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel to Resign

The Republican party of Arizona (RPAZ) has called on the chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Ronna McDaniel, to resign shortly after GOP lawmakers failed to win control of the Senate. In a press release on Thursday, the party pointed to the RNC leader’s alleged failure to support the election of Republicans across the country,…


Miami-Dade Judge Dismisses Case Against Man Arrested on Voter Fraud Charges

A Miami-Dade judge has dismissed a case against a man arrested on voter fraud charges in a DeSantis statewide roundup. Miami-Dade Judge Laura Ann Stuzin has dismissed the case against 57-year-old Ronald Lee Miller, one of 20 people arrested in August. The arrest was executed by state officers through a new office—the Office of Election…


State Legal Bureau Claims Democrats Don’t Control Pennsylvania House

Democrats claim to hold power in the narrowly divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives, but a legislative agency in the state has given an opinion to the contrary. In a legal opinion obtained by The Epoch Times, the non-partisan Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau opines that “While the Democratic Party won a total of 102 elections to…


Kari Lake Reveals When Election-Related Lawsuit Will Be Filed

Republican Arizona candidate Kari Lake indicated that she will attempt to take her election-related lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary after Arizona officials certified the election for her Democrat opponent, Katie Hobbs. In a Twitter post on Wednesday night, Lake indicated that she will file a challenge on Friday, again claiming that voters…


New York AG Says Private Investigation Substantiates Sexual Harassment Claims Against Chief of Staff

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Dec. 7 said that the sexual harassment allegations made against her former chief of staff were substantiated. The Democrat’s chief of staff, Ibrahim Khan, stepped down from his role earlier this month following an investigation into at least two sexual harassment claims made against him. The longtime political adviser to…


Conservatives Hope They Got the Right Case Before the Right Court to Curb ‘Judicial Activism’ in Elections

WASHINGTON—Conservatives have long sought a conclusive legal decision that would define and cap the capacity of courts to issue rulings affecting how state legislatures administer elections. North Carolina House Speaker Rep. Timothy Moore (R-Cleveland) believes that day will finally come next spring when the U.S. Supreme Court issues its decision in Moore v. Harper. As…


Top Republican Says GOP Needs to ‘Stop’ Criticizing Early Voting, Mail-In Ballots

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday called on GOP officials to stop discouraging early voting and mail-in balloting as the party took a loss in Georgia’s runoff election. “Our voters need to vote early,” McDaniel told Fox News during an interview. “I have said this over and over again. There were many…


Senate Democrats Now Have a 51-Seat Majority: Here’s What It Means

After news outlets and forecasters called Georgia’s Dec. 6 Senate runoff for Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), it gave Democrats a 51-seat majority in the Senate. Warnock’s projected victory was narrow. With 99 percent of the estimated vote counted in the race, he led Walker by 50.8 percent to 49.2 percent, according to Edison Research, while The Associated…