Trump cultists

The Hill reports: Florida’s abortion-rights ballot initiative fell short of passing on Tuesday, leaving in place a six-week abortion ban that has helped restrict access across almost all of the Southern U.S. The measure’s defeat is a significant victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who engaged multiple levers of state-sponsored power to oppose it. The measure needed a 60 percent …

Florida Politics reports: Republican U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has secured re-election to Florida’s 13th Congressional District, narrowly avoiding becoming a one-term Representative in a district that favors the GOP. With 58% precincts reporting, Luna secured 54% of the vote, edging out Democratic challenger Whitney Fox, who posted a performance no one would have expected just one year ago. A …

Florida Politics reports: Amid strong Republican turnout during early voting and no polls showing Debbie Mucarsel-Powell winning, there seemed to be little doubt that U.S. Sen. Rick Scott could get six more years. But it was closer than some might have thought. With 71% of the vote in, the Naples Republican leads 53.8% to 44.8%, guaranteeing his win with the …

The Associated Press reports: Jim Justice won a U.S. Senate race from West Virginia on Tuesday, flipping a seat to the Republican Party after Joe Manchin decided not to seek reelection. Justice, who boldly predicted victory long before the election, defeated Democrat Glenn Elliott, a lawyer and former mayor of the city of Wheeling who was endorsed by Manchin. A …

NPR reports: Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Braun has won Indiana’s open governor’s race, according to a race call by The Associated Press. Braun, a Trump ally finishing out his first term in the Senate, beat out Democrat Jennifer McCormick and Libertarian Donald Rainwater. Braun’s victory creates a bit of Indiana history: the state has never had governors from one party …

Religion News reports: The former president of an evangelical get-out-the-vote nonprofit, which seeks to motivate Christian voters to promote family values and “biblical truth” in the public square, was charged Monday (Nov. 4) with eight counts of possessing child pornography. Jason Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, was charged during a video court hearing in the District Court of …

“All this hyperbole and madness about, ‘Oh, they’re going to try to unwind the election.’ None of that is true. None of it. President Trump mentioned that we had a ‘secret’ while he was in Madison Square Garden and the secret is our telephone town halls. “It’s not some ulterior motive. The media went crazy over that. There’s just too …

The Hill reports: Georgia election officials had to evacuate two polling locations in Union City in Fulton County on Election Day after what were eventually deemed non-credible bomb threats were called in by a “foreign state actor,” according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “We pretty well dispelled that very quickly,” Raffensperger said at a press conference Tuesday morning. “But …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was not among 51 members of the National Association of Attorneys General who signed a letter on Monday calling for a peaceful transfer of power and condemning violent acts relating to the election results. Paxton was one of only three state attorneys general who didn’t sign the letter, along with his …

Mediaite reports: Sean Davis, a co-founder of pro-Trump website The Federalist, claimed that if former President Donald Trump doesn’t win the White House it’s proof that the entire electoral process is a “manufactured facade.” “Either Trump wins or elections in this country are a completely manufactured facade,” Davis said. In another post, he said a Trump loss would mean the …

The Guardian reports: The Republican mega-donors Dick and Liz Uihlein, who are the third largest donors in this year’s US presidential election, have sought information about who employees at their company Uline will be voting for in Tuesday’s ballot. A screenshot seen by the Guardian shows how employees at the private Wisconsin paper and office products distributor were asked to …

Atlanta First News reports: Two polling locations in Fulton County were temporarily evacuated Tuesday morning after they received false bomb threats. The threats, which were deemed to be non-credible, targeted five polls in total, according to Fulton County Director of Registration and Elections Nadine Williams. The county is seeking a court order to extend the two polling locations’ hours past …

The Arizona Mirror reports: A man already indicted for shooting at a local Democratic National Committee Office is facing new charges related to allegations that he posted anti-Democratic signs outfitted with razor blades and bags of white powder attached to them. Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was arrested for his alleged involvement in four separate incidents of political violence. Police have …

The Hill reports: Federal judges denied two states’ requests to bar the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day. Both Missouri and Texas asked federal courts to keep DOJ lawyers away from their polls. Missouri’s attorney general and secretary of state said any monitoring would “displace state election authorities,” and …

The Telegraph reports: Donald Trump should accept the result of the US election if he loses decisively to Kamala Harris, Nigel Farage has said. In an interview with The Telegraph during a visit to the former president’s home in Palm Beach, Mr Farage said: “If it was clear and decisive then maybe it’s time [for Trump] to go and play …

Politico reports: A white nationalist worked on the Trump campaign in an important position in Pennsylvania for five months — until Friday, when the Pennsylvania GOP fired him after learning about his views from my reporting. Last week, I confirmed that Luke Meyer, the Trump campaign’s 24-year-old regional field director for Western Pennsylvania, goes by the online name Alberto Barbarossa. …

NBC News reports: As Donald Trump yet again tells his supporters he can lose Tuesday only if there’s massive voter fraud and as he ramps up violent rhetoric about Democrats and other “enemies,” members of the far-right group that put more “boots on the ground” than any other at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, say they’re mobilizing. At …

Newsmax host Todd Starnes writes: It’s very possible that people like Liz Cheney and the Democrats and the Media are under the control of a demonic spirit. That’s the only plausible explanation for their anti-Trump bloodlust. What we need to be talking about his how Liz Cheney and her side of the political divide tried to put a bullet in …

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 …