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Confronted with a shrunken majority, House leaders are discouraging fellow Democrats from taking jobs with the incoming Biden administration — out of concern that Republicans could take back the chamber in the 2022 mid-term elections, sources told The Post on Sunday. Insiders variously accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)...
With the balance of power in the US Senate riding on two run-off elections in Georgia, stinging comments have resurfaced made about Israel and Black Lives Matter by one of the Democratic candidates.
LIMA – Peruvian interim President Manuel Merino called for calm as he swore in his new cabinet on Thursday amid protests that have escalated around the country since the abrupt ouster of former leader Martin Vizcarra. Merino, whose cabinet was filled with mostly technocrats, accused some critics planning to run in 2021 elections of inciting...
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has no symptoms and has not tested positive.
Dan Sullivan won re-election in Alaska on Wednesday — putting the Republicans within one seat of maintaining their majority in the U.S. Senate. The Republican incumbent defeated independent challenger Al Gross who was running with the backing of Democrats, meaning control of the Senate will come down to two runoff elections in Georgia between GOP...
Republicans are on track to hold 50 Senate seats going into the Georgia run-offs while Democrats have 48.
A record 788,535 people have requested ballots ahead of the two run-off elections on Jan. 5 that will decide control of the US Senate, Georgia’s secretary of state’s office tells The Post. The figure, the latest number as of Tuesday morning, amounts to nearly three times the number of ballots requested during the 2018 midterms,...
State Board of Elections records show Gillibrand, who dropped her own White House bid last year, is currently registered to vote at her mother’s house in Albany.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission has approved a recount of presidential votes starting Friday in two large Democrat-dominated counties as President Trump’s campaign seeks to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s narrow win. The board unanimously approved the partial state recount early Thursday after Republican commissioners blocked a push to revise a manual for election workers. Trump...
Top House Republicans are calling for a congressional probe of the “integrity” of the 2020 presidential elections after alleging “errors and misconduct” in the processing and counting of ballots. The GOP request went to New York Democratic Congress members who head two key House panels, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and House Oversight Committee Chairwoman...
Arizona's top elections official on Wednesday said she's received “ongoing and escalating” threats of violence in the aftermath of Joe Biden's win over President Trump.
Frustrated Democrats are venting to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over the party’s failure to retake the majority in the November elections. Schumer (D-NY) was on the receiving end of an extended gripe-fest in two conference calls over the disappointing results in which the Democrats picked up only one seat when Joe Biden won the...
A former Sri Lankan fisheries minister chomped on a raw fish at a Tuesday press conference as seafood sales in the nation have plummeted over coronavirus concerns. “I am making an appeal to the people of this country to eat this fish. Don’t be afraid. You will not get infected by the coronavirus,” Dilip Wedaarachchi...
Longtime GOP adviser Karl Rove will oversee Senate Republicans’ fundraising effort as they fight to keep their majority with the two runoff elections in Georgia, according to a report. The former adviser to President George W. Bush will serve as national finance chairman of the Georgia Battleground Fund, a joint fundraising effort organized by the...
Confronted with a shrunken majority, House leaders are discouraging fellow Democrats from taking jobs with the incoming Biden administration — out of concern that Republicans could take back the chamber in the 2022 mid-term elections, sources told The Post on Sunday. Insiders variously accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)...
With the balance of power in the US Senate riding on two run-off elections in Georgia, stinging comments have resurfaced made about Israel and Black Lives Matter by one of the Democratic candidates.
LIMA – Peruvian interim President Manuel Merino called for calm as he swore in his new cabinet on Thursday amid protests that have escalated around the country since the abrupt ouster of former leader Martin Vizcarra. Merino, whose cabinet was filled with mostly technocrats, accused some critics planning to run in 2021 elections of inciting...
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has no symptoms and has not tested positive.
Dan Sullivan won re-election in Alaska on Wednesday — putting the Republicans within one seat of maintaining their majority in the U.S. Senate. The Republican incumbent defeated independent challenger Al Gross who was running with the backing of Democrats, meaning control of the Senate will come down to two runoff elections in Georgia between GOP...
Republicans are on track to hold 50 Senate seats going into the Georgia run-offs while Democrats have 48.
A coalition of legislators are calling on the board to vote against using the Express Vote XL from Election Software & Systems, arguing they’re too expensive and prone to trouble.
“Elections matter, voting matters, and leadership matters,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) said.
The US joined Australia, the UK and Canada on Sunday in condemning the recent arrest of dozens of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Fifty-five people — including American human rights lawyer John Clancey — were rounded up last week for participating in unofficial election primaries for legislative elections, in violation of a Chinese law aimed...
Cannabis stocks surged on Wednesday after runoff Senate elections in Georgia appeared to cement Democratic control of Congress, raising hopes of national marijuana legalization.
Schumer, who’s in line to take over as Senate majority leader, revealed his stimulus check priority while talking to reporters on Capitol Hill after both Democratic challengers in Georgia’s runoff elections were declared victorious over the Republican incumbents.
“I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement,” Bush said in a statement.
Georgians cast high-stakes final votes Tuesday in elections to determine the balance of power in the new Congress,
Democrat Raphael Warnock was declared the victor in one of Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections, defeating incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Warnock, a pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, became the first black man elected to represent Georgia in the Senate. With his narrow win, Democrats have...
Georgia voters braved the winter chill and turned out en masse at polling stations Tuesday to vote in one of the most consequential and expensive elections in US history. The eyes of the nation are trained on Georgia for two hugely impactful runoff races that will determine which party controls the Senate and whether incoming...
The Senate runoff elections in Georgia are critical because of the role they’ll play in determining control of the Senate and how they will affect President-elect Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, but they’re also notable for shattering fundraising records and massive campaign ad spending. The races between Republican incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler against...