Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) met with former President Donald Trump last week at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The former president, Hagerty says, is “energized and engaged.” Hagerty was nominated to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan by the former president in 2017, and served in that role from his Senate confirmation in 2017 until 2019. He was elected to the United States […]
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill into law on Friday that prohibits the private funding of election administration in the state. Arizona is now the first state in the country that specifically prohibits the controversial private funding of election administration that was introduced to the American political process in the 2020 presidential election, when Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg contributed $419 million to two […]
Heritage Action Executive Director Jessica Anderson praised the Arizona State Senate for passing HB 2569, a bill that prohibits the private funding of election administration, and said Gov. Doug Ducey “should promptly sign the bill into law.” As Breitbart News reported, the Arizona State Senate passed HB 2569 on Tuesday, a bill that the Arizona House of Representatives passed in March. The bill now goes to […]
The Arizona State Senate passed a bill on Tuesday prohibiting the private funding of election administration. The Republican-controlled state senate passed HB 2569, a bill banning the private funding of election administration and management, in a straight party-line vote 16 to 14. The bill, which passed the Republican-controlled Arizona House of Representatives last month in a 31 to 29 party-line vote, now goes to Gov. Doug […]
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) released a report Tuesday documenting the $36 million spent in 14 urban counties of Texas in the 2020 election by the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). According to the report: Grant award letters reviewed by the Foundation showed Texas counties were given money to help shift voting to the mail and away from traditional procedures in Texas […]
A bill that prohibits the private funding of election administration moved one step closer to becoming law in Arizona on Tuesday. The Arizona State Senate, acting as a Committee of the Whole, moved HB 2569, a bill proposed by State Rep. Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek), on to the final step in the legislative process in a voice vote on Tuesday afternoon. That final step — a third […]
The executive director of Heritage Action praised the new Georgia “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” signed into law by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday evening, as a model for other states to follow. “Georgia legislators have been leaders in the fight to protect our elections. These lawmakers have worked tirelessly to make Georgia’s elections more secure, fair, and transparent while promoting voters’ rights, and today […]
Legislation to prohibit private funding of election administration and limit the number and location of drop boxes for the deposit of vote by mail absentee ballots is moving through key committees of the Georgia State Senate and the Georgia House of Representatives with just four legislative days left in the current session of the Georgia General Assembly. Republicans have a majority in both houses of the […]
The Arizona House of Representatives has passed an election integrity reform bill that prohibits the private funding of election administration in the state. HB 2569 passed the Republican controlled House in a party line vote by a 31 to 29 margin on March 3, and is now under consideration in the Arizona State Senate, where Republicans hold a 16 to 14 majority. The bill passed out […]
GOP leaders in the Georgia General Assembly are attempting to reconcile differences between election reform bills passed separately by the two Republican controlled chambers of the Georgia General Assembly earlier this month. It is unclear if a unified single bill will be agreed upon before the current session of the Georgia General Assembly ends about March 31. It is also unclear if a single bill representing a […]
Twenty-three percent of COVID-19 nursing home deaths were in four states–New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Michigan–where Democratic governors forced nursing homes to admit residents who had tested positive for COVID-19, according to the most recent data published on March 4 by the COVID Tracking Project. As of March 4, a total of 510,383 Americans have died from the Chinese coronavirus. Thirty-four percent of those COVID-19 deaths, […]
President Joe Biden’s revocation of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13888 requiring state and local consultation prior to the resettlement of refugees in any community may be an indication his administration plans to ignore a key requirement of The Refugee Act of 1980. Federal courts currently seem unlikely to side with critics of the refugee resettlement program who have long argued that the Refugee Act of […]
The Fulton County (Georgia) Election Board voted to fire controversial elections director Richard Barron in a three to two vote Tuesday evening. Fox 5 Atlanta reported: Barron’s firing comes after a series of elections where the county was criticized by state elections officials and targeted over rumors about vote tampering. In November, the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office opened two investigations into Fulton County’s handling of the 2020 […]
A Canadian initiative funded by billionaires George Soros and Frank Giustra has prepared the way for President Biden’s proposed “public-private partnerships” that will play a key role in delivering on the surge in refugee admissions to the United States promised by the Biden administration in FY 2021 and FY 2022. The Ottawa based Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (GRSI), whose mission is “to assist and inspire countries around the […]
President Biden’s proposal to increase the FY 2021 refugee resettlement ceiling to 62,500, first reported by CNN on Friday, twists and contorts the Refugee Act of 1980, which authorizes the president to set the annual refugee resettlement ceiling for each fiscal year in a letter sent to Congress the month before the fiscal year begins. The law also allows the president to increase previously established annual […]
