Tag: 2022 Midterm Elections

[Premiering at 10AM ET] More Divided Than Ever, Time for National Divorce?

Civil War America was split by region: north and south. Today, it’s worse—divided not just politically but socially, too, with the working- and middle-class versus the laptop elites. Should we part ways before it gets even worse? Or maybe the solution to our troubled union is found in the Constitution. In this controversial new episode…


Kari Lake Says She’s Seriously Considering Another Run for Office After Looking at Polls

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake said she is “seriously” considering running for Senate in Arizona after seeing the polling results. When commentator Charlie Kirk asked about a possible Senate run, Lake said she is still focusing on her election-related lawsuit. Last week, the Arizona state Supreme Court took up portions of her suit. “I don’t know politically…


South Dakota Bans Left-Favoring Ranked Choice Voting

South Dakota outlawed Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), which purportedly favors the left and works against conservative candidates. Conservatives in the state legislature scored a major win on March 22 by becoming the first state this year to ban ranked choice voting in elections, with Idaho potentially following suit, reported The Federalist. “Ranked-Choice Voting will never…


Poll Challengers Defended by Witnesses in House Election Hearing

Election integrity activist Lynn Taylor came before Congress on March 23 “to set the record straight.” Taylor, the president of the Virginia Institute of Public Policy, ripped into the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), nonprofit organizations, and the media for “misleading the American people for the past two years” by portraying election poll watchers as a “problem.”…


Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballot Case Filed by Republicans Dismissed by Democrat Judge

Pennsylvania Judge Ellen Ceisler, a Democrat, has dismissed a case about how counties should handle illegally marked mail-in ballots, saying the Commonwealth Court does not have subject matter jurisdiction over mail-in ballot claims against 67 individual county boards of elections. Republican plaintiffs seeking to stop counties from curing mail-in ballots would have to litigate in…


Arizona Supreme Court Breathes New Life Into Key Part of Kari Lake’s Election Lawsuit

The Arizona Supreme Court has sent a key part of Kari Lake’s election lawsuit back to trial court for review, breathing new life into the former gubernatorial candidate’s legal challenge to the outcome that she says was unfair. In an order issued on March 22 (pdf), the Arizona Supreme Court directed the trial court to…


House GOP Seeks to Undo Biden’s ‘Rush to Green Energy’ in Sweeping Bill

ORLANDO, Fla.—House Republicans plan to put an omnibus “unleash America’s energy” bill that would open the throttle on domestic oil/gas production, build more pipelines, and improve refineries for expanded exports onto the chamber floor for adoption before the end of March. “Next week, there will be a great debate on the floor and we’ll send…


GOP Panel Chair Demands Action to Fix ‘Dire’ Border Situation

ORLANDO, Fla.—House Republicans will redouble their efforts this spring and summer to convince the Democrat-held Senate to adopt eight proposed immigration reform measures that are matriculating through the lower chamber, two key GOP committee chairs affirmed March 20. While that’s not necessarily breaking news, Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Judiciary Committee…


House Republicans at Retreat Focus on China, Parents’ Rights, Energy as Trump Arrest Looms

ORLANDO, Fla.—The 500-acre Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes, with its 580-plus luxury rooms, Greg Norman-designed golf course, and waterpark, is figuratively if not geographically a million miles away from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach or New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan office. With events in both locations dominating the news, more than 150 House Republicans…


At House GOP Retreat, Lawmakers Focus on China, Parents’ Rights, Energy as Possible Trump Arrest Looms

ORLANDO, Fla.—The 500-acre Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes, with its 580-plus luxury rooms, Greg Norman-designed golf course, and waterpark, is figuratively if not geographically a million miles away from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach or New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan office. With events in both locations dominating the news, more than 150 House Republicans…