San Francisco based NextGen Climate Action Committee, the political arm of the non-profit climate change group founded by hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer, is one of several liberal groups providing manpower and financial resources to help a robust and well-financed
Thursday on Bloomberg News’ “With All Due Respect,” Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) claimed President Barack Obama was indeed campaigning in competitive senate races but when pressed by hosts John Heilemann and Mark Halperin the DNC Chairwoman
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agents are often kept in the dark about decisions by the agency’s top brass, but the president of its employee union says the writing on the wall: Obama is headed toward issuing a major executive
Republican Senate candidate and former South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds doesn’t appear worried about losing to his opponents on South Dakota. The Rounds campaign, together with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, released an internal poll to Politico of the state
Breitbart News reporter Matthew Boyle was removed, without explanation, from a campaign event for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in Exeter, N.H., yesterday despite the event having been advertised as a press conference open to media. According to Boyle’s account, campaign staffers for the Democratic
Barack Obama called into Atlanta’s V 103 radio station Tuesday to support fellow Democrat Michelle Nunn on “The Ryan Cameron Morning Show with Wanda Smith.” During the call, Obama seemed to suggest that if she wins her Senate race against
A plurality of likely voters in the midterms want Republicans to control Congress. A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that 49% to 44% of registered voters “said they’d prefer the election to produce a Republican-led Congress, a first since the
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said President Barack Obama will take “aggressive executive action” on immigration, which Perez said will bring about more “shared prosperity.” Addressing the National Press Club this week, Perez, who is reportedly on the short list to
Democrats in Georgia are trying to motivate black voters by exploiting Michael Brown’s death, urging them to vote “if you want to prevent another Ferguson…” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained flyers that use images from the Ferguson protests and of two black children
According to one Democrat strategist quoted in this report, “The ineptitude of the White House political operation has sunk from annoying to embarrassing.” And they’re far from alone in the growing criticism of Obama’s White House. Most know of Michelle
Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for the Senate in New Hampshire, vowed to cut off the funds for any attempt to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants through an executive order on Thursday’s broadcast of “Laura Ingraham Show.” “The only power
Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan-Grimes’ is falsely accusing Sen. Mitch McConnell of trying to take the vote away from blacks in the Bluegrass State. In two new radio ads aired by Democrat Alison Lundergan-Grimes’ campaign, Kentucky civil rights leader
Conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham praised Senate candidate Scott Brown (R-NH) for his emphasis on immigration in his race to unseat Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) on Wednesday. “Scott Brown, of course [is] standing up for American jobs. Scott Brown
Dr. Cornel West criticized recent ads supporting Democratic Senate candidates for recent advertisements evoking Ferguson and lynchings to try and turn out the black vote, while also criticizing the Republican Party for what he said was a racist strategy on
In an interview with CNN’s Gloria Borger on Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) explained that she had been treated differently from her male counterparts as a female senator. Warren declined to elaborate, but said she didn’t find it surprising. “It’s
On October 21, The New York Times charged the NRA of accusing “guilt by association” with an ad suggesting Senate candidate Bruce Braley (D-IA) is a gun control supporter in line with Michael Bloomberg. To do this the Times highlighted part
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) is under fire for releasing the private medical information of one veteran to another veteran with a similar name. “With the VA plagued with a management crisis, it was claimed Hagan’s constituents services would ensure veterans
A video put out by Republican National Committee takes aim at the voting percentages of Senate Democrats attempting to distance themselves from an unpopular President Barack Obama. The 30-second spot pairs Democrats running for reelection and their voting percentages with
EXETER, New Hampshire — The campaign of Democratic incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) kicked this reporter out of an event at ReVision Energy on Wednesday afternoon. Shaheen’s campaign asked the owner of the business–who refused to identify himself–to say to
Wednesday on Bloomberg’s “With All Due Respect,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued President Barack Obama is using immigration reform as a “partisan cudgel.” Cruz said, “What President Obama the Senate Democrats have done however as they focused on the question
Iowa Republican and Senate candidate Joni Ernst initially burst onto the political scene with an ad entitled “Squeal,” that went viral given it’s theme: “Joni grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so in Washington, she’ll know how to
It made big news recently when the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee announced it was pulling its ads out of Kentucky, where Alison Lundergan Grimes had been thought to have a good shot at knocking off incumbent Republican and Minority Leader, Mitch
Republican Cory Gardner now leads Democrat Mark Udall by 7 points, 46 – 39, in the race for the Senate in Colorado according to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll. While Gardner has led in previous polls, he now looks to
With the North Carolina U.S. Senate race in a dead heta, state election officials say they have discovered 145 names on the voting rolls who are ineligible to vote because they are illegal immigrants who have been granted President Obama’s
Both houses of Congress were not exactly honest on the applications they filed with the District of Columbia’s Health Benefit Exchange Authority. In fact, the signatories who put their names to the applications seemed to make little pretense of providing
