Disgraced coal CEO lost races as GOP and third party candidate. He's trying again as a Democrat
By JOHN RABY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship is making another attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, this time as a Democrat. Blankenship finished third out of six candidates in the 2018 Republican primary for Democrat Joe Manchin’s Senate seat. Manchin decided last
Bill Cotter, known as Barstool Sport‘s “Billy Football,” announced his bid in March to run as a Republican for New York‘s 3rd Congressional District, previously held by expelled Republican Rep. George Santos, but now the congressional candidate is taking on his own party. The 25-year-old called out Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Cairo and his […]
I was born and raised in Mexico and lived at the Texas-Mexico border for eight years. As a professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville, now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, I began to research Mexican organized crime groups that operate transnationally. Since 2009, I have studied illicit networks involved in U.S.-bound […]
SEYMOUR — Incumbent Republican Rep. Jim Lucas of Seymour is facing a challenge for the GOP nomination for Indiana House District 69 seat in the May 7 primary. The winner will face Democrat Trish Whitcomb in the Nov. 5 general election. Continue reading at The Republic News.
Friday morning, as I watched Tiger Woods complete his rain-delayed first round of the Masters golf tournament, it dawned on me that I will be watching the WNBA this summer. What does the greatest golfer of my generation have to do with women’s basketball? Nothing, really. Clark’s fame might be fleeting. I’m going to enjoy it while I can and bounce the moment she’s pictured kneeling in solidarity with Megan Rapinoe. But my 27-year fascination with Tiger on a golf course is a pretty solid...
Eric Hovde is a deeply patriotic Republican who desperately loves the U.S., and he’s running for Senate. How do we know he loves the U.S.? Because he’s a Californian running in Wisconsin, which means he loves the U.S. at least twice as much you unwashed single-staters. And he regularly flies over a big chunk of America when he’s not counting his money at his bank in Utah, so there’s that too. He also likes to tell everyone how patriotic he is. In fact, he’s outraged—outraged!—that anyone would...
Poor Donald Trump. It seems he isn’t selling enough $399 high-tops or $60 Bibles, and his Truth Social stock is in the toilet, so it’s time for a new, new, new, new grift: charging his fellow Republicans for uttering his name. The Trump campaign announced in a letter Politico obtained that Republican candidates and committees are now expected to pay “a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC” for using his “name, image, and likeness in fundraising...
(The Center Square) – While 28 candidates for governor have filed with the Public Disclosure Commission, only one is currently facing independent expenditures in opposition. Public records surfacing on past actions of Republican candidate Misipati Semi Bird have roused the ire of former supporter Mike McKee, who has set up a website at Bird-Docs.com to explain his change of heart. “Semi is a phenomenal speaker and we talk the same language about school boards and...
The great Caitlin Clark brought the house down on 'SNL,' schooling Michael Che for pooh-poohing women's basketball. The Iowa guard joined Che and Colin Jost for Weekend Update, and right out of the gate, MC joked Caitlin was going to trade in her…
Fifteen years after losing both legs to a Taliban bomb in Afghanistan
Republican Senate candidate David McCormick is outraged over an upcoming New York Times article he says contains "frivolous lies" about his childhood.McCormick, who just last month was ridiculed after bragging that his wife was on the board of Exxon, posted about the journalistic inquiry in a Thursday explainer on social media."The New York Times’ [Katie Glueck] is writing a story filled w/ frivolous lies about my childhood. If it weren’t so demeaning to my parents’ lifelong teaching careers &...