Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign raised $2.6 million in May and had just over $6.4 million in cash on hand at the end of the month, according to new filings, a paltry sum compared to the fundraising juggernauts behind his two major competitors. Kennedy’s independent presidential bid announced the tepid fundraising haul in Federal Election … Read more
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, may not survive a too-close-to-call GOP primary. As of early Wednesday, Good was trailing state Sen. John McGuire by 326 votes, with 98% of precincts reporting in south-central Virginia’s 5th District. The number of outstanding votes can tip the contest either way. A close race … Read more
A stunningly tight race in Virginia was among the highlights of Tuesday night’s races, which also included contests in Georgia and Oklahoma. Observers had been closely monitoring the GOP primary for Rep. Bob Good’s seat in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. The contest had boiled over into one of the most tumultuous primaries of the cycle … Read more
Despite claims from independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that he has qualified for enough state ballots to participate in next week’s presidential debate on CNN, a Washington Post survey of state election officials found Tuesday that that’s not the case. So far, only Delaware, Michigan, Oklahoma and Utah election officials have said Kennedy … Read more
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Eleven-term Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Tom Cole won a five-way Republican primary outright on Tuesday and avoided an August runoff. Cole faced a well-funded political newcomer in businessman Paul Bondar, who loaned more than $5 million of his own money to his campaign. The infusion of cash allowed Bondar to blanket television … Read more
Addressing voters in a campaign fundraising email for President Joe Biden on Tuesday, the veteran actor wrote, “The fakest thing about ‘The West Wing’ was that we had rational Republicans.” “In reality, the GOP today is led by a racist birther and twice-impeached con man who is now a convicted felon,” added Whitford, who played … Read more
(NewsNation) — Just days after reportedly calling Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “horrible,” former President Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally in the key battleground state. The event in Racine, Wisconsin, comes less than a month before the Republican National Convention. Trump reportedly made the disparaging comments about Milwaukee in a closed-door meeting with Congressional Republicans pm … Read more
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is taking off the gloves and going after his rival, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, with a new $50 million ad campaign focusing on the former president’s historic criminal conviction in New York. The 30-second spot, titled “Character Matters,” features images of Trump in the Manhattan courtroom where he was … Read more
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One of Donald Trump’s emissaries to Arab Americans is a Lebanese-born businessman who moved to Texas as a teenager, speaks Arabic, English and French, and recently joined the Trump family when his son married the former president’s younger daughter. Massad Boulos has taken on the challenge of trying to convince a … Read more
President Joe Biden and company made a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump during a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles. On Saturday, the commander in chief was joined by former President Barack Obama and comedian-slash-Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel onstage at downtown LA’s Peacock Theater, where they made a strong case for a second Biden term in … Read more
