All posts tagged "Jeff Duncan"

WASHINGTON — You know who doesn’t like being called “the Washington establishment”? The Washington establishment, it seems.

With former President Donald Trump winning numerous congressional endorsements ahead of today’s New Hampshire primary, former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) and her surrogates have started accusing Trump of becoming the “establishment.”

“Now we have a two-person race here. One who has the entire political elite around him, but I never wanted that,” Haley told voters Monday in Salem, N.H. ...

More than 30 federal political candidates and party committees have together surrendered at least $160,000 worth of donor dollars to the U.S. Marshals Service in recent weeks, according to a Raw Story analysis of federal campaign records.

It’s an all-but-unprecedented relinquishing of precious campaign cash to a government agency best known for hunting down suspected criminals, and even veteran election officials say they’ve never seen anything quite like it in U.S. politics.

But this isn’t any routine situation: Most of these “disgorgements” stem from contributions made by executives of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, including former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, Raw Story’s analysis indicates. And the Department of Justice is urging campaigns to give the money up....

Stephen Colbert rallied behind Rep. Jeff Duncan's (R-SC) call to gut the Census Bureau's fact-finding powers.