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Andy Harris

 
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Maryland's 1st District
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News
10/10/2024 --nbcnews
Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign dispatched a handful of seasoned political operatives to troubleshoot in battleground states in recent weeks.
10/10/2024 --eastbaytimes
After RFK was assassinated in 1968, she raised their 11 children and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter.
10/10/2024 --gazettetimes
Ethel Kennedy, who lost her husband Sen. Robert Kennedy to assassination, has died. She was 96.
10/10/2024 --theadvocate
With 100 years of mostly glory-filled LSU football history to choose from, picking the 100 greatest games for a chapter in my upcoming book “100 Years in Death Valley” wasn’t exactly easy work.
10/09/2024 --dailycaller
Conservatives Reveal Plan To Awaken Critical Voter Demographic That Could Decide White House, Senate
10/02/2024 --startribune
Four of Minnesota Star Tribune’s contributing columnists share their thoughts on Tuesday’s vice presidential debate.
10/01/2024 --huffpost
“Tim doesn’t need to respond to people calling names,” said Kentucky's Democratic governor. “He’s been a lunchroom monitor, he’s dealt with people who do that."
10/01/2024 --forbes
Walz, who was once endorsed by the NRA, said last year he now gets “straight F’s” from the organization—“and I sleep just fine.”
09/28/2024 --westernjournal
Well, here’s a shocker, pun unintended: Cars can’t run on mandates. Earlier this year, President Joe Biden’s administration rolled out a plan for CO2 emissions reduction that basically amounted to [...]The post Kamala Attempts to Run Away from Biden-Harris Administration's Electric Vehicle Mandate appeared first on The Western Journal.
09/24/2024 --buffalonews
President Joe Biden declared in his final address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the U.S. must not retreat from the world.
09/24/2024 --foxnews
Vice President Kamala Harris may soon visit the southern border in Arizona, but critics say that any such visit would be nothing more than a "photo op."
09/20/2024 --foxnews
Republicans wrote to law enforcement and intelligence heads Friday requesting weekly updates on foreign election interference after bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio, were hoaxes.
09/20/2024 --mtstandard
Kathleen Kennedy said when she was 6, her dad learned a dead whale washed ashore. He used a chainsaw to cut off and retrieve its head.
09/19/2024 --mercurynews
There have been morning bomb sweeps of schools and near daily media briefings.
09/19/2024 --itemlive
Guest CommentarySam Daley-Harris Why does cynicism feel like a reasonable, inevitable, even smart posture these days? I think most of us have been there ... ready to write off politics as corrupt or hopeless, ready to identify those on the other side of an issue as heartless or evil, feeling like the savvy thing is to [...]The post Daley-Harris: Impactful advocacy requires moving past cynicism appeared first on Itemlive.
09/11/2024 --foxnews
Amanda Kiefer in 2008 suffered catastrophic injuries during a mugging perpetrated by an illegal immigrant who had been part of a program then-District Attorney Kamala Harris had implemented.
09/11/2024 --startribune
Four of the Minnesota Star Tribune’s contributing columnists weigh in on Tuesday’s debate.
