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President Joe Biden drew criticism from social media after responding with a long pause when asked in an interview if first lady Dr. Jill Biden would support him running for office again in 2024. “Dr. Biden is for it?” MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart asked Biden about a 2024 run in a clip that aired Friday. Biden then paused and looked down …

Polling averages and voting models indicate a bump in Republicans’ support in Senate races heading into the midterm elections. RealClearPolitics is projecting the GOP is on track to flip Senate races in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada, though its polling average shows Democrat Raphael Warnock leading Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia. On Monday, the New York Times/Siena College’s latest poll showed …

One seasoned pollster is sounding the alarm that Democratic messaging, particularly from President Biden, could be severely hampering the Party ahead of the midterm elections, according to a Politico report.  Stan Greenberg, who was a pollster for President Bill Clinton and is married to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told the media outlet that Biden’s attempts to highlight his in-office accomplishments …

The district attorney of San Francisco left a debate on Thursday after being heckled by a group of student protestors.  District Attorney Brooke Jenkins debated challengers John Hamasaki and Joe Alioto Veronese on stage at San Francisco State University.  SAN FRANCISCO DA WILL CHARGE TEENS AS ADULTS ONLY IN ‘HEINOUS’ CASES THAT ‘SHOCK CONSCIENCE’ OF COMMUNITY San Francisco District Attorney …

EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway says touting their own records is not enough for Republicans to win in November, they need to also make Democrats “eat” and “own” the Biden administration’s mistakes. “You have to run against their records of failing and flailing,” Conway told Fox News Digital. “The key is for Republicans to make sure they don’t just …

Progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner made seven-term Rep. Kurt Schrader the first Democratic congressman to lose his reelection bid this year when she defeated him in their May primary. His ouster from Oregon’s 5th District, along with new boundaries that make the district a little less blue, is complicating Democratic efforts to hold the seat in the November midterm elections. As Election …

A California Democratic House candidate is facing renewed criticism over his prior support for an educational program funded that teaches American K-12 students about Chinese language and culture, but which has links to propaganda efforts of the Chinese Communist Party. During his tenure on the Hacienda La Puente school board, Jay Chen, a Democrat who is now seeking to represent …

Former President Barack Obama made his plea to Pennsylvania voters to elect John Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, to the U.S. Senate, saying, “The fate of our democracy” is on the line.” In a 30-second video shared Thursday by Fetterman, Obama asks voters to cast their ballots for the Democratic candidate, who is locked in a battle with his Republican …

The Minnesota Legislature should mandate that the secretary of state’s office proofread every county’s ballots before they’re mailed out, Republican challenger Kim Crockett said Thursday as she decried ballot printing errors in four counties. Crockett acknowledged that state law does not require the secretary of state’s office to review the ballots of each precinct across the state for accuracy — …

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner responded to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Select Committee on Restoring Law and Order’s request for a written statement on Friday, stating he is “utterly disappointed” in its approach to impeach him and said it’s only being done to score “political points.” Krasner said in his letter to the Select Committee that it has “repeatedly …