All posts tagged "Voters"

A federal judge threw out the Trump Justice Department's lawsuit demanding Georgia voters' Social Security and driver's license numbers.

U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia dismissed the case in an order filed on Wednesday. She granted Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's motion to dismiss and denied the DOJ's motion to compel him to hand over the records.

The fight began in July 2025, when the DOJ asked Raffensperger's office for Georgia's full, unredacted voter registration list. According to the order, federal officials said they wanted to run it through the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE database, which checks citizenship status. Follow-up letters in August demanded that every field be visible, including dates of birth and Social Security numbers....

MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow huddled on Friday's edition of "Deadline: White House" over how to respond to President Donald Trump's growing assaults on the press — and Maddow pointed out how uniquely vulnerable a position the president is currently in.

Trump attempted to ban MS NOW, CNN, and Politico from the White House, only for a federal court to slap him down.

"Do you remember when your old boss, George W. Bush said, rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" Maddow asked Wallace, to mutual laughter. "We first started talking about this when we first heard that, first of all, the case was going to be all three networks and that the pool was shutting itself down in solidarity with CNN ... I said, rarely is the question asked, is our institutions learning? I think we are starting to learn."...

An appeals court's decision to revive a Missouri map backed by President Donald Trump will trap the red state's voters, an ex-prosecutor warned.

In a Tuesday episode of the "Talking Feds" podcast, former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman tore into the three-judge 8th Circuit panel for the logic it used to revive the map. The appeals court ordered Missouri to use a Republican-drawn congressional map for the November 3 midterms on Monday.

Republicans passed the map last year at the behest of Trump and split Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's (D-MO) safely Democratic Kansas City district into three rural-dominated districts. The order would move Missouri from six Republican seats and two Democratic seats to seven and one....

A crucial group of voters who helped reelect President Donald Trump are so sour on his policies that they're expected to ditch the GOP entirely, according to a new report.

More than 65 percent of Hispanic voters are unhappy with how Trump is handling his job, and 78 percent said they would rather see Democrats control Congress, according to a New York Times/Siena University poll analyzed by The Guardian.

"There's no renewed affinity or love for the Democratic Party," Mike Madrid, a campaign consultant and author who has studied Latino voting patterns for 35 years, told The Guardian. "They're just extremely upset and disillusioned and angry, frankly, with Donald Trump."...

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta says he's noticing fewer flags bearing President Donald Trump's name across rural Virginia, which he said signals a "vibe shift."

During a Thursday episode of "The Jim Acosta Show," Acosta told Beth Macy, a Democratic congressional candidate from the region, that she has a real chance to take over a GOP seat based on what he's seeing. Macy is running to unseat Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA).

"Something culturally is changing in that part of Virginia in rural Virginia," Acosta said. "I'm not seeing as many Trump flags as I used to. I used to see them all the time driving around."...

Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL) had to directly answer frustrated voters during a live C-SPAN broadcast on Friday.

A caller named Roger, an independent voter from Lawrenceville, Georgia, pressed the Republican lawmaker to explain why Republicans were continuing to repeat President Donald Trump's continued messages, including Trump's comments around inflation and gas prices.

"Why do you guys continue to parrot Trump's crazy Fox News talking points when I know you have to know right from wrong," he said....