09/08/2024 --rawstory
This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletters here.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Travis County to block an effort to register more voters before the November election.Paxton's lawsuit follows a decision by the Travis County commissioners to hire Civic Government Solutions to contact non-registered county residents and encourage them to register. Travis County includes Austin."We just thought it was nice thing to do," said Ann Howard, a Travis County Commissioner at The Texas Tribune Festival shortly after news of the lawsuit was made public.Paxton, in a statement, called the decision illegal.“Travis County has blatantly violated Texas law by paying partisan actors to conduct unlawful identification efforts to track down people who are not registered to vote,” Paxton said. “Programs like this invite fraud and reduce public trust in our elections. We will stop them and any other county considering such programs.”A spokesperson for the county said the commissioners stood by their decision.“Travis County is committed to encouraging voter participation and we are proud of our outreach efforts that achieve higher voter registration numbers," said spokesperson Hector Nieto. "We remain steadfast in our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the voter registration process while ensuring that every eligible person has the opportunity to exercise their right to vote. It is disappointing that any statewide elected official would prefer to sow distrust and discourage participation in the electoral process.”Paxton took a similar step earlier this week when he sued Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, the state's second most populous city. And last month, Harris County, the state's most populous, stopped short of taking similar steps.Jeremy Smith, the CEO of Civic Government Solutions, denied being a partisan organization, a charge made by Paxton."The company is not partisan at all, the company's bylaws and mission and fiduciary responsibilities are all expressly nonpartisan," Smith told The Texas Tribune Friday. "All of our contracts, 100% of them, are nonpartisan. It is written in. We are under restrictions and obligations to prove that and maintain that and provide that data for accountability back to all of our clients.""As a general matter, these are purely nonpartisan efforts."Harris, Bexar and Travis counties are all Democratic strongholds in a reliably Republican state. The lawsuits are part of a series of steps both Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott — both Republicans — have taken in recent weeks to "safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote." Late last month, Abbott announced the state had removed roughly a million people from its voter rolls since he signed a legislative overhaul of election laws in 2021. However, election experts cautioned that both federal and state law already required regular voter roll maintenance, and that Abbott's comments could be used to undermine trust in elections.Speaking at The Texas Tribune Festival, chief executives of three of the state’s biggest counties defended their actions to register voters after Attorney General Ken Paxton brought suits against Bexar and Travis counties this week.“Paxton does this every time,” said Travis County Judge Andy Brown about the attorney general’s suit against the county’s efforts to register voters ahead of the election. Brown added that county officials should do all they can to register voters — especially in a state where people can not register to vote online.Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai said he decided to implement the voter registration program because voter turnout has been low in the area he serves, which includes the city of San Antonio.“I want to make it clear that this effort is not touching the voting ballot. We're not touching the election process. All we want to do is register voters,” he said. Sakai said he is ready to defend the county’s position to go forward with the voter registration program adding “we are on legal ground.”Paxton had threatened to also sue Harris County, but Judge Lina Hidalgo said that the county might not go forward with the program anymore because time is running out to register voters.“We'd have to see, would it even be possible for folks to get registered before the deadline?” she said.U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Austin, discussed the letter during a panel discussion at The Texas Tribune Festival with MSNBC’s Katie Phang. He said the DOJ should be more aggressive in investigating voter suppression during this election season instead of waiting until after Election Day.“[Paxton] basically saying I don't want new folks, people who are U.S. citizens, to get a chance to vote,” Casar said. “It's just ridiculous.”The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 7.Natalia Contreras, Berenice Garcia and Juan Salinas II contributed. As The Texas Tribune's signature event of the year, The Texas Tribune Festival brings Texans closer to politics, policy and the day’s news from Texas and beyond. Browse on-demand recordings and catch up on the biggest headlines from Festival events at the Tribune’s Festival news page.This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/06/texas-ken-paxton-travis-county-voter-registration/.The Texas Tribune is a member-supported, nonpartisan newsroom informing and engaging Texans on state politics and policy. Learn more at texastribune.org.
09/08/2024 --rawstory
