2022elections
Ahead of the midterm elections, Russia renewed its strategy of using internet trolls to influence American politics, undermine trust in the electoral system and spread the idea that the U.S. should not fund Ukraine in its conflict with Moscow. In the past few months, trolls have been targeting conservatives on social media platforms like Gab, Gettr and Parler to spread these ideas, according to Recorded Future and two other social media research companies, Graphika and Mandiant. Recorded Future was able to track one of those accounts, identified as Nora Berka. The account resurfaced in August ...
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A federal judge in Arizona granted an emergency order prohibiting a conservative election watchdog group from intimidating voters while casting their ballots in drop boxes. The order, issued on Monday by U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi, is a response to local media reports that revealed that armed vigilantes affiliated with Clean Elections USA were monitoring ballot boxes. On Friday, the judge, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, had ruled that the ban would be unconstitutional but has now revised his decision. The judge determined that ballot watchers should stay at least ...
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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) announced her support for Democrats Rep. Tim Ryan(Ohio) and Elissa Slotkin(Michigan) on Tuesday. Both are both running against Trump-endorsed Republicans who are election deniers. Cheney, a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump who co-chairs the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack, said that a vote for Trump is a “threat to democracy.” Though Cheney voted in line with most of Trump’s policies during his administration, she has been outcast by her party for voicing her negative view of Trump. She was handily beaten by challenger ...
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and his Democratic challenger Rep. Val Demings met for their first and only debate ahead of the midterm elections. With Rubio ahead of the polls, Demings went on the attack, accusing him of being a liar multiple times. Abortion, gun control and inflation were some of the topics of the debate. A tense exchange happened when the moderator asked if Rubio would support a federal abortion ban with no exceptions, as he has already suggested in the past. The senator dodged the question and accused Demings of defending abortion “on demand, for any reason, at any time, incl...
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The campaign team for GOP Senate candidate in Pennsylvania Mehmet Oz apparently misled reporters by not disclosing that a woman who participated in an event and shared her emotional testimony about losing family members to gun violence was a paid staffer for Oz’s team. In September, Sheila Armstrong, a black woman, appeared at a town hall in a church in Philadelphia and described the fatal shootings of her brother and nephew. The moment was captured by local reporters and national media outlets. Weeks after the event, Brendan McPhillips, who manages the campaign of Dr. Oz’s Democratic opponent...
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Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, drew laughs during a highly anticipated debate when he pulled an honorary sheriff’s badge to defend himself from an attack from Sen. Raphael Warnock, his Democrat opponent. On Sunday, Walker said in an interview the badge was “legit.” The moment — which quickly turned into a viral video — happened when Warnock said he never “pretended to be a police officer,” a reference to how Walker has exaggerated his work with law enforcement. The Republican nominee, then, pulled an honorary sheriff badge, claiming he had worked with “many police o...
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GOP leaders have been silent after former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to criticize Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for not attempting to block the spending package to prevent a government shutdown. The former president, in his post, described McConnell as an avid supporter of “Democratic sponsored bills. He has a DEATH WISH. Must immediately seek help and advise from his China loving wife, Coco Chow!” This is not the first time Trump has attacked McConnell. After Senate Republican leader voted for President Joe Biden‘s bipartisan infrastructure package Trump wrote, “Is M...
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Former President Donald Trump spoke to supporters on Saturday over background music that appears to be a song linked to the conspiracy theory movement QAnon. During a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, in support of Senate candidate J.D. Vance, Trump delivered an eight-minute long speech about what he calls a “nation in decline” while a dramatic soundtrack played. The song is believed to be one called “Wwg1wga,” by Richard Feelgood. The acronym is an abbreviation for “Where we go one, we go all,” a QAnon slogan. Trump’s spokesperson denied the relation to QANon in a statement sent to The New York Time...
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Former President Donald Trump‘s endorsed nominee Charles Herbster, who was accused of sexual misconduct, lost Nebraska’s Republican gubernatorial nomination on Tuesday. Jim Pillen, who was endorsed by current Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) who is term-limited, won the GOP nomination over Herbster and state Sen. Brett Lindstrom. Pillen drew in 33.9% of the votes while Herbster gained 30.2% of the votes. Lindstrom trailed with just 25.8% of the votes. Herbster was accused of forcibly kissing and groping eight women, including state Sen. Julie Slama(R) at the Douglas County Republican Party’s 2019 Elepha...
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Donald Trump seemed to take a jab at Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) after he gave an interview and dodged questions about whether or not he had been administered the Covid-19 booster shot. When asked directly, DeSantis reiterated that he had had the original shot and that he did not believe in vaccination mandates, and felt that booster shots should be a personal decision. His team later said that DeSantis’ booster status is private medical information. “I watched a couple of politicians be interviewed and one of the questions was, ‘Did you get a booster?’ Because they had the vaccine and they’...
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