All posts tagged "Election"

A CNN panel broke out into a fiery debate as pundits tried to understand Trump's comments about his upcoming speech.

During a panel discussion hosted by CNN anchor Abby Phillip, conservative pundit and former Republican New York City Council member Joe Borelli spoke about Trump's announcement that he would give a speech about election security on Thursday. However, Borelli was more concerned with the assumption that Trump would make false statements about elections during that upcoming speech.

"Why are we presupposing that whatever the president says, whether it's evidence or it's opinion or there's some new evidence that a foreign government tried to hack our elections, why are we presupposing what the [Department of Justice], what the president, what the White House is saying is false?" Borelli asked. "There's a reason that we're at a big news program here, prejudging."...

An activist was sounding the alarm over the Los Angeles mayoral race and how incumbent Mayor Karen Bass could be repeating a strategy for MAGA-approved former reality TV star Spencer Pratt — a similar move that ended up costing Hillary Clinton the election against Donald Trump.

Adam Conover, a comedian known for both his jokes and political commentary, offered his views of the upcoming election in Los Angeles and why the stakes were so high.

"There's something really dangerous happening in the LA mayor's race and a lot more people need to be talking about it," Conover said. "So you guys are familiar with how Hillary Clinton boosted Donald Trump's candidacy in 2016 in the primary because she thought it would help her win the general, right? We all know how that turned out. Well Karen Bass is doing the same thing in Los Angeles this year." ...

Former Republican insider Rick Wilson has predicted that President Donald Trump wasn't kidding with his election threat this week.

The Lincoln Project co-founder cautioned in his Substack Friday how Trump will often joke or tease about something, throws it out to his MAGA followers and then that manifests into a story from a conservative media outlet about the "controversy of the statement." Then, ultimately, the president's words reveal what's really happening behind the scenes inside the Trump administration, Wilson argued.

In an exclusive interview with Reuters on Wednesday, Trump floated the idea: “When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election."...

An analyst Monday gave a stark warning ahead of the elections Tuesday, saying that voters are signaling they have had enough and are ready to say "to hell with you all."

President Donald Trump's approval rating has hit a second-term low: dropping to 63% among Americans disapproving of him and 37% approving of him, according to a new CNN poll released Monday, just ahead of the off-year election day. Democrats are also showing an advantage when it comes to motivation ahead of the elections, with 67% of Democratic leaning voters saying they are highly motivated to vote vs. 46% of Republican leaning voters saying they are motivated to cast their ballots.

"Republicans are going to have a bad day tomorrow," Frank Luntz, pollster and communications strategist, told CNN anchors Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar. ...

This article originally appeared in OpenSecrets. Sign up for their weekly newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.

Florida is on its fifth try to legalize recreational marijuana with a ballot initiative, and more money is pouring into supporting the measure than any other like it that came before.

If it passes the 60% supermajority required by the state to ratify ballot measures, Florida would join 16 other states and territories that have legalized recreational marijuana by ballot measure. ...

CBS correspondent Erin Moriarty challenged former Independent Counsel Robert Ray after he said Donald Trump should not be forced to face trial before the 2024 presidential because he is a candidate.

During a segment on CBS Sunday Morning about Trump's legal problems, Moriarty sat down with Ray for his perspective.

"Are you saying that former leaders should never, when they're running for re-election, ever be held accountable for alleged crimes?" Moriarty said before the interview concluded. ...