Tag Archives: 2020 elections

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: Some Milwaukee voters are waiting in line for as long as 2 1/2 hours to cast their ballots, the city’s top election official said Tuesday. “We have moved forward with an election, but we have not moved forward with democracy in the state of Wisconsin,” said Neil Albrecht, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission. The …

The Washington Post reports: John Lewis, the Georgia congressman and civil rights icon, formally endorsed Joe Biden for president on Tuesday morning, becoming the latest in a long string of elected officials who have backed the former vice president. “I read about Joe Biden when he became an elected official. I heard him speak. I met him,” Lewis told reporters …

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: In a historic move less than 24 hours before polls were set to open, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers shut down Tuesday’s election to avoid causing more illness and deaths in Wisconsin as the number of coronavirus infections surges. Evers on Monday issued an executive order that bars in-person voting Tuesday and moves the state’s spring election …

ABC News reports: Joe Biden has remained at his Willmington, Delaware, home, following the guidance of a stay-at-home order put in place by the state’s governor, and said Sunday morning that he would be heeding the advice of the CDC by wearing a mask the next time he goes out in public as a way to mitigate his risk of …

Greater Milwaukee Today reports: Wisconsin Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court late Saturday to block extended absentee voting in Tuesday’s primary, despite public health fears about in-person voting amid the coronavirus pandemic. Republicans are asking the high court to undo a federal judge’s ruling this week that declined to postpone the election but added six days, to April 13, for …

The Hill reports: Larry David, the “Saturday Night Live” actor who often plays Sen. Bernie Sanders in skits, said the Vermont Independent should drop out of the presidential race and throw his support behind his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden. “I feel he should drop out,” David told The New York Times in an interview published Saturday. “Because he’s …

Axios reports: Joe Biden said he’s spoken to Sen. Bernie Sanders and former President Barack Obama about selecting a running mate — and that he wants to build “a bench of younger, really qualified people” who can lead the nation over the course of the next four presidential cycles. Biden spoke about the state of the 2020 race during a …

Via press release from Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers: Folks, today I’m announcing that I signed an Executive Order calling the Legislature to meet in Special Session tomorrow, Saturday, April 4th at 4:00 p.m. to take up changes to the upcoming spring election. I’m asking the Legislature to take up legislation allowing an all-mail election, to send a ballot to every …

Axios report: Businessman and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban revived talk of an improbable 2020 presidential bid during an Axios virtual event on Friday. “Everything’s a reset right now,” Cuban told Axios CEO Jim VandeHei from Dallas. “If this would would’ve been a month ago, I would have said absolutely not. But obviously things are crazy, things are changing. So …

USA Today reports: The 2020 Democratic National Convention has been pushed back to mid-August as organizers try to navigate the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The event, originally scheduled for July 13-17, will instead be held the week of August 17. It’s unclear how many days the convention will be held as planning remains in flux. The announcement came in …

The Cumberland Times reports: Gov. Jim Justice rescheduled West Virginia’s May 12 primary election to June 9 on Wednesday, citing fears about the coronavirus spreading at polling places. Justice said medical experts told him that having the primary on its originally scheduled date would be unsafe for voters and poll workers, since health officials have warned of a surge in …

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: Gov. Tony Evers has agreed to use members of the Wisconsin Army National Guard to work at the polls during the April 7 election amid a massive shortage of poll workers that is leaving some communities without anyone to give voters ballots on Election Day. More than 100 communities in Wisconsin don’t have any poll workers …

“There is a path. It is admittedly a narrow path. But I would tell you that there are a lot of people who are supporting me. We have a strong grassroots movement who believe that we have got to stay in in order to continue to fight to make the world know that we need Medicare For All. “We need …

NBC News reports: Presidential elections are typically prime time for bringing new people into the political process, but the coronavirus pandemic is making voter registration more difficult than ever, prompting concerns that many young Americans and other nonvoters might miss their chance to get onto the rolls before November. “This is the moment when we historically see people take action …

ABC News reports: New York — which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic’s spread in the U.S.– will now be on June 23, the latest state to postpone or drastically change the status of its April 28 presidential primary. Six states slated to vote that day have delayed or moved to expand absentee voting to continue on with …

Fox News reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden bests President Donald Trump by nine points in a 2020 ballot test, in the first Fox News Poll since Biden became the de facto Democratic nominee. In a head-to-head presidential matchup, Biden is up by 49-40 percent over Trump, a lead that is outside the poll’s margin of sampling error. Another 11 …

Politico reports: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday acknowledged that “it’s going to be a very steep road” to defeat former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary, discussing in frank terms the challenges facing his already lagging campaign amid the coronavirus pandemic. The remarks from Sanders came during an interview with NPR that aired on Friday, during …

The Baltimore Sun reports: The Maryland Board of Elections is planning to do away with polling stations for the state’s already delayed primary. Voters would instead be required to mail in or drop off their ballots in an effort to limit coronavirus infections. If approved, the move would eliminate any need for Maryland’s more than 4 million registered voters to …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is threatening to file lawsuits against local news outlets in several battleground states if they continue to air a political ad full of his attempts to downplay the coronavirus. Priorities USA, a liberal super PAC, crafted the ad entitled “Exponential Threat,” and it splices audio of Trump from recent weeks as he made …

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: Ohio lawmakers on Wednesday approved a plan for an all-mail primary election running through April 28, the state legislature’s fix to wrap things up after the original March 17 Election Day was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The bipartisan plan, approved unanimously by the House and Senate, would send postcards to every Ohioan with …