Tag Archives: Election 2024

Indiana Supreme Court issues ruling in John Rust Senate bid

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed a man to run for one of the state’s U.S. Senate seats as a Republican, even though the state GOP doesn’t back his candidacy. A Marion Superior Court ruling in Indianapolis in favor of egg farmer John Rust had temporarily blocked a …

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Democrats and Republicans hold Black History Month celebrations with an eye on November’s election

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black History Month, often a time to recognize the contributions of African Americans in U.S. history, was marked in the nation’s capital this week with a focus on present divides and the November election when Black turnout will be integral to the outcome. At the White House, the Biden administration on Tuesday hosted more than two dozen …

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How Biden and his allies are pushing back against a special counsel’s claims about his memory

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s Democratic allies are launching an aggressive defense against a special counsel’s explosive claims that the 81-year-old president couldn’t remember major milestones in his life, trying to diminish the significance of the prosecutor’s allegations that Biden was too forgetful to be charged for mishandling classified material. Biden set the angry tone hours after special counsel …

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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the race to replace George Santos

WASHINGTON (AP) — The epilogue to Republican George Santos’ short and tumultuous congressional career will be written Tuesday as voters in New York’s third congressional district decide who will complete the remaining 11 months of his unfinished term. In December, Santos became only the sixth U.S. Representative to be expelled from the chamber by his colleagues after a blistering report …

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Why AP called the Nevada GOP primary for ‘None of these candidates’

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top vote-getter in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary in Nevada wasn’t former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, the only major candidate on the ballot still in the race. Instead, Nevada voters mounted a ballot-box protest and gave the most votes to “None of these candidates,” a ballot option required by state law. The Associated Press declared “None of …

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Court cases lead to new voting districts in some states. Could it affect control of Congress?

Since most Americans last voted for Congress, thousands of people have been added to certain voting districts — and subtracted from others — under new political maps enacted following court rulings. The sum of that redistricting math, assuming no major political shift in either major party’s direction, figures to provide at least a one-seat gain for Republicans in November’s U.S. …

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Prominent Democrats duel ex-baseball star Garvey for Feinstein’s US Senate seat in California

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A crowded primary contest to fill the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing again that money matters in notoriously expensive California while testing whether the state’s long-squabbling Republicans can unite behind a single candidate for an outside chance at the seat. Voting is about to start, with a …

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Biden meets with friendly autoworkers in Michigan, but avoids angry Gaza protesters

WARREN, Michigan (AP) — President Joe Biden chatted with a friendly union crowd inside a United Auto Workers hall in Michigan on Thursday as pro-Palestinian demonstrators held back by police with riot shields voiced their anger nearby at the president’s full-throated support for Israel in its war with Hamas. The tension highlighted the challenges ahead for Biden in holding on …

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