This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.Conservative groups want a federal judge to force Arizona counties to further investigate the status of voters who have not provided documented proof of citizenship.A lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of Arizona claims that counties haven’t been checking the citizenship status of these voters using specific methods required under federal and state law, including two new state laws enacted in 2022.It’s the latest in a slew of Republican-backed challenges to voters’ citizenship status across the country just before the November election, based on the premise that voting by noncitizens is a pressing problem in the U.S. — even though the practice is illegal and, according to experts, rare.Former President Donald Trump and some of his allies have claimed without evidence that he lost the popular vote in 2016 because of voting by noncitizens. But any noncitizen who attempts to vote would be risking a felony charge, loss of their residency status, and deportation.The lawsuit, brought by the Trump-aligned America First Legal Foundation on behalf of a local nonprofit, the Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona, asks the court to force counties to complete the more detailed citizenship investigations, but is silent on timing. Federal law prohibits counties from systematically removing ineligible voters from the voter rolls within 90 days of a primary or general federal election.In July, America First Legal sent a letter to all 15 county recorders asking how they had been complying with the new laws. Multiple counties have since said that they are following all voter list maintenance laws. Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly, for example, responded on July 26 and said the county uses multiple tools to confirm voter citizenship, and that counties across the state are working with the Secretary of State’s Office to comply with the new laws. She stressed that the county understands the importance of proper list maintenance.“In rare cases where someone who is not eligible actually attempts to register to vote, there are safeguards and laws to ensure that only eligible persons can vote,” Cázares-Kelly wrote.Federal law doesn’t require voters to provide proof of their citizenship status, though they must attest — under penalty of perjury — that they are eligible citizens by marking a checkbox when registering to vote. But Arizona has unique laws that require documented proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in state and local elections.About 40,000 registered voters in the state haven’t provided such documentation, and therefore receive a ballot that allows them to vote only for president and Congress. A December 2023 Votebeat analysis found that these “federal only” voters are more likely to be young and living on or near college campuses. Other analysis has found that they are more likely to be naturalized citizens.County recorders, who manage voter registration in the state, already conduct detailed checks of voter citizenship when someone registers to vote. If they do not find proof of citizenship after checking state and federal databases, the registrant becomes a federal-only voter.The two new laws, enacted by Republicans in 2022, were aimed at further restricting voting for federal-only voters and targeting them for more extensive citizenship investigations. But voting rights groups challenged those laws in court, and those challenges are still ongoing.U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton earlier this year struck down the most significant sections of the new laws, including portions that would prohibit federal-only voters from voting for president or by mail. Republicans have appealed that portion of her ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the appeal is pending. The U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected most of a Republican request for an emergency stay in the case.But Bolton affirmed the portions of the new laws that required recorders to perform more extensive and regular citizenship checks, and that required the recorders to send to the attorney general a list of their federal-only voters for citizenship investigations. Her final ruling, on May 2, came within 90 days of the July 30 primary.America First Legal had initially sued Maricopa County before expanding the lawsuit to all 15 counties. In response to the initial lawsuit, Maricopa County said that it is fully complying with all laws and that it believes America First Legal is misunderstanding the new statutes. For example, the county wrote, the county has no ongoing obligation to send a list of federal-only voters to the attorney general.America First Legal asserted that the lack of proper list maintenance had led to voter distrust. In response, Maricopa County said that any erosion in public trust “is largely a result of sham lawsuits that make unfounded allegations, untethered from reality, and spread those allegations over the Internet in fund raising appeals.”Yavapai County Recorder Michelle Burchill said in an email to Votebeat on Wednesday that she uses “all databases available to check citizenship status.” She also said she has been actively trying to get access to one database that America First Legal points out should be available, through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, but “it has been a slow process and I keep getting told to contact other departments and emails.”“If there is any additional databases available, I will absolutely use them,” she wrote. “I want to ensure all voters who are US Citizens have the opportunity to vote a full ballot. I also want to ensure that there is no NON-Citizens on my voter rolls and prevent someone from voting and getting themselves into more trouble.”Jen Fifield is a reporter for Votebeat based in Arizona. Contact Jen at [email protected] is a nonprofit news organization covering local election integrity and voting access. Sign up for their newsletters here.
09/07/2024 --columbian
WASHINGTON — Just over a decade ago, the United Auto Workers union was instrumental in delivering a resounding Michigan victory for former President Barack Obama in his successful 2012 reelection bid.
09/04/2024 --ocregister
Does anyone believe that oil companies are intentionally gouging California consumers but not drivers in other states?
09/04/2024 --unionleader
WASHINGTON - The United States plans to accuse Russia on Wednesday of a campaign to influence the 2024 presidential election using online platforms to target American voters with disinformation, according to CNN.
