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The Illinois State Board of Elections rejected Wednesday a request to reconsider or lower more than $100,000 in fines levied against a political action committee that helped expand the Democratic Party’s majority on the Illinois Supreme Court. The board’s unanimous bipartisan vote followed a request by All for Justice, an independent expenditure PAC backed by Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, after it was fined $108,500 by the board last year for failing to timely file detailed expenditure reports in spending $7.3 million to help elect Elizabeth Rochford and Mary Kay O’Brien to the state’s......

DETROIT — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is endorsing the campaign urging Michigan Democrats to vote "uncommitted" in the Feb. 27 presidential primary in protest of President Joe Biden's policy in Gaza. In a video posted to social media Saturday, Tlaib said it's important to not just march against the "genocide" in Gaza but to form a voting bloc to affect change. "Something that is a bullhorn to say enough is enough. We don't want a country that supports wars and bombs and destruction. We want to support life. We want to stand up for every single life killed in Gaza," Tlaib said. "This is the way you......

Former President Trump derided losing Republican congressional candidate Mazi Melesa Pilip as a “very foolish woman” hours after she lost a closely watched Long Island special election to fill the seat once held by disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos. Trump blamed the trailblazing Ethiopian Israeli immigrant’s loss on her failure to come out strongly enough in favor of him during the campaign against Democrat Tom Suozzi. “This very foolish woman, Mazi Melesa Pilip, …didn’t endorse me and tried to ‘straddle the fence,’ when she would have easily WON,” Trump wrote on his social media site. The forme......

Former President Donald Trump will make his first Michigan campaign stop of the 2024 election year in Oakland County on Saturday. Trump's campaign announced the visit Monday. The Republican candidate will hold a "get out the vote" rally at 7 p.m. at a venue at the Oakland County International Airport in Waterford Township, according to a press release. The event will take place 10 days ahead of Michigan's Feb. 27 presidential primary election, in which Trump is competing for GOP votes with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as his ambassador to the United Nations. The primary e......

MIAMI — A political action committee supporting Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s failed presidential campaign paid its top fundraising consultant more money than the super PAC raised in new donations last year, according to an analysis of the committee’s latest report filed last week. The pro-Suarez super PAC paid nearly $2.2 million to Virginia-based consulting firm Starboard LLC, while raising just $1.5 million, the report showed. The report underscores the desperation and inexperience of Suarez’s campaign, which relied on gimmicks to drum up support, including an AI version of the candidate and......

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley was about to take the stage for her Jan. 24 rally in North Charleston, former President Donald Trump’s campaign looked to make a statement about his popularity in the Palmetto State. About quarter past 7 p.m., a news release rolled out the latest set of South Carolina endorsements for the former president after his 11-point victory in New Hampshire, signaling he was consolidating support for his third presidential campaign. “Welcome home to Trump Country, Nikki, where there has been an earthquake of political and grassroots support backing Pre......