Post-election misinformation targets Arizona, Pennsylvania
The video on Fox News showed a Wisconsin poll worker initialing ballots before they were given to voters. It’s normal procedure on Election Day.
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Abortion rights were on the ballot in these states. Here’s what voters decided
Voters in three states moved to protect abortion rights on Tuesday, CNN projects, following a months long push from Democrats nationwide to act on the issue in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade in June.
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Takeaways from the 2022 midterm elections
The battle for control of Congress — both the House and the Senate — is coming down to a dwindling number of key races, with Democrats and Republicans locked in tight battles and both parties hanging onto hopes of winning narrow majorities.
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Crucial Arizona Senate race tests Trump-era Democratic gains
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly has been fighting to hold on to the seat he won for Democrats two years ago, but he faced a vastly different political environment heading into Tuesday’s election against Republican venture capitalist Blake Masters.
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GOP eyes Arizona US House seats in bid to flip control
The partisan makeup of Arizona’s U.S. House delegation and control of Congress itself are up for grabs Tuesday, with Republicans hoping to shift the state’s 5-4 Democratic tilt by picking up two and possibly three seats.
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Trump ally faces election defender in Arizona governor race
The appeal of Donald Trump’s movement will be put to the test Tuesday in the race for governor of Arizona, a crucial battleground state where the former president’s allies have taken control of the Republican Party.
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Navajos electing next leader who wields influence nationally
Navajo voters are deciding Tuesday who they want to be their next president — a position that wields influence nationally because of the tribe’s hefty population and the size of it reservation in the U.S. Southwest.
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Grijalva requests GAO review of CBP handling of asylum seekers’ personal property
On Monday, November 7, 2022, Arizona Representative Raul M. Grijalva issued a statement following the a joint letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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Surveillance plane helping take fentanyl pills off the streets faces extinction
“Law enforcement lives have been saved by having this asset available,” according to Kinzinger. “We can see anything weird that’s going to happen,” he said, adding that pilots can also follow suspects with their aerial camera without them knowing, allowing agents to maintain the element of surprise.
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Oath Keepers leader testifies 2020 election was ‘unconstitutional,’ paints himself as anti-violence
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers who prosecutors say called for a “bloody revolution” to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, painted himself as an anti-racist Libertarian who believed the 2020 election was unconstitutional as he testified in his own defense on Friday.
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Polling shows that most voters say economic concerns are top of mind
Recent polling provides a good general sense of which issues have become the focal points of this year’s elections, and for whom. But what voters truly consider important, and how those concerns influence their decisions, is too complicated to be fully captured in a single poll question.
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Environmentalists seek to join fight against AZ shipping containers along border
The Center for Biological Diversity asked a federal judge for permission to join the Biden administration as a defendant.
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Rep. Grijalva urges DOJ to protect AZ voters ahead of midterms
On Wednesday, November 2, 2022, Representative Raul M. Grijalva sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
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GOP-backed Arizona ballot measures target voter initiatives
Arizona voters who began mailing in their ballots after simply signing and dating the envelope in recent weeks might be doing so for the final time with that simple process.
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After Elon Musk’s wild weekend on Twitter, will advertisers stick with it?
Hours before news broke on Thursday that he had completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk wrote an open letter to advertisers stressing that he doesn’t want the platform to become a “free-for-all hellscape.”
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CNN Exclusive: Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack had bag with zip ties, source says
The man who is alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer in the couple’s San Francisco home had with him a bag that contained multiple zip ties, among other things, according to two sources who have been briefed on the incident.
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Twitter’s new owner tweets conspiracy theory about attack on Paul Pelosi
Elon Musk on Sunday gave credence to a fringe conspiracy theory about the violent attack on Paul Pelosi.
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Rick Scott calls attack on Paul Pelosi ‘disgusting’ but dodges questions about election conspiracies shared by alleged assailant
Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, on Sunday called the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, “disgusting” but dodged questions about election conspiracy theories that were shared by the alleged attacker on social media.
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Speaker Pelosi’s husband attacked and house burglarized
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott became emotional during a press conference Friday, October 28, 2022, saying this attack was intentional and wrong.
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Election workers lament lack of federal spending on security ahead of crucial midterms
Millions in federal dollars could have gone to protect election workers and improve the physical security of their offices, but in a classic tale of bureaucratic red tape, most of it remains untapped less than two weeks before the midterm elections.
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