09/04/2024 --rawstory
He lauds strongmen autocrats, hangs with martial arts stars, and has no greater compliment than calling someone a "fighter." Donald Trump is going all out for the macho vote in November's election -- and it's working.The real estate tycoon and former president has long crafted an often cartoonish, hyper-masculine image -- most controversially including bragging about sexual assault.Now, in an election where Kamala Harris is vying to become America's first woman president, Trump's macho powers are being put to the ultimate test.Harris is seeing a surge in female support and has made the question of abortion rights a top campaign issue. Trump, meanwhile, is unapologetically drilling down into the part of the electorate that loves cryptocurrency, the ultra-violent Ultimate Fighting Championship, and thinks society has become too feminine and "woke.""He speaks to our generation," said Nick Passano, standing with four tattooed fellow Millennial cryptocurrency investors who dub themselves the Maga Boyz, at Trump's Make America Great Again, or MAGA, rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, last Friday."We have to set the tone in regards to what we want our children to emulate, which is strong masculine men. And he very much represents that," said Passano, 37, one of several men who spoke to AFP about the "manosphere" aligning with Trump.They wore shirts with crass imagery -- Trump giving the middle finger -- and said he should not put up with "any more BS."It might seem a stretch for a billionaire, golf-playing 78-year-old to pose as a bad boy, but Trump knows more than perhaps any other US politician about marketing.His response to being convicted on 34 felony charges in New York in May was to attend a UFC bout a few days later, winning thunderous applause from the crowd of 16,000.And at July's Republican convention, just days after Trump survived an assassination attempt, pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt off and hailed Trump as a "gladiator."Voters, it seems, are watching: a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds Trump up against Harris by five points among men -- and Harris leading among women by 13.- Alpha male -When President Joe Biden was still seeking reelection, Trump's strategy was unambiguous. Although only slightly younger than the president, Trump hammered his opponent as weak and senile -- and reveled in the battering he delivered during their June debate.The entry of 59-year-old Harris means Trump is facing someone far younger. Trump also has to contend with the risk that his brash -- critics would say bullying -- style will backfire against a female and Black opponent.But University of Pittsburgh communications professor Paul Johnson said Trump won't -- and likely can't -- switch tone.Trump is pushing the "Trumpian worldview," Johnson told AFP -- a world that is "nasty" and where "'real Americans' need to be ready to fight for it, to say uncomfortable and racist truths about the world, and if necessary to use violence."This is reflected in Trump's frequent reposting of crude, sexualized attacks on Harris and his attempt to play the race card by questioning whether she is really Black.For young voters at the Johnstown rally, however, that's just Trump being unafraid."Him being himself I feel is the reason I like him so much," said Wyatt Waszo, a 21-year-old restaurant worker.- Fighting 'male malaise' -The macho movement goes far deeper than just Trump.Trump's claims about Democrats jettisoning masculinity and killing off male-dominated blue-collar professions like manufacturing and mining strike a chord in electorally strategic rust belt communities.And it's a message echoed on countless right-wing radio shows and influential podcasts about the so-called "male malaise."It's a backlash against globalism and the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, said Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University."Trump's game is playing into fears of losing what you have."Polling by nonpartisan researchers PerryUndem last year shows 82 percent of Republican men say society today punishes men "just for acting like men."Harris has so far notably avoided anchoring her campaign around the historic goal of a first female presidency. And Democrats hope her earthy running mate Tim Walz will help balance the ticket in the gender wars.The 60-year-old Minnesota governor may be a liberal, but it's the other half of his CV that the party thinks helps him most: military veteran, former school football coach, hunter and ice-fisherman.
09/03/2024 --ocregister
There are just over 70 days until Election Day on Nov. 5, but major dates, events and political developments will make it fly by.
08/30/2024 --journalstar
The fate of a Nebraska law allocating $10 million in tax dollars for private school scholarships will be left up to voters in November, the state's top election official said.
08/30/2024 --journalstar
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced Thursday he's prohibiting procurement of cell-cultured food products by state agencies and proposing new labeling rules to ensure shoppers don't get duped.
08/27/2024 --foxnews
Former President Donald Trump's running mate Sen. JD Vance is spending most of his time on the campaign trail in the battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
08/27/2024 --npr
People in politics have shared their experiences with infertility, including Michelle Obama and Mike Pence. But men haven't been as open about it on the campaign trail like Walz has.
