GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Donald Trump is turning up the volume as he accuses President Biden of failing to protect Americans from violent crime that the former president says is being committed by illegal immigrants and deadly drugs pouring over the nation’s southern border with Mexico. During a campaign event Tuesday in this western Michigan city, Trump fired numerous salvos …
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RFK Jr says he meets ballot threshold in another key battleground state
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign says the independent presidential candidate has moved a step closer to his goal of getting on the ballot in all 50 states. The campaign of the longtime environmental activist and high-profile vaccine skeptic, who is the scion of the nation’s most storied political dynasty, on Monday announced that it had collected the necessary number of …
Read More »Can you spot election deepfakes? Here’s how not to be duped
There was the deepfake audio robocall of President Biden telling you to hold your vote. And just last week, a phony video of Donald Trump with Black voters made the rounds. AI deepfakes are a massive problem this election season, and it’s easy to get taken — especially when your news and social feeds are full of this junk. By …
Read More »Trump-aligned candidate for North Dakota's lone House seat gets boost from Vivek Ramaswamy
FIRST ON FOX: A Republican running for North Dakota’s lone seat in the House of Representatives is getting an endorsement from former 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy. Rick Becker, a plastic surgeon who previously served in North Dakota’s state House, is running in a three-way June 11 Republican primary to see who will advance to the November general election. …
Read More »Republicans and Democrats panic to quickly define 'spoiler' candidate RFK Jr
Democrats and Republicans alike are scrambling to define Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid and ascribe his views to the other ideological side before he is able to introduce himself to the 2024 electorate. “The only thing they know is that he’s Robert Kennedy’s son,” said Allan Lichtman, a historian and distinguished professor of history at American University. As …
Read More »Clyburn hits back at reports he worked with GOP to gerrymander S.C. district: 'Absolutely not true'
Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., hit back at a 2023 report that alleged he worked with Republicans to maintain a “grip” on his South Carolina district by making sure “30,000 Black voters” would be redrawn into his district for the 2024 elections, which he said was “absolutely not true.” “ProPublica has a report that you actually worked with Republicans on this …
Read More »No luck for No Labels as centrist group tries to launch third-party presidential ticket
It was a rough week for No Labels, the influential centrist group that’s been working for over a year towards launching a bipartisan, third-party 2024 presidential ticket. Hours after former New Jersey governor and two-time Republican White House contender Chris Christie announced he wouldn’t join the No Labels so-called “unity” ticket, their most well-known champion died. The group suffered a …
Read More »Indiana dad who lost youngest son to fentanyl runs for Congress to end tragedies of border crisis
An Indiana father who lost his youngest son to a fentanyl overdose is running for Congress to end tragedies like the one that befell his family, which he blames squarely on the border crisis worsening under President Biden. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Jamison Carrier, a local businessman who has never held elected office, described himself as “as …
Read More »Connecticut becomes one of last states to allow in-person early voting
Connecticut has become one of the last holdout states to allow early in-person voting ahead of the state’s presidential primary on Tuesday. Saturday was the last day for early voting before Tuesday, which was marked by low turnout. Only13,476 voters out of both Democrats and Republicans in the state came out to cast an early ballot. There are around 1.2 …
Read More »Landmark NJ ballot redesign ruling asked to be put on hold
A lawyer representing county clerks in New Jersey has requested that a judge delay his landmark decision of scrapping the state’s county-line ballot design, a system that critics say has given tremendous weight to establishment candidates at the expense of outsiders. Most of the state’s counties’ ballots are designed by grouping the candidates with party support in a single column. …
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