Lawsuits over voting create shadow war for 2024 election Los Angeles Times

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• U.S. announces new Patriot missiles for Ukraine as part of $6-billion aid package
• This blog is closing up for the night — but don't go too far
• McCarthy on Dems' waiting till the last minute on procedural vote: 'Well played'
• Kentuckians appear to rebuke restrictive abortion amendment
• Schumer urges speed in passing the debt bill, saying there's 'no margin for error'
• What’s in the debt ceiling bill?

More Republicans — 93 — voted against this CR than opposed the last clean funding bill in September. Life improved almost immediately after they enrolled in the federal subsidy program in 2022 and got internet access through AT&T. Aleman’s older daughters, 17 and 21, could do their schoolwork at home instead of at the library or relatives’ homes. County officials partnered with the nonprofit EveryoneOn to get the word out. Chief Executive Norma Fernandez worries families will be confused when they see their internet bill go up and won’t understand why the program ended.

U.S. announces new Patriot missiles for Ukraine as part of $6-billion aid package

NevadaDemocratic incumbent Steve Sisolak is virtually tied with Republican challenger Joe Lombardo, sheriff of Clark County, in a race where the high rate of inflation has taken center stage. Democrats have been saying that democracy itself is threatened by Republicans who refuse to accept the results of the 2020 election. Preserving democracy was the top issue for 42% of Democrats polled in October. Among Republicans, 54% said inflation was their top issue, while only 17% of Democrats said the same.

This blog is closing up for the night — but don't go too far

KansasDemocratic incumbent Laura Kelly is in a tight bid against Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican, in a race that's centered on inflation, education and abortion. At the same time, older voters, Trump voters, white evangelical Christians and rural voters — all key GOP groups — are fired up to vote. Those without college degrees are less enthusiastic about the election, but that's driven by voters of color without degrees.

McCarthy on Dems' waiting till the last minute on procedural vote: 'Well played'

President Joe Biden worried that there wasn’t enough time for the inevitable court challenge to play out if he went down that road. But he took the idea seriously — so seriously that the White House counsel’s office consulted at least two outside legal experts about the 14th Amendment just days before the deal was announced, people familiar with the matter said. At his news conference after the House passed the debt bill tonight, McCarthy said that while "I speak to President Trump, we didn’t talk much about the bill."

Kentuckians appear to rebuke restrictive abortion amendment

In the past year, she has risen in prominence as a member of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria has lost her bid for re-election in Virginia’s 2nd congressional district to Republican State Sen. Jen Kiggans. At this point, polls are scheduled to still be open in only one state — the latest polls in Alaska close at 1 a.m. Murray was still a favorite in the state, which Biden won by 20 points, but faced a serious challenge in Republican Tiffany Smiley, a veterans advocate. In his concession speech, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, said he had "the privilege to concede this race" to his Republican opponent for the Senate, J.D. Vance. “[Election officials] are prioritizing accuracy over speed, as they should,” Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman said.

NPR senior political correspondent Domenico Montanaro outlines the top 21 bellwether districts to watch here. Control of the House of Representatives, which currently rests with the Democrats, is looking quite likely to shift to Republicans. WisconsinIncumbent Tony Evers is neck and neck with Trump-backed, self-funded Republican Tim Michels. ArizonaDemocratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who played a central role in pushing back on false election-fraud assertions in her state, is running against Trump-backed former television news anchor Kari Lake. Legal challenges and recounts can also lengthen the time before a winner is determined. The battleground state of Arizona, for instance, has recently switched to automatic recounts for any contest that's separated by 0.5% or less."

House passes Ukraine, Israel aid bills after long struggle - The Associated Press

House passes Ukraine, Israel aid bills after long struggle.

Posted: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:00:00 GMT [source]

House Democratic leaders come out in support of CR

In the meantime, coverage continues on the NPR One app or your local NPR member station. You can catch up on today's highlights via our Politics newsletter and The NPR Politics Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy, had an odd run-in with the former speaker in the halls this morning. Social Security is considered a mandatory program, and it isn’t funded by the shorter-term appropriations bills passed by Congress and signed by the president. That means its operations and funding don’t stop when the government shuts down. This change was made because it was clear that there would not be enough Republican votes to pass the rule, but Democrats seem willing to vote to pass the bill itself.

Schumer urges speed in passing the debt bill, saying there's 'no margin for error'

Never mind that Senate Republicans let the former president off the hook each time. But MAGA Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio said Democrats “will come to regret” dismissing the Mayorkas impeachment articles, when a Republican-run Senate someday does the same to impeachment articles from a Democratic-majority House. Democrats take governing too earnestly to impeach a Republican on such overtly political grounds as those against Mayorkas. House Republicans have all but folded the Big Top on the Biden impeachment circus. Many months after opening an inquiry oddly based on nothing more than to-be-determined charges, Republicans have no hard evidence of an impeachable offense by the president.

What’s in the debt ceiling bill?

There are 35 seats up for election, with four being in toss-up territory, where either party could win. Democrats currently have a slight upper hand in the Senate thanks to 48 Democratic senators, two independent senators who consistently vote with them and the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. Republicans need to net just one seat to comfortably control the Senate. Current control of the House rests with the Democrats, 220 to 212, with three vacancies. Republicans need to pick up five seats to win control of the House, and there are 64 House districts that are considered competitive, according to the Cook Political Report. You can consider it a rough guide to when we might start seeing results.

Right up until the end, the White House was exploring contingency plans in case the high-stakes talks with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling and avert economic disaster collapsed. The House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon narrowly voted to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his position. In criticizing the bill to establish a Jan. 6 commission, North Carolina Republican Rep. Dan Bishop claimed "what was an image of a bipartisan commission has now become one more partisan attack." Thirty-five Republicans voted against the direction of their leadership, which had strongly urged them to vote no on the measure.

He ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, and enjoyed a significant fundraising edge throughout the race, spending more than $59 million as of Oct. 24. "Because the way this country operates is that when you lose an election, you concede and you respect ... the will of the people," he said to applause. "We can't have a system where if you win, it's a legitimate election and if you lose, someone stole it." Abrams entered the race with a global brand, buoyed in part by her role in activating new voters and helping turn Georgia for Democrats statewide in 2020 for the first time in years. The highest profile of those issues may have been in Maricopa County, Ariz., where a printer issue meant roughly 20% of ballot counters were unusable early in the day. Zeldin, with former President Donald Trump’s backing, focused his campaign on crime and inflation.