08/27/2024 --rawstory
Vice President Kamala Harris is hoping former President Donald Trump will pull a stunt most women dread at their upcoming presidential debate, a new analysis contends.Harris' demand for unmuted mics during the ABC News debate on Sept. 10 represents a strategic attempt to prompt the response she elicited then slapped down from former Vice President Mike Pence in their 2020 debate, CNN reported Tuesday.“Mr. Vice President," Harris told Pence in a viral campaign moment, "I’m speaking.”According to CNN, Harris is hoping she'll face "mansplaining" again. Pence's interruption "left the impression that Pence was mansplaining to Harris," CNN analyst Stephen Collins argued.He added, "Harris’ most stinging line in an otherwise unmemorable debate" is one she wants to whip out against her new foe."It’s obvious that the Harris campaign hopes to give Trump the chance to sabotage himself with an insulting interruption or his overbearing personality," wrote the senior political reporter."Visuals of Trump talking over and openly disrespecting the woman who has a chance to be the first Black woman president would speak for themselves."ALSO READ: Donald Trump exploits AP photo error for new $99 'Save America' bookThe opportunity to shut down a mansplain is not the only benefit Harris could receive by providing Trump more rhetorical leeway, according to Collins' sources. Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams told CNN they believe Trump will effectively do their work for them by presenting himself unfavorably to undecided voters.“The vice president wants the American people to see an unfettered Donald Trump because that’s what we are going to get if he becomes president again,” Sams reportedly said. “I think it is important that in this election and in this moment that the American people get to see the choice between the two candidates on stage.”Harris, a former prosecutor, also believes she can accomplish what critics said debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash failed to do in the contest between Trump and President Joe Biden earlier this summer, CNN political commentator Maria Cardona told Collins. “By having the mics unmuted, it is going to give her the ability to control both what she says," Cardona said, "as well as fact-checking him on the spot."
08/27/2024 --buffalonews
While New York's 213 elected Senate and Assembly members are known as "lawmakers," most of their proposals remain trapped in legislative committees never to see the light of day.
08/27/2024 --buffalonews
Here is the breakdown on the number of bills introduced by Western New York state lawmakers between Jan. 1, 2023, and Aug. 20, 2024.
08/26/2024 --journalstar
Flood gave attendees of a Lincoln town hall his views on everything from immigration to inflation, election security to digital currencies, and defended his support for former President Donald Trump.
08/26/2024 --qctimes
Mike Pompeo, secretary of state under the Trump administration, is endorsing the Republican incumbent in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District race.
08/26/2024 --foxnews
The latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content
08/26/2024 --foxnews
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he regrets that people took his recently resurfaced "childless cat lady" comment out of context.
08/23/2024 --startribune
Recycling solutions are in reach.
08/23/2024 --dailycamera
There are just over 70 days until Election Day on Nov. 5, but major dates, events and political developments will make it fly by.
08/23/2024 --nypost
Progressive Jewish writer Joshua Leifer saw his book event canceled because one participant was a Zionist, notes Commentary’s Seth Mandel.
08/23/2024 --hollywoodreporter
As she accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday night, Kamala Harris played up her attorney-general past. “As a prosecutor, when I had a case, I charged it not in the name of the victim, but in the name of the people,” she told the United Center crowd. This follows a strategy she has pursued since ramping up [...]
08/19/2024 --nbcnews
President Joe Biden will pass the torch to Kamala Harris during his Democratic National Convention speech in Chicago, urging voters to reject Donald Trump.
08/19/2024 --whig
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have done a walk-through of the Democratic National Convention stage where they’ll speak on the event's first night. Reporters asked the president Monday if he was ready to pass the torch to...
08/19/2024 --abc7
The full Monday DNC speaker schedule has been released.
08/19/2024 --laist
The California delegation, the largest at the Democratic National Convention, will also play a key role representing the home state of Kamala Harris. What to look for this week.
08/19/2024 --sun_sentinel
The Democratic National Convention begins Monday in Chicago, with roughly 50,000 people expected to arrive in the Windy City. That includes thousands of anti-war activists demonstrating near the United Center. President Joe Biden is the headline speaker for the first evening.
08/19/2024 --sgvtribune
By The Associated Press The Democratic National Convention begins Monday in Chicago, with roughly 50,000 people expected to arrive in the Windy City. That includes thousands of anti-war activists demonstrating near the United Center. President Joe Biden is the headline speaker for the first evening. Later this week, Vice President Kamala Harris will officially accept [...]
08/19/2024 --sgvtribune
By The Associated Press The Democratic National Convention begins Monday in Chicago, with roughly 50,000 people expected to arrive in the Windy City. That includes thousands of anti-war activists demonstrating near the United Center. President Joe Biden is the headline speaker for the first evening. Later this week, Vice President Kamala Harris will officially accept [...]
08/15/2024 --journalstar
The Nebraska Supreme Court has set arguments later this month in a case over the constitutionality of a law intended to restore voting rights to felons in the state.
08/15/2024 --journalstar
But Lincoln is happy about the proposed removal of a lid on some funds that are now restricted.
 
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