With Sen. Mary Landrieu under fire over residency questions, any legal challenge to her candidacy would need to be filed today, according to the Lousiana Secretary of State’s office. The window for such challenges “ends at 4:30 pm today,” Meg
On Wednesday, Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) doubled-down on a brazen attack on his Republican opponent, Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR), slamming Cotton for voting against “preparing America for pandemics like Ebola,” despite Cotton having voted for the final version of the
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A Rasmussen Reports Poll released on Wednesday shows that the Arkansas U.S. Senate race is currently a dead heat. Incumbent Mark Pryor (D-AR) leads Republican challenger, U.S. Representative Tom Cotton (R-AR 4), by a single point, 44% to 43%. The
Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) greeted President Obama warmly at the airport on his arrival in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday to address the national convention of the American Legion. Smiling broadly on the tarmac and even embracing the president in
Though Barack Obama and Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) will both speak at the American Legion convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday, Senator Hagan’s office would not confirm late Monday whether the two would appear on stage together. The convention’s
Sean Haugh, the 53-year-old pizza deliveryman and Libertarian Party candidate who is polling at 8% of voters in the North Carolina Senate race, has just passed a $5,000 in donations threshold requiring him to file his candidacy with the Federal
A new poll by Insider Advantage/Opinion Savvy Survey shows that Republican David Perdue leads Democrat Michelle Nunn by 7 points, 47% to 40%, but Libertarian Party candidate Amanda Swafford’s 8% could force a runoff between Perdue and Nunn after the November general election.
Sean Haugh, a 53-year-old Libertarian Party nominee in North Carolina, is imperiling Republican Thom Tillis’s chance to defeat incumbent Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) in North Carolina’s Senate race, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling. Hagan leads Tillis
Caught using congressional office funds to pay for expensive charter flights to political fundraisers, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) says her office has been reimbursed for the cost of one flight, which she has paid for with campaign funds. Landrieu also
On Friday, a defensive Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) announced that she has ordered a review of all chartered flights she has taken during her eighteen years in office, according to The Times-Picayune. Landrieu’s re-election campaign is reeling from revelations that at
The owner of a Louisiana-based charter flight company at the center of a growing controversy involving Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is declining to corroborate the account of Landrieu’s spokesman regarding the financial details of a charter flight purchase. Reached by
CNN reported on Wednesday that Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) plans to reimburse taxpayers $5,700 for a charter flight she took eleven months ago in September 2013 from Shreveport, Louisiana to Dallas, Texas to attend a campaign fundraiser. It is against the
John Bolton’s PAC announced on Thursday that it has endorsed four Florida Republicans in elections for the U.S. House of Representatives. Three of the endorsed candidates are incumbents; one is a challenger. The three incumbents are Rep. Ron DeSantis (FL-6), Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (FL-25), and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27).
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) used taxpayer funds to pay for a November 8, 2013 charter airplane flight to attend a campaign fundraiser in Lake Charles, Louisiana, according to a report from CNN. Needless to say, the use of public funds by
David Patterson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, confirmed on Tuesday to the Fox Business Network that Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes has certified his signatures, and he will be included on the ballot in November. Grimes
Libertarian Party candidate David Patterson, a 42-year-old police officer, announced Monday that he has obtained more than the 5,000 signatures required to be placed on the ballot in this November’s general election for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky. Incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell
Recent polls indicate that libertarian ideas are gaining traction among voters, especially with “Millennials” under the age of 33, a group whose strong support was critical to the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. According to a February
In the first major press conference since his stunning primary victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on June 10, Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican nominee Dave Brat focused on the unifying “mainstream American principles we all believe in.”
Just days after he criticized ads by outside groups attacking Congressman James Lankford (R-OK), retiring Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has criticized a new ad by a different outside group attacking T.W. Shannon, Lankford’s opponent in the June 24 Oklahoma U.S.
Most years, two term Congressman Jim Lankford (R-OK) would be considered a shoe-in to replace retiring Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) as his party’s nominee in the upcoming Oklahoma U.S. Senate Republican primary this June 24. With a reliably conservative voting record (Heritage
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) failed to congratulate or even acknowledge Dave Brat in his concession speech last night. Neither did Cantor offer Brat his support in November’s general election against his Democratic opponent, or call Brat to concede
Late Tuesday evening, conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham savored David Brat’s historic upset victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican primary. “This was a cataclysmic upending of the old Republican Guard. A
Lindsey Graham coasted to an easy victory in the South Carolina U.S. Senate Republican primary Tuesday, avoiding a runoff by surpassing the 50-percent margin required by law to claim the nomination. With 71 percent of the precincts reporting, Graham had
Six challengers politely criticized Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for his co-sponsorship of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, his vote for the 2008 TARP bailout, and votes to confirm liberal Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in the
On Friday, the Daily Caller released a poll that showed House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) lead over Tea Party-backed challenger Dave Brat in the Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District has dropped to 13 points just days before