The document Politico published on Monday and touted as “Trump pollster’s campaign autopsy” is not an “autopsy” of former President Trump’s 2020 campaign at all, but is instead an analysis by former Trump campaign polling firm Fabrizio, Lee & Associates of exit polls conducted in ten states by AP VoteCast and the National Election Pool (NEP). The ten states consisted of two groups of five, according […]
Former President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Democrat megadonor Dr. Salomon Melgen as part of more than 100 grants of clemency announced in the final hours of his administration early Wednesday morning. Melgen was convicted on 67 felony counts of Medicare fraud in April 2017, and was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison in February 2018. In a separate case, Melgen and Sen. Bob […]
Former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) conceded to Democratic candidate, now Sen.-elect, Jon Ossoff late Friday, giving Democrats 50 seats in the United States Senate and effective control of that body as of January 20 when Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is sworn in as vice president. Republicans now have only 50 seats in the Senate in the 117th Congress. The Constitution provides that the vice president has […]
Late Tuesday, 88 state legislators from five battleground states sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence in which they asked him to postpone the opening and counting of Electoral College votes, currently scheduled to take place during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress, “for at least 10 days.” When the Electoral College met in fifty state capitals on December 14, 2020, subsequent to the certification of […]
A report released by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society at a press conference on Wednesday alleged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife made $419.5 million in contributions to non-profit organizations during the 2020 election cycle–$350 million to the “Safe Elections” Project of the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and another $69.5 million to the Center for Election Innovation and Research–that, […]
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ordered an absentee ballot signature verification audit for Cobb County late Monday afternoon. Raffensperger’s order came just hours after Democratic electors in Georgia cast 16 votes for Joe Biden in Monday’s meeting of the electoral college at the State Capitol. Earlier, Raffensperger certified that Biden secured a little less than 12,000 more votes than Donald Trump in the race for […]
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, and the Georgia State Election Board authorized the use of 300 absentee ballot drop boxes for the November 3, 2020, general election, beginning 49 days before the election, in a July 2020 election code rule. Phill Kline, director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, said that a number of election security concerns were not addressed in […]
Seventy-three percent of Joe Biden’s 126,649 vote margin gain in Pennsylvania, compared to Hillary Clinton’s performance in 2016, came from the seven counties and one city in Pennsylvania that received more than $18 million from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) “safe elections” project. The CTCL provided more than $18 million in “safe elections” grants between September 1 and October 31 to […]
Most of Joe Biden’s 221,751 vote margin gain in Georgia, compared to Hillary Clinton’s performance in 2016, came from three metropolitan Atlanta counties that received more than $15 million from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) “safe elections” project. Those three counties — Cobb, Fulton, and Gwinnett–accounted for 168,703 of Biden’s 221,751 vote margin gain, or 76 percent. In 2016, Donald Trump […]
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump in Minnesota has slipped to six points, according to a poll released by KSTP/SurveyUSA on Thursday. The former vice president leads Trump 48 percent to 42 percent, according to the poll of 625 likely voters, which was conducted between October 16 and 20 and has a margin of error of five points. KSTP reported: Although Biden retains […]
The U.S. Senate race in Minnesota between incumbent Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) and Republican challenger Jason Lewis is now a statistical tie, according to a poll released on Wednesday by KSTP/SurveyUSA. Smith leads Lewis by just one point, 43 percent to 42 percent, in the poll of 625 likely voters conducted between October 16 and October 20. Smith’s one point advantage over Lewis is well within […]
Democrats are focusing huge resources on winning the key battleground state Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes in 2020, a state Hillary Clinton lost by 68,000 votes to President Donald Trump in 2016. Two weeks before election day 2020, the Real Clear Politics Average of Polls shows Biden with a 3.7 point lead over Trump in Pennsylvania. At the same time in the 2016 campaign, […]
A flurry of recently released polls show Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump by double digits with less than a month until the November 3 presidential election. In fact, the Real Clear Politics Average of Polls currently has Joe Biden enjoying a comfortable 9.6 point lead over Donald Trump. However, looking back at the same period in 2016, a number of polls–at least 13–showed Democratic […]
Three polls released on Tuesday showed a wide range of outcomes in the presidential contest between President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the key battleground state of Florida. The USA Today/Suffolk poll shows the race tied with 45 percent for Trump and 45 percent for Biden; the Change Research/CNBC poll shows Biden with a four-point lead, 50 percent to 46 percent; and the […]
The NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll released on Sunday that shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden with a 14 point lead in the national popular vote over President Donald Trump, 53 percent to 39 percent, significantly oversampled Democrats. The poll of 800 registered voters was conducted between September 30 and October 1 and has a margin of error of 3.46 percent. Thirty-five percent of poll respondents self-identified […]
A plurality of voters want to see Federal Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the Supreme Court, according to a Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen released on Monday. The poll found that 37 percent of voters favor Barrett’s confirmation by the United States Senate, while 30 percent oppose her confirmation, for a net […]
