Republicans

The Texas Tribune reports: Tarrant County Republican Party Chair Bo French is under fire this week for a series of recent social media posts in which he repeatedly called his political opponents slurs for gay people and people with disabilities. “This is the gayest ad in history,” French, 55, wrote in an Oct. 11 response to a Democratic advertisement on …

Via press release: Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, in conjunction with the Missouri Attorney General’s office, filed a lawsuit today to block the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) continued attempts to interfere with polling places on Election Day. Ashcroft serves as the chief election officer in Missouri. “No one is above the law,” Ashcroft said. “The law clearly and specifically …

NBC News reports: Given former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s lack of physical presence on the Trump campaign trail — and her consistent drumbeat of criticism of the way he and the party are speaking to women voters — it’s notable that she put her pro-Trump stance in written form for voters in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. “I don’t …

Politico reports: “My internal polling looks good,” Kari Lake said in an interview from her campaign bus adorned on the outside with a massive photo of her and Trump and on the inside with a life-size cardboard Kari Lake cutout. “We’re ahead of my opponent, and I feel comfortable with our polling,” she insisted. “Our polling is a little different. …

CBS News reports: Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, knows what he’ll say to people who will inevitably challenge the results. “I’m sorry that your candidate lost. But the rules are the rules. The law is the law. And the count is the count,” Sterling said. As of Friday, more than half of registered …

The Independent reports: Tim Sheehy sat down for an interview with conservative journalist Megyn Kelly on Saturday, where he struggled to explain the shifting story behind an injury he claims was a bullet wound suffered in Afghanistan in a possible friendly fire incident — one he says he covered up to avoid getting Afghan allied forces in trouble. Kelly pressed …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas’ top elections official told the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday its election monitors aren’t permitted in the state’s polling places after the federal agency announced plans to dispatch monitors to eight counties on Election Day to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws. The Justice Department regularly sends monitors across the country to keep …

Politico reports: A new robocall targeting Maryland voters attacks Larry Hogan for acknowledging Joe Biden won the 2020 election. The recording knocks Hogan, the GOP nominee for Senate, for not being MAGA enough and urges support for Libertarian Party candidate Mike Scott, who is “pro-pardoning President Trump” and “the only true conservative on the ballot.” “Lockdown Larry said Biden won …

Axios reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) handed his Democratic foes another last-minute gift on Friday by suggesting Republicans would try to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act. Johnson quickly attempted to walk back the comments, but Democrats said it’s too late for that — the damage is already done. Asked by reporters during a campaign stop in upstate New …

Florida Politics reports: Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential Secretary of State if Donald Trump is elected President, says the “media” is delivering “disinformation” to get Kamala Harris elected instead, and that’s why they talk about “fascists, garbage, Nazi supporters.” Rubio went on to accuse “the media and all these Democratic activists” of a “public temper tantrum” because they can’t believe …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: The U.S. Department of Justice will watch for voting rights violations in four Florida counties on Election Day — but their observers won’t be inside polling locations, election officials said Friday. The DOJ is sending personnel to 86 areas in 27 states, including Broward, Miami-Dade, Orange and Osceola counties in Florida, to ensure compliance with civil …

CBS News reports: The Supreme Court on Friday declined to freeze a decision from Pennsylvania’s highest court that required election officials to count provisional ballots cast by people whose mail ballots are invalid because they lacked mandatory secrecy envelopes. The order from the justices means that election officials in the key battleground state must tally provisional ballots submitted on Election …

Posted to Facebook by the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department: We, the members of the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, want to take a moment to sincerely apologize for allowing the offensive participants to take part in the Mount Pleasant Annual Halloween Parade last evening. We do not share in the values represented by those participants, and we understand how it …

Fox News reports: Longtime Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt quit the newspaper on Friday, he told Fox News Digital. Hewitt, a conservative who hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, had been a contributing columnist for the newspaper since 2017 and has written hundreds of pieces. A clip of Hewitt went viral earlier on Friday when he walked off the Washington …

The Associated Press reports: Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash with the Biden administration over immigration. Critics fear the change could scare people away from hospitals. Texas hospitals have …

Save Jersey reports: New Jersey Republican U.S. Senate nominee Curtis Bashaw has signed the ‘Moms for Liberty’ Parent Pledge ahead of next week’s Election 2024 finale. “While I understand that some conservatives have questioned the stance of Mr. Bashaw on certain issues, my focus today was hearing his stance on the teaching of gender ideology in schools, the inclusion of …

The Hill reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is disputing Democrats’ assertion that he wants to repeal ObamaCare after Vice President Harris’s campaign seized on comments he made at a campaign stop this week. “Despite the dishonest characterizations from the Harris campaign, the audio and transcript make clear that I offered no such promise to end ObamaCare, and in fact acknowledged …

Mediaite reports: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum refused to say on Thursday whether former President Donald Trump should declare victory before the election results are in, despite being repeatedly pressed on the issue by CNN host Kaitlan Collins. Collins asked, “If you’re around him on Tuesday, will you encourage him to wait until all the results are in and the …

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“Iowa law guarantees that every eligible voter can vote and every legal vote will count. But now, with only a few days until the election, and many Iowans already voting, LULAC is trying to derail our election integrity systems to let noncitizens illegally vote. Every noncitizen who illegally votes cancels out an Iowan’s valid vote. We won’t let that happen. …