Politics

Florida Politics reports: Florida’s Governor may have wanted people to support him for President this time last year during his attempt to get the GOP presidential nomination. But with that option long since foreclosed to him, Ron DeSantis is discouraging Republicans and others who may be dispirited about Donald Trump from marking his name down as a misguided protest vote. …

CNN reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party today. “I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed and he wouldn’t recognize today,” McConnell told …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: An audit uncovered 20 noncitizens out of 8.2 million registered voters in Georgia, according to findings announced by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday. Nine of those 20 noncitizens cast ballots years ago, before ID verification checks were in place, while the other 11 were registered but never actually voted, the audit showed. Election officials …

Via press release from Emerson Polling: A new Emerson College Polling/DC News Now/The Hill survey of Maryland likely voters finds 54% support Democrat Angela Alsobrooks, while 40% support former Republican Governor Larry Hogan in the U.S. Senate election. Six percent are undecided. When undecided voters are asked which candidate they lean toward, Alsobrooks’ overall support increases to 57%, and Hogan …

The Hill reports: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and Rep. Colin Allred (D) are in a virtual dead heat in the state’s Senate race, according to a new poll. The survey from Emerson College Polling/The Hill found Cruz just ahead of Allred by 1 percentage point, 48 percent to 47 percent, with 5 percent undecided. Part of Allred’s competitiveness in …

The Hill reports: Bruce Springsteen is aiming to strike a chord with Kamala Harris supporters, headlining a pair of concerts for the vice president’s campaign in two battleground states. The “Born in the U.S.A.” singer will help kick off the Harris campaign’s “When We Vote We Win” concert series in Atlanta on Thursday, a senior campaign official confirmed to The …

The Florida Phoenix reports: A new public opinion survey of the race in Florida’s 13th Congressional District between conservative Republican Anna Paulina Luna and her Democratic challenger, Whitney Fox, shows the two tied at 46% as early voting began in the district on Monday. The survey, by St. Pete Polls, also shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 percentage …

The New York Times reports: With two weeks until Election Day, more than 15 million people have already cast their ballots, the clearest sign yet that voting habits were forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic and that early voting has become a permanent feature of the American democratic process. While many people cast a mail-in ballot or voted early in …

Axios reports: The race to succeed Joe Biden as the 47th president remains close, but a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution/University of Georgia poll shows former President Trump with a slight edge over Vice President Kamala Harris in the Peach State. Trump leads Harris 47% to 43%, outside the margin of error of 3.1%, among the 1,000 likely voters in Georgia who …

From the Dallas Morning News editorial board: We looked not only at their actions but also listened to their words, and, after doing so, we recommend voters cast their ballots for Rep. Colin Allred in the coming election. Sen. Ted Cruz had the opportunity to support a step toward a solution with the bipartisan Lankford-Sinema bill that would have provided …

Florida Politics reports: Roughly 2 in 3 Florida voters plan to vote to legalize recreational pot in November. That’s according to a new poll from the University of North Florida’s (UNF) Public Opinion Research Lab (PORL). That poll found higher support for Amendment 3, which would legalize marijuana use by adults age 21 and older, than for amendments on lifting …

The Hill reports: Nearly 1.01 million North Carolinians have already voted in the November general election, state officials reported Sunday afternoon. The North Carolina State Election Board said 1,008,123 ballots have already been cast in the 2024 election, including 916,433 ballots cast via in-person early voting, 77,831 ballots via civilian absentee voting, and nearly 14,000 cast via military or overseas …

Yahoo Entertainment reports: The show opened with Maya Rudolph returning as Vice President Kamala Harris, along with Alec Baldwin making a surprise appearance as Fox News anchor Bret Baier, to parody Harris’s much-discussed interview on the conservative network on Oct. 16. Baldwin came out swinging in his portrayal of Baier — his first return to the show since the dismissal …

The Miami Herald reports: When he abruptly resigned from his post last week, the top attorney for the Florida Department of Health suggested in a resignation letter that he was uncomfortable with decisions taken by the state agency, which days earlier had threatened to prosecute television stations over political advertisements. “A man is nothing without his conscience,” John Wilson wrote. …

Axios reports: An explosive drone launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon hit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home in the coastal town of Caesarea on Saturday. This is the first time since the beginning of the war that a target affiliated directly with Netanyahu has been hit. Netanyahu’s spokesperson confirmed his private residence was targeted on Saturday morning local time, …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Georgia is continuing to smash early voting records. On Friday afternoon, Georgia Secretary of State’s Office Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling [photo], confirmed Georgia officially passed one million votes cast in the early voting period. The state remains a focus in one of the closest presidential contests in recent memory. The big voting push comes as …

Bloomberg reports: Electricity went out across the entirety of Cuba after the island’s main power plant failed and the government throttled key industries in an effort to save fuel. In a post on X, the Ministry of Energy and Mines said the unexpected failure of the 330-megawatt capacity CTE Antonio Guiteras plant at about 11 a.m. Friday had caused a …

Reuters reports: Some U.S. states are sending strong signals to county and local officials who might be tempted to intervene illegally in the Nov. 5 election or refuse to certify results: Fail to do your duty and risk criminal charges or hefty financial penalties. In at least five of the seven battleground states, top election and law enforcement officials have …

Florida Politics reports: Bob Milligan, who served as Florida’s last elected Comptroller before it changed to the current Chief Financial Officer post, says he’s backing Kamala Harris for President. Jim Smith, Florida’s 32nd Attorney General and two-time Secretary of State, and longtime GOP strategist Mac Stipanovich are doing the same. Milligan, who retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a …

The Florida Phoenix reports: A federal judge temporarily barred the DeSantis administration from intimidating and coercing television stations that air ads in support of the proposed Amendment 4, which would bar government interference in abortion. The ruling stops Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo as the head of the Florida Department of Health from acting against broadcasters the department has already threatened …