A CBS News/YouGov poll released on Sunday that shows President Donald Trump leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden by just two points in Texas significantly oversampled Democrats. Forty-eight percent of likely voters in Texas say they will vote for Trump, while 46 percent say they will vote for Biden, according to the poll. Among the 1,140 likely voters identified as poll respondents, 417, or 36.6 percent, […]
White suburban women who feel safe in their communities overwhelmingly support Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, but those who feel unsafe support President Donald Trump, according to an Axios/SurveyMonkey poll released on Thursday. The “survey of 14,043 U.S. adults who are white and live in suburbs,” was part of a “SurveyMonkey poll of 35,732 U.S. adults” that was conducted between August 31 and September 6 on the […]
President Trump is statistically tied with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the battleground states of New Hampshire and Nevada, and has narrowed the former vice president’s lead in Wisconsin, according to the New York Times-Siena College poll released on Saturday. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton narrowly won New Hampshire’s four electoral college votes and Nevada’s six electoral college votes in 2016, while President Trump narrowly won […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by four points in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, 49 percent to 45 percent, according to a poll released on Friday by Muhlenberg College/Morning Call. The poll of 416 likely voters was conducted between August 11 and August 17 and has a 5.5 percent margin of error. Since Biden’s four point advantage over Trump is within […]
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 39 points in California, 67 percent to 28 percent, according to a Berkeley IGS (Institute of Governmental Studies) poll released on Tuesday. Biden’s current poll margin is nine points higher than Hillary Clinton’s 30 point margin, 61 percent to 31 percent, over Trump in California in the 2016 presidential election, when she secured 8.7 million […]
Three polls released this week show challenger Democrat Mark Kelly’s lead over Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) in the 2020 U.S. Senate race in Arizona is declining. An OH Insight poll, conducted between July 6 and July 7 and released on Tuesday shows Kelly leading McSally by nine points, 52 percent to 43 percent, down from his 13 point lead in the same poll in May. The […]
Ninety percent of Evangelical Christian voters support the re-election of President Donald Trump according to the Democracy Institute/Sunday Express poll released on Tuesday. As Breitbart News reported, the poll’s head to head matchup showed Trump and presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden in a popular vote tie, 47 to 47%, with Trump lead projected in the Electoral College vote 309 to 229. The poll of 1,500 likely […]
A Democracy Institute/Sunday Express poll released on Tuesday shows President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are tied in the 2020 presidential race. The poll of 1,500 likely voters conducted between July 1 and July 3 showed that Trump and Biden each receive 47 percent of the national popular vote, with only six percent undecided. The results differ dramatically from those of the presidential matchup […]
A poll released by the Trafalgar Group on Monday shows presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden leads President Trump by five points in Pennsylvania, 48 percent to 43 percent. The results are consistent with the three most recent polls in the Keystone State included in the RealClearPolitics average of polls, which, when the Trafalgar Group poll is added, show Biden leading Trump by an average of 6.5 […]
A poll released on Monday by left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden leading President Trump by 11 points, 53 percent to 42 percent, in Maine. Notably, that same poll shows the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, Sara Gideon with just a four-point lead over incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), 46 percent to 42 percent. Taking Collins’s Maine Senate seat […]
COVID-19 cases in the states of Texas, Florida, and Arizona increased over the two weeks and three days between June 9 and June 26. The percentage of those who tested positive for COVID-19 is also up over the past two weeks and three days in all three states. COVID-19 deaths have declined for three consecutive weeks in Florida. Reported COVID-19 deaths declined in the most recent […]
COVID-19 related current hospitalizations in Texas increased to 2,518 on Tuesday, a record high for that state. But COVID-19 deaths per capita in Texas remain among the lowest in the nation. According to Worldometers, 3,338 people have died of COVID-19 in the state as of Wednesday, or 72 per million, which places the Lone Star State in 42nd place among the 50 states, well below the […]
The percentage of Minnesota residents who have been tested for the novel coronavirus and have tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic has declined dramatically over the past two weeks, from 10.4 percent on Sunday May 24 to 8.1 percent on Sunday, June 7. This decline has come despite 13 days of riots and protests involving thousands of people who ignored public health social distancing […]
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, justified his slow reopening of the state on Monday after President Trump threatened to move the location of the Republican National Convention, currently scheduled to be held in Charlotte from August 24 to August 27, if the governor fails to move more quickly. “North Carolina is relying on data and science to protect our state’s public health,” Cooper said […]
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reported a COVID-19 death toll of 192 on Wednesday, a peak for any 24-hour period in the state since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, the number of reported COVID-19 deaths in the state declined to 138, bringing the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the state to 3,928. The spike in COVID-19 deaths this week came […]
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, insists on keeping the state shut down until May 26 despite a declining rate of positive COVID-19 tests, hospitalizations, and coronavirus deaths per capita in the state. Evers first shut the state down with a “safer-at-home” executive order for 30 days in late March. Then on April 16, he announced he would be extending the original shutdown for 30 days […]