Republicans

The Oklahoman reports: The state’s multicounty grand jury on Tuesday blamed Gov. Kevin Stitt and state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters, without specifically naming them, for the misspending of pandemic relief funds, calling it “grossly negligent.” . Grand jurors did not issue any indictments, saying they found insufficient evident to establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a crime was committed. They …

“I don’t want to be mean and also I don’t want to say things I can’t prove, but like, let’s, let’s be real. I’m never going to take another lecture about gay rights from these people, like, ‘Oh, you hate gays and you keep them all in the closet or whatever.’ “Any party — you know, stop with the, with …

Breitbart reports: Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today released a new anti-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ad that calls for getting tougher on China. In the ad, Blackburn says: “Some say I’m too tough, that I should be more delicate. But you know what? It’s time to break some China. China stole our jobs, sent us a virus. They’re buying up our …

The Daily Montanan reports: Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Tim Sheehy said at multiple campaign stops this year that he wants to do away with the U.S. Department of Education to save money — by “throwing it in the trash can” — and that education is one of his top three priorities. “We have a Department of Education, which I don’t …

Florida Politics reports: A Fort Myers TV station acquiesced and stopped playing pro-abortion rights ads after a Department of Health (DOH) lawyer threatened Florida TV stations with criminal prosecution. It’s a revelation in a new First Amendment lawsuit as the political committee supporting the Amendment 4 abortion rights initiative sued a pair of state officials Wednesday in federal court. Floridians …

CNN reports: A text message last week to young voters in Wisconsin is stirring new concerns in the battleground state about a messaging campaign that could intimidate college students from casting ballots this election, according to a letter from voter protection groups released Tuesday. The unsolicited text, sent from at least one 262- number to cell phones of people in …

Rolling Stone reports: During a debate against Rep. Colin Allred on Tuesday night, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz repeatedly refused to say whether he supports the right of victims of rape or incest to have an abortion. “I’m curious, why do you keep asking me that?” Cruz said to a debate moderator when he was given a third chance to clarify …

Bloomberg News reports: Billionaire Miriam Adelson, one of the most prolific donors backing Donald Trump since his 2016 run for the White House, poured $95 million into her super PAC supporting him, according to the latest disclosures with the FEC. The donation exceeds the $75 million she and her late husband, former Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson, combined to …

NBC News reports: A Georgia judge on Tuesday blocked a new rule from the state’s election board that would have required counties to count ballots cast on Election Day by hand, a provision critics had said would cause delays and disruptions in reporting results in the battleground state. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his decision that …

ABC News reports: As part of its ongoing investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz, the House Ethics Committee recently issued a subpoena for documents from a civil lawsuit brought by one of the Florida congressman’s longtime friends against several third parties, ABC News has learned. The subpoena, which has not been previously reported, requests all documents related to Gaetz that are …

Atlanta First News reports: A Fulton County Superior Court judge has ruled that election results must be certified in Georgia, according to an order handed down on Monday. The order comes as a response to a lawsuit by Julie Adams, a member of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections. Adams argued she should be able to forego certifying …

Politico Magazine reports: You might have missed it, but in August, Gorsuch published a book titled Over Ruled, which argues that there are too many laws on the books and that government officials at both the federal and state levels are enforcing them in increasingly unpredictable and unjust ways. Gorsuch went on a monthslong publicity tour to promote the book …

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ latest attempt to defeat the abortion rights ballot measure, known as Amendment 4, emerged in a report from the office of his elections chief, alleging a host of violations involving the campaign’s petition signature-gathering. The 348-page report comes from the office of Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, a Republican former state House …

“I don’t need some lily-livered, jelly-backed, spineless toad like Thom Tillis wanting to cross his legs. I called him ‘spineless. And here’s why I called him spineless: cause he’s more concerned about standing up against Mark Robinson and other Republicans like me than he is to standing with us to fight these Democrats who are trying to destroy this nation.” …

“I’m so appreciative of your viewers going to Ted Cruz dot org, Ted Cruz dot org, and contributing 25 bucks, 50, 100, maybe somebody giving $500 or $1,000, but go to Ted Cruz dot org because when you’ve got a $100 million, wild-eyed liberals that wanna buy Texas. “And here’s what Schumer thinks. If he can flip Texas, he wins …

The New York Times reports: Of all the conspiracy theories and disinformation that have circulated, meteorologists say one falsehood that has especially gotten out of hand is the claim that the government is creating or controlling the storms. Forecasters have been harassed for either failing to promote these claims or for disseminating accurate information that counters them. Matthew Cappucci, a …

Politico reports: Florida’s public universities are purging the list of general education courses they will offer next year to fall in line with a state law pushed for by Gov. Ron DeSantis targeting “woke ideologies” in higher education. The state’s involvement in a curriculum process — which has historically been left to universities — is riling academics and students who …

The Daily Beast reports: Ted Cruz could screw up his party’s chance of flipping the Senate. A memo from the Senate Leadership Fund shows the PAC’s own internal polling has  Cruz at 48 percent, leading opponent Colin Allred by a single percentage point Cruz is the subject of FEC complaints alleging he struck a sketchy deal to funnel hundreds of …

Washington, NC’s NBC affiliate reports: Lt. Governor Mark Robinson continues to campaign across eastern Carolina for the Governor’s race, stopping Sunday in Craven and Onslow counties. He talked with WITN for an exclusive interview on the issues, and the recent CNN report saying he wrote numerous lewd and racist posts on a pornographic website some ten years ago. Robinson said …

Politico reports: Ron DeSantis skipped meeting with Joe Biden on Sunday, the second time in as many weeks that the Republican governor did not meet with the outgoing Democratic president while in Florida touring storm damage. Biden traveled to the state to survey the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, which wreaked havoc on Florida earlier this week. Biden told reporters before …